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So Karzai, effectively, picked the target, overruling American commanders.

Jones's route took him inside, so that he effectively picked off the defender covering Barber.

IN THE 15 years since the nine members of the Supreme Court effectively picked the nation's 43rd president in Bush v Gore, the justices' decisions have increasingly been regarded as falling along ideological lines.

The Wallabies do not have Hooper but do still have Pocock and Sean McMahon and if they can have their usual impact at the breakdown then France, who have effectively picked three No8s again, may struggle.

Cotter has in his two back-row Johns, Hardie and Barclay, effectively picked two open-sides in the belief that if a disciplined, athletic Scotland can stay on their feet to win the battle of the breakdown, as Australia did against England, and most others, in the World Cup, then Scotland can stretch the English.

With the help of a surge in American troops, that's what we got.As Dexter Filkins explained recently in the New Yorker, American ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad effectively picked the new leader, Nuri al-Maliki, a reasonably non-corrupt Shiite nationalist, after post-election negotiations over forming a government stalemated.

Every four years a handful of the same old states effectively pick party nominees for president, voting earlier and earlier with campaign spending mattering more and more.

— BEN ROTHENBERG Effectively picking on Murray's forehand, Djokovic has broken for a 5-2 lead in the third set, putting himself one game from forcing a fourth set.

But other observers expect subscription models to be challenged as advertisers make further inroads into sponsored content and branded applications, effectively picking up the tab.

Yet now, just days before Tuesday's primary, which will effectively pick the next mayor in this overwhelmingly Democratic city, Mr. Fenty is the underdog — even he admits it — and deeply unpopular with the black middle class that helped to elect him.

The new payments platform will effectively pick up where Google Wallet left off by allowing consumers to tap and pay using their smartphone at local stores, while also offering a developer API for digital payments.