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  • And if an even wider insurgency were to engulf Afghanistan, that would give al Qaeda even more space to plan these attacks.

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  • Four fire crews have been there overnight trying to hold back the flames - which were at one point threatening to engulf properties.

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  • The scandal, which erupted in 2005, threatened to engulf Lula's administration for a time but he was comfortably re-elected as president the following year.

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  • Coincidentally, this occurred just as a new round of scandals was about to engulf Wall Street, giving rise to a new generation of crusading reformers.

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  • The tweets about the blogs about the tweet about the parody of the review about the review set into motion tsunamis of meta that threatened to engulf the earth.

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  • He compensated by striving to engulf the town.

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  • Sam Nunn would be a shrewd selection for secretary of state is partly rooted in Nunn's prestige, high enough to protect the president elect from domestic lobbies in foreign policy battles soon to engulf his administration .

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  • That is why the governments who are about to send soldiers to Macedonia ought to have done a better job of explaining to their citizens how violence in this corner of south-eastern Europe has the potential to engulf the entire region.

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