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And it might have been impossible if it weren't for help from some of Santa's friends.

So, in a second study they used a description of a Monty Python sketch which participants weren't told was supposed to be a joke.

The service is said to have been so private that even Kate's parents weren't aware she was walking down the aisle again, the paper claims.

If I weren't going to be a dancer, he once said, I would have been a teenage hoodlum.

And, if you weren't able to carve out that 20-minute time-oasis, then make note of any achievement you had during the day, however small.

The U. S. housing market isn't in good shape, but it's frightening to think how bad it would be if mortgage rates weren't this low.

At least, it would be, if Tk and Tkinter weren't so darn good that there's little reason for programmers to go looking for substitutes.

But I wished I could find some way. . . I might feel better if I weren't holding fast, all alone, to a broken pact.

How did you know those weren't for his mother-in-law?

Given all that, it would be a surprise if happier people weren't better off.

"If we weren't there, filming, reporting, it is as if it didn't happen, " he said about making the film.

Have you taken the time to step back and observe your emotional storm to see if it contains a message of truth you weren't ready to hear?

As if fake sick notes and illegal gambling weren't enough, Chinese fans are calling for the national men's team to be dismissed.

Hans is the only one of us who has a sweet tooth. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't bother making puddings at all.

Said Peggy Whitson, head of the NASA astronaut office: "We weren't going to ask him to command if he didn't want to. "

The comforting thing is we have all this stuff going on, even at the weekend, and yet we weren't distracted from our job.

They were a gift. I gave them freely to the fans and those who weren't able to come to his funeral.

We were all hurting after losing at Arsenal last week. We weren't ready to accept that and we don't want to experience it again.

If it weren't for you, this would be in the wind.

Though we certainly weren't trying to inflame or shock , we set of a wave of anger.

Chief: I swear, if it weren't for the new kid, this whole squad would have the common sense of a medusa checking her make-up.

There weren' t any fish in the net, instead he found in it a copper jar with a lid.

Tip: Be ready with an example of a time when you weren't afraid to go out on a limb and your actions helped bring about real change.

There was a living air about the grieving angel, as if its arms could really reach out and grab you if you weren't careful.

My grandparents believed you were either honest or you weren't. there was no between.

So far, he said, they have learned that ammonium nitrate was an ingredient in the explosives and that they weren't remotely triggered.

As if Tuesday's sell-off on the stock market weren't enough to be worried about, now comes some more ominous news.

Chen said he contacted Time Warner's security department and warned them about the security issue and that they weren't helpful at all.

Sometimes it takes a storm to realize which plants just weren't going to make it or which were able to stick it out.

Yes, they ran off with my bag and all my credit cards, but I never would have known to visit Charlottenburg Palace if it weren't for them.

As often, in such cases, they weren't telling me more than they had to, it was up to me to tell them.

I wanted to curl up in a corner and forget the whole thing, but Dad and Anthony weren't ready to give up.

As if that weren't enough, you haven't the faintest idea who you are. Even a look in a mirror rings no bells.

That's okay. If it weren't for you accountants, nobody would have the money to go skiing!

The insurers weren't prepared to compensate him for loss of earnings, so he had to leave it at that.

Your boyfriend just called you when you weren't in and he wanted me to take a message. If you give me some money, I can tell you more.

and as a woman, that's embarrassing for me that it took me that long just because, you know, we weren't always given that right. . .

Still, one early employee told us that if it weren't for Lefkofsky's backing, he never would have joined The Point.

I think I would come to Beijing to fight my musical way if there weren't such a contest. Of course it would be a hard way.

When I asked my wife and a few close friends about the matter, they weren't as surprised in me being in my own world.

They weren't trying to make it in legitimate ways, because there were no legitimate channels out.

Sky watched Rocco angrily stomp out of the car and realized that they weren't going to be able to follow them any further.

Mr. Zoellick's remarks weren't timed to be part of a U. S. offensive; rather he answered questions posed to him by The Wall Street Journal.

Mary: If it weren't for your information, I might be blue and black all over that evening.

If it weren't for his wife's money, he'd never be a director.

In spite of our best efforts, we weren't able to locate the name of the author of these photographs.

We also meet with career services, who, in about thirty minutes, ensured that we weren't lulled into a false sense of complacency.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

We weren't really trying to tell anyone that this was Shakespeare, but it is about back-stabbing.

But a year into the venture he was broke and investors weren't willing to infuse the company with a capital boost.

Why would you make a loan if you weren't even sure that, if the guy defaulted, you could at least foreclose?

Harry was almost glad that the exams weren't far away. All the studying he had to do kept his mind off his misery.

Someone told me that you weren't at home last night. You went out with Suzy, right?

But they, unlike doctors and nurses, weren't under any sort of ethical or professional mandate to be kind.

She said the tsunami was an 'act of heaven' and the people who work in nuclear power weren't at fault.

We weren't supposed to add the next 10 cars until we had been open for a year, but we had to add them right away.

He told me he didn't really mind not being able to see because he could always touch and feel things we 'normal' beings weren't able to.

for the benefit of For the benefit of those who weren't here last week, I'll go over what I said . . .

Correct me if I am wrong, but weren't you suggesting that we put these words down in the contract as a separate clause?

He said: "It was a bad day. We weren't playing well, we didn't have enough energy and we did not pass well. "

Art: I'm going to be straight with you. If it weren't for me, you're still be in that underpass.

I know you weren't trying to butter me up, Li Hua. I was just joking with you.

I could accept this fact calmly because I knew if I weren't able to finish the mission, chances were that the team would be defeated.

If it weren't for you, I still would not know that I had made a mistake.

You weren't expecting that double-six. If I had placed it at the beginning, the whole play would have been changed.

They were all of Asian descent. And they weren't speaking any English, at least not that I heard.

As if all that weren't bad enough, it is far from certain that these Chinese companies, once taken private, will be able to relist in China.

And I was told by the folks at my company that we weren't going to be able to do this for a while.

But they were quite bulky and you weren't always sure of the size of cattle you were going to get, so there was a problem there of quality.

If you weren't earning money and adding value to the town by the age of seven, you were considered a jerk.

Moffitt explained that self-control problems were widely observed, and weren't just a feature of a small group of misbehaving kids.

He said it was a pity that players in Demon's Souls weren't able to play with gamers from different countries. Luckily, that issue is fixed.

'A few years from now we'll look back and wonder why there was this time when all these websites weren't personalized, ' he said.

Miners weren't the only people who liked jeans. Cowboys began to wear them, and later, jeans became popular among workers in factories.

Many journalists weren't allowed to leave the compound while waiting for the promised briefing, which never materialized.

As if things weren't bad enough, the weather on the British coastline in the summer of 2010 was especially gloomy.

He was one of the last players they had who possessed the trait that opponents weren't always sure what he would do.

You didn't understand what I said, for you weren't listening to me just now.

They weren't fighting with guns; they were fighting by creating social services, by talking to the media, by trying to represent themselves.

L: To be frank with you, if it weren't for our good relations, we'd hardly be willing to make you a firm offer at this price.

If you were unable to make an adequate defense, or weren't truly convinced of your claim, it soon became obvious.

You know, I probably wouldn't even tell you this if I weren't a little tipsy .

My marriage is an utter failure. If it weren't for the children. I think I'd just cut and run.

You know, you were right? I mean, I thought we were happy, we weren't happy. But with Mindy, now I'm happy. Spit.

He took three of his friends, but Mike and I weren't invited. They told us we weren't invited because we were 'poor kids'.

Admit it. Even for me, this was good. If you weren't such a perv, I'm sure the c. i. a. would hire you in a second.

To be frank with you, if it weren't for our good relations, we wouldn't consider making you a firm offer at this price.

She said the reforms weren't meant to replace private health care.

That would be worrying - if it weren't for the vastly greater peril of extreme climate change caused by burning all that carbon.

The last time I worked with them, their support was good but their solutions weren't quite as easy to implement as they could have been.

That would be worrying - if it weren't for the vastly greater peril of extreme climate change caused by burning all that carbon.

The last time I worked with them, their support was good but their solutions weren't quite as easy to implement as they could have been.

The situation might have continued unchanged if it weren't for a little boy's curiosity back in March.

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so are apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

How much did Woz love computers, back when he was growing up and both computers and information about them weren't exactly plentiful?

You know, one of the common misconceptions about the Lonely Island is that we were discovered on the Internet. We actually weren't.

"Chinatown might have disappeared if it weren't for the changing immigration policies, " he told me recently.

Local-media reports, which weren't confirmed, said the questioning involved the disappearance of a prototype iPhone.

"If my family weren't able to help me out at this point, I wouldn't have a home, " she said.

One again, he proved himself to be a solid actor and was easily believable as the guy who's loyalties you weren't sure about.

It was a bit late to repair the damage, but Harry swore to himself not to meddle in things that weren't his business from now on.

Because those forts weren't insulated from the winter weather, he said it would be necessary to move the refugees.

As if all of the above weren't bleak enough, on top of that we have the very real possibility that the dollar will crash.

"Parents are not used to thinking of these products as dangerous because they weren't made to be inhaled, " she said.

The King's argument was, that anything that had a head could be beheaded, and that you weren't to talk nonsense.

Mike: So you mean to tell me that you weren't making fun of Raj when you were talking about his dot falling off ?

Our survey also showed that of the candidates who were asked odd questions, just as many were offered places as those who weren't.

Vacations give you an opportunity to be who you really would be if it weren't for all the things we as adults have to do.

You weren't invited! Nobody asked you to come! They were all behaving themselves until you came barging in!

That would probably have been tolerable if the decisions cooked up in those conference rooms weren't so disastrous.

If it weren't for this, the government would be unable to borrow as much as it is, and would have to slash public services right now.

Unfortunately, if it weren't for the tile floor, tomorrow's picture would be even harder to understand.

He was pretty mad at my dad when he heard that some of us weren't going to the hospital since Dr. Cullen started working there.

Her friend said, 'I know you weren't fool enough to put all that money in there in the casket with your husband! '

Even if I weren't the best in that field (whatever the field might be), at least I would have heard from people I worked hard at it.

'Figure out what you wish you could have said to him, that you weren't able to say at the time, ' she says.

By 7 a. m. my contractions still weren't regular, but I felt like the baby was trying to be born out my back.

Finally, we weren't sure how much memory or disk was needed to support the IBC site.

'I thought it might have been a terrorist attack, ' she said. She called the police, who weren't able to immediately identify the substance.

At the time, many weren't sure this was the right move, but the blog shot up in popularity and eventually garnered over 30, 000 subscribers.

Stone then lauded him with a rhetorical question: "Where would Russia be if it weren't reaping the benefits of a free democracy? "

If you weren't as stupid as only a German can be you'd see that that child must be a reproach to me as long as I live.

R8 starts at a hefty $109, 000, meaning it would be a farce if it weren't at least a top contender for the sports-car crown.

He dubbed them foxes, and was the first of many scientists to suspect that the strange canids weren't wolves at all.

I've met a couple of people from Deloitte, they weren't bright sparks nor did they seem to be enjoying the challenges of a lifetime.

How the hell we wind up like this? Why weren't we able to see the signs that we missed and try to turn the tables?

If it weren't so tragic, the current European crisis would be funny, in a gallows-humor sort of way.

Those picks weren't particularly out on a limb, because Germany ranked ahead of every opponent except Spain in that tournament.

The innocent is me, and the names weren't changed so much as invented to make it look as if I didn't eat expensive meals alone.

Now, in some of the worst of times, Washington is treating its vital overseas dollar constituency as if it weren't even there.

Now, in some of the worst of times, Washington is treating its vital overseas dollar constituency as if it weren't even there.

Mr. ZHU: (Through Translator) One hundred years ago, he was the supreme ruler, and ordinary people weren't even allowed to look at him.

It was nasty of you to go round telling tales you know weren't true.

For whatever reason, probably injury or suspension, our two regular room-mates weren't there so Les and I ended up in the same room.

Some of these individual investors now say they weren't sophisticated enough, despite their relative wealth, to understand the dangers.

We were able to convince them that they weren't interested in a completion milestone so much as a confidence milestone.

Willie Sawyer put me out of his car down below the railway bridge. There weren't no more cars come and I walked in.

As if job interviews weren't stressful enough, hiring managers at some of the largest companies have taken to throwing real curve balls.

S. states, European countries weren't part of a single nation with a unified budget and a labor market tied together by a common language.

All the passengers came on deck. We took pictures and pointed at the site, but we weren't allowed to get off the boat.

All the passengers came on deck. We took pictures and pointed at the site, but we weren't allowed to get off the boat.

Then, when I realized that you weren't with her anymore, I went looking for you at the bookstore I saw in her head.

As he recalls, "The savanna species weren't what I was looking for at first so I had sort of written them off. "

He told me I'd never be as athletic as some of my friends, and he said he wouldn't have to say these things if I weren't "so fat. "

The Continental was an impressive car - and it still is - but people weren't ready to spend that kind of cash for Detroit metal.

The feat would qualify as creation of life in a test tube if it weren't for one thing: Szostak's lab does not rely much on test tubes.

'Some of their directors (in the West) weren't elected by shareholders but instead by the management, ' he said.

He wrote a saying on the wall ahead of him and stared at it for some time: What Would You Do If You Weren't Afraid?

You must've sensed that, uh, when you left her at the altar like that, it would be a big number on her. You weren't insensitive to that.

The idea was that the high valuations weren't all that important.

They said the documents weren't available, and that we would have to pre-book to see them in a week's time.

The Age of Dinosaurs may have been dominated by dinosaurs, but they certainly weren't the only fearsome creatures around.

Every other word was a curse: those that weren't curses were to say the least, rude.

Also, it is often the case that a technologist's expertise can point in the direction of new possibilities that designers weren't aware of.

Prime Minister Hatoyama wanted to turn the unbalanced alliance into a more equal partnership but the Japanese people weren't ready.

The bank didn't rule out that fraudulent activity might have taken place following the attack but said Citi's debit cards weren't affected.

I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren't there for the day.

"Oh, sorry, " said the other, not sounding sorry at all. "But they were our kind, weren't they? "

Sometimes he imagined himself proud and aloof, staring through her as though she weren't there, making it unbearable for her.

To be frank with you, if it weren't for our good relations.

If it weren't for Tim Berners-Lee, you would not be able to read this article.

If you were sitting in Oxford, England, trying to get to YouTube, your packets were going to Pakistan and they weren't coming back.

In the statement, in which Mr. Buffett announced Mr. Sokol's resignation, Mr. Buffett said he believed the stock purchases weren't unlawful.

But the truth was that the answers to these questions weren't important to me anymore.

I thought you weren't interested in me. That was before I saw you handling that beautiful piece of wood between your legs.

' Current economic woes weren't of that magnitude, he said.

By the end of her 23-song, 1-hour, 50-minute performance, it would have been hard for anyone in the crowd to say they weren't entertained.

The girls weren't in a good mood and the last thing that he wanted to do was to piss off The Trio.

So we weren't very ashamed about trying to get our message out, even though it was rather preliminary.

"As if fearsome looks weren't enough, there have been sporadic reports of people being poisoned after consuming it, " write crab experts J.

After a year, owner Sina Mao recognized that sandwiches weren't enough to keep her business going.

First, Mycenaean tablets weren't thought to have been created so early, he said.

Billy Beane and his staff in Oakland weren't the first to use these methods, but they were extremely effective at it.

But consider this: if the theory weren't right, it's possible that none of us would be here to contemplate anything at all.

The ship began to sink and the passengers tried to escape, but there weren't enough lifeboats.

Harry stared. Then he looked quickly around to see if anyone was watching. They weren't. He looked back at the snake and winked, too.

But we weren't home; we were at my mother-in-law's working on her house.

"If I weren't so fat, I'd have made you a good wife, " she teasingly told Patriarch Bartholomew who, as an Orthodox bishop, is celibate.

To be frank with you, if it weren't for our good relations, we wouldn't offer you.

The bank paid severance packages to those who weren't hired and set up an outplacement service to help them pursue job opportunities.

The people familiar with the matter cautioned that talks weren't complete and it was possible Mr. Hurd's hiring could still fall through.

"We're only beginning to understand the enormous potential impact of MDAs on diseases for which they weren't intended, " Hotez says.

There weren't any free tables, so I sat down in front of the bar.

But it was a pain to stitch together that much out of angel investments, and most VCs weren't interested in investments so small.

These could be written off as temporary factors hitting supply if it weren't for a remorseless increase in demand.

It will be up to you to prove you weren't planning to trade the cash for little bags of fine white powder.

She understood some of my challenges because she had a perspective for it, but we weren't peers.

And I knew you weren't just a pretty face. Try infrared on the shades, girl.

I just may lie to make you feel good. Don't be angry about this. You really weren't looking for the truth anyway.

We knew there was a cold front coming in, and the sea was rough, but we weren't planning to stay out that long.

I've seen one or two cubicles in my day and I am pretty sure they weren't big enough to warrant the use of one of these.

Rescuers bored a third hole into a chamber, but weren't able to lower a microphone into the space.

So the letters of the English alphabet weren't meaningless after all. Sort of a relief to know.

Tom told me that you were going to America, weren't you?

I would be a very patient person if it weren't for traffic jams and long lines in the grocery store.

As if that weren't enough, Barry also incited his RA students to revolt and then allegedly accused Reynolds of financial impropriety.

We weren't supposed to leave the boat. That's what the concierge said.

She hoped they weren't all dead. But she was inside the wonderful garden, in a world of her own.

At this point, we knew our daughter had taken charge of her dream and we certainly weren't going to stand in the way.

They weren't trying to alter the physical appearance of Paris.

Lawyer: As I understand your testimony, you just weren't ready to get married.

And the North Americans weren't just passively resistant to the charms of the game. For a time, they were downright hostile.

In others, the side effects turned out to be catastrophic but weren't well-known until after the drug was widely used.

Others would be bored to tears if they weren't embroiled in a crisis at least once a day.

If it weren't for the leadership of the Communist Party, our happy life today would be simply impossible.

KAREN: Rude? You weren't rude at all, Annie. Why do you think you were rude?

'Our fire chief was very disappointed that they weren't able to help earlier, ' Mr. Ishihara said at a news conference.

If it weren't, we would expect the first insert in the anonymous block to be preserved by the commit statement in the LOG_ERRORS procedure.

"We would have an overweight for India if it weren't for its valuations, " he said.

I wasn't trying to escape. - Sure you weren't. You were just out there howling at the moon.

All of a sudden Ed appeared at the door. We weren't expecting him to drop by.

As if that weren't bad enough, the bacteria that thrive in low oxygen conditions emit a powerful greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide.

"We weren't used to holidays, but today it is all different, " she says.

The proof was that we wanted to win national elections, something Democrats apparently weren't supposed to do.

Sewer systems weren't built to handle all that water. The last 10 years have seen more severe storms causing sewer overflows.

However I feel that if it weren't so intercut, it would actually be very good.

If it weren't a threat, there would be no market for research like this.

Rumor has it that they're crawling with walking corpses now. As if the Saber Cats and Claw Vipers weren't bad enough.

Mr. Sokol has said he believes he did nothing wrong and the trades weren't a factor in his decision to resign.

Sometimes our parents would say things we weren't taught in school. They'd often correct themselves, as if erasing a mistake.

Width and length weren't all that different. Ideal for parking sideways in Parisian streets. Left-hand-drive only, never sold in Britain.

As if this weren't enough, the underlying technology for business solutions is continuously evolving.

Hugh: They weren't sure where to put me, so I wound up in the kitchen.

"Kim: You see, before he came down here, it never snowed. And afterwards, it did. " If he weren't up there now. . .

I thought you weren't talking to me for the rest of your life?

However, these plants weren't always been dead after the stem basts were peeled circular fot a week.

Very very close behind Fernando's time. Is there a little frustration you weren't ahead of him?

You probably weren't prepared to deal with the withdrawal symptoms, and felt like your head would explode if you didn't get a quick fix.

And this was the first hard lesson that Obama learned in Chicago: most of these ministers weren't willing to cooperate with each other.

"They said they were representing themselves, but they weren't, " he said, smiling slightly.

Those are the some of the answers to that age-old question: What would you do if you weren't doing what you're doing now?

George has a very good mind. He would rise fast in the world if he weren't such a shrinking violet.

You weren't supposed to know about any of this. I was never going to leave you.

And I wanted to hang out with the other kids, but they weren't good enough, so I spent a lot of time alone.

If it weren't for the fact that real work gets lost, his slapstick antics might resemble a good Charlie Chaplin movie.

Keyboards weren't designed for ergonomics and performance so much as to be compatible with what was already familiar to typists of the day.

The value of this attribute is set to true; if it weren't, you'd end up with an infinite loop when executing these rules.

If Shanteau had been in any other country, and if it weren't for Lochte and Phelps, he would have picked up a bronze medal in the event.

Her eyes weren't straight. Her glasses were an inch thick. And she had really ugly teeth.

As if the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy weren't vexing enough, another baffling cosmic puzzle has been discovered.

A quarter said they were expected to remember too much, and a fifth said there weren't enough hours in the day to deal with everything.

Although it's true that it was our first-leg performance that cost us that tie, because we weren't up to the task.

I wished the big decision-makers of our world weren't shielded from opportunities to share an economy cabin with people like this.

Roses require a good deal of care, and if it weren't for the pleasure they give, it wouldn't be worth the work.

The attention they've lavished on me would be flattering, if it weren't so vaguely menacing.

And that would probably still be the case if it weren't for the professional instincts of two University of California police officers.

It would be hard for a player to concentrate on his career on the pitch if things weren't being handled properly off it.

So perhaps it isn't a coincidence that once upon a time doctors weren't called doctors, but instead they were called leeches.

"I'm afraid not, " I say, as if it weren't a choice.

As if that weren't cool enough, it's portable, so you can carry it on your thumb drive.