The Frenchman, still wearing the No 7 from his Manchester United heyday, has charisma but also an edge of menace. |
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Bank holidays are a real menace for messing up the meat trade and the May weekend has been no exception. |
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Actors, directors and producers gathered in the city the other day to check this menace. |
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The cross hairs impose a sly menace on the land, the small dots of calibration turn a life into an algebra problem. |
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But such cathartic vengeance would do nothing to curb the menace of transnational terrorism. |
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With a film like this one, the monochrome is the main reason why we feel any manner of menace. |
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Stanley has one of the most joyless birthday parties imaginable thrown in his honour, with an undercurrent of menace never far from the surface. |
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In the 14 years since the Montreal Protocol banned most ozone depleters, a catastrophic global menace has begun to recede. |
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Under his scrutiny Africa in particular is prone to dissolving in a singularly powerful mood of menace, fear, and disgust. |
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Preparing for his sixth Ashes campaign, but still a class apart, McGrath was the constant menace at the top of the order. |
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But then, this is nirvana for these gamers, whose eyes gleam with menace as they extinguish yet another virtual life. |
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Children are the most vulnerable to this menace, but their health will not even be considered in this penny-pinching exercise. |
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He uses interiors and outdoor locations which are believably drab yet shot through with unidentifiable menace. |
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It is, in a way, the only menace with multiple potentials to perturb the normal life of the common man. |
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As the evening comes on, an incomprehensible feeling of disquietude seizes me, just as if night concealed some terrible menace toward me. |
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This stuff on here is not happy and cheery, there is clearly an element of menace mixed among the flowing melodies and lush soundscapes. |
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Posey was a menace all night, recording two sacks and three quarterback hurries. |
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All about there menace the plots of the revolutionary, the stones of the mob, the dagger of the assassin, the torch of the incendiary. |
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In particular, Harry lacks the humour and the menace he should display in egging George on. |
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We will stop the menace, so our children can once again play safely on the green. |
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The cola report isn't formally tabled, but no heads will roll for this menace to public health. |
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I was able to grasp the thread of the plot, pick up on tension and menace that was obfuscated in the original cut. |
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According to police, the scooters, which should only be used on private land, are a menace to pedestrians and motorists. |
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Last month Yates became the first nationwide drinks chain to tackle the menace of binge drinking by banning happy hours. |
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And it's time we did something about what is turning into somewhat of a national menace. |
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One might have thought that invokers of national security would be alert to the menace. |
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The participants expressed concern at the growing menace of terrorism across the globe and the need to put it down with an iron hand. |
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Proverbially wily, coyotes are also a little demonic, and their dogginess only adds to the sense of lurking menace. |
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Although medical treatment has improved in recent times, the disease is still a menace to many people's health. |
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This is music of longing, menace, and rue, often spiced with mordant or grisly humor. |
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He knows that menace is more effective when conveyed through smooth-talking charm rather than a snarl. |
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Pictures of the incident in the following morning's newspapers appeared to offer conclusive evidence of his menace. |
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But a menace we have until now seen only from a distance has stepped right up to face us. |
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In truth, foxes are not nearly as great a menace to livestock as the hunt clubs who hunt foxes with hounds. |
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The domestic overtones set up by endearing dolls, toys and china bric-a-brac bring this menace close to home. |
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The playing encompassed subtlety, ardor, menace and rage, all with an admirable polish. |
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Pakistan, which is not a member of this grouping, has also been expressing its resolve to destroy the menace root and branch. |
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With the soft, cold voice of a Hollywood villain, he had a natural genius for menace. |
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He said various agencies of the Centre and the concerned state police are coordinating to tackle the menace of terrorist funding. |
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Whooping cough is still a menace to British babies despite widespread use of vaccinations, research revealed yesterday. |
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Himalayan balsam's pink flowers are an attractive sight on the river's edge but it is a menace that needs to be stopped in its tracks. |
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Bovell and his band conjured up an atmosphere of potent menace and seething sensuality. |
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All Pinter's plays have a common atmosphere of darkness, menace and psychological intrigue. |
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For Barres, this constituted a menace to the French nation, indeed to the French race, for it was a German ideology. |
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In this age of computer design, stadium mood and atmosphere can be engineered to give an aura of menace to the most sanguine opponents. |
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Everyone is friendly, relaxed and enjoying the warm evening without a hint of menace or bad behaviour. |
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By some strange reason, when Tiffany's front door opened today after I knocked, I felt an aura of menace glaring back. |
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In the upper central area is a joker figure, a trickster whose red-lipped grin betokens some undefined menace. |
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It was for the political reason that Nazism had ceased to be a social evil, especially when viewed alongside the new menace of communism. |
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I mistook the atmosphere of tension and menace to mean dehumanized relationships. |
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Polaski stalks the stage with confidence, her clawlike hands in a constant state of threatening menace. |
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There was a hint of menace in the way he said it, a low growl underlying his words. |
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There is an atmosphere emerging here, an atmosphere of menace that the media help transport and magnify. |
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In the lakes of the midlands, the jet-skier is the menace of the local fishermen and boaters. |
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These songs are infused with a hint of twangy menace, bubbling under but never exploding. |
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Foot-and-mouth disease is not just a menace to livestock raisers, but also to the abattoirs and food retailers. |
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But in the hands of the wrong people, a Rottweiler or a big, powerful dog of any breed is an absolute menace. |
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Ben is doing well, he is full of cheek and is a complete menace, good fun though. |
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More west coast than east, it largely makes up in brooding, Glaswegian menace what it lacks in full-frontal threat. |
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Surprise checks by the police, during day and night, can go a long way in checking the menace, thus preventing fatal road accidents. |
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Thank God for all right thinking parents out there who have shielded the innocent lambs of the world from this menace. |
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Besides sensitising the people to the menace, the Central Bureau of Investigation should be permitted to act independently. |
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He is full of charm when he gets his way, full of menace when he does not, unscrupulous, cunning and deceitful. |
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If the result bears little musical resemblance to the original, it does capture the same hedonistic menace. |
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Felgenhauer said the Russian army was turning out angry young men who were becoming a menace to society. |
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A nationwide bar chain became the first to tackle the menace of binge drinking yesterday by banning happy hours. |
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Writing off communism as a fad for silly kids is just as bad as showing it up as a serious menace. |
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Yet the sense of space, of distance, the remoteness of the places through which one travelled never contained a hint of menace. |
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Firstly, no child, however level-headed and mature, is safe from the menace of drugs. |
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He looked me in the eye with what he obviously believed to be a look that blended shrewdness and menace. |
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The comparison might be very useful for likening a certain government to a Hitlerian menace. |
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Then the foxes, introduced in an attempt to eradicate the likewise imported rabbit menace, completed the devastation. |
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Huge white paw prints on the ground do not betoken the menace that might be expected. |
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They are burglars, dealers, vandals, thugs, muggers, arsonists, a menace to society. |
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There is a nice sense of menace developing in it, and I like how none of the characters are straightforward. |
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In the wake of a spate of racist attacks, Lewis asks if the menace of racism simmers under the surface of the city? |
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And his response, of course, contained the requisite doses of hard-man menace necessary to maintain his image as an intimidator. |
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A councillor from Trowbridge has promised to adopt a Dunkirk spirit to help rid the town of its pigeon menace. |
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Shoes make the foot look shorter and more precious, and yet add the formidableness of extra height, and often a sort of stiletto menace. |
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On the wild and woolly streets of Russia's capital city, the diesel engine is truly a menace to human health. |
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Her resolve to tackle the menace head-on gave a clear direction to the attending bureaucrats. |
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The afternoon show is the worst hit as only a few are willing to endure the blistering heat and mosquito menace for a few hours of entertainment. |
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It's an impressive, haunting work full of menace and obvious political allusion. |
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They are the menace of summer, spreading malaria, yellow fever, encephalitis and West Nile Virus. |
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Thousands of cab drivers are set to strike in protest at new safety rules designed to end the menace of bogus minicabs. |
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Anybody who can walk into someone's house as bold as brass and attempt to commit a serious offence has to be viewed as a menace to society. |
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The average for the past three years was 67, and this was construed as an indication that the fox menace was now reasonably under control. |
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They could, however, act as bolt holes when gangs of slavers raided, a growing menace from the ninth century on. |
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The buzz of menace the incident initially transmits, though, sounds a keynote. |
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The idea that raw-milk cheese poses a public-health menace in the same category as cigarettes borders on the absurd. |
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He sometimes has the hip-shake, but never that lovely, slinky, catlike sexual menace we see here, that seductive creep. |
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It is a sentimental, even mawkish, language, richly mined with hidden menace and self-deceptions. |
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Underage drunken youths are a menace to the serenity of The Green, Castledermot. |
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Then potential menace turned to pure joy as two more orcas joined the first and together they porpoised toward the setting sun. |
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It was time for Britain to acquire submersibles and find out just how much of a menace they might be. |
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So there I was, behind bars, only 21 but already a dangerous criminal, and a menace to society, according to papers and television. |
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Yes, I was a criminal, a drunk, a drug dealer, an addict and a menace to society. |
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The years between '49 and '75 were marked by all sorts of male menace droids threatening the fate of Earth. |
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Stray dogs should not be allowed to roam and be a menace and threat to the public, especially children, the weak and the aged. |
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The man is a menace to everything he once professed to represent, which makes him either delusional or hypocritical. |
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It is an argument for the sensible control of badger numbers so they are once again regarded as an asset to the countryside, not a menace to it. |
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Leonard was jailed for 13 months after a judge told him he had not only been a danger but a menace to other road users. |
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This youth and his family are well known for stealing cars and are nothing but a menace to the community. |
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During sentencing, Judge Hernandez stated that Diane was dangerous and a menace to society. |
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The council claims skateboarders are a menace to pedestrians and cause damage running in to tens of thousands of pounds. |
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There was a procession to St Margaret's Church for a special service of prayer for the men fighting the U-boat menace on the high seas. |
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Once thought to be a terrible menace, some experts now advise to ignore these bulges which appear in the stems of all types of citrus trees. |
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While rats may not seem like a huge menace, they have a terrible effect on neighborhood morale and the quality of everyday life. |
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Louisiana appears to be the only state in the nation that treats unlicensed florists making unauthorized arrangements as a public menace. |
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It has become nothing short of a national menace, an enemy of this country's interests and a fifth column in time of war. |
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The actor's Inspector Javert strikes a fine balance between overscrupulousness, fastidiousness, and menace. |
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Cumulatively, however, the proliferation of obscurantist bunkum and the reaction against reason are a menace to civilisation. |
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All are meant to purvey the same message of ubiquitousness, a sinister blend of reassurance and menace. |
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Mr O'Donoghue insisted that just a handful of vagrants were causing trouble for people and that he was not insisting that all were creating a menace in the boom city. |
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Privacy International reckons jobsworths have become a global menace. |
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Crony capitalism has turned the funding of American elections into both a joke and a menace and has made the public's business a matter of private interest. |
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As in his previous film, Central Station, another road movie and a great one, Salles doesn't try to lyricize landscapes or fill them with portentous menace or serenity. |
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Meanwhile, in a dark part of Earth, in his secret lair deep in the Bermuda triangle, a menace by the name of Hordas was plotting to take over the World. |
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The sheer staginess of the event overshadows the intended menace. |
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Ken Campbell's slapstick take on the nursery rhyme for Unicorn Theatre bears the old rogue's unmistakable signatures of anarchic humour and lurking menace. |
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I hope they mean that we develop shared sovereignty, but I think they are referring to Heinlein's Soviet menace of a hammer and sickle on the Moon. |
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Mendoza then approached Colombian contractors, but they were far too intimidated by the ever-present menace of Escobar. |
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The miscreant's neighbours plaintively tell Ferris they can no longer continue to live in the atmosphere of menace that the young man seems to generate. |
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His strategy is to play down expectations for a breakthrough while hinting with ever increasing menace that the longer it takes the harder it will be to end the deadlock. |
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Two silent support performers add to the atmosphere of surreal menace. |
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There was a hint of menace in his voice that made him uneasy. |
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The name Cul-de-sac and the press release's hints of menace suggest the play is about the idea of neighbourhood or the failure of human connection. |
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Night blanketed the land as she settled in, she had almost fallen asleep when an angry and threatening presence enveloped her, almost palpable menace. |
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The menace of contractorisation must be fought tooth and nail. |
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After the caning they took in the first two Tests, England were badly in need of a lippy bowler with plenty of menace and Kirby would have fitted the bill. |
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On-duty NYPD officers in upper Manhattan have been working to quell the motorbike menace for the past two years. |
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We don't like being portrayed officially as dodderers with sticks and bent backs who are a menace on the roads and we object to patronising jokes about silver surfers. |
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This was at the height of the submarine menace, when men were losing their lives daily to bring in supplies, and this maldistribution just didn't seem right. |
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What evil, malignant Commie menace could be behind this predicament? |
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A third feature of Maoism is the idea that the bourgeois menace is ever-present, so party officials must always be vigilant to prevent the revolution's corruption. |
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He was among the worst sledgers during the first phase of his career, and till the final legs of the captaincy, allowed his men to indulge in this menace. |
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He urged people from all walks of life to fight unitedly the menace. |
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However, while sales of the machines are booming, critics claim they pose a menace to riders and pedestrians alike and are destroying the tranquillity of parks and beaches. |
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The Scherzo is conducted with a gracefully Mephistophelean menace, and here, the members of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra show off their agility and precision. |
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Scorched, soaked and scavenged, Robinson's paintings are a testimony to modern life as a chapter of accidents, where menace mingles with grief, and aggression with abjection. |
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With the pace in their ranks they could do this with some menace, but after their shoogly start the Hibs rearguard didn't give them too many openings. |
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Within the larger political backdrop, ISIS survived and grew into the menace that it is today. |
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Prominent among those struggles was the battle of the Atlantic, waged against the U-boat menace. |
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The strengthening of the sovereign's power had diminished the threat of the blasphemer to the community, and blasphemy became a private sin rather than a public menace. |
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Batman is then drawn back to Gotham to do battle with the muscle-bound menace Bane, played by Tom Hardy. |
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We have to fight this menace of communalism and terrorism together. |
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A neighbourhood menace who threatened police with a pickaxe could soon be free again instead of serving the two-year jail sentence his crime merited, a court heard. |
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The architects of India's constitution were fully aware of this menace and incorporated articles mandating nonemployment of children and requiring their induction into school. |
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Their physicality seems further diminished by the glass vitrines within which they dangle, boxes that lend them a disturbingly contradictory sense of hapless menace. |
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Still, his steely blue eyes did have a certain menace about them. |
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The general opinion in these cases was that the people involved were sick, depraved losers who got what they deserved, were a menace to society etcetera, etcetera. |
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To Morris now, he offers homilies about the menace of nuclear Armageddon. |
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The Chicago Crime Commission declared him Public Enemy No. 1, declaring that he was a bigger menace than al capone had ever been. |
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A deep, squelching beat suffused with vibes and marimba stutters behind her, balancing the simple innocence of her words with skin-prickling menace. |
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Married off at 11 and repeatedly abused by her husband, she fought against the officially outlawed caste system, becoming a folk hero to many and a menace to others. |
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Robert Martin whipped in a shot from the right wing and quicksilver forward Fabio Cretaro, who darted with menace, diverted the sliothar past Mayo's net-minder Michael Walsh. |
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Hernandez clasped his hands behind his back, the fingers slender, almost delicate, needing a weapon to have conveyed any menace. |
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Creative use of crane shots heightens the sense of menace at key times. |
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But he also needs the cooperation of the people in curbing the menace. |
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The menace of grooms deserting their legally wedded wives is rampant. |
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Dundee's skills were evident as languid Sara turned the Aberdeen defence, Caballero played devilish deft passes and the diminutive white booted Novo proved a nagging menace. |
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Now I know that in the parks around Islington, north London, dog dirt is a menace, but the countryside is almost entirely carpeted with excrement. |
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The Pure Food and Drug Act is a general police regulation, recognizing that the sale of adulterated foodstuff is a constant menace to the health of the consuming public. |
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Real cat fights are rare in established clowders. So instead of risking serious injury, cats resort to menace and threats. |
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With Sam the only menace, I had been prepared to play a purely waiting game, watching proceedings from afar, ready to give my help if necessary. |
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Some goo-goos are so relentless in their pursuit of goo-gooism that they become a public menace. |
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More than a half century after these events, Carthage was humiliated and Rome was no more concerned about the African menace. |
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Predictional astrology is, to my personal point of view, both a menace and a handicap. |
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Bodyline bowling assumed such proportions as to menace best interests of game, making protection of body by batsmen the main consideration. |
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Both the uae and the kingdom see the Brotherhood as a menace. |
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He became powerful enough to present a real menace to England and annexed some neighbouring parts after several victories over English armies. |
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Almaty posed menace on the break as Ward did well again to clutch a long-range daisycutter from first-leg goalscorer Mikhail Bakaev. |
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The Muslims from Qazvin denounced the menace of the Nizari Ismailis, a heretical sect of Shiites. |
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Independent newspapers were seen as a menace to the existing order, critical journalists threatened. |
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The game's plot revolves around a secret special ops team that has been formed to combat the growing menace of Nightwalkers. |
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Though saxitoxins are largely unknown to the general public, a number of officials consider them to be a public health menace. |
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Road accidents in Lebanon, uncurbed, had become a dreadful menace, nay a horrid fact nationwide. |
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Pest control firms use a combination of rodent glue pads or rat traps to deal with the menace. |
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The nation stands between the partial menace of cliquism and the total scandal of a retreat from imagination, from style, from the fastidious. |
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In the moonlit garden as I stood by the limo, and there was menace again. |
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They were determent of continuation of the cleanup operation against narcotics suppliers till end of this menace. |
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Convicts who represented a menace to the community were sent away to distant lands. |
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An ancient menace called Thread used to rain destruction on the planet Pern, consuming its organic life. |
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The operation ZarbeAzb, he added, was continuing unabatedly to wipe out the menace. |
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It's called grue and I can tell you I've stood on the banks of the Dee in February a few times faced with this menace. |
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Moments of menace provided an even better contrast set against the dottiness of Bea and Giles, Lizzie Winkler and Andy Williams. |
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A Fu Manchu mustache helps give more menace to the usually affable Oliver Platt. |
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For the next couple hundred years, the restless Goths were a menace to the Roman Empire. |
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Yet he faced his foemen with dauntless courage, dashing in, springing back, sure-footed, steady-handed, with a point which seemed to menace three at once. |
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Scotland, so disappointing in defeat to Argentina a week ago, tryless against the comparative minnows of Georgia, carried all the menace and mobility. |
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It therefore regarded Walker as a menace to its own affairs in the region. |
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They likened the nilgais to militants for the menace caused by them. |
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The golem menace may seem crazy, but it can be endearing as well. |
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Mario Gotze was inventive, Lewandowski a menace, and Shinji Kagawa a constant source of energy as, time and again, the hosts played through a porous Arsenal midfield. |
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The GC has formed a committee, which will soon chart out an implementation plan to address ways to curb the menace of the unlawful use of laser beams. |
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We are plunged into a dark world of shattered families, dark secrets and brooding menace that no amount of net curtains could ever hope to conceal. |
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All the papers came as usual, in their long, arhythmical collapse onto the doormat, where they lay like a menace and were approached at last with long-armed reluctance. |
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He also became a clear menace to Pompey and was loathed by many optimates. |
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Like his plays of the 1980s, The Hothouse concerns authoritarianism and the abuses of power politics, but it is also a comedy, like his earlier comedies of menace. |
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By the end of the Roman period, pirates were a menace to traders in the Irish Sea, and soldiers may have been garrisoned at Meols to combat this threat. |
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In response to 'Out of Control' by Ms Doggone, I agree that the stray dog menace is getting out of hand and if we carry on this way, we will be outnumbered. |
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They also got to see more of new heroes including scavenger Rey and runaway Stormtrooper Finn, while Kylo Ren oozed phantom menace as the Dark Side's latest poster boy. |
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If Dennis the Menace remains in England, lovers of the beautiful game can anticipate many more moments of magic to store away in the memory banks. |
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Hank Ketcham's Dennis the Menace was getting popular as a newspaper strip and in comic books so they asked Mayer to come up with something in a similar vein. |
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I'm not surprised that there are still Cold Warriors in this world who are scared that the Red Menace will come back. |
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He also took the part of Sio Bibble in the Star Wars prequels The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. |
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The Cartoon Museum pays homage to the role of Private Eye and everyone from W Heath Robinson to Gerald Scarfe, with Dennis the Menace in between. |
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Neeson used the light-sabre as Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace. |
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Operation Menace failed, hampered by fog and misinformation about the extent of the town's defences, and the British forces withdrew on 26 September. |
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Star Wars fans who positively can't cool their jets until the 19 May opening of Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menace need wait no longer than until early May. |
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