The West didn't anticipate Russia's 2008 invasion of Georgia, despite warnings months in advance from Georgians about the regional buildup of forces.
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He scored a big advance from Pantheon, using that money to fund a classics factory, of which he is chief executive officer.
Already the broadcaster has spurned an advance from privately owned Five, preferring to marry the BBC's hugely profitable commercial arm, BBC Worldwide.
Since it is the largest Picasso showcase that the city has ever seen, organizers highly recommend booking exhibition tickets in advance from Urbtix.
The Saints, who lost to Finland's MyPa-47 at the first hurdle last year, will face Austrians FC Salzburg if they advance from the two-leg first round.
Somehow, when you're on the brink of monetary disaster, whether or not you advance from the group stage of a soccer tournament feels a little less important.
Tickets for the Summer Concert series cost 15 euros per event and can be bought in advance from Konzertkasse COCA 36 or at the box office on the day of.
And the UN says that it had secured guarantees in advance from the Israeli military that the convoy would not be attacked as it traveled up this same road.
Not only that but, the more lower-ranked individuals claiming friendship with you increases as you advance from one grade to the next and as your number of true friendships grows.
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However, picking a lower seeded team to advance from the round may also be a solid choice, as a double digit seed has made the Sweet Sixteen 26 of 28 years.
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The BBC's Sarah Grainger in Caracas says it appears that prisoners who had heard about the search in advance from news reports were waiting for the National Guard when they arrived.
On paper, Germany was the favorite to advance from the group, with Portugal and the Netherlands likely to fight it out for second place and the Danes bringing up the rear.
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After all, they suggest, a 401(k) loan is better than a cash advance from a credit card that's charging 21% interest, and the interest payments are funneled right back into the 401(k).
Divers preparing for a competition have a sense of the point total they need to advance from the preliminary round to the next round and, ultimately, to place in a medalist position.
Justice Anthony Kennedy focused on what he considered the demeaning nature of the Voting Rights Act's preclearance requirement, under which some localities must get approval in advance from Washington for changes to their voting laws.
Even though the Blues won the Champions League in 2012, they finished sixth in the league, failed to advance from this season's group stage and are in danger of not qualifying for the competition next term.
Anatoly Chubais, the deputy prime minister, who appears to be on his way out after taking an unseemly book advance from a publisher whose owner has an interest in buying companies Mr Chubais wants to privatise?
The transformation involved moving from the paradigm in which the application ran with a local file system to an architecture in which any data needed was fetched in advance from slower and more variably performant remote storage and then storing what was needed in memory.
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His new book is plastered with advance praise from American writers like Karin Slaughter and Steve Berry.
It would require unions to get advance permission from members before spending any dues money on politics.
Stealing a march over SingTel, Vodafone recently secured advance approval from the Indian government to take its holding up to nearly half.
Los Angelenos heeded the advance warning from city officials, and stayed out of their cars from Friday at 10:00 pm through the weekend.
If the Brussels negotiators have to ask advance permission from member states for every compromise, it is hard to see how they can hope to make substantial progress before the December deadline.
Mr Annan's spokesman, Ahmed Fawzi, said on Tuesday that an advance team from the UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) would arrive in Damascus "in the next 48 hours" to discuss the deployment of international monitors.
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Aimee Locke, a top Texas fundraiser for Walker, said she got no advance notice from the campaign, but said people in her network began to worry as CNN's new poll results showed Walker with less than 1% support nationally.
The two sides to emerge from that process then advance to face the winners from the first-to-fourth play-offs in the final series of fixtures to determine the overall champion.
Passengers must buy their tickets in advance, or from a machine, rather than from the driver as in most London buses.
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Professionals tend to prepare well in advance to profit from this pattern.
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