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Examples
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Ministers "believe" that a zonal system would protect drivers' privacy and deter them from rat-running in residential areas to avoid high charges on main roads.
Archive 2007-03-01 Helen 2007
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A campaign by residents of a Northgate street to convince council to ban trucks from rat-running there has been a victory for people power.
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Climate change aside, we need to end the chronic congestion, 'rat-running' and traffic injuries that make everyone's life a misery - and the unfairness that those without a car are excluded from many job opportunities.
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And that is the experiment that tells exactly what conditions you have to use in order to be careful and control everything in an experiment with rat-running.
The Barefoot Bum The Barefoot Bum 2010
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Climate change aside, we need to end the chronic congestion, 'rat-running' and traffic injuries that make everyone's life a misery - and the unfairness that those without a car are excluded from many job opportunities.
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That is the experiment that makes rat-running experiments sensible, because it uncovers the clues that the rat is really using -- not what you think it's using.
The Barefoot Bum The Barefoot Bum 2010
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They've got you on a rat-running wheel, running scared every day, like rats scrambling to get away from electrical shocks that never
American Thinker 2009
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They've got you on a rat-running wheel, running scared every day, like rats scrambling to get away from electrical shocks that never
American Thinker 2009
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It promised to ensure that the devices did not encourage "rat-running" or give illegal advice to the user.
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"I very much welcome this news, which should overcome the considerable rat-running nuisance caused to villagers of Mattishall and Honingham.
EDP24 News 2010
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