One thing that stands out is Norway's determination not to let Mr Breivik's appalling deeds affect its unusual way of life.

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In 2009, it was cancelled for the first time in its history, after an appalling run of weather led to the showground becoming waterlogged.

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But if the company is shut down, it won't be because of the appalling conditions at its barns--which house 7 million hens--scattered across central Ohio farmland.

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Till a civic campaign last year changed driving habits, its fine roads gave it an appalling safety record.

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Tory rural affairs spokesman Alex Fergusson said that the "cumulative impact of market prices, rising costs, exchange rates and the truly appalling weather over the last year has taken its toll" on farmers.

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The scope of slavery at its crest in the decade before Fort Sumter was as vast as it was appalling.

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What is particularly appalling is that it would do so at the very moment that the requirement for its defenses against ballistic missile attack are becoming more necessary.

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World Horse Welfare undertakes regular field investigations as part of its campaign to stop these long-distance journeys, and for years we have documented the appalling suffering of these horses.

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