The animal itself will probably be beyond repair, but guilt prone drivers might just be a little more careful in the future.

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Often these were areas where the canvas had been damaged beyond repair and had to be patched, in which case he might paint in a stretch of sky or a fold of flesh.

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People will be speculating about how dysfunctional the U.S. political process has become and whether it is broken beyond repair (if they are not asking that then they should be).

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All four of its original escalators are "beyond economic repair" and two will be replaced by inclined lifts, which are described as "diagonal lifts".

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All four of its original escalators are "beyond economic repair" and two will now be replaced with lifts.

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It said the main risk of not proceeding with the work would be that one or more of the cranes will break beyond repair.

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With the ship considered beyond economic repair, its final destination is expected to be a dry dock in Sicily, where it will be cut up.

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