If strikeouts were rising across the board, they reasoned, why not acquire the players who inflict the maximum damage when they do make contact?

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Lord Boyd said Dobson had chosen to arm herself, and to stab her victim on the part of the body that would inflict maximum damage.

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Dr Raj Chandran, one of two independents standing in Nottinghamshire, believes he's been set-up and claims it was a political leak to cause him maximum political damage.

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The journalist suggested Ms Pryce could inflict "maximum and perhaps fatal damage" on Huhne.

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Berkley said industry risk models have all but abandoned the once common indicator known as "Absolute Maximum Loss, " preferring to base premiums on the more conservative "Probable Maximum Loss" calculation, which lowers damage estimates by factoring in long odds of catastrophic events.

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This means the needles cause little damage as they go in, yet achieve maximum grip.

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Ideally, we would limit this economic damage as well, but this is also not practical in an alternative maximum tax.

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The photon torpedoes have no damage effect on the Borg cube, and they can not outrun the Borg ship, even at maximum warp.

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