Syrian President Bashar Assad this week told Italy's La Repubblica newspaper that he and outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert were just a stone's throw away from a peace deal last year.

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Chen lives in Fortune Garden, a 10-year-old residential complex, a stone's throw away from two major stadiums and a nightlife hotspot.

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Martin's Cathedral, just a stone's throw away from where the skeleton was discovered.

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He and Olmert couldn't have been a stone's throw away from a peace accord, because Assad refused to have any direct contact with Israel.

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One outfit also uses written sales pitches that make drilling in Alaska seem as though it is a stone's throw away from a leaseholder's property.

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It's just a stone's throw away from the Green Zone, actually.

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Now the opera house's admirers are embroiled in a dispute about another building rising a stone's throw away, and which threatens to spoil the view.

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Now that DisplayPort is becoming more of a household name ( like it or not), we're thrilled to see someone making sure we can run an external monitor from more than a stone's throw away.

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And this could play a crucial role in evaluating the still-controversial evidence for the existence of life on Mars a planet that, in astronomical terms, is a mere stone's throw away.

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After the mid-match break, Murdoch played the shot of the game, drawing into the middle of the rings for a well-guarded one, which forced Edin to throw his final stone away.

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