The figure emerged as a number of UK universities joined forces to launch a separate online project.

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If anything, Collins has emerged as a sympathetic figure in a lost era.

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At the same time Mr Romney emerged as a different figure than the one they had heard or read about.

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In 1998, he emerged as a national figure and commercially successful engagE writer when his first two collections of essays were published to widespread acclaim.

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Reports have also emerged that a senior figure in the main militant Islamist movement - Ansar Dine - has been captured near the Algerian border by a rival separatist group.

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