• Almost every part of our existence is being restructured, and quickly, by the stunning power of nearly infinite information.

    FORBES: Why Cherry-Picked Facts Don't Tell The Whole Ultra-Wealthy Story

  • They lived a stone's throw from the Medina, wrote by day and cooked by night a simple existence, and all the more intensely lived for being so.

    WSJ: Cold-Snap Couscous

  • We are also, I believe (hope?) witnessing the last excesses of a style of politics and campaigning that came into being in the 1960s, and that should have gone out of existence in the Clinton administration.

    FORBES: The Marketing of Politics: Time to Change the Medium AND the Message

  • However, an interesting point made that the rising heights of skyscrapers being newly built indicates the existence of a credit bubble and thus the recession that will inevitably follow.

    FORBES: Rising Skyscrapers, Not Rising Skirts, Indicate a Recession Coming

  • Hargrove allegedly participated in the bounties and eventually acknowledged their existence to the league, but only after initially being untruthful to investigators, the league said.

    WSJ: NFL Suspends Four New Orleans Saints, Including Jonathan Vilma, for Season

  • Leon's phone call sets in motion a series of events that show David how, rather than being protected from the fears and anxieties of his daily existence by a prestigious City job, multiple maids and secretaries, and a peerless spouse, he has placed himself in a moneyed cocoon as insulating as a padded cell.

    ECONOMIST: New fiction

  • As a result, they were doing all of their socialising online - and even here their "space" was being regulated out of existence, she argued.

    BBC: Vetting rule ridiculous - Byron

  • Being a leader of a large company can be a lonely existence and so surrounding yourself with people you know and like is a positive thing.

    FORBES: Comfort Can Undermine a Leader's Effectiveness

  • While Pope Emeritus Benedict lived a secluded life inside the Vatican (and plans to live an even more secluded existence in the former convent which is being prepared as his new home in a corner of the Vatican Gardens), Pope John Paul II lived a more gregarious existence, often inviting personal guests to attend his early morning mass and to share his breakfast.

    BBC: Who, What, Why: What does a pope do?

  • The extraordinary devotion of the staff to the health and well-being of the creatures on display is balanced by the dullness of existence behind bars.

    NEWYORKER: Zoo (1993)

  • "What was in existence before was clearly failing on a number of accounts and so we're pleased to see this is being looked at and they're bringing new proposals forward, " she said.

    BBC: Kent

  • Contemporary sources spoke of the body being put on display in Leicester but the exact location of the grave, and even its existence, were the subject of debate.

    BBC: Richard III buried in 'hastily dug untidy grave'

  • You want a guarantee of safety - not something along the lines of "if we peak at date X and reduce emissions at rate Y that gives you Z% chance of not being flooded out of existence".

    BBC: Durban: Climate summit looks back and forward

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