As part of the Unscom team, they had gained not only first-hand knowledge of the weapons investigation but also a protected presence inside Baghdad.
Not having first-hand knowledge of the facts, I cannot fairly hazard a guess as to why the respondents in this arbitration paid any settlement to this pubic customer or why the individual stockbroker named in the case simply took the blows and opted for nothing more than expungement.
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Whatever it is, it's going to be discussed at an event in Virginia later this month, though we're not exactly expecting any first-hand reports to come out of that.
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Learn from my experience -- do not wait until you experience violence first hand to realize that we need to take action.
Equally, foreigners did not at first appreciate that a new and stronger hand was now in control in London.
As community organizers, we know first-hand that democracy is not a spectator sport.
It was admittedly not the rosiest of outlooks despite my own first hand knowledge of some of the great things that this generation has already accomplished to date.
In fact, she knows first-hand that it's not the only employer in that position.
By the time the teams filed out, all eyes were on the first face-to-face (sadly, not hand-to-hand) meeting between Evra and Suarez.
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Obama, on the other hand, has said he might not throw the first punch, but he certainly will throw the last punch.
It not only created the hand-held computer category and the first workable handwriting-recognition system, it also pioneered the whole idea of doing digital tasks -- including e-mail and Internet browsing -- on a device other than the PC.
Others consider it proof that Mrs Palin knows first-hand how regular families live, and that she is not isolated from reality.
But Italy, frequently so limited in both ambition and execution, had come out with positive intent of their own and when Alessandro Zanni claimed Craig Gower's cross-kick, Italy came close to the first try of the match, but the final pass did not go to hand.
With first hand experience I can say without doubt that most sellers are not at all happy about having to pay extra fees to put their properties on the market and for some the extra cost has been the "last straw" causing them to decide against marketing.
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Laos is not the first poor country to be caught between the need for development on the one hand, and environmental or diplomatic concerns on the other.
On the other hand, if the deceased spouse is not already receiving benefits, the first factor is the amount that the decedent would have received at the current age, if he or she were still living.
"A player like Joe needs to feel his manager believes in him and that has perhaps not been the case at Chelsea and England, " says Keith Blunt, who saw first hand just how talented the young Cole was.
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But first-time buyers still face the demand for high deposits from lenders, who are keen not to hand out mortgages to those who may be at higher risk of defaulting.
Indeed, he notes, Dynegy's share price did not fall on April 3rd, when the press first commented on problems with Project Alpha, a fact dismissed out of hand by Mr Graves.
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