But as Sheikh Zayed once said, a country with no past "has neither a present or a future".
In 1971 Kraft brought home a present for his four sons: season tickets for the Patriots.
The 38-year-old soldier said he was given the gun as a present while serving in Iraq.
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Today's Switched On's first birthday, so as a present we gave Ross his very own banner.
He thought it was attractive and was going to give it to his mother as a present.
I'd buy him bubblegum with baseball cards as a present for getting over surgery and we'd talk.
He said he would do what he could, and meanwhile made her a present of a car.
In 2007 the people of Hawaii gave him a present of a double-hulled canoe, the Alingano Maisu.
It also left a present for the morning: a perfect rainbow arched over a saturated sunrise of peach and crimson.
That compares with a present value of oil and gas reserves, as calculated by John S. Herold Inc.
It was given to me as a present on the occasion of my college graduation a year ago.
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Thirdly, and this goes back to future growth rates, the stock market is essentially a present value machine.
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Begin, I told him, with a simple model in which future cash flows are discounted to a present value.
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By contrast most value investors use a present value approach to price assets.
The problem is that the government does not use a present value method.
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They said I should buy my wife a present, because she had been calling all day and I never answered.
If nothing else, having a present-day character could help players new to the series understand the history of the game.
Some observers guessed that he was trying to smooth the way for a climate-change bill by offering Republicans a present.
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For example, maybe a group wants to buy a present for the leader of a group, and split the costs?
To feel pressed to give a present is also to feel oneself passively exerting the equivalent unwelcome pressure upon other people.
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He made a few more dashes with the pen, and a cute, floppy bow materialized, tying up the toes like a present.
And this tree is, every year, a present from the people of the City of Oslo to the people of London.
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Hurley said the next time he sees Taylor, he will have a present for him: another handwritten copy of the Nash workout.
Since gold is a present good, and not used to construct any future good, it remains unaffected by the lower interest rates.
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"This victory is a present from Rafael, " said Youzhny, who has beaten Nadal in four of their seven encounters on hard courts.
If classical music faces a present danger, it is less from outright opposition or interference than from indifference and lack of support.
She left with a tartan scarf, a present from her admiring hosts.
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Unfortunately, this is not merely a prospective danger, but a present one.
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By choosing the shipping address, the MFA implicitly rules that receiving a gift and not giving it is the use of a present.
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