There is a moment before impact that is the last instant of things as they are.
Mr Sharon's own preference would be to keep things as they are, and continue ruling over parallel coalitions.
Drinks makers, such as Seagrams, and the South Carolina Liquor Wholesalers Association, want to keep things as they are.
The tweaker inherits things as they are, and has to push and pull them toward some more nearly perfect solution.
The greatest thing about America is that it has never been a nation to become comfortable with things as they are.
With things as they are, it's finding the extra money for that.
East-coast politicians and airlines like United, which have invested a lot of money in Dulles, are happy with things as they are.
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If we leave things as they are we will be left with crumbling buildings, mounting repair costs and escalating levels of council tax.
Mr Guriev suggests that the reason Russia has failed to modernise is that its ruling class can pocket rents from things as they are.
His choice, since he is not famous for caring much for the welfare of his people, could well be to continue things as they are.
Of course, the FTC looks at things as they are today, instead of how they might be down the road and perfunctorily approved the deal.
To make life better and not take things as they are.
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Mr. PROENCA: Why should a president who's certain to be re-elected, if things go as they are, change things as they are by addressing such an explosive issue?
"I like things as they are because the international doping agency needs to know every single day of my life where I am and if I'm changing locations, " Tipsarevic said.
Tellingly he accused the prime minister and the chancellor of suffering from "false consciousness" - a Marxist concept meaning that people are unable to see things as they really are.
Part of the problem is that the exchange has too many masters with too big an interest in things staying as they are.
Things remain as they are and therefore nothing ever changes.
If things continue as they are, with the economy in good shape, the polls still in the government's favour and no unforeseen "events" erupting to upset the apple cart, there is little reason for the prime minister to wait.
"If things continue as they are in Syria today, within a few months, proportionate to the size of the population, more people will have died in Syria than in the whole of the conflict since 2003 in Iraq, " he added.
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Where borders fall is as much a matter of how things are seen as how they really are.
We're going to -- and we're going to find out about why things are as good as they are there.
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The material needs that are fulfilled by good brands are only excuses to play language games that picture things, not as they are, but as they ought to be.
Forty per cent of our exports and more go into the Eurozone, so if things are spluttering there - as they are very seriously - then of course that affects us massively, which is why you know it's hugely in our national interest to make sure that the Eurozone is strong.
If things carry on as they are it'll be a, it'll be a, a slaughter for you.
But the civil service is a fundamental one and Robin's quite right, things cannot stay as they are.
Almunia is keeping Jens Lehmann out of the starting line-up and Wenger is happy for things to remain as they are.
Most have every reason to want things to continue as they are.
Already, opposition leaders privately fear that they will not manage to beat him at the polls if things go on as badly as they are.
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