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These ideas came a cropper once the price of iron ore crashed.
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But the new administration wanted to concentrate on replacing Barack Obama's health-care law (over which it came a cropper) and on reforming taxes.
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Two years earlier one of the biggest mavericks of the shale boom, Aubrey McClendon, also came a cropper after Mr Icahn invested in his firm, Chesapeake Energy.
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He also found time to fire off a new broadside at the federal judiciary, after another foundational campaign pledge, a vow to crackdown on sanctuary cities, came a cropper in the courts.
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In the tournament, Aliakbari bested Herring and Valentin Moldavsky in two rather controversial decision wins, but came a cropper when he faced Cro Cop in the Grand-Prix finals—suffering a knockout in the first round.
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Today, there are fully seven adjectives in the entries that are certainly uncomplimentary, maybe even a little baleful, to the point that I wonder if anyone on the team ever came a-cropper in a platypus encounter.
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This caused the Daredevils to lose the top spot in the points table, a position it had held "virtually from the start of the tournament". In its next game, a ton by David Warner and a half-century by Naman Ojha led the team to a nine wickets win, and it regained the top spot. Then "came a cropper on a lively pitch", as the Daredevils lost to the Super Kings by nine wickets. It became the first team to get into the playoffs when it registered a five wickets win against the Kings XI Punjab.
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