But he was convinced of this.

But he had a gift.

He was wrong.

And it wasn't perfect. Many children still died, but it was certainly better than what they had before.

Their punishment was harsh, but just.

But it was a Pyrrhic victory.

Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.

Will he plead against me with his great power? No but he would put strength in me.

But he was far from being a front runner at the start.

His father owned a factory, but he died when Joseph was only four years old.

The next day, de Gaulle s face was drawn, but he was resolute and full of energy.

It was a brave effort that came too soon.

He was premature. But he was a moral compass an inspiration to scientists who were concerned with arms control.

De Gaulle was at Colombey, but returned immediately to Paris.

But it was quickly revealed, instead, that he was suffering from a nawghtye mallenchollye.

It was wishful thinking, but it permeated the political and social climate.

who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.

Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me

During the war, the emperor was omnipotent in theory, but relatively powerless in fact.

Indian poverty reduction has been significant, but not substantial.

In my view, Kennedy was a good but not a great president.

But it was so weird and shocking that I didn't do anything but smiling!

The Chronicle does not claim that he had arrived in an empty land, only that he was the first king.

But it would not have changed the course of history for the worse if President Bush had not responded as he did.

David Cameron was polished but vague, and the jowly Brown came across as gun loaded with statistics.

Israel s wall constitutes a sad but probably inevitable component of its security.

This was an identity clash that had nothing to do with the essential messages of Christianity. But it was bleakly horrific.

My father was American, but naturalized too recently to hand his US citizenship on to me.

This project might have seemed quixotic a few years ago, but now it fits the times perfectly.

Fixing the financial sector was necessary for economic recovery, but far from sufficient.

Christian Meyer, formerly an auditor, has now retired to take care of the children.

That warning made sense 10 or 15 years ago not any longer.

This is why the traditional US stance has been It is our exchange rate, but your problem.

His main objective was to qualify the team for the Euro 2004, but he failed to do so.

The dream was about a human girl and a vampire who was in love with her but thirsted for her blood.

Fabricius assumed it was a nova, but then saw it again on February 16, 1609.

This term was not newly invented for the Sullivan case, but was a term from existing libel law.

He did have some problems moving around, which he ascribed to a long term back problem.

Richard Nixon, for example, was strong on cognitive skills, but weak on emotional intelligence.

Their promotion of American military force as the strong arm of democracy may have been misguided, crude, arrogant, ignorant, naïve, and deeply dangerous, but it was indisputably idealistic.

The Old Jack tales that he had learned he talked like this, you could hardly understand him. But it was really wonderful.

They tried to radio a message to Rob Hall, who was a superb climber stuck, sort of, with a weak climber up near the summit.

Samad was so anxious to return, he didn t wait for help. He spent the last of his money to buy his own ticket back to Erbil.

But, rather like the election of the first black president of the United States, it was fizzing with popular expectations, promising a fundamental shift from the past.

But casting aspersions on a nominee s patriotism was the norm in the McCarthy era it is less common today.