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don't worry, I'm not about to tell you that I'm the daughter of a retired colonel and that I was raised at Saint- Denis.

One of the president's chief advisors, Valerie Jarrett, makes clear Mr. Obama is not about to give up.

There are plenty of talented drivers out there and I'm not about to let Nick Heidfeld or Nico Rosberg become the next top German in F1.

I took a drive today Time to emancipate I guess it was the beatings Made me wise But I'm not about to give thanks Or apologize.

And that's not about to change. In the long run, Earth can cope with anything we throw at it.

After a few moments of indecision, and seeing that he was not about to change his attitude, I stood up and punched him in the nose.

Despite his retirement, the German is still a familiar face around the paddock but insists he is not about to make a committed return.

In truth, she was no lady, but he could not bring himself to mouth that silly name of hers, and he was not about to call her girl or dwarf.

The butterfly contently lay in the palm of my hand, not about to leave until he knew I received my message.

The construction industry is in tatters and, with hundreds of thousands of unsold new houses, is not about to recover.

Piccolo puts all of West City on edge when he invades the King's castle, but Goku is not about to let him take over without a fight.

As much as the Administration is tempted, it is not about to test Iran's promise to "explode" the Middle East if it is attacked.

Such a snapshot should not be misread: Germans are not about to ditch democracy.

Mr de Wahl says his company is happy to work with ISPs to overcome problems, and he is confident Joost is not about to break the internet.

Even so, she's not about to splash out on big marketing campaigns, either overseas or at home.

Mourinho, however, is not about to give up on the most prolific scorer in Champions League history and a man he respects highly.

Canada may be narrowing the door for immigrants, but it is not about to slam it shut.

Just to be clear, I'm not about to rehash the standard American complaint that Europe's taxes are too high and its benefits too generous.

The deistic fantasy of a universal religion is not about to be realised any time soon.

China is not about to gobble up the region, beginning with Taiwan as an expensive appetizer.

Mr Wright's generation is not about to leave the stage quietly.

The bubbly asset prices, ever easier credit and cheap oil that fuelled America's age of consumerism are not about to return.

Famous for our verbal skills, women are still not about to tell you what's really on our minds.

You are not about to be dismissed or underappreciated , that's for sure - your fighting spirit is what will ensure that you succeed.

Television is not about to suffer the fate of music or newspapers, yet the next few years will be dangerous nonetheless.

I did not eat them at restaurants. And I certainly was not about to eat them now.

And God spoke to him one last time, telling him that although his heavenly home was prepared, he was not about to be taken from Oklahoma.

Marlin is a young man of independent thinking who is not about to pay compliments to his political leaders.

Martin is a young man of independent thinking who is not about to pay compliment to his political leaders.

'Hard work is good for you, and you're not about to become a slacker'

American global supremacy is not about to be challenged by China's tinkering with aircraft-carriers.

A war-weary America is not about to wade into what might be an even stickier conflict than the one in Iraq.

The customer needs to make sure they are not about to remove the last good copy of their data from the system.

The British government is not about to sign away its control of the island.

They lived through the Great Depression and lost money in bank failures. So they were not about to trust a bank.

HAVING twice botched the sale of AIA, AIG's valuable Asian life-insurance arm, America's Treasury was not about to screw up a third time.

I'm not about to let the poor child go hungry.

Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each others' eyes or not, about to speak or speaking.

With European leaders around him tottering, Mr Sarkozy is not about to embark on unpopular structural reform of the welfare state.

It also means the environmental costs of the sands' oil are not about to be reflected in their price.

Hungarian democracy is not about to collapse, although the new constitution institutionalises Fidesz's centralising drive.

Together, his remarks suggest that the Fed is not about to raise interest rates before the end of this year.

They know Britain is not about to adopt proportional representation, the voting system that underpins continental coalitions.

The share of private consumption in gross domestic product, stuck at 35 per cent for the last few years, is not about to budge.

The latter, to be sure, are not about to drain their savings and turn their current account surpluses into deficits.

Authoritarian Asian capitalism is not about to triumph over the Western liberal variant.

In any case, the British government is not about to propose a privacy law, ministers say.

Nixon was not about to be bested by Brezhnev in philosophical discourse , however.

Alas, the agency that is drafting the plan is not about to produce a game-changing solution.

Nale: Sabine, honey, I've already invested a lot of time and energy into this "Evil Opposites" theme, I'm not about to rock the boat now.

Although knew possess excellent skills, but is not about to rest on its laurels, constantly moving forward.

Merrill is not about to fall apart, even though the big losses will have caused some concern among its retail client base.

China is not about to send everyone back to the land. So what is the solution to surging oil prices?

Britain is not about to collapse into anarchy, even if the experience of Northern Rock's depositors is profoundly unnerving.

Ireland is not about to adopt the Euroscepticism of its larger neighbour, Britain.

I'm not about to take a step backwards now. I have no plans at all of speaking to Inter about Cesar.

The German Bundestag and the Finnish parliament are not about to vote on whether they are happy to give another loan to Greece.

When the crunch first took hold, the Aston Villa-supporting governor insisted it was not about to become an international crisis.

We are not about to go back to the days when Congress openly worried about inferior races polluting America's bloodstream.

The Taliban insurgency in the south is not about to go away, but Afghanistan's army can probably keep it at bay.

Plus, this is no post-WWII world; the United States is not about to come to Europe's rescue.

Indochina, it seems, is not about to be seduced by China anytime soon.

AND I'M NOT ABOUT TO LOSE EITHER ONE OF YO ARE WE CLEAR?

It might seem scary at first glance, but the Android platform is not about to be bogged down with malware in the immediate future.

And frankly, I'm not about to take critiques from someone who trims her bangs with a lighter.

Parents would love to see those eye-watering fees come down, but that is not about to happen.

And I'm not about to turn my back on you.

In any case, experts say, books are not about to be eclipsed by more cutting-edge media and art forms.

Ms Merkel is not about to accept instead a federal fiscal union in which she would write the cheques for errant Club Med nations.

I'm not about to hit my mom up for $15 or the equivalent of a bag of groceries.

Daily turnover has surged to around $15bn and, under the bull market scenario, the taps are not about to be turned off any time soon.

We're not about to run out of people. No other commodity has that.

Inflation is not about to spiral upwards but with diminishing spare capacity, it could edge up.

He still has to convince rural voters that his administration is not about to reverse its predecessors' populist policies.

However, China is not about to take over from the US as the benchmark market.

They are not about to engage in mutual flagellation. The new rules will not be retrospective, and many sanctions will not bite until 2013.

The US is not about to abandon its role as the guardian of East Asian security.

The world's rising economies are not about to take any more lectures from the west on the virtues of liberal markets.

America is not about to throw away its military pre-eminence, either by accident or design.

Tehran is not about to give up its nuclear ambitions nor Moscow its expansionism.

It could shrink its balance-sheet to achieve the same effect, but partly state-owned banks are not about to rein in lending.

Since 1985, Nike sales have jumped through the roof and Phil Knight (Nike's CEO) was not about to lose Mike that easily.

So you are the chosen one. You're not about to be displaced.

You'll be courageous, strong, sure, determined, and not about to take "no" for an answer.

But Tcho is not about to launch a new website or mobile device; it is a technology firm that makes chocolate.

There is a second reason why Anglophones are not about to dominate European debate: they do not want to.

The saving grace is that China, on the showing so far, is not about to frighten the horses.

China Is Not About to Out-Innovate the U. S.

Chinese investors are not about to be fooled twice.

The Pacific is not about to be ceded to China.

Maybe these countries could do even better by adopting a compulsory saving plan, but they are not about to do so.

Senior Eurocrats insist they are not about to propose fiscal transfers within a single economic union.

I've never done any cooking and I'm not about to start now.

I'm not about to burn an American flag, but neither am I likely to trust Mr Grimes's taste.

Even so, Georgia is not about to experience a jasmine-style uprising.

When citizens began demanding that something be done about offensive advertising, the Supreme Court was not about to stand in the way.

Corporate China's confidence is rising but "China Inc" is not about to dominate the world.

I'm not about to go out shopping in all this rain.

Alice was not about to stand around and watch while Jim and Nan argued.

Flows are certainly not about to dry up. But their future dynamics are highly uncertain.

I've never done any cooking and I'm not about to cook.

I am not about to concede the point.

A disputed ranking, or the recent slump in orders, is not about to dent Donggaocun's ambition of becoming China's violin mecca.

Even in the worst of scenarios, "middle skill" jobs are not about to vanish altogether.

European leaders are not about to annoy the new President Obama, just to please China.

The human passion for meat is certainly not about to end anytime soon.

And I'm not about to just open my mind to someone like that.

I've received a gift from him, but I'm not about to accept it.

When gasses and steam vent from a volcano's cracks, it's probably not about to erupt.

We are not about to go through young Pen's academical career very minutely.

But I'm not about to kiss off a billion dollars.

Public hostility is not about to subside any time soon.

Mr Obama is not about to start any more wars.

Churches that believe their priests must be celibate in order to be like Jesus are not about to change their rules, though.

They are the actors of Waste Not, Want Not, about to start the Assembly show for Nan Hua High students!

I'm not about to say sorry to him after the way he's behaved.

But a word of caution: we're not about to change your personality; this is not a new way of being, not a new way of life.

Politicians are not about to pass up an opportunity this golden.

Swedes are not about to become Thatcherites or tea-party tax-haters.

But the politicians in Washington D. C. are not about to do that.

The hundreds of millions who have joined the world economy are not about to return to the fields.

But the Chinese were not about to fret. They knew they were on the cusp of their highest-scoring events.

it is , perhaps , a high - risk strategy , because it suggests that the pcaob is not about to give the profession a really hard time.

I've never smoked in my life and I'm not about to start now.

personally , I am not about to start the day without doing the prayer of surrender.

But here is a blunt truth: EU governments are not about to pool their national budgets.

The Chinese yuan is not about to reverse its climb either, even if exports and the economy slow down.

Jack is not about to go there.

Huge emerging economy, and, in President Lula, a hugely confident leader who is not about to be told what's what by some guy in a suit.

But the nation is not about to have a constitutional convention, and we don't need one.

France's PSA Peugeot Citroë n, though unwieldy, is not about to disappear either.

I'm not about to waste my time doing something foolish.

They were not about to change their tastes and habits just because of a change in the law.

I am not about to announce my retirement. I will continue to perform my duties as chief justice as long as my health permits.

I'm sorry I didn't let you go to the party, but I am not about to let you throw away your career like that!

m not about to lend him any more money.

But we are talking about optimism based on the fact we are not about to suffer a depression.

It is not about to suffer another crisis.

Ms. Chua was not about to raise prizeless slackers.

The Wharton programme is not about to change, says Tom Robertson, the dean.

Celebi: Tee-hee! I'm not about to fail prey easily!

We are not about to negotiate with terrorists.

Republicans refused to back the original House bill and indicate they are not about to change their minds.

He was not about to waste any time.

I'm not about to go in that old house.

And Sony's not about to embrace the Apple way.

I'm not about to sit around the house doing nothing when I have the chance to go skiing.

He is not about to go to the cinema with me.

We are not about to stop now.

I don't care how sexy you are, I'm not about to kiss you.

This is classic Campese , but he is not about to apologise .

Yet civilization is not about to stop moving, and so we must invent a new way to power the world's transportation fleet.

PAAL knows very well that Roboshaker is not about to replace the mä dchen serving armfuls of frothing beer.

This is Campese, but he is not about to apologise.

I'm not about to eat chocolate.

Well that's sad. I'm not about to yield to suggestions that the Chinese have a better justice system than us though.

The construction not about to is often used to express determination:

I'm only 12 years old though, so I'm not about to go off and start programming a computer to do my homework for me or anything.

Hong Kong's capital markets are not about to close down, but there will inevitably be casualties.

several nations whose internal frontiers had not vanished or were not about to vanish

The "peaceful rise" hits some turbulence; but China's economy is not about to crash

European banks are not about to shut down their foreign networks altogether

l'm not about to let you boyshave all the fun,

Not about to lie down for your cause

But you're not about to jump right into This tonight

but china is not about to change course dramatically