On that count, many find the opposition National Liberals and Social Democrats, though riding high in the polls, not much better than the incumbents.
On that count the 35th annual festival was a great success -- scores of fascinating features, documentaries and shorts, along with tributes to three people who richly deserve them: the actress Jean Simmons, the Swedish filmmaker Jan Troell and the American director David Fincher.
There would be plenty of other losers too, from the nations that depend on a steady flow of Middle East oil to stabilize global energy prices to the shippers that count on the Fifth Fleet for protection to the local companies that help sustain U.S. forces in the region.
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And I suppose in adversity we have to draw as much as a sort of milk of that positive human goodwill as we can and really count on that.
That puts him ahead on the two issues that really count: reducing the deficit and increasing employment.
So I think as we move forward on addressing our fiscal challenges, Chinese policy makers know that they can no longer count on the U.S. consumer to provide that demand to the global economy.
People who buy an LED bulb today can count on that bulb for the next 20 years.
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Traders will definitely try the will and resolve of Mr. Azumi in the future, you can count on that.
If reality TV handles the strike right, count on that number to grow.
And there are going to be plenty of ups and downs over the next 26 days -- count on that.
But given the Clintons' tendency to cut friends loose when they become a problem, Marsha Scott may not be able to count on that protection for long.
You can count on that, from Disney.
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Because frankly, Fred, we're going to be able to use your good counsel in the years to come, and I hope that we'll be able to count on you in providing that to us.
We talked about this and I do know that we can already count on your support to be the advocate of that idea during this conference in support of our vision.
"The president can count on a reservoir of support in his own party that previous Democratic presidents may not have been able to count on, " Sides said.
If you open a read-on post in a new window, that will also count against the read-on meter.
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One thing they could count on was that their alleged captor would never let them out.
They need electricity they can count on, that they can afford.
And because we passed advanced appropriations, when Washington politics threatens to shut down the government, as it did last spring, the veterans' medical care that you count on was safe.
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Mr Kennedy said Mr Blair instead needed to focus on "the big issues that count, the things that will make his place in history and change the nature of politics in this country".
Running the phone against only the Galaxy S III sounds like it would be a cruel and unusual punishment, and of course that superphone wins on every count -- but the 1.6GHz Medfield phone still copes admirably.
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We know what works, we know the models that bring results that we can count on.
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After 1971, in contrast, it became basically clear that you could count on no such thing.
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