To suggest that it could have happened as a belated reaction to a pre-election budget, no matter how lavish, simply beggars belief. |
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Or have I just revealed myself as the idiotic beneficiary of a belated April Fool prank? |
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Also a belated 81st birthday is extended to Maggie McGee from her family and friends. |
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So the sanctions, belated and porous though they were, did have some limited effect. |
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I'm debating whether that should count as a belated Friday entry or an early Tuesday one. |
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It's a grey, cold day here in Amsterdam and I have to go and raid the fridge to find something for our belated Saturday brunch. |
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That went on most of the evening, although we broke for dinner and for more belated presents as the weather got steadily worse. |
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The couple intend to take a belated honeymoon in South America before the fleet sets off on its next leg around Cape Horn. |
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It was a belated birthday present from her family after Alice turned 100 in July. |
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His belated embrace of the me-too politics of health care may have been prompted by political expediency. |
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In concert with contemporary theory, she posits a world of belated, thwarted deixis, of quasi-chimerical example. |
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Along with the big price tag came a belated recognition that a strapped U.S. could not bear the burdens alone. |
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Declan is the principal of Mount Sion Primary School and his family and friends wish him a belated happy birthday. |
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In a belated move, the education authorities decided to crack down on teaching practices that are harming the neutrality of education. |
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Kris and I went over to my parents' house last night for a belated birthday party for my sister. |
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Many people would still agree with him, even though the registration of land has been introduced in a belated attempt to unjumble the jumble. |
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After today's game Duff plans to enjoy a belated birthday meal back in Aberdeen with his parents and girlfriend. |
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There may be belated Christmas refreshments after the meeting and to welcome in the New Year. |
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So we wandered in mellow mood out into the afternoon sunshine for the trip home and a belated siesta. |
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Apologies followed, and at five to three the belated ceremony commenced to the relief of all concerned. |
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Admire the two very belated Birthday cards and the pictures of my dearly beloved and much missed Labrador dog! |
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Though belated, the announcement went down well with the workers both permanent and temporary. |
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I view it as belated recognition that not all travelers are satisfied with a cookie-cutter room and neglectful service. |
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The city administration has made a belated response to the problem of urbanization. |
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In this sense the trauma this week is that of a party involved in a belated change of political strategy. |
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In our case, not only were the condolences belated, but we also failed to offer concrete support. |
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Santa Claus even made a belated arrival in the street together with sleigh to entertain the children and give out presents. |
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Of course, apologies followed, and at five to three the belated ceremony was commenced to the relief of all concerned. |
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The Norwegians eventually realised what was happening and chartered a seal-hunting ship to accept the unit's belated surrender. |
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Also celebrating his birthday recently was Tony and Olive's son, Glen and we wish him belated greetings. |
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On a brighter note, I'd like to wish a slightly belated Happy Birthday to a fellow Libran. |
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The move is long overdue and it's mostly belated good news for shareholders. |
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She is married to Anthony and her children, family and friends, wish her a belated happy birthday. |
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If you missed out on Valentine's Day, surprise a loved one with a belated trip to the most romantic capital of Europe. |
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Then on Sunday a huge crowd attended his belated 25th birthday celebrations in The Saratoga. |
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The belated arrival of Tamaz, her enduring love, is all it takes to start trouble. |
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At the end, the grandpas and grandmas were treated with a belated but sumptuous Onam feast which the aged from various day care centres and old age homes in the city enjoyed. |
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With most recent economic indicators pointing to a belated, but strong, recovery, they have been reduced to grumping about the pay levels of the new jobs being created. |
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His final release and departure to America came shortly after the China's president's visit to the United States, under the guise of a belated xenial present to his host leader. |
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In a belated nod to last season's logomania, the uniforms carry a new Scout emblem. |
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But could this invoking of the words of the Godfather of Soul be a belated effort to inflate these flat polling numbers? |
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But there is a belated wake-up among conservatives opposed to cannibalization. |
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Some belated scrutiny of the congressional record that later earned him big bucks. |
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Now, the frustrated visionaries are talking excitedly about the possibility of belated success, and perhaps even profits. |
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So in a few minutes I'm heading into town to send belated birthday presents and to try and convince myself to think about Christmas with appropriate jollity and generosity. |
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In a belated explanation, the authorities said that his death had been an accident, and the guilty gendarme would be punished. |
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Meanwhile it is not only competitors who are on the run, and not even the belated efforts to make coaches answerable for the cheating of their athletes. |
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That unnecessary row could have been avoided, but I welcome this belated acceptance of the European Parliament's commonsense decision. |
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Bit belated this but, apropos of Rebekah Brooks's appearance at the Leveson inquiry the other week, are Peter Pan collars now over? |
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The African Union was belated in responding but realised it was not only a Nigerian problem but a regional problem. |
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But the biggest change to Lee's circumstances has been his belated success. |
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Sometimes belated measures do nothing to solve problems that have blown up. |
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Is this belated action on the part of the government as a result of his private member's bill, which I think it is? |
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If you nevertheless need to post such a transaction, you must first reverse all retirements that lie after the value date of the belated posting. |
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In countries of belated capitalist development, this struggle is a particularly powerful motor force of social revolution. |
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Consequently, this DDR program is more of a belated severance package for the ex-combatants, and indeed many candidates are old enough to retire. |
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Parker's belated review of the 2002s has not greatly inflated prices, and the 'elegant' 2001s generally represent sound value. |
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In two decisions, the asylum appeals body has ruled on the credibility of belated allegations. |
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As one of Scotland's few indigenous games, we should be cheered by its enduring popularity, and its belated efforts to encourage more participation at grass-roots level. |
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They are belated juvenilia which ran contrary to this talent. |
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But the Home Office's difficulties here will stem from its belated discovery of the need to bolt aspects of the right kind of ID system onto the wrong one. |
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Can we expect the IRA to behave with more political sagacity and give Trimble something more than begrudging and belated help as they have done over the past three years? |
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Howard's belated triumphalism in the South Pacific may be no more successful than Mussolini's equally tardy attempts at empire building in North Africa. |
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A belated thank you for paying for this year's school fireworks display. |
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A belated shrapnel-shot shrieked and burst, and everything grew still. |
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Buildings unmaintained for decades are getting belated make-overs. |
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The NDP, having obtained a little negotiating power because of the Liberals' desire to buy belated virginity, did not even care about doing anything about either the fiscal imbalance or employment insurance. |
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We continue to support the Six-Party Talks and welcome, though belated, North Korea's provision of a declaration as an important step toward achieving these goals. |
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The experiences of the trade union leaders arriving from countries of the post-Soviet block have been similar: legislation ensuring employee ownership was belated and weak. |
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It was abandoned just over 100 years later, in 1572, as a belated result of the Spanish Conquest. |
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I AM making a rather belated attempt at getting in touch with some of the men I served with on LCT 940 during the war. |
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As Kraft gobbled up Cadbury, mouthing worthless promises about jobs on the way, there was a belated recognition that citizens could sometimes reasonably expect the state to take a view. |
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A subplot, which sows the seeds of romance between the lonely widow and a handsome cowboy, is a belated yet welcome diversion. |
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Prey to belated guilt, they denounce their former activities. |
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A belated freshman, his oilskin slicker rasping loudly, slushed along the soft path. |
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And Darwin, who in spite of his reclusivity was fond of honors, received his belated acceptance by the French in good spirit. |
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Happy belated birthday to Moore's Law, which turned 50 years old last month. |
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Finally, there's the simple day-to-day drain on the organization's financial health exerted by sloppy or belated medical records. |
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Beginning in 1936 a much belated rearmament programme got under way. |
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Scores of other unruly towns and cities have been punished, too. The brutal government offensive has encouraged President Bashar Assad to proffer the latest in a series of belated carrots. |
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It started a few months ago when this megalogue finally prodded me into belated action. |
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Why does he think the government's belated language today is a good policy of inaction in the face of challenges that we must continually nurture? |
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Australia's first-choice keeper, Dean Bouzanis, turns 19 the day before facing Brazil and will hope for a belated birthday present in the form of a morale-boosting shutout. |
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This development in the recognition of solatium doloris in Quebec law is an example of the belated consecration of the specificity of civil law at the Supreme Court of Canada. |
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Only in 1985, ten years after Franco's death, did the Spanish government begin to take belated and hesitant action to protect the nation's archival resources. |
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A consumer economy is intrinsically future-oriented — if you don't want an Apple Watch, then belatedness awaits you — although growing older makes you belated, too. |
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In this period, dramatic literature came into a belated full flowering. |
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I recalled lost relatives, uncherished in their time and therefore a source of belated, worthless grief, and first loves, unrequited and now sweetly recollected. |
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Only thus can the struggle for national independence and other democratic tasks be realized in such countries of belated capitalist development in the imperialist epoch. |
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These obstacles result in belated access to health care for disadvantaged populations, with a concomitant aggravated deterioration of their state of health and higher economic and social costs. |
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This is somewhat belated, for which many apologies, but via the always-brilliant Jezebel.com come scans from the Dianetics and Scientology festive gift catalogue. |
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Intifadah Michael O'Callaghan 5th, 1m maiden, Cork, October 17 The gelded son of Intikhab made a belated debut in this ordinary but competitive contest run at a decent clip. |
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The Praetorian Guard murdered Caligula four years after the death of Tiberius, and, with belated support from the senators, proclaimed his uncle Claudius as the new emperor. |
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Japan made its belated debut in the already three-year-old negotiations on Tuesday, joining the 18th round of talks, being held in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. |
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When finally recognised as a serious chronic condition and labelled myalgic encephalomyelitis, victims finally got some of the belated help they deserved. |
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Putnam then gives his own belated justification for naming Hemingway to the post, as well as his personal bona fides as an Italophile and Fascist. |
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