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Traditionally, only ballot papers marked with a cross in the appropriate space are registered.
BBC: 'X' marks the spot
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They then followed his oak coffin, which was marked with a cross and draped with a flag, through narrow streets to the cemetery.
CNN: France and the world honor Mitterrand
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Two coins are placed tails up and marked with a white cross.
WSJ: Two-Up, A Game Australians Flip Over, Loses Luster When Legalized
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Then he could have the funeral she had planned for him, with the horse-drawn hearse, and his grave would be marked with the wooden cross she kept on the mantlepiece.
ECONOMIST: Winnie Johnson
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"With little chance of cross-party agreement, legislating became guerrilla warfare, marked by cloture motions and filibusters, legitimate devices in the senatorial arsenal but hardly the path to well-crafted legislation to attract bipartisan support, " she wrote.
NPR: Snowe Presses For Bipartisanship In New Book
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This is in marked contrast to European banks' strategies for the euro zone, where cross-border bank mergers have so far been rare.
ECONOMIST: Inconspicuous consumption
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The season of Lent is marked by fasting and acts of penitence for past sins, with worshippers marking a cross on their foreheads with wood ash to symbolise human mortality.
BBC: Pope Benedict holds last public Mass
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Goalscoring chances had been few and far between before the Argentine defender marked his first appearance of the season by turning in Rob Lee's left-wing cross.
BBC: Ipswich 0-1 Derby