After three nights with no sleep and the fear of losing everything, your senseless, stupid act was the last straw. |
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It could happen this time around, with four, five or six also-rans in each major league clutching at the last straw in the closing weeks. |
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The abolition of nobility was the last straw for many, and the military mutinies of that year produced an exodus of disgusted officers. |
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A 10 per cent increase in council tax will, for many householders and especially pensioners, be the last straw. |
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But if he was going to go all moody and yonderly on a removal, it was the last straw. |
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It was just about the last straw when three ducks came to live in my garden fish pond. |
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After asking for yet more Government money and then considering paying dividends to shareholders, this is the last straw. |
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This may prove to be the last straw for thousands of small pig-farming businesses. |
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However, trying to understand the broader reactions, those cartoons, together with manipulation from extremists, were the last straw. |
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Coupled with reduced mobility from arthritis and a shrinking social network, this is the last straw for her! |
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The most recent, the security fee, is being seen by some as the last straw and could negatively affect people's decisions to fly. |
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It may well prove to be the last straw that breaks the camel's back and may drive the UK out of the common fisheries policy. |
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For King Hussein, that was the last straw. He formed a military government and ordered the Army to step in. |
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I think that the move to ban the use of scabs in the latter was the last straw for Quebeckers and for the premier of the day, René Lévesque. |
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However, the promises made within the framework of external action are the last straw in terms of the lack of realism. |
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The 150th raid on the oil giant's offices was the last straw. |
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The campaigns that are to be launched in Member States that do not yet have the euro must be the last straw. |
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Apparently this was the last straw for them, and they quickly declared our product a type one health hazard, like anthrax. |
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The last-minute attempt to place the Singapore issues ahead of agriculture was the last straw for developing countries. |
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But the impact could well have been the last straw that broke T-Rex's back. |
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It is the last straw, when you think that, only 20 years ago, the country could feed 95 percent of its population. |
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That really is the last straw, because the closer we get to 31 December 2001, the more this percentage should, on the contrary, be increasing. |
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Do we have to discuss this with Commissioner Lamy - and that would be the last straw! |
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These decisions will be regarded by many fishermen in the UK and Ireland as the last straw. |
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Writer Benjamin Anastas has had enough with 140-character bursts, and Rushdie's mourning for Whitney Houston was the last straw. |
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It's the last straw when that lobby also sets up itself as the civility police. |
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Rating: 3.5 Clarence Goodson This may have been the last straw for Goodson, who has been inconsistent for most of the past year. |
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The spat that proved the last straw was over moulded plywood, which Mr Utzon wanted to use structurally as well as for panelling. |
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This was the last straw for us, and now we will all stand strong with Taksim. |
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Brando's later, somewhat disoriented, support for the militant American Indian Movement was the last straw for his critics. |
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When the ashen Silda Spitzer appeared with her husband Eliot, it was the last straw. |
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For a writer, being panned by a critic can be the last straw, as you nervously bring your inky pride and joy into public view after umpteen years of sweat and sacrifice. |
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Given that UK hauliers are already paying the highest fuel taxes in the world, these proposals would be the last straw for many in the UK road haulage industry. |
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The impact produced an environmental catastrophe that was the last straw. |
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When she has to take a bath, it's the last straw! |
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Coming as it did on the heels of Hurricanes Gustav and Hanna, which wreaked havoc across Haiti, Ike was the last straw for many in this impoverished nation. |
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These dragged on for two years, without managing to silence Mr Malema. But his latest sally, accusing Mr Zuma of quashing dissent and replacing democracy with dictatorship, proved the last straw. |
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Taking away their right to smoke would be the last straw. |
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This is the last straw – the only straw – left for Yameen. |
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But Friday's multimillion-pound knees-up was the last straw. |
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When, on March 17, Petrichenko and the PRC tried to enforce the officers' decision that the crews of the Petropavlovsk and Sevastopol abandon ship, blow up their artillery and flee to Finland, this was the last straw. |
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The combination of a seriously flawed accounting system, an excessively slow process of administrative reform and insufficiently independent internal audits was the last straw. |
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The details of his former behaviour towards Elizabeth emerged, and for his brother and the king's council, this was the last straw. |
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If the fear that washed over the continent nearly two months ago was not enough bad news for Canadians, waking up to find they have lost their jobs could very well be the last straw for some. |
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Libya's holding of the chair is therefore the last straw. |
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Henry's support of a disastrous papal invasion of Sicily was the last straw. |
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The last straw was when a flock of sparrows appeared making the noise of bursting crackers. |
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The last straw was Heartland putting up a billboard with a picture of the Unabomber as emblematic of global-warming believers. |
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