The elephants, however, were too heavy to be lifted up, so used to make their grand entrance through the main gates.

BBC: Going underground at the Colosseum

It goes something like this (cue the Eminem music): hard-scrapple, blue-collar city, devastated by the recession, pulls together to be lifted up by their baseball team.

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Now that he is running for office himself, it is likely he knows he can be as much harmed as lifted up by celestial expectations, so he tries, in small ways, to discourage them.

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When Irene brought torrential rains in August 2011, the lower sections of the dams couldn't be lifted on short notice and debris built up, causing the raging waters to carve new channels through the riverbanks.

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In the near term, various sites across Hong Kong will be rezoned, restrictions lifted and approvals sped up to increase the land supply for housing by over 300 hectares, enough space for some 128, 700 units.

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Nothing is official yet, but as mentioned, Nintendo and Sony stocks are already up in Japan just based on mere speculation the ban could be lifted.

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