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He said the case highlighted “the scale of injustice that the Tory Legacy Act threatened to inflict on families across our society”.

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During his teens he was chased with knives and threatened by having his hand hit with a hammer.

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A report this week found that 44% of corals living in warm waters are threatened with extinction, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

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Filion has also pleaded guilty to making three other threatening calls, according to the Department of Justice.

MSF said staff were "violently attacked, insulted, tear-gassed, threatened with death" and held hostage for more than four hours before being released.

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

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