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The Guardian talked to lesbians in townships in Johannesburg and Cape Town who said they were being deliberately targeted for rape and that the threat of violence had become an everyday ordeal.

The management, however, dismissed claims O'Driscoll was deliberately targeted for a lack of respect to Maori culture because the Lions had challenged the home side's haka by standing in a bizarre semi-circular formation.

Rather than being deliberately targeted for assassination as the prosecution claims, the newlywed bride was shot by accident as her captors argued over whether to rape her, the defendant's barrister claimed in court.

The president of the Croatian federation claims the injury suffered by his country's star player Modric has left him wondering whether Croatia's top stars are being deliberately targeted for rough treatment in the Premier League.

During the housing bubble, blacks were deliberately targeted for subprime loans: as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said, the big banks committed "systematic discrimination against blacks and Hispanics".

Diabaly had been deliberately targeted for its army garrison and weapons supply.

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There's no doubt about that, but it didn't answer the question of whether I.R.S. agents deliberately targeted conservative groups for political reasons, which is the allegation that underpins the entire scandal.

After heated exchanges, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France vowed to keep dismantling illegal immigrant camps and rejected complaints that the French authorities were racist and deliberately targeted the Roma for deportation.

Also on the panel was novelist Kate Mosse, who said she had "deliberately" targeted independent booksellers for the promotional tour of her paperback release of Citadel.

Meanwhile, British missionaries deliberately targeted ethnic minorities for conversion to Christianity, weakening the institutional power of Buddhism in the colony.

Perhaps Harris and Carter deliberately targeted the sympathetic New York Post for their climate denialist spin because of the rallies and top level UN meetings going on there in the coming days.

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