Still, for whatever reason -- given his majorities in the Congress -- it was now or never.
The implication builds in scene after scene that it was truly now or never for abolition by the end of January 1865.
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Guevares figured it was now or never for his family of four.
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Now or never also tripped off the tongue in 1978 when Jimmy Carter invited Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin to the presidential hideaway.
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In Chamberlain's final year before free agency, it is now or never for the one-time phenom to prove he should be part of the Yankees' future.
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Speaking in Omagh on Monday, he said it was "now or never for the agreement - there could be no second chances, no replacement and no going back".
This is a now or never moment - kick polio off the planet over the next few years or face a humiliating retreat which could see the virus re-emerge in scores of countries.
Classical pianist Lang Lang thumped out "Rhapsody In Blue, " before tenor Alfie Boe segued "O Sole Mio" into "It's Now Or Never, " jiving on the spot for the latter in a matter unbecoming of most opera singers.
"It's now or maybe never for me, " he said in an interview last month.
Contrary to her detractors' caricature, she is not claiming that marriage is a now-or-never proposition for Princeton women, only that now is far more opportune than later is likely ever to be.
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You need to understand and capitalize on the decisive moments of empowered customers now-or-never.
For the FN leader, Marine Le Pen, it is a now-or-never moment.
This, above all else, has dictated the timing of the crucial summit between Mr Clinton, Mr Arafat and Israel's current prime minister, Ehud Barak, at Camp David, giving it sudden now-or-never urgency.
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We must take care now or our children will never know the real story of our country.
Thousands of buyers now fear they may never see their properties finished or, worse, not get their money back.
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Now points never expire and there are no blackout dates or limited availability.
As I suggested in my column last weekend, the Fed may now be wishing it had never mentioned quantitative easing, or virtually guaranteed markets a large program of easing, the extent of which it will announce after its FOMC meeting next Wednesday.
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And there are certainly places, like Ciudad Juarez or Tamaulipas state, I'd never visit now.
Oprah Winfrey has never lacked for fans or buzz, and now she has Madison Avenue on her side for her new venture.
Zynga grew fast and hard under circumstances that will never exist again, and now its seeing whether or not it can hang onto that growth.
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Thus, the real political equation in Egypt is not now nor never has been the MB versus Mubarak's regime or SCAF.
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But as of now, I've never been offered anything which excited me or something that I felt would be challenging enough for me to do.
You never got this kind of drama back in the old days of video game funding, or at least we were never privy to it before now.
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Interoperability, which has never been a priority for vendors or hospitals, is now at the forefront, driven by payments tied to care coordination.
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