• The bridge is used as a popular short cut between Leigh Woods and Clifton.

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  • Virgin alleged dirty tricks: the courts agreed, humiliating British Airways and confirming him as a popular hero.

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  • Ottawa has long been overshadowed as a popular Canadian travel destination by its seemingly more glamorous neighbours, Toronto and Montreal.

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  • Councillor Chris Matthews, cabinet portfolio holder for highways, infrastructure and emergency planning, said the refurbishment would "ensure Withernsea's character as a popular seaside resort".

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  • Political consensus is not the same as a popular one, and meeting the millennial benchmark will cost billions of pounds of increasingly scarce taxpayers' money.

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  • When he was running for office, Mr Sarkozy was quick to identify purchasing power as a popular concern, and to pledge to do something about it.

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  • "He was seen as a popular, personable and hands-on diplomat among State Department staffers who knew him, " said Elise Labott, a CNN foreign affairs reporter who knew Stevens.

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  • As years passed by and the air of Irish Independence spread, the estate was sold to the Patrician Brothers, who operated the property as a popular boys school.

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  • After two and a half decades as a popular talk-show host, Winfrey will be making the risky transition from daytime leader to network co-owner and cable host come 2011.

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  • He helped Tottenham win the League Cup with victory over Chelsea in February at Wembley where his celebratory jig further cemented his status as a popular player with the fans.

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  • "All the pomegranate you see today in home products started as a popular ingredient at gourmet food fairs, " says Ana Paula Mendonca, creative director of the "olfactive design studio" at IFF.

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  • This mushrooming scandal threatens to engulf the technology industry, especially, because grants of options to employees in the late 1990s were seen as a popular retention and recruitment strategy in Silicon Valley startups.

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  • Over the last few years, the mobile phone has emerged as a popular device for what at first may seem an unlikely user group: the deaf and other people who are hard of hearing.

    BBC: Deaf go mobile phone crazy

  • Before Maker, the Jordan-born KassemG was growing as a popular star on YouTube, often thanks to a wicked mix of endearing persona, scalpel-sharp jokes and unsuspecting folks on the street. (See an example below).

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  • The latter has emerged as a popular cause.

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  • Apparently when Twitter really arrived on the scene as a popular social media zeitgeist, while most people saw it as a way to spread information, researchers saw it as an opportunity for lots of free data.

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  • Whether it is being sung spontaneously by rural people working in the field or travelling or performed more formally at one of more than a hundred traditional Hua er festivals held annually in these provinces, Hua er is an important vehicle for expressing personal feelings in a social setting and cultural exchange across ethnicities, as well as a popular rural entertainment.

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  • The small town has been here for more than 1, 500 years, perched on a dramatic cliff top 1000-feet above the sea, and in the past few centuries has garnered a reputation as a popular escape for creative artists and musicians: Ravello has been a home away from home to Wagner, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Greta Garbo, Graham Greene, Leonard Bernstein and M.

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  • Everton described Speed as a "popular player" and "boyhood Evertonian", while Bolton said he was "a top-class professional".

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  • The Mayor of Doncaster, Peter Davies, said the refurbishment would build on the town's success as being a popular market spot.

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  • In Search of Excellence by Robert Waterman and Tom Peters was arguably the progenitor of business literature as a modern popular genre.

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  • After graduating I spent two summers on Cape Cod, on a deep embed working as a waiter in a popular seafood restaurant to save up money for a move to Ireland.

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  • As well as providing a popular figurehead for those involved, the Queen's presence is also a significant part of the reason that British racing is so renowned around the world.

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  • As a provider of a popular Web browser, Qihoo was well positioned for a rapid takeoff in the search sector, and in fact appears to be causing considerable trouble for sector leader Baidu.

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  • Chlorine's largest use is as an ingredient in polyvinyl chloride, PVC being almost as popular a plastic as polyethylene.

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  • It begins as a prehistoric adventure (a popular genre at the time), and is related in the solemn, archaic cadences of a fable.

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  • Fizz-fuelled Hollywood parties in the 1930s imbued the drink with glamour, but today Champagne is as much a part of popular culture as high society.

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  • Deputy head of Wollaston Secondary School Anne Murdoch described Aaron as a "caring and popular student with a love for the outdoors".

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  • However, as should be clear by the prominence of Russians in a number of visible and popular parts of the IT market, such as the Evernote iOS application or a highly popular game like Cut The Rope, Russians in the US to appear to be punching above their weight.

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  • ETFs, which trade as stocks on an exchange, have proved wildly popular as a means to buy and sell gold far more easily than in the past, when the only options were to invest in gold bars or futures contracts.

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