And Michael, is the feeling that al-Maliki isn't the right man for the job or might it just be the case that the job is all but impossible for any man?
It's not hard to imagine that a sizeable number of people who either wanted that to be the case or feared that it might be the case, at polar opposites, got the impression the law was really on the ropes and might be disappearing soon.
It may be the case that all those assets Exxon Mobil has may indeed be liabilities in the economy of the future.
It might be the case that some might be trying to find a better life, but that might not be true for everyone.
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For many of these jobs it may be the case that without H1-B workers, the position does not exist at the prevailing wage.
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In other words, while it may be the case that you can make the math work, the logic of such a combination is elusive.
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And it may be the case that all of these issues do not get resolved in these negotiations, but a number of them can.
He said it might be the case that the virus was found in these particular cancer cells simply because they provided favourable conditions for it.
It might be the case that an iPhone app makes more sense for your company (assuming you can only afford to build for one platform).
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It could be the case that eating fish is better than taking fish-oil supplements or that women who opt to eat fish are generally healthier and engage in other health-promoting behaviors, Dr. Oken said.
And yet even if the income gap were narrowed, the scarcity would remain and it would still be the case that the richer households push out the poorer ones.
"However hard we try, it will never be the case that every application is successful, " it said in a statement.
Professor RICHARD PILDES (New York University): I do think that if it turns out to be the case that there are several thousand people who effectively are not able to vote as a result of these laws, I think that changes the issue very significantly.
This time around, it may also be the case that both sides have too much to lose.
It may be even the case that they are already present in Cuba.
It may also be the case that some of these committees are already taking up these matters in a classified, closed-door setting.
It may also be the case that former homeowners either decide that the hassles of home ownership are not worth the risks, or that they cannot get mortgages again in the future.
It may not be the case that they are made up of the back streets of our great industrial cities, but having said that they are not just all the landed gentry, which I think is the perception.
Of course it may well be the case that there is no alternative to the old and infirm running nations in which the average age keeps falling to the 20s and lower, but it is a debate that will not go away.
It could well be the case that future Olympic historians will treat the corruption scandals as a minor blip, while the turning of the Games from loss to profit is viewed as the action that saved the type of Olympics that we see today.
That is not the opposition leadership, but it must surely be the case in an opposition that broad in that region.
Turning to the content of common sense further exposes what it is and weakens the case that it can be used as ground for policy prescriptions.
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It used to be the case, for example, that it cost less to make a new observation than to store the results of an old one.
And we expect that to be the case if Congress decides that it shares the sense of urgency that the American people have.
The 20 trees, the plethora of soft toys and all the other reminders of a broken Christmas seem to tell some that that is no longer the case and that it may be more dangerous leaving the subject alone.
That would be fine, were it not the case that the committee relies for many of its conclusions not only on the evidence put before it by the British government, but also on the representations of British pressure groups, each with their own views about what ails race relations.
The last person to be expelled from this house was 55 years ago - in 1954 - and it remains the case that members can be sentenced to prison for up to a year without being required to give up their parliamentary seat.
It "could be the case" that Americans are drinking more to assuage their financial anxiety, Jones-Webb says.
It very well may be the case that sharing of wage and salary information would not lead to much or any extra unemployment.
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He says it does appear to be the case that Apple has trimmed some panel orders for the iPhone and iPod Touch as well as for the iPad and the MacBook, but he does not find the cuits alarming.
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