Given this background, it is not surprising that the prospect of additional road taxation is unpopular with voters.

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Given this background, not to mention Germany's detested wartime occupation of Greece and the recent rise of neo-fascist political party Golden Dawn, Katidis has since admitted the "stupidity" of his actions.

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Given this additional background, it is hard to see why Goldacre uses this example to support his arguments.

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Given my background as a special education teacher, I find this a particularly rewarding homecoming.

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But he says you can always accept lower margin at any product at any given time for a strategic reason, but at the background we always know that this halo effect plays.

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But even as former GOP presidential candidate and Baptist minister Mike Huckabee -- who was thought to have locked up the evangelical vote given his background as a minister -- made a strong showing in the GOP primaries this year, McCain was pulling in a substantial number of evangelical votes.

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This columnist, for example, would not oppose "universal background checks, " given sufficient privacy protections, if we were sure that advocates would stop there rather than push for more draconian gun controls.

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