There was buoyant talk of robots, fuzzy logic and micromachines, but no real action.
With Klout, there are benefits to a high score, but no real punishment for a low score.
There is hopeful talk of defections from the Taliban's hard core of religious scholars, but no real sign of it.
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When a large clinical trial was finally done, the drug turned out to have no big risks, but no real benefits either.
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The Automobile Association and the Welsh Assembly warned of congestion on the M4 and surrounding trunk roads in south-east Wales - but no real problems materialised.
It could also jolt Hamas out of the relatively docile role it has been playing, lending the demonstrations support and Islamic imagery but no real leadership.
We end up with long lists of values, but no real clarity as why these values are to be preferred over others, or whether organizations run in this way are likely to survive.
It can be fooled into thinking it's against your ear (and therefore fooled into turning off the display) simply by holding your hand near the top of the phone, but no real surprise there.
It makes promises, but provides no real assurance against future yen strength and continued deflation.
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He warns of a "likely negative impact" of the changes which would be "unintended - but no less real".
Complaints about the mistakes the company made resulted in more hours billed to discuss the problems identified, but with no real attempts to resolve them.
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After that we expect several years of nominal appreciation but probably no real appreciation in home values (after adjusting for inflation, which is likely to rise).
Huge chunks of my life were once fraught with what I perceived to be career-terminating threats, most of them interior but no less real for that.
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The idea that this is going to result in the death of the indie bookshop seems like a nice slippery slope fallacy which reads well but makes no real sense.
There've been any number of reports telling us that services aren't set up right, aren't configured in the best way possible, any number of clinicians and health economists accusing successive Welsh governments of revamping at vast expense but to no real avail.
But there is no real need to delve into or pursue illegal insider trading.
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"I was making a good living but I had no real life, " he said.
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And it seems now that this is dissolving, but there is no real solution in their view.
Yes, that contest broke along class and gender lines, but there were no real differences in their world views.
The car was quick at Valencia but that was no real test because it is primarily a slow-corner circuit.
The NHS Confederation hopes that more GPs will open Saturday surgeries, but it has no real way to make them do so.
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But there was no real way to know that back in 1997.
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But with the total on 117-2 at the time, Essex, with the agreement of the officials, claimed the extra half-hour but then made no real attempt to score the additional 64 to win.
"There is a popular perception that the U.S. has scuttled the chances of peace accords, but there are no real chances of such deals, given the history of past agreements, " said Raza Rumi, an analyst based in Islamabad.
When the 2011 tsunami hit Japan and California felt the effects, Rich Baratta, director of risk management at the Port of Long Beach, said the port noticed obvious changes in the channel, but there was no real impact.
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