Beset by mischance, confounded by disorder, they had mostly done what they were asked to do.
"You join this weird club of people who have done what you do, " he says.
Sun has always done what I call daily layoffs, removing employees who didn't cut it.
I've done what I set out to do so that is what I am pleased about.
Marlet has done what he has to do to become a good competitor with Fulham.
Since Ari has done what he advices, his words are powerfully real and hopeful.
The dollar has finally done what the euro, the pound and Swiss franc did already.
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Mr Suharto claims he has done what he was told, and it has not worked.
Which has done what all of us in the industry said should have been done anyway.
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If humans are NOT the major cause, then we will have done what we can do.
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"I asked him why he had done what he had done, " the Guardian quoted her as saying.
But Eliot Spitzer seems to be the kind of guy who has always done what he pleases.
Should the Welsh government have done what Michael Gove has done in England, I asked him this afternoon.
If countries had done what they were supposed to do, we wouldn't be in the mess we are.
Essentially, if Apple had done what it did before any court cases started then no problems at all.
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Anybody, I suppose, with the right manufacturing equipment and a good lobbyist could have done what KV did.
He said he had done what was within his reach, sacrificing his health.
Denmark has done what other countries only dream of doing: achieved energy independence.
Many are still grumbling that this is not enough, but Mr Gitlin reckons Bakrie has done what it can.
Draghi has done what was in his power, and markets gave their verdict.
I've done what I wanted to do in this business, and now it's my turn to give them something back.
The problem this reveals of course is that only one country has in fact done what economists have been recommending.
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Or we could have done what a lot of folks in Washington thought we should do, and that is nothing.
Senator HILLARY CLINTON (Democrat, New York): Our young men and women in uniform have done what they were asked to do.
Even so, she reckons her country has long since done what Arthur Phillips hoped it would do to counteract the cringe.
Millstone : The markets have done what they were "supposed" to do.
He said that he knew it was wrong but he had "done what was necessary" to stop Mr Bick from hurting children.
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B2B marketing has always done what people say marketing today must do.
The young British director Roger Michell has done what always seemed impossible.
Right from the start, Vallas showed that he knew how to use politics and publicity to get done what needed to be done.
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