Gd32 Flashcards
Media stocks were some of the heaviest fallers after publisher Pearson frayed nerves as it warned there was little sign of a let-up in the tough advertising conditions
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The weather is finally set to clear after more than a week of torrential rain signalling a let-up for those who have been suffering from flooding
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His leader Don Bash copped a broadside from one respondent who described him as a wimp
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Their words were of little comfort
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Malaysia has copped heavy criticism for the delays and confusion
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History will judge is favourably for that
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The diary chronicles the increasing confusion, anxiety and despair of a wife
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As long as there is a silver of hope, I will not give up on you
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Older workers were among the first fired, and some hard-pressed corporations reneged on pension promises
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To appease unions, he reneged on promised labor-market reforms
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The local garrison would be mobilized only if the SAR government asked the central government for help
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The euro has defied the laws of economic gravity for too long. The next stimulus step by the European Central Bank should soon clip its wings and quantitative easing should send it crashing back to earth
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For Asia banks which have built up big hoards of euro reserves in recent years as a deliberate diversification against the weaker US dollar, there will be anxious times ahead. The consequences could be grave
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The strength of euro is an enigma given a double-dip recession
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Investors who took flight in the summer of 2012 have returned to euro zone asset market in thick swarms
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Foreign investors on the hunt for higher yielding investment plays, especially in the formerly distressed markets of Greece, Spain and Italy, have flooded into convergence trades
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As convergence confidence rallied, these plays have become quasi-guaranteed one-way bets
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We were now encountering the last minute and Dingle had all hands on deck to rescue their rapidly sinking ship
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When conditions finally permitted, it was all hands on deck as we formed teams heaving on a forest of ropes to hoist Eda huge sails
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But I will admit that hosting such an event requires all hands on deck
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The ECB could open up the floodgates with quantitative easing. If confidence in the euro starts to wobble and central banks start to panic, the wall of money coming out of the euro could put the currency to rout
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The euro may be flying high at the moment, but it cannot continue to defy economic gravity forever
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This sweater shows your figure off nicely
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Football stockings
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The style is very flattering on you
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How many loads of laundry do you want
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I smudged my shirt when I was having lunch
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There is a large grease stain. I am afraid it will not come off
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I do not have much of an appetite today
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Oh keep your chin up
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That is a real bargain
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We have quite a backlog
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Did he have any particularities
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Fancy seeing you here
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Have not seen you for ages
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I happened to pass by, so I dropped in
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I just dropped by to say hello. I was driving in the neughbourhood and thought I would pay you a visit. I am glad you did
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I should have called, but it was a spur of the moment
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I guess she is trying to play hard-to-get
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When I turn over in bed, my legs still ache
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I hope you are not teasing me
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It was awfully presumptuous of you to do that without asking first
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You are making my blood boil
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How have things been? Much the same
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He picked a fight
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Double-barrelled name
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Discretion was her middle name
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His middle name is loyalty
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Her youthful appearance certainly belies her age and we wish her continued good health
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He may look like a rugged hillwalker, well-built and bearded - but his appearance belies the truth
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The way society views the whole drug scene is riddled with hypocrisy and double standards
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However, as with the infant formula companies, the industry stands accused of hypocrisy
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Many nominally democratic developing countries have in fact become despotic
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The external trappings of elections are all that is left
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Their democracy is about struggles between parties and canvassing for votes
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Multiparty competition turns into fierce rivalry between different interest groups
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The fierce battles between camps have not only blurred the lines between right and wrong, but also torn society apart
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The opposition may then stir up unrest, demolish the established order, and overthrow a legitimate government
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With democracy serving as a fig leaf, the hypocrisy of American democracy has been exposed and the credibility of Western democracy ruined
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The young woman, whose speech and behavior reek of defiance bordering on dementia, disapproves of the puritanism that placed a plaster fig leaf over the genitals of a statue of God
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This was not the mythical Pan, half-man and half-goat, but a mature human male whose nudity was compromised only by the prominent fig leaf covering his genitals
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This is merely a fig leaf to cover up its ruthless attempts to preserve the ability to extract huge profits from those artists
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Religion can inform every aspect of a person s life, including politics, and this, I think, is not a bad thing
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The writing in Mapping is top quality because it is informed by design experience
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As God incarnate, Jesus provides the perfect example of a life properly lived in subservience to God s will
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And if things are not to your satisfaction, they try to work with you to find a satisfactory solution
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He could not explain it to my satisfaction and it was totally unacceptable
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He makes sparing and intelligent use of special effects
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I think the only unhealthy drink I have ever seen him consume would be alcohol, and even that only in sparing amounts
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It is important to be mindful of a number of things in preparing the programme specification. It is not meant to reproduce University information about regulations and policy but to provide a focused presentation of the programme design and unique elements
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Where relevant, discussion of these issues should give consideration to the necessary scaffolding of learning and skills development
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You will normally want to begin the validation process before planning has been fully signed off
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Where required, the processes can be fast tracked
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Ben was so hammered that he puked all over the carpet
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He was so spaced out that he did not remember a thing. What a lame excuse
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Peter was so stoned that he did not notice that the slut had nicked his wallet
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He has been on the booze for three days
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He is now off the booze
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Bob was so tired that he crashed out on the sofa
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Give me a fag. Sod off
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We are having it large tonight
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Gotta jet. Bugger! I am here to foot the bill again
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In assessing the application for accreditation, reference shall be made to the factors below. But these factors, as well as the information required in support, do not mean and shall not be treated as exhaustive
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If the training institution chooses to commence the programme against advice, it proceeds at its own risk and it shall forthwith inform the students concerned without delay of the consequence of studying a programme not yet accredited by Nursing Council to avoid confusion to the detriment of their interests
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The chronology section in this volume is less detailed that the one in the Source book but furnishes enough information to allow the reader to grasp the outline of the biography
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Backlash is mounting against the vice-president of Italian senate after he celebrated the victory with a vulgar outburst calling English people pretentious pricks
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His characters, both the admirable ones and the detestable ones, are intensely alive, and we know this by their distinctive voices
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He is in the eye of the storm after posting a tweet saying that English are pretentious pricks
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The overused phrase ?politically correct? is usually code for something newish that discomfits the writer
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Tight-lipped, he appeared discomfited by the questions thrown at him, and relied on streams of impenetrable government-speak for his responses
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Triple gas-fired local generation to 60 per cent
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The government would sift through the 480 items to decide which needed urgent preservation
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Philip must learn to accept me, warts and all
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I know that I am right to take a stand against this wrong being done behind our backs without the whole of Sligo being given the whole truthful facts - warts and all
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You agreed to marry him, warts and all
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Hong Kong lawyers will not flock to cite the Chinese administration in legal submissions
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Woman was an address used in the ancient world without any suggestions of disrespect
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I saw him take a step back, angling his body so the next left would be a glancing blow, and not effect him as much, and it would bring my body close to his as I over extended my arm
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The student tried to avoid the drunken man but suffered a glancing blow: I was uninjured but a little shaken by the experience
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Is she wishing she would done her laundry earlier, cursing the weather that meant all her regular clothes are still damp and hanging on the clothes horse in her front porch
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Models began to be promoted as something more than mere clothes horses
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With that qualifier, I certainly do not think it is necessary or desirable to be as thin as many of these breastless, boyish looking women being clothes horses on the TV fashion file show
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The man has become a fashion clothes horse, and the reference to Narcissus has been passed around among my friends
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Edward turned up late for their rendezvous
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While we are at it, we should throw in the fact that he so vividly recounts a rendezvous with an Antiguan immigration officer
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We always have our annual spring picnic at our secret rendezvous which is at Central Park
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Sissi House may sound like a camp rendezvous but this charming 17th century Jdeide mansion is a cut glass restaurant
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The flow of water had undermined pillars supporting the roof
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And yet, the way he handled the events that followed gradually undermined his position
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Agony for Socceroos as Memphis wins thriller for Dutch
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Robben fired the Dutch into an early lead
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The goalkeeper let Memphis’ long-range effort creep into the bottom corner
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Robben galloped through the Australian half almost unchallenged before rifling home his third goal of the tournament
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He was booked for a rash challenge
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Van Persie sprang the offside trap and thunder his third goal of the tournament high into the net
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The goalkeeper somewhat redeemed himself with a great save but it had no impact on the outcome as, despite another brave display, Australia slipped to their second defeat in the group
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Late in the week I discovered that for some obscure reason one of my friends, Caroline, was married to a different man and had different children
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Disillusioned and sickened, Balashov achieves salvation by joining the Skoptsy, an obscure religious sect that existed until only a few decades ago
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Big eyes and bushy eyebrows
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Aircraft sex pests set to face civil action in Hong Kong courts
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The uniforms are too revealing and could provoke sexual harassment
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The bank confirmed it had withdrawn the advertisement, but stopped short of an apology
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The vitriol against mainland tourists is ugly and misplaced, given that HK has benefited the most from the explosion of wealth across the border
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I think I am not alone in being embarrassed and not a little ashamed by the strident, hysterical and xenophobic tone of much of the recent debate over mainland tourists in Hong Kong
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The logic and tone of many of the recent anti-visitor outpourings have been embarrassing to hear. And the policy proposals in response - mulling restraints on inbound tourism from the mainland - have been as spineless as they are likely to be ineffective
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I am as appalled as anyone by the uncouth and antisocial behaviour of some visitors that we witnessed in recent months
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The tour groups herded noisily around
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The emerging affluence across the mainland
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Nowhere have these benefits cascaded more prodigiously than here in Hong Kong
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They were accused of a whitewash, and the voters expressed their contempt at the ballot box
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The families feel we are the victims of a whitewash and a cover-up in order to protect careers of certain individuals
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The only better run is by West Indies, who won ten successive Tests against England in the course of consecutive series whitewashes in 1984 and 1985-86
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The Lions went downhill to a 4-0 whitewash
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The public sympathizes with the villagers whose home will be razed
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The high-handed approach of the police
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The government tried to brand them as repeat offenders with a plan
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These groups also favour a flat hierarchy, whereby all the members are equal
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The activists claimed that they were infiltrated by plain-clothes officers posing as protesters who had escalated the protest
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The veiled suggestions that reporters of his ilk seem to be so good at
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The secretary for financial services and the treasury said at the sidelines of a conference
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The Fed has been winding down its bond buying
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He and his government were lurching towards an angry showdown with their critics
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David Beckham is already dreaming of a World Cup final showdown with his Old Trafford pal Juan Sebastian Veron
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In a showdown, the winner will take the pot consisting of the small antes and the bets
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Maybe you actually have the best hand and would win in a showdown right now
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This set a bad precedent as it meant they would be at the mercy of police
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Spain has suffered a dramatic fall from grace
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Once in, the members must follow certain protocols of interaction (either directly or indirectly enforced) or they are booted out
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Its confidence seemed to have evaporated
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The highly charged atmosphere created by boycott
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Even though I have read the book three times so far, never once have the words conveyed the sense of excitement and the charged atmosphere that came across on film
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No issue is quite as emotionally charged as the issue of child abuse
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A terrific British cast, working with an emotionally charged script, keeps viewers glued to the screen
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The coach dropped the established stars
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The shot was narrowly deflected wide if the goal by a defender
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Spain also pushed up, but errors soon proved costly
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The defence was in disarray
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The game carried on at a furious pace as the defending champions sought a way back into the game
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The goalkeeper seemed shell-shocked as he walked off at half-time
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Their pitiful state seemed to be epitomized by misses in the second half
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Sergio was clear in front of goal but a seemingly simple tap in went wide
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Luis scored twice to send England spinning towards their earliest World Cup exit in 56 years
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That defeat would have put them on the verge of elimination
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Luis was afterwards hoisted aloft by his teammates
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We have not been outplayed in any of the games. We have just come up short
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The goalkeeper stood tall to deny Neymar, blocking eight attempts on the goal to the delight of Mexicans
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I do not know if we are a rock in the shoe of our opponents
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Final grades tend to be bunching within the B category. This is the result of a reluctance to give C/D/F grades and to a lesser extent A grade on the part of the examiners
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The situation, though understandable, can be avoided
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Grade inflation
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This is not because they are obtuse or stupid or misdirected
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To this end, the Peak began to ask how America could be so obtuse as to not understand the motives behind the attack
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I would not say these guys were necessarily trying for a hit? they are too obtuse for such a crass act
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The deadpan humour behind their stone-faced radical posturing and deliberately obtuse lyrics were certainly overlooked by many
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With some it is all there if you read between the lines, while others are deliberately obtuse to maintain an element of privacy
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As this mesh dries, it hardens and forms a scab to protect the wound as it heals
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He has played until his fingers blistered, the blisters burst, the wounds scabbed and the scabs formed calluses
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Mengele, she believes, chose her for this favoured project because, although sick and lousy, her flesh was remarkably unmarked - Mengele had an aversion to scarred or scabrous skin
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Tears scald his scabrous cheeks, and he can hardly laugh - even the sardonic bark he reserves for all humanity - without torturing his jaw
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We had parties in the barn, parked out tractor in the barn, and more often than I care to mention, we shoveled manure and cleaned the barn
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She was a pretty good sport especially considering some of the scenes and lines she had to deliver
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Just seeing that clip go through, I was cracking up and I think such a good sport to send herself up in that way
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He never left his office alone; he never leaves his business unattended
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While Porter heads for the mainland to get the boat repaired, Sandy is tasked with a load of chores
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Each student group was tasked with carrying out a market research project and produced a marketing plan for their assigned client company
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That is the only reason I can think of to explain why he has not been taken to task more severely by the media
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And some critics will then take us to task for flouting ordinary usage
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Vegetation occupied by snails in the zone to be inundated will be removed by hand, stacked on pallets and moved above the flood
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After an aluminum pallet holds 12 stacked crates, the computer opens a gate allowing the pallet to move forward for further loading
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To move a motion of no-confidence
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This involves not one but three votes in two plebiscites and one federal referendum - and heaven knows how many state votes
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There could be no question of a plebiscite on a constitution, after what had happened in Piedmont, and Napoleon was not one to waste time with constituent assemblies
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We will be spared the horrors of greedy, selfish and self-serving individuals who trample over people so that they can get a million dollars
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She turns on her own staff to make a selfish, self-serving deal behind closed doors that later gets revealed
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To stage a 18-hour sit-in on a plane
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The passenger refused to disembark
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The airline offered an undisclosed amount of compensation
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I will act surprised when they speak Putonghua, just to tease them a bit
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A Chinese official has been sacked after a picture of him being given a piggyback across a flooded path during a search for missing children went viral online, sparking outrage
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He was caught on camera on Saturday during a search for three children who had fallen into a swollen river
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Ankle-deep water
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Sow discord among the enemy
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Great crises often call for gifted leaders
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His new car made him the envy of every boy in the neighbourhood
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A difference arose between the neighbours over the height of the fence
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A tuxedoed emcee strode to the middle of the stage
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After the obnoxious announcer, who clearly wished he had been bestowed with the honour of actually being counted as a storyteller and not simply the emcee, I was not in a mood most receptive to storytelling
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Before the train comes to a stop, the youthful daredevils jump down the moving train in reckless abandon in a stunt termed istaff
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Herzog states often that his movies are not crafted on the backs of daredevils or those with a reckless disregard for human safety
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His latest indiscretion sent the social media into meltdown and within minutes of the match ending Susrez was the top trending hash tag on Twitter
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Until the incident he had kept control of his temper during a bruising game
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Turn to a cold case
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Others will selfishly hog a space all day and not give fellow drivers a fair chance to park conveniently
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And that seems to have to do with this knack the brothers picked up of hogging the limelight even as school kids, though at times it meant being hauled up for mischief in front of the school assembly
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There are friends and friends
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There are ways and ways of doing it
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Truth and roses have thorns about them
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Kings and bears worry their keepers
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Love and cough cannot be hid
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Guests and fish stink within three days
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Of painting and fighting look aloof
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A word spoken and an arrow let fly cannot be recalled
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Of soup and love, the first is the best
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His mother died of difficult labour
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Yes, cut in spending will be felt
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I bet some eyes are rolling. They thought they have heard that before
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Investor demand for newly listed stocks in Hong Kong is likely to remain tepid amid concern about slumping property prices and increasingly tight liquidity on the mainland
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It is a good horse that never stumbles
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It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest
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It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait
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It is a long lane that has no turning
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It is an ill wind that blows nobody good
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He is eating as soon as he opens his eyes
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At the end of his tether
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You are telling me
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Tell me another
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Gun salutes
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The stars twinkled in the transparent clarity of the night sky
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The moon through the rifted clouds looked down upon the calm bay
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Be slow to promise but quick to practise
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International pressure mounts on the internet search giant to apply the new safeguard beyond Europe
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He stopped short of explaining why
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The chairman scoffed at the idea of extending the right
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To whitewash their unflattering past
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They know nothing about science. There is another agenda
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A puke box
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I am talking carefully ripped jeans, studiously scuffed shoes, lovingly tousled hair and, for guys, cultivated stubble (this is not so great on chicks)
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He shoves his hands into his pockets and scuffs the floor with his shoe
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Eve took off her shoes so she would not scuff that glorious floor
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At the same time, he takes care to scuff his compositions with small marks, so that the studied perfection of his geometry is offset by the imperfection of the scratch or splotch on the surface that can recall timeworn linoleum floors
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You take advantage of his good nature
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In essence, I begin the editing process - redacting the data, picking useful bits - while taking handwritten notes
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The two officials said the administration plans to propose redacting parts of the memos
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Now, the victim s name in the report was redacted
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The environment where moment of inattention can prove fatal
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At the tail end of this conversation colleague number two butts in uninvited, with a little gem aimed in my direction
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Do not butt in on a conversation your girlfriend is having with a cute boy
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Born at the stroke of midnight
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It mirrors the course of India at its most impossible and glorious
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They would only have to thrust their arms under his convex back, lever him out of the bed, bend down with their burden and then be patient enough to let him turn himself right over on to the floor
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What a fate, to be condemned to work for a firm where the smallest omission at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion
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So open the door, please. He will be good enough to excuse the untidiness of your room
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The only amusement he gets is doing fretwork. For instance, he spent two or three evenings cutting out a little picture frame; you would be surprised to see how pretty it is
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I must say that we men of business-fortunately or unfortunately-very often simply have to ignore any slight indisposition, since business must be attended to
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The chief would begin dunning his parents again for the old debts
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Everything ran like clockwork for the Irish fivesome who had to quickly move on to launches in Belfast, Edinburgh, Manchester and London
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A castaway survivor
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Prepare everything 48 hours in advance to allow the sugary chocolate to become gooey and sticky and begin to seep into the layers of creamy cranberry
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I was starving, so was pleased that my sag aloo starter - a deliciously red, gooey mess of soft potato pieces in spices - was a decent size
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Not a morsel of food passed my lips without the calorie value being carefully noted in my food diary
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Juliet pushed a morsel of toast into her mouth
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Without preservatives, fat goes rancid
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Butyric acid is responsible not only for the smell of rancid butter, but also contributes to the odor of sweat
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They all made themselves comfortable inside their snug and warm sleeping bags
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Still, once a fire is crackling, it is a warm, snug shelter
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The turtles spend most of their lives in mangrove-lined tidal estuaries, where rivers flow into the sea
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It is a land of undulating hills and hollows, dips and drumlins, rivers, inlets, estuaries and lakes, dotted with homes and barns
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It is when body energy is exhausted that hypothermia becomes potentially life-threatening
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Chater Road remains closed to traffic
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Protesters yell slogans through loudhailers
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Burning issues on the 17th anniversary of the handover include
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Protesters are being herded into other areas of the park
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The park is a sea of umbrellas and fans as sweltering protesters battle to keep the sun at bay
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They were spurred to attend the march by the proposals
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As far afield as in Wan Chai, sporadic outbursts of Do You Hear The People Sing can be heard
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The march has officially started, albeit a little late
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A great swell of people is on the move under grey skies
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I call for restraint on all sides
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A girl fainted in the stifling heat
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Crowds make way for medics
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The streets of Causeway Bay are awash with demonstrators
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A human traffic jam has snarled up the junction of Jardine Bazaar and Yee Wo Street, not helped by multitudes of bemused shoppers trying to squeeze their way through the crowds
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Many are seeking shelter under shop awnings
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Lucid and friendly, with a good sense of humour
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Protestors give out a loud hiss in unison
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Hundreds of students are sitting in the road under the glare of spotlight, stretching back several hundred metres
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Speeches and proclamation are coming thick and fast as group leaders try to keep demonstrators involved
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Scores of police are manning barriers
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His response drew cheers from the crowd
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Reporters behind the cordon are refused entry
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Some outraged protesters berate police officers, calling them running dogs
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Members is the media have been forced to retreat further back as police erect more steel barricades in a bid to hem in the activists
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A row of wheelchairs prepared by police to ferry away protesters from Chater Road
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Moreover, they can also be seen as potential shape-selective catalysts by analogy with the porous minerals, zeolites
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As a result of this agreement, doctors gave the health authorities an undertaking that they would resume overtime duties with immediate effect
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In the application, my learned friend said that, if it was to be granted, there was an agreement or, at least, there was an undertaking that costs would be paid in any event to the respondent
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Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer
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Beijing unmoved by massive rally turnout
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As fallout from protest spreads, advisers warn of social and financial crisis if conflict over pro-democracy movement escalates
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We have at least more than 10 H-share listings in the pipeline
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Police were accused of heavy-handed treatment of protesters
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Democracy hopes hang by a thread
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Why do men then now not reck his rod? What a tremendous line, a savage indictment of humanity’s colossal ignorance
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Cursive scripts
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The news of their escapades be it in fleeting skirmish or pitched battles was eagerly listened to in Ireland
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The victories of the Alliance, in north and south, follow rounds of skirmishing and negotiating rather than pitched battles
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Chipping or flaking flints to produce sharp edges was succeeded by a cleverer method
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Internal Chinese politics remained perennially in flux
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They parted never to see each other again
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A coquettish grin
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Even so their marriage is more than a mutually acceptable business proposition: he genuinely loves her in his way and she him in hers, so he claims when his conscience pricks him
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The blind loyalty to a charismatic leader or group without heeding conscience when it pricks us on issues
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It just so happened that elocution lessons were scheduled for the two older girls for an hour that day
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The defender sobbed openly as the pain of the humiliation sank in
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The World Cup dream was smashes into oblivion as majestic Germany ran riot to win an extraordinary semi-final
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Brazil plunged into national mourning
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Brazil, badly missing the suspended captain, tried to regroup but there was no respite
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The cool finish was the cue for the floodgates to open
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The German rounded off another clinical move to make it 5-0
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Dead and buried in half an hour, the crowd was stunned into silence
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Many fans burst into tears as they struggled to comprehend the enormity of what had taken place
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A section of the crowd chanted sexually-expletive obscenities against the team
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This time boos rang out around the stadium as the Germans celebrated
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The goal was greeted by a burst of applause as Brazilian fans saluted German wonderful exhibition of attacking football
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Brazil had gone into the match riding a fervent wave of national emotion, determined to clinch a place in the final
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A spine-tingling rendition of the national anthem
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His strike punctured the fervent mood
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Both propositions sound ludicrous. But they represent the Beijing High People Court s preferred version of events
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Wracked by guilt, he confessed his role in the tragedy
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To siphon cash out of the country
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CCTV aired footage recorded by an undercover reporter
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To funnel six billion yuan out of the country
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The attack on BOC came as a surprise to analysts
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The gambling enclave
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The woman turned around and then recoiled towards the door
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A video of him sexually harassing a woman on the subway surfaced online
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His explanation infuriated internet users
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The video gained more traction when they found out the offender was a cadre at a state-run company
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Penalty-perfect Argentina held nerve in shootout to fire Messi s men into final
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The drab match was the polar opposite of Germany s annihilation of Brazil earlier
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Hope has been intact since day one
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The result was particularly cruel for Vlaar, who marshaled his defence imperiously through the game
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His side only made it to extra time thanks to a sensational sliding block by Mascherano to deny Robben on the stroke of full-time
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As a steady rain began to fall, the game settled into a disjointed rhythm
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He replaced the shot-shy van Persie
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The power of storytelling is as old as man
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It lulls the guardian at the gate to let other things slip by
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The hunger starts gnawing at his belly
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On top of the crow s nest, there is a sailor with a little red bandana and an eye patch
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A damsel in distress
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She flat out faints
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She looks at me like I am evil incarnate
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A flak jacket or flak vest is a form of body armour designed to provide protection from case fragments from high explosive weaponry
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Black crushed velvet with a slight sheen
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On a more archetypal level, you have pixies, fairies, and witches
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He was spouting platitudes about our furry friends
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You are relegated to spouting opinion, and nothing more
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How else would he have learned to spout such preposterous notions as universal love
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Do not stifle your creativity
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A little word on the side
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Put a tiny tinsel, a few baubles and some lights onto the Christmas tree
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In fact the radicals simply wimped out for fear of having their pants sued off
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The tearful striker is thankful that he is not in a wheelchair after suffering fractured vertebra
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Brazilians are dreading the prospect of Argentina claiming their third title
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The South Americans nations are sworn footballing enemies, and Argentina s advance to the final rubbed salt into Brazilian wounds still fresh from the record defeat
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Argentine fans are expected to descend on Rio for the final, the climax of a month-long footballing fiesta
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He said, struggling to stay composed
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A new breed of upscale bars and nightclubs have replaced Macau s once-seedy dive bars
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Spend your after-dinner hours taking in the bars and nightclubs that continue to crop up all over as mega casinos continue to flourish
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Wander the streets around the waterfront entertainment district for a more laid-back vibe
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Grab late-night snacks on tables lining the footpaths
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Regular DJs pump out pop tunes, while major parties and live acts are fashioned for all tastes
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Keep it simple. Beer and snacks are your best bet
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You will get plenty of bang for your buck
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A gathering place for discerning adults who want to kick back and let all life s troubles drift away
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Tucked away up on the top floor of
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The past decade has transformed Macau from sleepy backwater into the gambling capital of the world, with an accompanying onslaught of tourist-trap kitsch
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There is a real city beyond the baize and slot machines
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While Hong Kong cheerfully obliterates its history, Macau hangs on to what is left, often through benign neglect more than anything else
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You will find crumbling stone houses next to painstakingly preserved buildings
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Do not miss the bottles of ginjinha, a spiced sour cherry liqueur that is served as an aperitif
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A bowl of imitation shark s fin soup
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China has vowed to crack down on the rampant practice of performers traveling abroad on the government s dime
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It has banned any unapproved use of government funds for the rental of illustrious venues
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She knows what she did was wrong and I have spoken to her about it but I am not giving her the boot from the band
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Plenty of less understanding women would give you the boot
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Please practice what you preach or we will give you the boot
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As the appellant student has not produced any documentary evidence to show that his final grade differs in any way from his performance in the assignments, by which he is understood to mean the draft translation, there is no prima facie case for his appeal
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I find no merit in his case and recommend that his appeal be dismissed
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You ratted me out
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Trusting that this will put things into perspective
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In silent acquiescence, she rose to her feet
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He smiled as if to acknowledge his acquiescence
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An inscrutable and incomparably powerful force permeates the Universe and binds it together
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Perched on at least three different levels, it enjoys a stupendous view over the Nile south of Aswan city centre
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We have the difficult task of fighting them, while protecting innocents in a war where the enemy deliberately and cynically conflates the two
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As for the film being racy, raunchy or titillating, there is utterly nothing groundbreaking here
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The film is probably most notable for its attempts to entertain adults with racy jokes and visuals
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The compilers of this book would be wanting in courtesy if they did not expressly say what might otherwise be safely left to the reader s discernment
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Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid
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These rules are given roughly in the order of merit; the last is also the least
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A rather pompous periphrasis
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If you go too slowly, the person thinks you do not want to hug them, and you have a touchy, cranky person on your hands for the rest of the evening
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They often lash out suddenly and for no apparent reason, and may seem to be touchy or irritable most of the time
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In this kind of situation, touchy subjects are skirted and cones of silence descend
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Iona is a very plucky, determined, headstrong lady and is the unsung heroine in the whole of this saga
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Rugosa roses make up a dense, compact hedge at the end of the garden without distracting from the sea view
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We snuggled together around the fire we had built, all together in a compact ball around the small flames
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Be assured, this latest XJ is compact enough to fit into a normal-size garage, and can easily cope with the tight spaces of multi-storey car parks
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The device would fit all sizes of pram or buggy, including three-wheelers, and was compact enough to fit into the overhead lockers on aeroplanes
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Few weapons are capable of shooting down an aircraft cruising attitude
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Super typhoon Rammasun ploughed into Wenchang
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He processed to reel off the various dishes of the day
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There was a certain amount of dandruff on my shirt
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Soft Thursday
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They smooch up a storm
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People who work in the Internet industry on the other hand are viewed as nerds, geeks, dweebs and propeller heads
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Dweeb, a boring, studious, or socially inept person
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It drains my powers
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She ferociously ripped out my heart
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And the job has its perks, including occasional dates with rock icons
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People who make use of crutches to ambulate
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Functional approaches do not subscribe to this hypothesis
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Take everyone by surprise
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The tomato effect makes everything soggy
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White chocolate button
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Chocolate bars in the packed lunch is the best treat that I always save until last
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A band saw
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Coffee laced with brandy
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Pralines laced with alcohol
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Look like you have a cunning plan
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Toasting is a serious and traditionally rich feature of the Georgian meal and an official toastmaster is appointed
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He is an oyster of a man
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This devil of a father has an angel of a daughter
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Your darling of a Jane. How kind in you to bring me the shaw
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Your fiend of a God
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Most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings
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Quixotic passion for Daisy
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Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means
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