• But how about the ability to wake up one morning and decide to become a musician?

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  • But will we wake up one day and realize that yes, there is a new monopoly out there?

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  • And, you wake up one day only to find that you have built an organization by plugging holes and juggling balls.

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  • So, to be sure, a prime minister could not wake up one morning and decide to hold an election - but it is far from impossible to engineer such a stalemate, thus causing an election.

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  • Without a limiting Constitution, dramatic changes can occur in the wake of any one British election.

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  • Jolie leaves two blink-of-an-eye marriages in her wake one with British actor Jonny Lee Miller, which lasted three years, and one with wacky actor Billy Bob Thorton, which also lasted three years.

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  • In the wake of Kobe one of the doyens of Japanese seismology, Kiyoo Mogi, noisily quit his post as the government's top earthquake adviser because of the futility of the task.

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  • In the wake of the one-month anniversary of the Newtown shootings, the country's grief over mass shootings, one-on-one gun violence and unintentional gun deaths weighs so heavily on our collective conscience that once again the nation seems ready to take action.

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  • Yet Oosthuizen left Paul Casey, Lee Westwood and the world number one Tiger Woods in his wake, with his final round of one-under-par 71 giving him a 16-under total of 272 and his only major title so far.

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  • We wake up to some one being run over by a Target shopping cart.

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  • If the directors dissipated shareholders' assets on wasteful pay schemes, they'd depress the stock and one day wake up out of jobs themselves.

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  • In the former instance, Lynas reminds me of a young Sir Mark Sykes carving the Persian Gulf into sovereign political states in the wake of World War One without recognizing the most salient assumptions implicit in those political boundaries and the vast consequences they would create.

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  • Impairment in the body's internal clock, ultimately disrupting a person's sleep-wake cycle, is just one of the potential symptoms of dementia.

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  • One day you wake up to a great sucking sound.

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  • The seven non-operational plants are the old reactors taken offline in the wake of Fukushima, and one is the Kruemmel plant in northern Germany, which has been mothballed for years due to technical problems.

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  • While Carter has been criticized for many of his failings on domestic and foreign policy, his decision to move forward with reforms in the wake of Watergate stands as one of his biggest achievements.

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  • Rather, we should be appreciative for what should be the proverbial camel's back-breaking straw: A final wake-up call, one that establishes unmistakably that it is neither in the United States' strategic, national security nor economic interests for this country and other industrialized nations to continue relying upon imported oil from those who wish to do us harm.

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  • Nonetheless, O'Reilly said her overwhelming feeling in the wake of the USADA report was one of sadness, rather than vindication.

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  • All of this was happening in the wake of the Kyoto Protocol, one of the first attempts to create a global marketplace for carbon credits.

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  • "For every few really good outings you have one day when they wake up a bit tired or with a bit less concentration, " he said.

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  • The limits are incrementally lowered and lowered until one day, people wake up and realize that only fully traceable transactions are permitted in the new cashless society.

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  • It is what they have being training for ever since the Pentagon formed Special Operations Command in 1986, in the wake of the debacle of Desert One, the failed attempt to spring American hostages from Iran.

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  • He was elected to the FIFA executive on a platform of greater transparency in the wake of corruption scandals which saw one of his predecessors in the vice president role, Qatari Mohamed Bin Hammam, banned for life on bribery charges.

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  • You mean that crude thing that some nit came up with by trial and error, in the wake of Piantelli and others, one of the first dudes to go for a bit of cash out of the new approach to nuclear reactions?

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  • In the wake of a court deposition of one of its top editors, The New England Journal of Medicine says that data that might have linked the drug to an increase in heart attacks years earlier was deleted from the biggest study of Merck 's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Vioxx, published in 2000.

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  • Deciding to take a little pre-dinner nap, we clicked on "Wake-up call" and ordered one for 5:15 p.m.

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  • It has left one man dead in its wake so far and taken electricity from over 650, 000 customers in the Northeast.

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  • And as has been true in the wake of other recent recessions, this one had an especially brutal impact on minority communities -- communities that were already struggling long before the financial crisis hit.

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  • Their complaints came in the wake of Murray's revelation that one key player would have to be sold this month to balance the books, after the club accepted an offer from Birmingham for top goal-scorer Kris Boyd.

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  • And then, one day, we'll wake up and realize that we're doing more than restoring lost function.

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