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Even while he was in the thick of the campaign, there were pointers to his party's rout in the 1991 General Election.
The doctor, bending over a wounded soldier, looked around and saw the rout beginning.
The situation came to a head in October 1917, with the rout of the Italian second army at Caporetto.
The Americans ran in total rout from the field, leaping over the stone walls off Lexington Green.
The rout began in the 18th minute when Blackburn scored the first of a three-goal salvo in nine minutes.
Minnesota's offense showed improvement last week, with their quarterback leading a rout of the Saints.
Stradbally had opened in whirlwind fashion and had two goals on the scoreboard as an expected rout began.
Jamie Wood added a fifth, and substitute Matt Woolf completed the rout with his first-ever goal for the Wands.
He blamed their electoral rout on the party MPs' neglect of their constituencies.
In the end Ottawa went on to beat Toronto in a squeaker and thumped Guelph in a 7-1 rout for the championship.
The battle was turned into a rout as soldiers struggled to carry the king's body to the castle.
A premature attack on Mountjoy's forces resulted in a rout by his cavalry and a long retreat back to Ulster through a hostile countryside.
Hornets scored with their first attack of the second half and a rout looked likely.
With Cambridge finding it hard to settle into the game, a rout looked on the cards.
In the meantime, the challenge will be to stave off complacency toward reform now that chances for a rout at the polls suddenly seem remote.
Newry had further chances to complete the rout in the final five minutes of the match.
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life.
The Foundation wants to put to rout what it sees as anti-west bias on college campuses.
Weather looks like chance, but some think it's a malign force determined to rout them.
As a matter of fact, he was completely baffled on how to rout a person that wields luck.
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On capturing the post he learned that the rout at Cerro Gordo had been complete.
It's pretty late to rout a justice of the peace out of bed to issue a warrant for us, but we'll do it.
Between them kluck was to be destroyed and his rout would expose the flank and rear of all the German forces in France.
Even Joan major, who has been known to rout our charlady in single combat, finds it irresistible.
He is surrounded by his usual rout of attendants, one of whom bears a thyrsus.
After that Henriette and Sandoz, who were in consternation, witnessed the rout of their menu.
Yet I presume that your ladyship is not insensible to the charms of rout and collation?
The sun, though up and brisk already upon sea and foreland, had not found time to rout the shadows skulking in the dingles.
It was the beginning of the rout of civilisation, of the massacre of mankind.
Fogg thought he even heard the crack of revolvers mingling in the din, the rout approached the stairway, and flowed over the lower step.
O for one laugh of Rabelais,To rout these moralising croakers!
The rout of MRA is supposed to have taken place in the late evening.
In his Whippet light tank, nicknamed the Musical Box, he led the charge which was a rout of the Germans.
The rout of Le Mans cost the lives of fifteen thousand persons.
A person of breeding choosing the cause of the rout and rabble!
I don't know whether you are seeking to complete the rout of my senses.
Only fancy their having this rout to-night, while Mr. Ryle is lying dead!
LaVelle Peterson rushed for a school-record 345 yards and five touchdowns, leading La Canada High in a 40-0 nonleague rout over visiting Gabrielino of San Gabriel.
Spanish paper was to Lett him know what Rout he was to Steer.
Solomon Rout, from finding himself almost invariably the tallest man on board every ship he joined, had acquired the habit of a stooping, leisurely condescension.
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