Still, it makes an indispensable contribution to the reckoning that will come, in due course.
After all the papering over, the fudging and the hopes that defied experience comes the reckoning.
For the fairness obviously depends upon who is doing the reckoning of the fairness.
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Yet even if a bust-up can be averted, it would only postpone the reckoning.
On paper, Kingdoms of Amalur: The Reckoning, and The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, look almost identical.
"I would be very surprised if he didn't come into the reckoning for the Wales squad, " said Jones.
And then not even the bleakest corners in our diagram's bottom half can be dismissed from the reckoning.
For 17 years, GERS has meant the reckoning by St Andrew's House number-crunchers of Scotland's profit and loss accounts.
Just as with the Washington debt-ceiling pact, the reckoning is being put off.
The visitors were already out of the reckoning for a place in the quarter-finals while Toulouse were hoping for a bonus-point win.
Captain Ronnie Irani no longer bowls, but his knee problem has flared up and he is out of the reckoning too at present.
And McGregor's pre-season appearances against Nuremberg, Arsenal and Portsmouth mean he could be back in the reckoning despite his indiscretions with the national team.
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How else to explain the reckoning that output in the health sector in the UK has risen 15% since mid-2008, but in Scotland by only 5%?
But when the candidates did proceed to frame guns in the context of larger American issues, they lured us away from the reckoning we need.
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The Almanack's editor Scyld Berry told BBC Sport Sidebottom had gone from being out of the reckoning altogether to England's no. 1 bowler in less than a year.
The other day, I criticized Kingdoms of Amalur: The Reckoning, saying that despite capable gameplay, a well-built world, and easy RPG mechanics, it had no style.
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In this business, she's the one holding the reckoning tablet.
Mr Toledo has also opened the door to the reckoning the armed forces never faced under Mr Fujimori for abuses in the crushing of terrorism in the 1980s and 1990s.
But it is the lure of playing Champions League football again which excites Owen -- as he tries to force his way back into the reckoning with England coach Fabio Capello.
On politics, Don Watson's Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, his biography of Paul Keating, featured in the reckoning, as did Paul Kelly's March of the Patriots: the Struggle for Modern Australia.
Now that the reckoning is here, it becomes a little easier to see that we fool ourselves with the apparent cheapness of subsidized oil and that a healthy environment is priceless beyond reckoning.
If Onions is not fit, his Durham team-mate Steve Harmison could come into the reckoning after taking 6-20 in 13 overs to help his county to an innings victory over Nottinghamshire last week.
Graeme Dott is out of the reckoning after losing 4-0 to Anthony Hamilton, his third successive defeat, while world champion and world number one John Higgins cruised to a 4-0 win over Mark King.
Tim Bresnan looks well below being a Test-class new-ball bowler, and though we can bear in mind that Stuart Broad and Graham Onions are ahead of him in the reckoning, this is not proving to be a great match for Bresnan.
And with Tottenham's Aaron Lennon still suffering from a groin problem, Capello may now turn to both Theo Walcott and Shaun Wright-Phillips to cover the right side of midfield, with James Milner, Joe Cole, Stewart Downing and Adam Johnson also in the reckoning.
By the reckoning of Lena Wilson, chief executive of Scottish Enterprise, who joined Mr Swinney for today's strategy launch, there are around 600 companies currently using skills that could be applied to the low carbon economy, but which are not yet being applied: traditional engineering, for instance, or aerospace.
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