So NATO remains in business, and in Afghanistan.

Second, the Europeans have now chosen three managing directors in a row who resigned before the end of their term.

All of this is well known, even if prominent opinion leaders, politicians, and philanthropists prefer to ignore it.

Umar chose to pray some distance from the Church, so as not to endanger its status as a Christian temple.

Should he choose to exercise his vast residual influence through United Russia (with its inevitable majority in the newly elected parliament), we will know that he means what he says. If, by contrast, he leaves the presidency, gets himself appointed prime minister, and overhauls the constitution to shift powers from the former to the latter, we will know that he is going for a personal regime after all.

There, the populist Freedom Party splintered, as some opted to moderate their views in order to succeed in government.

Tires of all sizes are strewn about everywhere.

He decided to stay in Baba Amr even after the Syrian army re captured the neighborhood after bombing it for three months.

Sarkozy has chosen the right course. In fact, he has chosen the only possible way forward.

Now, of the women that could tell them apart, when the labels were off, they picked Adorable, and when the labels were on, they picked Ballet Slippers.

Sarkozy has chosen the right course.

Sami chose a life of crime.

Have the Japanese people opted for it?

He chose his defense secretary and attorney general.

And we'll keep working. And I'm not going to stop working until we do that.

The Jiajing Emperor was known to be a cruel and self aggrandizing emperor and he also chose to reside outside of the Forbidden City in Beijing so he could live in isolation.

I don't know why Sami picked that beach.

3) Does not consult you when choosing your book cover

A number of Italy's greatest artists chose to emigrate.

But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.

For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself Israel for his own possession.

But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

For the LORD hath chosen Zion he hath desired it for his habitation.

For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.

In choosing to allow One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich to be published, Khrushchev knew that he was undermining the entire Soviet era up to that point.

So they are taking refuge in fantasy.

This theme of apparent Pakistani duplicity was picked up by Cameron.

Venues FIFA chose eight venues out of nine possible locations.

About 500 of the 5280 Poles chose this option.

That decision has been followed consistently.

But it is also time that we ended our denial and recognized that we're not acting, we're not close to acting and we're not going to act until this crisis hits the economy.

Instead, Santos opted for the path of least expedience.

That was clearly the case when Osborne and his colleagues opted for austerity.

And yet Moscow s mayor chose to remain on vacation outside the country.

In fact, he has chosen the only possible way forward.

The first to opt out was Hamas.

Though elected democratically, he chose to govern undemocratically.

The blogger Jahanzanan, chose The death of lovers as the title for his post about the incident. The blog also re published an article by Masih Alinjead, a female journalist.

The problem of course is, that specific symbols actually carry certain values and connotations with them and therefore having a specific symbol might be an advantage, such as having the moon as symbol in predominantly Muslim countries.

Bekezela Nyoni chose one about black writers and language

Moses Mosaic Tshumah Matibhe selected a remark about Marechera not being an African writer

So the engineers chose the line frequency to be changed for the color standard.

Gandhi chose the 1882 British Salt Act as the first target of satyagraha.

Presenteeism was an important issue, particularly for men, but all workers were being actively encouraged by the National Framework Committee not to regard work as the only factor in their lives, and some were opting to work four days a week and engage in social or recreational activities on the fifth day.