The controversy began in earnest a year ago, when the GAO issued a report expressing "concerns about competition and captivity" in the freight rail industry.
Before the commercial Hadoop arena (which got going in earnest only a year ago) got off its feet.
Before that happens in earnest, a new Iraqi leadership has to be formed.
This is the first time in over 100 years that monetary policy is being discussed in earnest during a presidential campaign.
But overall, the announcement is the latest ramping up of higher education's MOOC experiment, which launched in earnest barely a year ago as a way to sample elite college courses.
After all, there is nothing earnest about a "talking" bus from which you are encouraged to wave at passersby or to cheer for that gentleman in a navy-blue suit who just started tap dancing down 42nd Street.
But it was not until the second half of the 20th century, when material comforts ceased to satisfy and the wheels of human life seemed stuck in fast-forward for ever, that the search began in earnest for a simple way to make existence bearable.
From the start of this Super Bowl XLVII season, Mercedes-Benz has embraced an association with the Big Easy that began in earnest with a naming-rights deal that led to the placing of its iconic star emblem all over the Superdome in 2011 in full knowledge that the 2013 Super Bowl would be played there.
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He's given a tour by director Peter Earnest, himself a veteran of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
While Anonymous is often characterized as a group of malicious cyber-terrorists, they struck me more as a group of earnest young protesters with a dark sense of humor and a brilliant knack for viral marketing.
Elizabeth A. Davis is passionately, winningly earnest as Grusha, a servant who plucks a baby of noble birth from the chaos of war, then goes before a tribunal in the hope of keeping the child as her own.
Underneath he was an earnest fellow with a high sense of legacy and responsibility.
Cucuzza said he won't start planning celebrations in earnest until about a day before the potential big game.
Today Netanyahu is reportedly working in earnest to reach a deal with the Obama administration that would formalize the government's effective construction ban through 2010.
The gorgeous mix of meandering instrumental arrangements, expansive ambiance, and wonderfully earnest vocals creates a sort of spacey chamber pop that seems to float wherever the wind may take it.
Over all, the film is a muddle: the earnest political confrontations and the dire romance of David and a fellow-fighter (Rosana Pastor) have only a fraction of the dramatic force that Loach delivers with his battle scenes.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest responded by releasing a statement defending the secret nature of the meeting.
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Covers like Noir C'est Noir were all terribly earnest but sounded like a parody and became ripe for mickey-taking.
The quality push began in earnest when Anderson, a Cincinnati lawyer and trustee of the hospital, took over in 1996.
The director, Edward Zwick, attempting to revive the stately manner of sixties epics, has made a very earnest piece of work handsome, methodical, pious, and rather doggedly literal.
The Southern California native, who studied at the Disneyland School of Style, began promoting kitsch in earnest after stumbling across a box of family and travel slides in a thrift shop.
For their part, African leaders should pursue in earnest the development of a regional strategy that protects and secures the long-term goals of the African people, their civilization and rich culture.
Especially since the economic malaise began in earnest in 2008, a number of leading CIOs have seized the opportunity to develop shared services have have yielded more efficiencies and value for their companies in the process.
He soon began collecting other old slides, and turned his passion into a live comedy act that both makes fun of and celebrates the earnest and often tacky tastes of a bygone American era.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the administration had a responsibility to enforce laws on the books.
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Sunday World's earnest content has earned it a disappointing circulation of 30, 000 or so, and big losses.
During Shaq's appearance, his first at SXSW, he offered a mix of earnest life lessons and good-natured humor.
The reporting season began in earnest Monday when Alcoa, a major maker of aluminum, turned in a mixed report.
But unless the currency war takes hold in earnest, it may be a while before we break out of the current holding pattern.
In earnest, Iwata offered up a smattering of additional details on the Wii U, with a finalized layout for the system's tablet-esque controller, the introduction of Miiverse social functionality and the promise of a bit of mobile device compatibility.
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