Now the Big 12 is losing a key member because it was too patient.
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Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell also feels Harrington will be a key member of the team.
Infielder Tadahito Iguchi was a key member of the Chicago White Sox 2005 World Series champions.
Richard is a key member of this team and we need him back fit.
The Romney campaign says Fehrnstrom is a key member of the governor's inner circle.
More importantly, Khin Nyunt, 60, is a member - some say the key member - of Myanmar's ruling military council.
The 27-year-old was a key member of the Spain squad that triumphed at Euro 2008 and is Valencia's most valuable asset.
Shannon Boxx, a fiery midfielder and key member of the 2008 U.S. team that took Olympic gold, joins Marta in Los Angeles.
Despite the emergence of Alastair Cook, however, Trescothick is still seen as a key member of the national team in both forms of the game.
By Friday the Democrats had heard, for the first time since Starr's report was released, conciliatory talk from a key member of the Gingrich team.
India's top investigation agency has removed a key member of its prosecution team from his post for alleged links with a suspect in a corruption scandal.
The Business Software Alliance (BSA), a nonprofit trade group of which Microsoft is a key member, said it supports the actions which the software giant is taking.
Michel Leger, a key member of France's delegation to COCOM responsible for technology decontrol matters, was arrested by French authorities and charged with acting as a Soviet spy.
Felicia advised Senator Salazar during the comprehensive immigration reform debates of 2006 and 2007 in which Senator Salazar was a key member of the bipartisan group pressing for reform.
Wilson has played on more than 100 albums, and he's a key member of Grammy-winning groups such as the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra, Dave Holland Sextet and Chick Corea's Origin.
Tait has had more success with one-day cricket however, taking 33 wickets in 18 appearances, and was a key member of the Aussie team that won the 2007 World Cup.
He then joined fierce rivals City in July 2009, and was a key member of the side as they just missed out on Champions League qualification by finishing fifth last season.
Ferrero was also the key member of the Spanish team which won the Davis Cup for the first time in 2000, beating Pat Rafter and then Lleyton Hewitt to clinch the tie.
Flintoff played 79 Tests and 141 One-Day Internationals for England in an international career spanning 11 years and was a key member of England's Ashes-winning teams against Australia in 2005 and 2009.
Despite being only 23, Martinez has made 201 appearances for Athletic Bilbao and was a key member of the side that enjoyed a surprise run to the final of last season's Europa League.
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Beckham lives in Los Angeles with his family but regularly returns to Britain and was a key member of the England 2018 World Cup bid, which lost out to Russia in the vote earlier in December.
Since 1957 was the year of Sputnik, and since West Germany was a key member of the NATO alliance, this was not a good time to imply that there was no real Soviet threat to Western Europe.
He was a key member of a bipartisan Senate group that put together the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, which would have beefed up border security and increased the number of Border Patrol agents, but also would have created a guest worker program.
Kennedy has established himself as a key member of the London Irish pack since joining the club in 2001, forming a formidable line-out partnership with Bob Casey, and toured with England to New Zealand in the summer but did not feature in either Test defeat.
Mr Emanuel - who was President Barack Obama's chief of staff as well as a key member of President Bill Clinton's White House when a ban on assault weapons was introduced in 1996 - wants to restrict sales of weapons he says were meant for the "battlefield".
He is respected both as an individual 400m runner and a key team member of the 4 x 400m relay.
And all care homes and acute hospitals would be encouraged to have a key staff member identified as responsible for handling dementia patients, seen as a way to help care homes shift the focus from drug treatments to talking therapies.
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