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Instead, encouraged by his country’s victory, Italy’s new technocratic prime minister, Mario Monti, in alliance with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, pressed German Chancellor Angela Merkel for easier access to ESM support – and scored another major victory for his country.

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I pressed on, focusing on one push at a time.

I've pressed 5,000 bricks in one day from the dirt beneath my feet and built a tractor in six days.

However, if I ask your minds to focus currently on Pakistan, and I ask you to think of the symbols and the leaders for democracy in Pakistan today, you'll be hard pressed to think beyond perhaps the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

EA: So all these times when he ended up going to jail, were charges pressed or did he just get taken to jail?

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