Exit Gracefully: At some point, even the best conversations lose steam.

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The 2008 date is significant because this was clearly the point that the shift towards support for gay marriage began to really pick up steam.

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When, as Chelsea did at Birmingham, they run out of steam and ideas he is the sort of player who can get you something to rescue a point or even snatch a win.

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We worked very hard to get to this point - over the course of seven weeks we probably only had one chance to blow off steam.

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