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Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, says that high food prices are "turning back the clock on development gains".
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Ms. ANGELA KELLEY (National Immigration Forum): You know that horse has left the barn, I can't imagine now turning back the clock and saying oh no, we're just going to increase detention beds, we're just going to increase boots and binoculars at the border and that's going to solve the problem.
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Insightful industry leaders should then be less intent on turning back the regulatory clock and instead, more focused on ushering in relevant technologies.
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The proposed new electoral law risks turning the clock back to the days when Italy was repeatedly paralysed by coalition negotiations and run for most of the time by an all-encompassing Christian Democratic party that was incapable of decisive action.
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"This is a matter for congratulation, not for turning the clock back, " said the general secretary, John Dunford.
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What you call turning the clock back I would call return to sanity.
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He praised the West Indies team for "turning the clock back" as they set up a first-innings lead on day three at Sabina Park.
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Introducing the amendment on domestic violence, Labour's Baroness Scotland of Asthal warned the government's plans risked "turning the clock back by at least a decade".
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U.S.-China trade relations may be broken, but turning the clock back on any progress that has been made so far does not seem the best way to fix it.
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For example, turning the clock back to March 1999 when the Dow Jones Averages closed above 10, 000 for the first time, then crested to 11, 000 a few months later, four of the biggest names of the day joined the Dow 30.
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For all such soothing words, the French establishment has no intention of turning the global clock back.
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