The odds still favour the opening of talks, if only for fear of the fallout from not opening them.
First, mistletoe weakens (and sometimes kills) its host trees, opening them to infestations by wood-boring insects and similar critters.
We slowly started rolling out subreddits that we ourselves managed and seeded for months before finally opening them up to users.
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George Ferguson said the idea was not about "closing roads but opening them to people" and said he hoped to see "entrepreneurial activity".
In fact when the hour session was over they would not give us back the boxes because they were not done opening them.
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The Ice Bird looks like he might be particularly interesting, with the ability to freeze objects in levels, presumably then opening them up to destruction by other birds.
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When he was in his 20s, Mr Berdeaux successfully revived the abandoned Endless Caverns in Virginia, both by opening them to tourists and bottling their water for sale.
But every known religion has some sort of rite or procedure for taking people out of their ordinary lives and opening them up to something larger than themselves.
Opening them to public scrutiny would be "self-defeating, " she said.
"Across Scotland, we have an over-reliance on large strategic land releases but these are simply undevelopable because of the huge infrastructure costs associated with opening them up, " he said.
Yet this year I was persuaded to be given my results live on BBC Breakfast, why not start opening them with over a million people watching if you're going to start now.
It was an enforced write down of the value of savings and is accompanied by the most brutal capital controls possible - which is closing the banks and then re-opening them with a limit on withdrawals.
The previously rejected consultation on the town centre was launched in 2009, and offered residents a choice between maintaining the pedestrian-only streets, opening them up to cars again completely, or opening them to cars at various points in evenings and weekends.
One is it increases the proportion of the nutrients in the food that can be digested, and it does that basically by opening them up to be accessible to enzymes, it denatures proteins for instances, unraveling them and exposing them to the action of snipping enzymes.
He believes that black Americans made a great historical error in the 1960s when they relaxed their campaign for civil rights and integration at the first sign of progress, turning their back in many cases on the "blacks only" hotels and restaurants which had sustained them during segregation in favour of the businesses which were newly opening to them.
Is the lack of boots on the ground, if you will, leaving an opening for them?
The Labour leadership clearly view the abolition of the 50p rate as a major political opening for them.
One thing that separates NFL rookies from the seasoned veterans is that the whole experience of seeing themselves in Madden for the first time is literally eye-opening to them.
After half time, realising they had nothing to lose, Mazembe began to push forward in numbers, but this continually left them fragile at the back and Zamalek began to find gaps opening up for them.
She sat in her chair surrounded by her books without opening one of them.
"Each of our finalists will have a career opening up for them, " claims Guha.
They were continuing to move into the workforce in ever-increasing numbers, more opportunities were opening up for them and the pay gap with men was getting smaller.
"I'm excited to play against them opening day, " Youkilis said.
They don't want to see them opening homes, but would like councils to pay fully for the cost of caring for the older people housed by the private sector on their behalf.
Academics have a habit of crawling along the frontiers of knowledge with a magnifying glass, blind to the wide vistas opening up before them, and often reducing the most engaging subjects to tedious debates about methodology.
For the start of the second half manager Rafael Benitez introduced Djibril Cisse and Harry Kewell, a change that saw a more ambitious approach, but the poverty of their play in the opening period gave them too much of a mountain to climb.
It won't be an easy transition for them, but the makers hope the traditional glitz of the five-day Computex exhibit opening Tuesday will give them a good start in hyper-competitive markets.
For the Bolingbroke group and others like them, opening in 2012 is a more realistic target.
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Because they were excluded from the original law, opening the way for them to increase premiums and profits.
They are choices that close you off to your potential audiences rather than opening you up to them.
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