However, ongoing legal tussles with Apple have cast a shadow over its future performance.
Court rulings against investors or reformers have cast a shadow on the economy.
The Janjaweed militia have cast a shadow over vast tracks of Darfur.
Rising costs in China have cast a shadow over many businesses in the country, and are seen as eroding its attractiveness for foreign investment, especially for labor-intensive manufacturers.
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Concerns over the health of U.S. banks have cast a shadow over the recent recovery, and the stress-test results, showing most U.S. banks would be well-capitalized in the event of an economic downturn, helped allay some of those worries.
Wagner's orphans have long led a shadow existence at the fringe of operatic life.
The Tigers COULD HAVE had a team employee shadow Mr. Cabrera and alert management if his drinking became a problem.
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He told me he would have a broad-based shadow cabinet which would include people who are pro the Euro and with the arrangements made for when we get to the referendum as to how they will be able to campaign for their beliefs, he will have a broad-based policy approach.
Could they have built Facebook into even a shadow of what it is today?
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But have those servitudes left behind a permanent shadow?
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Defense attorneys have been able to cast a slim shadow of doubt on even the seemingly impervious whistle-blower Sherron Watkins , who memorably submitted a memo stating that "Enron will collapse in a wave of accounting scandals, " and former Treasurer Benjamin Glisan , who as it turns out received favorable treatment while in prison.
The fact that human error played such a part casts a shadow over previous franchise bids, although they would have been decided using a different computer model.
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Neither of them, in my opinion, were proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to have broken baseball's laws and rules.
But while invoking the memory of Mr Chavez may have been a good campaign strategy, working under his shadow may be risky for Mr Maduro in the long run, according to Mr Magdaleno.
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"Over the past week, we have seen how the past continues to cast a long shadow over our future, reasserting itself in ways and at times of its own choosing, and that will continue if we do not address the issue, " she said.
Other past events may have seemed minor at the time, but cast a long shadow into 2012.
Representative ELIJAH CUMMINGS (Democrat, Maryland): Blackwater, we have to question in this hearing, whether it created a shadow military of mercenary forces that are not accountable to the United States government or to anyone else.
Thousands of pensioners were overpaid pension credit last year - and a Conservative shadow minister has raised fears they may have to repay the money.
That casts a serious shadow over the contract Ceglia claims to have with Zuck, which Zuck has sworn under oath that he did not sign.
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After taking over the reins of power at the end of June, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is set to have a very tough time staying out of his predecessor's shadow.
As a 16-year-old student in Thatcher's own constituency at the time of the 1979 general election which put her in power, he is part of a generation of British politicians to have grown up in her shadow.
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I'm not sure I can remember a time when both the chancellor and his shadow have had to be quite so careful of their internal doubters, and that's what will make the undercurrents at those Treasury Question Times so interesting.
Mr Crawford told the committee the bill was a "pale shadow" of what it could have been but the Scottish government was committed to make it work "in the interests of Scotland and will make every effort to get it into shape".
Replying for Labour, shadow justice minister Andy Slaughter said public opinion should have a role in sentencing policy.
Countless ill-advised contracts and off the field matters have plagued a franchise that has desperately tried to emerge from the daunting shadow cast by their crosstown rivals, the New York Yankees.
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Researchers at Griffith University have managed to snap the first image of a single atom's shadow and, while the dark spot may be physically small, the implications for the field of quantum computing are huge.
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Kazakhstan's economic troubles are also casting a shadow on its neighbour Kyrgyzstan, where several Kazakh banks have operations.
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But his proposals have been criticised by Labour shadow ministers who say they are driven by a desire to save money.
Since atoms have well understood light absorption properties, predictions can be made about the depth of a shadow cast, improving communication between the individual atoms performing calculations.
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But it is merely a shadow of the bill Democrats wanted just last week, which would have required utilities to get 15% of their electricity from renewable power.
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