Last year he warned his doubters not to underestimate "the quiet man", warning his detractors that he would not shirk in his mission to transform his party.
At stake is whether Mr Bush, unlike his father, can use his increased status to transform his domestic standing at a time when many Americans are just as worried about terrorism and the economy as the war.
Even so, his vision will be good enough to transform his life.
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It seems that John Brennan felt so frustrated and powerless in the face of security measures on Tuesday evening that the only option left to him, beyond driving to his destination rather than flying, was to transform his powerlessness into a political statement by making himself as vulnerable as possible.
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There are other signs that Obama, in his zeal to transform America, seems to believe that he and his fellow progressives can use government to alter the way the world works.
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But it wasn't until the 2010 installment of the Games in Vancouver that Williams, who was born and raised by his West Indian mother in Canada, was spurred on to transform his pipe dream into a reality, as another pair of underdogs took on the establishment.
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With his team trailing 1-0, Messi came off the bench in the 59th minutes to transform his club and in 10 minutes the visitors were in front.
He began selling his work on Craigslist and demand grew steadily to the point where Preston wondered how he could transform his weekend hobby into a full-time job.
He has consistently supported Mr Marchionne in his efforts to transform Fiat's subscale car business.
Mr. Ehrmann's efforts to transform his garden into an art center started to bear fruit.
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Mr Harper was eventually able to transform his minority government into a majority last year.
It was his desire to transform the Middle East and ensure an enduring peace in the region.
Only then will it be clear what a previously unassuming technocrat with modernising ideas can do to transform his country.
His effort to transform the company has brought extremely disappointing results and a question whether 2013 will be much better.
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He added his aim was transform the RUC into a community-based force which would work with both sides of the community.
Mr Clifford reckons that ultracapacitors will transform his vehicles and enable them to be used on motorways as well as city streets.
In the late 1960s, he managed to transform his alma mater a little, when he erected a controversial 24-foot lipstick sculpture at Yale.
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How he survived is a mystery, how he was rescued is a marvel, and how he used his torment to transform himself is an inspiration.
Williams could not transform his international heroics to the Ospreys as Welsh rugby's standard bearers were knocked out of the Heineken Cup at the quarter-final stage by Saracens.
Mr Lehner thinks the deal could transform his conservative company.
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The Apple Inc. co-founder has managed to transform his less-than-graceful moves on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" into enough votes to keep hope alive on the competitive ballroom-dance show.
That should have allowed the PM to say he is moving on his pledge to transform the troubled banking system and make other necessary changes to revive the nation's moribund economy.
IPSOS-Mora y Araujo, a pollster, also doubts that the president will be able to transform his current ratings into gains within the ruling Peronist party that is dominated by his predecessor, Eduardo Duhalde.
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To reflect his ambition to transform Apple from a computer maker into a consumer electronics company, Jobs announced a name change from Apple Computer Inc. to simply Apple Inc. in January 2007after introducing the iPhone.
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The Clinton administration set the stage for Vladimir Putin's KGB state by squandering the US's massive influence over post-Soviet Russia and allowing Boris Yeltsin and his cronies to transform the country into an impoverished kleptocracy.
Tayo recently granted me an interview during which he talked about the idea behind his company, the benefits of a cashless society, the Nigerian opportunity, and reiterated his mission to transform lives by delivering innovative and universal access to financial services to Nigerians.
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And yet, rather than reconsider his belief in vastly expanding the size of the federal government's control over the private sector, Obama has insistently pushed for further governmental control over the US economy - most notably in his drive to transform the US health care industry.
In the latest stage of his campaign to transform the Big Apple into a civilised place, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani proposes tough new taxi regulations, including drug and alcohol tests for new drivers, heftier fines for driving offences, and a big increase in cabbies' mandatory accident insurance coverage.
His early training as an icon painter in Greece, his subsequent study in Renaissance Venice and Rome, and his efforts, after arriving in Spain in 1577, to attract prominent patrons, all figure in El Greco's canvas, where both Eastern and Western traditions combine to transform his memorial into a cogent contemporary parable.
But the president's real skill in handling the budget has been to transform his weakness over the Lewinsky saga into a paradoxical strength: the Republicans, who were seen as obdurate extremists when the 1995 budget battle ended in a government shutdown, have been desperate not to force a second shutdown by inviting a presidential veto.
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