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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