It was a scintillating start to the match for the Welsh side and, although they suffered a blow as scrum-half Jason Spice went off with a broken arm, they soon took the lead with a quite brilliant try.

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The loss of Lawes, who was England's player of the series in the autumn, is a huge blow, although Johnson is optimistic the 21-year-old's recovery from knee ligament damage might be quicker than the three months originally expected.

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However, although they are a body-blow they aren't quite a knock-out one.

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In fact I was struck by just how normal the book is, overall. (Although the Table of Contents might blow your mind.) But where the London office-based endeavor succeeds most notably is at being quintessentially Google.

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The confirmation of talks between Klinsmann and his bosses will come as a blow to Benitez, although Hicks said the negotiations took place in November when the club were in danger of going out of the Champions League at the group stages and suffering indifferent league form.

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The preferred way to deal with rogue asteroids is still a Hollywood-style heroic space mission to knock the object off course, or possibly blow it up although almost surely as an unmanned effort.

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But the Justice Department did not include accusations that Padilla plotted to detonate a "dirty bomb" or to blow up apartment buildings, although government officials had leveled those allegations publicly before Padilla was charged.

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That seems all-but certain to occur at this point, although the political winds have a tendency to blow in strange directions.

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Although the details surrounding Mr Becker's resignation were unclear, his departure is bound to be one more blow for the company.

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