Nnamabia stared at my father with wounded eyes and said that he may have done horrible things in the past, things that had caused my parents pain, but that he had done nothing in this case.
Over the past year things have been looking up for the effort to avert serious climate change.
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But in the past few days you've already had the papers digging up things from his past in exactly the way they do in my novel.
But in the past eight years things have slowed down, partly because of the general economic malaise, with record companies reluctant to invest in new musicians.
But it was when I started detailing my travel for the past year that things really started to get embarrassing - you can see just how much CO2 the various methods of transport generate.
The fund has risen 24.8% since the beginning of the year, but over the past two weeks things have become choppy, and it lost another 2.1% Wednesday morning.
RealNetworks is a great company that has done amazing things in the past and that will do even more amazing things in the future.
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Tweeter stores (now formally known as Tweeter Opco) has had a rough go of things over the past year, but is hoping that a little experimentation in April will help get things moving in the right direction.
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The Liberals have done many good things over the past 12 years, but have lately succumbed to the three familiar vices of a party that has been too long in power.
And while so many terrible things have happened in the past years, plenty of good things have also occurred, from Japanese-American groups speaking out against today's wartime policies, to prominent civil-rights activists fighting for due process for Muslim and Arab clients, to ordinary people reaching out to one another in everyday encounters.
And we realise the limitations of how we have done things over the past 20 years when we simply chased people away.
In the new age of engagement, many things of the past will come to an apocalyptic end, but the creative destruction that will drive it will push us to go back to being creators as much as consumers.
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The massive conglomerate avoids a strike, as work stoppages generally are things of the past.
He said the company accepted it had done things wrong in the past, but improvements had been made.
Volunteerism at any cost, coarse egalitarianism, active adventures abroad, and a country kept in a state of constant tension by the latest economic or political campaign appear to be gradually fading into things of the past.
"We have to be able to review all the things that we have done in the past and consider how we can do things differently and more effectively and more efficiently, " he said.
"There has been a lot of criticism in the past about money and things not being done in Stranraer, " he said.
In the past, where most things of value were generated by human labor, we could maintain a fairly reasonable balance of wealth equality.
"I haven't really written a speech, because every time I wrote a speech for the past one of these things, I didn't win, " he began.
She is confident we haven't hit another Depression and that we've learned enough lessons from the past to avoid letting things get as bad as they were before.
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But in the past five years, things have dramatically changed.
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"President Lee should call on Japan to correct the wrongs of the past, so that things which need apologies can receive them, and compensation can be given, " she added.
Transformation is also difficult simply because the size and scale of the executive branch have grown so much over the past century, vastly increasing the odds that things can go wrong.
It just turned into a thing where we started realizing that de-evolution was more true than it ever had been in the past, and the things we had talked about had all come true.
In President Obama, you have someone who in the past has said positive things about reducing gun violence (including last night), but has no actual record during his first four years of pushing for legislation that would help reduce gun deaths and injury.
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Suddenly, the old way of doing things that worked in the past is out the window.
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He's going to give you a little bit of the background to how these things have worked in the past.
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Mr. FIELDS: Well, I think one of the things that we've learned the most is sometimes in the past we tried to be all things to all people.
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