Skipper Brad Fittler then raced over straight from a scrum to close the gap to just eight points and, in a nailbiting finish, centre Russell Richardson had a try ruled out for putting his left hand on the dead-ball line before grounding the ball.

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He held a small photograph of his dead colleague, Ahad, in his trembling left hand.

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Cleveland's voucher scheme has led to the founding of new schools, free from the dead hand of school-board bureaucracy, offering poor families a real increase in choice (see article).

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Finally, there is the overarching and historically painful reality that an unarmed black teenager lies dead at the hand of an armed Hispanic man who ignored a dispatcher's advice not to follow and engage the "suspect, " and who may have -- and this too is forensically unclear -- uttered a racial epithet while chasing him.

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One day in mid-December, there was a knock at the kitchen-house door and he found Chance Poxley standing in the tall dead grass, wearing a small tweed fedora, shading his eyes with one hand.

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Vintage clothes For a long time, image-conscious Italians wouldn't be seen dead in second-hand clothes.

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The dead rise from the field, some with the help of hand, followed by a pat on the back for putting on a good show.

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Mr Gove's zeal to liberate schools from the dead hand of local authorities was strengthened by research published last year by McKinsey, a consultancy, which suggested that the best education systems in the world are those in which schools enjoy autonomy.

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Nasdaq looked like a dead skunk in the road at 2250 six weeks ago, when this column said a bottom was at hand, so buy up.

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She cupped the wasps in her hand, the window frame shuddering beside her, as the storm sneaked in a draft to stir the dead wings, their stiffened weightlessness.

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