Another worry about the commission is that it has failed to nail the most senior brutes.

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Meanwhile, Kuchma characterised the "Kaniv Four" as " brutes" who were "interested in power and only in power - at any price, " Unian reported.

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Brutes will always have a seat at the sports table.

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And therefore it runs against the traditional Genentech narrative, in which a group of altruistic biologists come down from the ivory tower to save the brutes at the New Jersey-based drug giants.

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For much of the last century, Neanderthals were portrayed as knuckle-dragging brutes, whose extinction some 30, 000 years ago was the natural outcome of competing against a more intelligent, creative and resourceful human species - Homo sapiens.

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He was determined to own some of those little brutes and on the second day he bought four of them for one hundred dollars even, bringing Stonehill down from his asking price of one hundred and forty dollars.

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What sets this car apart from other high-horsepower brutes (you really have to get into something like a BMW M series or Audi S series to even approach this level of performance in a non-exotic) is its style.

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Plasma television sets are brutes.

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