In recent weeks Mr Karzai has created unwanted turmoil, for the second year running.
But the EU's accounts themselves were given the thumbs up for the second year running.
It follows talks about the funfair which failed to open on time for the second year running.
The festival had rain for the second year running, but no performances were cancelled due to the weather.
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For the second year running, innovators in work design will host the biggest coworking conference in the world.
Heriot-Watt University has been named as Scottish University of the Year by the Sunday Times University Guide for the second year running.
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We achieved for the second year running the eight-minute target for life-threatening emergencies, so that's a major improvement in the past 18 months.
However, it had looked possible that Airdrie could be saved from relegation for the second year running, having previously benefitted from Gretna's demise.
On Monday 6 November, Brazil's Ronaldinho was named the best player in the world by his fellow footballers for the second year running.
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For the second year running the A96 from Inverness to Aberdeen has come out worst in the Rural Community Gateway internet survey of motorists.
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It helped (or hurt, depending on your point of view) that the cover girl, for the second year running, is viral sensation Kate Upton.
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It meant Surrey's run-machine would have to make three figures in his last innings to reach an aggregate of 2, 000 for the second year running.
Taiwan headed the table for the second year running, with a massive 89% of businessmen saying that their stress levels were higher than a year ago.
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PLC, Stephen Hester, has already given up his bonus, for the second year running, after a computer problem left millions of customers without access to their accounts.
In 2011, the country was responsible for 41% of the world's art sales, making it the biggest market for art for the second year running, according to market tracker Artprice.
"I'm not so much disappointed because I am on a four-year plan, " said Swain, who on Thursday won the 3m synchro title with Nicholas Robinson-Baker for the second year running.
For the second year running the rally had turned into a two-man duel between Solberg and his French rival, who were both far faster than the rest through the Welsh forests.
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Djokovic received the honor for the second year running, as the Serbian retained the Australian Open and won the season-ending ATP championship but suffered the disappointment of losing the final at both Roland Garros and Flushing Meadows.
Knocked out of the FA Cup by Barnsley, a League Cup final defeat at the hands of Tottenham and being pipped to the title by Manchester United for the second year running are not the sort of results demanded by this most ambitious of oligarchs.
But in the short term the only bright spots were America and in France, where a campaign to promote cognac as a long drink (with tonic, which is not, unlike soda water or ginger ale, really a natural accompaniment) raised sales for the second year running.
Military spending has increased at a similar rate for most of the past two decades, but this year's increase comes as China's overall economic growth begins to slow, with parliament approving an official GDP growth target of 7.5% for the second year running, compared with an average growth of more than 10% for most of the past decade.
Military spending has increased at a similar rate for most of the past two decades, but this year's increase comes as China's overall economic growth begins to slow, with parliament expected to approve an official GDP growth target of 7.5% for the second year running, compared with an average of more than 10% for most of the past decade.
Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker, who won four points out of four in the Presidents Cup last year, were together for the second day running, playing with 21-year-old Rickie Fowler and Jim Furyk.
In the end it was SlamCharlotte, a poetry troupe from North Carolina, that took home the national title this year for the second time running.
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Little Britain star David Walliams has been shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize for a second year running.
In Africa, it is the second year of improvement running, and, for the first time in 10 years, the number of African rhinos has risen above 11, 000.
For the second straight year, he's running a different event at the meet to try to set an American indoor record.
In a shortened 48-game season, the Sabres are already running out of room for error in their attempt to avoid missing the playoffs for a second straight year and fourth time in six seasons.
We are running at close to 50% for the second half of this year.
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America is in its second year of running one of the largest text and chat outreach operations for people ages 15 to 24, targeting African-American and Latino youth through promotional campaigns on MTV, websites and mobile providers, social media, wallet cards, video and Seventeen magazine.
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