Congressional Republicans say they are perfectly happy to let the automatic spending cuts happen.
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They say it works perfectly, even though they both admit there are clashes from time to time.
"The prosecution say that Mr Cowan fits that profile perfectly, and the prosecution say that you can be sure - all 12 of you, beyond reasonable doubt - that Mr Cowan was the gunman, " he said.
All of this is not to say that everything is going perfectly in New Orleans.
Perfectly possible, say oil experts, except that not enough is being invested to maintain old fields, and decisions on the new ones are being taken too slowly.
And yet, as you say, they're also perfectly happy to make new cars in Mexico when that suits their plans, too.
For the Palestinians, of course, it's a perfectly legitimate desire to have some say in the way they are governed.
"She'd compare a step to a flower, or take off her necklace and say how all the beads have to be perfectly put together to form the whole (dance) variation, " said Lola Cooper, a Carolina Ballet dancer who studied with Kostritzky at the School of American Ballet.
They say that, even if it does not work perfectly, it will still be better than having no treaty at all.
And indeed his defenders say that in Italian business circles it can be perfectly normal to set a jocular and relaxed tone before a difficult meeting, by discussing last night's football, or even teasing your colleagues about their love lives.
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This is not to say that some of the Democratic complaints may not be perfectly well-founded and justified.
Mr. RUMSFELD: I wish I could say that everything we've done here has gone perfectly but that's not how life works, regrettably.
And when he finally did say something, it was an anticlimax, though it was a perfectly good speech about Buddhism and happiness.
He went on to say playing competitive sport for a school was "intrinsically exclusive" and it was "perfectly sensible to have lots of other physical activities for children who loathed PE".
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