His showy populism, unseemly slanging matches with the judiciary and bunga-bunga parties now seem to come from a far-off era in a faraway land.
However, I found myself not massively excited come the play-off as I had no real vested interest in any of the players.
Drugs that falter in development, or come off-patent, are less of a problem if there is a steady stream of new products to take their place.
Most still come from better-off families, partly because these can better afford the fees, partly because pupils from private schools outclass those from public ones in the national entrance exam that almost all universities use.
"A lot of staff have come in from off-duty and a lot of staff from the community have come to help us, " she added.
Their pupils come from the best-off homes, but they turn out 15-year-olds who do no better than the average child across the OECD.
By definition, buzzwords are showy and frankly can come off snob-ish if the person is not familiar with the terms you are using.
We phoned the electricity provider to ask to come off pre-payment.
But if he hopes to ridicule his new opponent's ideas for tax reform and portray him as a rigid Christian conservative, he may come off second-best.
That set up the Sardis Road side's clash with Llandovery, who finished eighth at the end of the regular season but had come through a play-off against Aberavon.
The home side held the edge in the first half and Kelly was unfortunate to see his 35-yard free-kick come back off the woodwork in the eighth minute with Greg Shannon totally beaten.
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Through it all King has, amazingly, stayed down-to-earth in her dealings with mere mortals and does not come off as difficult and ego-driven, at least in her own telling.
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The brick-and-mortar versions, however, come off as survival games that, to this path-of-least-resistance shopper, aren't worth the trip.
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Bandwidth - which in the UK will come when the analogue signal is switched off - needs to be freed up by regulators and manufacturers have to provide phones that can cope with TV viewing alongside the myriad other functions already eating up battery life.
Does it reflect greater consumer patience in that they know the prices will eventually come down closer to kick-off?
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But the clear majority do wish Romney would pull off a come-from-behind victory.
It will come down to a stand-off, and someone will have to blink.
It's claimed that sometimes those instructions would come just moments before kick-off.
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The fly-half saw a drop-goal attempt come back off the upright on the resumption before South Africa were again reduced to 14 men.
But Gervais has promised Brent will return, although it is unknown whether he will just come back for a one-off or a whole series.
Marlins 1B Casey Kotchman (hamstring) is eligible to come off the 60-day disabled list on Monday and plans on making the road trip beginning in Philadelphia.
Yet the inside-the-law-firm chatter and poker-table badinage come off superbly.
Should bonuses come off the top-line, bottom-line, be based on contribution margin, be subjectively or objectively distributed, be paid in cash, stock, options, profit sharing, perks, or some other mechanism?
In his debate with Republican Jack Kemp during the 1996 presidential campaign, Gore enunciated his words so carefully that he managed to come off as irritating -- both robotic and condescending -- even while scoring what most observers called a win over Kemp.
And when tough times inevitably come -- when war and economic hardship threaten to blow us off course -- we do what Americans have always done.
Customers, bombarded with mostly-accurate rumors about new products to come, held off buying current models as they waited for the next-great thing from Apple.
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Doddsy was an impact sub, there was no-one better to come off the bench and enliven things.
Such investors see those extraordinary gains as an indication of things to come, rather than a one-off adjustment.
But ACT's victory was guaranteed when Huxley saw his 79th-minute penalty effort come back off the right upright.
He tends to come off as an out-of-control rocker just speaking his mind whether the man likes it or not.
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