But most of the new immigrants like it here and want to stay (only 12% wish they had stayed home).

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He said he knew he could no longer care for his creations if they stayed at home with him, but he felt lonely without them.

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They stayed away from home for up to 12 weeks - and if they refused to go, their dole money was stopped.

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It is likely many London voters stayed at home because they believed a "yes" vote was a foregone conclusion.

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"Wrexham people were well aware of the situation here, many may have stayed at home because they didn't want to vote for Labour, " he said.

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And, perhaps more importantly, it has something concrete it can point to in explaining to angry Steubenville fans why they cashiered a local boy who stayed home and did very, very good.

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The big question haunting the Republican Party has been whether the evangelical foot-soldiers could be bothered to do the grunt work or even turn out to vote (Karl Rove blamed Mr Bush's election squeaker in 2000 on the fact that 4m evangelicals stayed at home when they heard of young George's drunk-driving conviction).

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They and several other relatives stayed in their home through the hurricane.

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Yorkshire could not afford any further loss but Arnie Sidebottom stayed with Love for the final few balls as they squeezed home by the narrowest possible margin.

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When they went out on the town with the girls, he stayed at home to read political philosophy and listen to classical records.

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