Suppose Robinson Crusoe is tired of trying to scoop up fish with his hands and figures out how to turn a tree branch into a spear, increasing his daily catch tenfold.

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Most abuse occurs at the hands of trusted family and friends and authority figures.

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Mr Panton believes one reason why exasperated students have had to take matters into their own hands is because figures of authority have been unwilling publicly and robustly to defend animal research.

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We crawl on our hands and knees for a few yards to get to what Weiszbrod figures is 250 yards away.

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Last week's UTV debate played, predictably, into the hands of Messrs Robinson and McGuinness who came across as the more substantial figures.

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Dorner threatened Quan and his family as well as several other LAPD figures, and said his treatment at the agency's hands had ruined his life.

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What has changed is the approach to their introduction, and the hands-on technique adopted by Mr Blair shows how large the state of the NHS now figures in the run-up to the next General Election.

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