However, as has so often been the case with recent Irish sides, we came back into the game through excellent bowling and fielding (an area where we want to be among the best three sides in the competition).
Now, as has happened so often in Haiti's past, the fresh hopes have been extinguished.
The world economy may well muddle through, as it has so often in the past.
One way or another the market must clear, and as it has so often in the past, California appears to be leading the way.
But as has happened so often in the past, by the time the tardy downgrades arrive, the market will have likely already rendered its verdict.
But again, the president stressed today as he has so often in the past that any withdrawals will be based on conditions on the ground.
What comes most convincingly out of Mr Collier's book is that aid from the guilt-ridden West is not the answer, or at least not the main answer, and certainly not aid as it has so often been disbursed.
On September 19th the judges overseeing the case shortened the list of witnesses, making it more likely that a verdict will be reached before Mr Berlusconi is saved, as he has so often been before, by a statute of limitations.
If Mr Toledo does not act firmly to clean up and rein in the army, the risk will remain that it will eventually step in, as it so often has when civilian governments have faltered.
In doing so it is on the wrong side of the economic cycle again, as it so often has been in the past, beginning to ease too late to prevent recessions, and then continuing to ease too long after recoveries are underway, creating bubbles.
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Belief in e-learning, as it is often called, has so far weathered the downturn in the wider dotcom world.
It denies the government the trophy it so craves after six years of fighting the gang, leaving the hastily-snapped images in the funeral home as the only evidence that the man so often seen as a monster in Mexico has gone.
And now, as so often before, Apple has come along with something that may not be more innovative but is a lot more useable.
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No team has come so close so often as the Netherlands without winning the World Cup.
You would think that with all this prominence and access to powerful people, Monty might become as inaccessible as prominent executives so often become, but he has not.
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And, as my Tax Policy Center colleague Gene Steuerle often notes, putting so much of government on autopilot has important implications for democracy as well as budgets.
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As so often in the past, the Middle East has come to seem more important.
Moreover, the German federal system (devolution, grassroots democracy and so on) has often been held up as a model by European integrationists.
Its approach over the past decade, so often held up as an example for Europe, has been to slowly nurture talent from within.
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As happens every so often in asset protection planning, this theory has gone around so much that it is beginning to be accepted as gospel by some planners.
He has so often been a match winner for Ireland or, as against Australia last autumn, a match saver.
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But the heart break has prompted soul-searching, as many ask how this country is so often over taken by home-grown horror.
Violence has also stalked the streets of Boston, but as they have done so often, people here stood up against the tide.
Over the past 20 years, the city has seen no major changes in the factors so often cited as the "root causes" of crime.
There is only one Barcelona player in the top 15 (Xavi), which makes sense Barcelona has so much possession that it doesn't have to press nearly as often, even though high pressing is a fundamental part of its game.
Lievremont, so often criticised for his chopping and changing of personnel since taking over as coach, has retained the same front row for the fifth time in a row and prefers the relatively untried but impressive Julien Pierre at lock ahead of Sebastien Chabal.
To help persuade apparel makers that the machines are worth the investment, Sunstar has started to appeal to their customers, particularly so-called fast retailers, who change their inventory as often as once a week.
Clinton has often presented himself as an activist president in his State of the Union speeches and he plans to do so again, despite being in the final year of his presidency and facing an election-minded Congress whose Republican majority impeached him a little over a year ago.
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