Such a statement could be made only by someone who has never had the experience of fox hunting.

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It's astonishing to me that so many people I know have never had the roast-goose experience.

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Levine said he had never had this experience in the eight years he has been a parent at Harvard-Westlake School.

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After all, he had never run some of the functions, had never managed so many people, had no experience with external analyst relations, and had not demonstrated significant change management skills.

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Sierra Wireless's first stab at a Windows Mobile-powered smartphone, the Voq Professional Phone, was pretty much doomed from the start the design was awful, Sierra had zero experience in marketing handsets, and they were never able to convince a single wireless carrier to offer the phone to its subscribers (which for better or for worse is how most phones get sold in the US).

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Never mind that when she made the call she had little or no experience in evaluating municipal bonds.

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"This is our fifth tournament and we've never had this experience before, " said Kat Byles, a spokeswoman for the Homeless World Cup.

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She never had counselling, she said, but time had helped her forget, and she said the experience had given her a "certain insight" into child abuse.

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Most internet users have had the experience of feeling creeped out by targeted messages from marketers who knew things about them they never meant to volunteer.

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