But that was a dramatic event, the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
This just serves to make the trials the incredibly dramatic event that it is.
And in a sense, this dramatic event represents a measure of closure as well for the intelligence community.
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Likewise, it is reasonable to say that no national security policy should be based only on a reaction to one specific dramatic event.
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As our eyes travel over this superbly convincing location, we realize that he is telling us a great deal about the larger meaning of the dramatic event occurring here.
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"We are all looking forward to what should be a really dramatic event on the headland and an important fundraiser for Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust, " trust spokeswoman Kate Foster said.
"That coating would reduce -- in the event of some type of dramatic event at the Capitol, some type of explosion -- would reduce the amount of glass fragments and therefore save lives, " Ney said in an interview with CNN.
The cover lot, made of pink gold, is a "split seconds" chronograph, so-called because it has not one, but two second hands and is capable of timing two different parts of a dramatic event, say, a high-stakes horse race or an auto rally.
So the latest reversal by a prominent member of Islamic Jihad is a dramatic event even if it prompted Mr Zawahiri to ask caustically whether Egyptian jail cells now had fax machines, and whether they ran on the same electricity source as the instruments of torture.
Might some of the oddities in the story of the 1996 discovery have arisen in an effort to construct a compelling picture of a single, dramatic event the sudden opening of this magnificent treasure trove whereas the truth was a slower, more ragged recovery, with all the possibilities of bribery and theft?
First comes the dressage, then the cross-country endurance test - the most dramatic part of the event - and finally the showjumping.
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However, few alive in 1958 could forget the dramatic impact of that Moscow event.
It was not, like the Titanic, an event of permanent dramatic interest.
Robert Karlsson won the event after a dramatic play-off with Ian Poulter.
The strain was there to see on a dramatic day in Birmingham at an event billed as the world's biggest and best one-off indoor meeting.
Where the Impact is both the emotional impact of an event such as how dramatic or outrageous it is, and the actual impact in terms of number of lives affected, money lost etc.
Even as I write this, it sounds over-dramatic, putting far too much weight on one event.
Tianjin played host to the 4th Annual China-Arab Cooperation Forum at the end of last week, an event marked more by stay-the-course rhetoric than dramatic policy announcements.
The most notable event so far in this year's celebrations has been a dramatic oratorio by Roberto De Simone, a gifted Neapolitan musicologist, composer and theatre director.
The index was predicted to ease by less than two points from 5.3 in July, but in the event a sharp downturn in the expectations gauge between both private and institutional investors caused a dramatic slump in the index to negative 13.5 and the lowest reading since September 2009.
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The invitation was later rescinded when the event was changed, but the offer itself was news, a victory for the power of the dramatic imagination.
Ministers said there was a "dramatic shift" of power away from Whitehall already taking place, with taxpayers able to trigger referendums in the event of "excessive" council tax rises and councils able to raise an estimated 70% of their income locally.
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