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Geraint Berry said they should "kill him together" and that if Mrs Mills got the "urge to smother him" she should "make sure he's died".

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Florida is also capable of frustrating opponents with a smothering defense.

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He is using every back door, loophole and extreme interpretation of the law to expand executive power and smother the system of checks and balances.

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Chicken smothered in it is heaven for those raised on the comfort-food staple — or those who just crushed several vertical miles.

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But, confronted by it and asked in particular about Epstein's friendship with the former British Ambassador to the United States Lord Mandelson, he instantly smothered it as if with a fire blanket.

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