| At the macrolevel, we won the Cold War by engaging in a long-term expenditure of resources while maintaining a large standing military. |
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| The eight-year-old horse has run 20 times and has won two races and been placed seven times. |
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| Other German horses such as Silvano, Boreal and Paolini have all won or been placed in some of the world's biggest races over the past year. |
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| The Claiborne Farm homebred has won four times and placed twice in six starts on the grass. |
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| The man of the match award went to Tony Ruddy on left midfield who won every tackle and never gave the ball away. |
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| The biggest problem they have now is how to bring him back, the man who won the world cup a year ago to the day. |
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| Once we got going in the second half, won cleaner possession, then we began to play our own game. |
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| He holds the record for the most medals ever won by an athlete in a single Olympic Games. |
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| No Chinese athlete had ever won a gold medal in an Olympics track sprint event. |
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| Clothing ideals were part of the larger social world in which social identity was agonistically nurtured and won or lost. |
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| Jarlath Duffy won his award following a very successful year on the athletics track. |
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| At the World Championships in 2001 they not only won the pair, they took away a second gold medal in the coxed pair. |
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| The strong chassis, excellent impact absorption and multiple airbags won it five safety stars. |
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| In 2001 they won the World Championship in the coxless pairs and then in the coxed pairs. |
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| A number of years ago she was a superb athlete and won many honours in track and field events throughout the county. |
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| Tim Holden won his last race with 51 percent in a newly reapportioned district against another incumbent. |
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| Her acceptance was as gracious and exalting as if she herself had won the transparent, lucite trophy. |
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| He and others like him have been won over by the Atlantan spirit of self-belief. |
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| The Republicans also won a series of major victories in key congressional races. |
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| It was abolished hundreds of years ago as sanity and reason won the argument against those who sanctioned it. |
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| The season after they secured their 1976 treble, the team won not a sausage, losing to FC Zurich in the first round of the European Cup. |
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| The mid-term break will do wonders to rest the minds too, because this victory was fashioned and won in the head as much as the flesh. |
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| Named player of the championship, he was one of the victorious Army team that won the championship. |
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| It was the second time he has won a British championship race having being victorious last year in the Brecon Beacons. |
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| Rarely do we see accounts of how housewives struggled at home while the men of valor fought the battles and won the wars. |
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| After a very close battle the Athy team won the match and were thrilled with their victory. |
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| Just over four years ago she won a transatlantic race, routing the competition. |
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| They've won the world championships four times, and they are the reigning champs. |
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| He won four races off the reel in the first half of last season and ran well on his reappearance on the Flat at Navan on Wednesday. |
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| Last year, he won the second prize at a contest in Spain and the fourth spot at China. |
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| Yes, it's true, I've won first prize in the Writer Online Minuscule Fiction Contest. |
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| He has also won several prizes in novel and serial story writing contests held by teen and women's magazines. |
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| A collection of poems, Lapidarium, won the National Literary Prize for a debut book. |
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| Reproduced are paintings, which won the top prizes in a contest organised by a Malayalam daily. |
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| The proposals have won the support of North Yorkshire Police and the county's fire and rescue service. |
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| There must be something else inside that fearsome figure, to have won such love and devotion. |
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| The plans have also won the support of the Association of North East Councils. |
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| The plans won some support from the unions, but there are concerns about cutting the inspection notice period. |
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| The hardware store dramatics, however, won her over and I proudly brought my rolled up rug to school. |
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| By the time Scott finished reading the script, he was won over by its humour and by the chance to play someone he'd never played before. |
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| They were all miserable efforts, but at least the least bad one won through in the end. |
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| But Thornton's determination has won through and for the past four seasons, he has topped 50 winners. |
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| But her determination has won through and while Grace will sadly never meet her father, Mrs Scott has the baby she longed for. |
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| Stiglitz himself, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics last year, was something of a maverick, an internal rebel. |
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| If Celtic had won through in Europe their efforts on the domestic front may also have been spoken of more favourably. |
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| Our readers seem to like it chilly, but this year Adriatic sunshine has won through, pipping perennial favourites Iceland, Finland and Norway. |
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| Silage and baled hay has never been easier won and turf has been saved in the best conditions for many years. |
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| But ultimately, ladies and gentleman, the president of the United States won the day. |
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| People-power has won the day in the battle to have Old Town's hated bus-priority traffic lights switched off. |
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| The 33-year-old Cuban's undoubted class may have won the day but the youngster has a great career ahead of him in his chosen sport. |
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| We hope that by the time you hold this issue in your hands, common sense and a true commitment to homeland security will have won the day. |
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| By 1794 the average age of French generals was 33, and most of Napoleon's marshals won their spurs during this period. |
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| This was, without question, the Shamrocks clubman's finest display since he first won his spurs with the squad. |
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| He has won numerous awards for his interpretation of the Midwestern landscape. |
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| With a minute left, Pock went for broke when they won a lineout in the bottom corner and tried to throw the ball wide. |
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| So the red army had won the cup and their third silver trophy gleamed amongst the iridescent confetti and brilliant white floodlights. |
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| Their pack won the forward battle hands down but it was period immediately before the break that ultimately decided the match. |
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| He jokingly refuted suggestions his horse won the race because of rumours the nag had been given steroids. |
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| He won a couple of hard balls in the forward line that were very important, kicked one goal himself and had a hand in a couple of others. |
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| He was known to be a regular gambler at casinos and betting shops, went to the gym daily and won karate trophies. |
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| The players in the team that won the bidding score only those cards in those tricks that make the contract. |
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| I thought the performance against West Brom was good and with a bit more luck we might have won the game. |
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| I still remember the time my parents steered me clear of any stall where I might have won a goldfish. |
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| Who knows, but if we had won that day we might not have made the changes that we did make to the panel for the league. |
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| Indeed, one of the prices of a victory won in the face of French and German recalcitrance has been a slide in UK support for the single currency. |
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| The family won an appeal in February, ruling that the family should not be split up. |
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| Although the Swiftech solution won the majority of the benchmarks, it is really a toss-up when you look closely at the numbers. |
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| Trainer David Elsworth saddled the 1,000th winner of his career when Trillie won at England's Salisbury racecourse on Wednesday. |
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| I'd picked up that he was an expert sailor of dinghies and had twice won something called the Prince of Wales Cup. |
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| The match, eventually won by Pakistan, was completed in total silence in an empty stadium. |
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| It also won 17 silvers and one special silver award, scoring a total of 23 points. |
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| The manner in which he handled himself at Old Trafford when things were not going well won him some hard-earned respect. |
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| Similarly, appeals to either form critical or redactional studies have not won a consensus. |
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| Having won all their pool matches Yorkshire faced Cheshire in the semi-finals and notched a 3-0 victory. |
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| While not a big box office hit, it drew attention to Babi's unconventional Western looks and she won dozens of subsequent roles. |
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| In 1987, I won my first gold medal by benching 375 pounds, and have won 16 consecutive golds in the event since. |
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| Vietnam War, sadly, is another example of conflict won militarily but lost politically. |
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| Leigh won one of their best ever victories coming back from a 19 point deficit to win with the last move of the game. |
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| They are just sewer rats who have never done anything themselves or won anything themselves, and they just want to put a notch on their belt. |
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| Camejo is currently the meet's leading apprentice jockey with 30 races won through Tuesday. |
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| During his time as editor, it consistently won its ratings battle, clawing back ground which had been lost to its great rival over a long period. |
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| A couple of months later, he proved he was indeed the king of rapid chess when he won the World rapid championship at Cap d' Agde. |
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| However convincing, not everyone is won over by the results of the gender research. |
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| He appears to have won that battle because fire safety officers are much more sensible, but there is no defeating the jobsworth. |
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| He has won two silver medals in 100m dash, four silver medals and bronze medals in javelin throw and discus throw in national-level competitions. |
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| It further asserted that he would have won by 225 votes if recounts had been completed in the four Florida counties where Gore was seeking them. |
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| After having the better of two hard-fought draws he won game three to take the overnight lead. |
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| A Hampshire junior school has turned weakness into strength and won glowing praise from Ofsted inspectors. |
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| Since then they have won ten of their last 11 league games to finish a creditable fourth in the final table. |
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| Pakistanis have regularly won the world championship in squash, a court game similar to racquetball. |
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| Their greater experience up front and ability to change tactics got them out of jail and won them a cracking contest. |
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| Jeff King's seven-year-old is in cracking form, having won his last two races and a hat-trick is on the cards here. |
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| Neither of them won in the summer, so does that mean they're now going to go to rack and ruin? |
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| Coming back on the coach that night you would have thought we'd actually won the Cup! |
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| Allan Walsh recorded the best score on the day with 42, which won him B grade from Keith Knight. |
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| This chap was a quiz-show fanatic who had won a national quiz competition when he was a child. |
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| Head thrown back in spiritual ecstasy, he won the gold in a then Olympic record time of 47.6 seconds. |
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| Brazil's men have won the World Cup a record five times but their women have missed out on the medals at the last two Olympics. |
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| Thompson has held world records in four different events, but she hasn't won an individual gold. |
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| Having won a free-kick out on the left touchline, the midfielder whipped the ball deep into the box. |
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| So here is a horse that has already won five Classics with plenty of time on his side to add to a glowing record of achievement. |
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| It was only a few years ago that he won the World Fly Fishing Championships, adding to his amazing record of sporting achievements. |
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| Craven won first places in rugby union, table tennis, football and in a new swimming event called the aquathon. |
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| Only in the years since the Soviet Union broke up has the destruction of European Jewry won widespread acknowledgment in Russia. |
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| After two years in that position, he run for and won a place on the US Senate representing that state, a position he still holds to this day. |
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| The Sunday Mail won the best sports coverage, while best features was Sunday Times Scotland. |
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| Our academics have won prizes for their work on Maori but it is my guess that much of their work won't wear well over time. |
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| His tabloid chatter won over a new generation and their relationship blossomed. |
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| The very successful Ladies football team won the junior title as recent as last year. |
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| They were leapfrogged by Matlock Town, who won with goals in stoppage time of both halves. |
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| Since Christmas they have lost all three of their home league games, but won four and drawn one of their away matches. |
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| Overall, he has won three of 30 races in the event, with a pair of seconds and four thirds. |
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| A mate of mine who's a jockey once won a race on a horse of the same name, interestingly enough. |
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| We won away only once last season so to win away this season is to get a monkey off our back. |
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| We went away to Northwich and knew if we had won we would have been promoted, but it was a lot better to win at home in front of our fans. |
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| But for Sampras and some wicked occluded fronts during July, he'd have won Wimbledon five times. |
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| In the national championships that year, she participated for a lark and won the silver in the rifle prone event. |
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| Earlier this year he won yet another coveted Sony award for his breakfast show. |
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| When we get invited to awards ceremonies, we all just want to know if we've won or not. |
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| He then listed all the benefits supposedly won for tramway workers by the union. |
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| Several Irish Americans who have won renown in the military field have been mentioned. |
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| Eventually, the private lines won from the city heavy operating subsidies and automatic contract renewal, protecting them from competition. |
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| Hines, who won a Tony award for best actor in the musical Jelly's Last Jam, was born in New York and learned to tap-dance at the age of three. |
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| Hughes won the affection of many viewers in the original programme when he set out his ambitions in life. |
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| Last year, he topped practice and qualifying, won all three races and broke the lap record. |
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| A cheeky calendar starring boys from a posh independent school has won a group of girl pupils a business award. |
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| The company, along with sister companies Vidal and Esk Valley have won numerous local and international wine awards. |
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| He has run fewer races yet has already won nearly ten times more prize money than Arkle. |
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| Fred Matthews replaced Wade up front and he was soon in the thick of it as Ilkley won yet another scrum out right. |
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| He won by a landslide in the second round of a secret ballot, defeating four other candidates. |
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| He was imprisoned a year before the NLD won a landslide election victory in 1990 only to be denied power by the generals. |
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| After that, she stood for the school board elections, and won by a landslide. |
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| He won a landslide election victory earlier this year on the themes of clean government and a more tolerant society. |
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| His brother Craig was also a junior referee and their younger sibling, Neil, won the bronze in his group. |
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| Book had won the pot, which it turns out almost no one had remembered to put any money into. |
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| The sale was a good success and great fun with many prizes won on the wheel of Fortune and in the various raffles. |
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| Michael Moran from Cross won 170 euros spinning the wheel in the Shrule-Glencorrib lotto in the Blackriver Inn last weekend. |
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| This might not matter if the war were won easily, but what if the operation went wrong? |
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| During a period of two years, we have had six different board games published in the Nordic region and won a Game of the Year Award. |
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| At the 2000 Games, she won the silver medal for her adoptive country in the first women's Olympic pole vault. |
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| Mr Watkinson, from Constable Burton, near Leyburn, won best male with his aged ram. |
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| When Stephen King won the National Book Award he used the opportunity to admonish critics for not reading more John Grisham. |
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| In the early days, the novels received some respectful reviews and won a small band of devoted admirers. |
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| The mask which Jenny Pegg had won second prize with at the craft rally, was much admired. |
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| The EcoCity initiative has won numerous awards, as well as the admiration of many. |
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| It was the innocence and charm of his work that won him the admiration of the avant-garde. |
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| Last year, the architects won the competition for the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, a building that opens gloriously onto the harbor. |
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| The bay gelding was bred in Pennsylvania and has won six of ten career races over the jumps. |
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| The horse comfortably jumped the final fence and won by 10 lengths as favourite Ibis Rochelais failed to keep pace. |
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| In 14 World Cup games in five previous tournaments Korea had not won a match. |
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| But it was a false dawn because they haven't won a game at the tournament since. |
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| I was by this time living in Cambridge, having won a scholarship to the university, and stayed with her only during my vacations. |
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| As Jason put in the three pointer at the buzzer, he won the game for his team, and his wife. |
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| The team, which kept the ball because of the intentional foul, then missed a shot at the buzzer and St. V. won in overtime. |
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| The tourists won their fourth straight victory by eight wickets, in the 36th over. |
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| The tourists were in complete control of the match from the moment they won the toss on Saturday morning. |
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| I won the touring car feature race last weekend and it would be great to win this weekend and have success on both fronts. |
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| At the Australasian championships, Stan won the javelin title, a feat he repeated the next year. |
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| Helped by railwaymen, lorry drivers and workers in the power industry, they won a magnificent victory. |
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| He won the proxy fight and brought innovative Alfred Perlman in to run the railroad. |
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| After all, the tour proceeded, no matches were cancelled, and the Springboks won every single game they played. |
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| Refuse To Bend, who won the 2,000 Guineas last year, was bunched in on the outside of the rails and finished in third place. |
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| The NLD won the 1990 general election by a landslide but has since been blocked from coming to power. |
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| To have won the European title six times and not to be able to defend it this year is gutting. |
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| The goal he scored was down to our defending but he put the ball away and won United the game. |
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| He then fought and won a hard match with the tough Mr. D. to take back his crown. |
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| And anyone who hasn't won a Stanley Cup is often tagged by harsh labels in this fast-paced, hard-checking and passionate game. |
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| Newcastle have come from behind to win and the fans celebrate like they've won the European Cup. |
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| According to the exit polls, the guy won because Democrats were looking for someone with electability. |
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| In his absence, his new club, under their new coach, made a workmanlike start to the Premiership campaign, but won few plaudits for style. |
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| People were led to believe they had won a top prize when in fact they were being induced to pay for a low value product. |
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| But after I won three of the next four holes to square the match, suddenly I was flying high. |
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| In Republican Oyster Bay, the Democrats won two council seats and took the town clerk and the receiver of taxes posts. |
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| The city's population grew during that decade from 70,000 to over 500,000, as fortunes were won and lost on the nearby gold reefs. |
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| A former town clerk who won a tribunal against his unfair sacking has launched a stinging attack on his former employers. |
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| In rapid succession he won Auldearn, Alford, and Kilsyth, and occupied Edinburgh. |
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| He appeared with regularity at both ends of the field, won quite a few aerial battles and most importantly, a lot of breaks. |
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| It's the first time Australia has won the award, which recognises outstanding examples of international cooperation in the field of aeronautics. |
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| His 1829 essay on Kant's aesthetics won the Prussian royal prize in philosophy. |
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| On the whole, the devotees of romantic ruralism won out, seeking to rule Iraq through the tribal sheiks. |
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| According to the preliminary official final result, the CDA won 43 of the 150 seats in the lower chamber of the Dutch parliament. |
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| Paul Philips has won a commendation for saving the life of a young rating caught beneath an aircraft lift in HMS Invincible. |
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| The Indonesian karatekas won another two silvers and three bronzes in Bangkok from eight events. |
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| No publishing house of our size had ever won the prize and we consequently couldn't afford to go in there with high expectations. |
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| In 1956, the first ever football European Cup was won in Paris by Real Madrid. |
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| You have won a place in this world, but remember, the last to hold it was filled with wickedness and evil. |
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| One of its new PCs with easy-to-use Internet telephone service has won raves from reviewers. |
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| And though his realistic and hard-hitting film has won some rave reviews, Tigmanshu is certainly not resting on his laurels. |
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| It is listed on the Australian and US stock markets and has won rave reviews for its financial performances. |
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| Australia won a turgid match and it is fitting that it was the raw-boned Owen Finnegan who scored the breakthrough try. |
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| Bosco's Butchers won the ACBI All-Ireland title for their famed white pudding. |
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| Zimbabwe won the third one-day international in succession against Bangladesh yesterday for a 3-0 whitewash in the series. |
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| And what about his Yankees, whitewashed by a wild-card team that won only 19 of its final 50 games in the regular season? |
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| Catherine always said that if she won the prize she would take her mother with her, so she has kept her promise. |
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| Together they won the third heat today with their only real challenge coming from a higher stroking Great Britain crew. |
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| It works to the highest musical standards and has won acclaim for its performances across a whole range of venues. |
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| The team won five matches and only dropped one game for the round against Navy in the lead up to the finals. |
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| She learned German and went on a school exchange to Frankfurt, which was so prosperous she wondered who'd won the war. |
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| The next nine deals are started by whoever won the previous deal, and this player can begin with any legal card or combination. |
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| The IFS concludes that taxes would have gone up whoever won the last election, because it was the only way to balance the books. |
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| For the second year in a row, Vics has won gold for its wholegrain bread in the Baker of the Year competition, announced last week. |
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| A Burnley writer has won a national award from librarians and library readers for his best-selling series of crime novels. |
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| The A's whomped the Mariners 12-3, won the American League West pennant and secured their place in the playoffs. |
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| I can remember roaring and whooping in our house when the aforementioned Johnny won it for the second time with Hold Me Now. |
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| He is the current England number one in his age group and has won the national singles title for the last three years. |
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| Brian has raced around the UK and Europe for many years and won more than 50 races with 35 second places. |
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| At the age of 23, the baby-faced veteran won his first Pulitzer Prize, for a cartoon that showed disarmed Germans under the guard of U.S. troops. |
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| Four years ago she won two medals in Malaysia, but only in a warm-up competition. |
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| Mike Lealman won and scored an early penalty for Thornton before two incredible goals put Heslerton, who also hit the woodwork twice, ahead. |
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| He took 2-37 and then rapped out 61 off only 36 balls with 12 fours as his side won by seven wickets. |
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| Nobody has won both Iowa and New Hampshire by such wide margins and gone on to lose the nomination. |
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| That proposition won by a wide margin overall and garnered more than half the female vote. |
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| At the inter-house meet that year he won the javelin and putt shot events and was placed third in the discus. |
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| He has won twenty-four of these races and has been placed between second and fourth in the others. |
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| Having won the balance of power, Peters defied his own election promises and realigned himself with the National Party and its pro-market agenda. |
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| He has won four Grade 1 races and placed in three others while racing in the United States. |
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| Portlaoise are still missing the style and dash that won them so many admirers as they swept through Laois and Leinster and contested an All Ireland club final this year. |
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| The National Party won the 1960 election and reconfirmed the agreement. |
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| There is no need to recount where one candidate has won by a landslide. |
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| In 1989, a newly registered Republican in Louisiana named David Duke won his only election by a fluke. |
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| It won the Booker Prize last year, but received no garlands from Pat. |
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| The raw-boned wing still had much to do, but he cleverly chipped ahead over the cover and won the race for the touchdown, Stenhouse converting from the touchline. |
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| Much of these two basic tenets was retained after the United States of America won independence from Britain, and received some judicial recognition in the US Supreme Court. |
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| She also won first place in both the clipped terrier and toy and miniature poodle rounds, with help from miniature schnauzer Oscar and toy poodle Clive. |
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| Jason Fedee won the men's 100 metre dash with Mandela Clifford second. |
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| I know they have won cups and trophies over the last few years, but if you ask any player in the squad, the one they would all love to win is the premiership. |
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| He took a risk by throwing so many punches, coming down from a loftier perch to the trenches where campaigns are won and lost. |
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| What has hurt grimes throughout is who won the presidency and how Kentucky views him. |
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| Regular show goers saw the return of the popular sheep show, including a live shearing, and the return of the Tug Of War competition, which was won by Harrogate Young Farmers. |
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| Hilo may even return to national prominence, as it did in 2011, when its senior division won the little league world series. |
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| LePage owed his election in 2010 to a split opposition, as he won a tight three-way race over cutler and Democrat Libby Mitchell. |
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| By sheer bloody-mindedness we went through with the law suits, despite threats from the investor, and were recently told we had won our case in the supreme court. |
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| Radanova was world champion in 2000, when she won the 500-metre sprint. |
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| Ang Lee, who won an Oscar for crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, went on to make the misguided Hulk. |
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| Thanks to the grudging support of voters like Rashed, Morsi won the presidency with 51.7 percent of the vote. |
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| Darrow lost the case but won the spectacle in a drama that lives on today in the magnificent Spencer Tracy film Inherit the Wind. |
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| When we won the Ryder Cup in 1985, it was an absolute racing certainty. |
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| Her 21st century Wendy house impressed manufacturers after she won a top prize in a national contest organised by the Trading Standards Institute to dream up safe playthings. |
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| Some of them have compared their present concerns to those felt in the Cold War, a struggle won as much by capitalism and the power of ideas as by force of arms. |
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| We won that a few years ago and we go around now judging competitions. |
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| Halle Berry won the same award in 2002 for Monster's Ball when she dazzled in a semi-sheer, maroon Elie Saab gown. |
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| Most tricks in game contracts are won by trumps or side suit kings. |
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| You flash past the winning post knowing you have won the biggest race of your life and are smothered in flash-bulbs and the congratulations of owners, trainers and punters. |
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| Finally, the maddening buzz of the insects and their sting won out and Miri shook herself, wiping her hands over her body to remove the mosquitoes attacking her. |
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| He suffered early houndings from the Rangers support, but won them over. |
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| In January of 2002, he fought Vernon Forrest, who beat the tar out of him in their first fight and won convincingly in the rematch six months later. |
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| No coach lasted longer or won more games in the Southwest Conference. |
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| Bob Corker of Tennessee just won reeelection so won't have to face the crazies for a while. |
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| In a war won at the push of a button, bravery counts for nothing. |
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| The couple decided to use the pen they won as a raffle prize to raise money for charity and are now looking for local businesses to donate further prizes. |
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| When the Scottish women curlers won a Winter Olympics gold medal in 2002, there were ridiculous prophecies that the popularity of curling would grow. |
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| For his part, Sherman counters that he lobbied for and won key state funds. |
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| Congratulations to the Nova Scotia hockey players who won gold at Salt Lake, and to the Nova Scotia curlers who will be going to the World Curling Championships. |
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| By the end of the day, cobber had won him over too, and it was that boy who walked cobber out of the classroom to my wife's car. |
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| But its tracing of the band's origins from glue-sniffing toughs from Queens to kings of punk resonated with a sincerity and sweetness that won over critics and the audience. |
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| They shared the overriding objective of preserving for the time he came of age the inheritances won by his grandfather and father in England and France. |
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| The graduates are now hoping to land jobs with designer or High Street companies after their range of cutting-edge clothing won praise for its creativity and wearability. |
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| The cash is part of money raised through sponsorship for the team's effort to build and race a radio-controlled car in the annual tournament which they won last year. |
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| They joked and kibitzed for a few minutes, and Axel was totally won over. |
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| Harvey, who had won five of his seven previous fights, took an eight count, and having felt Symonds' power resorted to holding for survival and was warned by the referee. |
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| He won the Yugoslavian chess championship a record 12 times. |
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| He won at Rockingham and was leading the season finale the next week at Homestead until a tire blew and the wheel well caught fire on the last lap. |
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| Tiger Woods has won more majors by himself than the other three combined. |
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| Snowe, who won her 2006 race with an astonishing 74 percent of the vote, is the most liberal of the quintet. |
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| Judi dench won for her five minutes of screen time in Shakespeare in Love, but far be it from me to poo-poo a dench win. |
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| Richard Nixon won big in 1972, for instance, at a time of deep and convulsive national unhappiness. |
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| In the picture, she's really overcome with emotion, so beside herself with glee and honor at having won a Golden Globe, that it's all she can do to remain vertical. |
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| Freuberg won 4-0 to advance 4-2 on aggregate to the third round. |
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| There were a good range of appetisers, everything from the usual won ton and spare ribs to deep fried squid and seaweed, as well as a selection of soups. |
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| He is a third-generation Kenyan whose parents won fame as palaeontologists and archaeologists focusing on the search for the origins of human life. |
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| But when his chosen successor, maduro, ran for president a year ago with the same party machinery, he won by a scant 1.5 per cent. |
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| O'Meara had another chance to stretch the lead two minutes before the break when Leinster won a penalty on the half-way line but his kick went wide. |
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| I am personally guilty of thinking that the culture war can be at least partially won on style points. |
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| Powerful water lances were used to loosen the hold and, with only minutes left, 32 members of the assembled emergency services won through and got him out. |
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| Marshall single-handedly reset our understanding of how ulcers are created, and won a Nobel Prize for his efforts. |
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| Even then, ethnic allegiances won through and they weren't eliminated. |
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| The Atlantic alliance that won the Cold War is virtually dead. |
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| They survived the Depression, won a world war, put a man on the moon, and educated all of us young whippersnappers who are now trying to tell them what to do. |
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| After the 1992 summer games in Barcelona, scientists at Cornell University studied the faces of Olympians who had just won medals. |
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| No Republican presidential candidate in recent memory has won the nomination on a dovish or non-interventionist platform. |
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| Starring socialite Daphne Guinness, the film won four awards at the La Jolla Film Festival this fall. |
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| Julie Bowen already has won two Emmys for her performance as hilariously frazzled mom Claire Pritchett on Modern Family. |
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| He won many other honours in his glittering career at club level, and of course donned the county jersey in different footballing grades countless times. |
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| Lee Pearson and Debbie Criddle, who both won individual and team equestrian golds, will perform a dressage display to music in front of the grandstands. |
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| Astoundingly, this would mean there are more men claiming to have won the Medal of Honor in Vietnam than actual recipients of the medal since the Civil War. |
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| He won the novice overall and placed second among the middleweights. |
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| Putnam's service as a ranger, his capture and torture by Indians, his shipwreck and exploits during the British invasion of Cuba won him military laurels. |
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| It was tough going out there but we won through with hard graft. |
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| Had Italy turned pressure into tries they might well have won the match. |
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| Without going into too much research, it is clear that the reason that we were landed with this road is simply because vested interests won the day. |
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| A top-class swimmer and cross-country runner as a junior, she won the London Triathlon in 2001 and is now placing consistently well in World Cup events. |
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| Wayne LaPierre may have won the week, and he may slither away without Congress doing anything this time around. |
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| Sonia won Indira's trust and confidence and became more than a bahu. |
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| He had previously won a bumper at Tipperary and her bred for the flat opponents could never catch her as John Kielys mare made every post a winning one. |
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| Performing at the Cotton Club, the girls won rave reviews from critics. |
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| The support they receive from the fans is incredible considering that the number of trophies they have won in the last fifty years can be counted on the fingers of one hand. |
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| The A's were the better team and should have won but it was not their day. |
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| What with it being a double roll-over on Saturday I had had a couple of goes and when I checked my numbers on Sunday I realised my lucky dip line had won me ten pounds. |
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| In his third effort to convince the Athenians of the threat from Macedonia, Demosthenes finally won some support and was appointed admiral of the Athenian fleet. |
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| Sydney Brenner won most recently, in 2002, for his pioneering work in molecular biology. |
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