Yet, in choosing to resign on Feb. 28, the 85-year-old pontiff allows the church to set the course for its future, to choose between either continuity or a new era of leadership.
The 13-tonne mission was initially lifted into a 350km-high orbit above Earth, with the expectation that the probe's big engine would fire twice - first, to raise that orbit, and, second, to set course for Mars.
Woods' only practice round at the course came during Wednesday's pro-am but he refused to use that as an excuse, saying the course was set up to be attacked.
Hope and faith that even as we are set back by tragedy or profound disagreement, in the end we come together as Americans to set a course toward greatness.
This appears to set Mr. Noonan on a collision course with the ECB in relation to the release of this letter and the outcome could be interesting.
According to Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin, the space agency has about two weeks to communicate with the probe and give it the commands to fire its boosters and set course for Phobos.
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Starchaser 3 made a short but dramatic flight last March when instead of climbing to high into the sky as planned it veered off course, crashed and set fire to the surrounding moorland.
The corporate chief simply pushes his "automatic flight mode" and the plane will glide nicely as the mass will work hard to set the course.
Large airports, such as Manchester and Heathrow, have a ILS which allows pilots to set a course for landing and the plane is guided down automatically.
The Food and Drug Administration just held its first public meeting to set the course for the future regulation of prescription drugs and medical devices in this country.
Our job is to set a course for the medium and the long term that assures that not only both our economies grow, but the world economy is stable and prosperous.
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Blair is proposing to set a course for globalisation by speeding up the free-market process and the reform of its social model... reducing Brussels to the role of a bursar serving the states.
Casual and charming, but careless of others, steeped in quiet judgment and long-term calculation, his life a fixed agenda that, no matter what happened, would continue on its set course, to whatever end he had decided he deserved.
For now, those close to Gingrich insist, he has no choice but to continue on the treacherous course that has been set.
Yet, Watson is set to see his off course paycheck soar as the market thaws.
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He has stuck to the course set out then, which this newspaper broadly supported.
Ms. Whitman: Listen, the CEO of every company, it's their job to drive strategy to set the future course.
You've set a clear course to protect our people at home, to promote freedom abroad, and to expand our prosperity.
Set serenely on course to Downing Street, it is not surprising that Mr Blair has decided to leave the risk-taking to the Tories.
America needs the leadership of these maverick new leaders to set a new course on fiscal policy, election reform, and gun violence, among many other pressing issues.
Yaya Toure's first-half goal appeared to set City on course for a win that would have virtually guaranteed a place in the top four as they exerted total domination over the Toffees.
In 1959, Columbia Records released three discs poised to set the future course of jazz: Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue, " Dave Brubeck's "Time Out" and "Mingus Ah Um" by bassist, bandleader and composer Charles Mingus.
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It's hard to say just how realistic that dream is at this point, of course -- the device is set to go up for order in the fall, and Pettis is the first to admit that the company still has a long way to go before the Digitizer is consumer-ready.
Looking ahead to the elections on June 17, the mother of two says Greeks need to keep their country set on a European course.
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This is another of those hand-brake turns from the Bush route to the new course set by Obama.
But while working with Mr. Domville, I'd finally realized there could be no destination without a navigator to set and chart a course.
Bush's eventual surrender to the establishment set the course for what under President Barack Obama has become a cornerstone of US foreign policy.
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He added that rescuers have reached most of the hardest-hit areas, with more emergency crews set to be deployed over the course of the day Monday.
The coalition's greatest achievement has been to set the country on the course of deficit reduction.
That competitive nature has set the rapper on a course to stardom, as his recent success shows.
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