The issue of drugs - as at the Olympics - has also cast its shadow across the Paralympics.
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The die - as banks would see it - was cast when in June the chancellor rowed in behind the initial findings of the Independent Commission on Banking on its proposal to partially separate, or ring-fence, High St banking from investment or 'casino' banking.
Outhwaite is often left to one side while the men in the cast act, though that could be because - as with Ross Kemp's early dramas - the producers cast very good actors in supporting roles.
The third film in the X-Men franchise would have seen Vaughn reunite with his Lock, Stock co-star Vinnie Jones, who has been cast as "900-pound battering ram" Juggernaut.
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Mr Rossi, a 58-year-old lawyer, has cast himself as an anti-establishment outsider, despite a long political career that has featured stints as a federal congressman and as mayor of Osasco, an industrial suburb of Sao Paulo city, and has seen him switch parties four times and churches thrice (he is currently an evangelical Protestant).
The hipsters' fondness for all things twee and retro - baking cupcakes, riding fixed-wheel bikes, using Polaroid cameras instead of digital - meant Christmas jumpers could be re-cast as modish.
In a nastier variation on this theme, Mycenae became part of a racist Nazi fantasy, with Agamemnon re-cast as an Aryan super-hero whose achievement was the extermination of an Asian power, Troy.
You hear the creak of caskets opening, the tap of tiny feet as cherubs dance excitedly, and the clanking of cast-iron doors as angels go about their business on narrow lanes lined with weeping widows.
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The members of the 13-person cast double as the onstage orchestra, and their performances are as plain-spoken as the show itself.
"I'm getting tired of catching no fish, " said Robert Strazi, a 23-year-old mackerel enthusiast, as he cast his line in vain off Pensacola Beach's 1, 471-foot fishing pier, flanked by just two other anglers.
Now they may find themselves cast as cutting-edge players in the burgeoning high-tech world.
Not for the first time, the IMF and the EU will be cast as lightning-rods for xenophobic anger.
Analyst Aly Verjee says that under the new constitution, votes do not have to be "valid" to be counted as "cast" - unlike under previous rules.
Through Gawker, Denton wages war on self-regard or presumed self-regard, as his cast of mind is both abstract and deeply tribal, inclining him to sort nearly all people into one or another category that could be judged full of itself.
Due to etraordinary circumstances not present at the moment -- notably the Kremlin's internal preoccupation as the Soviet Union unraveled and the fact of Iraq had invaded its neighbor -- no vetoes were cast as the Security Council approved steps to repulse the Iraqi occupiers and restore peace and stability to the Gulf.
The news of Mr Putin's return does at least put an end to the embarrassing spectacle in which Mr Medvedev was cast as a president with a supporting cast of liberal-sounding cheerleaders.
"I believe the people will make a wise decision, " Mr. Najib was quoted as saying by state-run news agency Bernama as saying after he cast his ballot to defend his parliamentary seat in the eastern Pahang state.
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Several early 16th-century cast-metal oil lamps are modeled as African heads whose features, especially the mouths grotesquely stretched into wick-holders, convey a sense of mockery.
Pro-secular newspapers have cast the affair as a further twist in the battle between western-minded Turks and the mildly Islamist ruling Justice and Development (AK) party.
This is a carrot and stick approach -- in which the carrot may be the lure of an exclusive interview, and the stick is the publicists' insistence that you should cover disturbing half-chair half-woman type films as a trade-off to gain access to the cast of a great one.
The image - of the shadow cast by the Moon as it blocks the light and particles - was shown off at a meeting of the American Physical Society.
Japan seemed reluctant to be cast as the go-between, but was encouraged to persuade America and Europe that they needed to do more.
He consistently rejected the conventional wisdom that the race was tied, and for that, he was cast as a left-wing nut peddling bad science.
The younger Sheen told US website Access Hollywood his father had been cast as his on-screen father in his new TV show Anger Management.
To drum up interest among TV and Web viewers, cable carriers and digital providers are being offered extras such as cast interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and clips with directorial commentary.
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Though Japan is often cast as a has-been in Asia as it has been battling a years-long slump, corporate balance sheets are in good shape and flush with cash.
" If high-earners feel their efforts are being penalized, their disappearance will be an economic negative for all us, and a blemish on the reputation of the party that Obama would like to cast as "post-partisan.
As I train myself to cast off words, as I learn to erase word-thoughts, I begin to feel a new world rising up around me.
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