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The Department of Health needs to admit that it is now in damage-limitation mode.
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From a Number 10 point of view, that is a damage-limitation job well done.
Dr Fox is not so rare a beast as Mr Cameron would have us think | Andrew Rawnsley 2011
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As the damage-limitation actions of the police got more and more out of control, culminatingin an almost sexual frenzy of institutionalised violence, I was reminded of Lord of the Flies for grown-ups (nobody in a white uniform to rescue Ralph here).
Sunday Salon: David Peace and Karin Alvtegen Maxine 2009
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"The Department of Health needs to admit that it is now in damage-limitation mode," he added.
Auditor Blasts NHS E-Records Project Sten Stovall 2011
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Friday's events suggest Murdoch and his son James have realized their damage-limitation exercise has been a massive failure.
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As the damage-limitation actions of the police got more and more out of control, culminatingin an almost sexual frenzy of institutionalised violence, I was reminded of Lord of the Flies for grown-ups (nobody in a white uniform to rescue Ralph here).
March 2009 Maxine 2009
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As the damage-limitation actions of the police got more and more out of control, culminatingin an almost sexual frenzy of institutionalised violence, I was reminded of Lord of the Flies for grown-ups (nobody in a white uniform to rescue Ralph here).
Reading Maxine 2009
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As the damage-limitation actions of the police got more and more out of control, culminatingin an almost sexual frenzy of institutionalised violence, I was reminded of Lord of the Flies for grown-ups (nobody in a white uniform to rescue Ralph here).
Sunday Salon: David Peace and Karin Alvtegen Maxine 2009
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Rights groups described the statement as a damage-limitation strategy ahead of the report's release.
Bahrain Braces for Report Alex Delmar-Morgan 2011
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The Deepwater Horizon disaster has all the familiar ingredients of deregulation, deception, and knee jerk damage-limitation that typically characterise the relations between government regulators and multinational corporations in crisis after crisis.
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