But, even when the ugly sisters ganged up on her, Cinderella still had a ball.

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The Tory leader had a tough time of it, sometimes ganged-up on by the other two and often cut-off in mid-speech by the moderator.

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Drills will take place throughout the day and children will be encouraged - or press-ganged - to drill and march, dressing up in uniforms supplied by Brixham Museum.

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It also ganged up on the Marine Corps with Secretary Gates to kill a desperately needed Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle that would have delivered warfighters through the surf onto hostile beaches.

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After governing as a stand-in mayor for two years, she won a municipal election in 1995 with 38% of the vote, but was promptly ousted when the other parties on the city council ganged up against her.

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But he was on his way: within six months Mr Berlusconi, after inventing his own party from scratch, had ganged up with Mr Fini and the leader of the soon-to-be-separatist Northern League, Umberto Bossi (who has more of a Duce's whiff about him than Mr Fini does), to thrash the assorted left and centre in a general election.

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