• The first was in Constantinople and mysteriously disappeared in the sack of the city in the Fourth Crusade in 1204.

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  • For Robert Kraft it all started in 1971 on the cold, hard metal benches of a sad-sack football stadium in Foxboro, Mass.

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  • "A litter sack was dumped in the towpath near Lisburn and a couple of ladies saw the gentleman leaving the sack and they went over and lifted it, " she said.

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  • In his column, Mair also commented on his upset at seeing "screengrabs and clips of the eminent and likeable Boris Johnson being badgered by a balding sack of potatoes in a cheap suit".

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  • It was then assumed, based on studies of pilot schemes in Britain and abroad, that half of the participants would have been hired anyway without the subsidy, and that, in a further 20% of cases, firms would sack an existing worker in order to hire a subsidised person from the scheme.

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  • And by conflating a decision on the euro with Britain's war history, she is coming dangerously close to expressing the very views for which in 1990 she was forced to sack the late Nicholas Ridley when, in an unguarded interview as trade and industry secretary, he called the European Monetary System a German plot to dominate Europe.

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  • There is, for instance, Judy's Book , founded by Andy Sack and Chris DeVore in 2004.

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  • An abandoned dog, found in a sack on a Northern Ireland riverbank, has claimed a top award at Crufts.

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  • An Iranian man who was convicted of raping and killing his 16-year-old nephew is to be executed by being thrown off a cliff in a sack, an Iranian newspaper has reported.

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  • Eventually he got the sack from his post in Hanover for being away so much, but by then he was firmly established in London, receiving a royal pension from the ailing Queen Anne.

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  • If there are lots of kids, this is a great time to pull the previously mentioned present sack out, reach in the bag, call out a name, and have a short visit with Santa.

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  • The plot, if you can call it that, demands that Borat travel across the country to find Pamela Anderson: a noble quest, even if it does mean putting that distinguished actress in a sack.

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  • And when Channel 10 announced it was broadcasting Husseini's romp in the sack, Abbas demanded that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu bar the broadcast, (apparently forgetting that unlike his PA-controlled media, Israel's media organs are free).

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  • The Big Agnes Horsethief is a mummy-shaped down sleeping bag with three major features: no down under sleeper, a sleeve on the bottom to hold a ground pad, and a built-in stow sack to create a pillow by inserting clothing.

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  • Some American employers are offering an implicit (and sometimes explicit) deal to their employees: accept that we may have to sack you and, in exchange, we will make sure that you have the marketable skills needed to find another job.

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  • Joey Evans (Adrian Aguilar), the title character, is a cheap-souled Chicago hoofer who catches the eye of Vera Simpson (Susie McGonagle), a man-hungry socialite of a certain age who buys him a nightclub in return for his services in the sack.

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  • Lawyers for the plaintiffs argue the term has no meaning and hardly describes a movie that also features scripted moments such as a scene where Cohen tries to catch Pamela Anderson in a sack with the goal of making her his wife.

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  • Yet Daniel Bouton, SocGen's boss, thinks that the two banks have too many overlapping branches to make such returns possible: in regulated France, you cannot simply close branches and sack people, which is, in part, how banks in America and Britain have increased returns.

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  • Of the 10 rookie starters in our pool, only three had a sack rate significantly below the league average in their rookie seasons: Bradford, Dalton and Ryan.

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  • In one hand he had a sack of toys for well-behaved youngsters, in the other, a club for beating the naughty ones.

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  • In 1814, three clerks stuffed it into a linen sack and carried it to a gristmill in Virginia, which was fortunate, because the British burned Washington down.

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  • The talented, likable athlete is supposed to have a sublime season in the final year of his contract, become a free agent and cruelly abandon whatever sad-sack village he's living in with crummy pizza, zero Trumps and no Momofukus or even Milk Bars and run straight to New York.

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  • In theory the government could sack the chairman of the BBC Trust by what's called an Order in Council which are issued "by and with the advice of Her Majesty's Privy Council".

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  • His re-election plan has been in doubt since a clumsy attempt to sack Pakistan's chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, in March.

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  • Perhaps it was the furtive transfer of cash in a grocery sack, a money vest and even a Dumpster that made them suspicious.

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  • Having verified that the cords are pulled taut and solidly knotted, they envelop the woman in a large sack of heavy cloth and push her ahead of them into the corridor.

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  • His decision in August to sack the popular Jose Mourinho and replace him with close friend Avram Grant, seemingly over a lack of style, brought him into conflict with Chelsea's fans.

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  • Stanley Turrentine carrying his axe in a paper sack.

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  • If the Liaison Committee gets its way, all these would be joint appointments by the Government and Parliament - and having been involved in the appointment, parliamentary approval would be needed in order to sack them.

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