But if that were the case, if all those years together did lie ahead of us, my adoration would still lead me to the same situation.
You all have to really be focused on preparing yourselves for the challenges and the opportunities that will lie ahead for all of you.
All this means that tough choices lie ahead, all of them fraught with risk, as the community deals with current dangers while also embracing broader and more enduring tasks.
Although significant stretches of development lie ahead, including fully fleshed-out games and the eventual use of an Oculus Rift, there's already teases of potential commercialization and a second generation that would include lighter, sleeker components.
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But, as a sign of what may lie ahead, Mr Solnik has spotted an increase in the correlation of stockmarkets within regions, notably Asia and continental Europe, since the 1960s.
Even so, delicate negotiations lie ahead on the ownership of the single trading platform.
Hard choices may lie ahead in the area of religious liberty.
Difficult negotiations still lie ahead on the amount of agricultural and regional aid to be received by the new members, which could be at the expense of existing aid to EU members like Greece, Spain, and Ireland.
In a sign of the difficulties that lie ahead for the government, the British Medical Association responded angrily to a draft policy of the health department's workforce strategy for the three years to 2010-11, details of which were published in the Health Service Journal on January 4th.
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With the administration almost as reliant on him as he is on them, months of turbulence lie ahead.
Years of digging lie ahead, if Peru is ever to know what happened.
Engineers have since stabilised the plant but years of work lie ahead to fully contain the disaster and tackle its effects.
Greece has been given a chance to escape its debt trap but long years of austerity lie ahead and its economy is still shrinking.
Even if that were to happen, plenty of problems lie ahead.
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However, he added, many months of work lie ahead, and it will be some time before scientists are ready to announce to the world what lies beneath the ice.
Even if EU leaders give their nod at a summit next month, months of detailed negotiations lie ahead.
The Greeks too are stubbornly resisting the years of austerity that lie ahead.
His disgraceful radio programmes and the full blooming of his loopiness lie ahead.
The holidays have passed, but several weeks of winter still lie ahead.
Unless compromises are swiftly struck, years of conflict may lie ahead.
But rising joblessness and years of pain may lie ahead as banks, businesses and households in the West continue to struggle to pay down their debts.
Months of painstaking work lie ahead for prosecution and defence.
By making defence planners worry about fighting two nearly-simultaneous wars like that against Iraq in 1991, this rule-of-thumb has made it harder to prepare for the much broader range of threats which lie ahead.
And meanwhile, there should be no doubt, the drawdown in Iraq has allowed us to refocus our resources, achieve progress in Afghanistan, put al Qaeda on the path to defeat, and to better prepare for the full range of challenges that lie ahead.
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There was a hint in the president's speech of the difficulties that lie ahead.
Months of physical therapy likely lie ahead, though she's already picked out her first dance: the Viennese Waltz.
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Placating them may prove to be the easiest of the challenges that lie ahead for the new government.
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