Unfortunately, the Army has in the past often proven a less than reliable sponsoring service for weapons systems that break new technological ground.
Mr Livingstone said the turnout among black voters had been below the average in the past because often they did not feel part of the political process.
But in the past this often led to fruitful compromises.
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What's more, the bureaucracy in the past has often made a hash of capital improvements, with major cost overruns and by championing technologies that experts warned would be next to useless.
Dr Bill O'Neill, Scottish secretary of the BMA, said consent had not always been sought in the past but often this was because of a "genuine desire" to avoid further distress to families.
Kass, a frequent commentator on CNBC and contributor to TheStreet, has written critical articles of Berkshire in the past, often praising Buffett while raising questions about his ability to maintain a high batting average as size of deals and investments required to impact the bottom line continues to increase.
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In the office market in particular, things have gone awry at this stage of the property cycle so often in the past that it is hard to avoid cynicism.
"We had to be more innovative and crafty, " says Pierce, who has looked at 25 deals in the past year, often in small cities where the cost of living and employee turnover are low.
And many have a positive agenda for further liberalisation, in such areas as shipping, construction and the movement of people, in contrast to the blocking role they often played in the past.
In the past, doctors often assumed that competing drugs in the same class had similar benefits for patients.
Team executives say Harbaugh has brought up the book more often in the past month.
In the past promising prototypes have often languished in the lab, partly because private-sector support for an AIDS vaccine has been limited.
In the past rebels have often struggled to hold on to territory they have taken.
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In the past it was often difficult for our clients to identify who we should be reaching out to.
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In the past, collectors often came from old-line families who tended to appreciate art that harked back to the past.
In the past, Naruhito often brushed aside questions about prospects of a baby with the quip that he would leave those matters to the stork.
Now there are established procedures for complaints and, most important, the police are ready to pursue allegations which in the past they had often ignored.
In the past, bosses often preferred to run a business down to its last yuan before acknowledging problems, at which point there was little to reorganise.
He said in the past funding had often tended to be used to support failing companies, but the LEP had chosen to focus on successful high-value manufacturing firms to make sure the local economy would benefit.
Ultimately, argues Barry Rabe of the University of Michigan, the states may serve (as so often in the past) as laboratories for subsequent federal policy.
But again, the president stressed today as he has so often in the past that any withdrawals will be based on conditions on the ground.
They mean the senior Mubarak, despite the fact that his younger son, Gamal, has played a remarkably prominent role in the ruling NDP for the past decade and often appears at his father's side.
And she went on to say that project management and contracting skills "gained by officials must now be deployed elsewhere in the civil service where these skills have often been found wanting in the past".
We fail to remember that the emotions that arise are often rooted in the past.
One way or another the market must clear, and as it has so often in the past, California appears to be leading the way.
The world economy may well muddle through, as it has so often in the past.
And Iscar is just the kind of firm that the homespun Mr Buffett understands and has often bought in the past: one built from scratch by the application of simple principles and honest hard work.
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Why should we imagine that the Easter bunny will come this year, after we've been disappointed so often in the past?
In the past prefectural administrations have often siphoned off money destined for their subordinate counties.
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