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Ellen Green, who had been dating him for 13 months, said the pressure, though self-imposed, was severe.

The announcement from Tiger Woods has confirmed growing speculation that he was ready to end his self imposed exile from competitive golf.

It's easy to feel at the mercy of my work, my clients and even the self-imposed pressure that I feel to deliver value.

Rather than a self-imposed tax, a contribution can actually be managed in a way that makes it a powerful business tool.

'It had become almost a seminar for me, a self-imposed program on how to run an organization, ' he says.

Part of the problem is that the bank's self-imposed screening requirements tend to put off busy, exhausted new mothers.

One way to break out of your own self-imposed limitations, take a step out of your comfort zone and build confidence is to play a part.

With the ECB determined to tell investors that sovereign debt can default, they have created a perfect recipe for a self-imposed disaster.

North Korea has experienced food shortages for decades as the result of self-imposed economic isolation and mismanagement of resources.

I overcame this self-imposed obstacle by giving myself a "State of the Great Idea" report.

The United States and South Korea have failed to meet a self-imposed deadline to alter their stalled free trade agreement.

David Blaine, eventually coming down from his self-imposed hunger strike in a box by London's river Thames.

As a rare friend of North Korea and Myanmar, Vietnam could help coax those benighted places out of self-imposed isolation.

NURUDDIN FARAH went into self- imposed exile from his native Somalia in 1976, during the 22-year dictatorship of Mohamed Siad Barre.

Whether it's deadlines, extra work or self imposed pressure, it brings the potential for a real breakthrough.

I expressed a desire to be relieved of the (self-imposed) necessity of focusing 100% on BPL.

But liberation is of the self from its false and self-imposed ideas; it is not contained in some particular experience, however glorious.

I'll sometimes post self-imposed deadlines on Twitter or Facebook so my friends there can hound me about it if I miss a deadline.

So , even if you beat me, you won't have beat me at my best , and you will have not answered your self- imposed test satisfactorily .

This week, Beijing signalled a crackdown on heavy industry as a way of meeting self-imposed energy efficiency targets.

Eventually, I earned a Ph. D. in linguistics close to the age of 50, a self imposed deadline.

Any answer to that last one is not a reason, but rather a self-imposed limitation, excuse, or lack of desire or effort.

On the business side, Zhu Wei's attributes lie in his close observance to business conduct and his self-imposed restrictions.

Saudi Arabia is also limiting capacity expansion but because of a self-imposed cap, not management challenges, like the other countries.

She narrowly escaped a suicide attack the day she arrived back in the country last October, after eight years in self-imposed exile.

Accurate stone-work is the real core of my identity and I have self imposed a set of rules that I would find difficult to deviate from.

The essayist, unlike the novelist, the poet, and the playwright, must be content in his self-imposed role of second-class citizen.

A leading Bahraini Shia politician has returned to his country from self-imposed exile in Britain.

God was concerned with seeing obedience to Him and righteousness of the heart, not self-imposed fasts .

The hour was his (real) girlfriend's self-imposed curfew, since she had to get up early for school.

And he evokes with uncomfortable clarity the self-imposed poverty and discomfort of the Orwell household.

When this awareness is acting, punctuality, behaviour, politeness, respect, all become a natural thing, not self-imposed or compelled.

Who, indeed? But plenty read and love the results of her self-imposed solitude.

Some years, I wonder whether my guilt at not getting ahead and meeting more of my self-imposed targets is altogether a healthy response.

Tiger Woods is feeling the tension ahead of his return to golf after four months in self-imposed exile.

Despite your best intentions, this coordination can quickly become a self-imposed suffocation, of the muscles and the brain.

When asked about his self-imposed deadline yesterday, Murdoch said: "I wouldn't promise that we're going to meet that date. "

While the arm of the past still clutches at his self-imposed restrictions, the arm of his future is grasping for the higher alternative.

By the time China was slowly opening to the outside world after decades of self-imposed isolation, the dolphin was in trouble.

Having used up my self-imposed smacking quota, I feel I need to progress to a strategy with rather more longevity.

After the national security announcements, I was close to meeting my self-imposed deadline of appointing the cabinet by Christmas.

And much of it is thru self imposed fees and taxes on licenses, guns and ammo.

Tokyo is quickly nearing its self-imposed end-of-May deadline for cementing a plan for moving the troops.

However, progress in implementing these self-imposed rules advocating transparency and accountability has been slow and patchy.

But in technological, political and social developments, the Japanese paid a heavy price for their centuries of self-imposed isolation.

Mr. Jobs's official return to Apple comes just inside the self-imposed deadline for his medical leave.

But India was also throwing off many self-imposed shackles, and has since thrust itself forward.

Miss Bhutto had returned to Pakistan in October to lead her party, after an eight-year self-imposed exile.

The Cult of Ecstasy breaks down barriers and self-imposed limitations to give people a rush of eye- opening experience .

Owen Hargreaves has a point to prove this season - a self-imposed target of showing his true abilities for the Reds.

He had lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in the small, remote house in Cornish, New Hampshire.

Its impulse is to free us from oppression imposed by others, or our own self-imposed limitations.

Last, an international agreement to tighten would allow China to exit its self-imposed currency predicament.

This self-imposed discipline serves to avoid jealousy that may lead to unhealthy banker-client relationship at the working level.

and strong normative standards of behavior of honesty and integrity to undergird self imposed codes of conduct.

Heaven and hell are states of consciousness, self-imposed, due to ignorance of God as all. Why evil?

Man cannot remark himself without self-imposed consequence, for it is both the marble and the sculptor.

The arrests of the Gang of Four symbolically ended the era of upheaval and self-imposed isolation.

Self imposed restrictions relative to jealousy , guilty , and denial .

IU accepted three years probation as well as self-imposed sanctions such as the reduction of scholarships and ejection of several players.

The Stars disbanded in 1983 and most of them went into temporary self-imposed exile.

You can do almost anything you set your mind to, so don't allow self-imposed limits to hold you back.

Release of your self-imposed shackles and be free .

Under self-imposed pressure to make the games run smoothly, Beijing left nothing to chance.

Its total debt is around 300 billion euros -- at 113% of its gross domestic product, well above the euro zone's self-imposed 60% ceiling.

The OBR judges that the chancellor will meet his self-imposed fiscal targets.

Writers in particular seemed to thrive in exile, real or self-imposed.

And besides, the days of having to take anything other than self-imposed tests are long behind me.

In truth, that fabric was always a self-imposed veil.

If you don't have deadlines imposed by clients or a boss, then you'll need to have self-imposed deadlines.

You might see this as a self-imposed test of how you are progressing, and indeed you should note an ever-increasing success.

In the information age, the barriers just aren't there. The barriers are self-imposed.

They started on what Gage calls a self-imposed engineering challenge: Make electrodes for $100.

I think a lot of time our self imposed expectations, deadlines and goals are un-realistic or over ambitious at best.

The only limitations you have in life are self-imposed.

The UK's self-imposed five tests for membership fallsintosthis category.

In our self-imposed exile, we kept what remained of elves knowledge and culture alive.

Man cannot remake hellomself without self-imposed consequences, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

But how can tools help us get rid of self-imposed complexity?

The story was written by Russian author Gogol in the 1840s during a self-imposed exile to Geneva and Rome.

After centuries of self-imposed isolation, in 1961, Bhutan opened its doors to the world.

It can help do away with guilt or fear, break down self imposed or limiting cultural boundaries, and guide us in our search for solutions.

You put a self-imposed stop loss on it at $20. 00.

But often they can become self-imposed obstacles.

He was subsequently ridiculed to the point of self-imposed exile in Japan, where he died.

Under the high pressure state of the society now, everybody is unavoidable in the self-imposed psychology.

a self-imposed effort to enhance one's capacity for an independent life

Beijing lists self-imposed duties on textile exports

A Research on 3 to 5 Yearold Childrens Self-imposed Delay of Gratification A under Four Attention Conditions;