Miss Jayalalitha took that as a sign to withdraw her support from the government, which promptly fell.
Yet thought leadership gets too little of our attention even as companies sign up to it as a strategy.
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The zoo is also marking the mother lobsters with a "V" notch on their tails as a sign to fishermen, which lasts up to three years and should allow them a chance of greater breeding time.
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That concern proved not to be the case as United continued to sign and develop some of the world's top talent.
The Rugby Football Union has already stated they will introduce a new code of conduct that all players have to sign up to as part of their contract if they are included in the 32-man elite squad to be named on 1 July.
The actions of Senate appropriators still must be reconciled with those of other committees, but considering how supportive they have been of military funding requests in the past, this latest setback to Army plans can only be interpreted as a sign of things to come.
Vice-President Dick Cheney was among a number of gun rights supporters who criticised Mr Clement's position - and went so far as to sign a friend-of-the-court brief rejecting the administration's view on the DC ban, as expressed by Mr Clement.
"There is a concern in Congress that there be an obvious, immediate, visible security factor as a reassuring sign to people, and we can go along with that if it can be done in a way that works, " a senior administration official said.
The venom against Mr Martin was probably strongest of all in his own Socialist group, which expelled him earlier this year because he had refused to apologise to some female colleagues for allegedly assaulting them as they tried to sign in for a parliamentary session that had been cancelled.
Adlington took gold in a Games record time of four minutes, 5.68 seconds, well ahead of silver medallist Kylie Palmer of Australia, and the 21-year-old - who overcame days of illness to win both races - hailed her two victories in Delhi as a sign of things to come in 2011.
"We are delighted to be the first carrier to sign on as a partner with Google to deliver Google Wallet, " said Fared Adib, senior vice president of product development, Sprint.
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The failure of Bear Stearns, Lehman and many others was, as opposed to a crisis, a sign of an economy on the mend as markets tried to cleanse from the system bad business practices.
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The EPA points to rising mini-car sales as a sign that consumers are willing to open their wallets a little wider.
G8 countries, which have said India must sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, will now want Pakistan to sign as well.
When Senator Hutchison joined the Senate in 1993, she came to me to sign on as the lead Democratic sponsor for her idea to help women save for retirement.
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Netflix still has far and away the best streaming service and so that these customers are no worse off, and we expect Netflix to see cancellations accelerate on its DVD business as it forces customers to sign up under its new system.
And Secretary Solis was right there, the first one to sign up to go, as a busy Secretary, still never too busy to give back to an amazing group of girls -- and I will be grateful to her for a very long time for her outstanding work and willingness to step up and outside of her role.
The World Bank sees this small project in Tanzania as a sign of things to come.
The entry of price-warriors like Reliance and Tata unleashed demand as companies rushed to sign up subscribers.
Over and above that warm joyous feeling they get as they sign the check to Uncle Sam.
However, Wade recently dropped Nike as a sponsor to sign with a Chinese athletic apparel company, Li Ning.
Even as he promised to sign what is the ultimate in anti-union legislation, Snyder said he did not oppose unions per se.
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That's a positive sign, as opposed to flying them from a helicopter from the airport to the Green Zone and never letting them go to see anything.
It was as a sign of things to come in a first set in which Djokovic hit 14 winners to Nadal's seven and made almost half as many unforced errors.
Our prospective landlord objected to one of our firm stipulations, the right to sublet the space while we wait for our liquor license, just as we were about to sign the lease.
Almost his first official action as mayor was to sign an executive order banning discrimination against gay employees of New York City, an act that dismayed almost every reporter who was covering him, except me.
Co-founder Graham Dodge says it is early days and the site will become more useful as more people sign up to it - but he insists it is not just about allowing people to avoid catching illnesses.
Users don't have to play a rousing game of guess-the-username, either, as they just need to sign in with one or more familiar e-mail addresses and a single password.
Tudjman wants the Europeans to extend their non-military observer mission, now limited to Slovenia, to his republic as a sign that foreign countries will help Croatia stand up to the Yugoslav army.
The willingness by Francis to dispense with tradition was interpreted by a Vatican spokesman as a sign he will be willing to chart his own path in other ways.
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