But exempting sports programming takes much of the bite out of the rule change.
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Gary Scalone proved to be an exception to the out of luck rule, but just barely.
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He was seen as a moderniser who led Turkey out of military rule and backed the US-led coalition against Iraq.
Argentina came out of military rule as recently as 1983.
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The opener is not expected to bat again in the innings and could be out of action for two to three weeks, which would rule him out of the third and final Test.
The Ryder Cup is won by two or three players having stellar weeks, winning four out of five points, and I would not rule out Darren Clarke being the absolute star of the event.
Thousands of artefacts were spirited out of Egypt during the period of colonial rule and afterwards by archaeologists, adventurers and thieves.
Lord Woolf's ruling was driven by his desire to keep the boys out of a young offenders' institution where the conditions were "so corrosive" as to rule out any hopes of a successful rehabilitation.
Wenger afterwards admitted that he had kicked the bottle not out of anger at the decision to rule out the goal but disappointment at his side's failure to get the equaliser.
However, flanker Dafydd Jones (shoulder) has been given a recovery time of four to five weeks, which is likely to rule him out of the Twickenham game.
But Professor Boffetta said the protective effect of the vegetables would not rule out the harmful effect of smoking, linked to the majority of cases of lung cancer.
Mr Hague has won the much-needed praise of Lady Thatcher, but she would still prefer him to rule Britain out of the euro forever.
Whatever the Daily Telegraph says, Mr Hague's hyperbole about Mr Blair betraying 1, 000 years of history sounded silly when set against the Conservatives' own refusal to rule out membership of the euro one day.
With immense pressure on Chukwu and NFA officials to earn their passage to the knockout stages of the Nations Cup, Mohammed did not rule out the dissolution of the NFA board should they fail to live up to expectations in Tunisia.
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The samples turned out to be a match, though researchers pointed out that this strong evidence does not completely rule out the possibility of the bones in Santo Domingo also belonging to the explorer.
Uncertainty over the political viability of the public option has some House Democrats refusing to rule out the possibility of a final bill without the provision.
And Gatland, who has been linked with the job of coaching the Lions, refused to rule out playing some sort of role on next year's tour of South Africa.
Turning to China's bird flu outbreak, the government says there is still no evidence of human-to-human transmission of the H7N9 virus but does not rule out a further spread of outbreaks.
Was the political significance here that Welsh Labour's manifesto written for May's Assembly election said that Labour had delivered on a pledge to "eliminate the use of private sector hospitals in NHS Wales and will continue to rule out the use of PFI in health services"?
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Correspondents say she earned the admiration of many across Pakistan for her courage in speaking out about life under the brutal rule of Taliban militants.
Deputy Chief Constable Mark Whyman, head of collaboration for policing Yorkshire and the Humber, said he could not rule out a complete merger of the four forces in the future but said there were no current plans to do so.
However, their in-depth product and company knowledge is unnerving and their expectation of free stuff before buying can rule a vendor in or out of a deal.
This occurs when a doctor, fearing a lawsuit, orders a battery of costly diagnostic tests to rule out the highly improbable, even when the obvious cause of sickness or injury is staring him in the face.
But that alone does not rule out introduction of a fully-fledged guest conductor system elsewhere.
So he went out of his way to not rule clearly on the issues at hand.
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We cannot completely rule out either of those possibilities but the correct answers as yet are no and no.
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Wilkinson's expected two-week recuperation will rule him out of England's match against the Barbarians at Twickenham on Sunday 30 May.
The Chancellor refused to rule out nationalisation of Lloyds but insisted a range of options remained open to help the banking sector.
London middleweight DeGale, 22, has been offered big financial incentives to turn professional, which would rule him out of competing in the Olympics.
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