| Now-infamous stories of student visa hold-ups and hassles have been rehashed in countless newspapers across the globe. |
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| Because of the police diversion there were huge hold-ups with rush hour traffic along Whitworth Road. |
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| Many burglaries, hold-ups and car thefts are also never properly investigated. |
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| During questioning the two men denied any involvement in the hold-ups but yesterday they finally admitted the offences. |
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| When the temperatures do rise and tights become unbearable, try the airier option of hold-ups. |
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| It was not known whether there is a link between the raid and the armed hold-ups. |
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| Each character is linked by more than just work, as hold-ups, corpses, missing children, affairs and other events conspire to alter their lives. |
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| Derrick says he has one member who has been involved in 17 armed hold-ups and could no longer work in a bank. |
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| According to the French Banking Federation, bank robberies have been increasing and there are about five bank-related hold-ups a day in France. |
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| For the most glamorous evenings choose from back seam hold-ups and spot mesh tights or lace top stockings and hold ups to complete the look. |
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| But massive traffic hold-ups and persistent heavy rain led to visitors complaining about muddy pathways and uneven road surfaces. |
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| The drive home was horrendous, with repeated hold-ups and long, long tailbacks. |
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| Traffic hold-ups at railway level crossings will considerably increase with more trains, the traffic study has found. |
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| According to a council spokesman the delays stretched throughout the one-way system, with particularly bad hold-ups in Buckhold Road. |
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| I'm now fearing that it will be my bad luck to be cursed with further bureaucratic hold-ups. |
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| But he insisted the Government was not dragging its feet and blamed legal complexities for hold-ups. |
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| But a number of those schemes are being delayed by hold-ups in the approval process. |
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| Among other problems they cause serious hold-ups for the emergency services. |
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| Boyd had a daring, flamboyant style, and often jumped over bank counters in his lightning quick hold-ups. |
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| Lengthy traffic jams and hold-ups are now a daily norm with an estimated 700 plus vehicles being carried on this roadway at evening peak time. |
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| The A19 northbound remained closed for more than seven hours, with diversions in place, but North Yorkshire police reported no additional hold-ups or congestion as a result. |
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| There is green slime on the grass, the pavement and the road and the geese cause almost continual hold-ups for the traffic by wandering about on the road. |
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| As a small boy he and his cohorts staged mock hold-ups and shoot'em outs and sat enthralled as the adventures of their heroes played out on the silver movie screens. |
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| Frustrating hold-ups and delays during construction have been managed well by the family and surprisingly have not pushed building costs hugely over budget. |
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| The latest delay was caused by hold-ups in the consultation process. |
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| Diversions around the maintenance work caused weekend traffic hold-ups. |
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| Since that traumatic ordeal, he and his mother have been subjected to two hold-ups at their home, the last occasion, the criminal was holding a knife to my godson's neck. |
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| The two men turned out to be members of a vicious gang of four armed robbers who were responsible for eight separate shootings and 20 hold-ups throughout West Yorkshire. |
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| The newly-released quarterly figures highlighted a dramatic turnaround in the force's performance in tackling muggings and other violent hold-ups. |
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| In this exploration of armed hold-ups, convicted armed robbers speak candidly about how they conduct their crimes and about the terror that they deliberately create. |
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| The fly in the ointment will be if there are major planning hold-ups. |
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| It's also better for business, as the constant hold-ups are costly for them. |
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| We only got a 2-2 draw, didn't qualify and I'd missed the first half anyway due to hold-ups around Newport. |
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| Double jeopardy An American bloke accused of multiple convenience store hold-ups was in court this week, and seemed to be bang to rights. |
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| My complaint is that they are all happening at the same time, and motorists are getting thoroughly racked off with continual hold-ups everywhere you go in Coventry. |
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| There was yet more morning misery for passengers yesterday with hold-ups into major London stations as well as severe disruption to Eurostar services. |
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