| If I'd left the club, three or four others would have moved on as well, and the team would have been also-rans at best in the top flight. |
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| Now coached by former player Mauricio Cruz, the regional also-rans are determined to buck the trend. |
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| We started imitating rather than innovating and wound up making faux American also-rans. |
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| On their way from playoff also-rans to just plain also rans, the Timberwolves have made an improbable detour into the NBA's elite. |
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| Jarmusch also used his speech to give shout-outs to Hou and our Torontonian also-rans. |
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| Every time, they would end up among the also-rans of the National Basketball Association. |
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| But the soothsayers had reckoned without one factor, the indomitable will that separates the titans from the also-rans. |
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| Their privately-schooled counterparts had nudged them into the league of also-rans. |
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| Throughout his 13-year career, Taylor was a marauding, intimidating presence who helped transform the Giants from also-rans into champions. |
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| It could happen this time around, with four, five or six also-rans in each major league clutching at the last straw in the closing weeks. |
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| Don't decry their initial efforts, but in the end they were reduced to the role of also-rans in a two-horse race. |
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| In the day's other match, Ghana ended their first appearance at the competition with a comfortable win over Group D also-rans Switzerland. |
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| So what are the key factors that separate the million-dollar winners from the also-rans? |
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| However, two years is a very short time in which to turn a team of also-rans into possible World Champions. |
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| His drive and dynamism over the past two seasons have taken London Irish from also-rans to contenders. |
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| What they left behind was a scrap heap of also-rans and angry old guys. |
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| For so long also-rans Twente, whose horse emblem is a regional symbol, became thoroughbreds. |
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| By cutting regulatory burdens, you enable the nations of Europe to throw off the shackles that will otherwise inevitably turn us into the economic also-rans of the 21st century. |
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| Things are looking terminal for Group 5 also-rans Real Potosi and UA Maracaibo after they played out a 2-2 draw in Bolivia, a result that does little for either of them. |
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| The recommendations made by the Science and Humanities Council in January 2006 show that the humanities are not also-rans behind the other sciences in terms of financing, student numbers and funding. |
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| The current generation are not satisfied with being also-rans and are intent becoming the first New Zealand side to reach the knockout stages of a FIFA men's tournament. |
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| From mid-table also-rans to European titans in two short years, Sevilla FC have undergone the kind of transformation usually reserved for fairytales under wand-waving coach Juande Ramos. |
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| The opening weekend underlined the narrowing gap between the continent's traditional giants and also-rans, and the favourites are again expected to be under the spotlight ain matches on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. |
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| Rather, as those involved will testify, the Dutch have tended to lack the consistency and dogged determination that generally separates champions from also-rans at these intensely competitive international events. |
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| That opening burst was enough to seal victory over a Cameroon side that, following their premature elimination from the African Cup of Nations, now has to come to terms with playing the unaccustomed role of also-rans. |
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| Prior to that, the ambitious Guaraníes had come out on top in Group F, a berth that defending world champions and eventual section also-rans Italy were expected to occupy. |
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| Instead, renegade Newt threw haymakers at also-rans like Michele Bachmann, but was still smart and agile enough to come out ahead. |
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| Sure, but try existing in the basement where there is little appreciation of the efforts of the back-markers and also-rans, some of whom train just as hard as the winners. |
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| It promises to find out which memories hit home and which fell by the wayside and to sort the champions from the also-rans with a final round of quick fire general knowledge. |
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| Otherwise, the most talked about racing career since that of Lester Piggott has been peppered with a couple of Derby thirds, and lots of also-rans. |
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| This means that competitors would have increasing difficulty in prising customers away from Schneider and Legrand and could be content with the status of also-rans on the relevant markets. |
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| He attacked our leader and our party as also-rans. |
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| Farewell to the doomed annual lionisation of also-rans such as Jeremy Bates, Buster Mottram and John Lloyd. |
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| Also-rans such as Dale Jarrett, Kevin Harvick, and Kasey Kahne were torqued off after hanging close all year only to find themselves shut out of a shot at the title. |
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