The worst hailstorm ever to hit Egypt struck, beating down crops growing in the fields and even killing people and animals caught in it. |
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It involved lugging bins of scraps, changing kegs of radioactive dishwasher detergent and, worst of all, trying to clean a mountain of pans. |
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We maybe able to use this as a surrender flag, or if the worst comes to the worst, a rescue flag. |
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And although I'd deny it if ever asked, being in the spotlight for something other than being the worst player on the ball team was not half bad. |
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Apparently, Mark got the worst of it with three cracked ribs and a dislocated jaw. |
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His cloak protected him well enough, but his legs and feet got the worst of it, bleeding profusely over the punctured and brittle skin. |
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Arguably, he does his worst when he indulges his own sophomoric sense of humor and goes for the cheap laugh. |
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Marian Wilkinson's reporting in the SMH is at best ordinary, at worst dreadful. |
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A narrow focus on electioneering is at best ineffective, and at worst disastrous. |
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Right now, though, they seem to be not get the worst of the storm and so they're counting their blessings, Kyra. |
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I hope that at worst they are being mercenary and irresponsible and thoughtless. |
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The appeal was not set down until 17th June, so at best the application was just under two months late, and at worst three months late. |
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He is wrong on every count and his paper is among the worst examples of pseudo-science I have ever come across. |
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Even the government now accepts that this will not happen, but might at worst delay enlargement by some months. |
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He said the problem was at best causing an obstruction and at worst could cause a serious accident. |
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Growth for the first six months of 2001 is at best flat and at worst down a few percentage points. |
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Many devastated householders are now trying to sort out homes that are at best damp and at worst in need of serious building work. |
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When conditions were at their worst on Saturday, North Yorkshire Police dealt with 601 emergency calls, more than twice their average number. |
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I've always been a big believer that if people like me at my worst then I can start to trust them, just a little. |
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The smoke was choking but the worst of it was being carried high into the air. |
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I had asked whether Yorkshire would escape the worst of the foot and mouth outbreak. |
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He experienced the best and the worst of Pipeline with a perfect 10, a handful of hideous wipeouts and broken surfboards. |
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The annual event, held in the shadow of St Magnus Cathedral, escaped the worst of the forecast weather. |
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Spirit and Opportunity have also roved through the worst of the Martian winter with flying colors, and spring is on the horizon. |
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He says the economy is in recession after the worst third quarter growth figures in some 50 years. |
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Gale Edwards has experienced the best and worst of life in the music theatre business over the past few weeks. |
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The film has attracted some of the worst reviews of any Scottish film in recent times. |
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We are all sick with mucky colds again and Amelia is in the middle of the worst of it. |
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The worst of the weather had come on a holiday, with offices and most shops closed, and people already indoors, at family celebrations. |
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So in an effort to bring you the best and worst of the past year, here are my top ten sporting highlights as well as my top five lows! |
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With the tinted lenses blocking out the worst of the bright sunlight, her headache receded to its previous dull ache. |
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And all the hanging around in airports before and between flights is the worst bit of all. |
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The worst of the snow will be on high ground but there will be some on lower ground. |
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It looked like Robyn may have been over the worst of the disease when tests showed no sign of the cancer. |
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The worst of the weather is expected to impact the region between Thursday, December 23rd and Sunday December 26th. |
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Well, this is the first time in the emergency that the World Food Programme has done airlifts of food into some of the worst affected areas. |
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She was expecting the worst at any moment as she opened the door to the gym area. |
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They have also taken steps to ensure they could still meet school fees if the worst should happen. |
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My mother immediately knew that the worst had happened if her youngest child had not come home. |
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Fuel costs have added to concerns, but there are indications that the worst may be over for investors holding Ryanair shares. |
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The ceremony is also to include the award of a wooden spoon for the worst performer in the parliament. |
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Many air bed pumps are not that well made and have a tendency to fail at the worst times. |
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Further, this conception renders purposeful art at best aimless and at worst nonsensical. |
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But the worst offense is a tone of cheerful, sanitized neutrality so overwhelming that it actually renders the prose ahistorical. |
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If the worst happens, the mortgage would be covered, but he has no other life insurance. |
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The worst hit areas are now engaged in the biggest post-catastrophe reconstruction programme since the Second World War. |
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Last fall, the United Kingdom experienced its worst flooding since record-keeping began 273 years ago. |
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The British were voted the world's worst kissers, the least romantic, the worst flirts and the worst life partners. |
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Within reason, that should be their right, and not denied them by the worst sort of mean-minded bureaucracy. |
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In our society, the worst specimen of womankind is the so-called liberated female. |
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She began to wonder about her husband on route from Newark, New Jersey, for San Francisco, and then a call confirmed her worst fears. |
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Greater Manchester had the second worst record among all British city areas in 2000-01, with London bringing up the rear. |
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The garden has large patches of bright green moss, fleshy fungi, galloping weeds and, worst of all, a mighty infestation of woodrush. |
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She is my lover, my mistress, and she has betrayed me in the worst possible way. |
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It was beyond me to work out that the worst that could happen was she would say she wasn't interested. |
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While we don't think she should take up an agony aunt column any time soon, her advice wasn't the worst in the world. |
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Watch Joan and Melissa Rivers blow the whistle on the evening's best and, yes, worst dressed. |
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For extremes of temperature and conditions the summer drought of 1976 and the winter freeze of 1978 will go down as two of the worst on record. |
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This year will go down as the worst on record for forest fires in Portugal. |
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In Jakarta, the city worst hit by this epidemic, over 6,200 people have been afflicted by the disease and 50 of them have died. |
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Already York residents have been asked to show friends around the worst hit areas. |
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One of the worst hit villages, Naburn, was temporarily cut off by the rising waters. |
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The worst hit areas were buses covering New York City, Newark airport, outside New York, and Logan airport in Boston. |
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In tact, climbing fern is spreading so rapidly that it's now the state's worst invasive weed. |
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It was a wonderful car for wooshing down across the roads of Europe but it proved to be the very worst sort of vehicle for dirt-track roads. |
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Judge Martin Rudland said it was one of the worst cases of dangerous driving he had ever heard. |
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The worst flooding in a century has left several parts of Guyana under five and six feet of water. |
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Chinese authorities have attributed Friday's tragedy to torrential rains that caused the area's worst flash flood and mudslide in 200 years. |
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In Queens, New York, cold rain mixed with tears as hundreds marked the third anniversary of the second worst aviation accident in U.S. history. |
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Australia's worst railway accident was in 1977 in the Sydney suburb of Granville, in which 83 people died. |
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And one more thing, how come that Scotland and Wales escape the worst ravages of Global warming? |
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They huddled in blankets donated in massive international relief operations to help El Salvador cope with its worst quake in at least a decade. |
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Kingston has been rated the 27th worst borough in London for quality of life in a survey out this week. |
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For Bears fans, the worst part is they can't even blame their team's woes on their former whipping boy, Smith. |
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She constantly whines but worst of all she hangs around with people who, in reality she would dislike and vice versa. |
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The worst of it though, is the attention I get whilst running on the streets of London. |
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Italian weather experts call the heat wave one of the five worst in the past 150 years and expected the sizzle to last until September. |
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Unhappy at work and in love, our heroine has been the worst imaginable advertisement for women's independence. |
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Sometimes I just get random thoughts in my head, and these can happen at the worst possible times. |
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But what of the worst bits, the bits that make you cringe when you hear them? |
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With the nation in its worst economic crisis in a generation, budgets to maintain railway lines and other equipment have been severely slashed. |
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City manager Tom Mackey acknowledged that the city was facing one of its worst financial crises and would have to seriously tighten its belt. |
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Besides, what if expecting the worst actually makes it more likely to happen? |
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In one of the worst blackouts, residents were left without heat and light for nine hours. |
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It is the country's worst maritime disaster and ranks as one of the world's worst ferry accidents of all time. |
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The United Nations described the crisis as the world's worst humanitarian disaster, affecting more than 2m people. |
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The worst tornado I've ever seen before this was the one in southern Texas back in '96 that killed 40 people. |
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All are seeking compensation in the aftermath of Britain's worst train disaster, which was caused because a driver jumped a red light. |
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The worst stock market slump in 30 years has hammered global financial stocks, raising fears about the capital strength of banks and insurers. |
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Relatives of victims of Bradford's worst industrial disaster came together to unveil a memorial stone 120 years on. |
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One driver gets knocked out every week until the final, and worst driver remains. |
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The council says private landlords are responsible for the worst housing in the town. |
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Remember, the Wallabies played their worst game all season last year and still swept past Scotland at a canter in the World Cup quarter-final. |
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In almost unplayable conditions Blackburn produced their worst performance of the season against local rivals Bolton. |
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Their game against the Montreal Expos was rained out by one of the worst rainstorms in an area known for its tropical storms. |
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With the convenience and power of a multi-use power tool even the worst of carpenters can knock up a pretty decent Welsh dresser. |
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As good as the TF's standard ragtop is, there are times when you feel a little under-dressed for the worst excesses of the British climate. |
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The borough's detection rate is ranked the eighth worst in the country, with only 16.2 per cent of all reported crimes being solved. |
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The answer is that the railway companies have done little to protect passengers if the worst comes to the worst. |
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But competition remains fierce, putting pressure on workers who are the worst paid in food processing. |
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Playing for the worst team in the league means that journeymen sometimes get an unexpected trip to the midsummer classic. |
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Vine weevil, the gardener's worst enemy, is often properly controlled by chemical compost additives. |
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Even now, when the worst is well and truly behind us, it still makes me go cold just to write those words. |
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However, if the worst comes to the worst and the club is shut down after January 18, then the money raised will go to a local charity. |
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It is a heavy burden you lay upon me, but if the worst comes to the worst, I accept. |
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Kasparov, a five-time Oscar winner, finished fourth overall with 2262, his worst placing ever. |
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History shows that track cycling probably has the worst record of any of our Olympic sports other than weightlifting. |
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I was surprised when the Royal Horticultural Society named the vine weevil as the worst pest in the garden last year. |
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The car is stiffer than the previous Astra for better crash protection if the worst comes to the worst. |
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England and Germany looked for all the world like two teams competing to avoid the title of worst team in their section. |
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The richest country in the industrialised world will continue to have some of the worst pockets of poverty. |
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In order for one to be on the safe side, you should prepare for the worst and hope for the best. |
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The map can also display filling stations en route and, if the worst comes to the worst, the location of Volkswagen dealers. |
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At least here, they are safe from the dangers of everyday life in the worst of areas. |
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Wednesday is the day I have three hours teaching in a row, and my writing and culture students, being last, get the worst of it. |
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Eastwood is going to shift gears for the final third and turn it into a melodramatic weepy of the worst kind. |
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The movie was a nasty, dark piece of work about needy characters knuckling under to their worst impulses. |
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It has been a difficult time for all of us, but Charlotte has had the worst of it. |
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Sunday's forecast is not good, and this is the worst way to end a series, but with three days left you never know. |
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We can't tell you if it's going to be them or the town to the east or the town to the west that'll have the worst of it. |
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The worst part of it is the crazy, whackadoo headdress she makes her model wear. |
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The worst humiliation of contemporary religious life is the abjectness of needing God and a community badly enough even to sit through this. |
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The Red Wagyu type, the slowest growing, performed worst in terms of gross margin. |
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The president has ably led us through the uncertain days following the worst attack on our country in modern times. |
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As she waded through waist-deep flood waters to get to the worst affected areas, she could see the devastation all around. |
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My worst weeds are the perennials that spread with runners, like quack grass. |
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The worst day was the end of the month, a time when his funds were close to drying up. |
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This predisposes us to believe the worst of ourselves and others, and to seek, not a resolution to problems, but an absolution from sin. |
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Double glazed windows designed to keep out the noise of the tramcars now block the worst racket from modern traffic. |
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The dotcom era of the late 90s saw some of the worst abusers of pro-forma earnings manipulations. |
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The federation represents the group that traditionally has been one of the worst abusers of ordinary consumers. |
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Those of us who have spent many years in animal welfare work have often come to see the worst of animal cruelty, abuse and neglect. |
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About what a good person he is to have as a friend, and how he would give anyone, even his worst enemy, the shirt off his back. |
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So we got out the playbook and quarterbacked our companies into the worst automotive recession in a decade. |
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It shows that prisoner discipline is the worst in any Scottish jail and that violence among inmates is rife. |
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The Conservative Party came round to him, and by October the worst of the dangers of that year were past. |
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However, I think we have a ways to go in terms of convincing actuaries that in fact e-mail is at worst a wash and probably a benefit. |
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The worst blow of all for the federalists is under this constitution the Union has no power to tax. |
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Oh well, I had been a fighter all my life and they would get the worst of it if they tried anything. |
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The State is the absolute worst mechanism for this purpose because it is so wasteful and inefficient. |
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The worst corporate bandits are still likely to face a sheriff who's quick on the draw. |
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As a result, the next generation was to tend towards political quietism and, worst of all, a crass materialism. |
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It is regularly derided as one of the worst songs in musical history, but it still gives me a lump in my throat and an ache in my heart. |
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This is now past teenage rebellion where you thought your mother was the worst person in the world. |
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A weak story, tepid characters, a confusion of plots and, to top it all, some terrible editing make this one of the worst reads of the month. |
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Instead the worst nationalist rabble-rousers can be found among those who first endorsed the call for the demonstration. |
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The worst horse in the race has been cruelly handicapped by its own jockey. |
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Another advantage is that the map is weatherproof and will survive the worst of weather. |
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By far the worst feature of this election result is the blind surrender of control of the Senate to the Liberals and Family First. |
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It was like the worst thunder storm in the world timesed by fifty! |
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The worst thing, we agreed, was putting on the oilskins in such conditions, whether on a fishing boat or a yacht heeled well over and battering her way into a difficult sea. |
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And lo, there was a race within the race for the fastest male runner, fastest female runner, worst dressed runner, funniest runner awards and more. |
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And the worst example is the expensive and deplorable Senate race in Massachusetts. |
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From Denver to Duluth, Buffalo to Billings, The Daily Beast ranks the cities that take the worst winter poundings each year. |
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At the moment, the worst enemies of bitcoin are the people who love bitcoin. |
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The worst of the country's terrorism seemed to be in the past. |
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It seems as if at every turn, the governments involved have actively, even joyously, bounded towards the worst possible decision. |
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Many a difficulty stood in our way, but the worst was the food shortage. |
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The clippers have historically been regarded as one of the worst teams in all of professional sports. |
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The summer of 2012, the hottest ever recorded in the United States, coincided with the worst drought in fifty years. |
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In his surprise at the assault he began by getting the worst of it, but it was not long before both his attackers were on the ground nursing bloodied noses. |
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Poor Meg, the youngest of those asked to help, had the worst of it. |
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Neal Ascherson, chronicler of the great events in postwar Europe, spent the past week in court assessing a case that goes to the heart of the last century's worst crime. |
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The worst would probably be strategic isolation within the region, and all the additional resources that would, as a consequence, be needed for defense. |
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There's nothing redeeming in softball, a pastime that seems to attract the greasiest, worst dressed residents of local areas to neighbourhood parks. |
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The worst school killing in history was a car bomb in 1928, long before the mass media. |
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Can he follow through, not bow to pressure and continue chiding the people into conservation and taking necessary measures as the country faces it worst water shortage ever? |
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But the worst thing, by far the worst thing I have ever tasted was junket. |
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The Rabbit Board chairman said while there had been previous outbreaks of rabbits north of the rabbit-proof fence, this was one of the worst he had seen in 16 years. |
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The worst pandemic ever seen was an outbreak of Spanish flu in 1918 which killed millions around the world, including at least 200,000 in Britain. |
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It has been listed as one of the 100 worst invasive alien species in the world, and it is considered the second most serious weed in the South Pacific. |
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My sixth and worst episode struck at the end of my junior year of college when I was overwrought about a recent breakup with a boyfriend and exhausted from school. |
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The Cedar Fire in San Diego County, which consumed almost 300,000 acres, burned 1,500 homes and killed 14 people, is the single worst wildfire in California history. |
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This year's hurricane season will go down as one of the worst on record. |
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By mixing drama, documentary, graphics and archive material, the programme gives an extraordinary insight into the world's worst industrial disaster. |
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The worst part is, I noticed it while I was on the loo, having pooed. |
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The sites that he photographs were the worst killing fields of Europe. |
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Bucks should have no problem beating Hellenic who are going through their worst season ever, and have even emerged as early relegation candidates. |
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Heretofore my worst disaster was a 3.5 inch disk going wonky and eating a chapter of my dissertation so my number was just up for a hard drive failure. |
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Though cleverly written, I consider this one of Hemingway's worst stories. |
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The worst movies of all time have absolutely no redeeming qualities. |
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With a bit of prudence we should be able to avoid the worst of times. |
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But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality. |
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He was disgusted by the recent events with four players partying in the Red Stripe Mound immediately after posting their worst score ever at Sabina! |
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I asked if it was hard carrying a name like his in a land that had condemned his father as the worst kind of traitor. |
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It was their third defeat in as many games, and they are at the bottom of the Superliga with the division's worst defensive record, 11 goals conceded in 270 minutes. |
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The adolescent girls appeared to account for both internal reactions as well as external feedback when considering what feels best and worst about being good. |
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My tutor, however, reassures me the worst that can happen is I get pulled down a grade, or get my paper marked as though I only answered two out of three questions. |
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This comes as torrential rain forced hundreds of people from their homes in north-east Scotland, the area worst hit by this weekend's extreme weather. |
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The areas worst hit will be around Parliament Street and Temple Bar. |
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But officials are hoping that the worst of this new flooding is over. |
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The worst performance I've ever seen on stage is by one of these guys. |
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The worthies claimed that the jeeps had literally come apart during campaigning as they carried 20 to 25 campaigners over the worst possible terrain. |
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It does help if you can visualise circuits, and if the worst comes to the worst you can always draw it down on a piece of paper, which is what I do. |
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But all the authorities are agreed that the worst aspects of crucifixion were the raging thirst and the excruciating cramps that racked the victim till he died. |
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Labourers, ragpickers in the mornings or film poster affixers during the night are the worst hit, not to forget children who are drawn to them and two-wheeler riders. |
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The airport seems to have got the worst of it but it was wet everywhere. |
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Also, making the grade, education in America, our special report tonight on where the best and worst teachers in the country end up working and why. |
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The worst of the attack is over but I'm still spending a great deal of time sleeping and, although the fever's gone, the mysterious joint and muscular aches remain. |
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Cumbria has the unenviable reputation of being the county worst hit by the virus with 877 confirmed outbreaks and more than 1.1 million animals culled in total. |
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Newer ones are there and as usual I am the joker in the pack by being my own worst enemy, but those are minor niggles that can always be worked out between good friends. |
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In the worst of a series of friendly fire incidents, 18 American special forces and their Kurdish allies were killed when they were bombed by a US warplane. |
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In 1991, it was the scene of one of the worst atrocities of the first Persian Gulf War, when a British warplane dropped bombs on a crowded market, killing 150 civilians. |
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Later it transpires little has been lost, but in the meantime Smith says not to worry, if the worst comes to the worst she'll do another interview. |
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In Edinburgh, the council is already preparing for the worst and has contacted Lothian and Borders police in order to prevent the city going up in flames. |
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The company never recovered from 2001, the best of times and the worst of times for Aquila. |
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And worst affected of all were those who had written about trauma. |
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But the third and potentially worst problem of all is that Dorothea is a wolf in sheep's clothing, and we divers appear to be exceedingly gullible! |
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Life along the armistice line showcases some of the worst excesses of both sides. |
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I have simplified our relationship down to the fact that Eliza and I bring out the best and worst in each other, but continue to love each other despite it all. |
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That appears, at best, to be feeble, at worst to have atrophied altogether. |
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The accident was the worst in several years for the country's accident-prone coal mining industry, the primary source of fuel for the world's seventh-biggest economy. |
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As much as I love accipiters I think that would be the worst way to go. |
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The farmers were the worst hit because the Budget, which had talked of promoting agro-industries, had not talked about costs of inputs like fertilisers, seeds and pesticides. |
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Although I was not free of eating disorder thoughts, I figured the worst of it was behind me. |
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The fire took the lives of six firemen and drew national attention as one of the worst firefighting tragedies in the late 20th century. |
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The worst fodder for a President is not poppy and mandragora, but strychnine and adrenalin. |
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We can comfort ourselves with the thought that the worst is over. |
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The movie embraces all the worst excesses of popular American culture. |
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First-time home buyers are feeling the squeeze of higher interest rates with mortgage affordability at its worst level for 16 years. |
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We English people, be that as it may, have among us the best nursing for love and the worst nursing for money that can be got in Europe. |
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Collectively, I think, but am not certain, they are the worst men in the regiment so far as genial blackguardism goes. |
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In my opinion, the absolute worst way to generate artificial interest is the tactic that is commonly known as the booth babe. |
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The worst of the thing, however, is that the enormity, such as it is, happens to be of a very cardboard and tinsel character. |
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They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days. |
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Alex was concerned that if others thought he had dobbed, things would get even worse for him. Dobbing was the worst thing a student could do. |
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A player who is dormy cannot be beaten, and at the worst must halve the match. |
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The following eight hours were the worst of my life that haven't ended in an episiotomy. |
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The worst way to deal with a flub is to panic and make a big deal out of it. |
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In the worst of summer the tower remained cool, yet the air seemed feverish and gelid when sisters of different Ajahs came too close. |
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Except for those who directly benefit from the system, life becomes a goalless existence, in which the worst human aberrations start germinating. |
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From the cleverest repartee to the worst groaner, people use and respond to puns, but sometimes find them hard to define. |
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At GCSE, the lowest performing area is Knowsley, consistently the worst performing LEA in England. |
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I think they would try to humanize the worst villains in history out of their fear that the audience might not like the central character. |
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In October and November 2000 York experienced the worst flooding in 375 years with more than 300 homes flooded. |
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And more, for this indiwiddle didn't have no blunt at all. We had to feed ourselves and, worst of all, to buy all the building-stuff. |
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Epicurus said of the lawes that the worst were so necessary unto us, that without them men would enterdevour one another. |
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Both sides committed the worst atrocities of the Napoleonic Wars during this phase of the conflict. |
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After five years of experience, I am convinced that he is the worst enemy of France in her troubles. |
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This was both the worst result in the history of the party, and of any governing party. |
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We all agreed he was wise, but we did want the worst way to see that girl. We were sure that she was a la-la from all Billy said. |
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Victory at the 1955 Le Mans was overshadowed by it being the occasion of the worst motorsport accident in history. |
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That is precisely why the honest assertion that God is a mere product of the human imagination is branded as the worst of all mortal sins. |
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After the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, they arrived immediately at some of the worst disaster sites to help retrieve and bury the dead. |
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As the authorities dealt with the worst excesses, public decorum was gradually restored. |
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Scholars have seen this change of Shakespeare's as adding to the darkness of Macbeth's crime as the worst violation of hospitality. |
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The severity of the weather flooded several campsites, the worst affected being the base of Pennard Hill, and seriously disrupted site services. |
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The graphite and tangerine strip often appears in lists of the worst football kits ever. |
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The team lost the last four matches under Pickard's stewardship, marking the worst performance in twenty years. |
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Button had his worst qualifying of the season in sixth with Barrichello achieving second. |
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Taylor later reflected on the first half of 2014 as the worst spell of form in his career. |
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One hundred and one UN personnel died in the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the worst loss of life in the organization's history. |
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South Sudan is acknowledged to have some of the worst health indicators in the world. |
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Belfast saw the worst of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, with nearly half of the total deaths in the conflict occurring in the city. |
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On 13 and 15 August, thirteen and thirty aircraft were lost, the equivalent of an entire Gruppe, and the type's worst losses during the campaign. |
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The Royal College of Nursing reported nurses claiming current conditions are the worst they have experienced. |
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In the worst cases children deteriorated in inappropriate places while parents tried desperately to get the child home. |
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On 19 August, French troops suffered their worst losses in Afghanistan in an ambush. |
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In 1966, the village of Aberfan in the Taff valley suffered one of the worst disasters in Welsh history. |
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The town was also the location of one of the worst rail disasters in British history, the Tay Bridge disaster. |
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Power, water and communications were disrupted for months in some areas as Ivan was the worst hurricane to hit the islands in 86 years. |
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In May 2016 a report by the World Health Organization showed that Gibraltar had the worst air quality in any British territory. |
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A senior US State Department official described Bosnia in the spring of 1995 as the worst crisis with the British and French since Suez. |
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The lawsuit further claims Galveston county has the worst air quality in the United States due to BP's violations of air pollution laws. |
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Records show that Irish lands exported food even during the worst years of the Famine. |
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West Clare was one of the worst areas for evictions, where landlords turned thousands of families out and demolished their derisory cabins. |
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Rationing and conscription dragged on into the post war years, and the country suffered one of the worst winters on record. |
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I believed it all through my worst days, and I am not ashamed to profess it now. |
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Many commentators assumed that such comments were intended as a joke, although in the worst possible taste. |
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I'm a musicaholic. Losing my hearing is one of the worst things I can think of. I'd have a lot of trouble living in a world without sound. |
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He is also said to have put bread and butter into a teapot, drunk the concoction, and declared it to be the worst cup of tea he ever had. |
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He considered Heidegger to be the worst example of such philosophy, which Ayer believed to be entirely useless. |
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Seventy five Welsh fans and five crew died in the accident, at the time it was the world's worst air disaster. |
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For the 1992 World Cup, an alternate method was used of simply omitting the first team's worst overs, but that favoured the first team. |
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Saudi Arabia is widely accused of having one of the worst human rights records in the world. |
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Caixinha's first full season started with Rangers suffering one of the worst results in their history. |
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The worst of housing conditions were to be found in this area, and China was also home to what many regarded as a criminal class. |
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The worst single incident in the Rhondda was the 1867 Ferndale disaster in which an explosion saw the loss of 178 lives. |
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This election was also the Conservatives' worst defeat until the 1997 general election, 91 years later. |
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The collapse in home prices has led some economists to deem Atlanta the worst housing market in the country. |
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During World War II, parts of the BBC evacuated to Bangor during the worst of the Blitz. |
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Gresford Colliery was the site of one of Britain's worst coal mining disasters. |
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The Llandow air disaster was, at the time, the world's worst aviation disaster. |
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This was because only the worst of the officials were appointed because those who could avoid serving in Yemen did so. |
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Agricultural crops failed and livestock died in much of the Northern Hemisphere, resulting in one of the worst famines of the 19th century. |
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In late 2005, heavy rains caused floods and several landslides, the worst of which killed three people on 14 September. |
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The coastal town of Filey in Yorkshire was worst hit, with the spire of a church being twisted by the tremor. |
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The Pure Earth issues an annual list of some of the world's worst polluted places. |
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As an initial response, the worst of the existing shells were withdrawn from ships in early 1917 and replaced from reserve supplies. |
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But by far the worst effects for Spain were the increased difficulties it suffered in maintaining its position in the Southern Netherlands. |
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Hammond again fared the worst with saliva, blood and pubic hairs, losing 30 points and, worst of all, faeces losing another 1,000 points. |
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His latest speech simply seems to pander to the worst instincts of the electorate. |
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The rainfall will be greater and the flooding will be worse than the worst storm expected in any single year. |
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In 2010, a similar survey reported the city was still the worst clone town. |
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An additional natural disaster was the Rhine rift earthquake of 1356, one of Europe's worst which made ruins of Basel. |
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Nation states are responsible for some of the worst historical examples of violence against minorities not considered part of the nation. |
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The floods were described by civil defence officials as the worst in 27 years. |
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Contrary to popular misconception, MacArthur Park is not the worst song ever written. |
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In its aftermath, the lack of infrastructure led to one of the worst floodings in the Philippines and creating a significant amount of pollution. |
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In May, 2017, the Natural Resources Defense Council reported that Puerto Rico's water system was the worst as measured by the Clean Water Act. |
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