It is a common, if sad tale, that when oil prices get unpleasantly high, presidents of both political parties have on occasion (and perhaps more often than we know), appealed to Saudi Arabia to increase production.
If this sad scenario sounds familiar, you're not imagining things.
It would be sad if a politician got punished for telling more than he needed to tell.
It would be sad if it also derailed Rio's incipient revival.
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How sad if the investigation into the sadistic acts of a psychopath was to become a police circus in which the concept of 'innocent until proven guilty' was lost in the desperation to atone for past failures.
It would be sad if these men got what they wanted, and see the school and pupils fall apart, but because there is a strong sense of support and care from the staff, this incident will be put to the side and everyone will pick themselves up and get on with their education, as we always have done.
And that'll be one sad day if you scratch up this beauty at all.
It would be a very sad day if rugby were to see segregation.
If Thanksgiving left you sad you may want to consider leaving your credit cards at home before you hit the stores for Black Friday.
"I think it's pretty sad that if you have your first child, people criticise you for wanting to be there, whatever walk of life, " he added.
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If anything, I was sad that none of my friends had the same equipment I had.
The sad saga continues if an AIDS patient winds up at a facility other than the CDC.
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Brecon mayor Paul Ashton said it would be a "very sad day" if some of the Gurkhas had to leave the town.
Terry Hunter, who manages the pub, said he had been there for 15 years and it would be "a sad day" if the pub shut.
It will be sad for Swansea if they lose out because they have been in the box seat for going on for three months but one thing has cost them and that is a lack of goals.
If yes, then I am sad, although I understand it from a social stability standpoint.
The search for profit, they argue, may be a regrettable necessity in the modern world, a sad fact of life if there is to be any private enterprise.
Those claims are "both ludicrous and funny, if it wasn't so sad, " said Mohamed Abdel Dayem, the program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists' Middle East and North Africa program.
He seemed sad and stunned, as if the story of his life suddenly made no sense to him.
The sad thing is that, if we consider these claims along the lies, damned lies and statistics continuum, the researchers are in the technical term, lying through their teeth.
Nevertheless, I will be sad to see Taymor go, if the reports are true.
It's a sad certainty: Mere months, if not weeks, after the hordes leave the Olympic village in Beijing, most of the competitors--even the medalists--will slip from international consciousness.
LaVette sounds as if she means every word of Nelson's sad song, but the reality is that she herself has picked up the pieces of a career full of heartbreak.
Chris Remington, the Unison union's head of health for the London region, said it would be a "sad day for patients and staff" if South London Healthcare Trust fell into private hands.
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"It's a black mark and a sad day and calls into question, if the comptroller can't police his own campaign operation, how effective is his oversight of taxpayer dollars, " said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a civic group.
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