Or will John Edwards or Wesley Clark poke their heads across the winning line?

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Van Persie was the creator with a superb pass that let in Samir Nasri, and when he lifted the ball over Gomes, Adebayor beat Alan Hutton in a straight race to poke home from almost on the goal-line.

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Investment banks fight tooth and nail to get placement in the top line of the listing, and then poke eyes out to be placed on the left.

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That last line was a not-so-veiled poke at the last energy giant to dominate Houston, Enron, where Kinder served as president before Ken Lay nudged him aside in favor of the now incarcerated Jeffrey Skilling.

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The Italy captain was caught in no-man's land early on, allowing Mats Hummels to poke goalwards only to see Andrea Pirlo scramble the ball off the line.

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