AstroTurf, that pale green, postmodern creation of the 1960s, loathed by players and TV-viewers alike, is gone from NFL stadiums.
Could the United Kingdom's top diplomat possibly have believed that this pale entreaty would have the slightest influence on Iran's unremitting support for terrorist organizations that they organize, finance and shelter?
That looks pale alongside the 12.7% you could have earned on the Vanguard Index 500 fund.
That was beyond the pale -- and I would hope that he would publicly apologize on that same floor to the president of the United States for that insult.
The relative courtesy with which the British treated Nehru owed something to the fact that he had been educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, but it also owed something to the fact that he had pale skin.
Former major-league outfielder So Taguchi, who played alongside Ichiro for nine seasons in Japan, said Ichiro understands what these milestones mean "4, 000 hits, what a number, " Taguchi said but that they now pale in comparison to his desire for a championship.
His clothes were as ugly and incongruous as his two-tone swimsuit a baggy shirt, which looked black from my balcony but was probably patterned, and a pair of light-colored slacks that appeared to be a very pale blue, though that was possibly a reflection from the nearly invisible water.
Although, investment banks post reports on the net, Mr Yearsley argues that the information available to private investors is a pale shadow of that which reaches the desks of City professionals.
Once you get to look at the phone in person, all Xperias that came before it pale in comparison.
The interior of the restaurant was faced in beautiful pale marble that shimmered in light from sconces lining the walls.
The captain was a short, stocky man, with a greasy fringe of pale hair that jutted out beyond his hat.
They fight and claw, unaware they are speeding towards a precipice, oblivious to the common danger that makes their differences pale.
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Her brother the Duke of Gloucester who led her was so shocked at seeing her in such a situation that he looked as pale as death and as if he was ready to faint away.
He rejected tubular steel as too susceptible to glare and heat and cold and went on to experiment with the steam techniques that produced his familiar pale, satiny, bentwood birch furniture, so pleasing to the hand and eye.
AMAZINGLY, WHILE all of these developments are alarming, and while all of them have justifiably dominated much of the coverage of the Middle East in recent weeks and months, the fact is that all of them pale in comparison to what is happening in Iran.
The president warns that terrorists are planning new attacks that could make the Sept. 11 attacks "pale by comparison" and says that failure to pass the Protect America Act could have dire consequences.
We are convinced, however, that those costs are both the inevitable price of freedom and will be shown to pale by comparison with those that would have been associated with continued U.S. inaction.
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Whatever happens, it remains true that venture firms vet prospective investments with a rigor that makes Ivy League admissions pale by comparison.
All of that, though, will pale in comparison when the most obvious Angry Birds brand extension of all gets underway video ads!
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But that he never finished The Pale King is no real failure.
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Rates like that are "beyond the pale" of commercial reasonableness, says a court filing made on behalf of Douglas Kelley, the court-appointed Petters Group receiver.
After the impostress fell asleep (the dog in her arms, their breathing synchronous) I found myself searching through Rema's pale blue purse that smelled only very faintly of dog.
If you're accustomed to the idea of internet users being a select, unrepresentative few - that's going to pale in comparison to those in the .cu domains, where you need express permission from the Party before connecting to the net.
But their respective policy differences over two small islands off the coast of China were lost in the stark contrast between a Nixon who looked so pale and unwell that his mother phoned him up afterwards to ask if he was OK, and a tanned, relaxed Kennedy.
Everyone agrees that the tone and content of many of them is a bit shrill and occasionally intolerant (kind of like University faculty meetings), but there is one repeating thread, by one of your most prestigious employees, Dr. Tom Wigley, that is far beyond the pale of most academic backbiting.
When Mike Bloomberg was elected last November to follow him, many thought that this billionaire and political virgin would be a pale flop by comparison, quite unable to fill the void that Mr Giuliani had left.
It contains sweeping environmental obligations that make those entailed in the Kyoto accords pale by comparison - especially insofar as the Law of the Sea Tribunal has established that it believes its jurisdiction extends to activities on land and in the air if they might affect the world's oceans.
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