New laws on assault weapons the semi-automatic firearms that anti-violence advocates deplore and on magazine-size would be more harmful to the gun industry.

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The more the western-dominated parties deplore it, the more closely its backers hang together.

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Grown-ups may deplore that youngsters don't even say hello properly, but we do so among members of our own group.

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IR Most Welsh speakers and Welsh-language activists would deplore the intimidating actions of a few hotheads.

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Democrats, at least rank-and-file voters, deplore the massive volumes of money that modern politics has come to attract, yet esteem handouts bribing the electorate.

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One, that we have broadly seen restraint, as we deplore the scenes and the stories that -- as I mentioned earlier of diplomats, human rights groups and journalists -- so I think that is heartening.

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If President Obama is to deplore the coup in Honduras, he must do the same with the Chavez-inspired new dictatorships.

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The Tories deplore the limits Labour has placed on choice in education new controls on self-governing schools, the abolition of assisted places in private schools, and the threat to the remaining selective grammar schools.

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By comparison, the front-runners seem creatures of their electoral machines, less able to reverse the pervasive cynicism that candidates all deplore.

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