• Wadsworth had watched the pen travel across the page, and then the fore-finger tap impatiently.

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  • Mr Cameron added that the report found "no evidence whatsoever that any government minister had fore-knowledge of Mr Finucane's murder".

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  • Because I'm going to take my party fore-square straight into those issues, it's me that's made speeches about radical reform of health and about welfare, education and the environment.

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  • One points to a land origin in which lizards started to burrow, and as they adapted to their subterranean existence, their legs were reduced and lost - first the fore-limbs and then the hind-limbs.

    BBC: Studying how snakes got legless

  • The favourite of those who want a canny operator in charge, who think it's time for experience to come to the fore - Lord Dafydd Elis Thomas, a man who says he's keeping his powder dry until his local party officially nominate him.

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  • Still, the fact that these industry giants retained the highest rating calmed investors, who had worried that downgrades could trigger a vicious cycle, a fore-selling of bonds, leading to more losses for the big banks and increased credit costs for consumers, city government and others.

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  • The holding-down bolts of twelve boilers and three triple-expansion engines, unintended to hold such weights from a perpendicular flooring, snapped, and down through a maze of ladders, gratings and fore-and-after bulkheads came these giant masses of steel and iron, puncturing the sides of the ship .

    NEWYORKER: Unsinkable

  • His personal study, which was designed to house a 17-by-28-foot Persian rug from the late 1800s, is filled from floor to ceiling with valuables, ranging from gilded fore-edge books to war memorabilia, a brandy bottle left in his guest house by Kennedy Onassis, and even what he says is Sitting Bull's pipe.

    NPR: 'I Love Mysteries,' Says Man Claiming Hidden Gold

  • Cisco may have driven Alantec into the arms of yet another fast-growing networking company, Fore Systems--though Fore itself is now rumoured to be a takeover candidate.

    ECONOMIST: Can't stop starting businesses

  • We drove past my old high school: there were bars on the windows where there hadn't been before I went to prison, armed uniformed guards out front where be-fore there'd been old-lady hall monitors with whistles, and I imagined that the bars and the guards were there to protect the students from me and not some teenage crazy in a trench coat stuffed with home-made ordnance.

    NPR: Chapter 1

  • That task grew more difficult in May, when news broke that federal prosecutors were looking into allegations that MCI, since 1994 and be-fore merging into WorldCom, had be-gun illegally disguising long-distance calls as local ones to avoid paying the Bells millions of dollars in access fees--and continues to do so.

    FORBES: Screaming Match

  • The wing tried to hang on, conceding a penalty in the process, but New Zealand won the ruck - Richie McCaw and company to the fore as usual - and surged at the try line.

    BBC: Wales 12-19 New Zealand

  • In each of its wars, Israel has been united and galvanized by charismatic leaders who came to the fore David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, Golda Meir .

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  • Despite being a man light, Ospreys roused themselves and assaulted the Edinburgh line - Ryan Jones now to the fore and leading by example - which ended with hooker Huw Bennett barging over for a bonus point.

    BBC: Ospreys 30-32 Edinburgh

  • The one-joke-for-all-people theory is the reason why Mr Izzard, who came to the fore as a motor-mouthed transvestite, thought he could play Bruce, the fast-talking, short-lived, stand-up comedian who became famous in the early 1960s for saying the unsayable.

    ECONOMIST: Eddie Izzard

  • However, as the wicket livened up under the lights, Tendulkar came to the fore with a 102-ball masterclass featuring a sumptuous array of leg-side flicks and drives through the arc between point and cover.

    BBC: Sachin Tendulkar is bowled off an inside edge

  • But the European champions showed no ill effects at the Nou Camp as star forwards Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Lionel Messi put on a masterclass, and unsung midfielder Seydou Keita was also to the fore with a hat-trick.

    CNN: Barcelona return to winning ways with Zaragoza rout

  • Herbaceous borders and mixed bedding, both originating in 17th-century France, came to the fore and with them the ill-tempered public disputes between William Robinson, an advocate of informal plant groupings, and Reginald Blomfield, who longed for a return to greater formality.

    ECONOMIST: The curious history of herbaceous borders

  • This will hugely increase both the range of Internet applications with high-quality streamed video to the fore and the convenience of gaining access to Internet-based services.

    ECONOMIST: The future: Tomorrow’s Internet | The

  • Rising hostility towards "the other" in some parts of Europe is also bringing to the fore once again widespread anti-semitism.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Farewell to 'Europe'?

  • The judges, who visited all the finalists in August, said Cricklade's community garden was a "real joy" and praised the town's ability to bring heritage - both built and natural - to the fore.

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  • The problem of Sunni-Shia violence was again brought to the fore this week when a senior police officer, Chaudhary Ashraf Marth, the brother-in-law of the interior minister, was shot dead on his way to work in Gujranwala.

    ECONOMIST: Pakistan: Guns and God | The

  • But while Mr Jaitley was fending off the US, in the UK the issue of both outsourcing and of fast-tracked incoming staff - a hot issue among some local IT workers - was returning to the fore.

    BBC: Indian IT worker

  • Here was a universe in which you might imagine Robert Scott and his men with all their equipment in packs and crates being hauled along by dog sleds, with Robert at the fore, battling his way through white-out snow to achieve the mission.

    FORBES: Keeping B2B Enthusiasts Enthused

  • But Hewitt, his never-say-die attitude coming to the fore, was not about to give up his title that easily.

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  • Ahead of the service, the question of same-sex marriage jumped to the fore when an interview Welby gave to the BBC reignited the debate over the church's approach to issues of sexuality.

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  • If anything, untruth is not dodged here but brought to the fore, as the men meet a teen-age runaway, Irena (Saoirse Ronan), who keeps changing her story, in a bid to earn their help.

    NEWYORKER: Miles To Go

  • Under the circumstances, the old, colonial, class-obsessed enemy has returned to the fore.

    ECONOMIST: Hollywood on Britain

  • But the rational case for investing your long-term savings will come to the fore for many millions of people in the next few years.

    BBC: Saving or investing: Can they help beat inflation?

  • Churn butter, knit, fight or drum, at night, for fun, you'll watch the sunset, swat mosquitoes off each other's backs--it was good enough for out fore fathers.

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