United began the second half in ominous mood with Ryan Giggs striking the crossbar with a well-executed half-volley.
But for all the celebrating that the Democrats were doing over the weekend, the mood in the party dramatically changed with Monday's news that Eliot Spitzer, the governor of New York and a leading progressive voice in the party, was embroiled in a prostitution scandal.
Philosophically, America's Commission on International Religious Freedom (a bipartisan body that advises Congress and the White House) is in step with the Obama mood.
The outbreak of anthrax anxiety in Connecticut contrasts with the calmer mood in the capital.
The change in the mood about military service began with an outpouring of emotion about the second world war.
Lately, though, Apple has not been in the mood to play nice with competitors.
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Right now, I'm probably in the mood for playing more with these.
Yardy made a composed unbeaten 13 and shared 22 with Ravi Bopara, but the Essex batsman was caught in the deep and with both sets of fans in fervent mood, Gul bowled the final over.
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There is a story that Mr Regan would arrive in the Oval Office each morning with a fresh joke to get the president in the mood to face the toils of stardom.
The days when the Twitter mood fell in the calmness category, they found with 87.5% accuracy that they could predict whether the market would close up or down between 2 and 6 days after a calmness reading was logged on Twitter.
Sometimes public-relations teams are asked to keep an eye on online discussions, and switched-on company executives visit forums to stay in touch with the public mood.
She moved us through the rehearsal, placing people in position, reading prayers, and lightening the mood with a few well-timed jokes.
If anything, the uncertain mood in Washington counsels patience on their part, with the promise of waiting out the American presence.
In a 45-minute debate, three Lib Dem activists did speak in favour of ending national pay deals but the mood of the hall was more in tune with those, largely from Cornwall and Wales, who feared the impact in their areas.
In many people with the condition this is related to difficulties in regulating mood and anxiety.
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It seems Anil is in the mood to do more deals both with Mukesh and others, according to reports this week.
Sehwag had been in particularly ruthless mood, with three successive fours off Dale Steyn in the third over of the innings and three more in an over from Morkel.
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Strangely, though, his popularity is also part of the problem: what Swedes admire in him has seemingly put him out of touch with the mood of the electorate.
Nevertheless, fund managers were hardly in a celebratory mood on Friday, with just four trading sessions remaining in the year.
Western policymakers, now straining to get direct talks to resume between Israel and the PA, with luck in the next few weeks, seem in no mood to promote a new round of elections that could lead to another triumph for Hamas.
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Euribor futures rose as the yield curve flattened with few investors indicating that the ECB would be in any mood to further restrict monetary policy when it meets on Thursday.
Opponents dismissed these as cheap campaign shots, but they chimed with the mood in the province.
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The British, however, having seen both an agreed merger and a hostile one fail, are in no mood to link up with the Americans.
But you're now in the mood to hang out and taste wines with your friends, and that's the catalyst to sit at the table and order a bottle from Willamette or Burgundy and have some food that complements the wine.
The mood board in her studio is pinned with everything from tickets to Jay-Z concerts to pictures of perennial icons like Lauren Hutton, Marisa Berenson and Stella Tennant, along with snapshots of her family, beaches, flowers and stones, and postcards from her goddaughter.
While the popular mood in Belgrade remains defiant, unease beneath the bravado is growing, along with tension between people who genuinely support Mr Milosevic and those who mistrust him but have rallied round in Serbia's hour of need.
Dr. Bollen and his colleagues, for example, found that the millions of Twitter messages sent via mobile phones and computers every day captured swings in national mood that presaged changes in the Dow Jones index up to six days in advance with 87.6% accuracy.
And the Americans, fed up with Turkey's attitude before the war, are in no mood to offer Mr Erdogan voter-pleasing rewards now.
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Sunderland emerged for the second half in positive mood, but it was the home side who looked the more dangerous, with Juninho and Deane firing over as their side opted for all-out attack.
Authorities of different sorts varied in the speed with which they caught the national mood.
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