There they stood, stiletto heels sinking into the lawn, and were treated to an eloquent, gracious speech.
"France, " she said, "is sinking into an absurd policy of endless austerity because it is always about saying yes to Brussels".
Ladies' Day usually means an excuse to dress up, wear large hats and worry about your heels sinking into the mud.
Social Security would have remained in surplus, instead of sinking into deficit.
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Log cottages are sinking into a soil which gives up evidence of the siege: cannon shot, wooden shovels, barley blackened by fire.
We kept sinking into little craters filled with water that splashed up onto the windshield, as if we were driving through a car wash.
But instead of sinking into despair, Serlin started looking for a way to feed her two young children and keep a roof over their heads.
Now, lunch on the slopes might mean sinking into a burger made from local, grass-fed beef or snacking on a cheese board comprised of artisanal offerings.
This year, instead of sinking into a celebration of catastrophic kitsch, it's worth restoring the Titanic to its rightful place as a most modern memento mori.
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When the current was first applied to the right angular gyrus, the woman reported that she was sinking into the bed, as if falling from a height.
Scientists say the city is steadily sinking into the mud of the Mississippi Delta, making it even more vulnerable to the next super-storm, or the one after.
On the other hand, Dubai's architecture of excess is fading fast as a report revealed that the emirate's world-shaped archipelago of islands is sinking into the sea.
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"There was a dreadful roaring behind them as they stumbled, half blind, frightened, soaking wet, through miles of paddy, sinking into thick mud while trying desperately to outrun the ever-pursuing monster, " Winchester tells us.
Is the sight of the German chancellor vainly urging back the floodwaters of the River Oder now a fitting metaphor for a man who seems, along with his government, to be inexorably sinking into a legislative and electoral morass?
Notice how bolts and moving parts and gears start out as smaller, less dominant parts of the machines, but then come to dominate it with massive parts until even the form of the particular machine itself becomes lost amid that sinking into parts that seem to grow larger around us.
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The key is to stop sinking money into assets that are sinking as well.
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Overall, I believe the European economy is sinking further into the abyss rather than climbing out.
It is Bell and his cast who rescue this film from sinking slowly into the mud.
Alcoa lined up a 30-year electricity supply before sinking capital into Massena, N.
The Olympics were a brief bit of sunlight for the network that is now sinking back into fourth-place doldrums.
"They should have been sinking money into their restaurants years ago, " says Philip A. Mangieri, partner at Restaurant Research in Fairfield, Conn.
"They should have been sinking money into their restaurants years ago, " says Philip A. Mangieri, partner at Restaurant Research in Fairfield, Connecticut.
Alcoa (nyse: AA - news - people ) lined up a 30-year electricity supply before sinking capital into Massena, N.
It will be accessible through the back entrance once used by gladiators, with a new glass lift sinking down into the bowels of the building.
However, many big developers will likely wait to see the initial reaction to BlackBerry 10 before sinking money into creating apps for the new system.
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Europe is sinking deeper into recession and has massive structural problems.
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In April, he conceded that he had made mistakes sinking millions into Irish bank shares, but said such mistakes should not result in a life sentence.
The reclusive magnate from Denver - dubbed "the richest American you've never heard of" by Fortune magazine - has a reputation for sinking money into failing businesses and turning them around.
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