The glory it gets from Hollywood, the Lakers and pleasant temperatures is diminished by its reputation for awful traffic, earthquakes and air pollution.
God can take anything we have, as long as we give him the glory for it.
English copper mine owners introduced soccer to Spain in the late 19th century, and the national team achieved its first glory when it won the silver medal at the 1920 Olympic Games.
The violin always gets the glory, but it takes two to make beautiful music.
He thought of the motorcycle, saved, and the glory of saving it.
David Beckham grabbed the glory - but it was Michael Owen and Nicky Butt who put World Cup vengeance in England's grasp against Argentina in Sapporo.
Professional politicians only perceive past glory and project it forward.
But it is too soon to tell whether the vehicle will ever be restored to its former pre-credit-crunch glory, when it was able to issue short-term commercial paper to fund its investments in asset-backed securities.
This isn't the only impulse that impels humans to be violent - Hobbes also mentions the desire for gain and the love of glory - but it is fundamental in his account of how they escape from violence.
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So much is NBC counting on Phelps to supply both live drama and real glory in August that it is hyping him now by showing four nights of the swimming trials in prime time.
So he publicly could get involved with AIG again and help restore it to its former glory since he is the only one, bar none, who really understands it.
Be it for money or glory, Bret Bielema is leaving his comfy post in Madison to return the Razorbacks program to the promise it showed under Bobby P.
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He birthed it, raised it and in spectacular fashion brought it back to glory.
To be honest the board hasn't covered itself in glory in terms of what it was set up to do.
The departure of Laura Ashley chief executives has become an almost regular event now, with eight in all attempting to help it recapture past glory.
It was a return to the glory days for the club, which reached the 1994 FA Cup semifinals where it was eventually beaten by Manchester United in a replay.
Auctioneers Silverstone Auctions said it needed "much love and attention to return it to its former glory".
But the Tatas are confident of bringing it back to its glory soon.
That makes it harder for History to afford it a place of glory.
Since then, the partnership has been quietly working behind the scenes to rebuild the site and return it to its former glory.
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Notwithstanding the extent to which the Apple ad was a gamble, it reached for the glory of extreme hyperbole, and brazenly set user expectations to the sky.
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But without star quality even the most efficient of teams cannot dream of glory, and for the Kiwis it comes largely in the shape of one man: Shane Edward Bond.
An upstart organization calling itself the International Association of Virtual Reality Technologies (IAVRT) looks to be out to bring back the VR glory days, recently announcing that it's planning nothing short of an entirely new network that'll be all VR all the time, existing alongside the plain-old, apparently not-suitable-for-VR Internet.
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From the shadow of the garage, I beheld the back yard, with its Norwegian maples, the tilted white birches, the ancient apple tree whose branches touched the windows of the family room, and for the first time, it seemed, I understood the green glory of this acreage as something indifferent to human life and quite apart from the Victorian manse set upon it.
Then film director Francis Ford Coppola invested in the estate with the intent of bringing it back to its former glory.
And then he flashed it, in all its glory: The Starbucks Sourpuss.
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The emotions stirred up by the wreck are enhanced by graphics depicting the ship in its original glory and the people who sailed on it.
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