It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom.

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Now that his firm has blazed a trail, he says, others should find it easier to follow.

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Prior to signing into the mainstream Sheeran blazed a trail as a self-made musician working YouTube, gigs and iTunes.

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Hung runs China Interactive Media, publisher of "I-Look", a popular Chinese fashion magazine that blazed a trail for fashion magazines in the country before the likes of Vogue and Cosmopolitan launched their Chinese editions.

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Fortunately, other researchers have blazed a trail.

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The 'indie thing' of which Roth speaks was typified by Tarantino, who - first with Reservoir Dogs in 1992, and then with Pulp Fiction two years later - blazed a trail for distinctive new voices that managed to combine critical acclaim with box-office success.

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At a recent London auction of fine vintage posters with a focus on skiing, buyers from around the world blazed a bidding trail.

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Mr King himself got elected governor as an independent twice in the 1990s, following a trail blazed by another businessman-turned-politician in the 1970s.

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While some may doubt Highlight's ability to persuade a mass-market audience to share with strangers, Davison's goals aren't without precedent -- largely thanks to a trail blazed by similar app Badoo.

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Musically, his career blazed a long and brilliant trail from bebop with Charlie Parker to epoch-making cool jazz, orchestral suites with arranger Gil Evans and landmark quintets which launched such young stars as John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock.

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But it has stressed that the North needs to follow the trail it blazed a little over 30 years ago when it set about reform.

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This too was a new concept, and it blazed the trail for other rock acts.

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Salesforce, like a smart cop, is following the money trail and that trail is being blazed toward the CMO.

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But now that BYOD has blazed the trail, expect companies to be much more open to BYOC, especially if that laptop is running a version of Windows.

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