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From an Andrea Pirlo corner, Harrison took a calm touch on a wild bounce 25 yards out, shook off two defenders with a left-footed flick and blasted a first-time effort to beat Luis Robles.

A first-time effort to wire funds to Kyrgyzstan might send risk scores flying, prompting a call from a service manager or a text message to confirm the trade.

The PROMISSE Study (Predictors of Pregnancy Outcome: Biomarkers in Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus) is a first-time effort to translate our novel findings in mice to humans and determine examine the role of complement as a mediator of complications in patients with antiphospholipid (aPL) antibodies and/or SLE.

The Spaniard threw himself at Riviere's first time effort to make a point-blank save after Fabricio Coloccini's header across goal.

Sir Alex Ferguson believes the sublime effort, as Van Persie manoeuvred himself on to the end of a 50-yard pass from Wayne Rooney before rocketing a first-time effort past Brad Guzan deserves to clinch the goal-of-the-season prize.

The team sitting second-bottom of the Scottish Professional Football League stunned the side who are third from top when Phillips struck a first-time effort from 18 yards, to seal a famous win.

Bony seemed certain to double the advantage with a first-time effort from six yards out but Speroni dived to his right to save one-handed.

Kermorgant was the provider by laying the ball back to Ritchie and the winger arrived at speed on the left of the box to plant a first-time effort beyond Henderson and in off a post.

A nicely-weighted pass by Vladimir Bystrov found Kerzhakov, who squared the ball for the onrushing Fayzulin to send a first-time effort into the top corner.

Soon Ronaldinho was releasing Eto'o for a first-time effort that skimmed the top of the bar and before half-time, Cole had struck a post.

This Chinese film, a first-time effort from the director Wuershan, tells three interlocking stories set in feudal times and carries an executive producer credit for the American filmmaker Doug Liman ("The Bourne Identity").