In Poland, its 2005 success was a prelude to its demise in 2007, as Poles opted for a moderate government after two years of right-wing rule.
In March, Major League Baseball will unveil the inaugural World Baseball Classic, a 16-nation tournament pitting top professionals playing for their native countries in a prelude to the 2006 season.
They all had dinner, and, in the prelude of a toast, the new pontiff joked with his brethren, saying: "May God forgive you for what you've done, " according to the U.S. cardinal.
All this is a prelude in which each of the parts of the SAP product suite are becoming powered by SAP HANA. The culmination will be a world in which SAP HANA is the central database for everything.
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And that, in turn, is a prelude to the stated goal of having trade unions in all of China's non-state-owned companies by 2010.
But if the bank rescue results in further reductions of social welfare funds, or if it is a prelude to the bailout of the state, the government risks unleashing social protest in a way existing social movements may not be able to channel.
It was featured in the 1992 film Prelude to a Kiss and 1997's Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.
Optimists claim that the deterioration in security in Colombia is a prelude to a lasting settlement, as each side battles to improve its negotiating position.
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In Phase One, Marvel released Thor along with Captain America, so those two films could help support one another in 2011 as a prelude to The Avengers.
Spend a luxurious interlude in the oversized, jetted soaker tub or prelude dinner with a drink or two from the wet bar while reclining beside the double-sided fireplace.
Now it has to pay 9% export tax in two provinces, a prelude, thinks Mr Shotoku, for the tax being levied by other provincial governments too.
That period is now looking like prelude to a darkening 21st century, in which the likes of North Korea and Iran are pioneering a very different set of rules.
Pyongyang routinely portrays the annual military drills in the South as a prelude to an invasion of the North, and declares that it will retaliate for any violation of its territory.
He dreads the end of this school year and the possibility of Kosovo Serb families re-registering their children at schools in Serbia proper - a prelude to selling up and going.
The 90-minute opener is a four-pronged prelude to "I do, " which in the gay Blair and Jeff's case means a California-approved civil union, and for Tarz and Tina a Hindu wedding processional down their Columbia, S.C.
For Mr Putin, predicts Chris Weafer of Alfa Bank in Moscow, putting his loyalists on the boards of firms such as Rosneft is only a prelude to ensuring that these firms become the undisputed champions in their industries.
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It points out that the aspirants often move upmarket in their own countries as a prelude to expanding abroad.
The forced government spending cuts that take effect Friday are just a prelude for more political showdowns in coming months.
Some think this a prelude to a prickly, more unpleasant China in the decade ahead, but it is too soon to conclude that.
To me, it is so reminiscent of 2007, when I was writing my book, Prelude To Meltdown, predicting a 1929 event in 2008.
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But mistrust runs so deep on all sides that even the prelude to the negotiations has been a study in the kingdom's divisions and suspicions, and suggests a difficult route toward any possible accords.
But, if you listen to the disgruntled Yelpers, you might be deterred from a rare experience: mini-golf and beer as a prelude to fresh cold oysters and perfectly steamed lobster, eaten in the open, relatively salty air, with a killer view of New York Harbor.
Otellini described a world in which all the development of the past 30 years was but a prelude to the next decade, which will see even more change, and he positioned the user at the center of the computing experience with a spectrum of devices and cloud services around him or her, all interacting smoothly together.
In my book, Prelude To Meltdown, which was written in 2007, I wrote that 2008 would see a crisis similar to 1929.
This is only the film's prelude, introducing the characters and setting the mood in a succession of close-ups.
On May 19 at Carnegie Hall, Mr. Levine will conduct the Met Orchestra in a program that will include the prelude to Act I of Wagner's "Lohengrin, " Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, featuring piano soloist Evgeny Kissin, and Schubert's Symphony No. 9.
The two lawyers delivered opening statements Monday as a prelude to the start of testimony Tuesday in the long-awaited trial.
In 2006, the newest CEO, Otellini, had to lay off 10% of workers in what now can be seen as a prelude to the Great Recession.
Introducing the scene is a whispered harp-celesta fragment of the film's Prelude, spiraling into a close-up of Judy in the beauty parlor as she is being made up to look like Madeline.
It asked national regulators in February to explain any such policies, a prelude to possible legal action by the commission against national governments that don't change course.
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