The top-line matched expectations and profits advanced 26% which was slightly better than expected.

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"We're seeing the longest pitched battles between the army and the PKK, we're seeing a wide-spread campaign of kidnapping, suicide bombings and terrorist attacks by the PKK. They're very much on the offensive and unfortunately this is matched by much harder line rhetoric on both sides, " added Hugh Pope, the chief author of the International Crisis Group report, in an interview with CNN.

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When the teams faced each other again Monday, Hagelin had two goals in a 3-0 Rangers win, and the Boyle-Mitchell-Dubinsky line was so effective at maintaining possession of the puck that Tortorella matched the trio against the Islanders' No. 1 scoring line.

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If Wasps targeted one of Leicester's traditional strengths, the line-out, they also matched them at scrum-time, where Tom French, a 23-year-old prop, was starting only his second senior game.

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The first half was characterised by phase after phase of Leeds possession, aided by their superb line-out, but their endeavour was matched by Sale's sometimes brutal defence.

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Despite the hostility on the picket line, the government insists any more money for firefighters must be matched with reform.

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Were Indiana to win this Eastern Conference final, it would be a significant upset, and perhaps provoke some ratings-hungry TV executives to order a double bourbon, but it would not be shocking, given how the Pacers have matched the Heat throughout the series and refused to yield to the expected story line.

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Not the Ford of the assembly line and the mass-marketed Model T, whose achievements Gou has already matched, nor the elderly Henry Ford of the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

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