Perhaps with an appeal looming, he was also entitled to stay his hand on much comment, anyway. |
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I cannot seem to achieve anything if I don't have a deadline with a date and a fixed hour, looming over my head. |
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With water levels in the dams receding and ever tighter water restrictions looming, very soon there may not be enough water to grow new trees. |
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The grey granite exterior is calculated to render the lodge almost invisible against the looming backdrop of the hill. |
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Yet she seemed to enjoying the thought of his largely built figure looming over her with his raven coloured eyes staring into hers. |
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There may be a significant tie-in here between the looming war with Iraq and the threats we're picking up in intelligence intercepts. |
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Porsche's sales were in free fall, and losses threatened it with a looming liquidity crisis. |
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I need time and unfortunately with more homework and coursework deadlines looming, I'm getting less and less. |
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Gradually the sound fades into the distance, looming all the while like an increasingly befogged Fall Of The House Of Usher. |
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However I had set myself a task to at least try to remove the old writer's block which had been looming over me. |
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He seemed a black lump looming over the desk like a vulture on a high tor, waiting for his prey to walk into his clutches. |
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The other side is dominated by a dark, looming mass which suggests torrents of water rushing upward. |
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The most significant difference from 2001 is the looming change in the leadership election rules bequeathed by the former leader. |
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Everywhere were scrub cactus and yucca plants looming with sharp spines to catch the unwary passer-by and stab into the skin. |
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Clouds from the looming vase-shaped cooling towers blocked the sun, wires audibly sizzled with electricity, a conveyor belt rattled. |
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The downpour cooled off the searing heat but failed to ease the city's looming water shortage. |
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The U.S. economy continued to add jobs in November despite worries about a looming fiscal cliff in Washington. |
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Like the looming military campaign, few expect the legal fight to be short or easy. |
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But it may be too late, because conservatives don't want to be part of the looming train wreck. |
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But there were other, subtler ways of turning traitor, and he felt her coming absence, looming two afternoons a week, as proof of that. |
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It also contained a large polythene bag of shavings through which were visible vast, looming rhizomes, dark brown, with filaments. |
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Marnee opened her school in an expanding part of this sprawling town of 91,000 in a building under a looming water tower. |
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Congress has returned from Thanksgiving break to tackle the looming fiscal cliff. |
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A looming financial crisis could leave a parish without a full-time vicar this year. |
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With Christmas and New Year looming, no doubt we'll soon be popping the cork on few sparklers. |
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Another name change is looming as the college intends to apply for full university status later this year. |
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The grey, looming clouds began to break apart and the blue sky of winter slowly began to show. |
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Every month another one bites the dust or news filters through of a fresh closure looming. |
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The narrowness of the aisles between the shelves helped convey that superstore feeling of goods looming in abundance. |
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In the last year, management tried to conceal the looming bankruptcy by the fictitious sale of the bank's real estate subsidiary. |
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It's a gargantuan, tightly-squeezed settlement of 16-lane roads, subway stations with 12 exits and looming, monolithic tower apartment blocks. |
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With this threat to sales looming, Safeway, Albertsons, and Kroger demanded major concessions from their employees in order to cut costs. |
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With a costly European defeat and nine goals conceded in two games, Strachan is already under the cosh with his first Old Firm derby looming. |
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I spend Sunday morning at the clubhouse as well, watching more riders flinging themselves downhill, dwelling morbidly upon my looming ordeal. |
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Cotterill admitted that seeing the game snatched from his side's grasp with extra time looming was a bitter pill to swallow. |
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The looming difficulties over the measurement of blood pressure have been clear for some years. |
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What's more, as he expends his seemingly limitless political capital on state finances, other looming issues are going largely unaddressed. |
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The mountains looming far to my right, the West Alps told me we had crossed into France. |
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Every now and then the fog would break for a moment, exposing the mountain range looming in the distance. |
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With Muck Up Day looming, there are images splattered across the news of hooligans trashing the streets. |
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After a long rest in the valley, we climb in hot sun and slushy snow, the Continental Divide looming above us like a distant castle. |
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With Valentine's Day looming, the impending nuptials of our banks should be drawing to a conclusion. |
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The group will be entering a country where political tensions threaten to reach boiling point, with looming elections and bitter infighting. |
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However, in a country with such a looming past there are certain must-sees. |
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The myth becomes a dim pentimento, looming under a series of visuals painted one over the other. |
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As Miller approached the helm looming before her, a quick glance at the boom and rigging was a reminder of the vessel's size. |
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With the federal election looming, the political leaders have been out on the hustings and the ads are coming thick and fast. |
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Those marches benefited from looming battles that trained participants' attention on a pressing matter at hand. |
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With a trial looming, both media and defendants are usually circumspect about what they say for fear of prejudicing the outcome. |
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The upshot of the media's cheerleading was a less-than-critical approach to the looming war. |
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I noticed that the garden was completely overshadowed by the woods looming above. |
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I see the notorious Sheila Face, certainly named by some carnal-dreaming mountaineer, looming like a succubus above the hut. |
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Small it was, with a picturesque inn, gingerbread houses, and a stinking brewery looming over the landscape a few miles outside of town. |
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With World War I looming, nitrogen was also in demand for the production of trinitrotoluene and other explosives. |
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The looming prospect of war has given an upcoming conference on disarmament and demilitarisation a heightened sense of urgency. |
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With war looming on the horizon, the U.S. news media are already moving to wall-to-wall coverage of the conflict. |
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Another weekend has flown past and Easter is looming up pretty fast again this year. |
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There are plenty of production photos and publicity stills, showing off looming shadows. |
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He said his office would continue in its efforts to save the peace pact, despite the looming operation to quell the rebels. |
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The U.S. trade imbalance was looming larger every year, and Japan was, as it still is, accumulating a huge trade surplus. |
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A fine, misty rain fell lightly from the overcast sky, which hung in a looming shade of dull grey. |
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The father, in a dark, looming form, appears in the doorway, dressed in the gray overalls of his mechanics uniform. |
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With the cost of the Kyoto Protocol looming large on the horizon, every watt-hour we save represents fewer carbon-credits we need to purchase. |
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Beyond, looming into the blackness, reared a dark, heavily forested peninsula, like a giant's outthrust shoulder deflecting the sea's fury. |
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We don't want to rent expensive office space and have that fixed expense looming over our heads every month. |
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I invested in an old pushbike and cycled through the seething frenzy of traffic with my own mortality looming before me like a 20 ft shadow. |
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In fact, many people eagerly follow the weather forecasts whenever bad weather is looming. |
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Some of his greatest work was created with his arms draped affectionately over his looming bass as he lost himself in the music. |
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Suddenly, with the burgeoning stadium looming not as the salvation but as a dangerous white elephant, they sank to bottom of the table. |
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There are storm clouds looming just over the horizon, kids, and that can only mean one thing. |
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That's when I saw that the large, looming shadow was in fact a small plane landing at the airstrip. |
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When a stiff back and querulous bottom-lip signals a looming mini-starlet strop in daughter Caitlin, Mr Bear is immediately whipped out. |
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With the Seoul Olympics looming, he had decided to shelve political reform and to name the ruling party chairman as his heir apparent. |
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With my final unemployment check looming, I finally knuckled under, swallowed my pride, and rejoined the TrustiTemps agency. |
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The mountain itself is just behind the town, looming so high it creates its own weather and often wears a wreath of clouds. |
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They looked up to see her looming over them, with a stern expression written all over her face. |
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With a federal election looming, a new organisation says they are tackling the heart of youth voter apathy. |
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It alleviated the problem a little, but not enough to stave off looming financial disaster. |
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The colour scheme is muted but for vivid splashes of red, with most shots dominated by looming shadows, towers or circling carrion crows. |
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So the last thing the manager needs looming large are encounters with ghosts of seasons past. |
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The World Cup series was drawing to a close, and the Olympic trials were looming. |
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The spectre of further development of the green fields around Swindon is looming. |
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There were more serious threats looming, however, than a strike in the oilfields. |
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The weakness in the stock was blamed on investor uneasiness about a looming leveraged buyout by a management-led group, the column said. |
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But with a tumultuous off-season looming, Bateer's return to Denver is far from a sure thing. |
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They saw the flashes of lightning within the dark cloud looming ahead of them. |
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I don't think councillors will vote for this with an election looming, it would be like turkeys voting for Christmas. |
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He lies on a rock, a mountain looming above him and his naked body partially covered by a white dress. |
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Massive arcologies looming in the distance, like small mountains covered in billions of tiny lights. |
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There is still the unnerving scenery of headless trees, roofless homes, abandoned tankers and large looming landmine warnings. |
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As we swam to the first buoy, we noticed strange shapes looming up at us from beneath the surface. |
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How else can we deal with the looming threat of climate change and gridlock on the roads? |
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They stood outside the door and looked at the great dark castle looming ominously before them. |
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There was always some haunting sadness about her, like a shadow looming darkly behind her. |
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After a few hours of driving an extremely large mountain started looming into view. |
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There was a silhouette emerging out of the mist, looming like an ocean liner. |
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Pretending that we do not need to discuss such questions will not make the dilemmas and hard choices that are looming for Australia go away. |
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He saw a great crisis looming and announced judgement and the opportunity to repent. |
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With the elections looming large, his government is fighting to keep energy prices under control. |
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However he does acknowledge that global warming is looming as a significant threat to the reef. |
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The Bureau of Meteorology warned authorities on January 15 that a disaster was looming. |
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Indeed, even if trouble appears to be looming, the share price may have already factored it in. |
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Exams were looming at the end of the academic year, which Chig knew he was bound to fail. |
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But with a general election looming on the horizon, the ruling group will not risk division in its ranks. |
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Choked with spray, she saw rocks looming, dim shapes above the waste of hurtling water. |
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But people now losing sleep over looming crime should control the urge to adopt desperate devices, which may also cause them to lose friends. |
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And in a place where the rivers are running dry, and the harvest has been ruined by drought, the specter of starvation is looming ever larger. |
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The scattering of the bargaining unit across a whole state and a looming strike deadline only augment the confusion. |
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A mythology of looming threats has created an insatiable appetite for security, which then has to be assuaged through totemic gestures. |
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Cattle numbers have dropped steeply this week with the holiday period looming. |
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Schultz is a man facing old age and his looming mortality with a dim sadness that seems to complement his general ennui. |
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With Mars looming large in the morning sky, astronomers are capitalizing on a great chance to study our neighbouring planet. |
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A crisis in the supply of teachers is looming as fewer university students are attracted to the profession. |
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And here was I, luxuriating in the charms of Nevis, one of the loveliest islands in the Caribbean, responsibility looming ominously overhead. |
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Australia's tail was now exposed although Gilchrist was still looming large at the crease. |
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Evan came with us to the dockside, having previously checked which of the great hulls looming against the skyline was the Dover ferry. |
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He glanced around, the great dome of the black sky looming ominously over him. |
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It may also address whether and when China should move to a nationwide two-child policy to prevent a looming baby bust. |
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It's great here, short turf, long views, scree, caves and stream, and parallel and looming 300 feet above, a twisted limestone scar. |
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A battle for power between a union man and an intellectual is looming at Salford town hall. |
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Unfortunately, I didn't see the looming telephone pole in front of me and barreled right into it. |
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With Friday's League clash at Carlisle looming large, City chief Dolan is looking for steely determination to pull York out of a rut. |
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With the big day looming, young gun Tommy clashes with a baleful old timer and finds himself plagued by dreams that foretell a death by booting. |
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With a national election looming next year, the dispute is charged with allegations of political expediency. |
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With the contract expiration looming large, both sides are meeting sixteen hours a day. |
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The hotel's signature is a large black-and-white screen-print of a flower mounted on a wall, looming behind a dish of artfully arranged fruit. |
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I had just shrugged into a light coat when I felt a looming presence at my back. |
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One of the looming indicators of economic progress was the length of the wait at gas pumps. |
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He walked up until he was standing right in front of her, his dark shadow looming darkly over her limp form on the ground, cross-legged. |
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With the May elections looming, the last thing it wanted was to impose a big tax increase. |
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The looming war has already become deeply and biliously ideological. |
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The moon waxed full, looming huge upon the speckled expanse. |
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With a relative lull looming, she knew she had to seize her chance. |
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My mind sped on overdrive for the next week as summer came looming. |
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However, if you find your fund is stuffed full of profitless, indebted firms busy selling off their assets, then further trouble could be looming. |
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Simply closing one's eyes and pretending it isn't looming, despite all the available evidence to those who want to look for it, is an exercise in denial and wishful thinking. |
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People rarely walked up this way to Tamberly Road and the large houses looming at the end of it, preferring to purr their way up in sleek black cars. |
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Under a looming, shadowed, night-blue sky, the lower section of this drawing is demarcated on the left by a line of grungy, graffitied trucks parked behind a fence. |
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In that upper space, blinds were drawn over the windows to create a mysterious realm, the pipe organ at the far end looming dark through clouds of dry ice. |
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Thus, like Michael Corleone, Abel is a man living with a paternal figure looming over his life. |
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According to these sources, castor said that if Breuer resigned, they could head off the looming constitutional clash. |
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Information technology is center stage here, playing an essential role in the looming End of Days. |
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But with the prospect of walking the plank looming large, Marie is hoping to get the support of the county behind her and particularly the support of her own age group. |
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Despite the looming specter of childers, McDaniel still has a significant edge in the runoff. |
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Police warning Sinn Fein warned the government yesterday that a crisis was looming over the policing of Northern Ireland which may unravel the peace process. |
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Across the country, high school seniors are in the throes of completing college applications before looming deadlines. |
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Indeed, its values are regularly cited in justification of a looming war. |
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How often do you look up at the facades looming overhead as you saunter down the street? |
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The focus here, however, was obviously on the confidence vote looming against Prime Minister Enrico Letta. |
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Before I lost consciousness, I saw a dark figure looming in the distance. |
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I saw the large ski lodge looming out of the darkness before me. |
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Finally, as with other medications, the looming question is that of globalization. |
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But with a PC price war looming, the boys that billed themselves as the premier Linux PC hardware company read the runes, took a long lunch and bolted. |
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A failed actor with a history of alcoholism, Treadwell bummed around California until, he claims, he awoke from a blackout to discover a bear looming over him. |
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Visitors are greeted by a looming gothic gate, the kind used to signify that important residents lie behind its spires. |
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With the school's championship finals looming and Jimmy's confidence in tatters once more, his dreams of being spotted by a City talent scout look distant. |
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With deadlines looming, top campaign staff may lean subconsciously on stereotypes about minorities. |
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Every now and then, he writes these hysterical, factually insupportable, logically inconsistent screeds against some looming threat to civil liberties in the United States. |
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With National Marriage Week starting today and Valentine's Day looming we spoke to two very different couples and one divorcee about their experiences of marriage. |
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As the Israel-Palestine conflict drags on, it blocks the resolution of urgent crises and intensifies looming threats to the West. |
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They rode on through the moors, the fog thickening around them as they passed looming, twisted trees and hulking gray rocks, fuzzy with moss and mist. |
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Except for a few looming hemlocks, the forest is mostly hardwoods, and the light streams through the thinning tops of the taller oaks and basswoods. |
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The euro took a beating on all sides on Thursday from German budget woes, a Dutch government collapse and a looming referendum on European Union expansion plans. |
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With November looming, struggling Democrats are collecting millions from k street. |
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But the causes belie a looming emergency that may leave hospitals scrambling, Red Cross officials said. |
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No one was especially eager to deliver news of a disastrous military defeat or looming economic crisis. |
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But he was fully devoted to EL, and made preparations for the looming doomsday. |
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One way of answering the question is to look at trendline growth in GDP compared to the anticipated size of any looming recession. |
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With a government shutdown looming, Nancy Pelosi and Michele Bachmann are on the same side. |
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Absent a breakdown in the actual daily money market, which we saw in the fall of 2008 and into 2009, that is not looming. |
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Though with budget cuts now looming, Congress is trying to gut some of those benefits while wasteful programs go untouched. |
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The party of five emerged into the moonlight that silvered the high round of Naples's city wall, a looming mass of dead masonry that could have stood for the soul of the city. |
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Tyson and Roethlisberger both returned to their respective sports, but not without the looming cloud of negativity and suspicion. |
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At two-and-a-half minutes, the standing ovation was short and critics of the looming war were unappeased, though other MPs said they had enjoyed their leader's eloquence. |
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At first blissfully unaware of the looming nuclear catastrophe, their muddling path towards doom is in equal parts pathetic, frightening and funny. |
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The familiar shelves and looming bookcases of the library surrounded her. |
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With a looming humanitarian disaster in Libya, Western nations are wringing their hands over what to do. |
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With piles of work mounting up, deadlines looming and ever-increasing pressure from unsympathetic bosses, the 25-year-old was suffering from stress. |
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Mike Giglio on why the plea could be a preemptive strike against looming accusations. |
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Now there were sharp ravines and barren gray slopes and narrow red spires looming above a clay basin that had, for 600 millennia, been eroded by rivers and wind. |
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The hairpin bend in the snow-dusted mountain road is looming. |
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In addition to its looming mansions, mesmerizing sunsets and devotion to the arts, Newport boasts a 3.5-mile-long oceanside walking trail known as the Cliff Walk. |
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Defeat appeared to be looming 18 months ago, but he stuck it out and won. |
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With the Premier title already in the bag and the FA Sunday Cup final looming on Sunday, Albion Sports paraded most of their third string for the visit of bogey side Crown. |
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The scale of the looming disaster also places a massive burden on already overstretched relief agencies reeling from famines in southern Africa and chaos in Afghanistan. |
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Everyone pretty much knows that the looming fight over judges is actually a fight over the right to abortion, affirmative action, and a few other hot button issues. |
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He has to face down the markets, his political critics, and his own colleagues as the clamour for solutions to the looming economic crunch inevitably grows. |
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The set, in an atmospheric walled garden of Queens College, is transformed into a fantastic fairyland of sparkling glass raindrops, twinkling lights and looming plantlife. |
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But, they add, the feminization of medicine is helping to lower physician salaries, encourage part-time doctoring and exacerbate a looming shortage of physicians. |
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Medical research into the drug came to an abrupt end in the mid-1960s when LSD hit the headlines as hazardous to health and a looming shadow over society's moral fibre. |
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Despite the looming calamity, no one has confronted the core problem. |
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At Junior Cert level, deadlines are looming for home economics and metalwork projects, and practicals in home economics and music are set to begin at the end of the month. |
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Since an election is looming, the spin doctors decide to safeguard the Prez by focusing public attention on an international crisis. |
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With Christmas looming, the PS349 PS4 goes head-tohead with pricier rival Xbox One, which was released last week. |
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While Haass overstates the looming dangers of a nonpolar world, he correctly describes it as a forgiving place from America's perspective. |
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Its slopes are an angular patchwork of snowfields, lava-strewn plains, basalt pinnacles, and looming cinder cones. |
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The subtext, unworded but looming, was that, like coal miners, poets have to make a living, and Shapiro had children. |
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The meeting was pervaded with an undercurrent of dread, as the managers tried not to admit firings were looming. |
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In 1639, with war between the two kingdoms looming, the castle was refortified using stone from the cathedral cloisters. |
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Strafford himself, hoping to head off the war he saw looming, wrote to the king and asked him to reconsider. |
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Only above the shore of Ullswater does a trace of Lakeland remain, with the steep faces of Arthur's Pike and Bonscale Pike looming over the lake. |
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His One Nation approach to the economy was to seek high or full employment, especially with a General Election looming. |
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Hugging her cosy coat to her heatless body she trudged into the looming trees. |
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That seems like a good first step, the first of several that should be taken to avoid this looming grad student loan bubble. |
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With more children in Germany, there is a greater chance of preventing a gerontocracy and peacefully overcoming the looming demographic crisis. |
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The next year, part of the Baltic Fleet made the passage to the Pacific where armed conflict with Japan was looming. |
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With civil war looming, the magnates of the realm met in council to hammer out a compromise. |
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With deep and savage public sector cuts from the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats looming,Wales needs a strong defender, not a ditherer. |
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I am not a soothsayer, nor am I a doomster, but there is a crisis looming like dark clouds over the horizon. |
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Martha arrives at Downton amid hopes that she will help the upper-crust Crawleys with their looming financial problems. |
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For Garry, this is a journey that will hammer home the fact his jail sentence is looming and he will soon have to leave his son, Gwern. |
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With world population increasing unstoppably food shortages are a looming danger. |
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With Black History Month looming, I decided to rectify the lapse. |
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With war looming in spring 1939, Iceland realized its exposed position would be very dangerous in wartime. |
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Janine di Giovanni on the looming crisis facing global cities. |
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With the Easter break looming, major corporate developments were thin on the ground. |
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But he is, looming large as a shrimpy, gimpy psycho with oversize plans and the cunning to execute them. |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin was hard to pin down when it comes to question related to a looming new Cold War. |
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With a deceptively sloped green and back bunker looming, bogie is often in play on this apparent luller. |
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Lack of space at the mint and with Decimal Day looming it became apparent that the mint needed to again relocate to a larger site. |
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Matty Betts More roadwork headaches looming for drivers near Warwick University Can they stop doing the roads by chucking loose stones on it? |
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Still, there is an enormous opportunity for growth in the baby care market as China's baby boom has been looming for decades. |
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By 1938 it was clear that war was looming, and that Germany had the world's most powerful military. |
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Macchi's art embraces the fragmentation of what can be spoken as a defense against the looming specter of its own replicability. |
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Foody called his study a useful first look at potential approaches to the looming shortage of cardiologists. |
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We have the misfortune of having a two-story fourplex looming over our bedroom and backyard in our westside neighborhood. |
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Look one way and you will see rusted quonset huts, with the rickety PLC building looming in the background. |
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Aquarius Time magically expands in the face of looming deadlines. |
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And I should have been forethoughtful enough to see the looming danger. |
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Journey's End is an interesting mix of orangeness, the sky, pylons, grass and the overwhelming darkness of the underneath of the looming motorway structure. |
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In late April 1945, with total defeat looming, Mussolini attempted to escape north, but was captured and summarly executed near Lake Como by Italian partisans. |
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The Jedis are all but extinct, the Old Republic is in turmoil and the threat of the Death Star is looming in ''Rogue One,'' fans learned at Star Wars Celebration on Sunday. |
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If competition is looming, or already beginning to erode a telco's customer base, Valerie Winier, director of new business development for John Staurulakis Inc. |
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Translated from maquettes by a structural engineer, the looming towers were realized at the Modern Art Foundry, a metalworks long used by Bourgeois in Astoria, Queens. |
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At the heart of the looming punk explosion, he was working for Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood and hanging out with such scenesters as Siouxsie Sioux. |
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The widely speculated looming nuclear war between the United States and Russia will bring the entire human race into extinction, political analyst Edward Lozansky said. |
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Although initially it looked as if they might succeed, by 1790, with the fears of revolution looming in Parliament, few were swayed by appeals to equal rights. |
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With such competition looming, one might suppose that U.S. automakers would embrace tighter domestic efficiency requirements to help them gird for the challenge. |
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While everyone seems to have no problem paying lip service to the looming pension crisis, the policies that have led up to it are being protected. |
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There were complaints that the Chancellor's 2016 Autumn Statement did not include extra funding for the NHS and did not even mention the NHS despite a looming funding crisis. |
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Chelvanayakam, leader of the FP, to resolve the looming ethnic conflict. |
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Peter Kennedy was gazing up at Lisa and her coconut when he suddenly felt a looming presence, an uncomfortably close breath and the smell of kabana sausage. |
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Players are called upon to fight the Awakened's draconic army, shine light into the world's looming darkness, and set the tone for a new Age's beginning. |
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But on the east crags looming impressively over upper Eskdale, and on the north side Scafell Crag provides some the finest rock scenery in the Lake District. |
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One of the larger projects looming on her horizon is an up-coming collaboration with Kevin Rowland's raggle-taggle soul crew, Dexys Midnight Runners. |
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The future is looking pretty dark for New York City and Long Island, according to a recent study by New York Building Congress that predicts a looming energy crisis. |
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