When there was talk of a change of leadership at the helm after the poll debacle, he emerged as Antony's unlikely supporter. |
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What a pity it would be if the Australian debacle was to bring the hard man back to centre stage again. |
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It was a debacle with a capital D writ large in ten foot illuminated letters. |
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They are not impartial and they fall disgracefully short of what is required following the worst debacle in agricultural history in this country. |
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The high-definition TV debacle may partly reflect such technological exuberance. |
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The debacle has provided a revealing glimpse of how the profit system functions. |
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Canada benefitted greatly from the influx of draft dodgers during the Vietnam debacle. |
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The faces were largely the same, but the performance was unrecognisable from the previous week's debacle. |
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American lawyers say that it is almost impossible to sue external auditors for the debacle. |
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The prohibition on capital controls has the makings of a US foreign policy debacle. |
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As members will be quite aware, there is quite a history in this House with regard to the scampi debacle, if one likes. |
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The question that must be asked is what in the clerical culture itself leads to this kind of debacle in the first place. |
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Lynndie England, however unpleasant, is not the the villain of this debacle. |
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After last year's debacle, when she was tonked by little known Jelena Dokic in the first round, the only way is up for Hingis at Wimbledon. |
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Drummer Larry Mullen Jr apologised to fans for the recent debacle where many fan club members were unable to buy tickets for the shows. |
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I'm sure everyone's fed up of the debacle that's been occupying the UK Twittersphere for the last week. |
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Probably most interesting out of the whole debacle is the notion that science students can't get good marks if they can't write well. |
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His handling of the debacle was masterful, saving the parent company from financial collapse. |
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When I told them about the debacle at Emery, the D.C. program directors told me to keep my chin up and work harder. |
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If there's one thing last fall's election debacle taught us, it's that people like to deal in absolutes. |
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The paper weighs in with a scathing editorial about the dress code debacle here. |
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The debacle at Gallipoli meant the war ministry in London needed a propaganda success. |
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Other factors contributed to the debacle, such as political infighting between the Red Cross and federal and provincial agencies. |
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It would seem that he's the most high-profile casualty of the local election debacle. |
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After the debacle of the telecom crash, it might be hard for greed to spark another boom or even boomlet. |
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Mercilessly slated for the Denmark debacle, the England coach realises he can afford no further slip-ups against Wales on Saturday. |
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The government has made A-levels ever easier in an attempt to disguise the debacle, but it has failed in that too. |
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His staff are striving to find a form of words to allow him to express his regret without officially apologising for the debacle. |
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Certainly, there are moments that resonate beyond others, and everyone associated with that debacle should just hide their head in shame. |
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Events can always outrun expectations, of course, and publishers were ready for another Florida-style debacle of recounts and lawsuits. |
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He was part of that debacle two years ago and would like to lay that ghost to rest with a convincing victory this time round. |
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After the World Cup debacle, a few brave men put their heads above the parapet to question whether the coach should be retained. |
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And when word of that economic debacle spread, the government said it would ration imports of newsprint. |
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The subsequent debacle of all three is farcical as well as despicable. |
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But unlike the epic drama of the 2000 debacle, this result feels like the big British dither. |
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That day she, very authentically, eviscerated Jay Leno over the Tonight Show debacle at NBC in front of a roomful of press. |
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Between the Walters fawning and the Colbert debacle, Amaitis is fortunate only to be paying a record fine. |
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This is very much a global liquidity crisis in the works, with unprecedented leveraged speculation at the root of the unfolding financial debacle. |
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In an attempt to shore up his credibility, Chirac tried to distance himself from the referendum debacle by pinning the blame on his prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin. |
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Microsoft's blog abbreviation debacle comes as blogging in general and RSS specifically make inroads into more spheres of business and personal life. |
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Despite the fact that the Greek Olympics could be heading for a debacle, governments elsewhere are jostling to be next to be handed the poisoned chalice. |
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The debt problems and contagion effect from the Greece debacle has spread and forced governments into austerity drives. |
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I looked at the debacle in wordless bad humor, and started dreaming of games immune from the depredations of the real world. |
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Indeed, the whole debacle has a tone of collegial prankishness turned sour. |
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The moral tragedy of the whole GM debacle was the fact that European prissiness about genetic modification has affected its adoption in Africa. |
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At the time of the debacle of June 1940, he was prefect of Chartres where he accomplished his first act of resistance on 17 June. |
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But after Rolling Stone's rape story debacle, how much momentum does the call to ban fraternities have left? |
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Following the G. O. P.'s latest electoral debacle, many commentators, myself included, called time on this rib-tickling farce. |
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Surely the Goldwater debacle had demonstrated a severe shortage of ducks in the anti-desegregation ranks? |
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The global economy had certainly come within a hair's breadth of a debacle, with a fall to levels not seen since the thirties. |
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What have we seen in this decade of debacle and debauched government promises? |
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The debacle over nitrates does little to endear the Commission to EU citizens. |
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Eisenhower was at the epicenter of the debacle, the man pulling the strings from the beginning. |
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We might remember the debacle of late Roman family life when we're tempted to tinker with our own legal framework. |
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On the back of the last debacle in the east of the country one would have thought it would have been incumbent on any authority to be on their mettle and perform better. |
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The folks from the income trust debacle have learned to their great chagrin to never trust Conservatives during an election. |
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Brentford, who would have come up with them but for a last-day debacle, followed them this May and look far from out of their depth. |
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Would the Commission also consider taking action against those responsible for this debacle? |
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Yet you continue to attend the debacle on the planet from your seats, without taking action. |
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Stordy points out the herd reduction continues due to the H1N1 flu debacle. |
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She traces the phenomenon from the fall of Troy to the American debacle in Viet Nam. |
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For OMEGA, the debacle in Rome triggered the development of automatic touch pads. |
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One could rightly ask whether the existing regulations are actually partly to blame for the UBS debacle. |
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Métis in other parts of the country escaped the scrip debacle and now claim a land base in the general context of Aboriginal rights. |
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Studying the debacle of the spoiled shipment, he surmised that other companies shipping perishable goods to Asia must have had similar experiences. |
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The blame for this year's debacle lies squarely with the organisers. |
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And less than a day after this debacle, Earley is again seen trying to cajole a top player into action on a sketchy court. |
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Following on the one-sided debacle that preceded it, this game between two well-matched sides provided some real entertainment for the small crowd. |
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He talks about the financial debacle of paying for his first luxury whip. |
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Of course, the Crash over Brokeback Mountain debacle fits into this same rant. |
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First, the two sides understood that minimal advance assurances were needed to inoculate the meeting against a debacle. |
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Even after the subprime mortgage debacle and the housing collapse, Watt acted as if all was forgiven and forgotten. |
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The debacle threatens to stymie the country's dynamic agricultural sector. |
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Considering the gravity of the previous night's debacle, we thought it a good idea to return to the scene of the crime, just to see how they took their medicine. |
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The magazine was reporting the administration had a three point plan to come back after the debacle which included ginning up the base with tax cuts. |
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By 1902, however, he must have suspected something since a relatively minor indiscretion managed to blow up into a public row and marital debacle. |
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The whole thing was a debacle. We marched into the gym like stormtroopers, everyone turned to look at us, we then got ourselves into a snaggle at the gate. |
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The Financial Services Authority has had a hand in this debacle. |
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My only hope at this point is that they get this wretched debacle over and done with as soon as possible, and preferably before it gets really messy. |
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The debt debacle of 2011 was far and away the nadir of his first term. |
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After the debacle at Hull, Charles moved on to Nottingham, where on 22 August 1642, he raised the royal standard. |
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The electoral debacle of 1895 marked an end to the unbridled optimism which had attended the party's foundation. |
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In 1230, the King attempted to reconquer the provinces of France that had once belonged to his father, but the invasion was a debacle. |
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The event proved to be a great debacle for the partisans of this prognosticator. |
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Interestingly, while everyone is now familiar with the problems that can occur counting paper ballots, studies conducted after the 2000 election debacle illustrate other problems with paper ballots. |
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After the Seattle debacle of 1999, they joined in the movement to give fresh impetus to global negotiations under the auspices of the World Trade Organisation. |
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Regardless of the way of a debacle, the Armed Forces of Pakistan have dependably framed the bedrock of the country as it managed them. |
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The prestige of the army had also suffered a blow after the 1971 debacle. |
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This work by Trotsky may have been in part a personal self-critique: Trotsky had been a component part of the CI leadership that bore its share of responsibility for the German debacle. |
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The sudden collapse of Enron implicated Andersen in a debacle made more ensnarling by Andersen's document shredding. |
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Stalin offered to quit all posts owning responsibility for the party's debacle in the Lok Sabha polls. |
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The economic debacle is attributed to government decisions. |
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However, it is still a pale response to the income trust debacle. |
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Not for the first time do I want to put on the record that in all of this sorry debacle, farmers were the innocent victims of circumstances which were beyond their control. |
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After the debacle in Seattle, business may well be tempted to sit out the current WTO round, for fear it will take on regulatory matters best left to nation-states. |
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And, in the face of this debacle, young people are recoiling. |
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He left in 2002 in the wake of the ITV Digital debacle. |
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During this debacle, she read some medical literature on self-dehydration. |
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In the event, debacle that it was, Kennedy refused to listen to them. |
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After this debacle, my friend and I ordered The Artist out of revenge. |
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Expected Cabinet reshuffle of the Modi government might see the imprint of the Bihar poll debacle. |
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The union is currently reviled perhaps like never before: a euro debacle, debt swamping the continent, expansion stalled, sluggish economies going backwards, euroscepticism on the rise. |
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The debacle that followed America's well-intentioned joining of a UN intervention in Somalia in 1993 had a baneful effect on foreign policy for the rest of the decade. |
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The present debacle points once again to the fact that the religious dimension of human existence may neither be maligned, disrespected nor superficially treated. |
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And they say the pay is more than made up for by a tidier resolution of a financial debacle — or, as in G. M.'s case, the revivification of a wounded company. |
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Bad luck has also played a role in this debacle, though not as great as some at the club would like to pretend and certainly no more than any other league struggler. |
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This low spill-over in comparison with the LTCM debacle was related inter alia to the orderly way in which their positions could be unwound and their assets could be liquidated by selling them to other market participants. |
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While religious conservatives wring their hands in a gesture of concern, the black irony of the whole debacle is that their pathological fixation on sexuality stigmatises the very youth they ostensibly care for. |
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Such workers played the role of human rights defenders in mobilizing justified public protests by countless fellow workers caught up in the SOE reform debacle. |
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Rick Perry's already lackluster presidential bid went on a deathwatch after his debate debacle. |
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Ultimately it was possible to turn the debacle into an opportunity. |
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By 13 February, the ships had reached German ports and Winston Churchill ordered an inquiry into the debacle and The Times denounced the British fiasco. |
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The debacle in Russia loosened the French grip on the German princes. |
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The resulting attack on Tangier, led by Henry, was a debacle. |
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But unless you are a baker, and particularly if you work for Greggs, the pasty debacle is surely just silly season arriving early, just like the sunshine. |
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The Somalia debacle prompted a fresh bout of Afrophobia in Washington. |
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The problem isn't just Brenda, it is that there will never be agreement on what to replace her with. viz. the House of Lords debacle, the Australian Republican referendum. |
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Such ballots, with their dimpled, hanging and pregnant chad, were at the center of the vote-counting debacle in Florida during the 2000 presidential election. |
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He has now penned his own account of the debacle, titled Cry Havoc. |
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Ben Ainslie and the Yngling women set sail at Qingdao and in the boxing ring, James DeGale will hope to offer some good news after the Frankie Gavin debacle. |
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After last year's debacle in Seattle over the World Trade Organization's meeting, there was hope that Davos devotees would re-affirm their faith in the benefits of free trade. |
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Far from being held responsible for the Iraq debacle, the shameless neocons want more war, more suffering, more waste and devastation, as long as others do the dying. |
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