For Softbank, it would be an ignoble defeat to its the best laid plans of its billionaire chief, Masayoshi Son.

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Also thanks to the internet, people can now live far from the madding crowd and yet remain abreast of its ignoble strife.

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Consider the ignoble end of that pioneer of minicomputers, Digital Equipment Corporation.

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The credits change weekly as campaigns expand or end in ignoble defeat, and every location in the episode must appear on the atlas.

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Meanwhile, our venerable Space Shuttles have been relegated to the ignoble status of tourist attractions, and our astronauts hitch rides on Russian rockets.

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Often, Mr Wilentz explains, the free-staters in places like Kansas were motivated by the ignoble desire to ensure that theirs was a lily-white enclave.

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Will the public option in the health care reform plan die an ignoble death, or will he somehow come up with a strategy to jam it through the Senate?

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Such subsidies have a long and ignoble history, but today reducing them is more urgent than ever, for they threaten the chance of any further progress in multilateral trade negotiations.

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It was an ignoble day for an elected official.

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The year 2012 ended with an ignoble distinction.

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