Plus, procedures may be performed that were not needed or could have been avoided.
He said the track could have been broken by the accident or could have been fractured before the trains collided.
While you have to applaud the Baseball Writers Association of America for taking a definitive stand with regard to ball players who were either associated or could have been associated with performance enhancing substances, they have inadvertently penalized Jack Morris during a critical moment in his time on the ballot.
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Officials at the Scottish Wildlife Trust, who manage the reserve, said Lady could have laid a "phantom egg", or the egg could have been damaged or destroyed.
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The time and the effort that you have spent trying to have it expunged from your permanent record or upgraded could have been spent retaking the course in question and moving on with the career you claim you want so badly.
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Joan of Arc could have been Brooklynn of Arc, Mata Hari could have been Dakota Hari or even North Dakota Hari, Bonnie Prince Charlie could have been Bonnie Prince Diesel and Good King Wenceslas could have been Good King Chesney.
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Or could it have been the consequence of an inadvertent inventory mix-up or other lower-level action?
What normally keeps them going is some genuine feed back, pointing out what was good or what could have been done better.
Or you could have been a commercial airline pilot, jetting around the globe to exotic destinations with a crew of able flight attendants.
However, it warns that two clusters in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, "raise the possibility of limited human-to-human transmission" or they could have been exposed to the same source of the infection.
Or she could have been put there on purpose by smugglers who hoped an American was less likely to be targeted for a search and to provide cover for the real smuggler.
Instead, courts have developed the discovery rule, providing that the statute of limitations in fraud cases should typically begin to run only when the injury is or reasonably could have been discovered.
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Or could it have been that in December 1988, even in such a permissive time and place, Daphne suspected that she had somehow managed to cross a forbidden line into a social or cultural or family territory that was taboo?
Or it could have been over when Green Bay was inexplicably flagged for roughing the passer when one of their defenders hit Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson a fraction of a second after he released a pass, negating a Green Bay interception.
If a small number of FOIA requests had been dealt with properly early on, it seems possible that the large number of requests last year (over 100) might have been averted, or could, perhaps, have been rejected as vexatious.
Again, the reason the President asked for Secretary Salazar to do this particular investigation was to examine what happened, and whether or not there was anything that could or should have been done that would likely have prevented something like that from happening.
"It's now important that we turn our attention not to what could have been or what we wanted to have been, but now what must be -- and that is a united party, " Huckabee told a crowd in Dallas.
Or the device could have been tampered with in the industrial supply chain or even damaged in action.
His family do not believe he shot himself and think horseplay or an accident could have been the cause.
These sound like very big numbers and will inevitably be translated into numbers of hospitals or nurses which could have been paid for instead!
Or, it could have been a successful test that registered smaller, if it was conducted in a cavernous area that had a muffling impact on the shockwave.
Mr Alexeyenko said the problem with the contaminated meat was that it was not clear what it was made of and that old or ill animals could have been used.
So often I read and reread whole paragraphs from trade articles, marketing materials, briefs or presentations that could have been written in half the words and which would be so much simpler without a layer of jargon.
Officials from the firm said many of the workers had been out at lunch when the fire started, or the casualty figures could have been much higher.
Though it was likely Jay-Z or West, it could have also been a production studio or a record label.
But it could have been better if sequestration could have been avoided, or if it were more balanced by including taxes and changes to entitlement benefits.
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Those lower-paid workers were also supposed to be confined to certain job categories like janitors or parts assembly that could have been easily outsourced.
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