In light of its fresh tie-up with Microsoft, we can understand how any LG smartphone not running WinMo might be perceived as a black sheep this week.
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But others, such as the right to go about the city with a drawn sword, the right to be hanged by a silken rope, the right to drive sheep over London Bridge, the right to be drunk and disorderly in the City, the right to be married in St Paul's Cathedral and buried with the City, may always have been in the realms of folklore.
It would, on the other hand, be a nice little earner for sheep shearers.
In 1997, when Dolly the sheep became the first mammal to be cloned from an adult sheep, cloning a human entered the realm of possibility.
That would be a real advance on polypropylene and sheep's gut.
Take this example, which is told twice in the book: a flock of sheep approaches the Finnish border in a panic, pleading to be allowed entry.
Meanwhile, the chief veterinary officer for Northern Ireland has said there was concern that a third flock of sheep may be infected by the foot-and-mouth virus.
The scheme will also be encouraging sheep farmers to sign up to a set of principles - including ensuring their animals are born and bred within a specified area and reared using traditional methods.
It was true that quite a few of the sheep seemed to be hobbling on three legs, or half kneeling, their front legs bent at the joint.
In Afghanistan, Duck-worth has a dozen people setting specifications (wool must be from sheep in Gazni, Afghanistan) and working with the families and health care providers.
Mr Bridson said, where farmers have a mixture of cattle and sheep, priorities have to be made.
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Cost-effective electronic identification and traceability of sheep must be developed and delivered to the industry as a matter of urgency.
Only one person can win, and one clumsy nick or frisky sheep can be the difference between glory, or failure and a long trip home.
Mr Jones could not believe his eyes when next to the live sheep he saw a tiny lamb which he guessed to be about two hours old.
If you find yourself running with a flock of sheep, odds are that you are about to be eaten.
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Saddlers declared by their peers to be using sheep's leather, deemed to be an inferior way to finish a saddle, were slapped with hefty fines.
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Every now and again, a sheep breaks loose and heads up the rocky hillside, from where it has to be coaxed back down.
It is a technique called nuclear transfer -- the same used to create Dolly the sheep -- and until Mitalipov's research there had been skepticism over whether a primate could be cloned in the same manner.
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