Right up to the moment of the announcement insiders at Swans were confident they had done enough.
Celebrities are all about portraying their marriages as nothing less than perfect right up to the moment they file for divorce.
Then again, General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, his predecessor, repeatedly made the same promise right up to the moment he overthrew Mr Thaksin.
It's human nature to imagine that your business will evolve in predictable ways--right up to the moment when the Cheap Revolution rears up to smack you.
The price kept to its downward course through the rest of the week, right up to the moment of the bankruptcy filing on Monday, October 17, 2005.
People tolerate splitting up to the moment they understand it.
An exaggerated performance will sink the show, but Ms. Morsey is careful to carry herself in the genteel manner of a Southern lady right up to the moment when she unsheathes her razor and starts slashing.
It would be an understatement to say there's been a long build-up to the moment when Voyager 1 ventures into interstellar space: scientists thought the probe was on the edge back in 2010, and we've been waiting for the official milestone ever since.
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These include some reassuringly familiar types, such as the heroic pragmatist (Thomas Jane), the consoling schoolteacher (Laurie Holden), the finger-pointing nutcase (Marcia Gay Harden), and the skeptic (Andre Braugher) who refuses to believe in giant, writhing flesh-eaters right up to the moment at which he meets them socially.
The CIA contacts, and all the front companies, continued sending arms to Angola and boats to the Congo, bringing intelligence back right up to the moment when he stood in a federal court, in 1983, accused among other things of shipping the explosives and sending the guns to Libya without a licence.
And some of them may continue up to the last moment, because we need to be sure that that failsafe option is there -- even as we pursue, aggressively, the possibility of doing something bigger.
And the 49ers and their second-year quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, looked shaky and not up to the big moment.
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In fact everyone expects to grandstand this disaster right up to the last moment when angels will sing and the disaster is averted.
So we may as well surrender the meeting, the interview, the negotiation, the book deal, and open ourselves up to the flow of the moment.
She could play Bob like a fish right up to the final moment, then leave him cold with his pants around his ankles: a satisfaction, but a minor one.
Also there will be an attempt to speed up the signing of deals, or the procurement process - which can take up to five years at the moment - by setting an 18-month deadline (at which point, any public sector money allocated to the project would be reallocated).
The electoral commission unhelpfully kept up the suspense to the last moment, as its chairman delivered a rambling speech before at last confirming that the Muslim Brotherhood's first count deviated by a mere 0.017% from the official one.
When that failed, he marched right up to stage at the key moment to take a peek.
These leaders cut through the red tape, change processes, step in, and show up at the critical moment to rally the team and make things happen.
Vatican officials said 50, 000 tickets had been handed out for Benedict's last general audience -- but authorities said they had prepared for as many as 200, 000 people to show up to witness the historic moment in person.
Within 50 years the prevalence of HIV would drop below 1%, compared with up to 30% at the moment in the worst-affected areas.
It was for precisely that reason that the service chiefs insisted on a broader interpretation of Article I (S) throughout the negotiation of the CWC, during the period subsequent to its signature and up until the moment this Spring when they were overruled by the Clinton White House.
As has become the norm in America, the negotiation seems set to continue right up until the last moment.
Such specificity enables the player, who is wrapped up in the moment of the game, to focus on one or two things as a means of exerting effort and making plays.
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Well Mr Hinduja's in Delhi facing up to corruption charges at the moment, which he's passionately saying he's not guilty of - that's a quite unrelated matter, but a little earlier this morning we managed to talk to him and I began by asking exactly what happened between him and Mr Mandelson.
While he's beating up on the iPad, however, Doctorow takes a moment to tell the rest of us to stop beating up on Mom.
What is appealing to me about this stock at the moment is the potential that is showing up on the weekly chart should it continue to gather moment.
With Spanish borrowing costs edging up to 6.7%, the moment is approaching when Madrid will struggle to finance its needs at such rates.
Mr Blair's biggest mistake was to accept the October 2002 deal, at a weak moment in the run-up to the Iraq war.
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The National Republican Senatorial Committee jumped in as well, quickly setting up a donation page to capitalize on the moment.
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