They are often nothing of the sort, a mountain made out of a molehill by reporters desperate for a story.
Aligning with a cause is often nothing more than selfish giving.
But before a test well has been drilled, it is near-impossible to be sure whether the geological idiosyncrasies that excite oilmen will yield either oil or gas (or sometimes both, and often nothing).
Often toting nothing more than a USB stick and a pair of Pioneer CDJs, their production costs are often negligible, unlike rockers and pop stars who typically take home just one-third of gross ticket sales.
In places like Syria and southern Iraq that are now being dried out by the Turkish dams, irrigation is primitive - often involving nothing more than water trucks pumping water out of the Euphrates and driving it over to fields that are often less than a kilometer away.
So, often, nothing gets said or addressed until there is a financial hiccup or even full-blown emergency.
Celebrity Analysts and Rock Star Economists need to understand that their forecasts, even when accurate, often mean nothing.
Now it has gone all corporate and quiet, promoting events at its museum, but often saying nothing for days on end.
There is rather a depressing history of well-intentioned donations often doing nothing to alleviate society's problems, and sometimes even making matters worse.
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Again he disagrees, claiming that children in poor areas of Britain often have nothing to distract them, which he says leads to anti-social behavior.
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Many journalists I know have to live with unmatched levels of self criticism, often seeing nothing but gaping holes and embarrassing errors in their work.
The victims often have nothing to do with the alleged offense.
Great presentations often have nothing to do with visual aids.
Suddenly, the tenets of success we've followed since kindergarten don't apply, because getting ahead in the business world often has nothing to do with intelligence or exceeding a set of defined expectations.
The first shot will often be nothing more than a targeting aid, to be followed by a second shot or third shot, which will be required to home in on the target.
Nothing about how long your computer can be inactive before if automatically logs you off, nothing about how often you have to change your passwords and certainly nothing about all those other things we so often claims it makes us do.
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We do this by offering role models who demonstrate that success begins with a bold idea, that it is often created where nothing formerly existed, and that the resulting wealth can spread to every part of the nation.
Khan's barrister, Simon Drew, said police investigations into the various incidents often "came to nothing" because of "generous failures by the system".
Anecdotally I suspect there is still that happening from time to time, but nothing like as often as it did.
But many Japanese executives still say that if the units make money (and they often do), then nothing is wrong.
People often feed the hungry so that nothing may disturb their own enjoyment of a good meal.
The notion that the great businesses of the future often emerge from hard times is nothing new, particularly to business schools.
Such philosophical musings aside, dog poop is one of many contentious issues in our highly concentrated urbanized and suburbanized society, where dog owners are often separated from their neighbors by nothing more than an invisible fence.
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Women were fated to marry and bear children, often by men for which they felt nothing.
In any case, economic growth often jumps around, and there is nothing unusual in the occasional sluggish quarter.
Run and gunning here will often get you nowhere, and do nothing but draw the ire of your teammates.
She admitted the job's demands often frustrated her, but said she did nothing to hurt the child.
He often states that he thinks his work is nothing special, but, apparently, people have to wait on him hand and foot to give him the opportunity to create it.
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