He described BP as "too lean" following rounds of cost-cutting that led up to the disaster.
Others reflected upon the civil rights journey that had led up to Obama's nomination.
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.
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.
In response to that -- to those extended negotiations that led up to the sequester, the President put forward his own plan.
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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.
Mr. Spiegelman said he was motivated by what he saw as the country's "missed opportunity" to truly come to terms with all that led up to and followed the terrorist attack.
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.
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.
"What is now necessary to clear the air and restore confidence is a full inquiry not just into the immediate circumstances ... but also into the whole range of issues that relate to the government's presentation to parliament ... of the intelligence that led up to war, " Shadow Home Secretary Oliver Letwin has said.
It is a description of the circumstances that led up to the 1986 summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev -- a summit that most at the time described as a failure because of Reagan's refusal to abandon his Strategic Defense Initiative, even in the face of the Soviet leader's promises to eliminate all Moscow's nuclear weapons.
Southeastern trains said the snowy and icy conditions had led to delays of up to 80 minutes in south-east London and Kent on Wednesday.
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The president-elect said Sunday that the suffering on both sides of Gaza's borders has led him to ramp up his commitment to working for a peace deal in the Middle East.
All had, however, to fall back before the Prince of Orange, who led Colonel Audley up to her ladyship, and said with his appealing smile: 'Lady Barbara, I want to present to you a friend of mine who desires beyond anything this introduction.
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