Although I have always been extremely persistent in my professional follow-up, no one has (yet) issued a restraining order asking me to back off.

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Mr. Mulgrew indicated Thursday that the city would have to back off that plan in order to reach a final deal on evaluations.

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And now, her message delivered, her aunt slumped back in her seat, and gave her order to be off.

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In Holland, many casinos use continuous shuffling machines (CSM), so that dealt cards are shuffled back into the deck after each hand, in order to fend off card counting.

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Nissen was able to do his Avandia analysis because Glaxo, in order to get then New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer off its back, agreed three years ago to put drug-trial results up for public viewing.

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If the forces of law 'n' order do not back zero limits, ministers may feel that they have been let off the hook.

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If Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba judges the area safe after team members report back, he will likely order the main body of around 600 ground troops to set off beginning in late January, according to a Reuters report.

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Under this proposal, illegals, in order to gain legal status, would have to register with the government, pay a fine, pay off any back taxes owed and, if they wanted to stay, learn English.

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More recently he said he would back a shotgun merger between the French firms Suez and the state-controlled Gaz de France in order to ward off a bid for Suez by the Italian utility Enel.

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