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  • Hillsman said the difference was the Orange made their shots in the first half and didn't in the second half, meaning they had to guard the Irish in transition more.

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  • Syracuse coach Quentin Hillsman said the difference was the Orange made their shots in the first half and didn't in the second half, meaning they had to guard the Irish in transition more.

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  • To decide the case, the justices had to rule directly on the meaning of the Second Amendment, a provision with only 27 words: A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

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  • The Faroes scored with their first meaning attack of the second half - Stephen Craigan's poor touch gifted possession to the Faroes and Udsen played in Holst, who wriggled free 10 yards out before shooting across Taylor and into the bottom corner.

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  • The second day saw the weather calm down, meaning there were more players recording lower totals, including Jacklin who carded a 70.

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  • For those earning credit via ads, commercials are queued according to value-per-second, meaning the ones that earn credit the quickest come first.

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  • The Tuscaloosa tornado was later given a rating of EF4, the second-most powerful on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, meaning it had wind speeds between 166 and 200 mph.

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  • Under the proposals, teams would meet each other four times a season, meaning 44 games in the second tier.

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  • Those are astonishingly favorable odds, but also a little pathetic the second Wild Card was added to bring more meaning to divisional races, but with the Yankees and Boston all but rubber-stamped for October, does it render regular season games even less important?

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  • Leaving aside the issue of the meaning of entrance standards in a college dedicated to providing second chances for adult students, I gave you data showing that applications had risen this year and that rejections had risen even more rapidly.

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  • The question is whether some cities have overdone it, meaning the boom will end sooner than expected as second and third tier cities look to fill in vacancies at residential and commercial developments before they mix more concrete to build more.

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  • Ms Redfearn took 55% of the votes at first count meaning a second was not needed.

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  • Uruguay beat Mexico 1-0 to finish top of Group A, meaning the Mexicans qualify in second on goal difference.

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  • The bill failed to gain a second reading before the time limit on the session ran out, meaning it stands little chance of becoming law.

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  • The rates kicked in over the holiday weekend and are prospective, meaning that they apply only to miles driven for the second half of the year, or from July 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011.

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  • The title of my second column was "Glamour Doesn't Pay, " meaning that the higher growth rates of the most obviously desirable companies didn't justify their premium prices.

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  • As he was still speaking when time ran out for the debate the bill failed to gain a second reading, meaning it stands little chance of making further progress.

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  • The second is the ability to combine words according to rules in such a way that the meaning of the combination is predictable from the meanings of the words and the way they are arranged.

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  • He predicted the cage that is used will have a diameter of 55 centimeters (21.7 inches) to 60 centimeters (23.6 inches) and will be pulled upward at a rate of one meter per second, meaning each man could make the trip in 10 to 12 minutes.

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  • Liverpool briefly threatened when Torres fired over the bar from an acute angle and Chelsea suffered a blow when captain John Terry received a yellow card for a late challenge on Reina, meaning he will be suspended for the second leg at Stamford Bridge next week.

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  • The match was held up late in the second half when a goal post was knocked over after Algeria's Adlene Guedioura collided with the netting, meaning 13 minutes of added time were played.

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  • Second, the researchers sequenced only RNA, not DNA, meaning they might have missed some types of bacteria.

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  • However, the UK Press Association reported that Rooney is likely to be out for between two and four weeks, meaning he will miss the Chelsea match and the second leg of the quarterfinal against German side Bayern.

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  • With his second-generation device, Bezos seems to have forgotten the meaning of that mantra.

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  • " That includes a sharp drop in those getting schooling through English as a second language programs, meaning they did not "receive the educational services to which they are legally entitled.

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  • Citroen claimed three of the first four places in the season's penultimate race, meaning they cannot be caught by second-placed Peugeot.

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  • That operating system didn't support multiple processors, meaning most Mac users were unable to take advantage of the second chip if they spent the money for a two-chip system.

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  • But according to Tadashi Yamazaki, one of the scientists who worked on the project, the baseball-playing robot is the second largest model of its kind and it runs in real time, meaning its much faster than other systems.

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  • Second, I think the average gaps between the teams will be smaller, meaning that there will be fewer cases of weak teams just defending and hoping to win it on the break.

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