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The upshot is that if Republicans raise a point of order on either of these grounds and it is upheld by the Senate parliamentarian, a 3/5s majority is required to waive it.

But many foreign policy experts, scientists and former security officials have questioned the plan on technical or strategic grounds, and it is strongly opposed by Russia, China and even American allies in Europe.

The writer of the New York Philharmonic's program notes handles all this with a shrug: "There is no 'right' version of Bruckner's Eighth Symphony, but Nowak's is at least unassailable on musicological grounds and it is the one used in this performance".

The islands are in good fishing grounds and it is thought that gas reserves may also lie nearby, although their amount is not clear.

The season has hardly been plain sailing for Mercedes on reliability grounds, and it is only four races since Rosberg failed to finish in Singapore for the most bizarre of reasons - a smidgen of cleaning fluid that found its way into the steering column electronics and sent his car's systems into meltdown.

This is a typical problem on humpback whale breeding grounds, and it is unclear whether these are true "sampling" biases (i.e. easier acquisition of samples from males) or whether females are truly not available (i.e. sex bias).

The validity of the order prescribing the rates was directly challenged on constitutional grounds, and it was held valid by the highest court of the state.

"They gave me a Xeroxed map of the hospital grounds and it was not very well photocopied," he explains on the video.

There are 24 acres of wooded grounds and it's a good base for exploring the Pembrokeshire coast, history and hills.

We go away to some grounds and it's only 1,500-2,000.

27 The roll out was determined by programme managers on pragmatic grounds, and it was not feasible or acceptable to randomise districts by roll out phase.