• But CBI director general Richard Lambert called the Budget "the UK's first important step on the long journey back to economic health".

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  • The conditions on the long journey were so hazardous that it was not uncommon for half the workers to die before they reached the estates.

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  • To keep them from the heat, on the long train journey from his home in Buffalo, he had wrapped the samples stoutly in dry ice and newspaper.

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  • On Loyalty Day, we reflect on that proud heritage and press on in the long journey toward prosperity for all.

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  • Carrying judges' IDs would have been a death wish on the long, dangerous journey to Kabul, they explain.

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  • An account on the AeroVironment website (the company MacCready went on to found) details how Allen reported, not long into the journey, that the transmit button on his radios malfunctioned, meaning he could hear his colleagues below him on the boats, but only respond with nods and gestures.

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  • She plans to be there clutching Kennedy's letter, a reminder of those who paved the way for the long journey she is on the cusp of completing.

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  • Like many on the Labour benches, he has made a long journey from the far left.

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  • For now though, like the South Korean students who hung out North Korean flags in defiance of their country's strict laws, it is enough simply to celebrate the first step on a long journey.

    ECONOMIST: Kimaraderie, at last

  • Amongs the Cardiff-based sponsors who helped the expedition were ship owners Daniel Radcliffe and William Tatem, and James Howell of the Cardiff department store Howells who provided a Welsh flag which flew from the Terra Nova on her long journey south.

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  • Whilst much of the attention surrounding scramjets has focussed on the shorter journey times they could bring to long-haul passenger air travel, the first applications are likely to be in the space delivery business - launching small payloads, such as communications satellites, into orbit.

    BBC: Experimental jet 'a success'

  • But Mr Aldrin disagreed with the view that astronauts should test capabilities for a long-duration flight on the Moon before attempting a journey to Mars.

    BBC: Moon astronauts urge Mars mission

  • Among the many things he said on our long journey is that Africa as a continent must decide what its key interests were and then systematically work out how to get those things.

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  • Jim Webb, from Virginia, where this year we will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown an event that marked the first step in the long journey that has made us the greatest and most prosperous nation on earth.

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  • But the female cubs are too young to make such a long journey yet so will spend a few months on the island before travelling to their permanent home.

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  • And I shared with him the fact that I recognize that this is just the first steps on what will be a long journey.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • Liquid Robotics, the Silicon Valley startup that makes the surfboard-sized robot called a Wave Glider, announced Wednesday that Papa Mau arrived off the coast of Queensland, Australia, on Nov. 20 after surviving storms, sharks and 25-foot surf while its solar-powered sensor arrays collected terabytes of data on ocean and atmospheric conditions during the year-long journey.

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  • And you will have in the United States of America a partner on that long journey.

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  • This popularity soon spread to the Far East, where it was noted the wine had improved immeasurably on its long, hot journey in cask.

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  • Another illustrious name: Rohinton Mistry, whose Such a Long Journey and A Fine Balance featured on the Booker short list.

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  • At the same time, you want to have backers who will be in it for the long run, who will help you on that journey for a very long period of time.

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  • It's worth noting that Americans started the long and difficult journey toward immigration reform on September 5, 2001, when President George W. Bush welcomed Mexican President Vicente Fox to the White House for a state dinner in his honor.

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  • And if we keep that in mind, and uphold our obligations to one another and to this larger enterprise that is America, then I have no doubt that we will continue our long and prosperous journey as the greatest nation on Earth.

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  • We were walking on the recently created Abraham Path, Turkey's newest trekking route and the northernmost section of an ambitious vision begun in 2008 to create a long-distance trail through the Middle East based on the journey of the Prophet Abraham.

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  • Most of all, there is nothing as satisfying as those moments where you step out on a dark night, the wind blowing, the rain beating down, with a long journey ahead - and decide to catch the Tube instead.

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  • For participants of the Entrepreneurs Challenge, getting up on a Sunday morning and attending the day-long Boot Camp was the beginning of that long journey.

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  • "I have been blessed in my life to spend the majority of the last 10 years of my life working on the story of Billy Elliot, " said Daldry, calling it a "long, extraordinary journey".

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  • The idea is that these platforms should help drug searchers to travel rapidly on their long and tortuous journey from gene to treatment.

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  • The next time you're on your journey home - be it from work or from holidays - and you're bemoaning the long motorway drive, just think how much worse it would be without the 50-year-old stretch of highway.

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