What the injury proves for certain though is that professional football is a brutal sport where a promising career can come to a crashing halt because of a devastating injury caused by even a moment of indecision.
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This is a brutal game, where a technological twist can turn a market on its head.
It is a brutal sport to make a living in, although Favor Hamilton apparently found financial success after her track career with a real estate business in Madison, Wisc.
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Perhaps because 2013 is shaping up to be a brutal one for anyone introducing a new mobile operating system.
Yet the past ten years have shown that Bosnia's problem is not just the legacy of a brutal war, but also a culture of deference.
With their amazing assistance, we were able recently to free some elephants from a life of brutal bondage in a logging camp in Cambodia.
It took driving short term interest rates above 20% in a brutal monetary tightening that for a time seemed like a war in which Volcker looked and acted like a commanding general.
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Higher earners will suffer what tax consultants describe as a "brutal" increase under a government policy to distribute sacrifices more fairly.
In that Today interview he said UKIP did not have any MPs because "the first-past-the-post system is brutal to a party like us".
Indeed, the very same queen who Frank Miller portrayed as so-earthy, so-kind, was said to be quite brutal with a whip, in real life.
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"All I want to say about last week was that it was a brutal week in my life and a lot of my friends' lives, " he said.
On Saturday, I wrote about a brutal attack on Oleg Kashin, a Russian journalist who was jumped outside his Moscow home and severely beaten by two unidentified assailants.
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In the search for heroes in what was in fact a brutal and unglamorous campaign, he was a natural: the scholar who had put aside his studies and picked up a rifle to defend his homeland.
She does know the name Joseph Kony, a brutal Ugandan warlord who was the subject of a viral video earlier this year.
At the end, Bravo Company is ordered to make a brutal, and suicidal, assault to retake a mountaintop that it had recently held but then surrendered to the North.
Once again the home side were not short of possession, but they were short of quality - a brutal reality emphasised when Spurs broke brilliantly to add a second after 67 minutes, started and finished by Van der Vaart.
With a long road yet to go, and most observers skeptical of any type of grand compromise, the market bounce is at least as attributable to oversold conditions after a brutal 7-day stretch as any optimism for a deal in Washington.
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They are the pawns in a brutal game of profits before credibility, led by a management who care not a jot for Scottish culture or society... an ignorant bunch of number crunchers who don't give a toss about producing a quality Scottish newspaper.
Johnston bludgeoned two sixes off Ervine and one off Chris Tremlett in a brutal 36-ball innings as his team recovered from a difficult start created by pressure from Australians Stuart Clark and Shane Warne.
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The trail begins with a wicked climb up 650 steps carved into a hillside and ends a brutal (and lovely) seven miles later (and after a 2, 200-foot climb and descent) on the other side of Mount Tamalpais, at the tiny town of Stinson Beach on the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
Several months into a brutal job hunt Fertig, then 38, decided to launch Brilliant Transportation, a limousine service for the likes of his former colleagues and customers in New York City.
In Iraq, they have battled a brutal insurgency, trained new security forces and given the Iraqi people the opportunity to forge a better future.
The detective who led an investigation into a pensioner's "brutal" murder at a pet shop 20 years ago hopes forensic advances will now trap the killer.
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After the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991, Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a brutal war in which both sides suffered enormously, with up to 30, 000 people killed and a million forced to flee their homes.
Mr Williams had suffered severe head and face injuries and multiple rib fractures in a "brutal, vicious and sustained attack" with a heavy object, police said.
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When appeasement was inevitably followed by a most horrific, brutal war, we saw a different kind of optimism, the kind that rolls up its sleeves, defies the odds and makes its own luck.
Here was a meaningful playoff contest to distract from the real pain of a brutal afternoon.
Bank stocks have had a brutal year, but the problem wasn't small and regional banks.
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And now we go to Haiti which is still reeling from a brutal hurricane season.
First, Microsoft has become a brutal monopolist in the key software categories, squeezing out competitors.
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