Edward Fitzgerald QC, counsel for the cleric, repeatedly said the UK had achieved nothing new to satisfy Strasbourg's expectations.
So in conclusion, the Fed has achieved nothing save delay of the inevitable.
Nevertheless, it would be unfair to say that the liberalisers have achieved nothing.
The commission has been characterised by back-biting and point-scoring, and has achieved nothing.
That leaves the Republicans open to the charge of having achieved nothing, or even to the charge of having obstructed useful Democratic ideas.
It says it has been driven to this because its lobbying for relief from business rates and the climate change levy has achieved nothing.
Bryan Robson has achieved nothing as a manger.
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Abdoulaye Bathily, a Senegalese mediator sent to the island by the Organisation of African Unity, admits he has achieved nothing and worries that the upheaval will provoke trouble between different highland and coastal ethnic groups.
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The Liberals were in a strong position to exert considerable influence, and yet achieved virtually nothing.
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What Wal-Mart has achieved is nothing short of remarkable.
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His mantra: perfection is not when there is nothing more to add, perfection is achieved when there is nothing more to remove.
It is not so much that nothing was achieved - it is more that no one is quite certain what will sustain.
Clients would look at the performance of the manager's portfolio over the past year and compare it with the return that would have been achieved had he done nothing at all.
Mr Abbas's influential boss, Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the Palestinian Authority, said that nothing tangible was achieved at the summit.
Mr McGuinness added that nothing would have been achieved if the police officers had been killed or injured.
As we have said time and again, pension talks will not be reopened and nothing further will be achieved through strike action.
It achieved those goals, but since nothing happened, there was no parade.
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And out of all these ideas, the one that talks about enthusiasm -- that nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm -- it seems to be especially fit for our way of understanding the world.
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This means that we, the taxpayers, paid an awful lot in administrative costs but nothing of benefit to the children was achieved.
What I choose to do when I close the door at home has nothing to do with what I have achieved in rugby.
True, it is large, though nothing like the 12% swing Labour achieved in 1945 and which, if repeated today, would give Tony Blair an overall majority of at least 150 seats.
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Nothing fancy is running yet, all they've achieved so far is a proof of concept that they've bypassed the Wii's protection with some encryption codes they swiped from the Wii's memory.
Mr. SABATO: Oddly enough, the Republicans have done nothing to encourage this split, but their objectives may have been achieved by the split.
In truth, there is nothing on the horizon that should make anyone think these growth figures will be achieved.
Its "tax cuts for 95% of the American people" are the tax-rebate equivalent of the ancient machine-politics practice of handing out free turkeys at holiday time--nice gesture, but it does nothing to increase incentives for productive work, risk- taking and success, good things achieved by cuts in tax rates.
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