This particular skill is more accommodating to those of us who choke when being attacked by skags and spiderants from all directions.

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As for Mr Tsvangirai, he only gets a substantial mention on television when he is being attacked.

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When Romney attacked him for being, gasp, a career politician he raised a laugh by pointing out Mitt himself would have been one if he had won his first senate race.

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Mr Farmer, who is registered blind and has suffered two strokes, said he had thought he was being attacked by thugs when it had happened.

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They were being driven back to the border in Anbar province when they were attacked by gunmen, officials said.

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The police said they were being attacked by a crowd of loyalists at the sectarian flashpoint when the bomb detonated.

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And when Rubio was viciously and unfairly attacked by presumptuous white liberals for not being authentically Latino, I liked him even more.

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Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said when he first questioned the strategy in Afghanistan he was attacked by ministers for being "unpatriotic".

BBC: Afghanistan statement

But when the farm bill came to the floor last week, some Republicans attacked it for not being tough enough and threatened it with death by a thousand amendments.

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Scott and Patrick, who is being treated at Southampton Hospital, were among four survivors injured on Friday at Spitsbergen island off Norway when a bear attacked their campsite.

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