They saluted and lowered the ridiculous cotton string that barred the road to the castle heights, which meandered up the hillside past the thick stone walls and into an immense central courtyard.

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Now they are praised and saluted for sponsoring the legislation to fix the problems they created.

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"I'm sure they all stood and saluted and said 'Yes sir' and marched out smartly, but I don't think they're all 100% behind it, " he said.

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What is more, the team coached by the avuncular figure of Vicente Del Bosque did so in such a magnificent style - thrashing dangerous Italy 4-0 in the final - that they have been widely saluted as the greatest international team ever to have played the game.

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"The most decorated of military officers have their time, they won't be saluted forever, " the song goes, adding "violence has its time, things must change".

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They had shaken hands and he had saluted and gone out to the staff car where the old man was waiting asleep and in that car they had ridden over the road past Guadarrama, the old man still asleep, and up the Navacerrada road to the Alpine Club hut where he, Robert Jordan, slept for three hours before they started.

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Teenagers nodded as they passed on their bikes, and the men talking around the picnic tables saluted me with their beers.

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