The minutes ticked away to years as the Bosnian crisis claimed many thousands of lives, got Europeans themselves at cross-purposes and all but ruptured the transatlantic alliance.
It seemed to me to be a different world yet it was simply a dour hillside quarrying village producing stone for all kinds of industrial purposes - the finer, harder types for grindstones for the 'little mesters' of the Sheffield cutlery trade and for lining furnaces in the steelworks.
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But it really does remind us of the early MP3 players back in the late 90s: maybe the content isn't as readily accessible as we might like, but the hardware is starting to come into its own (we have a feeling 3rd generation will be prime time), and damned if we don't want to start using this thing for all our bookwormish purposes post-haste.
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But for all practical purposes, the 4-4-2, the 4-3-3, the 4-2-3-1 and all the rest no longer have any relevance after the referee's whistle is blown.
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The Galaxy Camera is, for all intents and purposes, a full-on Android smartphone ... minus that whole "phone" thing.
Though it appears to all intents and purposes like a state-of-the-art power station, FutureGen is actually a huge hydrogen production facility in disguise.
For all intents and purposes, all this research shows that developed nations are on the downward-sloping portion of the Rahn Curve.
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When somebody like him comes along, who is - appears to be, for all practical purposes, qualified, that a lot more Americans will be give him a very fair chance to be heard and even supported.
But to all intents and purposes, they are black boxes -- massively corrupt, completely unaccountable and poorly managed.
Because it's a human invention, science - just like religion - will always be used for all kinds of purposes, good and bad.
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The non-responsiveness of the economy might be because the various policies are at cross-purposes at one another or that all the policies are in error, or some mix.
For all intents and purposes, it looks like a second-generation Q: less plasticky, slightly smaller, and perhaps even a little more purpose-suited.
For all practical purposes, the costliest public school for in-staters is Ferris State University's Kendall School for Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Surely they would all appreciate that you want to conform everything, that you want your one-and-only signature to have legal effect for all purposes.
When Hecker was shown a 2, 000-centrifuge plant in November 2010, he could not tell if it was operating at all, let alone producing low-enriched uranium for fuel purposes, as claimed.
For all intents and purposes, the Multilateral Convention outlaws certain pro-growth tax policies and discourages others.
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Simply holding the phone in your hands, for all intents and purposes, is pretty much a California no-no.
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On a similar note, the 2.7-inch LCD looked sharp and served us well for all purposes, although we didn't get to test it outdoor.
Its one-size-fits-all attempt to regulate marriage defining marriage for federal purposes as a legal union between one man and one woman takes away state powers in violation of the Tenth Amendment (power not delegated to the federal government remains with the states or the people).
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For all intents and purposes, Professor Cochrane is explaining the economics of third-party payer, which occurs when government intervention undermines the ability of markets to promote efficiency and low prices.
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To cover all these purposes, the consumption tax would have to be raised to 25-30 percent, which would certainly be unacceptable.
As Afghanistan has shown, it can (and often should) be unilateralist in military matters, but it needs a more co-operative, even consensual approach for other purposes, including diplomacy, intelligence-gathering, financial tracking and above all in the battle for hearts, minds and ideas.
Aside from the fact that it is limited, no president is going to squander all the reserve for short-term price pressure, since it was built for serious strategic security purposes.
They produced a lively and, to all intents and purposes, normal sheep, known as Dolly, from the nucleus of a mammary-gland cell.
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Also of no interest to Israel's international legal superstar is the fact that the institution set to do the judging is politically stacked against Israel, and that the Islamic bloc-dominated "international community" redefined international law for the purposes of the ICC to make all Israeli communities beyond the 1949 armistice lines criminal.
The BBC's political correspondent Carole Walker said Ms Blears, Mr Hoon and Mr Purnell all appeared to have complied with the same rules which state MPs can nominate a secondary residence for capital gains purposes - and that this does not have to be the same as the designated second home on which MPs draw expenses.
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