The king implied, not for the first time, that the political parties were not yet up to the mark.

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Conservative MP for the Warton area, Mark Menzies, said "now is not the time to give up".

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This time they are proposing tough mark to market standards not only on bank investments, but also on bank loans as well.

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Trevorrow's independent comedy, Safety Not Guaranteed, featuring Mark Duplass as an eccentric inventor who is seeking to travel back in time, was shown at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

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McCall did not have time to make any signings of his own, but he immediately made his mark on the shape of the side.

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Manhattan's most recent attempt to re-establish itself as the home of the media elite an extravagant party to mark Time magazine's 75th birthday might have worked better if it had not given such a prominent role to Tinseltown stars such as Sharon Stone.

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