We sped through the desert past miles of abandoned Iraqi military positions and deserting Iraqi soldiers on our way to Kirkuk. |
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Harr was craven, had always been, and the little courage he'd summoned up to come out here and try to take her down was deserting him fast. |
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At the end, the Indian heroine commits suicide by biting a poisonous datura flower because her British lover is deserting her. |
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White working class voters are deserting social democratic parties around the western world. |
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She had missed him terribly, but she was angry at him for deserting her when she needed him most. |
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Workers should also refrain from deserting their worksites at this difficult time. |
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Akin to rats deserting a sinking ship, four survivors flee out of the major cities to a secluded, out-of-the-way shopping mall. |
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He had heard stories of deserting conscripts from the Army crossing into the hands of the revolution. |
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Large numbers of deserting sailors, furthermore, left to join the merchant marine for large-scale smuggling and trade with the enemy. |
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Some described false confidence as the ultimate fair-weather friend, buoying you when times are good and deserting you when they're bad. |
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In Germany, opinion polls have indicated that traditional voters are profoundly disillusioned with the Party and are deserting it in droves. |
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Only a few shorebirds linger now, and our songbirds are rapidly deserting us for more productive feeding areas to the south. |
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I picked at my food, my entire appetite deserting me after the first few mouthfuls. |
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They are also astute at maintaining public sympathy by regularly deserting the picket lines to save lives. |
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He blows another great scoring opportunity, with his touch and nerve deserting him as soon as the Milan goal hoves into view. |
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In time, both find their votaries deserting them to worship the god of riches, and so apply for readmission to the heavens. |
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I risked my neck to save these peoples lives, and they were deserting me. |
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The menace of grooms deserting their legally wedded wives is rampant. |
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The millions who until now have been denied political representation have thus far expressed their dissatisfaction and alienation by deserting their old party. |
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The siege was dragging on and he feared that his siege soldiers would grow weary and start deserting. |
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By contrast, readers have been deserting the print version of the city's newspaper, The Oregonian. |
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Amid all that, voters are deserting the Conservatives and Labour, Britain's two main parties of the right and left since the 1920s, in droves. |
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Yet still people are demonstrating disdain for the political establishment by deserting the major parties. |
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Simply put, public opinion seems to be deserting opponents of gay marriage. |
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During their five days off, they find the complicity and peace of a united family, which they seek to protect at all cost by deserting. |
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Could we ever regain the confidence of allies after deserting them at a critical moment? |
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Riots in the capital, Dili, supporting 591 soldiers dismissed for deserting their barracks, deteriorated into widespread rioting. |
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Section 12 covered deserting or encouraging others to desert while on active service. |
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People were tired, hungry and deserting the village in steady numbers, mainly to Nigeria, in search of work and money? |
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And in the second place, it is not true that audiences are deserting the theatre in droves. |
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But Mr. Belair added that no one ever thought of deserting or surrendering. |
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In one story, a young man wanders the streets penitentially tied to his girlfriend who he drove to madness and attempted suicide by briefly deserting her for a richer woman. |
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I dared not go to his funeral, for I knew that my older brother, who had taken my father's place as the voodoo priest, would kill me for deserting the family gods. |
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There are American and British combat units in which Canadian soldiers are currently fighting and the minister says they are going to stay there because otherwise we would be deserting our allies. |
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Between January and February, the Mission corroborated the cases of six children, who, after deserting from JEM, returned to the Iridimi refugee camp. |
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Are we going to see an exodus of tourism professionals, deserting the traditional tourism centres for the agglomerations or for faraway places overseas where there is strong growth in tourism? |
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Over the past few months, a small but steady trickle of Boko Haram members have been deserting and turning themselves in to authorities in Cameroon, which is linked to Nigeria by a porous northern border. |
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No assistance was provided by the Byzantines who had been told by the deserting Stephen of Blois that the cause was lost. |
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So you aren't deserting the Caversham ship. They'll understand. After all, their courtship was pretty whirlwind itself. |
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The tone, I think, reflects my general sense of growing wussification after deserting my old job at Les Halles. |
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And this funding has been paid for by scrapping traditional productive sectors, changing crops, destroying agricultural produce and deserting areas. |
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It has also paid no attention and offered no support to the so-called cohesion countries, in which people are deserting the countryside in increasing numbers. |
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Some traditional priests are deserting for the Roman church, presumably preferring paedophiles to pederasts. |
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By deserting them, it can open the door to urban regain projects. |
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He moaned that customers were deserting him to go to Linda's snackbar because it was cheaper. |
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An increase in the number of minors deserting illegal armed groups is reported even though children fear for the safety of their families if they leave. |
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Whittle hated the strict discipline imposed on apprentices and, convinced there was no hope of ever becoming a pilot he at one time seriously considered deserting. |
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I'm not deserting you, dearheart. I'll be home tomorrow, or the day after. |
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