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Tending toward, inclined to, as in She was given to eating crackers in bed . [Late 1500s]
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Thorpe spearheaded an Indigenous-run Blak Sovereign movement opposing the Voice, calling instead for priority to be given to a legally binding treaty between First Nations peoples and the Australian government.

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"While there was significant thought and debate given to the ideas of nation building and the righting of wrongs, the undercurrent of racism was ever present," said the report's guest author Professor Lindon Coombes in his introduction.

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He also used some of the money he was given to pay for an "extension and landscaping" at a property in Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, which he claimed had been paid for from an inheritance from his father.

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Prosecutors further said smaller "inducements" were given to an IT official who worked at both NHS Lanarkshire and Greater Glasgow and Clyde health boards as well as a woman with NHS Ayrshire and Arran.

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CTs are given to people in emergency departments who have had serious trauma or are having a suspected stroke.

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