But it would be a truly appalling thing if the psychology of coincidence played a part in a re-run of the Wall Street Crash, the most terrible market disaster in history.
This will be little comfort to Mr Mitchell or his party since it allows Labour and other critics to point out that either a senior minister used appalling and offensive language to a police officer or he is saying that one of those tasked with protecting the prime minister is lying.
For most companies even the most appalling scandal represents a presumptive business threat.
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At the end of it, Wainewright emerges from his appalling hardships with a measure of genuine dignity that goes deeper than the affected hauteur of the dandy.
The district judge said it was "an appalling situation when a young man was set upon by a large number of people" but said he would agree to bail as long as suitable addresses were found at least three miles outside of Omagh and were approved by police.
Meanwhile, behaviors Christians find appalling are exalted by a nihilistic popular culture.
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The porters' effluvia and the emanations of rotting produce fill the air with an appalling stench, and a burden of relentless heat crushes the esplanade.
The conditions were so appalling and unsanitary that a major epidemic that ravaged the island in the 18th century started in these rooms, Coly said.
What makes this story the more appalling is that such a man and his colleagues at the European Council for Fatwa and Research have been engaged by prominent commercial institutions to serve as "Shariah advisors" in connection with the latters' "Shariah-Compliant Finance" operations.
Wembley's appalling playing surface took a large share of the responsibility for the lack of quality on show, playing a crucial role in the goal that sent Grant on his way to a final date against his old club Chelsea nine minutes into extra-time.
Tired, stale and disillusioned, by the end of the night Ireland looked a side that has been together too long, and an appalling World Cup will surely have brought a conclusion to some careers.
Meanwhile, the Patients Association published a dossier of 13 "appalling" cases of care given to NHS patients to highlight what it said was a wider malaise.
Speaking of the appalling Dobbs, here is a nicely aimed dart by Don Boudreaux, chairman of the economics department at George Mason.
Still, mortality figures for under--5s are coming down -- while still being appalling -- and in a country where people have learned to cherish small blessings, there are signs of improvement in some lifestyle areas.
In response to a sign from Simone, Rousselot sat down next to the old woman, who produced a glass and filled it with that appalling liquid, while Simone vanished through one of the doors, then reappeared after a while and summoned him with a gesture.
Met Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steven Kavanagh said it was a "shocking and appalling morning for London to wake up to".
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And we still don't know how much this appalling lack of boardroom diversity in a rapidly diversifying economy hurts our competitiveness.
As a result, an appalling number of young adults in schools and colleges are on one form or another of psychiatric medication.
In 2009, the care regulator published a report branding standards appalling at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust and alleging patients had been dying needlessly.
Ludlow Festival Society said it had suffered major losses in 2012 as a result of "appalling wet weather" as well as competition from other events.
"His murder was an appalling attack, carried out by a killer who has taken no responsibility for his actions, instead seeking to suggest that he himself was the one being attacked, " said Mr Hewitt.
The findings of a public inquiry into "appalling" standards of care at Stafford Hospital between 2005 and 2009 were published last month.
These are -- this is a process in reaction to the appalling violence.
In a statement it said Mrs Astbury's death served as a "tragic reminder of the appalling care many patients and their families were forced to endure".
The inquiry found that Baha Mousa died after suffering an "appalling episode of serious gratuitous violence" in a "very serious breach of discipline" by UK soldiers.
Her lurches had an appalling helplessness: she pitched as if taking a header into a void, and seemed to find a wall to hit every time.
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