• Is it the opposition, or the thought of being screamed at by coach Warren Gatland and assistant Shaun Edwards?

    BBC: Fear drives Wales team forward

  • K.K. cared nothing for what his wife or the servants thought.

    NEWYORKER: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

  • Obama did not retaliate by taking his offer to negotiate off the table or - perish the thought - working to implement the sanctions he had pledged would follow an Iranian rejection of his open hand.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: An enfeebled Obama

  • Lord Marks was speaking in support of an amendment which would enable the health secretary to intervene if he or she thought the Board was failing in its duties.

    BBC: Peers clash over role of health secretary

  • "It may have been that she herself or the publisher heard it and thought we were taking the mickey out of it, or that we were just too ungroovy, " Hinchcliffe said.

    BBC: Orchestra makes ukulele cult hit

  • It is a rarefied world where the next meeting or event holds the promise of a thought-provoking conversation or an intellectual adventure, but I seldom feel as inspired as I felt this week.

    FORBES: A Maestra of Inspiration

  • Some banks have cut harder than others, either because their costs were too high, or because they thought the outlook was so bleak, or both.

    ECONOMIST: Investment banking

  • Or so the Americans thought.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | WTO: Anatomy of a WTO Deal

  • One of them, Mr. Cameron's sensationally successful "Avatar, " showed that 3-D could be great, but established the principle, or so we thought, that the only authentic 3-D was so-called native 3-D the process of shooting a film from the outset with two cameras and two lenses.

    WSJ: With 3-D, Cameron Raises His Titanic | Film Review by Joe Morgenstern

  • They found the wife from whom he was separated -- or rather the woman who thought she was his wife, though they were obliged to tell her that Frank Harling was, among other things, a bigamist.

    CNN: Books - Excerpt: 'Flint'

  • But, when is the last time you thought about or discussed the importance of liberty, the second of the three unalienable rights the authors of the Declaration of Independence included in that oft-quoted sentence.

    FORBES: To Live In Liberty

  • No one before the late 18th century had ever asked them, or thought to read the plays or sonnets for biographical insights.

    ECONOMIST: The man and his pen

  • And does the chief information officer, or head of knowledge management, work for the providers of thought leadership, or do they work for her?

    ECONOMIST: Look what the wish has become father to

  • Or the inbounding player, panicked by the thought that her five seconds were about to be up, would throw the ball away.

    NEWYORKER: How David Beats Goliath

  • All professors experience the vagaries of school administrations, competitive or antipathetic colleagues, the inexplicable thought processes of grant committees, the threat of a career permanently derailed by strangers, and the occasional helicopter parent and self-entitled student.

    FORBES: Do College Professors Have Less Stress?

  • The reader in search of literary criticism, or even the origins of absurdist thought, will not find it in the three new biographies.

    ECONOMIST: In search of the real Camus

  • In the meantime, if you do forget a doctor's appointment, as most of us have done at one time or other, please spare a thought for the practice or hospital, and give them a call.

    BBC: Doctors warned to check no-shows

  • At one time, she thought that she could not live without coffee, but it turned out that it was really just the large warm mug she wanted in her hands, that was the aid to thought or whatever it was she practiced through the procession of hours, or of days.

    NEWYORKER: Free Radicals

  • It could be a brush with history, as with the Colosseum, or face time with celebrities and thought leaders at a place like TED (or at the elegant private gatherings sponsored by many top-tier companies for their best clients).

    FORBES: How to Fight Back Against Disruption and Compete with Free

  • No one on either the British or the French side seriously thought of occupying France or Britain.

    NEWYORKER: Slaughterhouse

  • Kids feared strangers they saw on the street or thought might be following them in a car.

    CNN: Dugard's abduction, rescue bring town full circle

  • Possibly one or more jurors thought the prosecution was just unfair and misguided.

    FORBES: The Cahill Prosecution In Massachusetts: Vagueness Is Still A Problem After Skilling

  • Many parents salivate at the thought or feeling of their kids attending Harvard.

    FORBES: When To Say No To Harvard

  • Simply showing that speakers of different languages think differently doesn't tell us whether it's language that shapes thought or the other way around.

    WSJ: Does Language Influence Culture?

  • Those who make it a practice to leave extra large tips to a restaurant server may be naturally generous, or perhaps just thought the service was excellent.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • If they seem merely to be tolerated, or if the CFO is thought of as an auditor with a fancy title, the organization may be overly focused on asset enhancement--and overlooking risks as a result.

    FORBES: Should You Enhance Your Assets Or Reduce Your Liabilities?

  • Guys, if you are deep into watching sports, meat and potatoes, and never having to bother yourself with a new or original thought for the rest of your life, don't even think of marrying a career woman.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In that peaceful oblivion, she felt swaddled in cotton, divorced from the feelings that usually plagued her, unworried about what she looked like in her homemade clothing or what others thought of the girl with a grandmother for a mother.

    NEWYORKER: The Visitor

  • PMOS, these days a career civil servant who is obliged to play with the straightest of bats, has answered as best he can, they persist, trying to make him say more than he wishes or even, perish the thought, to catch him out in some way.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • The target, or targets, near the Kenyan border were thought to include Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, and two others involved in the 1998 embassy bombings.

    NPR: Pentagon: 'Credible Evidence' for Attack on Somalia

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