But the majority believed then, and still believes, that a flawed count is worse than no count at all.
The new environment suggests that guanxi, or personal connections, will no longer count for much.
From 2014 thousands of vocational qualifications will no longer count in school league tables at all.
You can no longer count on tenured or close relationships to help ease in new prices.
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Microsoft says 80% of the 200 million accounts are in use (but there has been no independent count).
The artist has since returned to Baghdad but can no longer count on selling paintings in the Green Zone.
There's no official count, but he estimates that between 2, 500 and 5, 000 amateurs started up record labels last year.
There is no reliable count of web pages in English but among users, 27% adopt English and 24% Chinese.
If the machines were working properly, there should be no hand count.
State officials now say "thousands" of people have died in flooded New Orleans and its surrounding parishes, but no official count has been compiled, Blanco said.
Elizabeth has decamped to Virginia with the furniture and the children to plan for a future when she can no longer count on physical beauty to solve all her problems.
Thanks to the reboot of the James Bond matter in Casino Royale, we can no longer count on our protagonist (Daniel Craig) to save the day with a Walther PPK and a witty quip.
So I think as we move forward on addressing our fiscal challenges, Chinese policy makers know that they can no longer count on the U.S. consumer to provide that demand to the global economy.
While he also talked of multilateral cooperation and human rights, he came to Asia to deliver the message that the rapidly growing export-driven economies can no longer count on the U.S. consumer to keep them afloat.
The way to shake up Poland's crony capitalism is not by selectively hunting down the cronies, but by making it such an open, liberal and competitive society that the old connections no longer count for much.
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There are no 800-thread-count sheets, no Michelin-starred restaurants along the way (even if most hikers seem able to afford such luxuries).
There was no cobbler to count the French battalions crossing the frontier towards Brussels in 1815.
There are three other factors that have to be taken into account, and they count no matter which league is your favorite.
The Republicans argue that voting machines are more reliable than humans and that no ballot should count if it doesn't register in a machine tabulation.
Dodge no longer can count on two previous Fiat-produced Dodge vehicles that were in the 2009 plan, But Marchionne is planning previously unscheduled overhauls of three Dodge models this year and next year, and more new models are earmarked for 2015 and beyond.
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Mr. MERRITT: (Singing) In whole of the soul of Count Olaf, there's no love when you see Count Olaf count to zero, then scream and run away.
After 1971, in contrast, it became basically clear that you could count on no such thing.
He can count on them as he can count on no other constituency.
As far as I can tell, there were no corporate developments to count for this big jump in the stock.
After around 111 dead rats, the body count is no longer going up at Medicine Hat, where infrared cameras are in place across the landfill to pick up nocturnal movements.
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The other day I started thinking about certainties those things you can count on no matter what, like death and taxes (after all, Monday, April 18th was the deadline for paying our 2010 taxes).
Sylvester called everyone back into the courtroom, apologized to the man -- Steve Hernandez -- for the loss of daughter Rebecca Wingo and asked if he could count on no similar episodes from Hernandez in the future.
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Kansas City Fire Chief Paul Berardi said late Tuesday the search with trained dogs was standard given the size of the conflagration and the fact that there was no immediate, reliable count of people who were inside the intimate, one-story restaurant at the time.
By last count, no fewer than 106 federal agencies are tasked with gathering statistics, the most important being the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Census Bureau, U.S. Treasury, Internal Revenue Services, Office of Management and Budget, and Economics and Statistics Administration.
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Like the HC1, the HC3 records up to 1080i onto standard mini-DV cassettes in HDV format, but it ups the ante with stills up to four megapixels (and even simultaneous widescreen 2.3 and 4:3 1.7 megapixel stills while shooting video), although it has a lower gross pixel count, no manual focus ring, and we've heard grumblings of a "noisier" picture.
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