These quiet continuities were supposed to be reassuring, but instead they revealed the unreality that lay beneath his call to arms.

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But once again it seems likely that the government's rhetorical distance from its Tory predecessor will mask considerable continuities in policy.

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Contemporary historians of science have a tendency to deprecate the originality of the so-called scientific revolution, and to stress, instead, its continuities with medieval astrology and alchemy.

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Mr Chanda traces advances in trading practices and technology from donkeys and camels to container ships and cargo planes but is just as good at pointing out deep historical continuities.

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It was great seeing Lara actually made into a CHARACTER rather than rely on her sex appeal, which really started to overshadow the later games in the first two continuities.

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Mr Blair also emphasises the continuities between the welfare state reforms of Attlee, and the earlier reforms carried out by the New Liberal government of Asquith and Lloyd George before the first world war.

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The continuities of geography are striking.

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With its snappy theme songs, soap-operatic continuities (Laci Peterson, runaway brides, the life and death of Anna Nicole Smith), and a cast of characters ranging from photogenic newsreaders to egomaniacal pundits, contemporary television journalism rivals, in its shallowness and sensationalism, the finest works of the late Aaron Spelling.

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