All of this is served on a particular roll baked for the express purpose, a round, flat bun derived from a traditional Sicilian bread.

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The Manila Times, which the president said had libelled him, was recently closed down, amid reports that it had been acquired by an associate of Mr Estrada for the express purpose of silencing it.

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Europeans, in particular, express sympathy for the argument that both serve the purpose of supplementing low wages, both are implicitly or expressly extortionate in nature and both are paid with the expectation of a quid pro quo.

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When adapting fiction like this for the screen, the challenge is always to find cinematic ways to express the writer's larger purpose, and one of the first things a period film has to do is to transcend its set.

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