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They deny all charges and Mr Corner denies an additional allegation of causing grievous bodily harm.

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He faces charges of causing grievous bodily harm to 309 people and causing dangerous interference to road traffic.

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Jhangur, of Whiteways Road, Sheffield, was found guilty in July of murder, three counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent and one of wounding with intent relating to those also hurt.

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Scenes like this are tricky enough to pull off tastefully in dramatized films, but here, the sequence feels impossibly grievous.

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It is a major moment in this most grievous Gaza war.

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

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