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Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.
Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.
Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.
All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.
The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.
The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.
If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist.
The IMF and other multilateral institutions do not appear to have prevented nations from manipulating the value of their own currencies.
The day I woke up and Reddit was working on its own was just the most incredible feeling.
I do not own a cellphone; I do not use a cellphone. I do not have a phone. No. Phone. Not even an old-fashioned dumb one. Nothing.
It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content.
Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.
All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.
Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule.
Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.
By the beginning of the 21st century, entrepreneurs, led by Web and mobile startups, began to seek and develop their own management tools.
Skunk works differed from advanced research groups in that they were more than just product development groups. They had direct interaction with customers and controlled a sales channel which allowed them to negotiate their own deals with customers.
Decades before we were able to articulate the value of 'getting out of the building' and the Lean Startup, the value in having skunk works controlling their own distribution was starkly evident.
I believe states should have the right to be the masters of their own elections.
In Montana, no one, including out-of-state corporate executives, has been excluded from spending money - or 'speaking' - in our elections. Any individual can contribute. All we require is that they use their own money, not corporate money that belongs to shareholders, and that they disclose who they are.
The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.
Artists are creating their own genre sound, and other artists are building upon that sound and already creating a huge subculture created around one particular sound created by one artist. So, with all that happening, the genres are going to break down, and there's going to be a multitude of sound coming out.
Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.
The number of jobs created under President Barack Obama's stimulus turned out to be fewer than the number we would have had if the government had done nothing - according to the Obama administration's own analysis. So we got $9 trillion of debt with almost nothing to pay for it.
If only the majority of the wealthiest top 10 percent of Americans own stock directly - which does not include pension and retirement accounts - then the divide between rich and poor is likely to expand.
Accepting that Arabs have the right to elect their own leaders means accepting the rise of governments that do not share America's pro-Israel militancy.
The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.
Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
I formed my own studio, carried my own deficits, owned one-hundred percent of my negatives, and made a lot of mistakes, but we ended up being the third largest TV studio in Hollywood.
I like to bring my kids to the voting booth to show them how it works. I'll let them draw their own conclusions as to how worthwhile it is.
We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.
I'm great at telling stories with the kids. I do all my different accents. We make our own stories up all the time, the four of us, me and Hannah and the kids.
Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.
My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views.
All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you're on your own.
The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you.
Raised Roman Catholic up until 11 or 12, didn't stick. Went out into the world and did my own thing.
I believe entertainers should know what's going on and do their own banking.
Either Mitt Romney through his own words and his own signature was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the SEC, which is a felony, or he was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the American people.
I encourage members of the media to attempt to Be Best in their own professions.
Do I believe that their coverage is slanted and biased? Yes. I've seen it with my own eyes. A majority of reporters are liberal.
I am the kind of person that wants to get up in front of crowds of strangers and perform monologues. To each their own.
Every woman is confident in her own way, and it's all about finding what makes you confident.
Strength on its own in a woman is quite abrasive and not terribly attractive all the time.
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.
If we see to it that the Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians have jobs, we will actually be securing our own future.
Since we own our bodies, we also inevitably own the effects of our actions, be they good or bad. If we own the effects of our actions, then clearly we own that which we produce, whether what we produce is a bow, or a book - or a murder.
Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds.
I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.
A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.
Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.
I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.
I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.
In every sort of politics, in history, it has its own problems, its leaders, its own opposition.
When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.
There is no reason to compare Bollywood and Marathi films. Both have their own charm.
Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.
I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.
If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move.
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
I own now, I think about 38 pairs of cowboy boots, or 37, something like that now.
Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.
Yeltsin was admirable but flawed, noble but tainted, but in his own negligent grandeur, he undermined his own real achievements - and accelerated their ruin.
When I'm up, I'm over-exuberant; when I'm down, I just wander round on my own. I have no middle space.
I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.
A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.
You don't sit there at twenty-five, unpublished, inexperienced, and respond to Susan Sontag's editorial suggestions like a little snot, rejecting every one of them. But it had a lot to do with the fact that I didn't admire Susan's own fiction.
I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.
With Alien, because we always use a different director, each one kind of stands on its own. So I guess it's possible for them to make another one, but we have no plans.
And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.
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