In a quiet way, discussions have begun that could lead to something concrete emerging at Rio.
Hopes that something concrete might emerge from the dialogue were largely invested in economics.
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They've asked us to come up with something concrete and we've now got to do that.
This is why so many people come in early or work over the weekend when they actually have something concrete to do.
"Our lawyer in Dubai is on the case and we just know that the matter has now been deferred to Sunday when something concrete will emerge, " he added.
The less a painting resembled something concrete I could identify--and the less conventionally pretty it was--the more I was convinced of its depth, and the more I liked it.
And, perhaps more importantly, it has something concrete it can point to in explaining to angry Steubenville fans why they cashiered a local boy who stayed home and did very, very good.
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Tory backbench grumbling could harden into something concrete.
Israel's prime minister is languishing in the opinion polls and this could make it harder to agree to a full withdrawal if the talk about talks with Syria turn into something concrete, says our Jerusalem correspondent.
Although Mr. Obama had said in the past that he didn't want to travel to Israel until he could accomplish something concrete, he arrived here with a less-than-ambitious agenda focused more on symbolism and shoring up relationships than on substantive policy.
So it may yet turn out that investigators have evidence of something more concrete and heinous.
If only global financial authorities could provide something more concrete than verbal assurances, anything at all to indicate they are able to see, and are willing to address, potential problematic conditions before they develop into the next crisis.
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"The next time I am going to vote Republican if he doesn't do something serious and concrete for immigration reform, " he says.
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People are looking for something palpable and concrete, Wedeman said.
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Ms. CALLIE CROSSLEY (Social and Cultural Commentator, "Beat the Press"): Well, what they were both trying to do and what they need to do is demonstrate some record of inclusion, something that is concrete and that is meaningful.
The next step is to turn this inchoate movement into something more visible, concrete, and enabling.
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The only hint that something important is taking place inside is the concrete security barriers that surround the block.
But the concrete steps to achieve that will not be something the executive branch will decide.
Rather it is knowing which doors -- or more accurately, which hardened-concrete barriers protecting deeply buried covert bunkers -- have something of interest behind them.
Well, those words do appear here, in detailed flavor and tasting profiles of each whisky covered, but they are incidental to the larger missions which are describing the house style and major bottlings of very major whisky producer on earth, and even more importantly, giving concrete suggestions for what new things you should try if you already like something.
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Cashman suggested that Rolen would require a concrete commitment in terms of both dollars and playing time, and that's something the Yankees weren't quite prepared to give.
He said wounds on the back of Zimmerman's head were consistent with his skull being struck with something harder than his skull, and said under questioning from O'Mara that the object could have been a concrete sidewalk.
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