But two topics of great moment for the Union that seemed unlikely to deflect leaders from their immediate aim of enlarging membership were no less nerve-jangling.
Precisely what "flexible inflation targeting" can and should mean is, of course, the great subject of the moment among UK monetary policy nerds (and plenty of economic journalists) as we eagerly await the arrival of the new UK bank governor.
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Indeed, he remains patiently optimistic on one of the other great investment debates of the moment.
Thomas Bosc opened the scoring after a great burst from Alex Chan, but a moment of great vision from Kevin Sinfield - surprisingly selected at hooker in Matt Diskin's absence - got Leeds back into the game.
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Although it has something in common with the Edinburgh, Westminster and Fortnightly Reviews, its 19th-century forerunners in Britain, it was a new creation for America: an intelligent, intelligible publication that got the best minds to explore the world of ideas, bringing thought and weight to bear on the great issues of the moment.
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Regardless of how it happened, the devastation of the Great Chicago Fire quickly turned into one of the young city's great blessings, as the moment in history and the location at the heart of a growing industrial nation ensured that Chicago would not merely be rebuilt.
For me, the great moment of clarity was when I became a mother.
For me, the great moment of clarity came when I became a mother.
"He started writing at a moment of great expectations, but his works contained this important cautionary note, that things could go wrong, " Mr. Gikandi said.
Any dealer worth his salt knows there should be no interruption while a collector looks at an object: It is a moment of great intimacy.
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This is a moment of great opportunity in our relationship.
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These countries all underscore what I emphasized when I visited Ghana and gave a speech about Africa as a whole -- this is a moment of great opportunity and significant progress in Africa.
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It could be argued that this is a moment of great change in business education, not unlike that which led to the Gordon-Howell report, as the research-practical application debate, the emphasis on ethics and the demand for MBAs provoked by the financial crisis come together.
This absurd thinking populates a great deal of market commentary at the moment, not to mention that Fed Chairman Bernanke naturally believes it.
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It's a great moment in cinema and one of my favorite wine-drinking scenes of all time.
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Think about the XBox for a moment, one the great triumphs of Microsoft in the past decade.
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Yesterday I met with the bereaved family of Taylor Anderson, who unfortunately passed away, but who took care of children until the very last moment following the Great East Japan Earthquake.
"He had a great life and he enjoyed every moment of it and he would encourage others to do the same, " son Adam Klugman was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
"I really can't think of any other moment in college where I felt this great, " Crabbe said.
In the week that Americans celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the great heroines of the struggle for black equality, Mr Fernandez described it as his very own "Rosa Parks moment".
And this is not a great moment for a team that was once king of soccer.
At the moment we seem to spend a great deal of time - perhaps too much - pondering our future.
Everybody gets at least one shining moment (John Cho has a great bit of intimidation), although the focus is for the most part on Kirk, Spock, and Uhura.
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While the Bush Administration evidently is disposed to accommodate the Soviet Union on most, if not all, of these items, it is going to great lengths at the moment to appear hard to get.
That would constitute a huge tax on the world's economies, just at the moment when they were showing signs of recovery from the Great Recession.
At this moment four years ago we were in the middle of The Great Recession whirlwind.
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Great athletes relinquish their sense of self to merge themselves with the next moment, the sharing of experience, and the importance of the team in achieving the overriding objective.
Update : Downloaded, applied and rebooted. iTunes still isn't spotting our Pre as a device to sync with, and at least for the moment there's no great speed increases to speak of, but we have noticed a few more key tweaks that owners are sure to like -- setting a specific ringtone for text messages is exactly what we've been looking for.
Mr. BACHARACH: Well, it is a great song, but it is a small moment in the longevity of a song.
"I said that many millions of people would not only welcome his visit but that it would be a great moment for our whole country, " he said.
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