But developers can shift course once approvals are in hand to keep costs down or because their tastes change.
"Once we get that in hand, we'll get a better estimate of when the river will be reopened, "he added.
The truly rich do not have to pay any tax once they have their fortunes in hand.
And, once the screwdriver was in her hand, she felt instant relief from the pain of having an old soft-backed man snuffling under her tub, and then something more than relief: a blessed indifference, as if the very idea of feeling pain over such a thing were baffling.
The woman appears to have once held a flower in her right hand, until the painter began to rework it into a fan indicated by a blur of white paint and the upward gaze of her child.
Only this spring, once Bench had flip-flop samples in hand, did Harrington and his wife, Jean (Bench s godmother), make a low-six-figure investment.
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Even once the answers to these questions are in hand, it is far from clear whether U.S. assistance in the name of conversion of the Soviet military industrial complex is a good idea.
"The next two to three years, Brendan's full-time job is doing hand therapy, six hours a day, every single day, once nerves grow in, " said Dr. Jaimie Shores, clinical director of hand transplantation at Johns Hopkins.
Mallika Chopra has a lot of development efforts going at once before the first dollar of profit is in hand.
In the world of comedy, if you are absolutely determined to stand on a stage for five minutes with a mike in your hand, someone in London will let you do it, if only once.
But then, for all his accuracy and arcing, tiptoe artistry, cigarette in one hand and dart in the other, he often threw games away altogether: once so drunk that he could hardly walk, and another time sealing his defeat by toppling off the stage.
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By 1975, Cabinet officers like Donald Rumsfeld, the once-and-future Pentagon chief, were trudging hat in hand into O'Neill's office.
"Once this engagement is fulfilled, the prime minister will hand in his mandate to the head of state who will proceed with appropriate consultations, paying close attention to the positions and proposals of all political forces, " he said.
On the other hand, the printed copy, edited and republished once in a while, serves as a barrier to faddish words, keeping the canon relatively clean.
And sure enough, the greed got seriously out of hand and then imploded, in fact twice, once with the bursting of the stock market bubble of 2000, and then even more seriously with the real estate and sub-prime mortgage bubble and resulting financial meltdown of 2008-2009.
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Now, with sovereign debt and bank solvency problems brewing once again in Ireland, and growing concerns that even larger problems are at hand in Portugal and Spain, it looks to us like another ECB rescue package for these troubled countries and their banking institutions could very well be in the offing.
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On the other hand, Perry could require you to make the choice only once in your life.
On Johnson's 65-hectare farm in Virginia's hunt country, a neighbor once mistook him for a stable hand.
Collingwood (16) finally holed out in the deep, and for once Eoin Morgan was unable to play a significant hand.
Assume further that A does not liquidate the corporation, but rather keeps it running in case he changes his mind and wants to try his hand at accounting once more.
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In effect the hand-held consumer GPS device market is crumbling as functionality that once required a stand-alone gizmo is incorporated on a widespread basis in smart phones.
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In limited-overs cricket, on the other hand, the teams bat just once and an innings is over when either 10 batsmen are out or all the overs have been bowled.
Second-hand Chinese-made buses have replaced most of the lorries that once served as public transport in Havana.
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And Democrats -- who once aligned with the campaign of hope and change -- are now, race by race, engaged in hand-to-hand combat.
Well, if you have ever observed how the second hand of a mechanical watch moves, you know that it appears to run smoothly (in stark contrast to the second hand of a quartz watch, which makes a little jump once a second).
But as any marriage counsellor will admit, there is not much you can do in a situation in which people are truly determined to put asunder a partnership which they once regarded as joined together by the hand of God.
With FDA approval of new drugs like Kadcyla, and human trials of nanoparticle cancer therapy in the offing, it is possible that humanity is finally gaining the upper hand on a disease that once seemed invulnerable.
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