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So far, since the 2006 Act came into force last May, we have succeeded in prising just one Legislative Competence Order out of Westminster, celebrated the other day, relating to additional learning needs.

Archive 2008-04-01 2008

It would also be an opportunity for women to unlearn some of their own entrenched bad habits – namely prising personal responsibility away from men, to the point where we control them and they resent us.

If you sleep with a man, trust him to take the pill | Barbara Ellen 2011

It's looking like they won't, what with the might of Sir Richard Carlisle's media empire prising them apart, and the ghost of the Turkish diplomat from series one still creeping along Downton's corridors.

TV review: Downton Abbey; Doctor Who; Absolutely Fabulous 2011

It was Brown who suprised everyone in early 2010 by prising Ted Kennedy's old Senate seat out of Democratic hands.

New Hampshire primary reaction: Mitt Romney versus the zombies 2012

So perhaps MPs will do better in prising from the great belt-tightener an explanation as to how Capita was paid £580,000 for 16 months' work by an official supplied to his department to serve as interim finance chief.

Hugh Muir's diary 2011

It is the galvanising effect on those around him that makes Silva vital to City's prospects of prising the Premier League crown from Old Trafford and from now on, with Tottenham Hotspur to come in the league on Sunday and the second leg with Liverpool at Anfield later this month, there is no obvious room in the calender for further respite.

David Silva back from a break to freshen Manchester City's title run 2012

BUT ... our “hero” sobered up in the morning and, discovering that the phone was now functionless, he set about prising the thing open.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Is It a Crime to Receive an Item That You Know Belongs to a Third Party? 2010

But critics say the panel is simply prising apart the NHS so that private companies can lure patients away from state hospitals.

Lansley threatens to sack NHS chiefs who ration care to save money 2011

Their latest scheme for prising James Milner from Aston Villa involves offering £24m plus Stephen Ireland, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Roberto Mancini's redundant scarf and a bank to which Martin O'Neill can laugh all the way.

Football transfer rumours: Carlton Cole or Emmanuel Adebayor to Real Madrid? 2010

Analysts say the protesters 'success in prising open Thailand's social divide will make it difficult for Oxford-educated Mr. Abhisit to parlay an end to the Bangkok protests into a durable solution to Thailand's crisis.

Thai Premier Offers Deal, but Protests Will Leave Scar 2010