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Meanwhile, Paramount’s board faced withering pressure, with a settlement widely seen as a prerequisite for getting government approval for the company’s $8-billion sale to David Ellison’s Skydance Media, or the deal would collapse.

While Amorim has found winning matches difficult since he arrived from Sporting in November, he has delivered some of the most withering statements about United during his short time in charge.

Their approaches are rooted in the past and are now withering on the political vine.

For communists, it was the state “withering away” so no one could be exploited by another.

Recent single 69, for example, is a thumping house track on which Taylor talks with withering candour about her sex life.