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  • The young Englishman spent six hours in a simulator careering around Silverstone without moving an inch and the conclusion was that the blown diffuser intended to take their grip levels nearer to the pace-setting Red Bulls should be removed from both cars.

    No sleep until Germany as McLaren put in the hours to gain seconds Oliver Owen at Silverstone 2010

  • Her regular partner Mike Smith felt Zenyatta was toying with her rivals as she cheekily defeated the pace-setting Rinterval.

    Talking Horses 2010

  • But we also can't afford to undervalue the contributions the arts -- and the millions of Americans whose creativity and innovation in film and television make it such a pace-setting industry -- can make to our nation's economic renewal.

    Dan Glickman: Stand Up for Creative Jobs 2009

  • Here certainly neoconservatism can point to real, pace-setting achievements.

    Irving Kristol & the Life and Times of Neoconservatism 2009

  • Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, look over one of the models at a viewing of the fall and winter collection of pace-setting designers Ronald Amey and Joseph Burke.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Here certainly neoconservatism can point to real, pace-setting achievements.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • If we ever see Disney Hall, it will far surpass Meyerson's pace-setting excesses.

    The Temple Of Doom? 2008

  • Northern Latin American countries like Costa Rica, Mexico and the Dominican Republic have stopped resisting foreign firms and are instead successfully linking their markets to the pace-setting U.S. economy, says Moises Naim, editor of Foreign Policy magazine and a former Venezuelan Economic minister.

    A Silicon Republic 2008

  • His other writings for this period contain other syntheses of complex subject matter, other pace-setting thought, other excellent composition; and two “heavy” essays, “The conservation ethic,” Journal of Forestry, 31: 634-643, 1933 and “Conservation economics,” Ibid., 32: 537-544, 1934 – two of his greatest papers.

    Tributes to Aldo Leopold 2008

  • We are inspired by, and applaud the pace-setting example of African countries that are surely moving in this direction and are testimony to this new reality in contemporary African politics.

    ADDRESS BY DEPUTY PRESIDENT ZUMA AT THE 21ST FRANCO-AFRICA SUMMIT 2001

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