But after South Africa secured a hard-fought 34-31 win, captain John Smit suggested all that Welsh optimism flying around nearly sent his players 'bananas'.
In a somewhat cryptic footnote in A Theory of Justice, John Rawls suggested we may possess an analogous moral capacity that accounts for our competence in deploying moral rules.
Nearly a century ago, the British scientist John Tyndall suggested that a fall in the atmospheric carbon dioxide could allow the earth to cool whereas a rise in the carbon dioxide would make it warmer.
Her successor, John Major, suggested that having a new European currency was just fine.
The arrivals of Torres and Luiz will serve to bolster a Chelsea squad which captain John Terry has suggested was lacking in depth.
And so, as former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton first suggested in January during his visit to Israel, Netanyahu must elegantly remove himself from Mitchell's orbit.
"If you think about plant and insect interaction, what we have is almost like an arms race between the two, " suggested John Gatehouse, from the University of Durham's Institute of Plant and Microbial Science.
In slashing state funding to local governments the governor of Ohio, John Kasich, suggested that those entities could become more efficient by merging services, by shrinking the layers of government we support with our tax dollars.
Lib Dem Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey is supportive of further expansion as part of a diverse energy mix but junior Conservative minister John Hayes has suggested no more wind turbines should be built in England after those currently in the pipeline were finished.
Aguirre testified that he had uncovered evidence in the course of his investigation of Pequot's trading that suggested John Mack , now chief executive of Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ), might have tipped off Pequot to an upcoming deal, allowing the fund to position its trades to benefit when the deal was announced.
Cisco's chief security officer John N Stewart also suggested that Mr Schmidt had his work cut out for him.
Also, Bhar said some pressure on gold stems from comments by San Francisco Federal Reserve President John Williams, who suggested Thursday that the central bank could taper its monetary stimulus, perhaps as soon as this summer.
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Earlier in the House of Commons, Conservative MP John Redwood - who served alongside Mr Clarke in John Major's Cabinet - suggested that the UK had been reduced to an "e-mail democracy" by Brussels.
Indeed, Mr Grant recently suggested similarities between Adams and John Bolton, America's embattled and abrasive nominee for ambassador to the United Nations.
Senator John McCain, whom Mr Kerry mischievously suggested as a replacement defence secretary, said that he would make up his mind about Mr Rumsfeld once he knows who knew what about the prison.
Two prominent Democratic fundraisers -- Gov. Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania and Gov. John Corzine of New Jersey -- suggested they would be willing to help raise the funds necessary to hold new elections in Florida and Michigan.
Notable curmudgeon John Dvorak raised hackles last month when he suggested that an Intel-powered Apple would dump OS X and switch to Windows.
Paul Clement, the high-profile lawyer hired by House Speaker John Boehner and fellow Republican legislators to defend DOMA, suggested the act was passed as a "cautious approach" in response to initial efforts in some states to change state marriage laws to include homosexuals.
John Hume, the party's leading figure, once suggested that rather than insisting on decommissioning, the parties should just be content to let weapons rust unused in the ground.
The speaker of the dinner, John Doherty, head of Investor Relations at phone marketer Verizon suggested individuals have a broad range of wants and needs for their phones.
It has been reported Mr Brown suggested a visit could coincide with the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman - a famous British convert to Catholicism, who died in 1890 - expected within the next two years.
Last week, John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, suggested the Fed's asset purchases should stop by year-end.
After all, just five days earlier the Illinois senator had beaten John Edwards and Hillary Clinton into second and third place - and the latest polls suggested he was about to repeat the feat.
John Gross, an independent metals-industry consultant and former publisher of the Copper Journal, suggested the main positive of the revelation of the end-of-2010 Chinese level is the increased transparency.
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But John Cook, editor-in-chief of Gawker, called the sentence "preposterous" and suggested Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. was trying to curry favor with Fox and its powerful chairman, Roger Ailes.
The PSV president also suggested Kenyon's departure for Chelsea and the on-going row between the club and major shareholders John Magnier and JP McManus might have contributed to the transfer's collapse.
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