Note that these questions use a past tense voice, as if they have already occurred.
Over the weekend, Secretary Gates used the past tense to refer to the process.
And I realized that my fear came also from his use of the past tense.
Start by using future, active, past tense questions to define winning or excellence.
Rather, it "does something" -- conveying an attitude -- just as the ending "-ed" doesn't "mean" anything but conveys past tense.
Adding to the stress is the complexity of the grammar, especially the far-from-perfect spelling system hellish past tense riddled with irregularities.
But he doesn't talk in the past tense about what he's built.
Instead, Latino journalists like me are left to introduce her to a larger audience by writing about her in the past tense.
While Giuliani didn't say he was withdrawing from the race, he did speak of his campaign in the past tense at one point.
"Erasing the Nuba" is my testimony, as a Rwandan and a journalist, to ensure these people are never referred to in the past tense.
Success visioning involves asking a series of future, active, and past tense questions to imagine success in the future as if it has already occurred.
Future, active, past tense questioning helps to paint the picture of success between the individuals involved, often uncovering expectations that would otherwise not see the light of day.
When Dean was asked about comments from some of his supporters that they won't support anyone but him, he used the past tense to refer to his campaign.
English past tense verbs have so many forms like swam, ate, read, let, brought, etc. compared to Japanese, where all past tenses end with -mashita, -mashita, -mashita, with virtually no exception.
Obama placed a past tense modifier on Iranian sponsorship of terrorism even through just last week a US Navy ship intercepted an Iranian vessel smuggling arms to Hamas in Gaza in the Red Sea.
When we look at that environment, that ecological niche if you like, we found (past tense, for of course all of these models are up in the air now) that in different parts of the environment different models worked.
I'm using the past tense because Topshop or rather Philip Green, the owner of parent company Arcadia pulled off a masterstroke when it was announced 18 months ago that British Vogue fashion director Kate Phelan would become the store's creative director.
Some might question the past tense.
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As the narrative moves between past and present between past tense and present tense and between recollected events and dramatised scenes the spreading bleakness is lightened by enjoyable observations of Edinburgh and a background cast of students, university bureaucrats and overly cheerful television presenters.
"Pope Benedict followed the same script church officials have used for years, speaking of abuse in oblique terms and only when forced to do so, ignoring the coverups, using past tense, " wrote Barbara Dorris, spokeswoman for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
Patriots receiver Wes Welker looks to be headed elsewhere after a tense past few years with New England, while Dolphins tackle Jake Long might be pricing himself out of Miami.
The past year has seen a tense debate between scientific advisers and ministers over the best way to approach the prohibition of some drugs, including so-called "legal highs".
On the face of it, North Korea's decision to sentence a US citizen to 15 years' hard labour seems to be a direct challenge to Washington: another twist in the cycle of actions and rhetoric that have helped keep relations so tense over the past two months.
While Larijani and Ahmadinejad have had a tense relationship in the past, Larijani is seen as being aligned with Khamenei.
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Parliament speaker Ali Larijani, who has had a tense relationship in the past with Ahmadinejad, was sitting next to the president.
The mood was cordial, belying the tense relationship of years past.
In the past year, Facebook held occasionally tense negotiations with the biggest social game developers like Zynga to bring them on-board with the program.
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Things have been tense at NBC over the past few weeks.
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