Despite that, the team, most noticeably Stuart O'Grady, did their utmost to get more positive headlines.

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So when he took it, Mr Koizumi did his utmost to make the deployment as uneventful as possible.

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At last I have to say that the club owner Zhu Jun did his utmost to bring Drogba to Shenhua.

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Ryan Jones, wing Williams, Bowe and Collins all did their utmost to make further inroads into the Blues lead, prompting and probing at every opportunity.

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Such lofty ambitions have now been drastically readjusted but the lowest- ranked team still standing in the FA Cup at the time of kick-off did their utmost to capitalise on a rare chance to test themselves against Premier League opposition.

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South Africa did their utmost against a dispirited French side to seal a place in the last 16, but it was not to be as they finished level on four points with Mexico but three goals worse off than El Tri.

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Mr Harvey said former owners Mike Sagin and Nigel Helsby "did their utmost" to sell the estate to a buyer who would keep the gardens open to the public, but "this did not prove possible" and the property was to be a private residence.

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" Indeed, when each machine is completed, a plaque is affixed with the name of the worker who did the scoring: "I've made this machine to the utmost of my abilities and good faith.

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