For Brazil, the award of the games, hard on the heels of the World Cup, is yet another symbol of its growing status in the world.
Phillips could easily have scored again but shot wide, as Blackpool underlined their growing status as a team coming into form at the just the right time of the season.
The lucrative prize money on offer and the growing status of the European Tour has prompted a number of leading stars including Anthony Kim of the United States and Colombia's Camilo Villegas to join up for the 2009 season.
Despite their growing cult status on YouTube and other video websites, dashboard cameras have a serious purpose, installed by Russian drivers in increasing numbers to fight the growing industry of insurance fraud.
There is growing concern about the status of the County Championship in the modern game.
Fear of losing a job, fear of a spouse losing a job, fear of a newly minted high school or college graduate child not being able to find a job and staying home, fear of static income succumbing to ever growing outgo, fear of losing status quo.
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The special treatment that the deal would afford India would confirm its rising status, and cement a growing friendship with America.
It is the fastest quarterly expansion in a decade, and confirms the country's status as one of Asia's fastest growing economies.
From his days growing up in Oceanside, California to All America status at USC and superstardom with the San Diego Chargers and later with the Dolphins and Patriots, he was a force of nature on and off the field.
Some are children themselves, brought here by their parents at a very young age, growing up as American kids, only to discover their illegal status when they apply for college or a job.
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The fluid nature of the state's electorate is driven in large part by an influx of Puerto Ricans -- who are eligible vote the moment they arrive because of Puerto Rico's status as a U.S. territory -- along with growing Dominican, Colombian, Mexican and Venezuelan populations.
Instead, they say it stemmed from a misguided effort to centralize review of a growing number of applications for tax-exempt 501(c)(4) status.
The growing worries about the debt crisis in Greece, which saw its credit rating downgraded to junk status last week, certainly qualifies as uncertainty.
Cheap, widely distributed bandwidth and advanced networking technologies are divorcing an ever-growing segment of the population from traditionally "real" constraints like geography and socio-economic status.
With pressure to remain in the Premier League growing for Sunderland each season, Quinn admitted expenditure has been required in order to preserve their top-flight status.
Some European countries have upgraded the status of Palestinian diplomatic missions to them, but EU foreign ministers have so far avoided copying the growing number of South American governments that now fully recognise a Palestinian state.
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