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measures and for
Only recently new `` holes '' were discovered in our safety measures, and a search is now on for more.
A call for action `` before it is too late '' has alarming implications when it comes from a man who, in his previous reports on the schools, cautioned so strongly against extreme measures.
The farm program will cost an additional 1.5 billion, because of unusual weather factors, the Food for Peace program and other new measures.
The Government of India agrees that it will take all possible measures to prevent the resale or transshipment to other countries or the use for other than domestic purposes ( except where such resale, transshipment or use is specifically approved by the Government of the United States of America ), of the surplus agricultural commodities purchased pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, and to assure that the purchase of such commodities does not result in increased availability of these or like commodities for export from India.
And yet, despite some disappointment with the performance of this first year of the new decade, 1960 has been a good year in many ways, with many overall measures of business having reached new peaks for the year as a whole.
No comparable measures are available of enrollments and expenditures for private vocational education training.
six hours of manual labor a day for all but a handful of magistrates and scholars, and careful measures to prevent anyone from shirking ; ;
In other words, the promulgators of the murder plan made clear that physically exterminating the Jews was but an extension of the anti-Semitic measures already operating in every phase of German life, and that the new conspiracy counted on the general anti-Semitism that had made those measures effective, as a readiness for murder.
Among the many severe measures taken by the First Emperor, Shih Huang-ti, in his efforts to insure the continuation of this hard-won national unity, was the burning of the books in 213 B.C., with the expressed intention of removing possible sources for divergent thinking ; ;
We should recall the number of movements for the service of mankind which arose from the kindred Evangelicalism of the British Isles and the Pietism of the Continent of Europe -- among them prison reform, anti-slavery measures, legislation for the alleviation of conditions of labour, the Inner Mission, and the Red Cross.
* Repeated measures ANOVA is used when the same subjects are used for each treatment ( e. g., in a longitudinal study ).
On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee tabled a resolution before the Continental Congress declaring the colonies independent ; at the same time he also urged Congress to resolve “ to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances ” and to prepare a plan of confederation for the newly-independent states.
Johnston could only keep up his defense by raids and other measures to make it appear he had larger forces than he did, a strategy that worked for several months.
These proclamations embodied Johnson's conciliatory policies towards the South, as well as his rush to reincorporate the former Confederate states into the union without due regard for freedmen's rights ; these positions and his vetoes of civil rights bills embroiled him in a bitter dispute with Radical Republicans who demanded harsher measures.
Abdallah ibn Yassin imposed very strict disciplining measures on his forces for every breach of his laws.
Altogether, the boule was responsible for a great portion of the administration of the state, but was granted relatively little latitude for initiative ; the boule's control over policy was executed in its probouleutic, rather than its executive function ; in the former, it prepared measures for deliberation by the assembly, in the latter, it merely executed the wishes of the assembly.
Game reserves have, however, been established in South Africa, British Central Africa, British East Africa, Somaliland, etc., while measures for the protection of wild animals were laid down in an international convention signed in May 1900.
During their time on the council, HRP representatives fought for measures including pioneering antidiscrimination ordinances, measures decriminalizing marijuana possession, and a rent-control ordinance ; many of these remain in effect in modified form.

measures and proposed
He appointed a commission that set aside 3, 000, 000 acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of national parks and 2, 300, 000 acres of national forests ; advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans ( not enacted ); closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy ; doubled the number of veterans ' hospital facilities ; negotiated a treaty on St. Lawrence Seaway ( which failed in the U. S. Senate ); wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender ; created an antitrust division in the Justice Department ; required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service ; proposed federal loans for urban slum clearances ( not enacted ); organized the Federal Bureau of Prisons ; reorganized the Bureau of Indian Affairs ; instituted prison reform ; proposed a federal Department of Education ( not enacted ); advocated $ 50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 ( not enacted ); chaired White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership ; began construction of the Boulder Dam ( later renamed Hoover Dam ); and signed the Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor disputes.
That same year, Kent and colleagues published a paper in American Documentation describing the precision and recall measures as well as detailing a proposed " framework " for evaluating an IR system which included statistical sampling methods for determining the number of relevant documents not retrieved.
The proposed measures included the ending of price controls, devaluation of the kwacha, reining in of government spending, cancellation of subsidies on food and fertilizer, and increased prices for farm produce.
* Writing under the pseudonym " Hirossa Ap-Iccim " in The Gentleman's Magazine, ( London ) July 1745, Hugh Jones proposed an octal system for British coins, weights and measures.
His principle, ' measures not men ', appealed to the King whom he proposed to serve by ' destroying all party distinctions '.
The proposed measures included: the ending of price controls ; devaluation of the kwacha ( Zambia's currency ); cut-backs in government expenditure ; cancellation of subsidies on food and fertilizer ; and increased prices for farm produce.
When at Whitsun the king proposed to discuss the measures to be taken against Gregory in a council of his nobles, only a few made their appearance ; the Saxons snatched at the golden opportunity for renewing their rebellion, and the anti-royalist party grew in strength from month to month.
The denazification procedures against Heidegger continued until March 1949, when he was finally pronounced a " Mitläufer " ( literally, mit = with, Läufer = runner, i. e. " one who runs along with ", but the equivalent meaning in English is closer to " bandwagon effect " or " herd instinct ", standing for the notion that people often do and believe things merely because many other people do and believe the same things ) of National Socialism, and no punitive measures against him were proposed.
At the first regional meeting of the newly founded National Student Association in the spring of 1948, Washington and nine other delegates proposed student representation on faculties, and a " Bill of Rights " for students ; both measures were roundly defeated.
Critics claim that if the measures proposed by the US were implemented and applied this would prevent scientific research in Latin America, causing as a consequence more inequalities and technological dependence from the developed countries.
The winning entry by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc., Landscape Architects proposed a very simple approach to planting, paving and the integration of security measures.
The most recent was a referendum in 1992 on a package of proposed constitutional measures known as the Charlottetown Accord.
In addition, critics state that unlike Malthus, Ehrlich did not see any means of avoiding the disaster entirely ( although some mitigation was possible ), and proposed solutions that were much more radical than those discussed by Malthus, such as starving whole countries that refused to implement population control measures.
When Johnson proposed the Great Society in 1964 – 65, Dole voted against some War on Poverty measures like public-housing subsidies and Medicare, thus appealing to conservatives.
As early as March 1785, Lapérouse proposed that Paul Monneron, who had been chosen as the expedition's chief engineer, go to London to find out about the latest conclusions on the anti-scurvy measures recommended by Cook and the exchange items used by Cook in his dealings with the native peoples, and to buy scientific instruments of English manufacture.
" Calling the assembly together, the conspirators proposed a series of measures by which the democracy was formally replaced with a government of 400 chosen men, who were to select and convene a larger body of 5, 000 as time went on.
There have been many revisions since, and the UK government states that it remains committed to heritage protection legislation reform, even though the draft Heritage Protection Bill 2008, which proposed a single ' register ' that included scheduled monuments and listed buildings, was abandoned to make room in the parliamentary legislative programme for measures to deal with the credit crunch.
Experts such as Prof. Alan Matthews consider that new ‘ greening ’ measures in the EU ’ s proposed € 418-billion post-2013 farm policy could lower the bloc ’ s agricultural production potential by raising farm input costs by € 5 billion, or around 2 percent.
GDP does not take into account other aspects such as leisure time, environmental quality, freedom, or social justice ; alternative measures of economic well-being have been proposed ( more ).
He also proposed more practical, immediate measures, such as rebuilding the Hexamilion, the ancient defensive wall across the Isthmus of Corinth, which had been breached by the Ottomans in 1423.
The measures proposed by FitzGerald's Minister for Finance, Alan Dukes, were completely unacceptable to the Labour Party which was under enormous pressure from its support base to maintain public services.
The implementation of the proposed flood control measures on the Upper Rhine can prevent the occurrence of a 200-year flood between Iffezheim and Bingen, with an overall economic loss estimated at around 6. 2 billion euros.
Various other measures were proposed in mid-1969, including purchase of U. S. weapons such as the Mark 45 ASTOR nuclear torpedo, the Mark 48 Mod-1 torpedo or the Subroc rocket.

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