However for all the spring in their stride, opponents of gay marriage are also aware that their chances of blocking France's law are small at best.
If you had looked closely enough, you would have seen the beginnings of the Arab Spring all the way back in 2004.
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One of the tasks that must happen on all farms in the spring is the filling in of the dreaded IACS form for Maff.
After all, in the spring of 1997, when Microsoft announced the acquisition, WebTV Networks was a two-year-old stripling of a startup with an oversized marketing budget, an aging demographic (25% over the age of 50) and a scant number of subscribers (less than 100, 000).
"The best time to travel is in the middle of all that, spring and fall when prices are discounted, the weather is mostly decent and seasonal places and events are still open, " she says.
All indications are that the spring auction season will be strong if prices are set at reasonable levels.
Normally Greece's debt-management agency would already be raising extra funds to ensure that all goes smoothly in the spring.
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That could slow sales at the start of the all-important spring-buying season.
After all, the start of spring training is the time for optimism.
An Olympiad? (Please don't say the Pro Bowl or the NHL All-Star Game.) Every spring someone trots out the claim that the flurry of buzzer beaters in the NCAA basketball tournament makes it the most riveting event in sports, and there's always the World Cup, but what's happening in tennis feels far more intimate, close up, personal.
The Mets spent all of spring training trying to solve two mysteries about their outfield.
He told Vatican radio he hoped young people would see Christianity not as a stale reheated meal but as the spring of all youth and of all life.
We managed somehow to find the time last week to hit NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program Spring Show, where all the grad students show off whatever crazy projects they're working on (a few of the kids there are responsible for Dodgeball and Pac-Manhattan).
All three players made changes to their stance or swing this spring, and all three believe the big starts are a direct result.
Meanwhile, the old and obsolete laws collect dust, waiting to spring back to life for all the wrong reasons, sometimes to enforce precisely the opposite result to what well-meaning supporters hoped to achieve.
Just when it seems like all the beasts have been captured, a hundred more types spring up from the radioactive earth every few years without fail.
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Hoy, 30, will compete with Craig MacLean and Ross Edgar, the all-Scottish trio who won gold at the Commonwealth Games last spring.
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After all, this spring will mark the fourth year of sluggish recovery.
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Stack says the biggest threat to stocks will come from interest rates, but that danger, he says, is not imminent, with the Federal Open Market Committee all but assuring the market that rates will not rise until spring 2004 at the earliest.
Apart from her job as a teacher and researcher, Dajani devotes a great deal of her time to the We Love Reading program, which she founded just a few years ago, which I wrote about in the Spring, and which is already expanding into countries all over the Middle East.
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Following the Gulf oil spill last spring, the Obama administration imposed a moratorium on all new offshore drilling permits.
The signs of a possible recovery that we saw in the spring of 2009 have all but vanished.
But one morning, when the remains of spring and all of summer had gone, when they were sitting in warm September sunshine in their small garden, she told him.
Curtis Granderson again played all three outfield positions and homered in the extended spring game.
"We talked about it all spring: We need him for the long haul, " Redmond said.
As we are all aware, the Nasdaq 100 topped in the spring of 2000 and underwent a severe decline that lasted for over two years.
He winched the tip of the tree all the way down so it made a big spring and then Frankie held on like a Koala bear while Gary cut the rope with a machete.
The spring water there supposedly cures all ailments.
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