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.
Army operations, forced relocation of population and starvation took a brutal toll, reducing a force of several thousand to a few hundred.
Mr Hussein, the argument goes, is a serial offender, a brutal tyrant who is a danger to his people, his neighbours and the wider world.
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.
The presence of a man widely regarded as a brutal dictator, juxtaposed with a pope who preaches peace, has raised eyebrows.
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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Mr. Assad's forces appear to be increasingly resorting to a brutal game of whack-a-mole by relying on increasingly heavy weaponry, said Andrew Tabler, a Syrian expert at the Washington Institute for Near Policy, referring to the carnival game where players bash a mole which rears its head from one hole, only to see it pop up from another.
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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For nearly six years, a brutal drug war in Mexico with a staggering death toll of more than 47, 500 people has dominated discussions between the two countries.
"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.
And the killing was brutal: a slaughter of unarmed prisoners.
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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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There is little sign that the gulag is any less brutal: a report by Christian Solidarity Worldwide, a human-rights group, pieced together what is known from defectors' accounts and satellite imagery.
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.
The proposal could pave the way for a significant policy shift in a region where brutal drug violence is a daily reality.
Iran, the second-largest Middle East nation after Egypt, is an economic and political disaster, with a corrupt and brutal pariah regime betraying a rich civilization.
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.
In recent times, in the three decades following the violent break up of Pakistan in 1971, we may cite from a long list of similar violence a few examples of Muslims engaged in brutal conflicts within a state, or inter-state conflicts of two or more Muslim majority states.
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 liberals who deploy them mean them in their full pejorative sense: with "jihad" shorthand for a brutal war of fanaticism, "mullah" implying a religious fanatic, "Shariah" a synonym for an inhumane system of law, and so on.
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