It helps Mr Ashdown that his partner, Mr Blair, is playing a long game.
"The decision has been based around playing as long as I can for New Zealand, " he said.
Mr Mowatt-Larssen may be wrong to suspect that al-Qaeda is playing a long game to stage a spectacular attack on America.
There were teams that were a lot better than us, that had been playing a long time, and we would beat them.
But they claim that they are playing a long game and that their task is different from that faced by Mr Blair.
Once again, Mr Bezos is playing a long-term game in the hope of establishing the Fire as the main rival to the iPad.
It has the financial strength to keep factories ticking over until the upturn, and a management culture that is comfortable playing a long game.
But Mr. Remengesau sounds like he's sick of playing the long game, waiting for tuna to become lucrative for Pacific islands at some future date.
Beneath the short-term troubles, the company is playing a long game.
"I was told I was getting close to Yorkshire's highest individual score but I have been playing too long to feel nervous, " Lehmann said after his marathon innings.
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And he reminds me that we are playing a long game here, and that change is hard and change is slow, and it never happens all at once.
From the warmth of central Florida, Gary Kaltbaum , one of the swing-trading editors at TradingMarkets, has been a bear for three years now, but that doesn't stop him from playing the long side of the market when the risks are appropriate.
Giuliani has always won by playing the long game -- ignoring captious howls of the moment from civil libertarians and the editorial board of the New York Times until, in the fullness of time, he found himself vindicated by, say, lower crime rates.
If we have to watch an actor expire for two hours, Redgrave is the one to watch, and Meryl Streep, playing the long-ago bride, now grown old, has a fine moment, too, lying in bed with Redgrave as the two women look at the past and compare marriages.
New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees was able to escape the curse last year, playing all season long without any injuries.
The terms of the agreement will see the Wildcats playing at their long-time Belle Vue home for the 2011 season.
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The game should be a classic, but everything for me leans towards a St Helens win, with the departing Long playing a starring role.
Hargreaves Lansdown's Hunter said the company's earnings were better than expected, but highlighted that Shell is playing a "long game" by investing heavily in infrastructure to increase earnings over time.
The story continued yesterday with Craig Whyte gathering sports reporters to reassure them about Rangers' finances, and to tell them that Rangers will still be playing at Ibrox long after they're all dead.
And the indications here are not especially encouraging: the average 15-year-old boy spends four times as long playing computer games as reading, and almost half of fathers have ever read to their children, according to a survey published on Wednesday by Waterstone's.
Either way, Obama should prepare for a long winter playing defense on his signature legislation.
The list of technologies which have allowed competitors to shift the playing field is very long.
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That means it might not build up the word-of-mouth needed for the film to keep playing well for very long.
As I recounted, Brett Favre has long envisioned playing with Randy Moss and advocated for Moss with us on different occasions.
"I thought it would be an athlete who has come through the ranks of playing football for a long time, " she said.
Last week was the week that Europe had hoped to level the playing field in its long-running dispute with America over commercial-transport subsidies.
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