Typically, it is a break-in, carjacking, robbery or murder close to home that clinches a family's long mulled-over decision to leave.

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He has since softened his stance a bit, but he has also vowed to stay in the race until Mr Romney clinches a majority.

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In a cable television appearance Monday, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, said he will not step aside even if Romney clinches the GOP nomination by garnering the required 1, 144 delegates to the GOP convention.

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The two middleweights spent the majority of the bout trading blows, although the furious pace they set began to take its toll on the fighters in the fifth round as Stevens and Findley engaged in clinches following exchanges.

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But people who purport to know the prime minister's thinking insist that Mr Barak is still concentrating on the north, still determined to bring a peace treaty with Syria and its client, Lebanon, to a victorious referendum vote before he clinches the final deal with the Palestinians.

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