And, of course, the Wright brothers claimed flying was possible and nearly killed themselves trying to make it happen.
The luxury tax wiped out jobs and nearly killed the domestic yacht industry and hurt the others, so Congress quickly repealed it.
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It stands close to the site where 200 Welshmen, led by the king of north Wales Owain Gwynedd, ambushed - and nearly killed - King Henry II in 1157.
Even if Republicans won the White House and congressional majorities in November, the frustrating legislative trapdoors that slowed and nearly killed health reform in 2009 and 2010 will likely remain hurdles to repeal.
Mr McCain has been shot at, stabbed, beaten and twice nearly killed for his country.
His colleagues back in New York were relegated to the bleacher seats of capitalism--and it nearly killed them.
Mr Redstone's unyielding character was forged in a poor home by an ambitious mother and tempered in a hotel fire that nearly killed him and disabled his right arm.
Some Canadian officials, the most charitable of the naysayers, see him as a brash, grandstanding cowboy who disrupted promising negotiations and nearly got himself killed.
Will the economic impact of the Gulf spill be the final death blow to the parts of Louisiana and Mississippi that Katrina nearly killed?
Meanwhile, at least 30 Pakistani soldiers and nearly 100 militants have been killed in fierce fighting in a remote, northwest valley over the past four days following a ground offensive launched by the army, military officials said Monday.
In Iraq, roughly 17, 500 U.S. troops have been wounded, and nearly 2, 500 have been killed.
The United Nations estimates the January 2010 earthquake affected nearly 3 million people and killed about 220, 000.
More than 400 people in Lebanon and nearly 50 people in Israel have been killed during two weeks of bombardments and clashes.
And Tom Siebel's experience of nearly being killed on safari puts it all in perspective (p. 63).
The 1990-91 recession killed off the minicomputer industry and nearly did in IBM.
In Iraq today, armed men kidnapped nearly a dozen Iraqi soldiers and four civilians were killed in a roadside bombing.
Despite nearly being killed, she manages to unravel and solve the case.
In 1968, a year after he finished his legendary series of black murals for his eponymous chapel at the Menil Collection in Houston and just a few months after suffering an aneurysm that nearly killed him, Mark Rothko turned to painting smaller pictures in acrylic on paper laid down on canvas.
The period known as the Troubles began in the late 1960s and lasted for nearly 30 years, with thousands on both sides killed.
The family says that they couldn't get a physician to examine Malyia and that the five-hour wait in the emergency room nearly killed her.
The 168-page opinion, made public Tuesday by the NRC, says nearly 1, 000 shortnose sturgeon and Atlantic sturgeon would be killed during the extended lives of the plants, but that would be only a small percentage of the stock.
And then there was Superstorm Sandy, a late October post-tropical cyclone that killed more than 110 people in the United States and nearly 70 more in the Caribbean and Canada.
All three companies have been pointing fingers at each other since the April 20, 2010, blowout that sank the Deepwater Horizon, killed 11 men aboard and uncapped an undersea gusher that spewed for nearly three months.
Among those killed or injured in these crashes, nearly 1, 000 deaths and 24, 000 injured included cell phone use as the major distraction.
It's been nearly five years since Eritrea and Ethiopia called a truce to a border war that killed tens of thousands of people.
All 230 aboard were killed and the accident is still unexplained, even though officials have recovered nearly all of the wreckage from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
Many in Turkey fear that the triple killings could derail delicate peace talks between the Turkish government and the PKK. More than 40, 000 people have been killed in the nearly 30-year conflict.
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The minister said Bill had nearly been killed by tuberculosis as a young man but used that "experience and adversity" to turn his life in a different direction.
The fact is that Representative Paul has predicted nearly all of the major economic developments in recent years, and as such, has killed the major market averages with his approach.
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