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  • Justin Gallagher, head of domestic sales at RBS in Sydney, said the markets may find it hard to shake-off contagion fears of the European debt crisis.

    Asia Down Sharply on Europe Shri Navaratnam 2011

  • The latest effort from the Tourism Ministry, "Lebanon Blues," in which a recent visitor to Lebanon struggles to shake-off images of scantily-clad women encountered during his trip, should therefore come as no surprise.

    Patrick Galey: Why Sex Shouldn't Sell for Lebanon's Tourists Patrick Galey 2011

  • Britain may be secure (or not!) but a true Tory revival in Scotland seems unlikely until the party can shake-off the unfair if widely held view that it's somehow an alien or even occupying force that's fundamentally inimical to Scottish interests and "values" (whatever they may be).

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • Britain may be secure (or not!) but a true Tory revival in Scotland seems unlikely until the party can shake-off the unfair if widely held view that it's somehow an alien or even occupying force that's fundamentally inimical to Scottish interests and "values" (whatever they may be).

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • While we are dealing with what is an adult sensibility in terms of dialogue and instances of the risque, I cannot shake-off the feeling that underlining the contemporary storytelling moxie-preceding it-one may find that the words are backed by a gaze that reflect the experience and love of Juvenile adventure.

    The Last Resort #1 review – Palmiotti and Gray! 2009

  • Britain may be secure (or not!) but a true Tory revival in Scotland seems unlikely until the party can shake-off the unfair if widely held view that it's somehow an alien or even occupying force that's fundamentally inimical to Scottish interests and "values" (whatever they may be).

    Caledonian Blues 2009

  • But there are signs that the internal debate is causing Google to shake-off of its reluctance to advertise.

    Google Reconsiders Its Aversion to Advertising 2008

  • These two power players used the continent as one of their sites for their global confrontations at the time when the continent was trying to shake-off the shackles of colonialism.

    A lecture delivered at the University of Cape Coast � Ghana 2007

  • The dog managed to shake-off his blue color and got stuck with the name ‘Blue’.

    Blue Abodh 2006

  • Calendar years meant nothing; academic years were everything, and after such a long apprenticeship it's impossible to shake-off the practices and patterns of the past just like that.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Alistair Myles 2006

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