Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms.

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The OECD released strategic oil reserves in response to the situation in Libya to help bring down prices temporarily, but with the exception of a fall in WTI crude prices in the U.S., oil prices have remained steady despite the gathering clouds over the economy.

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There are dark clouds gathering over 4G wireless carrier Clearwire.

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Look out into 2011, and you can see the clouds gathering.

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But there are some clouds gathering over new-world vineyards.

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But there are storm clouds gathering here too.

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Australia took two more wickets but with dark clouds gathering and causing the light to deteriorate rapidly Ponting turned to leg-spinner Smith, whose second ball was smashed for six by Umar Akmal as Pakistan continued their domination.

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Unfortunately, dark clouds are gathering as pursuit of that path seems less likely this afternoon.

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Not only is this six-seater the smallest airplane I've ever been in, but it's also windy outside -- and storm clouds are gathering.

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The attack continued, but De Villiers finally pulled Broad to mid-on, and by the time Ryan McLaren walked out the storm clouds were gathering.

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It figured that out in the 1930s as storm clouds were gathering in the Pacific, correctly anticipating that America might need to conduct an island-hopping campaign against entrenched Japanese forces.

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But Mr. Ryan's advocacy of that principle is particularly important now because storm clouds are gathering over the push for immigration changes, among other conservatives generally and in the House in particular.

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The dark clouds of economic ruin are already gathering.

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As the sun set, a summer storm was gathering, and Henry watched lightning flicker across the clouds.

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One cold night in 1957, walking home from his salt-making factory in Osaka, in Japan, Mr Ando saw white clouds of steam in the street, and a crowd of people gathering.

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After gathering precise measurements of the rotation and velocity of an incoming asteroid, two large clouds of white paintballs would be shot at the asteroid from a nearby spaceship.

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