The point is that razor-sharp purposes that define some grand goal are not valid in themselves.
Yes, divided government is good for stopping things (until some grand deal is made).
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Hope Group News, house organ of China's largest producer of pig feed, heralds some grand ambitions.
Nonetheless some grand stone buildings from Bourke's heyday, once facing demolition, are having a renaissance.
Mr Yeltsin promptly returned early from (another) holiday, and dished out some grand-sounding medals.
More often, this is not some grand strategy on the part of reporter.
To be clear, this isn't some grand conspiracy hatched by Butler coach Brad Stevens from a hidden lair beneath Hinkle Fieldhouse.
Jobs did not grow because of some grand vision or prescient plan.
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But what if this is part of some grand conspiracy in the next console generation, and Sony is in on it as well?
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Choosing which comets to put into some grand synthesis, and which to leave out, will no doubt exercise astronomical minds over the next few months.
"I'm not some grand vizier in my office doodling, " notes Gehry.
Getting paid some grand bonus for mergers or divestitures is ridiculous.
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Mr. Obama should articulate some grand strategy for countering terrorism.
The timing looks terrible, but I have a hard time believing Pincus as well as others who profited set some grand scheme into motion with knowledge of the pending train wreck.
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Investing in a community college, just like investing in a new road or a new highway or broadband lines that go into rural communities, these investments are not part of some grand scheme to redistribute wealth.
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Many a development official will argue for some grand program with objectives, experts, consultants and administrators to deliver PCs to less privileged communities and help them figure IT out and use it to the best advantage.
Instead of "springing" some grand plan on the public, he said he preferred to get on with devolving decision-making powers across a range of areas and disclosed that he was lobbying his cabinet colleagues to accelerate the process.
The scowling men in long dark coats and hats, led by the severely elegant John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), march into some grand Midwestern bank, take over the place, throw the cash in bags, and make their getaway, jumping onto the running boards of flat-topped black Fords.
But they also get so much praise for doing things that ordinary people just do look at the gooey rapture over seeing the Yankees assemble as a team in the back of Rivera's news conference, as if it was some grand act, and not basic, expected human courtesy for a teammate.
The odds are still that the Finns could be dragged by the Germans into some form of grand bargain that involves pooling debts.
Nowadays I watch more than I play and am lucky enough to commentate for some of the Grand Slams with the BBC and Sky Sports.
Recently, verbal intervention by ECB president Mario Draghi buoyed risk markets, and the promise of some sort of grand solution has eased breakup fears and calmed markets.
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The 37-year-old rapper, dancer and DJ, whose father Berry Gordy founded the Motown record label, played tennis as a junior and has attended some of the Grand Slam tournaments.
So while I think Gabe is right that some sort of grand bargain in which Russia exchanges support for Syria for guarantees about American behavior in the post-Soviet space would be win-win, it will simply never happen unless the domestic political situation in the US changes beyond all recognition.
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That helps explain why we have not seen the grand overhaul some hoped for.
The best solution by far would be to agree on some version of this grand bargain sooner rather than later.
But it will be some time before this grand vision becomes reality, and in the meantime practice is pulling worryingly ahead of theory.
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