And if all this has left you exasperated there is a ray of light.
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If we can offer a ray of sunshine here, MSI did get the overall shape right.
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There is a ray of hope for some healing, but it's not a promise.
According to Mark Jones, chair of political science at Rice University, Capriles could be a ray of hope.
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Both markets boast large numbers of retail investors, who are both a liability and a ray of hope.
But 2, 000km (1, 242 miles) away, in Kerala, there is a ray of hope.
A. Points can always find a ray of light in the darkest clouds.
Interestingly, though, use of the multi-factor Sentiment rank offered a ray of hope.
Williams was a ray of hope for those considering FBARs as obscure forms the IRS must prove you knew about.
Australia's industrial sector continued to struggle in February, but the pace of decline slowed sharply, offering a ray of hope.
If there is a ray of hope, it is that none of the governments involved wants to see Doha fail.
My experience made me pessimistic in that regard, but I recently discovered a ray of sunshine and hope that I will get to shortly.
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Willie and I went to see lawyer, Elmer Doonan, who has argued for years that this could provide a ray of hope for pension victims.
The tree was a ray of hope for Anne Frank, the famous Jewish diary writer, as she hid in the attic of a canal-side warehouse.
She only realised the man in her bed was not her partner when a ray of light from outside the room flashed across his face.
Yet the role of the Chinese, in putting pressure on its old ally to come to the negotiating table, provides a ray of hope for diplomacy.
Some armchair strategists discern a ray of comfort in the exchange of non-conventional threats between Israel and Syria: it creates, they say, an appearance of deterrent balance.
You can regard all this as laying it on a bit thick - nobody ever mistook Mr Cable for a ray of sunshine - or unvarnished economic realism.
Four decades of cigarettes, alcohol, energetic fraternising with groupies and enough drug-taking to fell a whole herd of oxen have passed him by like a ray of sunshine.
This holiday season has offered a ray of hope.
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It may not be all darkness for Abercrombie, however, as some analysts are still seeing a ray of light in the company, which was once lauded for an extraordinary brand and product mix.
They also had a ray of hope that they could actually prevail at trial, which is difficult since 90% of defendants plead guilty and less than 10% of those defendants who do go to trial ever win.
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In spite of a ray of transparency out of the cloudy reputation of rating agencies that sold us down the river on subprime and collateralized debt obligations, once theses firms realize the harm this public squabble elicits for them they will shut up.
Often, this happens when an experience evokes an unbroken joy a ray of light beaming into a warm room on a winter morning, the uninterrupted presence of someone I love next to me, and things, less concrete a memory, a song, a word.
Perhaps some of the ultra-lean approaches described by leading early-stage VCs like David Grainger (blog here) of Index Ventures and Bruce Booth (blog here) of Atlas will prove out, and introduce at least a ray of optimism into this vital but existentially challenged space.
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