The Fitch credit agency has taken away its triple-A rating, a veritable death knell for a bond insurer.
Indeed, upon his arrival, Napoleon spun into a veritable tornado of activity, ordering a plethora of public works, like boosting agriculture, road-building, marsh draining and a thorough overhaul of the legal and education systems.
They wowed fans with a 9-0 win in a veritable Monsoon to clinch the National League Pennant and earn a trip to The World Series.
The download service for a veritable smorgasbord of videogames, Steam games could be played only on a PC running Windows and occasionally a Mac.
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MGB, of course, has been on a veritable tear of new business wins for 2011 and the announcement was a fun homage with tongue firmly planeted in cheek.
Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke have been a veritable tag team in coming up with ways to ameliorate the crisis, which has resulted in a significant expansion of the Fed's own economic toolbox.
More than 20 species have been successfully cloned, and there is now talk in some conservation circles of a veritable Jurassic Park-effect becoming essential, as the rate of species extinctions exceeds anything biologists even a generation ago could have imagined.
Mr Ngcuka is used to coming under attack, but he unleashed a veritable war within the African National Congress when he pronounced that there was enough prima facie evidence to pursue a case against Deputy President Jacob Zuma in connection with allegations of bribery linked to the government's arms procurement deal, but not enough evidence to secure a conviction in court.
Constantly working to refine their product, Match.com is a veritable lab of dating science.
Included is a veritable cemetery of old retail haunts, including Circuit City and Border Group.
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But that aspect seems like a veritable after-dinner mint swallowed while driving the SUV away from the all-you-can-eat.
As Forbes has pointed out before, the SEC is a veritable revolving door for Wall Street career-climbers.
For defense lawyers of a certain vintage, the early 2000s were a veritable golden age for accounting fraud cases.
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You can also purchase Roominate, a veritable DIY dollhouse with working circuits.
It is at the centre of an intense ferment of musical experiences and has spawned a veritable cultural economy.
In 1918, town leaders built a veritable barricade, closing down the railroad station and blocking all roads into town.
The dish reportedly got its name in Charleston, South Carolina, and it is a veritable staple of Lowcountry cooking.
But without the dogged work of a veritable army of planners and engineers, annoyance would have spilled over into catastrophe.
Pakistan has never been an easy nation to govern, but Sharif, 49, has inherited a veritable Himalaya of challenges.
The guest list was a veritable who's who of the region's biggest magnates, in fields ranging from banking to bananas.
The study uncovered a veritable gallery of insights, among them three key drivers that lead people to make quicker decisions.
Education subsidies, therefore, waste resources that could be better used elsewhere, particularly when education is provided by a veritable monopoly.
One reporter said there was a veritable "hedge of khaki" around the tomb of Britain's unknown soldier of World War I.
Logic, and a veritable mountain of circumstantial evidence, point the other way.
The first was that a veritable Babel of incompatible standards grew up.
This, unfortunately, is something we saw several times early on, with a veritable Island of Doctor Moreau full of failed, mutant plastic experiments.
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Women like Noorjehan are leading a veritable revolution in the beleaguered Muslim community in Gujarat, which comprises less than 10% of the state's population.
Obviously, SLYDE is a veritable Swiss-made luxury watch, placing all the technological savoir-faire developed for its conception at the service of reading the time.
What a person chooses to adorn him or herself with can betray a veritable cornucopia of information about their character, perhaps not immediately obvious.
The millions of third-party apps in online stores can be a veritable petri dish for malware ready to infect mobile devices and corporate networks.
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