But the judge's ruling took much of the wind out of the defense's sails.
Although sometimes populism sails close to the wind of dumbing down (a comic book showing a futuristic Artemisia, for example), the results can be imaginative.
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If, come the next election or the one after, the Tories are still spitting into the wind of constitutional change, Mr Hague's caution may seem pusillanimity.
The draft EU constitution now has more opponents than supporters in Finland, but then the wind of globalisation has swept over Finland with a harsh hand over the past year.
"Sectarianism is evil, and the wind of sectarianism does not need a licence to cross from a country to another, because if it begins in a place it will move to another place, " he said.
According to Randall Swisher, executive director of the American Wind Energy Association, which represents the interests of the wind power industry, the court's decisions and the investment in renewable fuels illustrates the "growing consensus" that something must be done to curb global warming.
Today, on the long wraparound porch, the music of the wind chimes competes with the noise of the cars rushing by.
At the same time, consumers got an extra bill to support wind farms that, because of the inconstancy of the wind, operate at 25% of their capacity (figure from the British Wind Energy Association) or 8% (according to E.on, a large operator of UK wind farms).
The Cape Wind project is the most developed of any proposals to build wind facilities on the OCS, but a number of other offshore wind power proposals are also in the works.
When the Bank of England dropped its base rate to 0.5%, it took the wind out of the sails of anyone looking for a decent rate of interest.
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Investigation work is due to get under way at the site of the planned wind farm off the coast of Aberdeen which is opposed by Donald Trump.
Burma's domestic industry - hampered, but also sheltered, by the years of isolation - now faces the chill wind of competition.
But Ault, who moved to Singapore three years ago, says he "no longer feels the magic" in Gotham, which still bears the scars of a financial crisis that knocked the wind out of much of its most extravagant party culture.
Also, since the necessarily erratic nature of wind power necessitates the development of energy-storage technologies to guarantee continuous supply, wind power can also act as a spur to the development of a hydrogen economy in which cars no longer require petroleum fuel.
And the finish by the Barcelona striker appeared to knock the wind out of the Honduras players at Ellis Park.
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Indeed, the announcement also says that the DGA will engage in informal discussions with the AMPTP before mid-November, which will prepare the DGA to do a deal promptly before the holiday season sucks the wind out of the town.
The actualization of an overall wind-power strategy is not going smoothly, however, and the number of new wind farms coming on-stream has fallen by 30%, in part as a consequence of the recession.
He supports clean energy, just not in the form of wind turbines off the coast of Cape Cod.
Instead of placing our fingers in the air to determine which way the wind is blowing, we enlist the help of others to change the direction of the wind.
Settling into my four-poster bed, I'm lulled by the sound of the wind spiralling up off the sea, joined by the faint creak of a rocking chair and, just perhaps, the slightest click of a key turning in a lock.
The October release of the new iPad and the iPad Mini took the wind out of those sails, but with a number of releases since then, many were still expecting March to see something announced by Tim Cook.
The dull roar of the wind, rushing past at a speed of eight knots, punctuated by the occasional pop of the canvas sail that billows and gusts below my dangling feet.
The story of the former Soviet Union's disastrous policy of cotton-growing in Uzbekistan, of the wind-blown salt that its depletion of the Aral has left, and of the pollution remaining, makes for very depressing reading.
Here the scent of death that clung to the wind separated from the pools of rich stench that ran between the cobbles of the market square.
But again, understanding, Mike, that the process that the President announced was the beginning of that process because there are a host of legal things that have to happen -- I made mention of the wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts -- I think the paper said today that was -- this is basically a nine-year decision.
That was slightly more than half the release of a year ago though, with the majority coming from the wind-down of the Citi Holdings portfolio, so investors took less of an issue with the added earnings lift than at JPMorgan.
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Putting aside the very real limits to the growth of wind power, the installed base of renewables would have to grow at a compound rate of more than 12% a year to reach 20% of the national electricity mix within a decade.
The Met Office's "feels like temperature" takes into account expected air temperature, relative humidity and the strength of the wind at around 5 feet (1.5m) - the typical height of a person's face.
The Fujita scale is used to estimate the wind speed of a tornado by the damage the tornado causes.
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