Which is why the concessions made by General Wiranto may just be a tactical retreat in preparation for a longer battle to preserve the dominant role the armed forces have enjoyed in Indonesia for the past 40 years.
In the besieged towns, drinking, smoking, listening to music, watching soccer on TV and playing video games have been banned in what now seems to be a preparation for the creation of an Islamic state.
Of course this is part rumour but the thing is that the iPad, like the iPhone, has become such a huge product, selling so many units, that preparation for even a change in the machine, let alone preparation for a new model, simply cannot be kept quiet.
This could be thought of as a materialistic hoarding of sorts in preparation for some possible socio-economic calamity.
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Johnson, who turns 41 next week, is said to be at home resting, no doubt in preparation for a busy summer.
In what appeared to be preparation for the talks, she met a group of Sinn Fein officials, led by Mr Adams, on August 6th.
The subject is playing blackjack as a business and the ways in which that might be good preparation for the business of making money on Wall Street.
Farina said the game would be good preparation for the new A-League season, which starts in less than a month.
Mainly it's a fitness camp in preparation for the Six Nations and there will be important discussions with all senior players.
But Strauss, named England's man of the series after scoring 317 runs at an average in excess of 63, added that such a mentally taxing series could be good preparation for the winter's Ashes tour of Australia.
The authority is going to open a voluntary severance package for staff in preparation for the reductions which will be announced next month.
All these are taken from the 143-page screed formally known as the "Amalagamation of draft texts in preparation of a comprehensive and balanced outcome to be presented to the Conference of the Parties for adoption at its 17th session".
Such a move could be crucial for airlines that have already invested hundreds of millions of dollars in preparation for reduced restrictions.
It was rooted in the depth and simplicity of her abiding faith that this life is to be lived to the full as a preparation for the next.
Reasonable suspicion requires 'articulable' facts which, taken together with rational inferences, reasonably warrant a determination that an individual is known or suspected to be or has been engaged in conduct constituting, in preparation for, in aid of or related to terrorism and terrorist activities, and is based on the totality of the circumstances.
We are in the process, after two years of preparation, of developing a security camp for kids that will be tested next summer.
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That meeting was in preparation for the upcoming G8 summit at a Baltic Sea resort in Germany, and that could be dominated by the Russian-American split as the foreign ministers' meeting was.
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