He made so many enemies as John Major's draconian home secretary that it takes only a minute on the Web to find a site urging browsers to wipe the complacent smile from his face by administering a sharp if virtual punch.
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And so today, in the Rose Garden where he's made so many appearances lately, President Bush announced what he called the G7 action plan to strengthen banks across the country.
He's made so many memorable films but he hasn't bowed out on stage yet to pick up a golden statue.
So he made the decision like so many relatives before him to head north.
To go from being worried about losing my job, to standing with the President as he made sure I and so many others could keep preparing the children of our communities for the world was an experience that I will share and treasure for the rest of my life.
He said that seeing so many bad films made him feel he could do better.
Barrett spoke of so many grand dreams he made me proud for my adopted Ireland.
He said not many UK piers made money so the team was looking further afield for ideas.
In the mid-1950s, he made his way to that touchstone for so many of the best American modern artists, Black Mountain College in North Carolina.
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But once you really receive God's grace and (have) seen it reflected in others you stop and acknowledge that grace and the difference He has made in my life and in so many lives across this state and across this nation.
Although Gogol writes that "we have not taken a virtuous man as our hero, " he has made Chichikov, though vile and petty in so many ways, oddly sympathetic.
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And Bob Harris of BBC Radio 2 described Brown as a "massive influence, not just for black music but also for so many white music fans who were so strongly motivated and influenced by the music he made".
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He endured insults and vandalism, but he kept on focusing on making the teammates who he loved better players, and made possible the success of so many who would follow.
Why keep venturing into so many new areas after he's already made a fortune?
Since then, the business has grown so quickly, and he has opened many branches and made it into a franchise business.
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"They were much stronger than the stretchers I made, so I stole as many as possible, " he recalls.
Alexander the Great, triumphant in so many seemingly impossible battles, made a fundamental error when he took his army from Persia to Afghanistan and India.
He said sex-for-passports allegations had been made before and also questioned why so many serious offenders were able to abscond from Leyhill open prison for so long.
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He wondered if that had made it easier to do it for real if marrying so many times without personal consequence had made her wander blindly into the wrong marriage.
Over a career spent scheming in the back rooms of Japanese politics, he has made and broken alliances, toppled governments and, with laconic disdain, treated transparency and other democratic norms as so many Western pretences.
"I hope it will give us the chance to thank and remind ourselves of the sacrifice that was made by so many people who are part of a great generation of heroes for our country, " he said.
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