And we have a costly war in Afghanistan, not hostages in Iran.

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He deserves congratulations for winning such a vote even in the face of a costly war and a patchy economy.

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He suggests our dynamism could come to a speedy end as we wallow in servicing debt, fighting a costly war in Afghanistan.

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"We face the prospect of NHS services being placed in the middle of a costly bidding war with private companies, discrete services cherry-picked for profit while the NHS is left to run the more complex and expensive services but with less money, " the Labour peer added.

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Hundreds of thousands of US soldiers were sent to help fight the communists in a costly and ultimately unsuccessful war which brought domestic civil unrest and international embarrassment.

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But odds are that will be a long and costly battle in what will be a larger Connected Devices War.

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They were costly failures but important salvos in a new war on drugs.

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Three former respected heads of state in Latin America, including Mexico's former president Ernesto Zedillo, issued a joint report recently saying the drug war was too costly for countries like Mexico, and urged the U.S. to explore alternatives like decriminalizing marijuana.

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The increasingly mercurial Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has announced that - despite the long-running, immensely costly and ongoing U.S. effort to protect his kleptocratic government - in a war between Pakistan and the United States, Afghanistan would side with Pakistan.

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The Obama Administration therefore has embarked on a costly effort to refurbish and replace a nuclear-weapons arsenal that has seen little modernization since the Cold War ended 20 years ago.

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