But the day was not without its tense moments as minnows Canada came within two points of a major upset in the quarter-finals, eventually succumbing 21-19 to a New Zealand side frantic to keep the beefy Kanuks out.
Needless to say, the debut of the Tarnoff Doctrine was an unqualified disaster, giving rise to increasingly frantic efforts to disassociate the Administration from its premises.
Do you really want to trade in a madcap romantic adventure culminating in a frantic race to the airport for a quick fiddle with Facebook mobile?
The flight is believed to have lost an engine mid-air, and the pilot of the plane is reported to have called for emergency landing while making futile, frantic efforts to sustain the aircraft with the remaining functional engine.
In Texas teams of three to five people endure 24-hour stints of no sleep in their frantic hunt to log, say, 300 species in 11 days.
If so many were dying in a war, there would be frantic efforts to stop it.
But might international banks learn something in the meantime from Italian banks' frantic efforts to regain investors' trust?
But the Czech goalkeeper was caught daydreaming and made a frantic dash to prevent the ball crossing the goal-line.
She sent a frantic message to her father, who was watching a football match at St Mary's stadium in Southampton.
The captain saw what was happening and immediately pulled back on the control column in a frantic attempt to increase altitude.
More than anything else, though, AMD has become a victim of its frantic efforts to keep up with its larger rival.
Chaplin's 1936 film captures our frantic effort to keep up with the assembly line--and to stay ahead of work in general.
Anthony described in detail how she found both her children after they had stopped breathing and her frantic attempts to revive them.
But Canada survived a frantic finale to reach the final against a US side which beat them 5-3 in the round-robin stage.
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Japan, despite frantic efforts to catch up by launching more Japan-specific services.
An inquest has heard about frantic efforts to try and save a mother who drowned while trying to rescue one of her sons from a rip current.
The court has heard how both parents were slashed as they put up a fierce and frantic fight to try to stop the men repeatedly stabbing Aamir.
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This is what Christmas should be -- a holiday free of mall Muzak and the frantic need to lay your hands on the superstore's last Tickle Me Xbox.
The late drama capped a frantic finish to the game, with Reina the unlikely culprit as victory eluded a Liverpool side who had resolutely held Arsenal at bay.
This interest in Britain's future head of state has turned into a frantic scramble to jump on any nugget of information that may provide clues as to the baby's gender.
Kerry arrived on London late Sunday as the Obama administration launched a frantic effort to try to salvage a Syrian opposition conference that Kerry plans to attend this week in Rome.
And more than 800, 000 gallons of chemical "dispersants" sprayed onto the oil in a frantic attempt to keep the bulk of it offshore pose little-understood risks to organisms in the Gulf's depths, scientists and government officials say.
Whether it's Lawrence of Arabia in shining white striding amid the smoking wreckage of an Ottoman train, or the frantic efforts to blow the Bridge on the River Kwai, the difficulty of stopping a train appeals to us.
In a frantic finale to the first 45 minutes, Walter Samuel threw himself in front of Malouda as he drove into the box, while Motta rescued Inter with a goalline clearance as Anelka forced a shot beyond Cesar.
Dwyane Wade scored 21 points, LeBron James finished with 19 and the Heat used a frantic start to the fourth quarter to pull away and beat the Bucks 98-86 in Game 2 of the teams' Eastern Conference first-round series on Tuesday night.
Here the past thrusts through the walls of the present, but it is not a heritage city pandering to the past: it is chaotic, relaxed and frantic, filled to the brim with its stylish, traditional, anarchic, conformist, self-centred, charming and ebullient inhabitants.
The worst outcome, a highly discriminatory treatment of foreign holders of government debt, has been avoided (or at least postponed) thanks to frantic lobbying by, among others, the International Monetary Fund, which threatened to cancel the second tranche of its aid programme to Russia.
Olympic champion Ezekiel Kemboi of Kenya broke clear in a frantic last lap to clinch the men's 3, 000 metres steeplechase gold medal.
The yield on 10-year bonds soared to 6.68pc at one point, leading to frantic speculation that Italy will require an international bail-out.
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