In some you will find, apart from the typical array of sake, library-like shelves lined not with vellum spines but with dark-gold bottles of Hakushu, Laphroaig, Bowmore and Yamazaki.

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Montenegrins know full well they have sent a frisson down many spines with their latest declaration.

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There are also many people with injuries to their spines due to the buildings falling on them.

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Patients contracted fungal meningitis -- which results in inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord -- after their spines were injected with a contaminated, preservative-free steroid called methylprednisolone acetate, health officials have said.

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After Mr Daley privatised the city's parking meters, drivers filled coin slots with glue and docile aldermen briefly located their spines.

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Scientists have turned up evidence that spines contain "pattern generation" circuits with an innate capability to generate walking motions with modest input from the brain.

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Read this L.A. Times story this morning and remember what women can do and do in fact do every working day, with tears in their eyes and steel in their spines.

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Mr Putin's decree is apparently intended to stiffen political spines and spur the passage of a law rather than do away with the need for one, with conventional legislation seen as giving the anti-corruption drive a greater mandate.

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