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.
The new rules still require the House to pay for new entitlement spending but only with offsetting entitlement cuts tax hikes will no longer count.
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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.
Though Mr Lahoud can no longer count on the army, which has already disobeyed orders to crush the demonstrators, his security chiefs are continuing their reign.
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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"Due to the new realities of longevity, adult children who have rightfully assumed they would inherit something substantial from their parents and have lived their lives accordingly can no longer count on that, " says Lillian Rubin, a sociologist, psychologist and author.
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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.
Poland and other states should be under no illusion they can count on the U.S. in a crisis.
They will be hoping that there will be no more martyrs to count.
He can count on them as he can count on no other constituency.
Seven deaths were reported, however, in the first eight months of 2009 (by a no doubt conservative official count).
As far as I can tell, there were no corporate developments to count for this big jump in the stock.
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