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For me, like so many others, the Peace Corps was the beginning of everything. It was the door to the rest of my life.

How little he knows, like so many fathers of adventurous girls, about how much the ground is shifting beneath her.

But some of it is doubtlessly that Wall Street is, all of a sudden, suffering a bit, and like so many Americans, they blame the president.

She was not, like so many, endeavouring to put the ocean into a tea-cup, or to tie up the shifting universe in a mess of strings called law.

It would be rude to suggest that this makes forecasts look like so many draws of numbers from a hat.

He realized that, like so many other men, he had not really worked on building friendships. And that bothered him.

MF: Like so many things, I don't think there's much of a difference between these and any other kind of code.

Ser Axell, the Braavosi banker, and the rest of her party followed, like so many ducklings done up in wool and fur.

Stoessinger: Like so many activities in life, the more you are involved with music, the more you get out of it.

Barack and Fidel: like so many great love affairs it was doomed. But memory of the passion, or at least infatuation, lingers.

Like so many churches in Palestine in Byzantine times, the Gethsemane building was in the form of a basilica with three aisles.

The branches spread out into the sky and from below appear to hover over the landscape like so many flying saucers. . .

Stimulating inflation is another dirty, quick-fix strategy, like so many of the bank rescue packages currently in operation.

Like so many others, fellow employees and students don't know what to say and are trying to protect your feelings and their own.

But he wants the rest of us "crammed into a few huge cities like so many ants " because it's best for the planet .

If you see fireflies in North America, like so many North American sorts of things, they tend to be independent operators.

Some just signed up to run away from home, just like so many boys did.

Charlotte realized, like so many males before him. . . . . . Henry had shit all over her perfect world.

Investment banking, like so many sectors in China, seems to be going the way of the local players.

But like so many here, he complains that inflation is beginning to erode those gains.

It was a truly sight, watching the numberless little wooden house catching fire one after another, and flaming up like so many match-boxes.

You may just find, like so many of us, that outsourcing enables you to focus on what you do best and grow your business and income.

He added: "Like so many of you, we are saddened but struggling to make sense of what has transpired. "

Krishnamurti: (touching my left knee) Ah! I'm glad you don't wear a mask like so many that come to me pretending to be saints.

Credit, like so many asset classes, is at the mercy of central bankers signalling their intentions smoothly and well.

A man like so many others, short and fat as far as I could tell from his shadow.

When the sea roared inland, it swept up thousands of cars. And when the wave retreated, it cast them off like so many crushed beer cans.

But when it comes to the biggest environmental impact of your morning wash, like so many things in life, timing is everything.

Breathtakingly beautiful, but like so many other low-lying countries around the world, the Maldives is dangerously vulnerable.

like so many of his contemporaries , twain was not whole - hearted in his praise of industrialism.

China is supposed to be the world's new millionaire machine, cranking out rich people like so many Happy Meal toys from a Guangdong factory.

But if they don't account for some of the potential pitfalls, I fear the plan could be discarded like so many other quick fixes.

The gift of life for Donna was a true wonder; but it, like so many of our medical miracles, was not perfect.

He elaborated: 'Akio-class talents are rolling around all over Toyota, like so many potatoes. '

So far so as happiness is concerned, it hardly matters whether one drives a BMW or, like so many of the Scots, walks or rides a bus.

Like so many big narratives, however, the story about the rise of the new authoritarians leaves out a lot of important detail.

Congress and presidential candidates have been drafting schemes and gas-tax holidays like so many campaign leaflets .

Like so many other herbs and spices, sage has anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties as well as anticancer actions.

Like so many other economists and pundits, Krugman sees the effect and interprets it as the cause.

Like so many other revolutionaries, his regime became tyrannical and collapsed when he died.

Remarkably, one of the hoard's two crosses was determinedly bent and folded, like so many of the other pieces in the hoard.

Like so many former Eastern Bloc cities, Budapest has transformed itself over the last 20 years.

Leadership styles are not something to be tried on like so many suits, to see which fits.

Super-theatrical. . . it's like, on the back there's like, so many circus. . . my dancers went through circus training for this.

We mourn the loss of a partner and friend. HE was a magnificent man, and like so many, I loved and admired him.

Yet Gordon, like so many others who were acquainted with Dennis's 1988 "retirement" and shutdown of the Turtle program, was not sympathetic.

The carbon fiber textiles leave the factory rolled up like so many enormous carpets, bound for the Bavarian city of Landshut.

Bacchus, like so many grapes planted for still wines in England, is an early-maturing German variety.

When we bought the company from eBay, many thought that Skype, like so many acquired technology companies, had lost its technical talent.

Like so many of you, Paul and I have left everything on the field. We have given our all to this campaign.

My grandmother worked on a bomber assembly line, but I cannot know what it is for a family to sacrifice like so many of yours have.

Opening their little throats like so many little birds, they yelled out their farewell at the tops of their voice.

Like so many of us, Jill was eager to discover her purpose, so she splurged on a session with a life coach.

It seems that deep within the Japanesepsyche, sex -- like so many other aspects of life in the country -- is considered a group activity.

Like so many wartime marriages, theirs was a wholly predictable failure, albeit one that endured after a fashion for 17 years.

The new house, like so many she deals with, was trashed by the previous owners, who were angry at being foreclosed on.

Like so many other girls, my self-confidence growing up was almost nonexistent.

Once time has gone, it represents a fresh start, just like so many new beginning changed our life has also changed some people's fate.

He expected it to shift a handful of copies and languish on the shelves like so many other experimental CDs.

The streams of melting snow that rush down over the crags are like so many silver necklaces .

The malaria initiative, like so many others, sends the clear message that Americans care deeply about the lives of people across the world.

My grandfather marched in Patton's Army, but I cannot know what it is to walk into battle like so many of you.

And like so many other Americans who have volunteered to defend us, he has earned the respect and gratitude of our whole country.

Like so many other foreigners who gradually discover China, her opinions are constantly evolving.

Like so many Americans, fitness is an unhealthy obsession for me.

We learn right away that the protagonist Feng Shi is, "like so many rich people, " perennially in debt.

Like so many cadres before him, Mr Xu disappeared into the jaws of the Chinese Communist party's disciplinary inspection commission.

The men slaved like so many convicts under the vigilant surveillance of Crass, Misery and Rushton.

While we did have some cultural immersion training, like so many things in life, nothing can really prepare you until you see it.

Using pieces of DNA like so many Legos, researchers made a series of complex, three-dimensional structures.

China is the place where most fast-food chains, like so many industries, see big expansion.

Perhaps that's because he, like so many other computer users, spends far less time online than social critics imagine.

Like so many others before me, I fell in love with the romance of airplanes, adventure and helping others.

These poor wretches , know that their only chance of retaining their employment was to tear into it, tear into it like so many maniacs .

It's a question from that day because, like so many women, you feel your life is in your pocketbook.

While iPhone apps are all the rage today, there's the risk that they will burn out like so many tech fads.

Like so many global crazes, this worldwide rise was powered by two engines: television and the internet.

In 1914 he (like so many others) lied about his age so that he could join the war effort.

But like so many hobbies when you're working parents, this one mostly gets the divide-and-conquer treatment.

Like so many young players from the Republic, he left early for England to seek his football fortune, joining Blackburn just turned 17.

Like so many other men of means, John was a penny pincher .

The root of Zou's troubles, like so many things in China today, can be traced back to the country's wholesale adoption of capitalism.

Like so many others here, this is one of my favorites.

Like so many boat names this one was a pun: Maine Street.

Like so many other scientific advances, the solution came by accident.

Has the "cloak" of dioxin -- vegetables, seeds inside the circle Liuliu, like so many small shiny glistening pearls, very pretty.

He wants to beat him, not be James' buddy like so many players in the NBA.

But like so many others in China, I am afraid the next big future trend is to have a huge flow of people taking rail transportation.

But, like so many Cantonese, he had a weakness. He loved to eat dog meat.

In other words, it is effectively all alone in the world, unique but sadly under threat like so many other large mammals in Africa.

But, like so many of his pledges, this one disappeared.

Like so many other immigrants, generations of Muslims came to forge their future here.

But like so many of the places around here, it went down because people left for richer lands in the Midwest.

But, like so many Chinese, his favorite pastime was eating and feasting.

Like so many things since our daughter's birth, I hadn't planned on a trip to this place.

Week like so many squinty-eyed stars and brush that mad you ankles itch and itch until you washed with soap and water .

Like so many good things in modern life, motivation isoften seen as a quick-fix.

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much.

And like so many other things in this very old new country, these have deep roots.

But like so many sequels, this story line becomes repetitive.

But like so many sequels, this story line becomes repetitive.

Like so many professional women I was constantly weighing the toll that took on my family.

He adds, like so many Western executives, that his firm is keen to "develop a long-term relationship of trust with the Chinese government" .

They seemed like so many little flags dotted about the schoolroom. How we worked!

But forgiveness, like so many things in life, is easier said than done.

Those cards seemed like so many little flags dotted about the schoolroom.

Like so many other boom towns, Hefei has its share of vanity projects.

I asked how he was, and he told me about a friend of his, who, like so many in those years, had died of AIDS.

So, like so many others before us have said: focus, focus, focus.

Now, however, we are seeing that these guys are just big douchebags, like so many other people in the business.

Now, however, we are seeing that these guys are just big douchebags, like so many other people in the business.

Instead, like so many other teenagers, Nadia, 15, is addicted to the Internet.

Higher education has become a big and competitive business nowadays, and like so many businesses, it's gone global.

Like so many, the more parting, but my heart is filled with joy and novelty, to the new life and joy.

The theory sounds great, except that Megan'sson, like so many boys age three, won't sit in the chair.

Why do we do so many things we don't like and like so many things we don't do?

For us, like so many of you, this is a day full of family and friends; food and football.

The DeRosias, like so many couples, were teetering on the brink of divorce.

Like so many friends we've lost along the way.

So we look like so many, but we are one God together. We re just separated.

So we look like so many, but we are one God together. We re just separated.

Like so many towns and villages in central China, Yinghua was devastated by the 8. 0-magnitude Sichuan earthquake.

That prediction, like so many others about the future of communications, was wrong.

Like so many other iPhone apps, reQall will surely benefit from the 3. 0 firmware update once it is released in the summer.

Love is more than attraction and more than arousal. It's also more than sentimentality, like so many of today's songs suggest.

Like so many friends weve lost along the way.

Now the mine itself, like so many of the diamonds unearthed there, is about to change hands.

Unfortunately, like so many corporate policies, these are honored mainly in the breach.

Like so many other industries in China, the growth rate in sales has been accompanied by cut-throat competition.

But like so many cities in China, Guiyang is almost unrecognisable from before.

But like so many cities in China, Guiyang is almost unrecognisable from before.

Their schools, like so many others in America, are low on cash and have already resorted to layoffs and hiring freezes.

And like so many families, they are sacrificing what they don't need so they can afford what really matters.

If I accepted a job that took me away from my community, I'd be like so many other people who leave as soon as they have any success.

Eating , like so many things we do , s a habit which is difficult to change , Americans like to drink a lot of orange juice and coffee.

Like so many dictators throughout history, Mr. Kim lived in excess and decadence while the people he ruled suffered hardship.

Like so many Americans, you work hard and meet your responsibilities. You play by the rules and pay your bills.

Like so many talented young Chinese, Yuan T. Lee came to the U. S. to study, and then to stay.

Like so many other "uncorrelated" markets, activity dried up late last year.

Like so many predecessors, a new Tory government may find that it takes time to learn how to play this Brussels game.

Like so many predecessors, a new Tory government may find that it takes time to learn how to play this Brussels game.

I like so many special dishes such as Smoked Salmon, Sichuan Style shredded pork and Clam Soup.

with all the cherished memories of the past gathering around me like so many eloquent voices of exhortation from heaven,

i close the door like so many times, so many times before

Like so many times, so many times before

But like so many Chinese animals

i came here like so many did to find a better life to find my piece of easy street to finally be alive

I came here like so many did