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  • It recently commissioned a broader review of the student-visa program, due to be released by the middle of the year, aimed at getting more people from overseas trained in the skills it needs, while fending off compe tition from the U.S., New Zealand and Canada for international students.

    Australian education test: how Geoffrey Rogow 2011

  • And continued international engagement that strengthens investment and trade, diversifies supplies and promotes free and open compe-tition of ideas is also critical.

    The High-Tech Reality Of Oil 2007

  • Elsewhere in Shakespeare, the rivalry of brothers is displaced into patterns that seem less threatening but that still grow out of compe-tition within the family.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • He barged in beside Dag and hung onto the par - tition edge to pull himself up.

    Nerilka's Story McCaffrey, Anne 1986

  • Music, because of its quasi - abstract character, offers the clearest examples of motifs as structural elements, which are built up into finished compositions through sundry devices of repe - tition, modulation, variation, and orchestral elabora - tion.

    MOTIF HARRY LEVIN 1968

  • Page 181, Volume 2 tition would be to go against nature.

    EVOLUTIONISM THOMAS A. GOUDGE 1968

  • Reforms aimed at extending freedom have had two effects often regarded as dangerous to freedom: the increased power of the state and more intense compe - tition.

    LIBERALISM JOHN PLAMENATZ 1968

  • Rep. Rep.tition is monotonous; or it may be necessary for clearness.p. Punctuation.

    English: Composition and Literature 1899

  • In many cases of this form of disease, the suffering is so great that the constant dread of its periodical repe - tition becomes a source of great unhappiness, and casts a gloom over the life of an individual who would otherwise be happy.

    Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877

  • If you have drive or just create free space If you choose to resize an existing NTFS par - an unused partition on your hard drive on the disk-however, that's not tition, make sure you give your Linux install that you want to use for Linux, it's a good always an option.

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