• The company once had the biggest market value in Ireland, but its shares are now trading nearly 80% off their 52-week high.

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  • The country once had been at the forefront in the region's efforts to abolish in law and practice the death penalty, with a moratorium on the death penalty for 27 years and the abolition of capital punishment for drug offenses in April 2011, Heyns said.

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  • The protection that the ANP once had in power was withdrawn by the interim government.

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  • Moffett made it clear then that MMR had many investment options and would only decide about the Davy field once the partners had proved out the extent of the field, which appears to be a geologically simple and expansive field.

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  • The contrasting styles the leagues once had is pretty much a thing of the past, too.

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  • Instead, he felt that central banks should wait to mop up the mess once the bubble had burst.

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  • External stressors such as joblessness play a role. (National figures on whether suicides increased in the 2008 recession are not in yet, but suicides generally go up in bad economic times.) The very elderly once had the highest suicide rate, but middle-aged men and women, 45 to 54 (see graph, below), have surged recently and surpassed them.

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  • Engineers say the beach once had more sand but it has been washed away over the past few decades.

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  • Although the town once had a bustling industry in presidential memorabilia, several of the shops faltered as Mr Bush's popularity waned.

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  • In the productive sector, it is clear that the advantages the cities once had from reducing transport costs for manufactured goods are no longer important. but the urban advantage in saving transport costs for people and ideas still matters.

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  • One could argue, however, that it does not matter since there was already a different set of companies in control prior to the rise of the app store: the telcos once had full control over what went on your phone and still have control over the pipes that deliver data to it.

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  • As for non-Intel hardware, vendors can enjoy the benefit they once had with the original Unix.

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  • We arrived four hours after the strike, once the neighborhood had had time to react and begun to dig its way into the rubble.

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  • This has eroded the unique relationship once had with the family doctor and can mean that GPs feel reluctant to raise sensitive issues during a one-off consultation.

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  • The inspector said once the court had the information it needed, it had a range of options which could include issuing a destruction order or releasing the dog, with conditions imposed which could be having it neutered, muzzled or excluded it from specific locations.

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  • They would be paid the principal plus interest once the land had been carved into plots and sold.

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  • The company said it would most likely appeal the decision once it had received the full grounds for refusal.

    BBC: Recycling plan dumped

  • They possess the spirit and confidence one could have thought the Libertines once had before fame and fortune took over.

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  • Definitely it's tougher, but that's just the price of having once had the privilege of being in public life so I don't think everyone should complain about it.

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  • Examiners no longer had the discretion they once had.

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  • Most recently Helmsley got into a dispute with a cemetery, of all places, when she decided that her departed husband's resting place in the Bronx had lost the pleasant vista it once had because of construction.

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  • After a while, Mr. Haggerty said, he left the medical tent, once the woman had been treated by medics, looking for a safe place to wait until joining three other New Hampshire troopers who had run the race with colleagues from Massachusetts.

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  • Mr Harris's lawyer had tried to block access to the postings, but a judge ruled that once the messages had been sent they became the property of Twitter, meaning the defendant was not protected by Fourth Amendment protection against unlawful search and seizure.

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  • Environment Agency Wales told Tuesday night's meeting it would be looking at the site's operations once the fire had been extinguished.

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  • Mr Blunt told the Commons the work was "nearing completion" and that the government would consult "widely" on the future of probation services once the details had been unveiled.

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  • It also looked at the great power the Catholic Church once had and explained how the Catholic faithful were too frightened to break the silence and report crimes perpetrated on young victims.

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  • The Bank agreed to resume funding once the government had implemented agreed measures to address corruption.

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  • They found that, over the course of the breeding season, deserting the nest once eggs had been laid boosted the number of descendants produced by the bird that fled.

    ECONOMIST: Evolutionary biology

  • Mr Mugabe gets to nominate an extra 30 (unelected) parliamentarians for his ruling party, so ZANU had enough to run the show once it had sailed past 45 elected seats.

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  • The city had once been home to the Seattle SuperSonics, which was founded in 1967 and remained in Seattle until 2008, when the team was moved to Oklahoma City and became known as the Thunder.

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