The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has governed Japan almost uninterruptedly for 45 years, has suffered losses in the past. I suspect this election will come and go with a similar impact.
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We were down by 12 at Cincinnati at the point where probably in the past they might have crumbled. The whole team stepped up and made some baskets and believed that they could win a basketball game like that. Even though at the end of it, it was like, 'Wow, we just won a basketball game.' But through that whole process, they believed in themselves.
Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that.
Our photonic technologies business grew 75 percent to 100 percent per year for the past three years, and we originally anticipated similar growth again this year,
In the past there was no such thing as an appliance repair that cost more than 400, but today, 1,000 repairs are not uncommon.
You bring the personality with you wherever you go. So in the past we were at York Cinema and we loved to be there and it did have a great old personality.
This is larger than any volunteer event we've staffed in the past.
I think any new guy coming in, it's going to happen. I kind of expected that. Jeff told me to expect that. Like I said, it gave me a chance to work on my composure. In the past it's kind of gotten to me in college and I've been working on it a lot. I felt like I did a good job with it.
This is the best team we've had in the past three years. Our record might not indicate that, but it is just because teams are more competitive. It was our most competitive season yet. There was never a game when there was a complete blow out. The competition was very good this year.
It was very frustrating to deal with Fannie Mae in the past you weren't asked for your opinions but were told what to do. They are now a partner where you can conduct conversation and dialogue.
While promoting her first album her attitude was, Please like me, please understand me, ... The second time was 'Please don't misunderstand me again. Please understand me this time.' And this time it's really about me taking something that's been so stressful in the past and making it joyful. I don't want to be suffering all the time.
Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.
I think my coach is going to tell me tonight that sometimes I'm too much in a rush, that I want to finish the points too early probably, and I have to build my point a little bit more just to go on the right shot. They like to play the same rhythm all the time. I can use my slice pretty good, much better than I did in the past. For sure, the style of game that I have helps me a lot to play against this kind of player.
We have been very disappointed in the unprofessional and dangerous behavior that some of the local vessels have engaged in during the course of our operations. It is distressing to see the casual attitude that some local Captains take toward marine laws and safety, a matter we take very seriously. On numerous occasions during the past weeks, we have seen small local boats approach our ship in a careless manner, apparently not realizing the danger of their actions. The thrusters that are engaged during dynamic positioning operations present a serious threat to small vessels that come too close, which is why we request a safe working perimeter through the Notice to Mariners. We are seeking legal redress to prevent this from happening in the future in order to avail ourselves of every avenue available before someone is seriously hurt or worse.
East Africa has been an area of terrorist threats and indeed terrorist attacks in the past. Those threats are still out there.
Ocean's Twelve. Her and my relationship is a time in the past.
The stories were so sad, terrifying and tragic A Thai woman who had helped us escape had turned around to get her children, but they had been swept out to sea an American-Irish couple who had spent the past 15 years of their lives on their sailboat had watched their boat and all their belongings get smashed,
Less Than Perfect 's Sara Rue wowed the crowd with her slim figure. The strawberry blonde Rue, who spent the past two months traveling through Europe, said she has lost at least 30 pounds since she started on the show three years ago by cutting out the booze. ... I'm really close to Eric's wife (Eliza), so it's a little awkward.
Clearly they delivered some of the broad-based growth investors have been waiting for the past couple of years and progress has improved, ... But there's still a reasonable gap versus its peer group, so there is still work to be done.
I think the Fed will keep in 'measured pace.' There is no need for a major shift in the statement because economic conditions are similar to what they've been during the past couple of meetings.
We are very excited about the support that our fans have given to this program over the past few years. United Drives collects thousands of items throughout the course of the season to benefit various non-profit organizations, including our very own United for D.C., and directly impacts thousands of youth and families throughout the District and the overall region.
The world oil price has risen rapidly and is very high today compared to the recent past, primarily because demand growth has been very rapid, and crude oil production capacity is constrained in the short run.
Some 85 percent of jobs created in the past 25 years have been in the public sector -- in other words financed by taxes.
Iran have improved rapidly in the past two years. They have very good young players and gave us some trouble,
Past Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas once said, America is fitted by tradition for directing and guiding revolutions. We won our freedom by revolution. ... Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral and afterwards in the material sphere.
We know its an accomplishment, but we dont want to get wrapped up looking into the past. We just want to improve each game.
The United Nations should be given an opportunity to compel adherence to the 16 or so resolutions in the past which Iraq has effectively not complied with ... maybe some language could be added.
She's been my chief clerk for the past 17 and a half years. We've had a great relationship of working together and as for as I know, we've never had a cross word.
Oh, yeah. They love me. I know when I get there, they're going to give me a good round of applause. . . . No matter what happened to me in the past, they greet me. . . . People love me because I play hard.
The revenue-sharing issue has never been an impediment in the past to getting an agreement with the Players Association. The difference between now and the past is the fundamental change in ... the union's expectations as to the percentages that should go to the players. ...
We've thought for a long time this housing cycle was a little different from those of the past, in that it would stretch out a little more. The sell-off in housing stocks has been overdone, since we don't think 30-year mortgage rates ... will put the brak
I am so proud of Janie. It has been an honor to be a part of her life and golf career for the past four years. Our program will miss her next spring.
We wanted to institute a mandatory spay and neutering program however, there was a law in Sacramento pushed by advocates at some time in the past that said you cannot pass breed-specific laws, ... So we had to ask for a change in state legislation.
Until you get tighter monetary policy in Indonesia, the currency will remain under downward pressure. Weakness in the currency and the rally in oil over the past couple of weeks have just compounded the inflationary expectations.
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
The program was a tremendous success in the past year, and it will be an even greater success with all the new districts getting involved with it. We are delighted that so many districts throughout Arizona are committed to protecting our children from harmful diesel emissions.
The dollar adds to the general environment we've seen in the past few weeks, which is a short-term correction.
History, by apprising (men) of the past, will enable them to judge of the future, it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations
OK, let's move past 1999.
Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.
Sean Marks you know he's feeling good. He's sat on that pine a long time, but that's about the third or fourth time (in the past two weeks) he's come in and did a great job for us.
Would God that this next hour were past!
Past Carolina teams may have folded when we get down like that. Not this team. No one got down. We just got down to business.
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.
He does a good job when things aren't there to try to turn it into a positive play. He's not trying to get east and west as much as he would in the past. ... And when there's an opportunity to make a big play, you see he's got the speed to do so.
He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.
I tell them I can't, by federal law, delve into a person's financial or medical records. The best I can do is tell you where they lived for the past seven years and their criminal background.
In the past, a single fragrance had a life cycle of maybe six to seven years, because people would stay loyal to a scent for a longer period of time. The life cycle is much shorter now, especially with the younger consumers, who always want the latest product.
The ongoing task of debt management for the federal government will clearly be very different in the years ahead than it has been in the past, when debt was rapidly increasing, ... With 3.6 trillion in debt outstanding, even a 3 basis point (0.03 percentage point) reduction in federal borrowing costs will ultimately produce savings of more than 1 billion per year.
If you look at the game as a whole 60 minutes, we didn't bring our best effort. We certainly didn't work as hard as we had in the past. For whatever reason, it wasn't our night.