The chastened political left sought solace in the thought that the Panama and Erie canals were fine advertisements for state enterprise.
There is something uplifting in the thought that even five centuries years after his death, a wronged monarch might at last find posthumous justice.
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While Hiddink delighted in the thought of a Wembley final, Frank Lampard refused to contemplate the possibility of a Champions League and FA Cup double.
Here we find a tension though, not only in the thought of Skylanders games riffing on their toys-to-life idea indefinitely, but also with the technology itself.
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There's delicious irony in the thought of a prominent politician being caught in the convoluted web of the tax disaster that he and his like have foisted on the American people.
When a character becomes a franchise, there is only so much repetition that he or she can take before sliding into parody, and there is something distasteful in the thought that we are being urged to treat a homicidal maniac as a lovable rogue.
The new Cleantech industry has a firm footing in Michigan, and in fact the thought leaders in the world, the Cleantech Venture Network based just north of Ann Arbor, is the group holding conferences all over the world (U.S., China, Toronto, Germany, France) to create financial markets for this new industry.
And if you look at accounts of Watergate, one continuing theme is that even though Nixon didn't order the break-in, he created the climate in which subordinates thought the break-in was the thing to do, and there is something of a parallel here.
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When America's Treasury stopped issuing 30-year bonds in October 2001, the optimists in government thought the federal budget was set for eternal surplus.
The other challenge is in the tantalising thought that the same success may well be repeatable - to help control major killers like TB, pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria.
However, one-in-five of the people (22%) who took part in the poll also thought the transatlantic couple were the most mismatched, although the top award in this category went to media millionaire Chris Evans and his teenage bride, pop singer, Billie Piper.
In the 1950s, fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico thought the whitetip was scarce because it was never seen in open waters.
Each picture was shifted slightly in a direction opposite to the one in which the researchers thought the fragments would be moving so that if something were there, the light subliminally registered from it in several pictures would fall in the same place and would add up to something visible.
Wolves in the wild in Scotland were thought to have been hunted to extinction in the 1700s.
The question is: Did people in the administration create a climate in which people in the IRS thought that this was something that they should do?
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Located by a private exploration company in 2004 off the coast of Cirebon in northern Java, the ship is thought to have foundered in the 10th century as it sailed to Java from Sumatra.
In the 1979 revolution in Iran, the world thought it had found a liberating hero when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini came out of exile in France to lead that nation.
Remarkably, the people who saw the description in the simple font thought the exercises would be twice as fast to complete!
For decades, the journalistic mindset believed in the first, thought the second would kill the first and never cared a lick about the third.
One of Arajs's deputies, Harijs Svikeris, settled in Britain after the war and in the 1990s was thought to be a strong candidate to be prosecuted under the War Crimes Act.
In the 1990s, the economists thought they were in the realm of precision economics: now they find themselves back in the realm of intuitive economics again.
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In Serbia, the thought of Slobodan Milosevic with eight more years in power makes the eyebrows twitch.
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Speaking in a backbench debate, former culture secretary Mr Bradshaw said many people in the Church thought women bishops were a "done deal".
Indeed, many editorialists in the north thought Mr Blair's blizzard of facts was designed precisely to avoid the politically explosive question of whether money should be redirected from Scotland to the north.
So when the French and the British carved up the region, they basically carved large sections that most of the people in the region thought of as Syria and gave it to this little entity that had been Mount Lebanon.
Back in 2007 the agency thought that the potential labour force would be 160m in 2012.
One is to step up the personal attacks in the hope of pushing voters into the position the campaign thought they were at in the first place, of wanting change.
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