• The judge directed that Basildon Council should serve a schedule on the residents by midday on Tuesday specifying what enforcement measures were proposed on a plot-by-plot basis, with the residents responding by midday on Thursday.

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  • The new 11-story American Embassy building will be surrounded by gardens and a partial moat on a circular 5-acre plot ringed by a tall wall.

    WSJ: A Diplomatic Breakthrough

  • The role of the Indian team captain is played by Salil Ankola. a former real-life fast bowler for India, and the television reporter who uncovers the terrorist plot, is played by well-known film actress, Sonali Kulkarni.

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  • Col von Stauffenberg - played by Tom Cruise in the 2008 film of the plot, Valkyrie - placed the bomb in a conference room where Hitler was meeting his officials inside the "Wolf's Lair", Hitler's command post in East Prussia.

    BBC: Hitler assassination plotter Von Kleist dies

  • Played by 26-year-old British newcomer Ben Barnes as a kind of Mediterranean, pretty-boy Hamlet, the prince escapes a plot by his uncle King Miraz (Sergio Castellitto) -- who has usurped his throne -- and falls in with a rag-tag band of talking badgers, valiant mice, dwarves, minotaurs, griffins and centaurs.

    CNN: Review: A glowing 'Prince Caspian'

  • But CNN has learned that the inmate has failed a number of lie detector tests regarding the details -- described by some sources close to the investigation as vague -- of the plot.

    CNN: Police doubt authenticity of Jeb Bush killing plot

  • Valkyrie - named after Operation Valkyrie, the plot's codename - will be directed by Bryan Singer and co-star British actor Kenneth Branagh.

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  • His second book, which again nods to Joseph Conrad, is accomplished and menacing, a seat-of-the-pants plot given breadth by bold characterisation and sense of place.

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  • And our reaction to the failed plot is failing as well, by focusing on the specifics of this made-for-a-movie plot rather than the broad threat.

    CNN: Stop the panic on air security

  • One of the cases is that of Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian who was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 and accused by the US of taking part in a so-called "dirty bomb" plot after being at a camp visited by Osama bin Laden.

    BBC: Prisoner request another change from Blair era

  • Controls are still imprecise and frustrating, the combat is improved but still muddy, and the plot is still hampered by a commitment to bizarre techno-mysticism and modern-day nonsense.

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  • The running takes place in narrative limbo, since no one else on the spaceship seems aware of her plight, and she stumbles on a pivotal secret through an open door that should, by the logic of the plot, have been sealed and triple-locked.

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  • There will be a steady stream of cut-scenes and videos released by Niantic to keep players engaged in the plot.

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  • Countless modern writers have been influenced by Anton Chekhov's short stories and plays, which renounce plot-based structure, concentrating instead on the quasiabstract sketching of character and mood.

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  • The rush to fix the latest glitches followed Comelec's revelation that it had evidence of a plot to disenfranchise voters by exploiting their unfamiliarity with the machine-countable ballot forms.

    ECONOMIST: Voting in the Philippines: System error | The

  • The plot is given an extra twist by involving both deaf characters - played by Sarah Beauvoisin and David Ellington and their hearing, signing colleague Ben Crystal - in a complicated love triangle.

    BBC: Ben Crystal and Sarah Beauvoisin show off their skills

  • So by firing radio pulses through the overlying sheet and recording the return echoes, scientists can plot both the depth of the rock bed and - by definition - the thickness of the ice covering.

    BBC: Antarctic ice volume measured

  • The safest thing one could say about "Django Unchained" is that it finds Quentin Tarantino hurtling over the top yet again by juxtaposing the horrors of slavery with an absurdist, horse-opera buffa plot that quotes from all sorts of movies, including his own, with special emphasis on spaghetti westerns.

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  • Mr Ozawa also claims to be the victim of a plot by prosecutors to indict him on alleged violations of a political-funding law, over which he was recently acquitted.

    ECONOMIST: Japan��s Ichiro Ozawa

  • Local communities make a bad situation worse by using planning laws, such as minimum plot size, to exclude low-income families. (Many ritzy suburbs will not allow a property to have a second kitchen for fear that the owner might take in tenants.) Meanwhile, many of the same communities compete to attract high-value commercial developments.

    ECONOMIST: Urban planning

  • Previous raids, hyped by the police before turning out to be false alarms, have instilled caution in a plot-weary public.

    ECONOMIST: Pakistan and Britain

  • Algerian special forces stormed the plant on Saturday to end the four-day siege, moving in to thwart what government officials said was a plot by the Islamic extremists to blow up the complex and kill all their captives with mines sown throughout the site.

    NPR: Death Toll Climbs Past 80 In Siege In The Sahara

  • Last month, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan summoned Egypt's ambassador over claims carried by Egyptian media the UAE was behind a plot against Egypt's leadership, saying they were "fabricated".

    MSN: Egypt's Brotherhood says UAE arrests unfounded

  • The film's plot centers of the fortunes of failed ice-hockey player Happy Gilmore, played by Adam Sandler, who masters a powerful and dangerous slap shot which he converts to golf with devastating effect.

    CNN: Harrington learns from Happy Gilmore

  • The moviemakers have been teasing fans by keeping the plot under wraps, but it turns out there's a good reason for that -- there isn't one.

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  • MPs were tired of trying to defend intellectually incoherent policies too often dictated by short-term electoral opportunism, while left-leaning activists suspected them of a New Labour-style plot to hijack the party.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • Set in 1929, the comedy's plot centers around two musicians escaping from the mob by dressing up as women to join an all-female band.

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