How To Use Premiership In A Sentence
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Some of the characters, such as spoilt Premiership stars, shifty agents and publicity-mad bimbos, are instantly identifiable with true-life equivalents and not altogether far-fetched.
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Football can be a cruel business and the Premiership is one of the most merciless and unforgiving of all leagues.
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Just why the politician who destroyed his premiership crusading against dictators wilfully became a servant to them remains unanswered.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the last three months he has been the most in-form English striker in the Premiership.
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He called on the fans who supported the club during the Premiership years to get back behind the side.
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The growing spending power of the UK's Premiership stars has catapulted 21 new players onto the list.
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I know they have won cups and trophies over the last few years, but if you ask any player in the squad, the one they would all love to win is the premiership.
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His season on the pitch has not been too eye-catching but his selfless act in donating the receipts of his testimonial game to children's charities is one of the greatest things a Premiership footballer had done this season.
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Alongside the advance of the domestic "progressive consensus" that New Labour has created, victory in the referendum will be the third term fulfilment of the Blair premiership and we would, in the process, achieve an irreversible shift towards a more social-democratic Britain.
The great "democrat" writes
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Certainly, for a limited period both of them lived in Kiev and it is also certain that during later years both were much involved with St. Petersburg where, after the Revolution, the first liberal, provisional government in Russia was formed under the premiership of Kerenski.
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In a report that for audacity borders on the incredible, the Premiership damned the FA for the ills that are now besetting the game.
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Back then, he had a relatively big chequebook compared to most other Premiership clubs.
The Sun
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In phase one of her premiership, such reticence was undoubtedly an advantage.
Times, Sunday Times
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As, under Blair's premiership, the UK has been reduced to the role of being an international 'chancer', our best strategy is probably to smile, back off and try to sell him a football club, a swanky townhouse or some hedge fund bonds.
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Farrelly played a leading role when Bolton were promoted to the Premiership in 2001, netting the first goal in their play-off final win over Preston.
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Sunderland may be challenging for promotion back to the Premiership, but the gulf between the two divisions was never more evident as Everton eased through virtually without breaking sweat.
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Gordon Brown's premiership is dissected, Moyles gets mad and Melvyn Bragg is left puzzled
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During his time there, the club has won the Australian national premiership five times.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are constitutionally excluded from holding the presidency or the premiership.
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Not an International, but proving deadly in the Premiership whilst his form lasts.
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Not only are there sell out crowds in the Premiership but the Nationwide Leagues have been enjoyed increased gates over the last season.
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The Premiership had a weekly global TV audience of 78 million last season, with broadcasters such as the Fox Soccer Channel in the U.S. and pccw in Hong Kong clamoring for a piece of the action.
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As Leeds United battle to stay in existence, Birmingham City directors continue to mould the midlands outfit into a club with ambitions to join the Premiership elite.
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So, it's two games, two goals and two wins in the Premiership under the new regime at Chelsea.
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The 44-year-old was at pains to defend his record at Coventry, claiming that with City he proved five years ago he can keep teams in the Premiership.
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Alan Curbishley and Sir Alex Ferguson are the best at this in the Premiership.
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At the other end of the table, several big clubs that consider themselves established Premiership sides are in danger of the drop to the Football League Championship.
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The period of Mendès France's premiership saw the rise of the Poujadist movement.
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We made one a few years ago and went on to win the Premiership and a European trophy.
The Sun
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I can get Sky Sports out here and watch three Premiership games every Saturday.
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Last week, Keith Kelly asked what the highest-scoring draw in the Premiership has been.
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I just hope I get the opportunity to play in the Premiership with West Ham.
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One in the last five Premiership games and a string of similar enlightening statistics gleaned from scanning this season's ‘goals for’ column show why Wanderers are slugging it out with the rest of the relegation pack.
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The three Premiership defeats wrecked millions of accumulator bets in which the top sides were bankers.
The Sun
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He could not believe his luck when he saw the Premiership match up for grabs.
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Huddersfield finished with six tries as Leigh crashed to their first defeat in the Northern Ford Premiership.
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He is one of the fastest and most direct forwards in the Premiership and a constant thorn in the side of opposing defenders.
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Meanwhile, the Chelsea chairman has insisted the new Premiership champions have not received the credit they deserve this season for their exemplary behaviour on the pitch.
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That's not snubbing Scotland, but I just want to concentrate on playing in the Premiership.
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After my rant last week about the downright overblown nature of Premiership football, a coltish newsroom colleague collared me.
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On the brink of agreeing a new contract for next term, if he does remain at the club he will face a draining schedule which will combine the normal Premiership demands with European football and the final World Cup qualifiers.
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They didn't have much pace, but were champions of the Premiership with Manchester United.
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On February 26, Thailand's Supreme Court for Political Office Holders found Thaksin guilty of concealing his wealth from public scrutiny during his two-term premiership from 2001 to 2006 and of abusing his power to benefit his family's business empire.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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Players in the Premiership are playing in that league for a reason and that goes for players in Divisions One, Two and Three.
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The Premiership boys use planes a lot and it would have been nice to fly down to Exeter but we have to work within our means.
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Most of the players were on Premiership wages and hid when the going got tough.
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WOLVES will be forced to make big cutbacks if they fail to reach the Premiership this season.
The Sun
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Part of one of the best Premiership packs, he pushes his weight in the scrums and does his stint in the loose.
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The pressure of the Premiership survival fight took its toll on two of the main protagonists in a hot-tempered first half at Goodison Park.
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In contrast, Arsenal are steaming towards a treble as they bid to become the first team to go through a Premiership season unbeaten.
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Leeds had won 2-0 at Chelsea nine days previously and a victory at Highbury might have turned the Premiership into a two-horse race with Manchester United.
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He was in tub-thumping mode this week as the hours ticked down to his side's Premiership opener against Aston Villa.
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He is one of the outstanding players in the Premiership.
Times, Sunday Times
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Imagine a group of squaddies on the town with as much money as a Premiership player and you would anticipate testosterone-fuelled trouble.
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Problems continue to pile up for beleaguered Leeds United manager Peter Reid as the club ended one of the worst weeks in its history with a walloping, a bust-up and bottom place in the Premiership.
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The Great Britain bartender explained that marathon running is huge in Japan "like premiership football at home."
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The balance of the game is in jeopardy from the Premiership ball which allows kickers regularly to land 60-yard penalties
Balls of fire risk extinguishing wow factor from long-range kicks
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One of the top marksmen in Premiership history has scored goals at every club he has played for.
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They have height and heft but lack the power to prosper regularly against the stronger Premiership sides.
Times, Sunday Times
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His thought is that the bully pulpit of the premiership, and its tools of influence, can be used to encourage individuals to behave better to each other.
Times, Sunday Times
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His club have taken him to the rarified heights of the Premiership's top three and the international caps continue to flow in a steady stream.
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The Old Firm clubs attract a combined attendance of 110,000 to every home game, but subsist on 20 per cent of the television revenue level of Premiership sides.
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The air of despair that pervaded the Greenyards last season has been supplanted by a buoyant optimism borne out of two successive wins by Melrose in the opening rounds of the BT Premiership.
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Revenue from supporters is proportionately far less important than it was even 10 years ago, so the Premiership clubs care a little less about your petty gripes and whinges.
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The Premiership has produced a marvellous cast of popinjays and prima-donnas.
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The Premiership is fast becoming like a squash league containing two, maybe three, able-bodied players and a residue of unipeds.
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Norwich came as close as that to a draw, but alas, they are still to win a Premiership game this season.
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Thierry Henry joined Dennis Bergkamp as a member of Arsenal's ton-up club as the reigning champions re-established a five-point lead at the top of the Premiership.
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Premiership clubs will be required to give players advice on alcohol and drug abuse as part of an overall programme discussing lifestyle, including gambling.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is one of the outstanding players in the Premiership.
Times, Sunday Times
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City have lost four Premiership games on the bounce and dropped into the bottom half of the table.
The Sun
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The Premiership is in danger of becoming as boring as its Scottish equivalent where this year has been the same as the last dozen bar one.
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Now that the Premiership is a global showplace, all that's changed.
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Last season, Leeds made a realistic challenge for the premiership title, this season they are even better!
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Being sceptical about the polls is, of course, convenient at this phase of his premiership.
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Speaking of United, their form continues to improve, with a fourth straight Premiership win.
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He's the Premiership's favourite boo-boy; a lightning rod for trouble and a preening fop who revels in his rep as the man they love to hate.
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With the removal of Narong and Somboon, Suchinda came under intense pressure from the coalition members to accept the premiership.
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The effect was devastating, seriously weakening Mrs Thatcher's hold on the premiership and making a leadership contest virtually inevitable.
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The Prime Minister promised to spend his premiership fighting for the Big Society, which he described as his driving passion in politics.
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They have height and heft but lack the power to prosper regularly against the stronger Premiership sides.
Times, Sunday Times
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Premiership clubs are about to share income from the sale of broadcasting rights worth 2.1 billion.
Times, Sunday Times
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This win dispels any doubts that Boroughmuir, who stormed Division Two to regain their place in the top flight, will be able to survive in the Premiership next season.
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It is an amazing roll-call for a club of City's size and stature which some clubs in the Premiership would do well to match.
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This must be the fastest rise to premiership of someone elected to the senate - just three days.
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Players on both sides displayed dribbling skills that would be the envy of many a Premiership player.
Times, Sunday Times
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In June last year, Thompson was forced to squash rumours the club had received a £1million offer from premiership Sheffield Wednesday for the midfield tyro.
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Last year, Fulham played Premiership football at a ground with terraces.
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This they owe to inconsistent domestic form that has left them tenth in the Guinness Premiership.
Times, Sunday Times
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In short, I believe that part of this fiasco is a plot to see Dr. Brown scapegoated and his Premiership ended.
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He promises that when Sunderland win the Premiership, he will add a framed strip of his favourite team.
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Premiership football is very hard.
Times, Sunday Times
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His decision to accept the premiership was viewed by his detractors as acknowledgement that a national cabinet post was not in the offing for him.
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Leicester's next Premiership match is away to Birmingham City on Saturday.
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Three years into his premiership, he has maybe come to a reluctant acceptance of the fact that the public now expects its leaders to be able to "emote" with the best of them.
Paul Linford
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Premiership Rugby has been condemned for keep the findings confidential, prompting claims of a whitewash.
Times, Sunday Times
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And he doesn't play for a glamorous Premiership team but slogs it out for second division Stockport County.
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Often it's because every Premiership squad seems to be practising synchronized diving once a week.
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For Albion, two successive Premiership seasons would be unprecedented and nothing short of miraculous.
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Salford appeared on the up but the Northern Ford Premiership beckons if yesterday is anything to go by.
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Nothing else can explain the wealthy male's love of the ridiculous, elephantine Humvee 4WD military truck, now the preferred vehicle not only of Hollywood stars, but of Premiership footballers.
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He played in all but one of Wanderers' Premiership fixtures and finished the season as the club's top goalscorer.
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Thaksin, a former billionaire tycoon, put in place populist policies during his two-term premiership between 2001 and 2006 that won the hearts of the rural and urban poor and gave them a sense of political entitlement they now miss and want to regain.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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The manager has already pulled off one miraculous escape from relegation in the Premiership.
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Premiership football highlights return to the BBC this August, and Match of the Day will be back on BBC ONE on Saturday nights with the pick of the day's action.
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Owner of the nicest hair cut and the sharpest parting in the Premiership, the Russian is nothing special and has struggled to hold down a regular place.
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For those of us who support teams outside the Premiership, the road to success looks farther way than ever before.
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With competition for his signature from Holland, Spain and the lower reaches of the Premiership, it's just another reason for a move which may have confounded expectations.
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The Bulldogs rode their wave of momentum to win by 71 points, giving the club its first premiership since 1975.
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In order to avoid cliche (a novel concept in football), anyone who described the premiership feeling as ‘fantastic’ had to skol a beer.
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In his absence, his new club, under their new coach, made a workmanlike start to the Premiership campaign, but won few plaudits for style.
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Wanderers didn't strain every sinew and summon every ounce of effort to gain promotion just to spend a season in the Premiership playing for sympathy.
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Rochdale Football Club earned a shock victory over Premiership giants Manchester United and Bolton Wanderers on Sunday.
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And being nicknamed the Toffeemen isn't harming Everton, currently fourth in the Premiership.
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Gloucester finally ended their away jinx with a 16-0 victory over Harlequins at The Stoop, but the match was an appalling advert for the Zurich Premiership.
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Back then, he had a relatively big chequebook compared to most other Premiership clubs.
The Sun
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The squad at St. James' Park is one of the most talented in the Premiership.
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After all, how many Premiership sides have separate turnstiles for neutral supporters?
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Players on both sides displayed dribbling skills that would be the envy of many a Premiership player.
Times, Sunday Times
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If he does guide the Blades into the Premiership it will be a just reward for one of the game's grafters.
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Henrik Pedersen put 17 months of anguish behind him on Sunday to outgun one of the most formidable attacks in the Premiership.
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Because I don't believe in that ... it's nice to talk about these things, and use it as a fluffy word - but to say the word premiership, you've got to give it the respect it deserves.
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Like many people, Fulham were high among my pre-season favourites for the drop from the Premiership.
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The Premiership's top two share star billing.
The Sun
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Mr Mates was the efficient stage manager of Michael Heseltine's almost successful bid for the premiership.
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Something had to give in the Premiership game of the day when undefeated Aberdeen took on a Melrose team who have gone four games without losing a match.
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Reporters claim that he is desperately alone, at a turning point in his premiership.
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But the Conservatives accused him of pandering to the left to shore up his ailing premiership.
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It's no secret our maul was a good weapon for us last year but going through a Premiership season just kicking and mauling is not necessarily possible," Hayes said.
Exeter prepare for Welford Road after riding wind against Gloucester
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Wasps are currently sixth in the Premiership, two points adrift of the title play-off places, although they made a Heineken Cup pool stage exit last month despite beating holders Toulouse in their final game.
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Premiership stars took time out from training to give poorly children a massive Christmas boost.
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Two of our top sides went toe-to-toe in a battle for the Premiership crown.
The Sun
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In fact, since they lost to Melbourne in the 1999 grand final, the Dragons have only beaten their premiership nemesis once - a 50-4 trouncing the following year in Wollongong.
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At all the other Premiership clubs, the head man is the head coach.
Times, Sunday Times
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He signed a new three-year deal after snubbing the Premiership offer.
The Sun
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He did not have enough in the tank to get him through three years of premiership.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lippy critic, who constantly tips Wanderers to be relegated from the Premiership, accepted the charity challenge to shave off his trademark moustache if Sam Allardyce's team survive the drop.
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It would seem that they are queuing up to buy into the Premiership.
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With pounds for places in the Premiership, each move up the table is worth half a million pounds.
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But while they and the other title pretenders have stuttered and stalled, the Reds have come storming back to take 18 points from 18, the best run by any Premiership side this season.
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In the process, they not only skewered Bath's hopes of avenging last season's Premiership final defeat but also raised question marks over a number of Bath forwards being touted as England starters.
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But nearing the end of his premiership, Wen, who has long ties in the Communist Party and was allied with such past reformers as the late Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang, is also quietly building an image as a crusader for more openness and accountability within the country's tightly closed, authoritarian political system.
China's Wen, in the twilight of his premiership, takes on reformer's role
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Mr Mates was the efficient stage manager of Michael Heseltine's almost successful bid for the premiership.
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He denied reports that he had agreed a lucrative counter-offer to play in Saudi Arabia, insisting he was looking forward to playing for Wanderers in the Premiership.
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It's a result that means they will play in the Heineken Cup next season providing they retain their place in the Premiership.
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The centralistic way in which the ANC's premiership candidates were designated confirmed this tendency.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Mr. Kan had said repeatedly he has no intention of stepping down, most recently on Friday when he called his premiership in the time of crisis "fateful" and said it was his "utmost desire as a politician to lead Japan's rebuilding and economic recovery.
Ruling Party Hurt in Japan Election
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What is so ludicrous in the case from last Wednesday was that not only was the person that the police did this too a Premiership footballer, but he was on crutches having undergone a major operation after suffering cruciate ligament damage in the Everton match against Newcastle some weeks ago and the police tried to take his crutches away from him.
Are Cheshire Police "institutionally racist"
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PREMIERSHIP clubs will resist any punishment dished out as a result of the bungs inquiry.
The Sun
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South should have run on against their arch-rivals full of vim, having downed the Eagles in the first encounter of the year and still confident after winning a premiership the previous year.
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In our three previous meetings since Cole burst on to the Premiership scene at 17, he was chaperoned by his father, agent, solicitor or any combination of all three.
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The 17-year-old polled five votes in the colts competition's fairest and best award, the Jack Clarke Medal, and was a member of East Fremantle's colts premiership team.
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With the removal of Narong and Somboon, Suchinda came under intense pressure from the coalition members to accept the premiership.
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Everton made six changes to the side that beat Middlesbrough on Saturday to go third in the Premiership.
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The Premiership clubs have never disguised their antipathy to the principle of one up, one down.
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Rising standards in the Northern Ford Premiership could give York Wasps the edge as they prepare for a French invasion tomorrow.
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Six and a half years into his premiership, after seven Queen's speeches, umpteen reshuffles and relaunches, the New Labour Dreadnought is listing, its gallant captain beginning to look his 50 years.
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If it did not quite atone for their Premiership final defeat to the Tigers last season, this result may well come in handy when the play-off permutations are calculated next May.
Leicester turn air blue against Saracens in rage at referee exchange
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The victory temporarily lifted the gloom surrounding the team's battle against relegation from the Premiership.
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In seven minutes of the second half, it began to look as if the home team, the Premiership team, would overwhelm their visitors.
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Despite their hot-headed style, both players rank among the Premiership elite.
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WOLVES will be forced to make big cutbacks if they fail to reach the Premiership this season.
The Sun
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We need teams like Leeds to make a challenge for the premiership title so we don't see the old same teams winning it year after year
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Granted, he may not be watching them at international level when he watches them in the Premiership, but given the influx of foreign players in the domestic game most players are competing against internationals on a weekly basis anyway.
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During the rugby camps, in addition to core skills training, budding young rugby players can expect to enjoy boxercise, wrestling, and speed agility training all of which perfectly complement the latest coaching techniques used by Gomarsall, the mashsport instructors and the professionals in today's Guinness Premiership.
Your Local Guardian | Sutton
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That kind of nifty footwork might work against Darren Purse in the Premiership, John, but it won't work here.
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But what you have to remember is that we have four Premiership strikers in the squad now.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you are a Leeds fan, you see vultures gathering to take away your stars; if you are a Premiership manager in the marketplace you know that there are deals to be done.
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Because he was scheduled to play, I haven't seen much of him in serious training, but the fact he is here from a Premiership club tells you all you need to know regarding his, and indeed the other lads' all-round ability.
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The most disappointed people at Heywood Road were those working hard behind the scenes to boost gates and revenue at the smallest ground in the Premiership.
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Whether those young starlets ever get a real chance to do it in the Premiership remains to be seen.
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I'm cock-a-hoop because it basically means the Premiership teams have embarrassed themselves and that can only be a good thing.
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The likely solution could be to give David Sommeil his Premiership start of the season, either in an unaccustomed left back role or in his preferred central defensive role.
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A lot of the United players will be very pleased to see City back in the Premiership - you cannot beat a full-blooded derby clash.
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Nevertheless, Mourinho still looks a dead cert for the top boss award since the panellists appear to have neither the imagination nor the inclination to look beyond the manager of the Premiership Champions.
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A clean sweep of domestic cups and two European trophies should have been followed by a Premiership title.
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Goal ace Ole Gunnar Solskjaer kept Manchester United in the Premiership title race with a typical smash-and-grab at Filbert Street.
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We have seen Manchester City charge up from Division Two into the Premiership.
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Thaksin's populist policies during his two-term premiership between 2001 to 2006 won him a huge following among Thailand's rural and urban poor, but his dictatorial tendances and graft turned the Bangkok-based middle class and political elite against him.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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He remains one of just 30 players to have appeared in every season of the Premiership, and his 79 goals put him in its top 20 marksmen.
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This leaves the way open for a full Premiership start for Brazilian hotshot Mario Jardel.
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And all eyes are likely to be on Gallagher, who has forced his way into the reckoning for a full international call-up following some impressive displays in the Premiership with Rovers.
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The Football Association could deal a further double blow to their already slim hopes of Premiership survival when they investigate the series of bust-ups at the end of the Reebok clash.
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It is a premiership university but some way behind the elite group of powerhouse research universities.
Times, Sunday Times
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When battle commences at the Millennium Stadium, there will be no sentiment on show as Euro 2004's irresistible force meets the Premiership's immovable object.
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His decision to accept the premiership was viewed by his detractors as acknowledgement that a national cabinet post was not in the offing for him.
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Players on both sides displayed dribbling skills that would be the envy of many a Premiership player.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cash also plays its part in managerial success, but the £5m that Moyes has been given to spend represents no more than a down payment on a decent Premiership player.
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Liverpool will then have to rely solely on a change of rules by UEFA should they win the final but finish out of the top four in the Premiership.
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The effect was devastating, seriously weakening Mrs Thatcher's hold on the premiership and making a leadership contest virtually inevitable.
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You'll be able to watch live premiership games, basketball, golf, cricket, and all sorts.
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He signed a new three-year deal after snubbing the Premiership offer.
The Sun
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The scoreline actually flattered both sides, for this was not exactly the best advert for Premiership football.
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The diminutive striker displayed a lethal eye for goal for the Blues two seasons ago and was one of the top scorers in the Premiership.
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It is the official licence holder for the English, Scottish and German football associations and most of the Premiership and Nationwide League clubs.
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There are almost as many teams here as in the football premiership.
Times, Sunday Times
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In order to avoid cliche (a novel concept in football), anyone who described the premiership feeling as ‘fantastic’ had to skol a beer.
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Last season Makelele missed only two games in Chelsea's victorious Premiership campaign.
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Premiership Rugby has to ensure that its clubs are on a sound enough financial footing to survive a financial disaster.
Times, Sunday Times
