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  • The coalition's plan to cut the number of NHS managers is not based on evidence and will damage the service just at the time it needs high-calibre bosses, according to the King's Fund thinktank.

    Nick Clegg demands rethink over role of NHS regulator 2011

  • The handgun isn't particularly interesting when it's first introduced, but load it up with some Fat Boys large, high-calibre rounds and slap half a telescope on it and hey presto!

    Rage – review 2011

  • The arms embargo was imposed in 2005 in response to a massacre which saw jeep-mounted Uzbek soldiers fire high-calibre machine guns into a crowd of civilians in the market town of Andijan, killing at least 187 people.

    Thursday news 2009

  • Although these comparisons may draw disbelief from you – understandably, the aforementioned filmmakers are of a high-calibre – I merely mean to point out the tones and aesthetic cues of which Aja seemingly called upon to craft his own film.

    TEN of TERROR #6: Haute Tension « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009

  • Wigan, defending the title for the first time since 1999, are deservedly warm favourites, with the most exciting individual talent in the competition in Sam Tomkins, many more products of the British game's most prolific junior nursery on the way through, three high-calibre overseas signings and the prospect of Gareth Hock returning from a two-year drugs ban in July.

    Widnes impatient to join in Super League's Magic moment 2011

  • The arms embargo was imposed in 2005 in response to a massacre which saw jeep-mounted Uzbek soldiers fire high-calibre machine guns into a crowd of civilians in the market town of Andijan, killing at least 187 people.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • If, at present, the calibre of applicants from the private school sector exceeds that of state school children, this surely reflects not that universities are recruiting according to class-based criteria but that the state education system is failing to produce the numbers of equally high-calibre candidates capable of intellectual pursuit at university level.

    Letters: Hard thinking needed to widen university access 2011

  • Ann Walker is a 2011 On Purpose AssociateOn Purpose is a leadership programme that helps high-calibre professionals kick-start a career in social enterprise; it combines paid work experience with intensive training and support.

    Damian Peat, Terra Plana 2011

  • Niall joined On Purpose from the Local Government Group, and his On Purpose placements are at O2 and InterfaceFLOR.On Purpose is a leadership programme that helps high-calibre professionals kickstart a career in social enterprise; it combines paid work experience with intensive training and support.

    Interview: Miriam Turner, InterfaceFLOR 2011

  • The University of Reading is a truly multicultural university that has been delivering cutting-edge research, and producing high-calibre graduates since 1926.

    University guide 2012: University of Reading 2011

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