"Now is the winter of our discount Brent" Update: Spoilsports!
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Some market observers are just spoilsports, or reflexively contrarian without any basis.
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These are questions asked by jerks and spoilsports, and I wish I had better ones to ask of See.
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But according to a couple of spoilsports determined to ruin everything, The Holiday may not be as perfect as we imagined.
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A few spoilsports asked whether the government had its priorities straight, given that many of the country's villages still lack running water.
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Yet ambiguous claims involving spirituality and a sort of interpersonal energy transference are unsupported, and there's an underlying implication that doubters are just spoilsports.
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Historians writing about the gaps in public forums, alerting the community at large to the fictional parts of the play, are spell breakers — spoilsports.
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So if the spoilsports and the snark attackers want to throw brickbats instead of bouquets at Bob Dylan on his birthday, one suspects that's fine with him.
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South Korean visitors are charmed to hear that, on the clearest of days, the shoreline of Busan can be spotted; only a few spoilsports insist the sightings are, in fact, just a mirage.
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Now, as more and more industries seize this post–Harvey Weinstein moment to clean house of their resident creeps, the women in comedy who have been brushed off as spoilsports when they complained are rejecting the label wholesale, embracing their anger and sharpening it to a fine point.
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"We were looking for the rupee to head towards 71 in the coming months, but we reckon the movement towards that level looks likely to be way quicker than expected as most wild cards appear to have played collective spoilsports," said Madhavi Arora, lead economist for FX and rates at Edelweiss Securities.
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Each of the theme phrases are common two-word phrases or names whose last word is a topic covered on MORNING SHOWs: 17A: NEWPORT NEWS 28A: DRUG TRAFFIC 36A: UNDER THE WEATHER 44A: SPOILSPORTS ■ 1A: Have you ever had a word on the tip of your tongue/pencil/pen/keyboard and just couldn't reach it?
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For every fan who delights over, say, Canadian Alice Munro being acknowledged by Stockholm three years ago for her long career achieving mastery of the short story, there are at least three or more spoilsports insisting that a Nobel Prize for American novelist Philip Roth and his formidable and influential body of work is long overdue.
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As mixed martial arts fans we've long grown accustomed to prudes and prigs and spoilsports lashing out at our favorite pastime with "evidence" (psychological, anatomical, ethical, historical-pastoral) that fighting as a source of amusement warps the minds of our children, debilitates the moral growth of our civilization, and sets back the cause of human evolution.
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De Spelbrekers (The Spoilsports) were a Dutch singing duo, consisting of Theo Rekkers (24 April 1924 – 20 April 2012) and Huug Kok (19 February 1918 – 27 October 2011).De Spelbrekers zijn niet meer, Top 40 website They were known for their participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 1962, representing the Netherlands.
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Professor Brian Wilson, in his article "The 'Anti-Jock' Movement: Reconsidering Youth Resistance, Masculinity and Sport Culture in the Age of the Internet", detailed two basic types of websites which are common within the Anti-Jock cyber movement. First, webzines devoted to opposition of the jock culture. These sites often include suggestions for activism and action against the jock establishment. Professor Wilson, referred specifically to two such sites: Spoilsports, and the now defunct High School Underground.
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