Competing European pipeline projects would be blown out of the water.

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For just as your first Prime Minister said the day that the father of your nation was taken from you, we shall never allow that torch of freedom to be blown out, however high the wind or stormy the tempest.

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But he came in for criticism after 11 September 2001, when he said the attacks on New York were "blown out of proportion" and people should be more worried about the plights of whales and elephants.

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The 59-year-old manager, who has been in charge of Arsenal since 1996, added that he would be defending his player because he felt the reaction had been blown out of proportion.

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Is it just due to the pixie dust being puffed out by Wall Street and the Fed, about to be blown away by the gathering storm others see coming.

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So much so that they believe even deeply problematic legislation can be blown through Congress, certain that it won't matter when the public figures out what happened, because it will be too late to do anything about it.

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