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And finally: French forces helped the rebels, but no French soldier had set so much as one boot on Gbagbo's lawn.

Mr Mandela, who had set so much store by strengthening the ANC, a small and weak organisation when he joined it, might have foreseen that.But without him the transition to majority rule would almost certainly have been a bloody shambles.

And the games continued for hours after the sun had set, so that the long bomb passes thrown by the girl with a great arm winked in and out of sight, flying from the arc of one streetlight to the next.

He has set so many "red lines" on the Iranian nuclear program nobody can remember them.

I never thought I'd see them raise the bar that we've set so high over the years.

In particular, the publishers say, the city has set so high a standard for cleanliness it is threatening their existence.

One theme I've not used for a while is medicine - probably because I've set so many medically-related clues and maybe overdosed on it.

Wolmar said: "It's surprising that the government hasn't got more disciplinarian, but as they've set so much store by the 'northern powerhouse' and HS3, perhaps they don't want to treat them too harshly.

Wayne Rooney has set so many landmarks that he could almost have an entire episode of Record Breakers dedicated to him.

"But in the 110 hurdles, any mistake on any hurdle can mess with any goal you've set, so we didn't want to put anything in stone.

I think its interesting that for a city the size of Baltimore the major film directors that have come out of there have set so much of their stuff in Baltimore.