They instead found a list with all 104 players, and right now, they're actually in court arguing that they have a right to the entire list.

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Yet Cameron Smith points to the quality of Super League, and the success down under of Gareth Ellis, when arguing that England aren't actually as far off as people think.

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You might recall that Mr Cameron and Mrs Merkel actually signed a letter together two years ago arguing that payments to the EU should "increase, at most, by no more than inflation".

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Death penalty opponents have been arguing that the condemned may be subdued by drugs, but actually conscious and in pain.

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Mr. Chiasson's lawyers asked for leniency, arguing that the alleged profits from the trades didn't reflect how much he actually realized and improperly skewed the sentencing guidelines in his case.

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Meanwhile, left-of-center thinkers tended to accentuate the negative, arguing that the lot of the average worker has barely improved at all, and may have actually declined, since the 1970s.

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