Conservatives have not been labouring for 40 years to put someone on the Supreme Court who believes in both affirmative action and abortion rights.
Gravano was given a light jail sentence of five years, put on the federal witness protection programme and given a new life in Arizona.
An onslaught of competition in recent years has put pressure on earlier movers such as Christine to keep up with changes in consumer tastes.
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"You put seven years of development on the line -- you have a few seconds in which the system needs to perform particularly well, " he said.
The Genting Group announced Monday that it will break ground in 2014 on the 87-acre site where the partially built Echelon project has sat for nearly five years, put on indefinite hold by Boyd Gaming Corp.
In just the past two years, Wisconsin put limits on collective bargaining for state employees.
The BoJ put a timeline of two years on its prior promise to achieve 2% inflation.
The shift from GNP to GDP a few years back put the emphasis on production by labor and property located in the United States rather than production by U.S. entities worldwide.
Warming ties with Baghdad in the past few years have put the country on a vital drip feed, as oil smuggled out of Iraq has been exchanged for Syrian consumer goods.
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But the agency did move three years ago to put restrictions on short sales in certain heavily shorted stocks, such as Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia , Krispy Kreme , Overstock.com and Fairfax Financial .
While Raitt has performed on and off since 2005, she put her recording career on hold for seven years to deal with the deaths of her parents and her older brother as well as other issues.
Maybe after five years of playoff-free seasons the owner could be put on watch, and then, if ten years pass without the team making it to the postseason, the league would put future ownership of the persistently failing team up to a vote.
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Sure enough, within a few years someone had put 200 channels on the air.
Years ago, I put out on my social networks that I needed a new refrigerator.
It has been put on hold for three years by the weak economy.
Waide said the family told him Curtis has been diagnosed as bipolar and was put on medication about three years ago.
Instead, in one fell swoop it gained many thousands of man years of experience and put itself on a more equal footing with Apple.
China also hopes to make its first moon landing within two years and to put an astronaut on the moon as early as 2025.
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But concerns over how the methanol would be distributed--and whether methanol-powered phones would be allowed on airplanes--are now leading the company to put plans on hold for several years.
But many local people say the surge in foreigners in recent years has already put a strain on the small, wealthy island state's resources, and has pushed down salaries while raising property prices.
The gushers of cash that have flooded Singapore in recent years have put relentless upward pressure on property prices, with private-home prices rocketing 59 percent higher since the second quarter of 2009, even as real-estate prices have tumbled or gone sideways in much of the rest of the world.
As the years went on, Jack felt some pressure to put in more hours, and saw some years where he got an evaluation that was less than he expected, and sometimes he even had to go twenty-four months without a raise.
On his election four years ago, Mr Chirac looked all set to put his stamp on France.
Ansah, from Ghana, didn't even know how to put on shoulder pads a few years ago.
"I've been trying to put my finger on it for 30 years, " says Wittmann, sounding genuinely bewildered.
Two hundred years ago, New Bedford put itself on the world map with its investment in a whaling fleet.
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Nothing more was said or done until about four years ago when I was put on drugs for high cholesterol.
Long hidden from view, Caillebotte's paintings have, in recent years, begun to be put on public display, both in Paris and elsewhere.
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After determining he was behind the leaks the bank put him on administrative leave for two years before firing him on Christmas Eve 2010.
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