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He lumped Syria's leaders with Mr. Hussein, saying they had promised a restoration of ancient glories but instead left "a legacy of torture, oppression, misery and ruin".

"I saw a friend of mine being villified by the press and the Democrats," he said, adding that he never got through to Ms. Harris but instead left a message for her to "hang in there".

That would be an example of what physicists call CP violation and a potential explanation for why the normal matter and antimatter created at the Big Bang did not simply annihilate each other, but instead left an excess of normal matter.

In reality, the plant can become overcrowded and be susceptible to diseases that won't kill it, but instead leave an unsightly mess that most likely won't bloom.

When he returned to his alma mater in 1959 as associate registrar in the applied science faculty, Stevens could have gone on to a successful career in university administration, but instead left after a year to join the British Council in northern Nigeria.

Sciascia's body was not covertly buried but instead left to be discovered in a street in the Bronx, an attempt to make the hit look like a botched drug deal rather than a Mafia-ordered hit, and Massino had his capos attend Sciascia's funeral.

Sigismund's veto wasted this opportunity and instead left a residue of Russian hatred of Poland.

The first was a throwing error in the third inning, when Eliot Johnson's slow grounder could have been a second out but instead left Johnson on second base.

He planned to enter Yale after high school but instead left home following the death of his father.

President Bush had planned to leave today for Camp David, in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, but instead left on Wednesday night.

The dolphins are usually not caught and killed immediately, but instead left to calm down over night.