• " Vyarawalla often photographed Gandhi from below "to make it look as if we are looking up to him.

    WSJ: Photos of India to Go on View in New York

  • One such was the hurried build-up, made even more hurried by Tony Blair's desire, until as late as possible, to make it look as if peace might still break out.

    ECONOMIST: Geoff Hoon misses his chance to go graciously

  • He said he believes it is more likely that they were trying to make a point about themselves, as if to say: 'We are warriors. we have been wronged, people do not understand us and we must be heard.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • To conceal its relationship with Transworld--and avoid running afoul of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act--Lockheed, according to Semtek's allegations, created a series of phony contracts and other business agreements with Millman's company to make it appear as if Transworld was nothing more than a vendor to Lockheed.

    FORBES: Now You See It, Now You Don't

  • It needs to make savings as early as next year if it is to carry out its promised tax cuts of euro3 billion without breaking the deficit limit decreed by the euro zone's stability and growth pact.

    ECONOMIST: Austria's government

  • Why are some folks able to make huge returns in the stock market, if as economists argue there is no systematic way to make above average returns?

    FORBES: The Dark Secret of Meritocracy: Reality is Rigged

  • Instead of sharing this evidence supporting Stevens's defense, prosecutors selectively quoted the foreman to make it appear as if he had said the opposite, and they used his comments to falsely attack Stevens.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: Department of Injustice

  • The trick is to make sure that as soon as hard facts come out, if you can make those explicit and clear to the whole community - and that is the right thing to do.

    BBC: UK police service 'transparent', says Sir Hugh Orde

  • And everything changes: Ismaila's mother hugs and kisses him, she caresses his hands, as if to make sure he is real.

    BBC: Senegal school abuse: Ismaila's story

  • But she nodded again, as if to make up for that.

    NEWYORKER: Faith

  • As if to make up for lost time, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) will say its approach, the Dynamic Systems Initiative, will be done in just five years.

    FORBES: Microsoft comes late to the data center party.

  • As if to make up for lost time, Microsoft (nasd: MSFT - news - people ) will say its approach, the Dynamic Systems Initiative, will be done in just five years.

    FORBES: Server Wars

  • Controversies aside, the mood in Rio de Janeiro was overwhelmingly one of celebration and, as if to make the point, they intend to repeat the party all over again on Monday night with another six samba schools.

    BBC: The parade was also marked by controversy

  • She would escape the bare concrete steps, layered with dust, that led up into rooms without windows, the walls painted lurid, glossy colors, as if to make up for the dreariness, the television covered with an embroidered cloth.

    NEWYORKER: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

  • What is also positive is -- if there's a silver lining in this whole process, it's the fact that I think European leaders recognize that there are some structural reforms, institutional modifications they need to make if Europe and the eurozone is to be as effective as they want it to be.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama��s Press Conference on the G20 Summit

  • If you make a policy decision, if you are so callous as to do so, to slash Social Security benefits or Medicare benefits or education spending, you would then -- as you made a budget -- count that as savings, right?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The Toffees felt they did enough to merit victory in the original tie at Goodison Park, which ended 1-1, and set out as if desperate to make up for that missed opportunity.

    BBC: Chelsea 1-1 Everton (aet)

  • The District Police will make an assessment as to what, if anything, was taken and will inform the FBI if any sensitive or proprietary information was taken that will give the FBI joint jurisdiction.

    CNN: D.C. police, with FBI assistance, probe polling firm break-in

  • With the encouragement of the FPC, the FSA has (as I've mentioned) told banks that if they make incremental loans to British businesses and households as measured by the Bank of England, they can do so by running down the buffers of capital they have built up (or to put it another way, they don't have to raise any new capital for this lending).

    BBC: Have regulators deepened the recession?

  • It looks as though the Federal Communications Commission may yet have to step in if the industry as a whole is to make its long-overdue leap into the present.

    ECONOMIST: America is finally poised to get mobile television

  • When armchair reviewers bemoan the lack of an obvious hook to the Galaxy S III, that's the risk they take -- that they'll eventually force manufacturers like Samsung to make crazy hardware claims as a prerequisite to selling devices, even if those claims later turn out to be empty promises.

    ENGADGET: Editorial: Engadget on the Samsung Galaxy S III Hands-on

  • It is also because, for their part, the European businessmen now so eager to atone for their companies' history are acting for cold, if sensible, commercial reasons: to retain permits to trade or the right to make a takeover in America, as well as to secure, if possible, an indemnity against existing or future claims.

    ECONOMIST: Holocaust reparations

  • This legislation is designed to make it exceedingly difficult -- if not, as a practical matter, impossible -- to impose export controls on strategically sensitive technologies.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • Then he was often filmed against footage shot from airplanes to make it appear as if he was airborne.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • They can use dummy bids and offers to make it seem as if there is more interest in a contract than there truly is.

    WSJ: Insider Trading's Smart Cheats

  • They wear all white (crisp white oxford shirt, pants, apron, sneakers) and try to make you feel as if it were a special night out.

    NEWYORKER: Big Med

  • "I don't have it as a goal to make Shanghai but if I play well in Paris I still have a chance, " said the the world number seven.

    BBC: Federer brushes aside Del Potro

  • "We want to make people feel as if they are home, " says Wei Cheng, a hotel manager in Hangzhou, near Shanghai, although few Chinese homes have Day-Glo walls.

    FORBES: Home, Sweet Home

  • Peter Wright QC then accused him of laying a false trail by staging the murders to make it look as if his father had shot his mother before killing himself.

    BBC: Murder accused Stephen Seddon was 'on Manchester drug run'

  • Ireland put in a remarkable 99 tackles, missing just one, and lock O'Connell said he felt both sides played as if they wanted to make amends for their most recent performances.

    BBC: Martin Johnson ponders England approach

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