• While the loss to Birmingham was hardly the performance of a team in crisis, and the Blues are now through to the last 16 of the Champions League, this indifferent sequence would have been worrying for manager Carlo Ancelotti, underlying as it did the lack of strength in depth in a squad that used to be renowned for it.

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  • Marxists today leap for joy when an economist as renowned as Paul Krugman suggests that there might after all be something to be said for capital controls.

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  • Another luminary to be awarded the honour, Toni Morrison, is renowned for her portrayal of the African-American experience in novels such as Song Of Solomon, and Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988.

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  • Taleban, not exactly renowned for tolerance, do not seem to be over-exercised about this opium growing even though they say it's an un-Islamic thing to do.

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  • And as it's compatible with most major online booksellers, Cybook Opus, renowned for its ease of use, can be enriched with millions of classics or recent bestsellers in a couple of clicks.

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  • Denizens of the home of the federal government are renowned for believing that one need only wish something to be true for it to happen.

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  • Wenger, who is renowned for his ability to spot talented young players, will now be hoping to resolve the future of star striker Emmanuel Adebayor ahead of the new Premier League season and Champions League qualifying matches.

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  • It opens with its title character (Nina Pens Rode), an opera singer of a certain age, telling her husband (Bendt Rothe), a renowned lawyer about to be named a cabinet minister, that she will leave him for a poor young composer.

    NEWYORKER: Gertrud

  • Yet according to the eye-opening 2010 Single in America study by renowned biological anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher (someone ACTUALLY qualified to be an expert) for Match.com, that is not at all what the majority of young males feel.

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  • India is renowned for its bureaucracy, but I found getting a visa for that nation to be far easier.

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  • "It would be amazing to end the season winning the first victory for Toyota, " said the Italian, renowned for his pace over a single lap.

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  • It was also difficult to be away from my family at first but I think that moving to Spain and playing for a world-renowned football team really sped up my maturity level.

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  • The cortege remained in the house for 20 minutes, and then proceeded down towards Jerusalem's Old City, where Husseini was to be buried in the Al Haram Al Sharif (Temple Mount) complex alongside his father, the latter also renowned for his devotion to the Palestinian cause.

    CNN: An emotional and mostly peaceful ceremony

  • So too are various transport and construction projects: embarrassingly, the elaborate glass and metal roof for the main athletics stadium, designed by Santiago Calatrava, a renowned Spanish architect, may not be ready in time.

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