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"We are adopting new strategies," said Mr Prabhakaran.His democratic pretensions will be tested when and if an interim administration takes over the government of the north and east.

What happens when Labour backbenchers find themselves locked in combat with their local authorities rather than in partnership with them?In these circumstances, the government's localist pretensions will be truly tested.

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By pretensioning members to the control value, the final force of prestressed members, which is generally designed before pretension, will be obtained successfully.

Terrorism, he added, "will never be defeated by the military muscle of their states any more than it will be by their pretensions that its causes lie entirely outside their actions".

Men of the first pretensions will not so readily engage in them, because they will be less cospicuous, of less importance, have less opportunity of distinguishing themselves.

All the non-therapeutic contacts will be performed outside the spinal column with adequate joint slack and without soft tissue pretension so that no joint cavitations occur.

Your host will be tempted to hear this in the sing-song voice of a resentful eight-year-old, thus destroying any pretensions you have to sincerity.

And explanatory pretensions will have to be abandoned, or at least severely curtailed: for while it is, according to the identity theorist, correct to say that a proposition is true just if it is identical with a fact, false otherwise, it is perhaps hard to maintain that anything very illuminating has been said about truth (cf. Hornsby 1997, 2).

If a candidate or reporter does it today, there's a good chance they'll be trolled and ridiculed for high-handed pretension.

Over the next decade, Britain's pretensions to be a great power will evaporate.

2016 Steve Rowe, Bolland's successor, abandons pretensions to be a global retailer, announcing he will close 53 overseas shops in 10 countries, including the Paris store.

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