What would happen, they ask, if Moroccan troops aped their Indonesian counterparts and, after losing the vote, fought to hang on to the territory?

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And the formula aped the sensitivity of the courts by taking account, for example, of expenses to travel to work, to see the children or to raise a second family.

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And when Blur later made a decent record that aped American indie rock, I still didn't care, except maybe for that little woohoo on their shameless hit "Song 2, " now best known as a TV commercial thing.

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On the field and off, Australian sport is arguably at its lowest ebb since the Montreal Olympics in 1976, when the country failed to win a single gold medal - a setback that led to the creation of the much-admired, and much-aped, Australian Institute of Sport.

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