• But he smacked a barrier in the atrocious conditions and pitted with a puncture.

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  • The atrocious conditions at a rain-soaked Rec played a significant part in both sides letting slip decent opportunities to score tries in the first half.

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  • Laois, helped by the introduction of Brian McDonald and Billy Sheehan, fought bravely to get back into the game but they were frustrated by the atrocious conditions as a couple of efforts went narrowly wide in the wind and rain.

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  • Gerardo Martino's team also worked extremely hard to thwart Spain's passing game and looked extremely dangerous on the counter, with the lively Valdez wasting a decent position with an atrocious shot just before the interval after a sharp break.

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  • The gold was shipped, and in turn trickled in a few atrocious bits of equipment.

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  • Put simply, once the government decides not to seek the death penalty against a defendant charged with mass murder, how can it justify seeking the death penalty against anyone charged with murder however atrocious on a smaller scale?

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  • Even the Blackhawks were atrocious for years due to a team whose primary competitive goal was to not spend money.

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  • There were a number of atrocious acts which reportedly occurred wire-taps (wire fraud), bribery, arguable attempts to influence government, and who knows what else: if one could prove that they represented a pattern of bad behavior formulated to achieve some nefarious end whether it be toward a political, monetary, or some other goal then, according to the Supreme Court, they could, potentially, face a RICO charge.

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  • Myanmar has long been considered a pariah state in the West for its atrocious human-rights record and detention of Miss Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace-prize winner.

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  • Or, to put it another way, what really killed the dinosaurs was a string of the most atrocious bad luck.

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  • Now just imagine how much better it would be if we ever overhauled our atrocious tax code and replaced it with a simple flat tax.

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  • Having argued many arbitration cases and also having sat as a panelist and Chair on others, I know that sometimes the final verdict may be more a product of the personality dynamics of a given panel than a testament to superb or atrocious lawyering.

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  • Despite "atrocious sea conditions", the crew managed to connect a tow line, but when it broke, Crewman Simon Emms went on board the fishing vessel to connect a second line.

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  • One reason for this may be that international donor groups are reluctant to send aid to Myanmar, a country run by a strict military junta widely criticized for its atrocious human rights record.

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  • While reception for my iPhone is atrocious in my house (we are at the wrong end of a small hill), I tried multiple calls from my work telephone.

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  • Of course, this is really only a common-sense observation, but, given the atrocious decline in higher ed standards over time (Arum and Roksa report that their data indicate students nowadays typically spend fewer than 30 hours a week in academic pursuits), it is a desperately needed denunciation of the modern Ivory Tower.

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  • The Vanger men committed atrocious crimes against women in the past, and Salander, who is a ward of the state, is twice brutalized by a smarmy social worker who controls her money.

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  • The atrocious conditions ensured set-pieces were always likeliest to produce goals and a brilliant whipped-in free-kick from Ashley Young was met by Sidwell but he could not keep his header on target.

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  • But over a third of the graduates from its physics department have left the country since the late 1980s, more than 500 of them to the U.S. Atrocious housing is not the only reason they have chosen not to make a career in teaching, but it adds to the self-doubt of those who have stayed behind.

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  • But the aircraft encountered atrocious weather conditions over Greenland and, with fuel running low, the crews attempted a difficult landing on to a glacier.

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  • The judge also noted that Telford had "an atrocious record" of 15 previous convictions and had still been subject to licence after a six year sentence at the time of the murder.

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  • But when she found a longer-term spot at a school in Brooklyn's Cobble Hill, she said she saw some atrocious teachers.

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  • But a fictitious debt limit is worse because it allows Congress to pretend that its atrocious budgeting decisions are not to blame.

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  • Nonetheless, he has caused a stir, and not only because he has put the spotlight on the atrocious practices of Dear Leader Kim.

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  • Almost all of them, no matter how atrocious their English, can pen detailed descriptions of such obscure subjects as the steps involved in a genetics experiment.

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  • Carla Scandurra, a 17-year-old high student said she was "struck by the atrocious way Maria Grazia was killed, the butchery on her body, " the Italian news agency ANSA quoted.

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  • Speaking during a television debate during the Irish Presidential contest last year Mr McGuinness described the Enniskillen bomb as atrocious and said he felt ashamed when such incidents were carried out in the name of Irish republicanism.

    BBC: Hundreds attend Enniskillen Poppy Day bomb services

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