| They trounced Fiji before losing heavily to South Africa and, most gallingly, being edged out by Samoa at L' Aquila. |
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| Two incumbent selectwomen were trounced during the April 2 annual town election, showing voters' dissatisfaction with the status quo. |
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| Bury suffered their worst ever Football League Cup defeated when they were trounced 10-by West Ham. |
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| He jumped and travelled really well in that particular contest, as he trounced his opponent by 20 lengths. |
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| Her tone struck the right chord just a day after she trounced the Prince in a match race between their yachts on beautiful Copenhagen Harbour. |
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| Critics trounced it, because that's what they do... they're fickle like that. |
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| Meanwhile, the young woman in the leather suit had trounced several of the black-clad thugs. |
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| The legislative Speaker conceded defeat after being trounced by Jones. |
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| On August 19 and 21 she trounced Singaporeans 4:2 and 4:3 in the quarter-finals and the semi-finals each before advancing into the finals. |
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| In the other, the Danes trounced France A, 17-1, the most goals ever scored in an Olympic match. |
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| Even with the forwards far below their recent best, Scotland, though roundly trounced by the end, had enough of the ball and the game against Ireland to have won the match. |
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| Meanwhile, Gov. Nathan Deal trounced his opponent, Jason Carter, 55 percent to 42 percent. |
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| The challenger handily trounced him by a ratio of more than two to one. |
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| The BBC1 airing trounced rivals on the other channels such as Channel 4's The Island with Bear Grylls, which scored 2.4 million viewers and ITV maternity ward comedy The Delivery Man, which averaged 1.2 million. |
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| Rangers, who were trounced 4-1 at Ibrox Park by Sevilla in their last game, have the chance to atone for that performance at home to Romanian new boys Unirea Urziceni. |
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| One thing is certain: the challenges the Americans will face in the first group stage are sure to be far stiffer than the resistance Barbados put up when the Americans trounced them 9-0 on aggregate in the previous round. |
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| Rival campaigners amongst environmentalists, human rights activists and trade unionists marvel at the way Jubilee 2000 has trounced those who talked pessimistically about the apathy and fatalism of civil society. |
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| They need not have worried: Lucas trounced the Labour hopeful, Purna Sen, by just under 8,000 votes, a huge increase on her 1,252 majority of five years ago. |
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