In short, he would not allow public blame to be cast upon his staff.

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There's also strong doubt cast upon the case for the UK government following Scotland's lead in keeping the spending taps on, with the result of strong job figures.

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Instead it focuses on Kazan as a theatre and film director, starting from the reasonable premise that this important career was obscured by the opprobrium cast upon Kazan after he testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1952.

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Mr Berlusconi's own legal problems and his vast television interests continue to cast doubt upon his motives, especially in his dealings with the bicamerale.

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He has been battered from pillar to post in his 18 months, some of it his own making, some of it cast down upon him.

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If a voter were to cast his ballot based upon outright statistics and awards (without names attached to those statistics), there is no doubt that Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens would be voted in to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.

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It was a squadron of Army Air Force bombers from the airfield on Tinian Island, across the channel, and they cast their furious vibrations down upon us as they gained altitude and made a slow banking turn in their flight toward Japan.

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"Some may see the millions upon millions of votes cast for each of us as evidence that our party is divided, but I see it as proof that we have never been more energized and united in our desire to take this country in a new direction, " he said.

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