The result leaves Albion on 31 points, meaning they cannot escape from the bottom three, although they might still avoid finishing bottom of the table.

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In short, Europe, for all its apparent health, cannot escape unscathed from the world's current turmoil.

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But it is noteworthy that banks in the US - and UK - that are trying to clean themselves up cannot yet escape from the costs of the sins of their past.

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Where the Privacy Act provides that certain of its obligations are non-exemptible, an agency cannot escape liability simply by exempting itself from the Act.

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They are faced with a fundamental alternative, one from which they cannot eventually escape making a choice.

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He still loves Ilsa, who acknowledges that she also loves him, but if he wants to help Laszlo escape from the Nazis, he cannot resume his relationship with Ilsa, who is Laszlo's main support.

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Attacked from many directions, the virus cannot escape.

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Black holes are notoriously difficult to study, since so much in astronomy depends on the detection of light - and within a certain distance from a black hole, even that cannot escape.

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But one cannot escape the conclusion that although India is a net exporter of economists, its policies still suffer from a deficit of economic logic.

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