Even the loudest campaigner for the return of the Serbs, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), has admitted that most Serbs who fled Croatia will probably never go back.

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Ms. Karoustas, now 43, said it had never crossed her mind that she would one day go back to Germany.

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But once we have a machine that can do it better than a human, we never go back.

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Expats in Laos say that sometimes, if you stay too long, you can never go back home.

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First, he declared that the bill was not needed because a battered woman should never go back home to be hit again.

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While planning a trip to Morocco I remember reading how Marrakesh was one the least re-visited cities by tourists, that the majority of people who went decided they never wanted to go back.

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Now that she has tasted chocolate, she proclaims, she'll never go back.

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Bernstein, a research firm, estimates that about half the people who have recently switched to private labels will never go back.

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"It saddens me that he will never see his untidy study, never use the books or go back to his lifetime of work, " she said.

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But she will never go back on a boat, despite loving the sea, because of the risk that her condition could get even worse.

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