The TUV's Jim Allister said there seemed to have been a great fear of discussing the proposal with staff.

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This evening it is harder to imagine the horror of a 13thcentury sea battle, the timber-clash and slaughter, than the young Marco, 27 years earlier, filled with the fear and curiosity that begins all great journeys, sailing off between these islands for the Far East.

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As soon as new matches are consecrated, they're replaced. (How quickly Sunday's thriller vaporized Djokovic's five-set semi over Murray and Nadal's four-setter over Federer, not to mention Victoria Azarenka's 6-3, 6-0 rout of Maria Sharapova in the women's final.) The torrent of great tennis has undermined the old fear that the game would unravel with new technology, that it would become a tedious game of baseline heavy hitting.

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It is said that his fear of being entombed alive was so great that his mausoleum was rigged with a buzzer.

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And with all this great framework in place, the developers capitalize on that tension and on your fear by really embracing the title of their game: Enemy Unknown.

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What he did not touch on was the great Labour fear - one that Gordon Brown is also particularly eager to address - that dissatisfaction with the government will see the SNP winning power in Scotland and holding that referendum in the near future.

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He is at his best when evoking the greed, fear and outright paranoia of the first great age of proprietary-trading desks (which bet big with their bank's own capital).

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