With that in mind, PEM was also able essentially to flip the proportions of two of the three sources of income.

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It was perhaps a realisation that the antipathy between the two leaders was reaching damaging proportions and also maybe a hint that while still favouring the Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney, Mr Netanyahu has sampled the political mood in America and is re-balancing himself ahead of a possible second Obama victory.

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To the left of the green are two bunkers that appear of Himalayan proportions.

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Meanwhile Labour's majority has declined from the landslide proportions of its first two terms to the merely healthy.

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But some theorists believe that when it is possible, they will be able to determine how a particular object formed by comparing its spectrum with that of its parent star to determine the relative proportions of heavy elements in the two bodies.

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Walker's wonder strike came two minutes into the second period of extra time in a cup final of epic proportions.

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But within two weeks, the crisis in Ireland was entirely defused by a crisis of much greater proportions.

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