• The power plays among the three big parties seem to be starting to unfold in earnest.

    CNN: Deal-Making Time

  • Economic growth this year is expected to hit a repectable 5.3% - and growth is sure to be spurred once the rebuilding begins in earnest, although the government has yet to put a firm price on the daunting reconstruction bill.

    CNN: Quake Politics

  • After days of unprecedented face-to-face talks with Sinn Fein, Mr Trimble seems to be convinced that they are in earnest about peace.

    ECONOMIST: Ever closer

  • Board of Education ordering schools to be desegregated, and it took another decade for the federal government to enforce it in earnest.

    FORBES: Obama, The Con Law Prof, Had Little Choice On Gay Marriage

  • Like his newspaper, Mr Frankel can be over-earnest and he sometimes leans too far backwards in an endeavour to be fair.

    ECONOMIST: New York opinion-makers

  • At least until the 1990s, when the collapse of the state sector began in earnest, workers aspired to be party members because membership gave them power.

    ECONOMIST: Economically, but not politically

  • Now that the government seems to be easing or dropping the conditions attached to these funds, some banks are beginning to talk in earnest about getting their hands on them.

    ECONOMIST: Japanese banks

  • English title holder Dodson also claims to be in top shape as the build-up to his clash with 'The Cobra' begins in earnest.

    BBC: SPORT | Boxing | Froch pledges to knock out Dodson

  • The parliamentary elections, considered the more perilous as the factions are expected to compete for power in earnest then, will be put off until next spring.

    ECONOMIST: Afghanistan: A little good news | The

  • Construction on the facility - believed by the US to be large enough to contain 3, 000 centrifuges, not large enough for commercial work - started in earnest in mid-2006, diplomatic sources said.

    BBC: Iran 'concealed nuclear facility'

  • Before that happens in earnest, a new Iraqi leadership has to be formed.

    ECONOMIST: Back to work | The

  • It all started in earnest because you don't really need to be in the middle of Silicon Valley any more to start a company.

    BBC: Business

  • Conventional wisdom suggests that whatever pain these stocks may be experiencing now could be alleviated as we move closer to the holidays and travel planning resumes in earnest.

    FORBES: The Return of the Negotiator and the Revival of Priceline

  • These are small points in the face of a meal that manages to be both refined and genial, earnest but not precious.

    NEWYORKER: Aska

  • Savings begin in earnest only next year, when a different government with ideas of its own is likely to be in office.

    ECONOMIST: Polish politics

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