You get a place to shape your public image and how you are perceived.
The lucky ones may get a place in a reception center run by a charity.
One in seven pupils failed to get a place at their first choice of secondary school this year.
If you have friends at CNN, you may be able to get a place on one of their flights.
In Hammersmith, 12% did not get a place in any of their six preferences, 11% in Kensington and Chelsea and 5% in Birmingham.
"I've told people the only way to get a place in Europe is to fight hard and get into the play-offs, " said Diamond.
In some parts of England, more than 40% of families failed to get a place in their first preference secondary school, according to official figures.
But not even the claimants to new Security Council seats including Japan, Brazil and India can agree among themselves who, exactly, should get a place at the table.
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School admissions remain highly competitive in some areas, with one in seven pupils failing to get a place at their first choice of secondary school this year.
You've got survivors out there, they don't care how much stuff you've got in staging....All they want to know is, 'When is my power coming back on, when can I get a place to stay?
It means that universities will be funded for an unlimited number of students with these grades, which is meant to make it easier for talented students to get a place on their first choice course.
"It's my job to make the arguments to these people that if they carry on writing letters, their kids are never going to get a place with a garden to bring up their grandkids, " said Mr Boles.
I'm back in the squad, but I know I've got to show exactly the same qualities to get a place in the team, so I'll really be knuckling down when I join up with the England squad.
Further on I'd dodge the rubbish trucks and the early morning graffiti artists to get a place in line at a bakery hidden in an alley, where I'd buy a warm croissant from a baker who smelled like cherry pie.
That notion was a key factor in the Laura Spence affair, he said - when Oxford was accused by the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, of being elitist after Laura, a comprehensive school pupil, failed to get a place to study medicine at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Anders Hultin of Kunskapsskolan, a chain of 26 Swedish schools founded by a venture capitalist in 1999 and now running at a profit, says its schools only rarely have to invoke the first-come-first-served rule the chain has responded to demand by expanding so fast that parents keen to send their children to its schools usually get a place.
I'd have to go there, get a vibe for the place, get a feeling for the place.
But if you're not a skier, you might consider trying to get into a place that takes reservations weeks in advance, like the beautiful Herbfarm Restaurant, 20 miles from Seattle.
"We have a doctor, a vet, a grocery store, a place where you can get your hair cut and a place where you can get your car fixed, " says Mr. Alverson.
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Democratic companies will continue to have a competitive advantage in the future, and we will eventually get to a place where employees demand it.
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Mr. WILBUR SMITH (Homeless Person): Well, I want to get me a place, but I don't have enough money to get a deposit and first month rent.
Part of what I want to do is to essentially get the American people in a safe place so that we can then get the economy in a stable place.
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How far do we have to go to get to a place that has electricity?
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You get to a place where you realize that this is not sustainable.
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Many pre-retirees may never get to a place where they embrace and enjoy change as the author encourages them to do.
Instead, Southwest added an optional early bird fee which allows travelers to check in earlier to get a better place in line.
At one point I started spending my evening writing instead until I could get to a place where my material was strong enough to be granted a regular time slot.
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"We've been trying to work with the EPA...to get to a place where the rules are a bit more mindful of the costs, " says Roxanne Brown, the union's assistant legislative director.
"You can't get to a place today where for the first time the proposals are being unveiled at a public meeting and no one has had sight of them, save on the front of a newspaper, " she said.
We need to teach financial literacy, we need to match what they're able to save so that they actually have something that they can fall back on in case they get in a place where they need more money.
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