Citizen soldiers snatched from the midst of life generated obligations for a nation defining its purposes and polity through military struggle.
And he was seeing them not from dry land but from the midst of churning whitewater, as he paddled his kayak through the rapids and the rocks.
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However, infighting between Mohammed Sarwar and Mike Watson, the two rival candidates for the Labour nomination, as well as an energetic local campaign by the SNP, resulted in the seat being the only one in Scotland to see a swing away from Labour in the midst of a UK-wide Labour landslide.
Blitzer reported from Israel in the midst of the war between that country and Hezbollah during the summer of 2006.
And because banks shrunk from lending in the midst of the financial crisis, it's been difficult for entrepreneurs to take out the loans they need to start a business.
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Now, images uploaded to social networking sites, video-sharing sites and sent to CNN from people in the midst of the unrest provide the best look at a nation facing an intense political upheaval.
His repeated absence from Moscow in the midst of the crisis, his allusions to concerns about continuity of government and nuclear weapons control, his increasingly stiff and slow-moving physical appearance all raise questions about the prospects for the president's continued rule of Russia.
Residents of nearby Kemp, Texas, were reeling from no water in the midst of the wretched heat.
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Instead, and as suspected, Sandy is being used to promote fear of hypotehtical, exotic attacks even in the midst of actual, ongoing suffering from the second hurricane to hit this part of the United States in the last year.
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Subsequent generations oscillated between periods of hubristic exceptionalism and introspective self-doubt, with pessimists seldom far from center stage even in the midst of major expansions.
Though Zynga's food setup is currently makeshift with the kitchen nine blocks down the street from the dining room, the company is in the midst of planning a new corporate cafeteria with a roomy kitchen when it moves into a new office next year.
Fiat has been suffering from a decision taken in the midst of the financial crisis: to hit the brakes on its investment in developing new cars.
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Whether DP World was a safe partner or not, how would it look to Congress and the American public, in the midst of a war against terrorism emanating from the Middle East, to sell operations at some of America's most important ports to an Arab country?
The minutes from September's meeting were released Tuesday in the midst of mixed market feelings about quantitative easing.
The Mets' owners are in the midst of a lawsuit stemming from their investments with fraudster Bernard Madoff, but Alderson said the team's heavy losses last season had a greater impact.
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And it's a team in the midst of rebuilding from scratch under new head coach Doug Marrone.
The evidence from Greece, which elected a pro-euro government in the midst of a deep depression, or the Netherlands, which re-elected a Liberal-led government last year, shows that voters may be angry but they aren't stupid: courageous leaders that can articulate tough choices and explain why change is necessary can still win elections.
As I have written before, we are in the midst of a retreat from austerity.
Douglas is in the midst of a path from relative anonymity to superstardom in what seems like no time flat.
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"If we win, then we're experienced, " shortstop Derek Jeter said the other day, still in the midst of his comeback from a broken ankle.
There exists a small chance that the downmove from the 1422 high has only posted three waves down, and we are in the midst of a complex fourth wave.
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Back then, when the New York Yankees were in the midst of a mini-dynasty (four titles from 1996 to 2000), owners pointed to the Yankees' dominance as they screamed for luxury taxes and increased revenue sharing to bring more competition to the sport.
The Minneapolis-based merchant of electronics is in the midst of an aggressive turnaround while dealing with fallout from a sex scandal in the C-suite and the abrupt departure of its founder and chairman.
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People were turning to the video-sharing website to get the latest from people on the ground who had "uploaded their experiences live and in the midst of the action", the spokesperson added.
Istanbul has been in the midst of a fantastic transformation from an impoverished population to one of affluence.
"This is a promise from us that we will fight you in the midst of your countries and we will attack your interests, " he said.
Sandy Alderson is in the midst of rebuilding the Mets from the ground up, but the fruits of his labor will not be realized for at least two seasons.
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Now regulators, with help from industry representatives, including Bates, are in the midst of overhauling trading.
The logic goes that due to the train wreck of a season that the Cowboys are in the midst of, Jones will back off the lockout talk as he needs precious revenues from ticket sales that will be lost next season due to the Cowboys poor showing.
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This injunction had the practical effect of limiting Israeli efforts to press officials in Beirut to disassociate themselves from the terrorists in their midst.
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