• Then the government paid farmers a bonus to snuff out the very same animals.

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  • Hoping to snuff out aberrant individualism, the ministry introduced detailed rules governing uniforms, haircuts and codes of conduct.

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  • They were also able to snuff out the threat from Leicester's giant wingers Alesana Tuilagi and Seru Rabeni, who ran Gloucester ragged.

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  • Rather than a hard coup intended to snuff out the country's evolving democracy, it is an attempt to slow and control it.

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  • Habit and prudence urged him to snuff out the two candles he had been awarded, but the limner decided to leave them burning.

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  • The Cable companies are often , if not always, owned by politically influential people that will resort to dirty tricks to snuff out competition.

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  • BJP's allies joined forces to snuff out an attempt by the government to inject Sanskrit and Hindu scriptures into the curriculum for state schools.

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  • Michael Hughes saw a 25-yarder tipped round a post by Martyn, while Tony Hibbert and Alan Stubbs had to respond swiftly to snuff out dangerous counters.

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  • Sone Aluko had a brief sight of goal after a one-two with former Motherwell player Nick Blackman but Stevie Hammell got back to snuff out the danger.

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  • But a persistent crime problem, made worse by staggering poverty, widespread unemployment and a failing school system, threatens to snuff out that recovery before it even takes root.

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  • Substitute Wayne McDonald scored the winner just 15 minutes from the end to snuff out Wigan's hopes, just moments after another replacement, Stanley Gene, had been held up short.

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  • The little Nottingham Forest striker again went close as he nipped in behind the Germany centre-backs, but keeper Robert Enke came smartly off his line to snuff out the danger.

    BBC: Wales 0-2 Germany

  • But it took the in-form Martinez Sanchez just 41 minutes to snuff out Australian hopes, securing a fourth final appearance for Spain when she took the first set off Samantha Stosur.

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  • Halfpenny did well to snuff out one break down his flank, but Toulon switched play swiftly to the right and it was number eight Fotunuupule Auelua who had the Blues defence scrambling.

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  • Fabio Collocini had to snuff out danger from that pair on 10 minutes, just before Newcastle midfielder Geremi went close with a 25-yard free-kick awarded after Tal Ben Haim hacked down Obafemi Martins.

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  • After all, as they see it these laws in the past have been used mainly against Thaksin supporters for partisan political purposes, including to snuff out opposition to the coup against Mr Thaksin.

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  • Roberts did well to snuff out one chance as he chased back to counter Porical's chip over the top, but then David Marty jinked across the field to send Plante over for a converted try.

    BBC: Scarlets 43-34 Perpignan

  • In perhaps the most aggressive example of tying, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) was accused of trying to snuff out rival Netscape by giving a competing Web browser away for free.

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  • The Blue Samurai, unchanged for their fourth straight World Cup match, sat deep and attempted to snuff out the opposition, while their opponents conceded a series of niggling fouls every time Japan looked to strike on the counter.

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  • It's not yet clear whether ordinary Egyptians, many of whom are exhausted by the long months of uncertainty, will consider the ruling an attempt by the ruling elite to snuff out the promise of democracy fought for in Tahrir Square.

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  • The Brummie accent, a nasal drone that suggests despondency to anyone outside Birmingham who is lucky enough to hear it, is also spreading as its speakers move west into Wales, where it threatens to snuff out the melodic local lilt.

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  • Although it is no longer true that a candidate must win New Hampshire to become president -- Bill Clinton broke that jinx in 1992 -- a poor showing here still appears almost certain to snuff out the chances of a presidential candidate.

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  • Mohammad Kaif was trapped lbw for a golden duck in the same Naved over, and India lost five wickets for 36 runs to snuff out any hopes of eclipsing their highest score in one-day history, 376-2 scored against New Zealand in 1999.

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  • When the villain, Pitch Black (also known as the Bogey Man) returns to snuff out belief in Santa and the other Guardians, Jack Frost is promoted by the Man in the Moon to the team of super hero Guardians whose primary job is to protect children.

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  • It appeared to be a sweetener to coax tougher action from a Chinese government which has eyed the increased U.S. military presence in its backyard warily, but which has done little over the years to snuff out funding and support for North Korea's weapons of mass destruction program.

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  • Mr. Gaffney examined the lessons of trying to appease Islamofascists by considering the case of Turkey, where the Islamist regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues to enjoy friendly relations with and accommodation from the U.S. and European democracies, even as it relentlessly works to snuff out that country's traditions of secularism, tolerance and pro-Western foreign policies.

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  • The Welles in question, played by Nicolas Cage, is a private detective who is asked to watch a snuff movie and to find out just how snuffy it is whether a young woman was actually killed onscreen.

    NEWYORKER: 8mm

  • The problem is that if Apple buys Waze, there is a good chance that the organizational dysfunction at Apple that led to its problems with Apple Maps could snuff out the strengths that Waze might bring to the party.

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