John Bridgeman, the present director-general, is on the point of being pushed out, having upset too many ministers.
Although America's economy no longer looks on the point of collapse, it has failed to return to healthy growth.
On the point of twins, a look at the family tree might help.
The man beside him, on the point of jumping off, had taken a bullet in the face and gone under.
However, on the point of how we have learned from our old titles, there are a few things of note.
In nineteen eighty-one, Iraq was on the point of acquiring nuclear power. 10.17.01 Narrator The Osirak reactor was an experimental plutonium plant.
On the point of intellect, the show makes an awkward but compelling case that Marcel Duchamp stands centrally in the history of abstraction.
At the time it was derelict, on the point of collapse, but they have renovated it to meet the specifications of a luxury retreat.
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Ponty returned on the offensive and during a spell in Caerphilly's 22 Parker and Gareth Wyatt were desperately tackled on the point of touchdown.
In 1994, when Mr Savimbi was on the point of possible capture, the politicians signed a peace agreement and ordered the soldiers to halt their advance.
It stands on two fore legs and one hind leg, with the other hind leg raised and touching the ground only on the point of the hoof.
So why not, the Americans seem on the point of urging, stop fiddling around, get down to the big issues at once and shorten the three-year deadline?
And it was, as we now know from Alistair Darling, on the point of making that cameraman's behaviour entirely rational: the ATMs were "hours away" from shutting down.
Depending on the point of view, zombies may result from an act of God, the irresponsible use of science, an environmental disaster, a cosmic event and so forth.
England rediscovered the faith that had deserted them during the half-time interval against Sweden - and a famous and wonderfully well-deserved victory was on the point of being won.
Moreover, Facebook has nowhere near as robust an advertising model as, say, Google, whose search-related ads are served up to users when they are often on the point of making a purchase.
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The Americans were on the point of agreeing to this (a reward for British toadying, say the jealous, and not only they) when the situation in Sierra Leone fell apart, as did the mission's purpose.
The official line, that the suspects were on the point of fleeing, got some confirmation from the fact that one of them did indeed get away to Cyprus, where he was arrested and then, inexplicably, bailed.
Turkey and Brazil resuscitated the deal in the spring of 2010, but by then Iran's stockpile had grown and Mr Obama was on the point of guiding a new, hard-won sanctions resolution through the Security Council.
His struggle nearly 40 years ago to renounce his peerage so that he could sit as a commoner in the elected house seems a small thing now that hereditary peerage itself is on the point of being evicted from Westminster.
Indeed, K-J relies on widespread brand recognition. (Jackson filed a losing lawsuit against Gallo for mimicking K-J's label with its cheaper Turning Leaf line.) But Jackson believes that wine is sold differently from other consumer products: K-J eschews most advertising--it focuses instead on the point of sale in restaurants and retailers.
Given the enormous obligations of many Ivy League endowments to fund general university operations, their portfolios were positioned on the wrong point of the efficient frontier.
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On the highest point of the roof gable, a vaned wind turbine was located.
On the high point of the first, Edburton Hill, are the earthworks of a motte-and-bailey castle, which in spring and early summer are a knee-high wildflower meadow: agrimony, wild mignonette, red clover, yellow rattle, marjoram, scabious, knapweed and the odd tall bolt of fireweed, through all of which wander string-like stems of bindweed.
The Russian's ability to serve out the set was not fully tested when, at 5-3, Djokovic double-faulted on the first point of a game for the second time, soon found himself two set points down, and then watched as a Davydenko sliced return floated past him into the corner.
Google counters that the two firms should have tried to negotiate a deal based on the starting point of a 2.25% royalty demand, which it described as "the only logical starting point" since it had agreed other licences on this basis.
Google countered that the two firms should have tried to negotiate a deal based on the starting point of a 2.25% royalty demand, which it described as "the only logical starting point" since it had agreed other licences on this basis.
On the specific point of a leak inquiry, he said it was a "long-established practice" of the Treasury not to comment on whether a leak inquiry has been established or not.
If one train were to run over that track then on the train we would also have Point A1 on the wagon of the train correspondent to above Point A and also one other corresponding Point B1 right above Point B.
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This weekend, in addition to being the groundbreaking time when a national institution auctions off oversized goldfish, is also the time that we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Trieste descending to the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest point on earth 7 miles beneath the shiny waves of the Pacific Ocean.
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