Death seems ever-present in the slum, where a fever or disease easily caught from unclean water in the rainy season can claim a life without much warning.

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The rain came without much warning.

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Kenya - enraged by the kidnappings and the damage to its tourism industry and development plans - lashed out without warning or much planning, catching everyone off guard and sending its untested army into what could well prove to be a very dangerous trap.

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But many supporters of the Miranda warning argue that, if the court decides the case this way, police across the country will be encouraged to interrogate suspects regularly without the warning to gather as much physical evidence as possible, leaving many vulnerable to intimidation and undermining Miranda's effect.

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Last week he proclaimed without warning a quite different, and much tougher, agenda urged on him by Anatoly Chubais, the leading reformer in the government.

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Having sifted through everything I have heard about the tiger and his wife, I can tell you that this much is fact: in April of 1941, without declaration or warning, the German bombs started falling over the city and did not stop for three days.

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You can push the G35 to that point very easily, without much fear that you'll jump beyond the limits of grip without warning.

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