You can only imagine Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin's reaction when he discovered there had been a catastrophic cock-up over the West Coast franchise.

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Mr. Ungar meanwhile, clings bitterly to the belief that Senator Sessions handed GAO a set of completely cock-eyed assumptions and that GAO dutifully set about cranking out completely meaningless calculations.

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The work became so absorbing, so meditative, that he would try to paint at the deepest hours of night, when only the bark of a dog or distant cock-crow would disturb the southern French hillside where he lived.

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"Most authorities would still recommend use of other preventive methods such as condoms, " even if the HIV-positive sexual partner is on antiretroviral treatment, Kevin De Cock, director of the Center for Global Health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wrote in an email.

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His face is wrapped with bandages, obscuring his eyes, yet the cock of his head and the turn of his mouth evoke burgeoning cynicism.

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Ultimate Holding Company's piece has been described as "exploring the literary legacy of this international author, her fascination with flight and early gliding and the story of the Colditz Cock, an escape glider built by British prisoners of war, " by the spokesman.

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There is a chance, of course, that Amazon cock this up so spectacularly that self-publishers and publisher leave in droves and the whole enterprise collapses.

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The car was stopped on the A617 close to the junction of Calow Lane, Cock Alley and Hallflash Lane "as part of a pre-planned operation", an IPCC spokesman said.

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