But after Nov. 3, there was no controlling much of anything anymore.
No doubt much of this is just bleating by unhappy mining executives as they negotiate with the government to lower the royalty rates.
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No doubt much of this rhetoric will focus on whether General Motors and Chrysler were saved and allowed to thrive via a federal bailout or workers were ultimately sold out, factories shuttered and dealerships closed to artificially prop up businesses that deserved to suffer in the first place.
All of which makes The Boy with No Name that much more of a sparkling surprise, as Travis returns with a sharp batch of winning pop songs.
Make no mistake, much of what we both did was grunt work: boring, mindless, repetitious.
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And Apple's stylish operating system, Mac OS, no longer enjoys much of an advantage over Microsoft's products.
Loyalist forces no longer control much of the country, outside the main cities, roads and oil facilities.
No wonder so much of the economy seems to be gasping for air.
Since there's no market for much of this stuff, valuations are arbitrary.
But Muralitharan told former England captain and BBC analyst Michael Vaughan that batting first was no longer as much of an advantage as it was in previous days.
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Najibullah was a charismatic and ruthless leader, but, as the last of the Soviet troops departed, no one gave him much of a chance to remain in power.
"Major labels are no longer of much use to bands of a certain level, " DeRogatis says, citing Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead as others who've followed similarly label-less paths.
It is surely no coincidence that much of the activity Dr Okubo found is in that characteristically human part of the brain, the enlarged cerebral cortex, rather than in the limbic system.
And there is no doubt that much of the policies adopted by Tony Blair since the election - on privatisation, law and order and elements of social security spending - could have come from Tory ministers.
And no matter how much of a culinary purist you are, watching someone butterfly a shrimp on YouTube or the Food Network is almost always going to be more helpful than a written description of the process.
Indeed, no matter how compelling the cloud proposition may be, and no matter how much of a megabucks savings is promised and might even be realized, the cost of moving major applications and systems off existing servers is a steep one.
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Seventy percent of this debris is believed to have sunk offshore, but no one knows how much of the remaining 1.5 million tons are still floating in the Pacific Ocean.
No single person has done as much to shape the history of the Balkans in the past dozen years, and no single person has as much to answer for in the court of historical judgment.
The Japanese government estimated that the tsunami generated 25 million tons of rubble, but no one is sure how much of that washed into the ocean, or whether any debris stayed afloat.
While most of the freight will have been flown straight on from last weekend's season-opener in Qatar, the cloud of ash has created a no-fly zone over much of northern and central Europe and made it impossible for many team personnel to reach Japan.
Of those left behind, a quarter have no job, or much prospect of finding one.
No sport requires as much of its teams to prove their worthiness for a title shot.
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Yet these days Bandai may no longer be in much of a position to argue.
There will be no ceiling on how much of this low-interest-rate money banks can borrow from the Bank of England.
If this happens, Mr Prescott will, no doubt, claim much of the credit for making the trains run on time.
He said he knew that his father worked on secret projects during the war but had no sense until much later of how important it had been.
Some who have crunched the numbers argue that this was all mouth and no trousers much of it made up by old budget commitments, double-counting and empty promises.
The government says it makes no sense to allow much of the country's best soil to lie fallow while farmers struggle to squeeze a living from minuscule, dust-blown fields.
Most Turkish women subtly drape themselves with their cloth when they are not actually bathing, but if you prefer to bask nude, no one will bat much of an eyelid.
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