By mentioning the dramatic death of Gaddafi and the operation to kill Bin Laden, he suggested that US power would be used in a different way in the future.

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Unwittingly, Thernardier serves a purpose for good: The stolen ring on his finger when he attempts to crash the wedding of Marius and Cosette leads them to find Valjean before the dramatic moment of death.

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Many counties have such small populations that even slight changes in the number of deaths produce dramatic swings in the death rate from year to year.

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To get this far, Turkey has taken such dramatic steps as abolishing the death penalty, accepting Kurdish as a language in schools, scrapping state security courts, revising the penal code and tightening civilian control over the army.

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There has been, the authors say, a "dramatic shift in the birth rate and death rates of words": Deaths have increased and births have slowed.

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That setback appeared to rouse Antunes' side and after Gege had headed home an 81st minute equalizer, Heldon popped up at the death to fire home a dramatic winner.

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Arriving in Paris in the midst of the French Revolution, she took a dramatic part in saving Lafayette's wife, imprisoned and expecting death on the guillotine.

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By the beginning of the 1860s the rate of death in the United States had begun to decline, although dramatic improvements in longevity would not appear until late in the century.

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