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And, from the World Wrestling Championships to Baku International Jazz festival, we're no strangers to hosting major crowd-pulling events.
Letters: All change in Azerbaijan long before Eurovision 2011
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SaloneSatellite, that unmissable event and great crowd-pulling catalyst, will be held again this year, with its line-up of creative young talent at the service of businesses.
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After a season of shows more scholarly than crowd-pulling, it's amazing that the National Gallery has pulled itself out of its doldrums with such a blockbuster.
An Exhibition of a Lifetime Paul Levy 2011
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While he recognises his brother's divine mission, he knows that without a few flashy crowd-pulling signs and wonders – throwing yourself off a crag in the wilderness, say, on to the rocks below and surviving – the public won't buy it.
Philip Pullman, Mark's Gospel, Sum: Tales from the Afterlives and Richard Dawkins's Ancestor's Tale 2010
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The Conservative party, which started as the crowd-pulling favourite, was no longer the big ticket in town.
Nick Clegg: the man they couldn't topple is now the biggest ticket in town 2010
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Cheltenham's racecourse, always forward-looking, had extended to King Alfred's brewery, in Ivan's memory, every red-carpet courtesy they could give to the chief sponsor of one of their top crowd-pulling early-season afternoons.
They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010
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While the crowd-pulling seminars at ad: tech London seemed to revolve around monetising social media, it seemed that our panel was more frank about the progress made to date.
Micromedia futures or the emperor’s new clothes? « Innovation Cloud 2008
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While the crowd-pulling seminars at ad: tech London seemed to revolve around monetising social media, it seemed that our panel was more frank about the progress made to date.
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"Now his leap into the belly of the reality-TV beast suggests that the crowd-pulling outrage of the genre may be more deeply, and domestically, rooted than we suspected."
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It is the reason why the teaching of British political history and the story of the nation has been all but excised from the curriculum, replaced instead by bursts of disconnected propaganda gobbets about ‘slavery’, ‘empire’ (which of course was all bad) and the oppression of the poor, women and minorities (with Hitler thrown in for good measure because of the crowd-pulling appeal in the classroom of extreme violence).
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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