Always reluctant devolutionists, they face a challenge to persuade their supporters to turn out at all.
Of the five state representatives on Gazprom's board, two left the meeting early and one failed to turn up at all.
Without money to grease them, the wheels of commerce turn slowly or not at all.
And then there are some cold cases that, once reexamined, turn out not to be murders at all.
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In this case, the assumption that greater safety is achieved by separation of vehicle and pedestrian is being challenged, and may turn out not to hold up at all for specific city areas.
They would have realized that Obama's anti-nuclear conference in April, his commitment to a nuclear-free world, as well as his general ambivalence - at best - to US global leadership rendered it all but inevitable that he would turn on Israel at the NPT review conference.
Teens from small towns like Palin's hometown of Wasilla turn up "all the time" at the Crisis Pregnancy Center, Donovan says.
But they are armed only with walkie-talkies, and are so keen to avoid trouble that they turn away sightseers wanting to ogle Israel at all but a few designated points.
Turn off your cell phone and avoid it at all costs during the actual interview.
Instead, if he makes a change at all, Mr Chirac may turn to a lesser-known, more biddable caretaker.
That politicians cannot organise a party in a brewery is obvious enough so why turn to them for detailed solutions to anything at all?
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Which makes it the more striking that ethnic divisions among European immigrants, which appeared ironclad when couples marched to the altar at the turn of the century, have all but disappeared.
At some point during waking hours, turn off all of the televisions and computer screens.
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In a variety of ways, firms turn the lights on, they start to look at all aspects of the business that fall under the umbrella of sustainability.
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But consider that since the beginning of this century, rapidly accelerating technology has shown a distinct tendency to turn the impossible into the everyday in no time at all.
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You don't use a hardware buttons to navigate the phone at all: They're just to turn the phone on or off, or adjust the volume.
In general, the Barnes is a museum that all but animatedly thinks and feels at every turn.
What will happen to Canada if all the weather systems identified in this survey turn nasty at once?
To earn their publicity bonanza, all the protesters had to do was to turn up at St Paul's.
Italy is not in danger of default and can turn itself around and the ECB's independence must be preserved at all costs.
"I did not know where to turn to - it was absolutely horrendous because I had no means at all of paying that bill, " said Samantha Feely.
"I've never known him to be violent at all unless he was provoked, and then he would turn the other cheek, " Robert Zimmerman testified.
And when these Americans come home at night, bone-tired, and turn on the news, all they see is the same partisan three-ring circus here in Washington.
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All of those are important and we have at every turn encouraged President Mubarak to find a way to engender that political discourse in a positive way.
At times of crisis, whether global or regional, all eyes turn to the Fund.
But managers at all levels colluded with him to take a simple request and turn it into a time-consuming effort.
The important scenes were all marvelous, introducing new characters and new conflicts at every turn and pushing the story ever onward.
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His efforts to cut back staffing at the firm's stores provoked a backlash and U-turn, all of which was leaked to the press.
"This will, I think, satisfy those people who want to see the way it was at the turn of the century ... but then you also get all the energy and the sexiness and the humor, " he said.
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