Both sides now have a week to recover before they meet again at Whitehaven's Recreation Ground in the Championship opener on Sunday.
However, such an agreement proved impossible in the hyper-political climate of an election year, and the government-wide cuts opposed by both sides now are set to take effect.
Recent comments by both U.S. and Iranian officials seem to indicate that both sides now have a greater realization of the risks of brinkmanship and are willing to talk more seriously about their respective concerns.
Both sides now employ full-time public-relations specialists.
And then we suggest more than a dozen specific steps that could be taken by both sides, some jointly, some separately, to rebuild the confidence that's been so badly shattered, not just among the political leaders, but the public as well, the public on both sides now tends to disbelieve anything from the other side and then finally a resumption of meaningful negotiations.
Politicians and diplomats on both sides are now seeking to patch up the relationship.
Like the seasoned fencers that they are, both sides are now mixing provocative stuff with more measured statements.
But unlike 2008, when Republican turnout underwhelmed, Wisconsin voters on both sides are now engaged at a level not seen in recent memory.
"We have had several rounds of talks, including in Tehran last week, and a mechanism agreeable to both sides has now been reached, " Mr Nabizadeh said.
Both sides have now committed themselves to the Mitchell Report.
Both sides have now adopted the idea of a royal charter - a formal document used to set up bodies such as universities and the BBC - but there are key differences between the two plans.
"Now both sides have been trying to find common points to restore diplomatic relationships, " Esteruelas said.
Both sides of that equation now with new homeowners, Shane Latham and Kathy Valdez, Jesston Turner, who is behind on his mortgage, and Realtor Rachel Morales.
With representatives on both sides of the aisle now recognizing the importance of national investments in clean, American energy sources, new opportunities for bipartisan progress on clean energy may be possible where efforts to pass contentious cap and trade legislation have repeatedly failed.
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Now, you've seen both sides make their argument, and you know now what a fundamental choice we have ahead of us.
You see, now that both sides have made their argument, there's a big choice to make.
Now, both sides are preparing for a showdown over the fate of the New York Stock Exchange.
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Now, both sides have signaled they're willing to work together to give Americans what they asked for on Election Day.
Now, both sides have admitted that a full compliment of games in the form of an 82-game schedule remains a distinct possibility.
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The economies on both sides of the strait are now inextricably intertwined.
The draw now leaves both sides in the same league positions they were before the match, with Motherwell benefiting from the stalemate.
Now, you've now heard both sides make their argument, and I hope you know at this point there's a big choice to make.
Diplomats from both sides hope the issue can now be forgotten.
Having been talked up last month, the putative negotiations, ostensibly aimed at stabilising Iraq, seem distant now that both sides have sulkily averred that they never really wanted to talk at all.
And both sides may embrace a suggestion now endorsed by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to recalculate automatic cost-of-living increases for entitlement programs like Social Security, which many experts think are too high.
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