• Nawab leapt on the kick-starter of his motorcycle, and in one smooth motion flicked on the lights and shot out of the threshing-floor gates, onto the quarter-mile driveway leading from the heart of the farm to the road.

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  • An act of pure heroism on his part sets the plot in motion, but this non-traditional film never lets us forget that it is also a violent act and, as such, has an explosive effect on everyone's life.

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  • He and his board face a motion of no confidence after debate on the budget, due to continue on Thursday, has ended.

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  • That leaves Mandell as the last man standing and he looks to remain out of prison at least through the July 9th hearing on his motion to stay out pending his appeal.

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  • Mr Paisley had secured the necessary 30 signatures to table his motion on Monday when he secured the signature of a member of David Trimble's assembly party, Pauline Armitage.

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  • To complete the virtual exercise and close out his keynote, Otellini brought on Andrew Tschesnok, founder and chief executive of Organic Motion.

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  • Mr Dodds urged the House to support his party's motion calling on the government to review the impact of its decision and to announce in the Autumn Statement "urgent steps to ease the burden on pensioner households".

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  • He was a superlative, productive dynamo, a technology genius, and someone who learned from his own management failures and set-backs to become a worthy corporate executive too, who focused on the bottom line and on the commercial viability of his products, whether in user-friendly computers, animated motion pictures, online music or smart phones.

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  • Durand's lawyer, Ainslie, drafted a motion to dismiss Gerstein's suit, and his claim to part of the recovery, on the grounds that her client had filed first.

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  • In his motion, the MP asks that "this House congratulates Blackpool Football Club on its inspirational achievement of promotion to the Premier League".

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