• Next month, it expects to start work with a squad of 15 trained rats in Angola, where as many as six million land mines remain from a civil year.

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  • Ran a civil bonfire every year, with discos and barbecues with that.

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  • Since Richard Leakey, a former opposition politician who was appointed head of the civil service a year ago, has made some headway, it now seems likely that the donors will re-open the aid taps later this year.

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  • He left Iran in 2000 after completing a five-year civil engineering course at BIHE.

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  • Philadelphia settled a civil rights lawsuit last year over its stop-and-frisk program by agreeing to court monitoring, and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee backed off plans to adopt stop and frisk after weeks of criticism last summer.

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  • Marching with him was Brunom Baranowski, a shipyard worker for more than 30 years who spent nearly a year in jail for civil disobedience for his role in the union.

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  • Last year, a civil filing by the state against BP said the company's "poor maintenance practices" have resulted in several spills since 2006.

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  • Congress resolved this by doing away with the tracing requirement for fungible property, but imposing a short statute of limitations the government must bring a civil forfeiture lawsuit within one year after the allegedly structured transaction.

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  • At the moment, that court is obliged to hear all challenges to criminal convictions carrying a sentence of a year or more, and all appeals in civil cases of any kind.

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  • The current president, serving a five-year term, is Juan Carlos Wasmosy, a civil engineer.

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  • "For years, this country went from government to government, " Lorena Morocho, a 33-year-old civil servant, told the BBC.

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  • One case explores a first-year law school civil procedure issue, while another gets deeply into the weeds of bankruptcy jurisprudence, thanks to a three-decade estate battle involving the late Anna Nicole Smith.

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  • "I am so desperate to know how it feels to read the most complicated book in the world, " said He Kuang, a 50-year-old civil servant in the coastal city Xiamen, who bought the translation.

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  • However, the club's president Jorge Pinto da Costa has appealed against a two-year suspension and he will go to trial in a civil lawsuit by Porto prosecutors.

    BBC: FC Porto

  • But a more recent precedent is her motion, a year ago, to annul regulations to allow civil partnership ceremonies to be held in church - which had a rather frostier reception.

    BBC: How the Houses stand

  • In a report published last year, the Constitution Unit, a group of former civil servants and academics, also rightly pointed out that such an approach would be easier for the public to understand and less likely to cause disputes between the Edinburgh and Westminster parliaments.

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  • The activists were arrested last year during a campaign against civil society activists suspected of political dissent.

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  • The DHS is to report in a year how its work impacts civil liberties and provide recommendations on mitigating such risks.

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  • But after the programme was uncovered by the media a year ago, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit arguing that the scheme was unconstitutional.

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  • The bill proposes capping compulsory redundancies in the civil service at a maximum of one year's salary, and voluntary exit payments will be limited to 15 months' pay.

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  • The Superannuation Bill proposes capping compulsory redundancies in the civil service at a maximum of one year's salary, and voluntary exit payments will be limited to 15 months' pay.

    BBC: Superannuation Bill part 2

  • Joel Feller, a Philadelphia attorney who represents several young men who say they are victims of Mr. Sandusky, said there is a "realistic possibility" that civil claims against the university can be settled by year-end, a goal set by the school.

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  • In a report published last year, the Constitution Unit, a group of academics and former civil servants, decided that the only way of dealing with this problem was to stipulate that the Scottish parliament can change its voting system only with the agreement of Westminster.

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  • Taubman's conviction and the civil suits were premised on a six-year scheme to fix commissions at the tony twin towers of the auction game.

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  • Stephen Ngo, a civil defense attorney, quit drinking soda a year ago when he started running triathlons, and wanted a healthier way to quench his thirst.

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  • Part of the evidence for that theory comes from the Whitehall study, a giant 20-year study of British civil servants conducted by Sir Michael Marmot of University College, London.

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  • For example, Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in baseball in 1947 was a seminal civil rights event that took place one year before the military was desegregated, and seven years before Brown vs.

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  • The government held a consultation on the subject earlier this year, proposing legislation to permit same-sex unions in civil ceremonies in a register office or approved premises.

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  • Senior South African officials told journalists that Zimbabwean army officers had informed them of a plan to oust Mr Mugabe if civil unrest erupted as a result of the food shortages that are expected later this year.

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