All true, but it was also the product of bitter experience, good management and careful investment.
The Americans, with bitter experience of how the Oslo peace process unravelled, are sceptical.
Many of those attending will be there because they have learned from bitter experience, says Ms Miller.
Lessons had been learned from the "bitter experience" for the plans for a prison near Caernarfon, he added.
That bitter experience helps explain why some investors are steering clear of mortgage-backed securities tied to retail real estate.
The West has learned through bitter experience to avoid the grievous mistakes it made from the outset of that venture.
Bitter experience suggests that when too many British consumers start eyeing up that alluring bathroom suite, it is time to start worrying.
After bitter experience we are all aware of the depredations of inflation.
The Allies remembered their bitter experience with Germany after World War I.
As Germany has found by bitter experience, in the short run tough economic reforms and falling joblessness do not easily go hand in hand.
That is the bitter experience of loyal Atlanticists in eastern Europe, who have been waiting for America's visa regime to lift ever since the iron curtain fell.
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The applicant countries have bitter experience of such experiments.
Bitter experience shows that private rail investment is risky, but if high-speed schemes require public funding, they are likely to find the Treasury's response more than usually terse given today's straitened public finances.
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But Brazil's steelmakers have had bitter experience of the American readiness to slap on tariffs, and they and their government might well prefer to look to Europe both for a market and a partner.
Although the new trust would leave all the resulting investment under public ownership, the city's recent bitter experience with a bungled 75-year lease of its parking meters under a previous mayor has left residents fearful.
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From bitter experience I can say that smacking sends all the wrong messages to children - 'might is right' - because I'm bigger and physically stronger than you I have the right to physically exert my will over you.
But Albania's religious balance, as well as its political equilibrium, could be upset by the influx of Kosovars who are overwhelmingly (though not very zealously) Muslim and now have bitter experience of people who claim to be acting in the name of Orthodox Christianity.
The argument, based on the bitter experience of 2009, went like this: Better to have 54 or 55 Democrats who might actually want to get something done than to worry about building a super-majority on the "strength" of conservative members who enthusiastically support unnecessary wars, free trade and misguided domestic economic policies.
Some people experience this as intensely bitter, even when it is present at very low levels.
The Democrats are still sore from their experience there in the presidential election two years ago: after a six-week run-off involving bitter legal wrangles, the result in Florida tipped the balance in favour of Mr Bush.
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