Not long afterwards, he loses his wife and finds his personal life in tatters. |
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A grey-bearded Ecuadorian tramp shuffled past, scooping himself a cup of water out of the central fountain, his trousers in tatters around him. |
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Dressed in tatters and singing mournfully, she played the part of the hungry orphan to perfection. |
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One passing eyewitness saw the youths swinging from shop front lettering in the small hours, lettering which now hangs in tatters. |
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The orbital defence system was in tatters, with barely any working laser cannons and no missile silos left. |
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Your finances are in tatters, your blood pressure is rising and the queue for the bank cashiers' desks is never-ending. |
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There were photographs stuck to the stone wall, packages with letters, coins, tatters of cloth. |
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Our alliances around the world with other countries that we rely on to help us have been shredded and left in tatters around the globe. |
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Other times I want to jump up and down on them until they are in shreds and tatters, cursing the preciosity of it all. |
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Just as some people, apparently servants in rags and tatters, served dinner. |
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It was argued that business would be destroyed and the town's economic future would be in tatters. |
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A crowd that clutched parcels of packaged joy had gathered around a joyless, shoeless vagrant who was dressed in newspaper-stuffed tatters. |
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The country was carved up among rival militia, the economy was in ruins and the social fabric in tatters. |
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A few bits of bone and tatters of cloth were all that remained of Orhandia. |
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Hence Europe at war's end was in tatters, Britain was virtually bankrupt, Germany destroyed, and Japan on its knees. |
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Jonathan Crane, wearing the rags and tatters of his Scarecrow costume, without his mask, is relaxing on a couch, feet up on an endtable. |
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One by one, his brilliant strategies fell to tatters like the third-hand law books in his shabby office. |
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She didn't even bother looking at him. Her ankle still throbbed from her previous fall and her favourite dress was now in tatters. |
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That also rends into tatters the shreds of my emotionless image, wouldn't you say? |
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He seemed to have welt marks on his skin that looked like they were made by a whip and his shirt was in tatters. |
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She looked at the other woman, searching the tatters of her memory for a clue to the stranger's identity, but there were none. |
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Your finances are in tatters, your blood pressure is rising and the queue for the bank cashiers ' desks is never-ending. |
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Her sleeves were in tatters, the worn cotton having merely given way to greater force. |
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His army career is in tatters, his regiment and family are dishonoured and his girlfriend has reportedly left him. |
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And half of the flowers were in tatters, torn by the frenzy of legs and wings. |
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The broken hollow path bending upwards round the base, is always occupied by a grotesque group of cripples and beldames, in rags and tatters, laughing and whining and praying. |
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Just last week he was a fish out of water who had made a disastrous career move that saw his legacy as one of England's greatest ever strikers in tatters at departures. |
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We have the Information Commissioner telling us that our system is in tatters. |
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Britain was encircled, its army in tatters with its equipment left behind, its fleet hard-hit and stretched too thin. |
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We too have worked hard for peace but, every day, we watch it being increasingly shot to tatters. |
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The earth by the Kramer monument burst asunder, and a bony, decomposing arm, covered with tatters of moldy, worm-eaten cloth, reached out of the ground. |
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The electronics industry is in tatters, domestically made hydraulics break and leak, the ergonomics of the goods is no good at all. |
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And people have very limited resources to face up to all that. The famed solidarity of the large African family is in tatters. |
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I understand that if families are at the heart of communities, it is hard to build strong communities when families lie in tatters. |
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We saw it in the election campaign, demonizing, misrepresenting, and now the Prime Minister's reputation is completely in tatters. |
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Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa. |
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Mr. Speaker, this is the conduct that has left the reputation of the government in tatters. |
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Last week in its scathing report the National Council of Welfare said that our social safety net is in tatters. |
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Clearly, Mr Putin's strategic design will be in tatters without Ukraine and, clearly, Mr Putin will not give up easily. |
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He designs his costume, most often resorting to rags and tatters. |
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Song fragments and electronic tatters abound on this album, and at the moments you put out your hand to their allure, Maricich snaps them back with a smirk. |
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And finally, we found the chamber in which she was kept, spread-eagled against one wall, dressed in rags and tatters of her once-magnificent gown. |
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Yesterday I bought new shoes, and told the clerk I needed something that would stand up to a great dealing walking the next day without shredding my heel into red tatters. |
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About half a mile from the Desolate Borough's walls, the city dumped the by-products of dyes, tatters of textiles, and every other waste that had no use for. |
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How many pairs of boots did Carlyon tear to tatters in his researches? |
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As well as leaving Labour's economic narrative in tatters, today's figures give the lie to UKIP's scaremongering on immigration. |
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There are plenty of commentators now who would say that MERCOSUR, to a certain extent, is in tatters. |
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England is considering the possibility that its World Cup dream could lie in tatters seven weeks before a ball is kicked, and a frenzied southern media is horror-struck. |
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The Berlin Wall had fallen, Soviet troops limped out of Afghanistan, and the Soviet economy was in tatters. |
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He dragged her from the bedroom and, after she fled downstairs, the attack continued until he eventually pushed her out of the house bare foot and with her clothes in tatters. |
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With the school's championship finals looming and Jimmy's confidence in tatters once more, his dreams of being spotted by a City talent scout look distant. |
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For fifty years there was no economic progression and by the time that Latvia broke free from the Soviet Union in 1991 its economy was in tatters. |
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An armoire stood between the door and the bedstead, an old four-poster crouching against the left wall, with no mattress and the canopy in tatters. |
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She was 26 years old and her life was in tatters, her future a black cloud. |
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But they may not have time with Putin challenging, Crimea invaded and an economy in tatters. |
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A few years later, though, when my Jerusalemite husband and I moved temporarily to the U.S., Oslo was already in tatters. |
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The 50-year-old solicitor's career has been in tatters since he lost an appeal against conviction for being drunk and disorderly and his business was shut down. |
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Nevertheless, he still can tear passion to tatters in the verismo arias. |
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The SF president also launched attacks on the Government for trying to vilify the party but argued that while the peace process was in tatters, it could be rebuilt. |
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Within weeks of the policy coming into effect in November, town halls realised the change could leave their affordable housing budgets in tatters. |
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More trade and some Chinese investment in Indian manufacturing are the expected outcomes. What is more, the trip will also have to be about patching up relations after Mr Xi's visit last year ended in tatters. |
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With the budget in tatters, the deficit swelling and foreigners audibly fretting about the dollar, can America's president really commit to spending vastly more each year in the Hindu Kush, for as long as it takes to prevail? |
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Did Canada have more influence over Chinese human rights three years ago, when we had a strong relationship between the Government of Canada and the government of China, or today when that relationship is in tatters? |
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The Conservative government's credibility is in tatters. |
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Likewise in Canada, the government has left equality rights in tatters. |
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The prolonged civil war that battered Angola until March 2002 left the education sector in tatters, with 1 million children excluded from primary schooling. |
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Their lives and the lives of their families are in tatters. |
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Freshwater fish farming: This was formerly a strong sector in Europe but today it is in tatters, despite the fact that it has considerable growth potential. |
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Still, when Jacques is dealt a wild card by the Louisiana Purchase, late in the second act, and finds himself reënslaved and reduced to the tatters that signal his nonentity, Wright comes vivaciously into his own. |
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In their quest for personal gain, crooked consultants have displayed a disdain for our immigration rules, bilked numerous people out of their hard-earned money, and left countless lives in tatters along the way. |
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Education and health care are reported to be in tatters. |
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Years of debate over Iraq and terrorism have left our unity on national security issues in tatters, and created a highly polarized and partisan backdrop for this effort. |
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The old relationships of the Arab Co-operation Council and Gulf Co-operation Council are in tatters, while the Arab League and the Arab Maghreb Union have been severely strained. |
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Predictions of his demise circulated after Republicans emerged from the October 2013 government shutdown with nothing to show and their approval in tatters. |
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My health was in tatters, my hope on a fair trial was in tatters. |
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A colleague at the salon said her Tunisian workmate had used an expired hair dye, which left the Moroccan woman's long locks in tatters. |
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Aristide's removal was the product of a long and often painful period of demonstrations against his rule that left many protesters dead and injured and the rule of law in tatters. |
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A woman found guilty of a nightclub glassing which left an Australian singer's career in tatters has had her conviction overturned on appeal. |
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Many of her experienced nobles were dead and the economy which had barely begun to recover from the earlier wars was once again in tatters. |
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It would stretch the truth, but perhaps not tear it to tatters, to say that World War II was fought over oil. |
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It would be very strange indeed if during tomorrow's vote, we first demonstrated our allegiance to a more coherent approach to waste shipments, only to shoot this uniform approach to tatters the next day. |
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The sight of her old neighbourly depredator shivering at the door in tatters, the very oddity of his appeal, touched a soft spot in the spinster's heart. |
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The home side's game plan was in tatters in the fourth minute as keeper Scott Christie was sent off after dashing out his box and poleaxing Sean O'Neill. |
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The Ojibway kids I went to school with had lost their commercial whitefish fishery and jobs guiding sport anglers, so the economic base of their reserve was in tatters. |
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In any event, Darrow escaped from Los Angeles with his career in tatters. |
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Fulham's defence was a thing of rags and tatters long before the end. |
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A child of a peasant, dressed in tatters, said to her mother 'All that matters, Is that We are all Sneetches, Sneetches in distress, We are nothing more We are nothing less. |
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