Mr Coleman said they "were not fully and equally aware of the extent of the problems until the garden had reached crisis point".

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Notwithstanding the extent to which the Apple ad was a gamble, it reached for the glory of extreme hyperbole, and brazenly set user expectations to the sky.

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But they do argue it can only reduce the present extent of vote-buying, which, by most accounts, reached a zenith in the election last year.

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From his correspondence it seems his religious beliefs never reached a fixed position, but he was sensitive to the extent to which his ideas could upset others.

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