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When Fred loses his drugstore job after punching an “America First” proponent who tells Homer he made a pointless sacrifice, Marie delivers a promise of divorce papers along with the coup de grâce: “I gave you the best years of my life and what have you done?”

And he added the coup de grace with his second and Australia's fourth try, sandwiching two scores by Angus Crichton and sealing a victory that brought the hosts down to earth with a sickening thump in front of 60,000 fans at Wembley.

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Esmee Brugts opened the scoring in the second minute, with Kika Nazareth extending the lead before Putellas got her name on the scoreboard before Caroline Graham Hansen's coup de grace on the whistle.

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But in a final judicial coup de grâce, no evidence of official acts may be introduced in such prosecutions—again, no matter how corrupt the official acts.

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Australia's uncharacteristically tail failed to wag with Rabada providing the coup de grace to Australia's innings when he pinned back Starc's leg stump to claim his fifth wicket.

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