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  • President Andres Pastrana donned the national team's blue-and-yellow jersey and told his soccer-mad nation in a televised address that the tournament would go on-that he and Colombia had put "everything on the line" and triumphed.

    Starr Gazing: Let The Geopolitical Games Begin 2007

  • A glass of whisky by preference, if he felt the taste for spirits coming on-that was where Scotland had rubbed off on him.

    The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • The business about the documents not holding the lever we had counted on-that was the shocker.

    The White Rose Cook, Glen 1985

  • Ordinary life goes on-that has saved many a man's reason.

    The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955

  • Evelina, forlorn and sorry, and with swollen sad dark eyes, and listless exhausted step -- here again at the bars, where she had not stood since she dragged her wounded lover thence on-that eventful night two years and more ago.

    His "Day In Court" 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • "Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on-that's how much he revered the presidency," he said.

    unknown title 2011

  • Does Bachmann teach her kids that it doesn't matter why you owe the money or what you spent it on-that if you owe it, you have a duty to repay it?

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • "Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on-that's how much he revered the presidency," he said.

    unknown title 2011

  • The argument Perry leans on-that the federal government's immigration policy doesn't work-is the same one used by the comprehensive-reform crowd.

    Slate Magazine David Weigel 2011

  • The conclusion, simply, is this: once politicians figure out that this is what is going on-that as a matter of principle the most dedicated Occupiers won't be working to make the most traditional of political threats: do what we want or lose your job-the political change will simply stop happening.

    Crooks and Liars Rick Perlstein 2011

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