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soiled

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Past of soil

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During evidence on the behaviour of nuns from the Sisters of Nazareth order at two Catholic church-run children's homes in Derry, the inquiry heard that children were beaten for bedwetting and had soiled sheets placed on their heads to humiliate them.

Asylum seekers are examined while exhausted, dehydrated and filthy, their clothing "soiled with urine and faeces" because there are no toilets on the boats.

Our inability to see clearly when it comes to defecation directly contributes to 1.2 million children dying every year, still, from something as stupid as diarrhoea, caused by the fact that 2.6 billion people still have no toilets or even a bucket, and so faecal pathogens travel happily from soiled ground onto fingers, into rice pots, into bellies.

The doctors claim: asylum seekers are examined while exhausted, dehydrated and filthy, their clothing "soiled with urine and faeces" because there are no toilets on the boats patients are "begging for treatment" asylum seekers must queue for up to three hours for medication.

Though he had always promised to commit suicide during a show, a defeated Allin finally walked off stage in Manhattan in June 1993, sporting just soiled briefs, his body smeared with blood and droppings, and into a fatal heroin overdose.

It was the hypocrisy, not the scurrilousness, of them that soiled the party's reputation.

On February 8th the Wall Street Journal quoted unnamed GM sources as talking of closing some of its European division's plants.The abortive sale has left the Opel brand even more "soiled" in continental Europe, says Autocar's Mr Bremner.

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The sandstone-based soils of central and northeastern Ohio are best adapted to pasturelands, while the thin-soiled and heavily eroded hilly areas of the southeast support little productive farming except in river bottomlands.

Yet it is still struggling to manage even what it has; would it do better if it added the hassle of integrating 171 new stores to its estate, let alone 481 and their shop-soiled management on top?Sainsbury's bosses and shareholders can only benefit by being saved from their own expansive ambitions.

After being put through the cleaning procedure, the once-soiled banknotes reflected light almost as well as new ones do, with none of their security features compromised.

All this gives reason to think that J&J will indeed stand firm, perhaps bidding for another medical-devices company later and leaving Boston to manage a merger with a now somewhat shop-soiled Guidant.

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