Much is made of momentum, and certainly tours can assume a life of their own.
Negative statements have a way of taking on a life of their own.
The regional bodies that will spring into life next spring will inevitably take on a life of their own.
Creative projects have a life of their own, and this is nowhere more clearly demonstrated than by open source software.
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In another, they have a life of their own, and in their final moments can even produce a tear or two.
Sometimes things get printed by some person in some journal, and then they begin to take on a life of their own.
In other countries, nuclear programmes take on a life of their own.
But many big state or local government projects, especially those conceived on the private-finance initiative (PFI) model, have a life of their own.
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Yes, I know that trends take on a life of their own and that the market can stay irrational longer than one can stay solvent.
"Because we live in such a connected world, the right ideas can take on a life of their own and take off hugely, " he said.
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Even if the expressions of reluctance had been designed to signal his distance from the process, the doubts now took on a life of their own.
There is no way to edit or append a correction to a tweet, and once it has been retweeted, those 140 characters take on a life of their own.
Almost all carers questioned in the survey agreed a life of their own would be achievable if they received breaks, a decent income and were given support in times of crisis.
But once these things are out there, they take on a life of their own, re-cited and re-enunciated as they are by readers and then their own readers and listeners in turn.
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Conversations have a life of their own.
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Some analysts believed to be close to the security establishment admit that the Pakistani intelligence services nurtured these groups as a foreign policy tool, but say they are no longer under the army's control and have taken on a life of their own.
The aim is to get people back into everyday life, with a home of their own.
They want to live the life of a sekitori, with their own fan clubs, mountains of prize money and a retinue of servants.
There were stories of two potential donors who'd turned against the idea precisely because what they had seen as an altruistic act - giving the chance of life to someone else when their own chance of life had gone - had become a demand from the state.
That, however, suggests that female titi and owl monkeys must be involved in a life-shortening trade-off of their own.
Peasants, workmen and students were among those who believed that a whole way of life, as well their own livelihoods, was threatened by the march of modernisation.
But for Pelagius, a Jew who faithfully followed the Mosaic Law, or even a pagan who lived a virtuous life were capable of being saved on their own merits.
People who believe that health care works in the free market are people who are in denial, believing that they will never encounter a serious, life-threatening health crisis of their own.
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Among women, those aged between 45 and 59 were the most likely to take their own life, at a rate of 7.3 per 100, 000.
Women like Pirtle, who are still grieving but are able to smile and embrace the positive aspects of their lives, give Weikel an idea of what her own life might be like a year or two from now.
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And a Britain where a strong society gives everyone the chance to shape their own life, making the most of all that this amazing country, in this amazing century, has to offer.
Whether filming hippos in the clear water of Mzima Spring, flamingo chicks in a dried-out soda lake or the complex layers of life within a massive baobab tree, the Roots always let their subjects tell their own stories making astonishing discoveries along the way.
For some people sudden realizations in life come in one breath of their own, but mine had come in a breath not taken by another.
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