However, the result is still some very welcome news for Tony Blair at a difficult time, and removes one of the clouds that has been hanging over his government's record.
By the early 19th century no one had yet harnessed clouds with words.
But as had happened on day one, the storm clouds gathered after tea and the light was offered to Amla and Ashwell Prince with 28 overs remaining.
These storm-clouds aside, one unsung success of the Howard years has been its willingness to take up the burden of the South Pacific, a collection of dysfunctional island nations that no one else wants to grapple with.
On a clear day you can see 80 miles and five states and on an overcast one you are floating in the clouds, detached from the world below.
During a trip to Zurich the week before, I'd noticed that most of the best restaurants in Switzerland's business capital, including the trendy Clouds, a Michelin one-star, are now offering vegetarian menus alongside their conventional ones.
For instance, in other as-yet-unpublished work, they say they have discovered that the Magellanic Clouds (there is a small one as well) jointly sport a tail of stars that dangles around the Milky Way.
Ms. KAREN DACONS-BROCK (Director, Stealing Clouds): I hadn't had one in two years, so I'm scheduled now to go and get one.
Keep in mind that Yakushima is a place of extremes: the mountains wring every last drop of moisture from the passing clouds and the interior of the island is one of the wettest places in Japan.
On the one hand, they have the promise of scalability of public clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS).
One depends on the idea that the water vapour which forms clouds condenses initially around tiny particles known as aerosols (many of which are produced by algae).
The set will feature real grass, an oak tree and "clouds" suspended from wires above the stadium - one of which will produce rain, provided the British weather does not provide its own on the night.
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Ever since 2009 when NIST published its first definition of cloud computing there has been a promise of community clouds, and now we finally have a second one in the financial services market, thanks to NYSE Technologies.
The EU is like one of those benign but stern creators that reach out of the clouds in Renaissance masterpieces.
In other words, cloud seeding is designed to produce and store water from moisture-dense clouds in preparation for a drought but not necessarily to end one.
In a recent paper in Climate Dynamics, Mark Webb of Britain's Hadley Centre for Climate Change and his colleagues reported that clouds account for 66% of the differences between members of one important group of models and for 85% of them in another group.
One of the film's recurrent grace notes is a coalescing of puffy clouds into concrete forms -- whatever the beholder wants to feel and see.
And dumping nutrients such as iron into the sea would be only one-sixth as effective as either sulphate injection or promoting the formation of clouds.
Video on CNN affiliate WFTS's website showed white smoke rising near the highway -- as throngs of vehicles in one direction sat seemingly at a standstill -- and mingled with puffs of clouds on an otherwise picture-perfect spring day.
One of these satellites, CloudSat, has given the first glimpses of the middle layer of clouds in the Earth's atmosphere.
"It's like taking one of those Formula One cars and then putting it on a dirt road with potholes, " said Roger "Clouds" Badham, a meteorologist for Emirates Team New Zealand.
"I had my head in the clouds, was mad, neurotic and self-destructive, a very different character to the one you see today, " she said.
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Having squandered one set point on the Tipsarevic serve, the set was left at 5-2 when the black clouds finally burst and play was suspended.
But at least one new survey (sponsored by Microsoft, by the way) finds that enterprise IT managers see private clouds as a world apart from public clouds.
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