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I think it's easier to have the motivation and push and he would have been up in the thick of it, he said.

Walter Pavlo was one of those caught red-handed and ending up in the thick of scandal.

In a message to his brother-in-law last week, he said he was "in the thick of it" .

Emerging full grown, I get a perspective on the world, that other people who have been brought up in the thick of things entirely lack.

'Today we pay tribute to an American who placed himself in the thick of the fight again and again and again, ' Mr. Obama said.

A year later he joined the Tennessean in Nashville, again covering civil rights, in the thick of things and ahead of the game.

Jackson joined Lee's army in June 1862, and Lee was determined to keep him in the thick of the fighting in Virginia.

So where does that leave the two of us with a family with our three little boys in the thick of all this?

I cannot accept any social engagements for the next few weeks, while we are in the thick of examinations.

Now when I told you in the beginning, 1969, there were a lot of veterans in office, some 75%, we were in the thick of Vietnam War.

There was a face in the thick of the collection which was as white as drained veal.

The Russian was pleased to be back in the thick of things so quickly.

Well, I'm literally in the thick of it, in the central business district of Johannesburg.

Things are still speeding up and you are in the thick of it, and sometimes it is difficult to keep abreast with it all.

The Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Securities and Exchange Commission are also in the thick of the implementation.

I didn't expect to meet Juve in fourth place, as I thought they'd be in the thick of the Scudetto race.

Often you're writing your transfer application in the thick of a college semester.

And to unleash imaginations, the pioneers should be participating, engaging and spending time in the trenches, in the thick of the fray.

Larry had been in the thick of all the major economic questions of the last six years, and he was ready.

We're in the thick of what one sociologist calls "the changing timetable for adulthood. "

The world today is in the thick of major development, transformation and readjustments.

The committee is in the thick of raising $10m to battle the unions over salaries, pensions and benefits.

I'm often amazed at how when we are in the thick of things, it's difficult to see the forest for the trees.

His book puts the reader in the thick of the sweatiest corporate wrestling matches.

In the thick of the fug there is an antismoking ray of light.

Willie and the Millionaires of 601 Squadron were in the thick of the fighting.

The Swiss, who avoid most wars, are in the thick of this one.

Or, perhaps, we are already in the thick of it.

As a player, he's always in the thick of the action.

And the Swiss, who avoid most wars, are in the thick of this one.

They are in the thick of reforming the educational system.

In the thick of the fighting.

For the past two decades we have been in the thick of a naturalist revolution at work.

Don't hesitate to send them in the thick of battle - they'll survive because they're already dead!

In America and Britain M2 grew quickly in the thick of the crisis, as firms and households made a dash for cash.

We are in the thick of examinations.

Since Woodfill was there in the thick of the action, he has some ideas on how to answer that question.

IN ONE form or another, Thaksin Shinawatra has been in the thick of Thai politics for a decade.

The students have been in the thick of examinations for a whole week.

Over the past ten years, Britain has been in the thick of it.

In The Thick Of It: My Life In The Sierra Club

In the thick of fighting