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First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.
Thomas E. Mann
War
Terrorism
Mind
Trend
Job
Insecurity
First
Sense
Down
Market
Corporate
Approval
Months
Has-Been
Scandals
Ratings
Economic
Weeks
Accelerate
Been
His
Stock
Stock Market
Public
Many
Growing
Recent
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.
Thomas Francis Meagher
Death
Freedom
Intelligence
Country
Birth
Aim
Has-Been
Dream
Lofty
Prompted
Factions
Misfortunes
Bid
Sought
Passions
Been
Quell
Farewell
Now
Whose
Fatal
Sympathies
Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.
Thomas Frank
Favorite
Has-Been
Bias
Course
Been
Decades
Theme
Media
Right
Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity.
Thomas G. Stemberg
Life
Time
Adversity
Opportunity
Losing
Father
Has-Been
General
Only
Only Child
Course
Been
Child
Died
Theme
Turn
Traumatic
My heavily-cleverly disguised low self-regard manifested itself in my constant showing off, my addiction for publicity, and my intolerable 'me-me-me' attitudes and actions. But it's done, isn't it? And no one can really change, can they? And, hey, it has been a lot of fun being the life-long irresponsible, snarky, nasty art scamp.
Thomas Hoving
Art
Change
Addiction
Hey
Intolerable
Has-Been
Constant
Life-Long
No-One
Attitudes
Nasty
Been
Lot
Off
Itself
Done
Disguised
Irresponsible
Being
Manifested
Low
Really
Fun
Showing
Actions
Publicity
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
Thomas Huxley
Bible
Has-Been
Magna
Been
Oppressed
Poor
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
Thomas Huxley
Training
Section
Eye
Has-Been
Admirable
Pot
Had
Make
Been
Hand
Pint
Child
Accuracy
Accurate
Taught
Plan
Who
Elevation
It has worked great good in other communities in the state where it has been honestly and faithfully tried, and I feel confident it will do the same in Pitt, if we faithfully administer the law, and that it will bring gladness and joy into the homes of the people.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
Good
Great
People
Joy
Law
Will
Honestly
Other
State
Has-Been
Administer
Tried
Gladness
Feel
Faithfully
Been
Same
Confident
Where
Pitt
Worked
Communities
Homes
Bring
I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to tell some of the story of my own life - the story behind my art - through the medium of motion pictures.
Thomas Kinkade
Life
Art
Own
Medium
Tell
Has-Been
Dream
Some
My Own
Feature
Feature Film
Life-Long
Through
Animated
Pictures
Motion
Motion Pictures
Been
Began
Behind
Story
Creating
Film
Career
I've long been interested in the role of 'minor characters' in major events. This has been the focus of a lot of the fiction and nonfiction I've written.
Thomas Mallon
Events
Focus
Long
Characters
Has-Been
Minor
Written
Major
Nonfiction
Been
Lot
Role
Fiction
Interested
One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.
Thomas Menino
Learning
Key
Our
Range
Has-Been
High
High Schools
Small
Restructure
Attention
Schools
Traditional
Been
Options
Personalized
Communities
Strategies
When a club has €200m left on its transfer budget in the final days of the transfer period, why shouldn't they make a higher bid when their initial €70m bid has been rejected?
Thomas Muller
Club
Final
Has-Been
Higher
Budget
Days
Period
Make
Bid
Been
Left
Transfer
Initial
Why
Rejected
Post-production is kind of the death of hope. The money has been spent. The grand ideas are either there or they're not there. So music oftentimes has to compensate if there are issues, or it has to stay out of the way if the movie is working really well.
Thomas Newman
Death
Hope
Music
Money
Way
Spent
Out
Has-Been
Kind
Post-Production
Stay
Ideas
Well
Issues
Been
Oftentimes
Movie
Either
Grand
Really
Working
Compensate
Everybody besides my piano player has been with me since the very first day. We were a four-piece band for a solid two years. It was me playing acoustic and rhythm electric guitar, a bass player, a drummer and a lead guitar player. For a couple of years, we sounded like the Foo Fighters.
Thomas Rhett
Day
Me
Guitar
First
Band
Bass
Bass Player
Everybody
Solid
Has-Been
Guitar Player
Besides
Piano
Piano Player
Lead
Lead Guitar
Since
Like
Drummer
Couple
Were
Been
Years
Very
Rhythm
Acoustic
Electric
Fighters
Electric Guitar
Player
Playing
Two
For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.
Tiger Woods
Business
Disappointment
People
Behavior
Young
Considerable
Everyone
Worry
Has-Been
Major
Most
Involved
Partners
Importantly
Caused
Been
Influence
Young People
Apologize
Business Partners
Many
Life has been good.
Tiger Woods
Life
Good
Has-Been
Been
The last thing we need to do when natural gas has been such a blessing is raise the severance tax.
Tim Griffin
Blessing
Natural
Has-Been
Been
Tax
Natural Gas
Thing
Gas
Last
Raise
Need
Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.
Tim Roth
Extraordinary
Has-Been
Coming
Been
America
Certainly
I think our failure as a caucus has been not to focus on economic issues. I think we - and I'm supportive of all the issues that - that we talk about, but you need an economic - a robust, economic message that - that covers everybody.
Tim Ryan
Failure
You
Focus
Think
Everybody
Our
Has-Been
About
Economic
Supportive
Talk
Message
Robust
Caucus
Issues
Been
Covers
Need
The Italian culture and values have significantly shaped who I am, and I would never intentionally demean or degrade the very culture that has been so integral to my life.
Tim Ryan
Life
Culture
Values
My Life
Has-Been
Would
Degrade
Shaped
Never
Am
Integral
Been
Italian
Very
Intentionally
Who
My whole life, my dream has been to be a quarterback.
Tim Tebow
Life
Has-Been
Dream
Quarterback
Been
Whole
Americans can accept that the American Dream will not work out for them; what has been heartbreaking for so many is the sense that their children will have it even worse.
Timothy D. Snyder
Work
Will
Sense
Worse
Out
Has-Been
Dream
Accept
Been
Heartbreaking
American
American Dream
Children
Them
Work Out
Many
Even
Even Worse
One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams's term for people whose names were curiously appropriate to, or provided ironic comment on, their occupations.
Timothy Noah
People
Appropriate
Franklin
Collect
Has-Been
Lifelong
Columnist
Term
Names
Occupations
Were
Been
Provided
Comment
Ironic
Curiously
Hobbies
Newspaper
Whose
If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.
Timothy Simons
You
Director
Yourself
Thought
Has-Been
Some
Casting
Force
Audition
Go
Been
Up
Trying
Going
Want
Translated
What character actors want to do is investigate new types of people and present them in all their idiosyncrasies, psychological complexities, and contradictory stupidities. That has been one of the great delights over our seven collaborations.
Timothy Spall
Great
Character
People
Types
Our
Seven
Collaborations
Complexities
Has-Been
Delights
Investigate
Over
New
Stupidities
Idiosyncrasies
Been
Contradictory
Want
Psychological
Them
Actor
Present
There are people that said I will not be as good as my father, that I am trash, and asked why I am playing for the U.S.A. You know, that is just pushing me to be the star that my country has been looking for.
Timothy Weah
Good
Me
You
People
Father
Will
Country
Looking
Has-Been
Pushing
Know
Said
Am
Been
Just
Asked
Trash
Star
Why
Playing
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