Employees are usually armed with food and coffee, and work to bond with sales people and interact with potential phone buyers.

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There are so many like this in the countryside of Pakistan, usually with armed guards standing outside.

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Enterprises that want to grow in and around this region have no interest in armed conflict and are usually better able than diplomats to avoid it.

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Modern armed robbers are amateurs, he says, usually badly equipped and often on drugs.

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Long prison terms are usually associated with violent crimes (rape, murder, armed robbery).

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Mr. DINO MAHTANI (Reporter, Financial Times): Usually, in the Niger Delta, you have a series of armed groups who crawl the swamps and the rivers, tapping into pipelines, emptying well heads, and bunkering ships.

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The image of an armed brigade blocking access to a public building had so far usually been reserved for Libya's legislature, the BBC's Rana Jawad in Tripoli says.

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Local authorities, the armed forces and the NHS are also drawn by the expertise, economies of scale and (usually) better management that private firms offer.

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Another flaw was that the initial assessment of the armed groups underestimated their capability as what a senior French diplomat called a "well armed, equipped, trained and determined" force, which apparently tried to hold ground in terrain usually defined by skirmishes and ambushes.

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