Can it really be true that a clutch of Olympic bullion might cause the wider world to admire a country, or most importantly in the case of Britain, reassess old attitudes towards it?
It is often said that the Premier League is the best and most exciting league in the world - but if the England national team is not qualifying for a major tournament can that really be said to be true?
Some things really are too good to be true, and unfortunately, sites that offer free shipping can sometimes fall into that category.
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That argument may or may not be true and really begs the relevant question: Did they know about the potential for strong magnetic fields to move ferrous metal components within their locks?
"It's really what seems to be a true measure of the experience that the patient's having, " and it gives a number to pain severity that can guide care, said one expert with no role in the studies, Dr. Costantino Iadecola, director of the Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College.
Some or all that may be true, but really, governor, we know there's a lot more to the story.
But the opposite is really true: When you dare to be different, everything flows.
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Lapland promised to be a place "where dreams really do come true" with "Hollywood special effects", a "magical tunnel of light" and log cabins.
If we are to be true patriots who understand what it really means to celebrate Independence Day, it would be helpful to be able to comprehend the Declaration of Independence.
Another point of view is that this is a manifestation of globalisation, or that most FTSE 100 companies generate most of their revenue outside the UK. If they're British, that may be true in a cultural sense, but not really in an economic sense.
When none of this turned out to be true, however--the shooter was not really a political actor at all, but just a mentally ill lost soul with no connection to partisan politics--the scare began a slow retreat.
And it may be that one is more important than another, but I think it really is true.
But if that's true, you might ask whether Sir Mervyn or his successor would really be in a position to stop a chancellor who decided to engage in a stimulus programme, funded by QE, any more than he could stop George Osborne loosening UK monetary policy slightly last week.
And, when you look underneath the science, dark energy is really an undiscovered force of nature that changes how we understand and explain what we observe to be true.
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As I say, no one knows whether this is actually true so far however, what makes it worrying is that no one would really be very surprised if they had managed to pull it off.
It is true that this does happen: whether you really are a genius or whether you just happen to be in the right space at the right time you can indeed become plutocratically wealthy through the operations of capitalism.
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