• So to the extent that he's taking step number one, he's on the road to recovery.

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  • Yet Mr Khamenei wields his power lightly, to the extent that he often seems aloof.

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  • To the extent that he is warning about documented threats, his focus is timely.

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  • To the extent that he is out in society, it is, in large measure, as a combatant.

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  • To the extent that he has succeeded, the markets and economy have been better-off for stocks achieving their true price.

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  • He held various jobs, and even earned money as a computer-security consultant, supporting his son to the extent that he was able.

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  • To the extent that he discussed his future with colleagues, it was more in the spirit of someone seeking reassurance and validation.

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  • To the extent that he is even aware of the spiritual overtones to his presentation the mood does the selling and therefore all the preaching.

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  • He does this with surprising subtlety, to the extent that he once took legal action against a journalist who said directly that he was an extreme right winger.

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  • But, barring some remarkable change in attitude, Obama is mostly irrelevant except to the extent that he can make matters worse by luring Republicans into a phony tax-hike deal.

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  • These are reasonably cheap, often generic, pharmaceuticals that, although they do not cure someone, do lower the level of the virus in his body to the extent that he suffers no symptoms.

    ECONOMIST: AIDS

  • There are still rumblings in the Pakistan camp about Stuart Broad's flash of ill temper at Edgbaston to the extent that he is now being blamed for causing the fracture to Zulqarnain Haider's finger that has forced the characterful wicketkeeper to return home.

    BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

  • But, following that loss and another at the hands of Gary Buckland for the Celtic lightweight title in February last year, Docherty fell away from boxing to the extent that he spent 15 months mulling over his future before making a winning return to the ring in June.

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  • To the contrary, to the extent that he is engaging in willfully blind behavior that is perceived by our shariah-adherent foes as submission (the literal meaning of the word "Islam"), he is setting the stage for our enemies to abandon the sub rosa civilization jihad in favor of the kind Mohammed principally practiced: the terrifyingly violent version of holy war.

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  • The MDC leader once told me that his strategy to unseat the president was to wait while Mr Mugabe mismanaged the economy to such an extent that he was forced out of office.

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  • But the 25-year-old has overcome his disability to such an extent that he became the first double amputee to compete at the Olympics when running in South Africa's 4x400m relay team this summer.

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  • The Scot had to do it the hard way, heavy rain hampering his qualifying rides to such an extent that he had started fifth on the grid.

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  • With the prospects of Mitt Romney (an old chum of Mr Netanyahu who seems joined at the hip with him over Iran) apparently fading, those concerns had increased to the extent that the Israeli prime minister had been warned repeatedly that if he did issue an order to attack, he would be on his own.

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  • Until that happens, he certainly should be required not to neglect those responsibilities especially to the extent that, by so doing, he is actually undermining U.S. security interests in the Mideast.

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  • Until that happens, he certainly should be required not to neglect those responsibilities -- especially to the extent that, by so doing, he is actually undermining U.S. security interests in the Mideast.

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  • Ms. EDWARDS: The relationship that he has with his family, the extent to which he is the good father, you know, who coaches soccer, plays with them, those kinds of things, and the relationship he has with his spouse tells them something about him.

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  • Lindsay did testify that he wanted the extent of the problem limited to those working to fix it but he said that group could have included "5, 50, or 5, 000" people so long as the problem was fixed.

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  • "I organized this attack but not to the extent that it happened, " he is heard saying in a video released by police.

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  • But he would recommend that strategy only "to the extent that they will eat up their refunds, " he adds.

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  • However his progress in the professional ranks had stalled to such an extent that he has only fought 15 times in six years and had been considering quitting the sport.

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  • That is, he wants Forbes readers to believe that, to the extent that global warming is happening, all consequences will be happy ones.

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  • "Strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me, " Benedict said when he announced his retirement this month.

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  • "I was pretty shocked at the appearance of the Galaxy S phone and the extent it appeared to copy Apple products, " he told the jury, adding that he was even more shocked when he saw the Galaxy tab.

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  • Some European officials worry that, to the extent that Mr Bush welcomes a greater European defence effort, it will be so that he can turn his attention and military resources away from Europe to Asia, as his defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, implied last week.

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  • He declined to be specific about the destination, their nationalities or the extent of the wounds that he said some had.

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