• Many college heads, while unhappy about some of the specifics, are not against the main thrust of reform.

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  • Mr Brown's main thrust is to replace Parliament's ancient system of self-governance with an external body that would set and police MPs' allowances.

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  • Although some of the international push will be towards South American markets and Asia, the main thrust will be across the Atlantic to European cities.

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  • The main thrust in Obama-era management of the military, under both Robert Gates and Leon Panetta, has been to get better results for all the money being spent.

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  • The main thrust of government policy is unlikely to change, though: Mr Erdogan has been the driving force behind the government ever since the general election last year.

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  • His main thrust seems to be keeping the Shiites united in a common front politically, but he refuses to get involved in the day-to-day political infighting that characterizes Iraqi politics.

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  • Although it lists the usual prescriptions for maintaining a stable currency, its main thrust is clear: the government will attempt a sharp fiscal stimulus to get the economy going again.

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  • The main thrust - at least of the Pentagon leaders' portion - was telegraphed in an op.ed. published in the Wall Street Journal last week by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

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  • While Strauss, with 87, provided the main thrust for England's batting at Old Trafford, the victory was set up by the bowlers who dismissed Australia for their lowest score so far in the series.

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  • First of all, thank you for telling your readers to buy comic art from real comic artists, with this being the main thrust of your article you almost get a pass for your mistake earlier.

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  • But officials are at pains to point out that, rather than help specific industries, the main thrust of the new policy is to try to boost competitiveness more generally by promoting innovation, higher education and training.

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  • Much was made of Bernanke's mention of the dollar a few weeks back, but the main thrust of his "dollar speech" was that rising commodity prices are not a result of monetary mismanagement, but instead a function of too much growth.

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  • The details are complex but the main thrust is that, in response to lobbying from transnational U.S. corporations and foreign governments, Congress has made it much harder for small U.S. inventors to protect their intellectual property from infringement and even from outright theft.

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  • While Eduardo Duhalde, his Peronist opponent, has made rash public-spending promises, and suggested that Argentina should default on its foreign debt, it has been Mr de la Rua who has responsibly promised to maintain the main thrust of current economic policies, including convertibility.

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  • What seems more than a bit disingenuous is to take a bullet point in a preamble, and make it seem that this was the main thrust of something that Michele Bachmann signed, when it reality, what she signed was a vow to defend the traditional notions of marriage and family in both the public and private sphere.

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  • My main objection to the overall thrust of the article is that it ignores evidence that indicates that of all groups, white graduates find employment much sooner than any other group, according to a recent study by the Human Sciences Research Council.

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  • To do this, the computers on board the ISS ignite two of the freighter's four main engines, generating a total thrust of 1, 000 newtons.

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