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Put bluntly, St Kilda found it near impossible to kick goals against North Melbourne last weekend and the Dockers will apply the clamps even tighter.
Related: Northern Alabama's only abortion clinic fights to survive lawmakers' onslaught Under the new law, doctors would be banned from using forceps, clamps, scissors or similar instruments on a live fetus to remove it from the womb in pieces.
It clamps down on early retirement and switches all workers into the contribution-based state pension first introduced in 1995, which makes it worthwhile for people to work longer.
For one thing, an Israeli government could take weeks or more to emerge, and could then prove hobbled by religious and other clamps.
In a related second scenario, the ANC clamps down on its political opponents and the press to make space for the same economic reforms.
The locals' pick-ups are rusting and gnarled; but the tourists haul themselves up rocks with clips and clamps made out of aerospace-grade metal.
As part of any permanent ceasefire, Israel will insist that Egypt clamps down on the smuggling of missile parts through Sinai and into Gaza.
Though Mr Sharon has withdrawn troops from one or two areas, he has not relaxed the clamps that cripple life in the West Bank and Gaza too.
For the first time in years, the protests have been giving Syrians a chance to discuss the future outside the clamps of the Baath party.
Those babies whose umbilical clamps had been applied after three minutes had, on average, iron levels 45% higher than those whose cords had been clamped immediately.
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As the Government clamps-down on legal highs, the founder of the Global Drug Survey, Dr Adam Winstock, said that banning laughing gas would be the wrong decision He said: "The majority of people who use it don't use it very often and only around three per cent of heavy users say they have experienced negative health effects.
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