Equally appalling was the story of Raja, who witnessed his mother immolating herself in front of him. |
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Leaving little ones alone in a car while you go off for hours is clearly appalling. |
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They were utterly appalling with their rotten or missing teeth, tangled, matted hair, and yellowing scurvy eyes. |
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Left without having a single drink thanks to the appalling rudeness of a waitress. |
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That said however neither side deserved to lose a game that was played under the most appalling conditions. |
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A perfect day had begun with a wedding reception in a marquee at the family home, but had ended with the most appalling and macabre tragedy. |
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A severe sandstorm driven by strong northerly winds made conditions for the British soldiers in Kuwait truly appalling on the eve of battle. |
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And it was a really appalling hanging, in the respect that the minister kept them on the scaffold waiting for 25 minutes as he gave a sermon. |
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The history of mankind is littered with appalling acts of barbarism, cruelty and hatred. |
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Most of it is balderdash, and has very little, if anything, to do with the appalling rate of fatalities on our roads. |
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They are now struggling in the margins of Indian society and live in appalling poverty. |
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Is it the appalling language, the irregular sleeping patterns, or the continual drain on your bank balance? |
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So many appalling barbarities have visited so many people over the centuries, but God has done nothing to prevent them. |
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I am so angry at this appalling, second or third-rate service being provided to non-private patients. |
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But I'm never going to thrash it out with them because they think my taste in music appalling so I never talk to them. |
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The naivete, hateful ignorance and misguided arguments of his article were appalling to say the least. |
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He will not get up on his hind trotters and explain this appalling legislation. |
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The 4x4 can much more easily deal with his potholes and appalling road surfaces. |
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Young pigs are kept in semi-darkness to minimise fighting and aggression caused through frustration due to their appalling conditions. |
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They toil long hours in appalling conditions in machine shops and restaurants. |
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Indeed, even to-day, one cannot begin to comprehend the appalling fate suffered by these two young girls. |
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Tens of millions of human souls were transported from their homes in Africa under appalling conditions to lives of servitude in the Americas. |
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Presley, with his many appalling movie soundtrack albums, deserved no better than two awards. |
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Worst of all, to my mind, is the appalling waste of natural fish stocks required to feed the farmed industry. |
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He was a truly appalling candidate to begin with, and his campaign was a disaster. |
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So it doesn't pay to be a shrinking violet when faced with appalling service. |
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A wacky, black-comic interlude has morphed with appalling speed into a potential bloodbath. |
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I must apologies not only for the typos, many of which will have bypassed the spellchecker, but also the appalling structure of parts of it. |
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Then came the appalling task of formally identifying their daughter's body in the mortuary at the Bristol hospital. |
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The animation and real motion capture is hardly breathtaking but far from appalling. |
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Not only did you rob her of her bag but you injured her and the offence has left an appalling blot upon her memory. |
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Not to mince words, this was an appalling sitcom, and how it lasted for four series beggars belief. |
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She has been a prisoner for years on end, unloved and constantly undernourished in the midst of appalling squalor. |
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A true and truly appalling story about sleazy people who saw what they wanted to until a decent judge lost his patience and blew a whistle. |
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The following day, North accused his bosses of appalling, dishonest and unethical behaviour. |
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The appalling social situation in Iran has been highlighted by recent reports of protest marches in working class urban areas and slum districts. |
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The weather was appalling, and German artillery made life unpleasant for the British. |
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Without last weekend's appalling weather, he reckoned that all attendance records would have been smashed. |
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I bear in mind the snippets of evidence that we have already got from you, that some managers are clearly appalling. |
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They think they are untouchable because excuses are made for their appalling behaviour. |
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An appalling number of venereal infections are caused by quite young girls who seem, on the surface, perfectly fit companions for decent lads. |
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It is still more appalling that they were responsible for violent and shameful abuses. |
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They live in appalling squalor with very little food, shelter or medical supplies. |
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They are places of appalling squalor, repression and violence, where a few dollars earned by running drugs is a good wage. |
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In the absence of such forward thinking, the impact of a future super-eruption is likely to be appalling. |
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I also think it's appalling that Mark Felt, who is a stand-up guy, only gets twice as much as a woman who runs away from her own wedding. |
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The crimes which would merit capital punishment for those in favour of same are indeed appalling. |
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We are thrilled to be getting rid of our cardboard city, it was an appalling situation for pupils and teachers. |
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He said that in some attempted murder cases the intended victim suffers no physical harm but here the victim had suffered appalling injuries. |
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We had appalling service and replacement kitchen units have only just arrived. |
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Only two of the team were not affected by an appalling case of food poisoning on the day of the final. |
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The appalling scene resulted in a Garda being bitten twice on the arm while the same Garda was also struck forcibly with an iron bar. |
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At first sight it looked appalling, but I could see it had sound structure, fantastic quality of light and great potential. |
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Some will find the rooms over-decorated, the service over-confident, and the cappuccino truly appalling. |
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And in the far right hinterlands of football hooliganism, a series of appalling attacks is being readied. |
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We share an unwholesome interest in matters like the appalling cheapness of Canadian game-show prizes. |
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A nasty, overwrought contrived thriller about a woman suspected of bumping off her appalling husband. |
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The victims have suffered a horrendous ordeal and quite appalling injuries in the case of Mr Francis. |
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How appalling for people living and running businesses beside this noise, mess and pandemonium. |
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The whole of the Market Place has been revamped at vast expense and if it were churned up now it would be quite appalling. |
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It was appalling to see those broken bodies, human beings treated worse than dogs. |
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This was an appalling climbdown which exposed the inept manner with which the implementation has been undertaken. |
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In 1917, the Bolsheviks inherited a health situation from imperial Russia that was appalling. |
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He is also assured, brilliant, and impenitent, often justifying appalling military actions. |
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As the appalling media response to the Momart fire has reminded us, what art needs most is defending from the philistine hordes. |
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The person responsible for such an indescribably appalling crime must be taken off the streets because it is inevitable he will strike again. |
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I always found it was appalling when an older kid bullied or picked on someone younger. |
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Our ineffectual government should have done something about this appalling situation by now. |
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This was a tremendous achievement for Seamus, as the weather conditions were appalling. |
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Again, the advance was halted because of the appalling conditions on the ground. |
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Rieff now contends that such an insensible change has become not a danger but an appalling fact. |
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Given that I think Kerry is utterly appalling on such questions, I figure I'll give the devil his due. |
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Which is an achievement in itself in this age of appalling service given to British consumers. |
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The murder at Marseilles was one of the most appalling events of the interwar period. |
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The continuation of such appalling conditions is cause for anger and consternation across a wide spectrum of animal lovers. |
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It was the following comment, relating to the appalling destruction of the copper beech trees in Fulford, that led us to that conclusion. |
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Over the past 12 months, the country as a whole has seen a series of appalling incidents involving guns. |
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The glorification of violence, bad language and sexism I find quite frankly appalling. |
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That the appalling York racecourse firework displays may be forced to end at 10 pm is a fudge by the leisure department. |
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After a date with a woman who enjoyed potholing and had a moustache, and one other appalling mismatch, I never used them again. |
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There is absolutely no need to ever gaff a tope, it's an appalling thing to even consider. |
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Due to this appalling weather the convoy had to rely on dead reckoning for navigation. |
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It is time every road user woke up to this appalling situation, and did all in their power to reduce the death toll. |
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This prima donna's behaviour has become so appalling that her colleagues have started making official complaints about her. |
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With his ghastly haircut and appalling dress sense, and his strange mannerisms, he is, nevertheless a giant of a man. |
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She works in the kitchen, and sometimes she cleans the chamber pots in the house, which I would find downright ghastly and appalling. |
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There are some glimmers of hope here, but the overall sense remains one of appalling loss. |
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We finally manage to get to the heart of the eerie water delta where the devastation was appalling. |
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The interface is appalling, requiring dextrous use of the keyboard to do relatively simple tasks. |
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But what proved the most memorable of all was his foul language and absolutely appalling put-downs. |
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The violence was gratuitous and appalling, but the film could be dismissed as essentially cartoonish. |
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There you will find whole websites, huge areas of cyberspace groaning with appalling games. |
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He said that while he was extremely relieved that no device was found, it was appalling that patients were discommoded and upset in this way. |
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The music sounded like the tape was being stretched producing appalling sounds and off-key, discordant, unpleasant noises. |
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It's appalling that Ford, for example, will provide only one wide-angle photo, which distorts the shape of the vehicle. |
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Meanwhile, the money is rolling in for the relief of distress among the victims of this appalling apocalyptic tragedy. |
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The inquiry established that there is an appalling level of disturbed mental health among the children. |
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The major difference is that poor little Johnny is excoriated for appalling behaviour and Bob is elevated to sainthood status. |
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A 14-year-old student was killed when he was hit by a falling tree and an elderly person died of exposure in the appalling weather conditions. |
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The appalling practice of forced marriage represents the opposite extreme and that is why Government is taking tough action to eradicate it. |
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The scenes of appalling neglect we witnessed in these sheds were abhorrently cruel. |
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She wrote to the Society of Friends or Quakers in Dublin asking for relief and describing the appalling conditions of the times. |
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What induces perpetrators from all walks of life to sexually abuse young children, even infants, often with appalling violence? |
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It is a critique that is appalling in its lack of quality, substance, and, indeed, accuracy. |
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Is it really that much more disgusting and appalling than a rich 80-year old man having his way with a nubile young student? |
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His smooth chat-up technique is hampered by an appalling taste in casual wear. |
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In his third year he dropped out, his concentration was appalling and he was addicted to another drug which was much harder. |
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The site should be reopened, the hoarding is appalling and adds insult to injury. |
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Pakistan has reaped an appalling harvest, with over 200,000 child drug addicts. |
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In passing sentence the judge said that the appellant had an appalling record. |
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As we walked towards Torc Waterfall through a wooded area, the smell was just appalling. |
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He still has this erratic speech pattern, the fluttering of the eyes, and he's the most appalling speechmaker. |
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Pretty soon this all-purpose waste will have its appalling effect on insects stirring in the old boy's worryingly insecure glass tanks. |
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If only he had been injured it might have explained his appalling performance. |
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A Brentwood mother has labelled the postal service appalling after an important parcel took almost three weeks to arrive. |
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She'd been sitting quietly up until this point, but decided to have a great old yak in protest while Lee does this really appalling campy dance. |
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There's nothing like an appalling film to put you back in the land of the living. |
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She had affairs with appalling men yet was a good mother of the future king. |
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Actually, given the appalling lateness of the hour, there isn't really any alternative. |
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Her lack of respect and love for her ancestors, many of whom share a lived memory of Hitler, is appalling. |
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The league says this failure means up to 3,000 teenagers are locked up in inhumane, appalling conditions. |
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The appalling conditions facing many people had previously fuelled a number of anti-government protests. |
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Council tax has gone up because of the appalling mess the Tories and Liberals are making of running the council. |
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The 48-year-old had suffered appalling head injuries and also had a ligature around her neck. |
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It was while working for the charity in east Africa that he suffered his appalling injuries. |
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The commission's report revealed a grisly catalogue of facts almost too appalling to believe. |
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At least 180 are dead, possibly many more, and hundreds have suffered appalling injuries. |
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You know, I've had to say over and over again that I find his beliefs totally abhorrent, appalling. |
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You will also have a constant reminder of your appalling actions through your own and your partner's permanent injuries. |
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Every day the papers are filled with an appalling catalogue of deaths and injuries as the result of the latest piece of motoring madness. |
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Their story is one of resilience, despite the most shocking and appalling conditions which they have endured. |
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Yes, the abuse they have revealed is disgusting and appalling and it is right that it should be exposed and that we should be horrified. |
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The female escaped but the male deer suffered appalling injuries as it tried to get away from the crowds of jeering onlookers. |
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The dove had suffered appalling injuries from which it would not have recovered. |
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We are simply asked to contemplate the appalling act and the nightmare that one loathsome human being can inflict on an innocent bystander. |
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So for my son, this was a terrible shock, and he started having appalling nightmares. |
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I was stunned and sickened by the appalling images, replayed over and over again on the TV screen. |
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And how has he managed to brush off the appalling injuries he suffered in a road accident 11 years ago? |
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Around three in the morning I had an appalling nightmare, the details of which I can't remember. |
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But he was so moved by our picture of the appalling injuries Rob was left with that he wanted to speak out publicly about his ordeal. |
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These are the appalling injuries suffered by a man brutally mugged for his wallet as he walked his dog. |
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It is an appalling and chilling chronicle of arrogance, complacency and collusion. |
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Then the transfer over onto CD from the tapes is appalling, losing an awful lot of the bottom end. |
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The killing of innocents is deplorable and appalling in any part of the world. |
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Today, all the alerts, the scares, the predictions became a quite appalling reality. |
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The style is the book, and it is a substantial constituent of the appalling events that are described throughout the novel. |
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I came close to turning down this recital because of the most appalling reviewer's tickets I've ever had. |
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Because everyone is somehow complicit in it, as much as it was a cultural eruption of the most appalling kind. |
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The story is part love story, part comedy of self-justification, and part a chronicle of an appalling crime. |
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That kind of outcome is sad and appalling and it's unfair to decent people who work seriously in politics. |
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It was an appalling chronicle of events, with far-reaching, negative outcomes. |
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Humanitarian disasters, of which genocide is the most appalling, are not pretty things. |
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Training conditions at home may be appalling, the diet poor and funds miniscule. |
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There is a class of person who delights in trying to scare the pants off you with appalling tales of child-rearing horror. |
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Yes, I mean we often do really quite appalling things to people that we love. |
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Could the appalling 60s architecture of the town centre College really be adapted to become a hotel that visitors would want to stay in? |
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Forced to share the accommodation and appalling conditions of the local community, they were initially provided with food by earlier settlers and friendly Liverpudlians. |
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We wouldn't grudge judicial quickness in headline-grabbing cases if it weren't for the appalling figures our justice system throws up again and again. |
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In a society seeking moral footing after 50 years of totalitarian rot, he found these public manners personally appalling and potentially combustible. |
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And, to top it all, the indifference shown by the government is appalling. |
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Animal activists in the city have been drawing attention to the appalling lack of concern for animal welfare in hatcheries or intensive poultry farming centres. |
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The weather seems to be either glorious, or absolutely appalling, and sea frets regularly come sailing in over the horizon from the nearby Solent. |
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I can't tell you what transpired next, it is too appalling to account. |
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The trouble with travelling to foreign countries is that, quite apart from the appalling weather, you can never be sure if the tap water is safe to drink. |
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Stanley is the victim of such an appalling and unlikely miscarriage of justice and yet he remains stoical and philosophical about everything that befalls him. |
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The use of force is appalling, indiscriminate barbarity unforgivable. |
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The grammar and punctuation in these messages is appalling, and the spelling is what I've come to expect from the comprehensive system these days. |
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However, in the case of their diamond sparkle lip gloss, which has little sparkly bits suspended in the viscous ooze, this is particularly appalling. |
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The appalling thing is that the mistake is entirely understandable. |
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The implications for poor minorities and non-convict labour are appalling. |
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The way in which we treat the poor people on the streets is appalling. |
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This Budget is woefully inadequate in redressing this appalling situation. |
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Playing at home in appalling weather conditions with wind, rain and hail stones beating down upon them the girls gave a full-hearted team performance. |
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The narrative of contemporary history heaps one appalling disaster upon another as the world crawls towards hostilities, bloodbaths, and natural disasters. |
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Particularly bad are the pinch points at the bottom of Lode Hill, but the whole stretch between Lode Hill and the shops in The Borough is in an appalling state. |
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There is an appalling and stultifying conformism in Australian politico-intellectual life, such that publications which do not conform are condemned and vilified. |
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It is a sign of the appalling lack of civics knowledge among the population and the media that the Democrats go unchallenged when they make these claims. |
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He raises his fist and, to the sound of an appalling crash of detuned cymbals, smashes down on the Holy Family, scattering the pieces across the floor. |
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But the indexes serve as a rough guide to the appalling reality of the rising household expenses of the majority of English people in the Tudor period. |
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The Germans were using new tactics of defence in depth developed in the west, and the Russian offensive ground to a halt with appalling casualties. |
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For every well-done and lavish musical number, there have been countless appalling elements each week. |
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The effect on their bearing and appearance is all too often appalling. |
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These centers were founded chiefly to make up for the appalling lack of art teaching in the conventional curriculum of black schools at that time. |
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There could never be an apropos moment to suffer such an appalling episode, but the timing in his case serves only to highlight his misfortune in even sharper relief. |
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With its wobbly sets, sensationalist plots, appalling acting, crude camerawork and dopey dialogue it was uncannily reminiscent of bad soaps in general. |
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Given Europe's appalling unemployment record, especially its failure to provide jobs for young folk, the Continent's elite have no right to be sniffy. |
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Some of his earliest writing consisted of newspaper reports on the appalling condition of the non-European population in Algeria. |
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The story was so appalling, the attack so brutish and morally offensive, that it provoked an immediate, furious response. |
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Identifying the perpetrators of this appalling tragedy is a criminal matter, not a technical one. |
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Among his many talents, Bradbury was able to see the future with appalling clarity. |
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That complete dissociation from one's old life I found appalling. |
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I do not think it is appropriate for a Minister to answer a question in the House in a way that attempts to dodge full responsibility for this appalling breach. |
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A few weeks ago, you may recall that I had need of the RAC's assistance, and received appalling service. Of course, I wrote to complain about this. |
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This was an appalling crime and whoever did this is the lowest of the low. |
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You have to remember that in those days, there were hundreds and hundreds of people confined to mental asylums in appalling conditions with very few treatments available. |
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It's appalling to think that a book like this may enter classrooms and inflict itself on young minds with little or no acquaintance with art history. |
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These vines produced huge crops of appalling table wine and eating grapes. |
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Gloucester finally ended their away jinx with a 16-0 victory over Harlequins at The Stoop, but the match was an appalling advert for the Zurich Premiership. |
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The Government's lack of support for local TAFEs is appalling. |
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He was stripped of his clothes and eyeglasses and held in conditions so appalling that to this day he breaks out in a cold sweat when he talks about it. |
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Unprecedented levels of luxury and parasitism for the privileged few exists alongside the most appalling growth of poverty among the vast majority of the world's people. |
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It's an appalling admission, but if certain people ask me to do something, and it's not my job or I don't deem it important, it gets back-burnered. |
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But journalists who hurl the most appalling abuse at officials of the government are not well placed to act pious when that abuse redounds upon their sources. |
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I am appalling in the morning, really foul-tempered and grouchy. |
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It's worse than appalling, and I intend taking it to the highest court. |
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Over the years, game species, such as moose and bighorn sheep, and other creatures, such as badgers and river otters, were killed in appalling numbers. |
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Want to vent your spleen over how great or appalling our list is? |
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The last few summers the fashion seemed to be polyester or other man-made fabrics and the skirts were quite figure hugging and looked quite appalling on me. |
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Unfortunately it also has the most appalling collection of yahoos in English cricket and their drunken antics put Headingley's Test future in some jeopardy. |
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We stamp all over the planet, meting out instant, severe punishment on the basis of hasty, ill-considered judgement, with the most appalling and devastating of consequences. |
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They have created a public debt of such appalling magnitude that our descendants, for whom we had such high hopes, will come into this world as poor as church mice. |
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He puts on an appalling high-pitched Australian squawky voice. |
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Now the appalling tragedy in the southern states is being repellently exploited to serve that very same scientifically unsound preconceived agenda. |
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His last pamphlet was about the appalling conditions of British seamen. |
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It is in appalling taste and naturally I therefore found it very amusing. |
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Unfortunately I started by vaguely hacking around with Perl and have developed some appalling habits which Perl quite happily lets me get away with. |
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One of the more noteworthy conflicts of the earlier series saw Ozzy and family tormenting the nouveau yuppies over the back fence for their appalling taste in music. |
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So many times I've sat at dinner tables, and there's been some horrible homophobe, or racist, or sexist at the table and they've said appalling things. |
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I glared with horror at Lucien for his crude statement, all in the meanwhile backing away from the two of them in an embarrassing attempt to hide my appalling state. |
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And this is not the first time that the kangaroo courts of rural India have made such appalling judgments. |
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My cosmopolitanism, my ability to read ancient Tamil love poetry, my advanced degrees become irrelevant in the face of such appalling culpability. |
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But if everything that passes in front of the eyes is supposed to be entertaining, and is viewed in that light, then the simulation would be condemned as appalling taste. |
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Ali withstood similarly appalling punishment in his three wars with Frazier, and most memorably during his immortal Rumble in the Jungle with George Foreman. |
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A self-confessed appalling delegator, he wanted to run the club as a dictatorship of sorts, his final say status extending to even the most trivial aspects. |
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This food is steeped in appalling animal suffering and exploitation. |
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Palin could play a similar role in the 2012 primaries, riling up the base while appalling moderates and independents. |
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The drivers of bulldozers, drotts, and other types of mechanical shovels worked long hours in appalling weather. |
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The history of Rome's campaigning is, if nothing else, a history of obstinate persistence overcoming appalling losses. |
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Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for Alan Turing and recognition of the appalling way he was treated. |
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Bothwick, who joins Saracens next season, was carried aloft by his jubilant teammates after a titanic tussle in appalling conditions. |
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Victory went to Schumacher at the wheel of a Ferrari in appalling conditions. |
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Even if he did have lovely shiny flicky hair and a rather fetching tanktop, that was not carte blanche for such appalling two-timing. |
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Boyd finds Cantin's cluelessness on Louisiana's power rates appalling, and so do we. |
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For most of the 31 years since Angola won independence from Portugal, it has suffered in one of the world's most appalling conflicts. |
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In their form, their liquid, droplike appearance, they distill the essence of this appalling summer. |
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The panic button in some rooms is too high on the wall and the police response to panic buttons can be appalling. |
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The threat of life of this appalling violence is palpable and so is the serous economic threat to a fledgeling and vulnerable nation. |
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The sadomasochistic antics in EL James's 'mommy porn' book Fifty Shades of Grey have made it a phenomenon, despite the appalling writing. |
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In 1926, British miners went on strike over their appalling working conditions. |
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But in a personal sense, having these letters treated as murderabilia is appalling to us. |
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By the early 19th century, German roads had deteriorated to an appalling extent. |
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The immediate successors of Augustus indulged in appalling cruelties towards senators and towards possible competitors for the purple. |
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I have never tried to diminish the appalling things that happened in Russia, though the sheer extent of the massacres we didn't realise. |
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But my attention was suddenly called from my own situation, by the most appalling shouts and squallings proceeding from the back of the carriage. |
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In developing countries, vitamin deficiencies cause an appalling array of diseases, such as beriberi or blindness, from vitamin A deficiency. |
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What an appalling picture of cruelty by a gutless blot on humanity, hanging a small dog. |
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Then, alas for Judt's Middle East future, his fellow kibbutzniks learned the appalling news that he planned to study history at Cambridge. |
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Imagine a 6-3 liberal court revisiting all of these appalling decisions. |
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These are generally countries with appalling human rights records. |
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For one thing, I had never realized the appalling poverty which existed. |
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Arsenal fans put on an appalling display of synchronised blubbing after their team's defeat at Leeds, even though it did not end their title hopes. |
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He does feel bad about the appalling waste of lives in Soviet communism. |
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He seems to commit his appalling crimes out of sheer spinelessness as much as greed, resorting quickly to drugging cups of tea as soon as his partner so much as questions him. |
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But it is abhorrent and appalling that they should be using their power in this way, and there can be no excuse for such intimidatory and predatory behaviour. |
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Of course, it is easy to envision contexts in which such an outcome is normatively either appealing or appalling, but the same is also true of pure majoritarianism. |
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