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For the moment, the best that the army and police can hope is that they will be able to intercept IRA missions tempted into rashness by the very strength of their armoury.

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Updated at 11.45am BST 11.37am BST 36th over: England 75-5 (Root 9, Ali 15) Root has looked fairly solid this morning, affecting confidence only occasionally belied by rashness.

In the end, appalled by her own rashness and her yearning still inarticulable, she is defined not by her circumstances but by the fullness of her depressed character.

"I hope that the Anzac spirit isn't jeopardised by the rashness of the Coalition government's obsession with political point scoring on immigration".

Rueing the Fredericksburg disaster (the Burnside Blunder), Alcott mourned a particular "excellent nature robbed of its fulfillment, and blundered into eternity by the rashness or stupidity of those at whose hands so many lives may be required".

In a letter to the Hessian General Leopold Philip von Heister Germain wrote that "the officer who commanded [the forces at Trenton] and to whom this misfortune is to be attributed has lost his life by his rashness".

Such examples by themselves show the rashness of any view that claims either that human nature has remained fixed since the Stone Age, or that genes are somehow in the evolutionary driving seat.

God be thanked, the throne of our King is too firmly settled to be shaken by the folly and rashness of every sottish companion.

Yet a surprisingly large number of those interviewed said they had become unnerved by Mr. McCain's seeming rashness, and some feared that his conduct was not becoming of the Oval Office.

There was scarcely an officer or man in the command whose attention was not attracted by the cool and handsome bearing of General Garnett, who, totally devoid of excitement or rashness, rode immediately in rear of his advancing line, endeavoring by his personal efforts, and by the aid of his staff, to keep his line well closed and dressed.

Now, 10 weeks later, with the Iranian revolutionary establishment still shaken by the brazenness of the June 12 electoral fraud and the rashness of the supreme leader's gambit, Khamenei declares: "I don't accuse the leaders of the recent incidents of being affiliated with foreign countries, including the United States and Britain, since the issue has not been proven to me".

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