Lord Hoffman, in the ruling on the case, said the tests had no relation to the shallow well serving Mr Sutradhar's village, and it was not the practice at the time to test for arsenic.

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Voters don't much like assassins, but a half-baked idea for a people's assembly on climate change and a tack to the right on immigration made Ms Gillard look shallow as well as disloyal.

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Their argumentation is shallow as well as pretentious.

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And it is becoming more vocal about its involvement in the shallow water Gulf, as well.

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Local environmentalists blame an international oil consortium now drilling its first well in the shallow waters of Kazakhstan's sector of the Caspian Sea.

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The Texas Railroad Commission, using chemical fingerprinting, maintains that the EPA is wrong and that the gas seeped into the well from a shallow formation a few hundred feet beneath the surface, much closer to the water wells.

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Her visit to a smug, shallow man about to be knighted will radically change his selfish, well-ordered world.

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