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Ironically, repeatedly the Government refuses to address that income should legitimately also come from another source, which is recovery from compulsory third party insurance for each motor vehicle.

The original motion based on the premise that the labour shortage problem could be alleviated through retraining women, is most unacceptable to woman workers in general and is neither here nor there.

[...] know whether to laugh or to cry.

After a study conducted by a government working group, the Government released recently the first-phase measures in a bid to curb property prices.

Ironically, publicity and education in AIDS has been done for some 10 years by the Government and many non-governmental organizations.

[...] know whether to laugh or to cry.

I hope I have not disappointed those who thought I might go a step further and become downright tigerish! The irony is that I donned my Tiger suit a few years ago to demonstrate that the Hong Kong Government was not a lame duck, if you follow the mixture of metaphors.

Madam deputy, it is ironic that on a day which could prove to be one of our darkest we are debating about Hong Kong's future development with specific emphasis on the Pearl River Delta.

[...] [...] established a causal link between the claimed damage and the construction of the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory; (g) the claimed damage was in fact sustained; (h) the documents and assertions in support of the claim [...] [...]

However, in the event that the conditional interpretative declaration actually “behaves like” a reservation, the question of whether it meets the conditions for the permissibility of reservations does have a real impact on the content (and even the existence) of treaty relations.

It also considered the issue from a more general point of view in resolution 1373 (2001) on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts (the Council “[noted] with concern the close connection between international terrorism and transnational organized crime, illicit drugs, money-laundering, illegal arms-trafficking, and illegal movement of nuclear, chemical, biological and other potentially deadly materials”) and in the presidential statement (S/PRST/2009/32) on peace and security in Africa (“the Security Council notes with concern the serious threats posed in some cases by drug trafficking and related transnational organized crime to international security in different regions of the world, including in Africa”).

Do you think that the reply is ridiculous to the villagers concerned?

I do not know whether I should laugh or cry at finding that such a practice of "one may steal a horse while another may not even look over the hedge" could ever happen today in a big, selfprofessed civilized country like the United States.

Under this arrangement, they can have access to a near-formal venue, so this may be an interesting start.

[...] [...] settlement procedure for these standards; [...] [...]

Sharon and Danny in career, marriage, family experience but also access to the rare happiness.

[...] office, its spotty reputation for programme [...] [...]

Since there were already so many miserable landlords 23 years ago and since these pitiful old ladies and gentlemen have been weeping and wailing for so many years, 23 years to be exact, so when we propose to increase the commencement date from one year to three years after enactment, would things turn out so badly for them?

However, it was really amusing that, on hearing the expression "poverty gap", which mirrored deep-rooted conflicts in society, our government official stopped listening attentively and, as a result, got my question wrong and gave the reply "yes" right away.

President, I would like to spend a few minutes illustrating in brief some examples that other people will feel ridiculous.

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Instead, it is now the turn for high-ranking government officials to pass the buck and lay the blame on others.

To see whether roosters simply crow in response to external stimuli or according to a circadian rhythm—an internally driven, cyclical pattern of behavior that occurs over a 24-hour period—the team put one group of birds into a room with continuously dim lights and tracked the birds' crowing over the course of a month.

One of the ironies of the private housing market is that there are many people who cannot afford to buy relatively lower priced older flats, but are forced to mortgage themselves to the hilt in buying much more expensive new housing.

The reply said nothing other than that the Government has set up a working group specifically to examine the safety of heavy machinery on construction sites, including goods cranes and passenger hoists.

Deputy President, first of all, the SAR Government has never disseminated information on this subject; and second, if Members have done a simple Internet search, they will find the situation even more rediculous.