But mud, once thrown, is hard to wash off.

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The umbilical cord, once routinely thrown away by doctors after birth, is now being used to offer hope to patients who in the past may have died before they could undergo a transplant.

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Once you are thrown into this deep uncertainty and squalor, the fraternity of the road takes over.

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But the message remains clear that he has been taking an incremental approach to growth rather than trying to digest everything thrown his way all at once.

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Oman, once reclusive and red-taped, has thrown open its doors to foreign investors.

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The last point is worth dwelling on, as the economic mismanagement, the corruption, the inequality of the Ben Ali regime were the festering wound that eventually brought him down, and indeed, Ben Ali fell remarkably quickening once the economic frustration bubbled up and the first stones were thrown.

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Once, he remembered, a boy in the room next door was thrown against the classroom wall, and he watched the blackboard on his side of the wall come off its hinges and fall to the wooden floor.

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Earl was knocked down once more by a right cross early in the second and the towel was thrown in by his corner, only for referee Micky Vann to throw it back out of the ring and continue the fight.

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Once a user opts in, the service provider can take the highly granular data thrown off by the mobile device and use it to provide a better, more tailored experience.

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With the Scot's serve working well from the outset there was no sign whatsoever of the advantage being thrown away, and indeed it was extended in game seven when Murray broke for the second time - once again to love.

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