If you did attend the charity event, or if the counter-offer was accepted, always do your follow-ups after an event.

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West Midlands Police said up to 1, 000 people gathered at the EDL event and at a counter-demonstration.

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The opponents of anti-missile systems are returning to their favored, Luddite argument, namely that missile defense systems are not performing as advertized, cannot work and can, in any event, be easily counter-measured.

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It's a counter-cyclical event that it occurs every time we have a downturn.

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In any event, the American army and marines have produced a new counter-insurgency manual.

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The BBC's Norman Smith said the event was a show of unity and its setting - in a tractor factory in Essex - was designed to counter suggestions the government was out of touch and to provide a contrast with their 2010 "Rose Garden" press conference.

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