Everywhere you looked, one of them seemed to be staring at nothing, drinking it in, transfixed: a dead stalk of dock weed or the blank corner of a stone wall or an icicle dribbled from the lip of a gutter.

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Reading a speech on his behalf, the Jordanian prime minister said the Saudi initiative constituted "a corner-stone of a comprehensive peace in the region, and that Israel is putting obstacles in its way".

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She also noted that social services is a corner stone for the Welsh Government and that is why the budget has been protected over the three year funding period.

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When the train stopped at a station in that country, the police dragged Narayana off the train and put him in a small eight-foot-by-eight-foot room with a cold stone floor and a hole in the corner that served as a toilet.

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