As soon as I returned to Washington, I found myself in the middle of the health care debate, fighting to implement President Obama's health care plan that will make quality health care affordable for the staggering number of Americans -- 46 million -- without coverage.
"I found myself smiling in the starting blocks, which is rare in the 400-meter, " Pistorius said.
But I soon found myself in the middle of total gridlock, as families with carts, bags piled high, tried to push past each other.
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One day, I found myself sitting in the bar in the Hotel Claridge with a little old man called Juan Carlos Borges, who was astonished at my interest in his work and at its success in Brazil, given that it had been years since he had published one of his brief botanical poems.
As I studied the mounds of various sizes of grasshoppers in the markets, though, I found myself with a question similar to the one that goes through my mind when I see someone in Chinatown reach into a barrel of live frogs and pull one out for inspection: What, exactly, does one look for in a grasshopper?
Over the last couple of weeks I have found myself involved in discussions on the way forward for farming.
Before the day was done, I found myself caught up in one of the highlights of the tour: the moment that waxwork-like monsters in the Torchwood dungeon leapt into life, bringing shrieks, and even the occasional tear, from young onlookers who had been talking very bravely until then.
When he launched the first simulation, I found myself standing in what appeared to be the same room as before, but there was a deep rectangular pit in front of my feet.
Best Buy would open in twenty minutes so I headed across town, where I found myself waiting in line outside in the cold.
World War II had been over for four months when I found myself in a courtroom with the degenerates who had been its architects.
Then in America I went and got tails, bought them in L.A. Then I found myself in a five-star hotel in Europe and I realized that the waiters were wearing tails.
In the mid-1990s I found myself the only non-North Korean in a class studying Chinese in northeast China.
After almost three years of living in Vietnam, I returned to the U.S. and quickly found myself caught up in to the boom and bust of the dot-com era.
Modern Egypt (especially Cairo, where I live) doesn't offer much in the way of solitude or stillness, and suddenly I found myself immersed in nothing but.
As he stood there with the pen in his hand, very obviously reading the badge pinned to my lapel, I found myself wanting to shake him out of the little dream he was in.
Once, I mistakenly found myself in First Class, where the conductor had a go at me.
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And for a moment I found myself in a place that was neither the past nor the present, neither real nor unreal.
Last summer I found myself sitting on a sidewalk, in the middle of the night, watching Wes Craven film the latest installment of Scream 4.
But recently as the dean of a management school, I found myself called to answer in one area of social responsibility: the environmental sustainability of our own operations.
The next time I played Super Mario, on the Wii (you can order all the vintage games), I found myself in a narratological mode.
"As the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party, " Specter said in announcing his decision Tuesday.
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This was the biggest risk in my life, but I found myself being convinced by it as I put together the documentation to demonstrate to the leaders at Intuit (and my bankers) that I could make this happen.
For a trip to the U.S. and Europe I'm taking next month, I tried making bookings three separate ways -- through my regular agent in Hong Kong, by consulting a round-the-world specialist in San Francisco I found on the Web, and by myself online.
After several dozen such events over a number of years, I found myself dissatisfied with much of the scholarly literature in this area.
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"After I left the Army I found myself living in a shed and chopping wood - I knew I was stuck in a rut and I wanted to get back to work, " he said.
Our stories were not the same, yet I found myself in each one of them.
Fashion is what I found myself looking at during the men's shows in Milan several weeks ago.
In fact, I recently found myself rooting around the web just trying to find out how Notre Dame first got its sobriquet the Fighting Irish.
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Then I found myself falling toward the middle of a small lake in the city of Hanoi, with two broken arms, a broken leg, and an angry crowd waiting to greet me.
On another occasion, in the same Hotel Claridge, I found myself with a strange fellow called Borges Luis Jorge.
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