EADS, admits there is some attraction in getting closer to France's Thomson defence-electronics group, the last unaligned defence company of any significance in Europe.

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At the back of the house, a hedgerow that appears from most angles to be unbroken is actually composed of two unaligned, asymmetrical arms.

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Not big data, either, but too much inconsistent and unaligned data.

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She concluded that any generalization one could make about mediation was likely to be false, because the only constant one could rely on was (at least) one unaligned professional in the room.

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Now he is closely associated with those policies that the Democrats, and (more worryingly) some unaligned voters, most despise, including the Iraq war (Mr Cheney has been an unabashed hawk) and America's gigantic deficit.

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Ambiguous is the most conflict-riddled and unaligned stage.

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