In 1941, the SS Politician did run aground at Calvay, just off the island of Eriskay.

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That plan, also originally supposed to be implemented by this year, has run aground.

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It hardly helps that one of America's biggest small-business lenders, CIT, has run aground.

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Great: Run aground, pitch the tarp, collect some firewood, and call it home.

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Once you start looking at evolutionary reasons for human behavior, you very quickly run aground on some very uncomfortable ideas.

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The strong winds also caused several more cargo ships to run aground.

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But that involved such savage cuts of about a third that it put off many congressmen, and would certainly have run aground in the Democrat-controlled Senate.

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But then only with the Likud did the talks run aground.

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The rescue on Wednesday unfolded when the crew of the vessel, who left Canvey Island three hours earlier, rang 999 saying they had run aground but did not know where.

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Since these issues include Jerusalem, borders and Israeli settlements, any talks on them would certainly run swiftly aground if the parallel process of gradual Israeli withdrawal envisaged in the Oslo accords were halted.

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