To be demonised, an enemy must not just present a clear and present threat, but a convincing image of one as well.
"It's very difficult to prevent one party from delivering something of value to another party, even if it's just a Christmas present, " he said.
He tried to say the sum was just like a present for a close relative--"When a rich brother goes to visit a poorer brother, the rich brother should not go empty-handed, " he explained--but that excuse was utterly unconvincing.
People may just be more present with a robot, due to the novelty factor.
"Let's just say this was a Christmas present for the people of Sweden, " said Mr Marinello.
These are just a few areas where you could take a dispassionate look to see how you present your business publicly.
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The communications devices, implicitly promising that there is always another, better, communication just a click away, deliver both a fantasy of future and anxiety about the present.
For MLB, in addition to owning undervalued assets, a buyout would present an opportunity to share in revenues rather than just pay to move talent overseas, and to take a first step toward an all-out global league.
But his case does present a pretty poignant example of just how unpersuasive Intelligent Design has turned out to be.
The question being tested: Just how far can a team go in sacrificing the present to build for the future?
Do a little research and piece together your own surround system, hire a voyeur from Geek Squad to do it for you, or just hire a live-in technician to handle both present and future issues.
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This showing quite how it really is all a game of confidence at present, all just smoke and mirrors.
He takes office on January 3rd and must present a balanced budget to the legislature just one week later.
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Present yourself as a business woman, just show up, keep it close.
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Larry Page, CEO of Google, has trimmed his lead team from 15 that were present when Eric Schmidt was CEO to just a handful.
Because for all intents and purposes, this is like a birthday present she anticipated for months and just arrived: Microsoft announced that HBO GO is launching on XBox Live today.
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The court rejected a lawsuit alleging collaboration among the Baby Bell carriers that had the effect of raising consumer prices, saying the plaintiffs had to present evidence of a conspiracy, not just allege one.
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Just as the price of a share should equal the discounted present value of future profits, so the price of a house should reflect the future benefits of ownership either rental income or the implicit rent saved by an owner-occupier.
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Just as the price of a share should equal the discounted present value of future dividends, so the price of a house should reflect the future benefits of ownership, either as rental income for an investor or the rent saved by an owner-occupier.
At present, however, a transatlantic merger looks just as likely as further purely European ones.
The result would be a clearly valid tax that accomplished just about everything that the present law accomplishes.
Late in the afternoon, he pulled into a Toys R Us to buy a present for his nephew Caiden, who had just turned one.
At present he is just four one-hundredths of a second outside the qualifying standard for the mainstream competition in London - and his attempt to double up is inevitably attracting a lot of interest.
Matija Cuk, from the Seti Institute, and colleagues ran new simulations in which the early Earth was rotating on its axis in just a few hours prior to the impact - compared to the present 24 hours.
Given that much of the same equipment and techniques can be used to make both syrups, and the fact that birch sap generally starts to flow just as maple sap dries up, "it does present a tantalizing possibility, " van den Berg said.
Yet the Jones lawyers persisted in their somewhat strange course -- strange unless one asks whether armed with Ms. Tripp's intelligence, they purposely sought in some fashion to present the independent counsel a record that would permit just the sort of dark interpretation both he and the managers have (OFF-MIKE).
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The U.S. was present in seven variables, scoring a relative score of just 43.3.
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