Or maybe he set out on a chore that was doomed to fail because he could find no error in the facts as stated in my piece?
But for many Holocaust survivors who learn their family history as adults, the trauma lies not so much in the facts but in the fact that they were hidden.
Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to learn how to craft stories from their personal experience and the world at large that make an emotional connection, as well as tie in the facts.
Before the politicians and their constituents make such decisions about where we go from here, they should be sure to ground themselves in the facts about how we got to this point.
And in fact, we'll be submitting to each of your offices my presentation with annotations to the record, to the grand jury transcripts, which will tie in the facts that I present to you.
On the other hand, if you look at how fast things are changing - in this Information Age the volume of facts in the world is doubling every five years.
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But the facts in their report were not the facts that the big oil companies wanted to hear.
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This hearing did not ascertain where the buck should stop, but it was a step forward in getting the facts.
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Like the taciturn LA detective Joe Friday, Len and Joel are interested in just the facts.
When they hold a hearing on some aspect of the work of government they have detailed information, analysed by experts and looked over by accountants in an exhaustive process in which the facts and figures are normally thrashed out to everyone's satisfaction well in advance.
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People do not know their business, both in terms of the simple facts and in terms of the complex processes that lead to success or failure.
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But former Labour defence secretary Bob Ainsworth said the 2010 decision "was taken in the face of clear advice" and the facts had not changed in the way Mr Hammond claimed.
The approach the company has taken closes a number of escape hatches that most defending corporations usually keep open: on the one hand, wiggle room in the event that facts emerge to in any way justify the claims and, on the other hand, the option to settle the case.
Arguments that the federal stimulus package should get the credit also fly in the face of the facts.
The candidates pretty much stuck to the facts in the debate's early going.
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The main considerations for that include how much help the whistleblowers and their counsel provide in the investigation of the facts and the framing of issues.
Only honest presentation of information permits a wide range of views, each slightly different due to interpretations made by the presenter, but all still consistent in the basic facts, regardless of how deeply one interrogates.
"Keeping in view the facts, the interests of the farmers, interest of the industry" and other concerns, India's group of ministers decided to roll back the ban, Trade Minister Anand Sharma said in a statement.
The telecoms worker, who is in his 50s, said he did not like seeing what he considered pornographic magazines at corner shops, but told the judge this would not influence the way he assessed the facts in the case.
The deliberations in the event resonated the following three facts, which are part of messages of Global Campaign for Education in the context of EFA, i.e.
Critics have the most fevered difficulties in dealing with the facts regarding the effects of these Bush tax cuts.
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Following that ruling, Intel said it would abide by the commission's order, but stipulated that it disagreed with the underlying facts in the case.
What was also clear was that all -- all of the people who were involved in drafting or editing the letters or reviewing them for accuracy, only Mr. Gingrich had personal knowledge of the facts contained in the letters regarding the course.
We will be called upon also more and more in the future to give the wisdom in relation to those facts and the presentation of that intelligence.
The Home Office has also re-examined the facts in relation to the extradition request.
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Consequently, I know him to be a man who is scrupulous in his command of the facts, exacting in his analysis and lucidly articulate in his writing.
After a quick huddle with the rest of the defense lawyers, Uelmen countered that the basis of Clark's argument -- what the facts are in the case.
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