guillotine

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"I am on a four-year walk to the guillotine," says another, anticipating defeat at the next general election.

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South Africa hoped for a quick execution but for the next 80 minutes or so, Australia managed to dodge the guillotine.

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Gurlek, a former deputy justice minister under Erdogan, has been accused by the opposition of acting as a "mobile guillotine" for the president in targeting his opponents in Istanbul.

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The American, 32, out-grappled Edwards throughout before ending the contest with a guillotine choke.

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She was guillotined in 1793 at the age of 37, along with her husband, at the height of the French Revolution.

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