The first couple of queries hint at a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" dilemma.
In one way these sailors and marines are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
Thatcher was going to be damned if she made Britain subservient to Germany.
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He would be damned if he would have his head shaved like Golz.
In other words, countries that run up large debts are damned if they do default, and damned if they don't.
He had a visit once with a Chilean diplomat and he said, 'I'll be damned if I'm going to give up my golf game to see this fellow.
But it's damned-if-you-do, damned-if- you-don't for them and for IBM.
He had no doubt the cigarette companies would be only too glad to see him die first, but he was damned if he was going to give them that satisfaction.
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Trevor Lunn of the Alliance Party welcomed the funding and said he thought the attitude of other parties in the house meant that the minster was "damned if she does and damned if she doesn't".
Some will say that he and Rebekah Brooks are damned if they did know and damned if they didn't - in that as the most senior editors of the News of the World, they should have made enquiries about how sensitive information was obtained.
On Tuesday, Mrs May praised the bravery of those on the front line but said that she had been told that some officers had felt "because of criticism of police tactics in the past" police had felt "damned if they do and damned if they don't".
But it really does remind us of the early MP3 players back in the late 90s: maybe the content isn't as readily accessible as we might like, but the hardware is starting to come into its own (we have a feeling 3rd generation will be prime time), and damned if we don't want to start using this thing for all our bookwormish purposes post-haste.
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George Sr. had an expression that went like this: If you're so damned smart, how come you aren't President of the United States?
The sad thing is that, if we consider these claims along the lies, damned lies and statistics continuum, the researchers are in the technical term, lying through their teeth.
He said that if their economy was stuck in the doldrums it was their own damned fault.
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Ultimately they are on the hook for revenues and if managing the customer experience will help them hit their targets, then roles and responsibilities be damned.
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