While the S P downgrade was unexpected, it was not exactly shocking.

On the contrary, it impoverishes our mindset, if not our culture.

However, there are also many compounds that are essentially, if not completely, insoluble in water.

The reappointment of five staff members whose performance record had not been confirmed as fully satisfactory had not been approved.

The Fed was hardly alone.

However, only a comprehensive peace can be a lasting peace.

I couldn't get any food unless it was brought to me.

You live freely if you haven't a reputation to lose.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

What they were doing in Egypt was not governing badly.

Progress in recent years had not been even, as not all partners in the United Nations development system seemed fully to have embraced the drive for coherence, simplification and harmonization.

Nothing happens unless it is preceded by a dream.

Reaching this uneasy state has not been easy.

Yesterday was not as good as we remember it.

Needless to say, this was not quite the case.

The frequency of hurricanes has not changed much, if at all.

Germany does not want closer financial solidarity if not accompanied by political integration.

If you have nothing to do, why not read a book?

In short, it remained the best, if not the only, option.

But in the Middle East, where the stakes seem to rise with every passing week, the United States has not experienced smooth sailing. Indeed, there seems to be little consensus on how to move forward.

I haven't been completely honest with you.

Although Iraq eventually pushed back and contained the Iranian advances, it was not able to force Iranian troops completely out of Iraqi territory.

The biggest but most important challenge is to build and maintain good institutions. (...) transparency will be the most powerful lever for accountability.

That is not boring. That is nothing if it's not boring.

But what if the option to have your car stolen was not exactly like this.

Tunisians didn t need Tunileaks to tell them their country was corrupt.

The time horizon for transition is five to ten years, if not more.

Of course, Germans are not entirely wrong the crisis in Europe s periphery is weakening Germany s economic growth prospects.

The extent of this blowback, over time, was not completely clear to the CIA, as they had an inaccurate picture of the stability of the Shah's regime.

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On the contrary, 9 11 has not been replicated.

Our fractured landscape for energy governance was not planned.

Economic growth, of course, has never been linear in any country.

President Mahmoud Abbas was never an inspiring figure for Palestinians.

Peace is never a zero sum game.

But so are many, perhaps most.

In most cases if not all of them the grand Mufti approves and supports the judge s verdict.

What is just as important, if not more so, is the effectiveness of aid.

The Falkland Islands, unlike Argentina, had never had an indigenous population.

He added that The water was very still at the time and there were no ripples coming off the wave and no other activity on the water.

Yet the global resources and instruments needed to manage (if not avert) the next crisis have not been secured.

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Nothing foreordained that the US and its allies would prevail. Had the Axis s negative watershed succeeded, the US would have become a far different country.

Moreover, a phone, if you had one, was not necessarily a blessing.

The failure of Copenhagen was not the absence of a legally binding agreement.