| At Monday's Civic Centre Committee meeting, the Councillor said rumours needed to be scotched. |
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| But London has to act on any feedback which suggests its efforts are being scotched north of the border. |
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| The high command had decided to launch the invasion on the 5th of June, but bad weather had scotched that date. |
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| Credit rating agency Standard and Poors has scotched claims that the economy has bottomed out and recovery is imminent. |
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| Meanwhile, the European commission seems to have scotched the idea of local authorities imposing any sort of blanket ban. |
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| When the monument designation scotched that plan, predictions of economic doom rang through the county seat. |
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| Union leaders scotched the strike after the company's management agreed to recommence negotiations on wages and related issues. |
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| The US scotched repeated attempts at the UN to establish a peacekeeping force on the ground in the Territories. |
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| The government should have scotched this one immediately or announced the appointment. |
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| So there was a possibility that Italy could even tilt the balance in the final, but Brazil scotched all hopes with an excellent display. |
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| The smallest concession to a different view must now be scotched by this master of the pulpit philippic and the courtroom defence. |
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| The journalist suggests that his investigation may have been what scotched the Kerik nomination. |
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| History teaches us that unless these pernicious tendencies are scotched, they grow to become unmanageable monsters later on. |
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| The Fish and Wildlife Service manipulated data so protection for panthers could be scotched. |
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| Ramdin, however, scotched all such fears with a breezy and fluent effort. |
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| It can be poached, scrambled, scotched, roasted, hard-boiled, devilled, pickled, and soft-boiled, all by itself. |
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| Rumors that Carole Middleton would join the Australian tour to help look after Prince George have been scotched by the palace. |
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| Rumours of a publicity ruse have not entirely been scotched. |
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| The EU has scotched the name the company had planned for the unbundled versions of its operating system that it must ship in Europe as result of last year's antitrust decree. |
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| The surprise result definitely scotched all the allegations that the election would be stolen by cheating by the authorities. |
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| Thirdly, we do not want the Transport Ministers to make empty promises that will be scotched by the Finance Ministers in two weeks' time. |
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| It had earlier scotched plans to develop a nuclear bunker-buster, fearing that the weapon would require testing and prove all too tempting to use. |
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| He fears that the fighting, if not scotched, could spread further. |
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| The motor bogies are fitted with two asynchronous traction motors, suspended from the underframe, which operate each axle by means of a coupling and a single-stage reducer scotched onto the axle. |
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| The Commission's amended proposal of 5 March 199230 provided for a binding list, but this was scotched by the Council, which in its common position of 22 September 1992 deemed that the list should be indicative. |
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| Yarn is scotched immediately after it has been dried and while it is still warm. |
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| This sleight of hand came close to being scotched the next day in the first session with Romanian representative Doru Romulus Costea as the new president. |
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