If they were heroically cursed, this loss of a superstar to a nearby rival would have caused the Rangers to win a World Series. |
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Romantic notions of serving his country and fighting heroically intoxicated him. |
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Historians and politicians skillfully crafted the narrative of an active middle class who had heroically waged the revolutionary struggle. |
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A schoolboy who was savagely attacked by a bull terrier in the street heroically fought it off after getting the animal in a headlock. |
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Subsequent reports indicated he probably died from friendly fire, although still while trying to heroically assault an enemy position. |
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He is famous for the low-down tactic of setting up imaginary, exaggerated villains and dangers and then heroically shooting them down. |
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As we went up the climb, we passed every man jack of 'em, all of them straining heroically. |
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The supplier battled heroically to provide an acceptable system, until finally the project was mothballed. |
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Moreover, whenever people are shown, they are usually going about their daily business rather than posing or behaving heroically. |
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They will fall prey to maddening and unpreventable guerrilla attacks rather than dying heroically during a lightning strike on Baghdad. |
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A new mural on the outside wall of the town hall depicts, in raw Forties naturalist style, a German soldier heroically protecting his womenfolk. |
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The set designer has stripped the stage bare and draped it with heroically scaled posters. |
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The Assembly heroically defied the government once again and rejected the two bills. |
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Medtner's concerto storms right from the opening measures and sings heroically throughout. |
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Wigram's investigation appears to be focused on the most gifted decoder-guy, a heroically monikered Cambridge mathematician, Tom Jericho. |
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He is best known these days for his heroically scaled figurative paintings. |
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A 28-year-old employee heroically attempted to keep thugs from robbing her store. |
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The 34-year-old mother of two heroically confronted the gunman and averted an even greater massacre. |
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Some landlords attempted to reassert forced labor dues, which the peasants heroically resisted. |
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This heroically scaled space has been transformed into a reading room and library. |
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The heroically scaled foyer is an attempt to recreate the glamour and escapism of old cinemas. |
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Pre-Christian warriors hoped to meet a quick, short death, hopefully heroically in battle. |
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I peered over the rock which me and Sara were heroically hiding behind to get a good look at the fabled creatures. |
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Comprising three three-hour plays, it is heroically ambitious and wildly uneven. |
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Behind the bar is Steve, a clumsy, almost heroically inept young oik. |
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It was heroically daft and had the crowd laughing happily in the sunshine. |
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We all felt the betrayal not so much of the institution as of the man who had noisily and heroically put it on the map. |
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Paul Volcker, who ran the Fed heroically from 1979 to 1987, was a highly effective central banker. |
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Three senators are heroically attempting to reduce federal government price supports for America's sugar industry. |
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The cast change costumes, accents and personas manically and heroically. |
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All his life he tried to live up to having a father who had met his end so heroically, and that affected everything he did. |
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Oct 2012 Capital One Cup 4th round Wigan 0-0 Bradford City City win 4-2 on pens City defended heroically to take the game to penalties. |
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Without adequate doctors, medical facilities, and transportation, the clergymen heroically struggle to save lives and ease the pain of the victims. |
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We look forward to the safe return of all of the rescuers who heroically put their lives on the line for the safe return of the trapped miners. |
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Do not tell me that the workers of the POUM fight heroically, etc. I know it as well as others do. |
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Our people, in order not to suffer again the misfortune of a stateless nation, heroically defended the Republic against the armed invasion of the US imperialists. |
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It looks like a mythic beast, heroically alone, surely the only living thing in all creation. |
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A thousand colors invade the cortex at the listening of this shandy heroically crazy. |
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Nor do I deny that many of these veterans acted heroically in the action they faced. |
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The Daily Beast's Michael Moynihan heroically ventures into the fever swamp. |
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He was among many Canadians who heroically helped fight this vital victory for freedom. |
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The regiment's shining hour came on the evening of July 18, when it heroically assaulted Fort Wagner, an earthwork that defended Charleston. |
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Jerome Boateng volleys the breaking ball goalwards, but it's blocked heroically by Belkalem, throwing himself in front of the incoming screamer. |
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He became the first person in over two decades to be awarded the Victoria Cross after he heroically saved the lives of his comrades in two separate incidents. |
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The bystanders heroically rescued her from under a school bus. |
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It approves Resolution 1701, welcomes the despatch of European occupying forces and pushes for the disarmament of grassroots forces which heroically resisted the unfair, aggressive war. |
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We also wanted to unearth any conspiracy to balkanize Pakistan and let the world know how a democratic leader heroically laid down her life. |
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Not all Poles behaved heroically during the war. |
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How can we fail to remember the airplanes and tanks that, under General Pinochet, shelled the presidential palace in Santiago de Chile on 11 September 1973, where President Salvador Allende died heroically? |
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My grandmother cooked heroically, like someone in a fairy story. |
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Killie thought they had won it 10 minutes from time but Nathan Eccleston saw his shot heroically blocked by Tam Scobbie in a dramatic goalmouth scramble. |
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They wondered how such soldiers, who had graduated from the best schools and acted so heroically, could be suffering from such incapacitating symptoms. |
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I saw villages burning, forests and crops consumed by flames: the elderly preferred to burn in their homes rather than abandon them, and firemen heroically sacrificed their lives in the line of duty. |
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But my sources, my young women and their mother, heroically held firm. |
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In fact, many of them had been decorated, some of them had acted heroically in combat and others had graduated from the best known elite military schools. |
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Nonetheless, I am certain that at such a time we must express our solidarity with the tens of thousands of ordinary men, women and children who are heroically enduring this personal and national tragedy. |
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From here to the conclusion, the music swells and strains heroically, its expression disarmingly warm and open, inviting all to rejoice and resonate with its happy fervour. |
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Following the example of both Francis and Clare, Camilla Battista was heroically faithful to the Church, even if that entailed enduring bitter suffering for her. |
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As his toon dreams cycled through death and re-entry into the game, he heroically burnt his last free-octane in a videogamescape, rising into space again. |
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I believe it is an appropriate occasion on which to call on you and on all MEPs to support the call for 25 May to be declared an international day devoted to honouring those who fought heroically against totalitarianism. |
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I am aware of the fact that the Commission has been toiling heroically in this respect, but we must emphasise that, particularly in the new Member States, the national administrations often do not have sufficient assets. |
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Charles has failed to follow the example of his mother, the queen, who has heroically kept her mouth shut for more than 50 years. |
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East Timor gained its independence heroically, despite the international community's silence, and the East Timorese people have already demonstrated on several occasions that they are committed to democracy. |
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This was heroically accomplished by aggressive organizing on the part of the National President Jim Wyllie and the Saskatchewan Provincial President Ken Fraser. |
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In the role of Creonte, Davies rises to the countertenor demands gracefully, eloquently and for the show's finale, heroically. |
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This heroically politically incorrect track-cum-road-racer starts life as an engineless Clio 172, the hot front driven one. |
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Is it tragedy when a torero dies heroically in the ring or more so if he fails to die in the midst of his practice and instead suffers an ignoble death years later? |
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