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While expanding the fund's mandate seems to be a done deal, expanding its size is in real doubt.

Secretary Rice says administrative details remain to be resolved before the signing. But she called it "a done deal. "

The only reason to let the car idle at all is to get the oil circulating, but after 30 seconds that's a done deal.

When you set a new goal, think about what habits would enable you to put that goal on autopilot, thereby making it a done deal.

It took a while before the transfer was a done deal, but Inter really want to be certain that my injury will not be a problem.

I haven't come across a soul in London who does not believe the Heathrow expansion is a done deal and the consultation fixed.

The details of the deal are being kept quiet until the local unions ratify, but it's expected to be a done deal by late next week.

Turn could have been done deal, it was unclear thinking, impatient for success in a slight panic anxiety, rather than optional essentials.

He said it was a done deal. - What, you didn't get anything?

But analysts in Athens said the request for talks "amounts to a done deal" .

Another said it was "a done deal" , which would be rubberstamped at board meetings taking place on Tuesday and Wednesday in Shanghai.

At this point, the changes are not a done deal and are still being debated; the new DSM-V will be published in 2013.

The potential heirs tend to hear what they want to hear and honestly believe that their appointment is a done deal.

I never felt I could bring Gallas in here because I thought it was a done deal with AC Milan. The chance to join us came very, very late.

Whether i'm there or not, doesn't matter, but is it a done deal or what?

A person close to the situation said it was not a done deal and discussions might not yield agreement.

Final approval for the investments still has to come from China's commerce ministry, but Samsung said that it was "virtually a done deal" .

But, in principle, the budget controls -- known in EU jargon as the "European semester" -- are a done deal.

And the signed memorandum of understanding with China disclosed Thursday is far from a done deal.

Consider the reform of the special regimes, which Mr Sarkozy has presented as a done deal.

Hungarian officials also point with satisfaction to an almost-done deal on economic governance and to EU-wide Roma and Danube strategies.

However, they cautioned that a output rise was far from a done deal as other members, including Venezuela, opposed the move.

The contract will be signed within the next week. It is almost a done deal.

Only weeks ago, a revaluation of the renminbi against the dollar seemed a done deal.

Some Fed officials such as Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher have tried to stress that quantitative easing is not a "done deal. "

But it makes sense for investors to retreat from the view that resurgent inflation is a done deal.

Carlyle declined to comment, while Mr Tsai said it was "not a 100 per cent done deal yet" .

However, the facts clearly see what a done deal, Gaillard that UEFA will not change the penalty decision.

Steven, I think the Shanghai Expo is, for the purposes of the CPPCC, a pretty much done deal.

It will never happen. Obama will give then whatever they want, as usual. Don't worry about it. It's a done deal already.

Yow. Don't buy any dresses until I tell you it's a done deal.

If you can install and maintain that habit, completing your book is practically a done deal.

The media continue to [suggest] that full equality for women is a done deal.

Hamas says a ceasefire is not a done deal.

The passage of the proposed debt deal isn't a done deal.

Alright, done deal! Thank you very much sir, you're a gentleman and a scholar.

"Now they just want us to rubber-stamp a done deal, " comments one opposition figure.

Co-evolution is not a done deal.

Health care reform is almost (knock on wood) a done deal.

"It's a done deal! " he says to Kadhum in a loud voice.

The ex-communist states know that protesting against a done deal will only make them look weak and paranoid.

And the subcommittee cuts aren't a done deal.

It's a done deal. You must face the reality.

QE3 is a done deal.