If Mr McCain prevails, he will face a huge task of damage limitation inside his own party.
It is a damage limitation exercise that will only erode public confidence in the exam system further.
In fact, for the best part it was a case of damage limitation for Steve Bruce's side as the hosts totally dominated.
Deutsche Boerse has now embarked on damage limitation with its own shareholders.
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In practice, America's main policy aim in Israel will switch not from engagement to disengagement, but from peace making to damage limitation.
The second half was always going to be a case of damage limitation for Wigan - but they fell well short of that.
Briers closed the door with a drop goal before two tries in the final four minutes by Flannery and Gaskell were mere damage limitation.
But Renault breathed a sigh of relief by the end of Sunday's race as their exercise in damage limitation appeared to pay off with a two-stop strategy.
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Time and again he was caught out - and with Chelsea in no mood to forgive his ineptitude, Sunderland's modus operandi quickly went from early optimism to damage limitation.
It became an exercise in damage limitation for the remaining Scottish batting, but the talented Coetzer, a Durham pro, was good enough to hit Morkel for a couple of sixes.
Arsenal's fluid one and two-touch passing bewildered their opponents and damage limitation already appeared to be the order of the day for Fulham, as they defended deep and in numbers.
In this tinder-dry setting, western diplomats have been forced to concentrate at least partly on short-term damage limitation (or rather, the avoidance of total disaster), as opposed to fixing Kosovo's longer-term future.
Lucescu's half-time teamtalk must have focused on damage limitation, but against a Barca team committed to wave after wave of attack and with a monopoly on possession it was an almost impossible task.
At that stage the score was harsh on Hull, who saw a Sonko header deflected wide and a Geovanni shot fly off target, but from then on it was nothing more than an exercise in damage limitation.
There is a case mostly a dreary one, based on damage-limitation for joining the euro.
Last year Italy appeared content with a damage-limitation game plan, designed to frustrate the opposition but not much else.
It seems the ambassador felt compelled to meet with the Turkish consul general that evening for the purpose of damage-limitation following the compromise of the secret weapons pipeline Chris Stevens was then running to Syria.
By now England were more than comfortable and Terry also came close to adding to their tally against a side that managed only one shot on target in the entire match and were clearly only interested in damage-limitation.
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