That showed how unpromising were Mr Bouchard's chances of ever becoming father of an independent Quebec.
Take it, call your mother, and tell her there is serious doubt about you ever becoming a lawyer.
But with all that came the sad realization that, alas, I had to completely abandon my dream of ever becoming president.
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People could then adjust their lifestyle and diet, try preventative drugs, or take other action to reduce their risk of ever becoming sick.
Mr. Hurd said he could reach a private settlement with Ms. Fisher that would lower the chance of Ms. Fisher's allegations ever becoming public.
We urge Congress to prevent these riders from ever becoming law.
The sharia bill, he points out, is a straight copy of one presented to the National Assembly, without ever becoming law, by Nawaz Sharif, a former prime minister.
But the Republicans also claim to speak for ordinary Americans, many of whom are supporters of the Tea Party movement, and who aren't millionaires and have no prospect of ever becoming so.
Very much a work of art rather than of history, this beautifully written novel edges towards saying something profound about the relationships between art and life, men and women, the powerful and the disempowered, without ever becoming a simplistic parable.
Every organization has a choice: They can become a victim of cyber attack and pay the cost of recovery, they can rely on quick reactions to changes in the threat space to ensure that they survive the next attack, or they can predict the next escalation in attacks and invest early in the defenses required to avoid ever becoming a victim.
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The basic background to this election is that Mr Blair has continued to hog the centre-right ground in British politics, as he has done ever since becoming Labour's leader in 1994.
But it is becoming ever harder for voters to make out just where the tracks go.
But the well-meant process of making pension funds secure has been becoming ever more expensive.
Whatever the benefit to the states, however, the subsidies are becoming ever more important to Hollywood.
What is more, the argument runs, these supposedly womanly qualities are becoming ever more valuable in business.
First, the politics blocking a resolution of the euro crisis is becoming ever more toxic (see article).
And America's economy is becoming ever less energy-intensive, and less dependent on imports.
More important, as Mrs Snowe lamented, the chamber is becoming ever more polarised.
Moreover, buying back shares by issuing more debt means that corporate America is becoming ever more exposed to risk.
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What is more, it is becoming ever clearer that the big banks face a wave of write-offs on their loans.
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The need for a peace agreement is becoming ever more urgent - the means of bringing one about, more constrained.
So games can be used to prepare employees, students and citizens for a world where systems are becoming ever more entwined.
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That 90% who go with the flow are becoming ever smarter and more demanding of what they expect out of life.
Ankara, too, is anxious to prevent the conflict in Syria, where Kurds are becoming ever more autonomous, from spreading over its border.
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The firm's well-off consumers are becoming ever more interested in buying other (digital) electronic gizmos, such as personal computers and cellular telephones.
Charity is one way of supplementing the services provided by the state, which are becoming ever harder to finance out of taxation.
The long-term result seems unavoidable: men are becoming ever more marginalised, while women are taking over the commanding heights of wealth and power.
Just as the first set of assertions have been shown to be false, the current conventional wisdom is becoming ever more palpably wrong.
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Corporate pension schemes and health benefits are becoming ever less generous.
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