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  • Can you imagine being Michael and Carole Middleton, linked for the rest of their lives to the royal family, forever obliged to parry questions from their friends about its carryings-on, and subjected to relentless media attention without even the protection that royals enjoy?

    The cost of Kate Middleton's confirmation | Alexander Chancellor 2011

  • We will see; but the most striking thing was that nobody I talked to, and no commentator in the press, attributed his humiliation to the behaviour for which he is internationally famous – his carryings-on with teenage women and his alleged involvement in bribery and corruption.

    The English FA was right to stand up to Fifa and its cosy idea of a 'family' | Alexander Chancellor 2011

  • Half the problems we have today are caused by an excess of attention to the opinions and carryings-on of people who have in no way earned the right by achievement or election or any other criteria to be heard on any subject at any time, let alone kowtowed to.

    Think Progress » GOP Sen. Dick Lugar rebukes Cheney criticism of Obama as ‘unfair.’ 2010

  • The network said 8.45 million total viewers tuned in to the show, which chronicles the carryings-on of a group of hard-partying, 20- and 30-somethings at a beach house on the Seaside Heights, N.J., boardwalk.

    BEST RATINGS EVER AP 2011

  • The network said 8.45 million total viewers tuned in to the show, which chronicles the carryings-on of a group of hard-partying, 20- and 30-somethings at a beach house on the Seaside Heights, N.J., boardwalk.

    BEST RATINGS EVER AP 2011

  • Given the carryings-on of the night before, I had expected most inhabitants of the castle to lie late the next morning, possibly staggering down for a restorative mug of ale when the sun was high-assuming that it chose to come out at all, of course.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • Can't they wait until they leave public office for all these carryings-on??? proud army and navy mom

    GOP congressman will not seek re-election after affair revealed 2008

  • As far as the Credit committee and the general investigation into the strange carryings-on of the late Sir Caspar Railton in the 1930s were concerned, things remained very active indeed.

    Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

  • Were these times any other than the politically charged times they are, the subsequent media firestorm set off by Miss Prejean's carryings-on would be similarly laughable.

    Michael Rowe: Regarding Miss California, At Least Anita Bryant Could Sing 2009

  • True or not, the rumor is not out of character with what else we know of the carryings-on of the First Twins.

    Lesson from an old Queen for the Bush Twins Dan 2007

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