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Its business-getters had been lucky enough to secure a set of four enormous gaudy Chinese vases, 130 centimeters high, with Empire gilt bronze mounts, said to date from around 1815.

It's been a painful birth, but it would be a very big reward to secure a set of global goals that are truly universal, that integrate development and the environment, and confront the root causes of our current crises.

TOKYO — Shintaro Ishihara, the firebrand governor of Tokyo whose vocal campaign to secure a set of disputed islands provoked a damaging dispute with China, declared Thursday that he was quitting local politics to start a national party, a move that could win him some say in shaping policy and escalate the territorial dispute.

Inside the Maze Prison complex near Lisburn in County Antrim, republican paramilitary prisoners were engaged in a long campaign to secure a set of privileges which would, in effect, have given them prisoner-of-war status.

Because, earlier in the film, after securing a set of Wayne's fingerprints, Bane's people did try to kill her after her usefulness had expired.

The CIA in Saigon later secured a set of photos of the brothers that left no doubt that they had been executed.

Some students ventured to make new findings, while others were very conservative in securing a set of data for reporting.

Taylor went 2-1 up after Van Gerwen missed a double and, although the Dutch thrower was in sight of finally securing a set, Taylor hit the bull for a resounding 4-0 win.

—Artists are squaring off against services and labels: In the background, those artists, through Featured Artists Coalition (FAC), and small indies, through the Merlin collective, are uniting against deals they see being done between the big online platforms and the majors, from which services already have to secure a parallel set of rights in addition to PRS.

To secure a balanced set of tissues, the analysis focused on 17 normal samples, 18 ADCA (randomly selected from a total of 127), 21 SQCA, 20 pulmonary carcinoids and 6 small-cell lung carcinomas.

One of the primary goals of the space weather community is to secure an improved set of real-time and historical data on which to base specification and empirical modelling.