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The main sticking point is a refusal by the Irish Republican Army to allow photographs be taken of arms decommissioning and a refusal by the Democratic Unionist Party's Ian Paisley to witness disarmament himself.
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The main sticking point in the negotiations was the balance of power between the Netherlands High Representative and the Republican forces.
The main sticking point was the inability of the Ancients ' committee to decide anything without reporting back to a quarterly meeting of their own Grand Lodge.
The dominant images framing the main doorway are two monkeys with their tongues sticking out and dancing.
The main sticking point during the autumn negotiations had been the method of choosing the merged party's leader.
Batman lands safely as Ra's ' body collides with the Arkham City main gate, leaving his body hanging over the gate, and his sword sticking out of his chest.
In September 1940, a joint agreement on trade, shipping and exports fell through, " the main sticking point between the two sides was the prices on offer from Britain " owing to the refusal to allow transshipment and repair facilities following German pressure, including the threat to blockade Ireland and the bombing of Ambrosetown and Campile in County Wexford.
The main sticking points were the issues of a Darfuri vice-president and compensation for victims.
The main sticking point is the novel's ambiguous ending.
Article 10 of the Joint Declaration, requiring unanimous consent for all mainstream development and inter-basin diversion proved to be the main sticking point of Cambodia ’ s readmission, with Thailand perhaps prepared to walk away from the regime altogether.
The main sticking point that had prevented the conclusion of a new, transatlantic " Common Aviation Area " agreement between the EU and the US was that the UK and most other European countries viewed the US version of " open skies " as too restrictive.
However the main sticking point would be whether it could meet the International Rugby Board's demands for the tournament including free from advertising.
The main sticking point in the negotiations was the balance of power between the Netherlands High Representative and the Republican forces.
Rick Sugarek, project manager for the Superfund site told the Lake County News in 2009 that the EPA has been working with the state on a cleanup plan, but a main sticking point has been the need to run a treatment plant to deal with the water in the Herman Pit.
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While many tokens point forward, the main achievements stand as a culmination of the simple patterns of the Dark ages.
Combellack argues further, and here he makes his main point, that once The Iliad and The Odyssey are thought formulaic poems composed for an audience accustomed to formulaic poetry, Homeric critics are deprived of an entire domain they previously found arable.
At this point the drains are readjusted so that the suds box drain will discharge directly into the waste line and the main tub drain is set at the 2-1/2 mark on the drain gauge.
But the main point here is that even if such a restatement were not possible, the demand to demythologize the kerygma would still be unavoidable.
The focal point of the park is the main terrace, surrounded by a long bench in the form of a sea serpent.
Aeneas is a main character in Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia, a re-telling of the last six books of the Aeneid told from the point of view of Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus of Latium.
In fact, Fitzmyer believes that the preface of Luke should only be “ the starting point in the discussion of the aim of Luke-Acts .” Because the author ’ s intended purpose for the Book of Acts is not that straightforward, scholars have put forth four main claims to address this.
Writing a little later, Tertullian makes the same main point but adds expressly that recently founded churches ( such as his own in Carthage ) could be considered apostolic if they had " derived the tradition of faith and the seeds of doctrine " from an apostolic church.
The Liberal Democrats could point to steady progress under Charles Kennedy, gaining more seats than the main two parties – albeit only six overall – and maintaining the performance of a pleasing 1997 election, where the party doubled its number of seats from 20 to 46.
The main point of the prophetic stories is that God's prophecies are always fulfilled, so that any not yet fulfilled will be so in the future.
The principle of Schwerpunkt enabled the attacker to win numerical superiority at the point of the main effort, which in turn gave the attacker tactical and operational superiority even though the attacker may be numerically and strategically inferior along the entire front.
Beef extract was eventually reintroduced as a key Bovril ingredient in 2006, after the European Commission lifted its ban on the export of Britain's beef products ; it was only at this point that the manufacturer stated explicitly that this had been the main reason for beef's removal.
Other forms may include a radial structure, in which main roads converge on a central point.
This point marks the meeting of three of North America's main drainage patterns, to the Pacific Ocean, to Hudson Bay, and to the Atlantic Ocean via the Gulf of Mexico.
During flood stage, the Casiquiare's main outflow point into the Rio Negro is supplemented by an overflow that is a second, and more minor, entry river bifurcation into the Rio Negro and upstream from its major, common low-water entry confluence with the Rio Negro.
Corinth is the main entry point to the Peloponnesian peninsula, the southernmost area of continental Greece.
A popular detachable design consists of a main arm that is attached to the weapon, a plate on one end that secures four or more individual bolts at a point on their shafts and at the other end a cover that secures their heads.
The dance finishes ( or sometimes starts ) with a summary of the allegory's main point:
The game board consists of the main Settlers island as well as a few smaller islands, which award a special victory point to each player for their first settlements on them.
The ghost effect was simply done by draping the set in black velvet after the main action had been shot, and then re-exposing the negative with the actor playing the ghost going through the actions at the appropriate point.
The main lines of the drawing were pricked over with a point, held against the wall, and a bag of soot ( spolvero ) banged on them on produce black dots along the lines.
Corinth was the meeting point of many nationalities because the main current of the trade between Asia and western Europe passed through its harbors.
In Kenya, Christian missionaries in the 1920s and 1930s forbade their adherents from practising it — in part because of the medical consequences, but also because the accompanying rituals were seen as highly sexualized — and as a result it became a focal point of the independence movement among the Kikuyu, the country's main ethnic group.
Francis was a devoted family man, and a main point in the political testament he left for his son and heir Ferdinand was, " Preserve unity in the family and regard it as one of the highest goods.
The city is also a major crossing point of railway lines and highways ( Autobahnen ), connecting European main lines in east-west-direction ( Berlin-Ruhr area ) and north-south-direction ( Hamburg-Munich et al.
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`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.
The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.
But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.
Steele's main business here is to arouse public opinion to the immediate danger of a Stuart Restoration.
The old ideal of the independent entrepreneur is extant -- but so is the recognition that the main chance may be in a corporate bureaucracy.
In the main stream of historical thinking is a group of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank Stenton et al. who are in varying degrees sceptical of the native traditions of the conquest but who defend the catastrophic type of invasion suggested by them.
He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.
The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is composed in the form of a triptych, with the two small side panels framing and enclosing the main central episode of the novel.
Krim's main attack is upon the aesthetic and the publishing apparatus of American literary culture in our day.
The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main ''.
Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
It is vitally important that the new U.S. aid program should encourage all of them, since the main thrust for development must come from the less developed countries themselves.
Stated in its simplest terms, the main job of the Planning Division is to plan for the future of the State of Rhode Island.
The substantial progress being made in ballistic missile technology is rapidly shifting the main threat from manned bombers to missiles.
Their main asset is an abundance of unsaturated fatty acids, so necessary for maintaining the good health of the circulatory system.
The main requirement is to be sure the boat is numbered according to the regulations of the state in which the boat will be principally used.
The main set of bars are the `` tappets '' and one tappet is connected to each lever.
It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.
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