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Happily, as is often the case with such forays into terra quasi-incognita, the serendipity factor comes into play.

We are already beginning to see worrying early forays into protectionism.

This step-up in military coordination with Australia follows similar U. S. diplomatic forays around the South China Sea.

PERSONAL greed is often the explanation given for the disastrous forays of the world's banks into America's subprime mortgages.

In fact, Stephanie excelled at a higher level with Citizens School than she did than in her forays in public and private school.

Goat in turn tends to criticize Rat's forays into writing, often telling him not to write them at all.

As a teenager Morris had an account on the Bell Labs' computer network , where early hacking forays gave him super - user status .

After brief forays working as a cook in a restaurant kitchen, Melissa Clark decided upon a more sedentary path.

Armedwith a phone and a computer, he made astonishing forays into murky globalbusinesses.

Further forays to the local stores furnished him with a supply of candles, flashlights, and batteries.

And as we have said in many international forays, we in Ireland have great confidence in his capacity and your capacity to see this through.

Two of the biggest forays into the field have come in the form of joint ventures.

Evidence that China's forays abroad have been led by companies, and not orchestrated by an all-knowing state, is plentiful.

That marks a modest improvement on the bumbling which has marred the court's forays into other parts of Africa.

That helps explain one of China's biggest forays into international banking so far.

in its foreign corporate forays but it's no longer scared of marching into difficult economic or political territory.

This season, Jay Spearing, Martin Kelly and Daniel Pacheco have been limited to occasional forays off the bench.

It began with a light grazing and tender tentative forays that secreted the unique flavour of our skins.

But long before it made any of those forays, China put down stakes in this desolate mining town in Peru's southern desert.

The company's first forays into the field were more prosaic than practical.

Tencent's foreign forays also mesh with a broader trend that has seen cash-rich Chinese Internet firms shop for global assets.

As leader of a corps of local blacks, she made several forays into rebel territory, collecting information.

As well as making these unexpected forays away from selling network gear, Cisco is exploring other sidelines.

"They just didn't get it, or they didn't think it was a joke at all, " he said of his early forays in English.

Liverpool started the second half brightly with one or two attacking forays, but it was United who got the game's next goal on 54 minutes.

Probably most painfully, his forays into economics and philosophy often have met with considerable scepticism, especially from academia.

Recent forays have been into mental illness, anxiety and aging; upcoming topics include decision making and the artistic brain.

The deal, finalised last month, could prove one of Beijing's most ambitious forays into Africa yet.

To prepare, officials have made forays to Scandinavia, whose state-company dividend policies are regarded as a model.

These forays posit a version of what it means to be voiced in a post-modern world, and encourage a consideration of H.

They no longer make forays into open ground where they were previously bloodied.

And Dogfish is also bringing back one of their more unusual forays into alcohol-infused time travel.

One thing is certain, the BBC's latest forays into new markets, like online video streaming, have not been very innovative.

A wave of foreign takeovers, and forays abroad by Brazilian firms, have both increased demand for managers with international experience.

For those reasons, perhaps, neither Imperial Tobacco nor Japan Tobacco has made public forays into the harm-reduction field.

His acquisition of the US operations of Lehman Brothers paid off while forays by Barclays into retail banking overseas have not.

But whether this will endure depends on the scale of the ECB's continued forays into bond markets.

This may explain why many traditional British private schools are planning to make their first foreign forays into other countries.

Her lyrical forays into Fantasy should not be missed by lovers of the genre.

Investing abroad for profit is hard enough: recall Japanese companies' bubble-era forays into Hollywood and New York.

But his first forays into investment were through limited partnerships, which would now probably be called "hedge funds" .

Casey Mulligan, in Chicago, made an early name for himself with similar forays into what might normally be seen as sociological questions.

Other robots are making tentative forays into the treacherous terrain of human mental states and emotions.

This history counsels caution as ever deeper and subtler forays into the science of human nature become possible.

A similar brashness defined her forays into public society as the first lady of the Kremlin.

A number of other countries have also launched recent forays into the final frontier.

What distinguishes The Traveller's timekeeping needs from those whose forays abroad are less frequent?

Even before April's violent spasms, Mr Abhisit was pelted by red-shirted opponents during his forays into rural areas.

First, prey tend to make fewer forays for snacks when predators are lurking around, so they may not be as nutritionally fit.

United's forward forays were becoming increasingly rare, but a clinical finish from Ajose restored parity on 54 minutes.

Few things jangle German nerves more than nuclear insecurity and the idea of military forays abroad.

China's overseas forays have also tended to be more modest than headlines suggest.

Entrepreneurs began traveling to exhibit their films, bringing to the world the first forays into dramatic film-making.

Its forays into Google's main territory, web search and online advertising, have not brought big gains.

GM and SAIC already have made less ambitious forays abroad together.

Happenstance occurs through karmic forays of dream accolades.

Compared with earlier forays by China in Africa, this is a very public deal with transparent terms and conditions.

To China's irritation, India has expanded its forays into the South China Sea lately.

That's probably because China's other forays into buying foreign brands have ended in disaster.

"This is really different, " said Mr. Beschloss of the Obamas forays into casual restaurants and working-class neighborhoods.

Regulatory barriers make forays abroad difficult too.

It could be people spend a lot of time at their home sites and then go off on forays looking for things to hate.

The outcome of these opportunistic forays is not yet clear.

ICBC, in spite of its forays into developed markets, has its eye specifically on the emerging world.

Many of their forays into genuinely competitive sectors have ended in ignominious failure.

But these high profile forays into the Chinese market are excellent indicators of the level of interest in the market.

Meanwhile, the exchanges are making forays into the OTC area.

Perhaps we should limit the number of military forays into foreign countries and concentrate on domestic matters.

scientists' forays into politics.

Other Web companies including Yelp. com have made forays into the market, attracting suitors such as Google.

One advantage is that Abu Dhabi is well positioned for journalists to make quick forays into less comfortable places like Iran and Iraq.

This wave of deals follows two previous forays overseas.

In 2008, the character of India's forays into space changed dramatically, with the launch of Chandrayaan-1, the country's first moon probe.

Its previous forays into the world of touchscreens, with the BlackBerry Storm and Storm 2, met with mixed success.

Whereas the state led the Chinese charge into Africa, Indian forays are mostly guided by private firms.

"I basically had to learn to design again, " Mr. Rissanen said of his initial forays into zero waste.

These forays often turned violent.

The thing is, until last week, these forays ended well.

Their own forays are following the same logic.

And because I work mostly from home, I have learned that little forays into the outside world are imperative for psychological well-being.

I have several notebooks filled with words I've discovered on these forays.

The exchange has had a difficult few years, including a couple of failed forays abroad.

Don't be afraid to tweak your brand based on feedback from these forays.

There were Paul Pierce's repeated forays to the hoop in Games 1 and 2.

So who should direct a company's forays into Web 2. 0 marketing?

many people s initial forays into the web consisted of building themselves a home page