• The state's attorney general has declined to prosecute anyone in Quartzsite as a result of state investigations because of insufficient evidence, a spokeswoman for the office said.

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  • Mr Wilkins said the jury was likely to hear from an expert giving evidence for the defence that the defendant was asleep, not as a result of tiredness, but because of a particular disorder.

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  • All of it points to one simple idea: violent crime rose as a result of lead poisoning because of leaded gasoline.

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  • The island only came into existence in recent years as a result of glaciers retreating because of climate change to release an island of moraine - rocks and stones.

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  • There are some questions as to whether or not the Justice Department could prosecute anyone as a result of the new investigation, because of the statute of limitations.

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  • As a result (and because of the fact that the Marine Corps has come close to being disbanded several times), Marines are a proud species.

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  • As he said, homes were destroyed and many were left with the need of extensive medical attention either from injury as a direct result of the fighting or because of the lack of proper medical care in general.

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  • Communities around the world are affected by the manufacturing of these products, not only because they are growing ever fatter as a result of so much sugar in their lives, but also because the use of water for sugar drinks means communities often go without clean drinking water (which Coke and other companies then sells to them as bottled water).

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  • The humbling moves, which reshape the landscape of American finance, mark the latest chapter in a tumultuous year in which once-proud financial institutions have been brought to their knees as a result of hundreds of billions of dollars in losses because of bad mortgage finance and real estate investments.

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  • ' Because as a result of the local authority's failure to deal with educational underperformance, children continue to go to a poor school.

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  • "I think it is ridiculous that these proposals are coming forward just because of the potential for cuts as a result of what is happening at a UK government level, " he stated.

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  • There were plenty of opportunities for generating efficiencies, because the operation had coalesced as a result of mergers and acquisitions from numerous legacy cultures that had only partially integrated practices.

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  • That is because, as a result of investigating prior art, firms usually learn an awful lot about competitors working on similar issues.

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  • Does the deficit appear to be larger than it actually is because of IRS tax receipts that are down as a result of the lagging recovery?

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  • Mr Amin said it was getting impossible to sell his goods back home in Iran because, as a result of the sanctions, the currency there is constantly losing value.

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  • She said concessions for low income families and an appeal panel for people suffering hardship because of the changes had been brought in as a result of the consultation.

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  • But the Briton's chances were scuppered when the 13th stage of the day was cancelled because of the treacherous conditions of the track as a result of melting snow.

    BBC: Gronholm wins in Sweden

  • I'm not saying he is the fastest man and will win world championships automatically as a result because speed is only one part of it - but on a lap, that man can ride faster than anyone.

    BBC: Steve Parrish's MotoGP column

  • It's possible the euro fell, not because of any of these comments, but as a result of the ECB President's general insistence that the ECB remained "ready to act" if further bad economic news suggested it was warranted.

    BBC: ECB takes (a little) action

  • In Holy Smoke Keitel really breaks new ground, because - as a result of his character's mind games with the young woman he is trying to de-programme - he ends up wearing lipstick and sporting a red frock.

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  • On its own, that could suggest that our economy has become permanently less productive as a result of the crisis: because, for example, credit now costs more or because it was the relatively more productive parts of the economy that were worst hit by the recession.

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  • Ms Wong decided to announce the news earlier this week because she acknowledged there would be interest from the public as a result of her high-ranking position within the government and because she wanted to protect her pregnant partner from any undue publicity.

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  • The first section of Skylar Laine's "Shameless" was way too low for her and, looking back, the whole performance suffered as a result because she was so off on some of those notes that people will remember them.

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  • As a result, the Parisians are happy not only because of the liberation but because they feel they earned it.

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  • Analysts at Credit Suisse reckon that banks in Ireland may be especially profitable in coming years because competition has withered as a result of the crisis.

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  • LPs at the time were often skeptical about Africa- not because of its lack of opportunities or potential for growth, but as a result of the realities of political, economic and social instabilities that pervaded the region.

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  • Just because more people have died as a result of coal usage does not make nuclear power any safer.

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  • He added that he wanted people to understand "that just because the division is disbanding as a result of changes to the structure of the Army, Copthorne Barracks and 143 (West Midlands) Brigade, are very much open for business".

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  • And you know, of all the suffering that's taken place as a result of this session(ph), the least unnecessary aspect of that is hungry kids, because we have programs that work.

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  • As a result, the recovery will be short-lived because none of the reasons for it appear sustainable.

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