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And you wouldn’t think we would be on the verge of handing ourselves a brand new setback in the choice of our next mayor.

In the end, the fans booed and the stands solemnly emptied and the team moved to the verge of arguably the biggest disappointment in franchise history.

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But having already put an indelible mark on this series and with the World Cup in Australia coming next year, Walsh may be on the verge of being a global superstar.

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The ground floors of some buildings are propped up by scaffolding and appear on the verge of collapse and in some areas rubble is piled high as diggers continue the reconstruction work.

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The war has killed as many as 150,000 people and left one of Africa’s largest countries in a strategically important region on the verge of becoming a failed state.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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