At the 2004 regional election, the Socialists swept the board only for Ms Royal to fall flat in the presidential election three years later.
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For the second straight season, the Grizzlies won the Big Sky tournament to earn an NCAA bid only to fall flat in their opener.
For the second straight year, the Grizzlies won the Big Sky tournament to earn an NCAA tournament bid only to fall flat in their opener.
In the meantime, Ceta negotiators haven't come to an agreement yet and so the talks will continue to wobble along - as if on hockey skates, trying not to fall flat on their face.
On the other hand, it is this resolute over-egging of the pudding that gives "The House of Silk" its charm: a kind of constant creative exuberance, born of a suspicion that unless every single element of the Holmes legend can be brought to the feast, the story is bound to fall flat.
Even the better known candidates will remember the example of Fred Thompson, an actor-turned-politician who waited to enter the last presidential race until September 2007, only to fall completely flat.
Since late 2011, CPI has embarked on a volatile path, bouncing off the flat line only to fall below it twice.
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Landec (LNDC), a food packaging supplier, announced that third quarter earnings were flat and expected revenue to fall during the quarter quarter.
Yet a corporate survey released with the data showed manufacturers expect output to be flat in May and then fall 1.4% in June as car manufacturers cut back.
As a result, the narrative-relevant sexual violence content might not be mistaken for the basic, adrenaline-pumping gameplay elements, but might simply fall flat in its attempt to get the player to engage with the story.
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Focusing on driving volumes approach would fall flat if it is keen to penetrate emerging economies like India and China.
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The most dramatic moments in the plot fall as flat as the day-to-day destruction, and then the game ends.
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Chances are that the best of the best will continue to sell well at auction while the mediocre will fall flat.
Eighteen months after its splashy birth, Ecompanies has had zero initial public offerings and has seen one of its 14 companies, Eparties, fall flat and end up being sold to Etoys for stock that has since fallen 72%.
Orlova still expects headline inflation to fall to 7.7% by September and remain flat in the remainder of 2011.
With Guangzhou's office rents forecast to be flat at best, landlords will see incomes fall as inflation and rising wages boost costs, says John Affleck, an international economist with PPR.
But others question why crime has continued to fall recently when budget constraints have kept the prison population relatively flat.
An iWatch will fall flat the minute Tim Cook holds up his wrist to show it to the collected tech-scribes in San Francisco.
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So sometimes you have to take the risks and try new things, and sometimes they fall flat in a concert, but some nights they click, and it's those nights that click that you can keep in mind and try to learn from.
Either there will be a restoration of the traditional power elites and General Musharraf's plans for a more democratic devolution of power will fall flat, or the armed forces will be obliged to engineer the results, leading to an erosion of legitimacy for the whole exercise.
If, as Mr Magueijo claims, he wanted us to take the diatribes that litter his book as jokes, they fall crashingly flat.
The 45-year-old had been accused of holding Jennifer Findlay prisoner in a Lochee flat, making her fear for her safety and causing her to fall.
The U.S. women have also managed to extend their excellence into the middle-distance races, whereas the men largely fall flat in any event longer than a quarter-mile.
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In U.S. economic news, consumer prices were flat in June, in line with expectations, as energy costs continued to fall.
Mr Monti's deputy finance minister, Vittorio Grilli (Mr Monti is his own finance minister), predicts a fall in GDP of up to 0.5% next year, with the outlook flat for 2013.
Sugar output during the 2013-14 marketing year will likely remain flat or fall only marginally from this year's level, thanks to improved output in Uttar Pradesh, the country's second-largest producing state, he said.
He started to fall again, caught himself, froze in a hunched-over position, hurtled forward, fell flat on his face, chucked his chin on a root.
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