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The Home Office said the judgment allowed it to work to close every asylum hotel in an "orderly, planned and sustained programme".

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Our intention was never confrontation but reform; never escalation but the orderly unification of the forces that defend Sudan.

It was orderly and full of purpose, much like the Swanburne Academy, if Swanburne had been a boat full of Norwegian fishermen instead of a school full of Poor Bright Females.

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Then he wheeled and walked off without so much as a good-bye, but with two orderly columns of beagles marching in step behind him.

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Mama adored us, but she was very orderly and from time to time she could be a bit strict.

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

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