Perhaps if his bout with Aberdonian Lee McAllister in October 2007 for the vacant WBU lightweight title had resulted in a different outcome, Docherty would have been encouraged to make a greater effort.

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Yet, as the auditor's report points out, France needs to make a far greater effort at controlling its spending.

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And our agreements in Lisbon make concrete years of effort into a missile defense apparatus that provides greater protection for Europe and for the United States, and that he was pleased with that progress, and that that was not -- nothing in that, nothing in START constrained our ability to do that.

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