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  • "I consider marijuana the worst of all narcotics, far worse than the use of morphine or cocaine," thundered Symes from the bench.

    November 2005 2005

  • In the light of Feyenoord's 10-0 defeat to PSV at the weekend, when was the last time a European Cup-winning side conceded double figures? ponders Rich Symes.

    Which club started the most managers on the road to football success? John Ashdown 2010

  • Philip Symes, chief financial officer for Visa Europe, said that the organisation's UK expenditure index showed that Britons were "spending quite well, at robust levels".

    Recreation and leisure spending suffers summer dip, says Visa report Jill Insley 2010

  • But Symes said that although total spending has recovered to pre-recession levels, the rate of growth is flattening, indicating that consumer spending may not play a major role in the further recovery of the economy.

    Recreation and leisure spending suffers summer dip, says Visa report Jill Insley 2010

  • But Mrs. Astor had long ago replaced Ward McAllister with Harry Symes Lehr, a Baltimorean who existed on the gifts of clothing, jewelry, champagne and housing provided by companies eager for him to put in a good word for their products.

    The Four Hundred | Edwardian Promenade 2009

  • Last night Michael Symes scored the first of his two goals in the second minute to set the Cherries on their way to a 3-0 win over Exeter City, who came into the match on the back of a six-game unbeaten run.

    Gary Madine shrugs off brush with law to inspire Carlisle United Simon Burnton 2010

  • Sold to the Getty in 1988 for $18 million by the London dealer Robin Symes, a specialist in looted antiquities, this remarkable sculpture which almost certainly does not represent the goddess of love probably came from somewhere in Italy, and so the new policy decreed that the authorities in Rome be notified.

    The Beautiful and the True Malcolm Bell 2011

  • "Moko just came flying through the water and pushed in between us and the whales," Juanita Symes, another rescuer, told The Associated Press.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • According to the NPA, Symes, a world expert on bones injury and burnt bones, will also conduct a final review of the 10 skeleton remains which were exhumed in Mamelodi, Pretoria from the Winterveld cemetery in 2005.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Written between 1936 and 1941, without salutations and signed off with the nick-name "Pig", they are addressed to her friend Norah Myles (née Symes) whom she had met at St Hugh's College, Oxford, in the mid-1920s.

    Another piece of the puzzle 2005

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