He recognised that becoming too closely involved in fiddly negotiations can prove enormously time-consuming and, all too often, ultimately lead nowhere.

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Besides, those routes now often lead nowhere.

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True, that lead may well lead nowhere but this, its advocates would say, does not necessarily invalidate the argument: if America had had more support, its policies would have had a better chance of working, and America itself would have been less exposed.

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Despite the British team having control of the peloton throughout the race, they struggled to close the gap on the lead group and Cavendish was nowhere in sight as Vinokourov out sprinted Uran to the finish line in front of Buckingham Palace.

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While it is hard to get reliable statistics for tablet sales, a survey by YouGov seems to show that the Kindle Fire came from nowhere to challenge for the lead over the festive season.

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According to his calculations, about 20 years of lead time would be sufficient for solar radiation to move the asteroid away from its current course causing it to come nowhere near the Earth.

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