Maybe it was because I'd faced down such a daunting dish and conquered the need to impress.
But if they are not faced down the Doha trade round is dead, the grand strategy in tatters.
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Mr Erdogan has also faced down coup threats from the country's meddlesome generals.
If he had hung tough, Mr Lake might have faced down these objections.
Focus on "real-world heroes who have faced down cancer while loving a sport more than the spotlight, " Martin said.
The only reason we are here is because they faced down their doubts.
She happily faced down her kitchen stove each weekend morning, cooking brunch as if it were a 12-round boxing match.
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Atticus Finch faced down a violent man who spit in his face.
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Calderon opened his speech by stating that he had faced down the opposition and gone to swear his oath in front of congress.
Already Mr Kim has faced down the leaders of trade unions who had threatened to organise a general strike in response to threatened layoffs.
Along the way, she's faced down barriers, overcome the odds, and lived out the American dream that brought her parents here so long ago.
After inching ahead with a break in the fifth game of the opener, she faced down two break points against her in the eight and tenth to see the set out.
The governor has also faced down the teachers union.
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After starting out ten years ago, Bharti has faced down fearsome rivals, including the Reliance and Tata groups and Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa, to become the largest mobile-phone operator in India's hypercompetitive wireless market.
Ed Rendell, the city's Democratic mayor since 1992, wins plaudits from the business community for his energy, his ideas and his determination (early on he faced down union wage demands and contracted out city services in 59 different areas).
On every front, we faced down impossible odds -- and out of the ashes of conflict, America rose more prepared than ever to meet the challenges of the day, sure that there was no trial we could not overcome.
After all, Clinton also suffered a major setback in his first midterm, Clinton also faced down a hardline Republican Congress, Clinton also suffered major policy defeats, and yet Clinton, as the story goes, managed to co-opt the conservative agenda and remake himself into a successful centrist.
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The arrest comes a month after Internet users around the globe faced slowed-down service during the prolonged denial-of-service assault on The Spamhaus Project, a European spam-fighting group.
Overall, the Federal Communications Commission said that by Thursday morning 19% of the cell sites in areas affected by the storm still faced outages, down from one in four sites earlier in the week.
They lived by selling their labour and when markets turned down they faced hard times.
She had faced calls to step down after moving around 250 miles (400km) to live in Cornwall, while still serving as a councillor on the authority.
In the center of all of this, as per usual, is a large, indented lower case "n, " should you ever forget which tablet you bought when it's faced screen-side down.
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There will come a time when you're down and faced with a 20 ft putt and the only thought is holing it, whereas if you're up you have a secondary thought that you don't want to leave yourself too much work to do - leave it stone dead.
Some customers have been telling the BBC News website of the problems they faced when the system went down.
And as the man who speaks on education issues for the Welsh Local Government Association he knows the headaches faced by councils up and down the Wales.
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Beyond the barbed wire, ruddy-faced North Korean soldiers put down their rifles Wednesday and stood shoulder to shoulder with farmers as they turned their focus to another battle: the spring planting.
But even before the writing process wound down, the authors faced an altogether different challenge.
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