He described BP as "too lean" following rounds of cost-cutting that led up to the disaster.
For all of the hype that led up to his speech, what will people truly remember?
Police are continuing to investigate the circumstances which led up to the collision and have appealed for witnesses.
And he was thinking about it beforehand in the discussions that led up to how he would approach this year.
Accompanied by his wife Sonia and her father Sutcliffe was led up into the dock surrounded by uniformed police officers.
Upstairs, four vast rooms opened off a wide hall, and a door led up to an attic crossed with naked cypress beams.
Nobody could have predicted how far it would go, and nobody would ever understand what had led up to the final moments.
All that led up to the ninth, with Mexico trailing badly and facing possible elimination despite the big win over the United States.
"A progression of price declines during 2007 has led up to this, " says Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis for Port Washington, N.
He is especially curious about how and when the department realised it had misled Congress and what discussions led up to its decision to come clean.
Just as central banks had a hand in the events that led up to the crisis, so they have been intimately involved in clearing up the mess.
"It's very tempting to see the financial crisis and various things which led up to it as sort of the classic Greek tragedy of hubris begets nemesis, " he says.
Yes, the judge engages in extended discourses on constitutional history and theory, quotes the Federalist papers and even mentions the events that led up to the original Tea Party.
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The story is structured as a mystery, as the film begins at the crime scene and flashes back and forth to explain the strange, disturbing events that led up to it.
Since then, of course, the atmosphere has soured: the war in Iraq, and the events that led up to it, have opened up fresh divisions, not least among the rich countries themselves.
He is then led up through Purgatory, and, in the final poem, to Paradise, where he meets a transfigured vision of Beatrice, the girl he had loved in Florence as a young man.
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After a few minutes on the beach, you'll be led up a bluff to see their nesting ground, where the birds often return to the same mate and same nest year after year.
We hung a backpack off of an ice screw to block some of the debris funneling down the chute, but mostly all I could do was hold the rope and cower while Jim led up.
The establishment embraced Mr Bush because he seemed to promise an easy chance of rehabilitating itself after a disastrous few years when it had been outfoxed by Bill Clinton and led up the garden path by Newt Gingrich.
She would escape the bare concrete steps, layered with dust, that led up into rooms without windows, the walls painted lurid, glossy colors, as if to make up for the dreariness, the television covered with an embroidered cloth.
As it relates to financial reform, there -- rules were put in place to change the behavior of Wall Street and to prevent what happened in September of 2008 and what led up to it from ever happening again.
So you really have to focus -- I mean, this will be a very clarifying process, because, in some ways as we led up to this compromise, there was some understandable confusion about what deficit reduction could be achieved and where was there agreement and disagreement.
Senior allies of Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister and Lib Dem leader, are remarkably candid about the three-part process that led up to their mauling of an NHS reform bill (a bill that Lib Dem MPs had earlier supported on its first trundle through Parliament).
He is too much of an historian not to chronicle honestly the failures, missteps and cynical calculations which led up to Nuremberg, and which also played their role in the creation of the Yugoslav and Rwandan ad hoc tribunals currently holding trials in The Hague and Arusha.
You can't look at what we've been through, you can't look at -- I should just have this thing cued up, my favorite graph, which demonstrates the depth of job loss as a result of what happened and led up to the financial collapse in September of 2008.
One afternoon at the Met, Gelb led me up the sweeping staircase from the lobby to the recently renamed Mercedes T.
Rooster Booster, ridden by Richard Johnson, made all the running and led by up- to 30 lengths at one stage down the back straight.
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