A dour stayer, very much at home over this distance of three miles and three furlongs, he is taken to clinch the spoils. |
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Chicago's lead in the AL Central dropped to two games over idle Cleveland and its magic number remained at five to clinch the division. |
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Safin made the crucial break at 4-4 in the final set, and served out the next game to clinch the match. |
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He remains tight-lipped over most purchase prices, explaining that he has been prepared to sacrifice his home to clinch deals. |
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Tables turned twice in the middle game, and in the end Gallagher was given numerous chances to clinch his first victory of the tournament. |
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It took a crushing 6-0 victory on the last day of the Group 3 campaign to clinch their berth at the finals. |
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But perhaps Gwyneth was able to clinch the deal by demonstrating that she had some familiarity with existential miserabilism. |
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Figures showed it has once again hit all nine key targets to clinch its three-star rating. |
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But Williams slogged his way through the next two to clinch a third-round berth against Scotland's Chris Small. |
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But he, who is aiming to clinch his second Vuelta victory in three years, says he is unworried. |
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In the 12-arrow shootout, top seed Park finished with a bullseye for maximum 10 points to clinch the match. |
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One chapter, darkly visioning Conrad's clinch with his dead ex-partner's mother, is remarkable and truly shocking. |
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The same trainer and jockey joined forces yesterday to clinch a shock 50-1 success with Bagan in the curtain-raising handicap. |
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In the 1500m, Michael East produced a storming finish to clinch third place in a personal best time. |
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For Williams took a pounding, albeit brief, but came back to clinch the fight with some terrific work in the 12 th and final round. |
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I struck on my first ball to clinch the title and then added two more strikes. |
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Walkden now need only one point from their remaining four games to clinch the championship. |
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If you persist in attaching tippets with blood knots, surgeon's knots, or even the Orvis tippet knot, then attach your flies with clinch knots. |
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There was also a negotiation game which equipped the students with skills necessary to clinch important business deals. |
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Among the Chinese, humor is often used only to illustrate a concept, to prove a point, or to clinch an argument. |
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To clinch the transaction, a lot depended on caring for the customer and meeting his or her demands. |
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To clinch the argument, we needed a fossil that unambiguously showed a nonavian dinosaur with a feathery body covering. |
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Each of these works its way towards an endline ensured, provisionally at least, to settle the matter and clinch it. |
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He challenged me with one of the feebler bits of rhetoric the faithful adopt to clinch the argument. |
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The Cardinals, who lost to the Boston Red Sox in the World Series last year, are the first team to clinch a playoff berth this season. |
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Needing just one win to clinch the last playoff spot, the C's have now lost three straight. |
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The winning golden goal to clinch the match 2-1 in extra time was scored by Ahn Jung-hwan, who plays for Italian team Perugia. |
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The Charlton boss was critical of his attacking players who he said frittered away a string of chances to clinch all three points. |
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Instead, she buckled and Davenport fought back to square the match, going on to clinch victory in the decider. |
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So when Mark Hensby tapped in his par putt on the second playoff hole to clinch his victory at the Deere, he also earned a spot at Royal Troon. |
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In his last five regular-season games, he record nine goals and an assist to help clinch the top playoff seed for the Fusion. |
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Heavyweights throw like one-two-three punches and grab and clinch and grab and clinch. |
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He would stay close enough to always clinch as soon as Rahman set to punch. |
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To clinch the nail, it is necessary to hold a heavy metal block against the rib and drive the nail home against this. |
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After the shoe is nailed on, bring the foot out in front of the horse and put it on a stand or on your knee so you can clinch the nail. |
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This will help the knot clinch down properly and keep it from pulling out or breaking from the spool. |
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Smoger checked both men when they came out of a clinch in the eighth round rubbing their heads. |
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She'd felt bulky stirrings against her belly, and had barely broken the clinch in time to spare his dignity. |
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Everyone in the lobby grabbed me for at least a so-so passion-intensive clinch. |
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It would have to be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr rolling in a passionate clinch on the wet sand in From Here To Eternity. |
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The experienced anglers captured the attention of young boys by showing them fishing techniques, including how to tie the perfect clinch knot. |
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I looked up from the tedious chore of wrapping the improved clinch knot and saw Frazier playing a keeper speckled trout. |
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They both know the only real way to clinch a floating vote is to meet every possible voter in person. |
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She accepts that her BBC persona helped clinch the column, but points out that she was a newspaper freelance long before becoming a TV reporter. |
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They could clock up their first ever victory in Limerick and clinch station in the upper tier. |
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Saturday's game against Altrincham was a tense affair with everyone knowing a win could clinch us the title. |
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Interviewing Manny the lobsterman, a 30-year-old college grad with a paltry paycheck, helped clinch that argument. |
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He trailed 10-5 in the decider but reduced the deficit to one point, only for Shon to produce a late surge to clinch the match. |
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As it was it took a goal from defender Grant Illingworth to clinch the points. |
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But inside I spotted a woman eyeing me up and we ended up in a clinch as my husband watched. |
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Then a quick break by the visitors saw them clinch the points, but the scoreline did not reflect an even game. |
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He also added two conversions and finally stroked over a drop goal to clinch matters with the last kick of the game. |
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In their first meeting Aug.28, 1998 in Las Vegas, the fight ended in the fourth round as a no contest when the referee the fighters from a clinch on the ropes. |
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Some firms have recently managed to clinch contracts in Angola. |
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Mitt Romney is expected to clinch the Republican nomination, but does it even matter? |
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If a Blackpool fan could choose a dream climax to a season, it would probably involve beating arch-rivals Preston North End to clinch promotion and send Preston down. |
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Unfortunately, she did not find archival evidence dating from before 1511, but the material from after that date is sufficient to clinch her argument. |
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It had to take a little over a week to eventually clinch this interview. |
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The theatre beat off strong competition from all over the country to clinch the award, which was presented at a gala ceremony at London's Royal Court Theatre. |
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The form book was torn to shreds, however, at Walsh Park on Saturday as the Carrickbeg men totally outplayed a ragged Dunhill side to clinch their semi-final place. |
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The alliterating dental sounds clinch the sentence's dark sense. |
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Should he clinch victory today, he would leapfrog the Belgian as the most successful driver in the world's most famous endurance race with seven wins. |
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In fact, Derek and his terrified party hadn't stumbled on a poltergeist, but a couple in a passionate clinch who hadn't heard the ghoul-hunting crowd creep up on them. |
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The lowlight has to come on September 1 when the Red Sox lost to the Yankees, and once again allows the Yankees to clinch the American League East. |
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The reigning Olympic asymmetric bars champion had suffered mishaps in Atlanta and Sydney and Athens was her final chance to clinch the all-round title. |
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These newly discovered bacteria don't clinch this argument by any means. |
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The St. Louis Cardinals became the first major league team to clinch a playoff spot this season, winning the NL Central for the third time in five seasons. |
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The English rugby anthem Swing Low, Sweet Chariot was bellowed out by more than 600 fans, eager to see their team finally clinch the longed-for title. |
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We needed to beat these guys to clinch the playoff berth for us. |
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You clinch business deals and gain in financial transactions. |
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Meanwhile, Kylie has defended her new video Sexercise, which sees her in a girlon-girl clinch and gyrating on an exercise ball. |
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Its stand-out Colour Bar service and community engagement helped it clinch the title. |
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He tried to clinch and gouge, but another right hook to the jaw sent him down and out. |
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Forde tweeted that the pair were shown the door at the Glee club after being caught in a compromising clinch on Thursday night. |
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In April, Fury scored a third-round technical knockout win over Martin Rogan to clinch the Irish title. |
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The merest adumbration of an apology on Baron Veen's part would clinch the matter with a token of gracious finality. |
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They needed overtime to clinch an 85-82 win and a Lions' three-point shot just missed on the buzzer. |
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Meanwhile in the consolation, Roger Cappallo, noted radio astronomer from Groton, won his first six games to clinch that title. |
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Williams was in trouble at 3-1 down but reeled off breaks of 66, 62, 59 and 68 to win five of the next six frames and clinch victory. |
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Easington are battling to finish runners-up and clinch a return to the Ebac Northern League, while Leam are struggling to avoid the wooden spoon. |
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Blain responded with a stunning 96 not out as Whitland reached 147-1 to clinch only their third win of the season. |
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With the score at 2-1, Drinkhall beat Menge 11-1 in the decider to clinch the match. |
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They fell behind to a Stuart Shinney strike in 40 minutes but battled back to clinch the points. |
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At the Japanese Grand Prix Brawn had the opportunity to clinch the 2009 Constructors' Championship, however the drivers started 6th and 10th. |
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Taylor also missed two before Lewis took out double five to clinch England's first World Cup of Darts title. |
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With France then beating Ireland in Dublin, Scotland now knew that they could clinch first place. |
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To clinch his position as leader of the new fashion he sought out the famous Barberini vase as the final test of his technical skill. |
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Whizz-bang wasn't working, so the Ducks went with cloud-of-dust football to clinch it. |
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Only the finest vintages and producers will clinch the deal. |
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Graeme Beddows, who works at the Tesco superstore at Cross Point, Coventry, beat six other finalists to clinch the coveted national prize this week. |
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But hope springs eternal in diehard Tiger fans, and Peter is convinced that someday, somehow, he and his son will see Detroit clinch a championship. |
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Tomorrow the hooded Seal Of Approval will bid to make it four wins from five starts and clinch Group 2 honours for James Fanshawe and Hayley Turner in the Park Hill. |
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Modern Combatives is a functional mixed martial art form combining Brazilian jiu-jitsu, boxing, clinch hitting, takedowns and groundfighting techniques. |
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And if the Reds are going to clinch a sixth European crown this season the chances are they will have to halt at least one of the Spanish jugger nauts. |
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Your doctor can clinch the diagnosis with various kinds of scan, including ultrasound scanning, X-ray oral cholecystography, ERPC, or a cholangiography. |
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