And they made clear -- at least a majority of them -- what path they prefer their leaders in Washington take, and that's a path of both compromise but a path of balance.
Alexei Pushkov, a senior Russian lawmaker, said the pared down list suggested that "the US presidential administration decided not to take the path of aggravating a political crisis with Moscow", according to the Interfax news agency.
But having said that, I initially did have a bit of an expectation that he will take a different path.
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Then, they reach a parking area and take a quarter-mile-long path toward the mountains that leads to a couple of acres of ground enclosed by an eight-foot chain-link fence.
It was soon after this that a group of young artists began to forge a path which would take them to international acclaim and change the way Britain thinks about contemporary art.
But for all the gains, the departure of the old days still litters the path forward with a surprising amount of debris that take away the comfortable fit that progress assumed.
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As humans, our wants are unlimited, and as evidenced by how many Americans live paycheck to paycheck, many of us take the easy road of consumption over the more disciplined path of savings a great deal of the time.
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It was chiefly thanks to the brilliance of Iniesta once more as he clipped an outrageous diagonal pass into the path of Alves, who took a superb touch to take it round Pyatov and with the outside of his right foot flick the ball into the net.
Like those dealing with serious addiction, one can take a path to detoxification which would rid the body of its ills at the price of a horrible physical experience, or one can keep feeding an addiction, perhaps in moderately reduced doses, in order to avert the pain.
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It would be true of putting Royal Mail on a path to privatisation with the postal service's decision to take advantage of new freedoms to significantly increase the price of stamps.
But he fears that unless a major shake-up occurs in the market as a result of an international dispute, Congress would be left without a clear path to take on the matter.
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There is a path out of this which politicians can take, she said, it's just narrower, and steeper than it was three years ago.
Twitter might just be among the first to take that path: it has has already spawned a vast number of third-party applications and web sites users tap into to interact with the service, such as Seesmic and Brizzly.
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Take a cycle or a walk down the Thames Path, a hassle free highway that takes you from the hustle and bustle of the West End out to desolate wharves and wildlife havens, finishing at Greenwich, home to one of the Olympic sites.
The Eurozone is forced to take the road of ever closer union but this is not a path the UK will take.
Individuals who are here illegally, they have to take responsibility by paying a fine and back taxes, learning English, and going to the back of the line so that they take a legal path towards citizenship.
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So if I was trying to take the path of least resistance, I would have done something a lot easier.
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We needed to put it on a path that would allow us to take the company public and have a more of a commercial focus.
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Noemi had the opportunity to take an easier path but she opted for the harder one because she is a woman of courage and conviction.
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It now will be up to Orr, Snyder and Bing, and those who take part in the restructuring, to put it back on a path to growth and out of its misery.
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And that recipe of short-term investments in growth and jobs with a long-term path of fiscal responsibility is the right approach to take for, I think, not only the United States but also for Europe.
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Though Geneva is a good place to start your fondue trail, following its path will inevitably take you outside of the city too.
And he hopes that the Republicans will join him on that path and achieve this -- take advantage of this opportunity and lock in a plan that would achieve significant deficit reduction, would protect the middle class, and would help our economy.
This document laid out a path it believed could take the UK from a position where it currently claims 6% of the global market in space products and services to 10%, by 2030, creating perhaps 100, 000 new hi-tech jobs in the process.
This document laid out the path it believed could take the UK from a position where it currently claims about 6% of the world market in space products and services to about 10% by 2030, creating perhaps 100, 000 new hi-tech jobs in the process.
Owing to the basic truth that we produce in order to consume, and that consumption of shelter is a given, the best path for the government to take in order to save housing would be to de-emphasize its ownership, or at the very least make it equal in the eyes of the law with regard to other investments.
And yet those vulnerable or nervous Democrats who face the voters two years before Obama does know the history of midterm elections, and their political survival instincts could bring pressure to take a different path from the president.
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For another, the strategy of UK ministers is to highlight uncertainty, not to seem to be suggesting that they are placing any block in the path of a decision which, they repeatedly stress, is one for Scotland to take.
More than any other election in recent memory, this is a choice between two fundamentally different visions of this country and the path that we have to take.
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