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Cameron says that the country cannot succeed in the global economic race against growing economies such as China, India and Indonesia "with a great millstone of debt round our necks", and argues that changes to welfare were not cruel but were a means of getting more people into employment and helping those who "want to work hard and get on in life".
They they all are, hooking their necks down to make their abs stick out – Magic Mike, one of his friends, and one of the werewolves from Twilight who's turned to stripping as a last resort to fund his twin addictions to fake tan and pasties.
Desperate for work, the newly arrived accepted long hours and low wages, though the need to do so, Desai said, "nagged away like a sore on their necks".
Although the DUP's Diane Dodds was elected to the European parliament, Allister was breathing down their necks with 66,197 votes.
Six of the detainees said they were slammed into walls after having a collar placed around their necks.
They all sound like they'd all wear Hackett tops with the collars turned up if they had necks.
A €53.4m arena, Espanyol's new home occupies 81,163 square metres, has 40,500 seats breathing down the players' necks, solar panels on the roof, and even a cemetery for pericos who have passed away.
The boats' destruction becomes an economic millstone hung about individuals' necks; a debt that they cannot repay.
On the one hand, he specified timber "from the saw" and plaster "from the float", while on the other he was constantly on site, breathing down his workers' necks, insisting that the ends of steel beams be carefully stripped and twisted into impossibly elaborate decorative curls.
The Wachowskis borrowed many of Ghost's key details, including the digital "rain" of green numbers that signifies cyberspace, and the way humans plug themselves in through holes in the backs of their necks.
"We walked in the sea till the water reached our necks to get near the boats," Kariem recalled.
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