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1. But his plans come a cropper when he finds Sandra ( Sandra Oh ), a complete stranger, despondent on his doorstep because she cannot get home to her husband before the world ends.
2. The whole thing sounds like a particularly dark-humored episode of " The Sopranos, " in which heavily muscled fixers come a cropper when they try tangling with well-conditioned women in rhinestone-layered body stockings.
3. The hope in the Bush administration ( and at least one columnist I know ) that Koizumi could begin to deal realistically with Japan's third recession in a decade could be coming a cropper.
4. Now scenario number two : Despite Sonia's campaign, Congress comes a cropper which means anything less than 200 seats, because that is the kind of returns that Congressmen expect when a Gandhi campaigns for them.
5. Addressing NRA President Thomas Washington, Bush said the giant gun association had come a cropper with a recent " vicious slander on good people " _ specifically agents of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
6. Next week, the Tick and Arthur's dynamic " duopoly " nearly comes a cropper when superhero Fiery Blaze mistreats his milquetoast sidekick, Friendly Fire, and the lovely Captain Liberty discovers that a woman's best friend is not a dog.
7. In London, The Guardian newspaper said Monday that while the good news was that " Pauline Hanson and her One Nation party have come a cropper, " the internal problems exposed in Australia by the rise of One Nation would remain.
8. But if you bought a book last Valentine's Day that fired you into a relationship that has now come a cropper, there's " How to Heal a Broken Heart in 30 Days " ( Broadway ) by Howard Bronson and Mike Riley.
9. Davis Lee and Richard Yin, also of George Washington University, suggest a term that to me sounds like chutong sunyi, which stands for " seeking common ground while resolving differences, " but which could come a cropper when discussing zhishi chan quan, " intellectual property rights ."
10. But the $ 2 trillion business has lately offered a spectacle of a less impressive kind : of several big mutual funds coming a cropper after investing in derivatives-- financial instruments such as futures and options whose price is partly based on underlying assets such as bonds or equities.