League position and form goes out of the window when you play in a knock-out competition and that is something we are well aware of.
But a shoulder injury kept him out of the autumn series and a thigh knock in training last week forced him out of the Wales game.
Fulham have won plaudits this season for their performances in the Europa League, which has seen them claim impressive results against Basle and Roma and knock out holders Shakhtar Donetsk in the last 32.
The superstar was eliminated by Ottawa in his first postseason in 2007 and helped Pittsburgh knock the Senators out of the first round the next year and 2010.
This is a Grand Slam game and as such it ranks up there with Lions tours and knock-out games in World Cups, there is no getting away from the enormity of the situation in which England find themselves.
While a global tightening of monetary policy should in the long term help to check inflation and so be beneficial for bonds, in the short term it would knock the stuffing out of both bonds and equities.
But Ghana secured the deserved three points and a place in the knock-out round when Yartey scored the winner.
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The 2006 champions are aiming to reach the final for the fourth time and are participating in the knock-out stages for a 10th successive season.
After negotiating PSV Eindhoven, Anderlecht and Standard Liege in the knock-out stages, Hamburg endured a frustrating evening against Roy Hodgson's well-organised west London outfit last week.
Israeli warplanes hit more than 125 targets in Lebanon over the last day in an effort to knock out Hezbollah communications, and prevent weapons from moving into the south of the country.
His longevity is legendary in a sport that can chew up and knock out the best long before 40, or, at worst, leave an aging prize fighter a battered shell of his prime.
It required extra time to knock out Napoli and then Benfica was beaten in the quarter final in a tie that was far closer than the 3-1 score line would suggest.
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Given Pakistan's history of rigged elections, the fear is that the authorities in Islamabad will use the time to knock out many politically unacceptable candidates and tailor the results to their liking on one pretext or another.
An attack on U.S. computer networks could knock out power grids, telecommunications, transportation and banking systems in a matter of seconds.
The ball smacked against the underside of the bar, and from a yard out Murphy was then on hand to knock home in front of The Kop.
But having finished runners-up in their Heineken Cup group this year and narrowly missed out on the knock-out stages, they made the most of moving into the second-tier competition to end a 15-year quest in Europe after a pulsating contest.
There is no question that the branding game is a lot more complicated than it was back when Don Draper and his team could knock out a competitive story line for a product in a matter of hours, if not minutes.
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They go on to say that Blu-ray hasn't delivered the "knock-out blow" that's needed to win, and in fact has recently lost ground to HD DVD thanks to Paramount going HD DVD exclusive and Blu-ray supported studios not releasing movies.
Zander de Bruyn hit a six and a four off one over from spinner Sherwin Ganga in an enterprising knock of 43 not out, but Bravo collected two wickets in the final over to finish with 4-23, and Somerset's fate is now out of their hands.
We need you to sign up with them to make calls, knock on doors to help get the vote out here on campus and out in the community.
Should Kenya take control of Kismayo or should it bash it and then leave quickly, in the hope that other Somali groups will then knock out the Shabab militants?
The Ospreys then play have their vital final two Heineken Cup Pool Three matched against London Irish and Toulon as the Welsh region's knock-out qualification hopes still hang in the balance.
It is presently without a sponsor for the league and its knock-out competition, the Challenge Cup, after Bell's withdrew in 2006.
Earl is a seasoned campaigner at 135lb and has lost just two fights in a 25-fight career, with 12 knock-out wins.
It was Pavlik's second successful defence of his WBC and WBO belts, which he won with a technical knock-out of Jermain Taylor in September 2007.
In both the classic 1933 movie King Kong and its 2005 remake, the King of the Apes gets in a knock-down, drag-out brawl with the King of the Dinosaurs.
We are spending the cash in three key areas: ramping up marketing, hiring highly-trained professionals who can knock sales and partnerships out of the park, and creating excellent new products.
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Scottish coach Stephen Gemmell's side beat Russia 19-5, thrashed Canada 31-5 and shocked South Africa 24-17 to avoid big guns New Zealand in Sunday's knock-out stages.
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"Those people generally speaking are in industries key to our economic growth and if any living wage was brought in that increased the demands on their outgoings it would knock the balance out of kilter, " he said.
Meanwhile, she paces in her kitchen, not daring to leave the house out of fear that a bulldozer would come and knock it down if the authorities found it empty.
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