• "The punch-up with Lord Rothermere was the best thing for me, " says Desmond.

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  • That is because it scuppered plans to add an inspection protocol (the proximate cause of the near punch-up in 2001).

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  • Last month several members of the opposition were injured in a punch-up, blamed in part on underworld figures trying to influence the vote.

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  • Yet it remains a deeply divisive issue - as Russian MPs found the first time it was debated in parliament last year, when the discussions ended in a punch-up between opposing deputies.

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  • McNaughton is looking for something else, and spends the whole film not getting there: it sets off violently, tries a few jokes, changes tack to a mooching sadness, and finally settles for an old-style punch-up.

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  • The other, Clint Reilly, was a political consultant whose reputation as a hot-head he once broke an ankle during a punch-up with the editor of the San Francisco Examiner Mr Brown's campaign staff took good care to nourish.

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  • You can do a straight-up punch to the face, an upper-cut, a downward jab, and various super power moves to cut your way through skeletons, zombies, bats, and gads of other baddies.

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  • Frustrated that his cast couldn't fit the dialogue into a single shot, Mr. Eastwood took a cue from Howard Hawks's fast-talking screwball comedy to punch up a brooding Boston-set crime melodrama.

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  • One guy yelled, "too soon, " which I thought meant I didn't take a long enough pause between the set-up and punch line.

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  • But before a single war room phone rings, and prior to the donning of any brand new Nike team caps, a week at the scouting combine in Indianapolis (February 20-26), gives football fans the chance to punch up the NFL Network and join stopwatch-toting GMs in evaluating the latest crop of linemen as though they were livestock.

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  • Opposing locks Mike Voyle and Chris Stephens were sin-binned for a punch up, but both had returned before Bridgend claimed their only try, gleefully touched down by Ringer.

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  • The realistic scenario is that Obama, hand extended to Damascus, is setting himself up for a sucker punch--potentially at great cost not only to America and Israel but to other democratic states and any democratic dissidents inside Syria who have not yet vanished into the care of Assad's secret police.

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  • The man who said in 1994: "I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose, " lit-up the dull 2001 general election by, well, punching a man on the chin.

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  • But when I needed to punch it up to zip around a lumbering tractor-trailer on the freeway, the Focus Electric takes off like a rocket.

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  • And we all dress up, and we make dry-ice punch at home, and it's really, really fun.

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  • Police are reminding members of the public in the run-up to New Year celebrations of their One Punch campaign.

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  • Three months ago, Toshiba president Sato Fumio unveiled the SD Super Density Disc, which is no bigger than a music CD but packs a double punch: it can contain two full-length films dubbed in up to five languages and subtitled in eight more.

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  • There will be crowds, there will be bruised toes, and audio guide-wearing visitors acting like automatons might even cause a punch up, but it is a must see. (For some peace and quiet, aim to go first thing on a Monday orTuesday).

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  • Simpson's defense team wrapped up its final arguments with a verbal one-two punch: one aimed at jurors' hearts, the other an appeal to their heads.

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  • "Jersey Shore" didn't end because New Jersey residents complained about the negative depiction, especially of Italian-Americans. (I'm half Italian so I was keenly aware of this issue.) No, the shows ended when America got bored with seeing people covered in self-tanner get drunk and hook up in a hot tub or punch each other in a Seaside Beach bar.

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  • " All leading up to the punch line: As they watch sorry Old Peg and his sad-sack horse and crumbling buggy ramble down the road and out of hearing range, Allen Gore, known for being a dead-serious man, puts his arm around his son and deadpans, "There goes your future, Albert.

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  • Pick up a receiver on the rarely used phones that still dot the New York streetscape, punch 1-855-FOR-1993 and you will hear a notable resident recounting what life was like on that block 20 years ago.

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