But Danny Collins and Anthony Stokes failed to find the target with flashing first-half headers and Kenwyne Jones could not turn in a left-wing cross.

BBC: Man City 1-0 Sunderland

Nor is the slowdown a gift to the right-wing opposition, even were it to turn to populism.

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Offering to do things you really don't want to do -- such as relocate anywhere or travel up to 100% of the time -- can turn off recruiters, warns Russ Riendeau, a senior partner at East Wing Search Group, an executive-recruiting firm in Barrington, Ill.

WSJ: Explaining Your Layoff to a Job Recruiter

Cipriani's 62nd-minute penalty made the score 21-9 but Irish gave themselves hope when wing Adam Thompstone showed an electric turn of pace on the wing to outstrip the Wasps defence.

BBC: Wasps 21-16 London Irish

What Mrs Palin does do, as a committed pro-lifer, is to ensure that the evangelical wing of the Republican party will turn out in their multitudes.

ECONOMIST: The presidential election

Such pragmatism makes right-wing grandees worry that, if events have pulled Mr Cameron's coalition towards Conservative policies, a turn of fortune could yet lead it the other way.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

Dwayne Peel made a break from the half-way line and was well supported by Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe, who in turn produced a superbly-timed one handed offload to Doherty, who was charging up the left wing to score in the corner.

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