• Labour leader Ed Miliband took the unusual step of responding to the statement - rather than Mr Hunt's shadow responding - and accused Prime Minister David Cameron of leaving Mr Hunt to "carry the can" in an "insult to the House and to the British public".

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  • It is also unfair on the Fed, which had to stand in place of America's collapsed shadow-banking system.

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  • They say he remains the right man for the presidency because of his legendary mastery of Indonesia's political shadow-play.

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  • Attlee was unable to subdue Nye Bevan - a heroic figure for the party's left - who quit the shadow cabinet and was almost expelled from the party a year later.

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  • But on the day of his historic resignation - in the shadow of St Peter's Basilica - it was hard to find anybody speaking badly of him.

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  • Denslow is one of the few illustrators who escaped Nast's shadow and created an orginal-looking Santa Claus.

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  • Many of Labour's new intake are already shadow ministers - and plenty of them are impressive performers.

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  • It's been estimated that the so-called shadow or black economy in Greece represents at least 30% of gross domestic product.

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  • Concern centres on China's informal lending or shadow banking market - rich individuals and businesses that offer loans at interest rates spanning from 14% to 70%.

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  • He entered Parliament in 1970, a Bennite class-warrior, joining Labour's shadow cabinet as a transport spokesman in 1979.

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  • Earlier this year, the progressive nature of Mr McLennan-Murray's regime won plaudits from shadow home secretary Ann Widdecombe and Labour chair of the home affairs committee, Robin Corbett.

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  • "Dravid has spent a lifetime in Sachin Tendulkar's shadow and the big batting records - centuries, number of runs scored - were never going to be his, but he is quite on his own in the slips, " according to Sambit Bal, editor of cricinfo.com, a cricket website.

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  • Concerns over the health of U.S. banks have cast a shadow over the recent recovery, and the stress-test results, showing most U.S. banks would be well-capitalized in the event of an economic downturn, helped allay some of those worries.

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  • "We all live in Mr Punch's shadow and what a strange shadow it is, " laughs Mervyn Millar, UK director of Handspring - the puppet company behind War Horse, which is soon to unveil a new show Crow based on the poems of Ted Hughes.

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  • The conference was told that Labour's shadow cabinet would visit Wales in the run-up to the 2015 general election to learn from Labour assembly members.

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  • Leading the charge will be biggies such as Killzone Shadow Fall, Bungie's next first-person shooter known as Destiny, Diablo III and a new installment of Final Fantasy.

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  • And when we asked if a Honda executive really did tell a Japanese newspaper that the colors are meant to "match a woman's eye shadow, " we're told yes -- with no tinge of regret that some women might find such a comment offensive.

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  • But her ambitious education and health-care plans have disappeared in the viaduct's shadow.

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  • The probe has cast a shadow over the four-star general's distinguished military career, and delayed his appointment as Nato's next supreme allied commander, set for early 2013.

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  • Under John Major he became Financial Secretary to the Treasury in 1994, then serving as transport secretary from 1995-97 before taking the shadow Commons leader's job under William Hague's leadership.

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  • Labour's shadow work and pensions spokesman Liam Byrne said the long-term unemployed needed to be "working or training and not claiming".

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  • Accusing Mr Balls of "bumptious self-confidence", he said the shadow chancellor's starting point "seemed to be that the past was another country, that 2010 was year zero".

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  • Ryan's team has struggled considerably when linebackers and safeties have had to shadow pass-catching players at the position.

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  • But Barcelona's attacking brilliance cast a shadow over the mood of celebration inside Stamford Bridge - and they were back in charge of the tie before half-time.

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  • No British pier has gone as far as the Pier Shops at Caesar's in Atlantic City, where, in the shadow of a gigantic Roman-style casino, an enclosed street of glittering boutiques winds over the waves.

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  • However, aside from a Cole snap-shot on the turn on the stroke of half-time, Ancelotti's men looked blunt going forward and were a shadow of the side that had plundered 14 goals in their three preious matches.

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  • The economic crisis has hardly been fertile territory for the Conservatives, but their leader clearly judged it was time to plough into Labour's handling of the problems - and hope to bury the awkward questions over his shadow chancellor George Osborne.

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  • But shadow Home Office minister Andrew Rosindell argued that Labour's "top-down, target-centric approach" to tackling the problem had "quite obviously failed".

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  • He has also acted opposite Piper in the follow-up, The Shadow in the North, and in ITV2's Secret Diary of a Call Girl.

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