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The convoluted plots and the conventions of the opera seria style, with their long da capo (repeat) arias, were thought to make them unperformable.
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The long years of Da'wa were over, the calls and warnings had been issued, and the revolutions began.
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It seems that, long before The Da Vinci Code, writers were effectively weaving esoteric cults into the plots of their mysteries.
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The region's largest country, Brazil, is in the hands of a long-time Castro ally, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva .
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But besides being important in themselves, the pension reforms' success or failure may determine Mr da Silva's chances of implementing a long list of other equally important and equally controversial measures from revamping the country's complex and growth-stifling tax system, to modernising the deeply inefficient and corruption-prone judiciary and police.
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United lost to a long-range Rodrigo Tello strike that was helped on its way past goalkeeper Ben Foster by a Rafael da Silva deflection.
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