But the authorities are trying their best to give the outside world an impression of normality.
The fiasco of Britain's ejection from the exchange-rate mechanism added an impression of incompetence to the impression of drift.
Mr Sarkozy prefers to create an impression of flexibility and openness to ideas.
"If you just want an impression of the side effects of a drug, those impressions are pretty accurate, " says Thomas J.
The average Eurosceptic in Britain has acquired an impression of constant rule changes that always increase the power of EU institutions.
The no-fly zone is a low-risk action with little ability to change the military reality that creates an impression of decisive action.
But we wanted to get an impression of who these victims are.
Mr. Obama said Sunday the situation in North Korea was still too "unsettled" for him to have developed an impression of Kim Jong Eun.
The buying process for Ultimate Ears starts with a visit to an audiologist who takes an impression of the ear canal with a rubber mold.
And you wind up having an impression of a candidate sooner than you meant to, and it hardens into an opinion earlier than it used to.
One would be privy to accounts of fear, guilt, rage, melancholy, unrequited love and infidelity that would generate an impression of our collective insanity and endearing fragility.
It is an impression of the moment of death, and only at the last is it apparent that this circular movie may have been one long flashback.
Mr Nathaniel also told the court his firm, NVA, tried to give an impression of being a big company through having an impressive website and offering telephone callers different department extensions.
In an interview with UK's Times newspaper Wednesday, Bush said that using phrases such as "dead or alive" and "bring them on" had not created an impression of a man of peace.
The auction house's George Gordon said that the way the monk's head was turned to one side created an impression of spontaneity as opposed to the more formal composition of Rubens' portraits.
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The more concrete the writing, the better: Ms Sontag's flights of fancy, for example her whimsical musings on eating and dancing, inspired by Frank O'Hara and Jasper Johns, leave an impression of self-indulgence.
Els introduced some of NIWA's work on climate change including ocean acidification as well as introducing the group to NIWA's marine collection for the students to get an impression of the New Zealand's very rich marine biodiversity.
Or will an irate prime minister scold it for allowing an impression of sleaze and division to reach the point where party officials have started to say in private memos that Labour is in danger of losing the next election?
While he tried to qualify this somewhat at the press conference with the caveat "when they are no longer needed, " he conveyed an impression of U.S. transience and determination to disengage from the Middle East that can only encourage its allies to hedge their bets by giving new weight to relations with Moscow.
Like all 3D displays, you'll really need to see it for yourself to get an accurate impression of the experience, but jump past the break for an overview with Renaud, and a closer look at the screen.
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Ninjini is a different kettle of fish, although she can be found online it is only an artists impression of the figure and no box.
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Mr Smith also complained that footage was unfairly edited to "create an unfair impression of him and his behaviour".
Nobody loves Brooklyn more than Markowitz does, and sometimes he gets so enthusiastic it's as if he's doing an SNL impression of himself.
While the various launches give an initial impression of each team's work in winter testing, all the cars can expect further modifications before the 2009 F1 season begins on 29 March in Melbourne, Australia.
He was unable to make much more of an impression until the predicted late shower of rain arrived with about five laps to go.
The Fall of 2008 left such an impression in the minds of the financial community that traders, investors and fund managers alike are in various stages of panic for fear of extreme losses.
Even then, he said, some of them were struggling to make an impression at the back of the grid.
Mr. Parrish gave my guys an unforgettably positive impression of this multi-billion dollar global financial services company.
It could even make an impression on readers of the Drudge Report, where the headline is prominently displayed this morning.
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