Mitt Romney -- the Republican party's presumptive presidential nominee who, in April, had said that he'd admit women if he were in charge of the club -- offered congratulations on Twitter to both his friend Rice and Augusta National.

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It's as if he can't admit it's had to slow right down.

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The two main characters spend the entire play waiting for somebody named Godot to show up, but admit that if he did arrive, they might not recognize him.

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And prospective jurors are asked to confirm that they have not suffered from mental illness and will be disqualified if they admit they have, he added.

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He also had to admit that even if they are not at this moment, they could be, literally, in the next.

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Brown can't admit he's wrong because to him it shows weakness, and if he does that, in his mind, then the whole world will come tumbling down.

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He decided that the only possible hope of redemption was through confession - to admit that he'd made an election promise he knew he had little, if any, chance of delivering.

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If Mr Menon thinks that international relations have evolved at all since the time of Hobbes, he does not admit it.

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"Find one school that is sure to admit you and that you could afford to go even if you get no financial aid, " he says.

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If this is how things pan out, the IMF says the Chancellor George Osborne would probably have to admit that he was going miss one of his key fiscal targets, which says net debt as a share of GDP must be falling in 2015-16.

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