Mr. Obama has a copybook agenda, to expand government regardless of the historical moment the country finds itself in.

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Against the run of play, the Republic pulled a goal back on 72 as Keane slotted a penalty after Shirokov had blotted his copybook with a needless challenge on the Republic skipper.

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No one would mistake my chicken-like scrawl for the elegant loops and lines of a grade school copybook.

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It was a torn sheet of copybook paper the kind that his agency distributed to schools around Iraq, with date and subject lines printed in English and Arabic.

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Michael Meehan's point cut Donegal's lead to one after the outstanding Karl Lacey had blotted his copybook by conceding a hop ball for retaliation after Nicky Joyce's dreadful neck-high challenge on Barry Dunnion.

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