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  • Unfortunately she has to work and then has class after work which is a bit of a bummer.
  • Unfortunately, she was also one of those women born to be adored by men.
  • The foreign birds, most of these parrots and cockatoos, unfortunately need to be kept in cages.
  • Unfortunately, in many cases, the first real symptom is a broken bone.
  • Unfortunately, many contaminants remain unbanned, and an average of seven new chemicals are put on the market daily, most of them not tested for toxicity.
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  • Unfortunately, I found the obvious talents of him and the director to have been gelded along the way and prevented from reaching the level of punch and impact that I think could have otherwise been delivered.
  • Unfortunately, the locker room is full of private equity houses hoping to refloat gym club chains. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unfortunately, these birds fed in large flocks on fruit and other crops, and were shot in huge numbers by farmers.
  • Unfortunately, the anger was short-lived and a teensy bit of paranoia set in.
  • Unfortunately, the group's dalliance with satanism proved to be their undoing, the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.
  • Unfortunately, alternatives to bombing the North Vietnam were hard to come by.
  • Unfortunately, we knew the shutout streak would come to an end," Buffalo captain Stu Barnes said. NHL - National Hockey League - Buffalo vs. Ottawa
  • Unfortunately, adhoc bibliographies date quickly and are not always brought up to date after initial publication.
  • Unfortunately, the company decided that after the Christmas rush, there was no need for all the extra people they took on, so your old pal Jean was out on her keister!
  • Unfortunately, the show's message to millions of impressionable teens is that it's OK to take drugs.
  • ‘Unfortunately, Bulgarian coal is lignite, we have no anthracite, no petrol or gas,’ he said.
  • Unfortunately, no one took my messages seriously.
  • Everything will work fine, but unfortunately your phone will be stuck in restore mode until you jailbreak it, which is what we're doing next.
  • Unfortunately the glow is so faint that no readily foreseeable telescope will be able to capture it.
  • All of these are unfortunately no more than vague calls for perfecting ourselves.
  • Unfortunately, there is a mentality in the federal bureaucracy that defies change and rejects innovation.
  • Unfortunately for both, their careers took a nosedive after they both became embroiled in controversy.
  • unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter
  • That argument is unfortunately over-simple.
  • Unfortunately I doubt the students know who Ezra Levant is and the vice-principal probably never gave them a chance to defend their shirts. The Volokh Conspiracy » Discourteous to Wear American Flag Images on Cinco de Mayo?
  • Unfortunately, academic research is not always about telling the truth.
  • I think on the one hand Leigh's talking most immediately about the issues developers have with criticism of games, which seems to stem from the use of metacritic as a basis for determining where money in the games industry goes, which unfortunately codifies antagonism between game critics and game creators, who both love games. Tape Song
  • Unfortunately, no details were given as to the criteria for selection of the hymnals nor were the hymnals themselves named.
  • Unfortunately, whatever mojo he worked in the mountains has reversed the Earth's cool polarity and Superman is temporarily cooler than Batman.
  • Unfortunately the problem of shoddy workmanship continues even today.
  • Catching colds is unfortunately an occupational hazard in this profession.
  • However, there are some excellent 'old labour 'style policies I'd vote for, unfortunately allied to post-modern, psuedo-sciencey rubbish that reads like the ramblings of a drugged horse (halts to stem cell research, animal experimentation and a promotion of alternative therpaies etc). The murky politics of the Green Party
  • Unfortunately, you can't become a nurse without submitting yourself to this horror.
  • Unfortunately, even where a study or claim is noted, the majority of the references in the endnotes section are in Norwegian and untranslated.
  • Unfortunately when washday comes, as it indubitably has, we can all be in for a right good soaking.
  • And Scotland has a habit of tripping up from time to time - unfortunately
  • Unfortunately, at this point you might also be feeling the beginnings of your resistance to sticking to your resolutions and asking yourself why discipline and willpower seem to elude you. Jason Mannino: How to Plan For R.E.A.L. Change
  • Unfortunately, Medusa chose just that moment to arrive with Stheno and Euryale. Aphrodite the Beauty
  • Scragg, meanwhile, stuck to her graymare, and went bumping along to the admiration of all beholders, and was soon out of sight: luckily a joskin, who witnessed my dear aunt's immersion, ran to her assistance, and, with the help of his pitch-fork, safely landed her; for unfortunately the pond was not above three or four feet deep! and so she missed the chance of being an angel! Sketches — Volume 05
  • The elements are present for a really good sci-fi cinematic romp but unfortunately the movie's screenplay holds the film back from achieving great things.
  • Similarly, in the blue crab Callinectes sapidus, identical pigments are found in the megalopal retina (unfortunately, zoea larvae have not yet been studied) and in the adult.
  • Unfortunately, this feature, together with poor detailing to the windows and the use of ferrous rods as wall ties, has led to structural problems due to water penetration.
  • The boys reddened, but unfortunately held their ground.
  • I am disabled with RA and nerve issues so unfortunately I become bedbound quite often. The Winner of the SlouchBack Giveaway
  • There was even a magician performing some wonderful tricks, unfortunately he had done a disappearing act by the time I turned up.
  • Unfortunately, the PSA department was not in the right hands, and by 1967, the cracks in the system had begun to show.
  • Unfortunately, the mob was more organized that they expected as freshly reloaded guns began to fire at them.
  • Unfortunately the final ball was often overhit and few chances were created.
  • Unfortunately, as a child, I was not given the opportunity to learn and as I have recently retired and have a little spare time on my hands, I thought it time to stop wittering on about it and bite the bullet.
  • Unfortunately it's weighted down with accretion upon accretion of utterly self-indulgent pomposity.
  • ‘Illegal occupants were previously removed last year due to unsafe building conditions, but unfortunately the building was reinvaded,’ Singh said.
  • Unfortunately, unless I'm mistaken, the on / off switch for that has disappeared from Blogger's publishing dashboard.
  • Unfortunately, none of these will fix or eliminate the damaged veins that hinder proper circulation of blood through the body.
  • Unfortunately, the America's-always-to-blame bozos get all the publicity - and you're giving them more by implying that their moral blindness characterizes the academy as a whole.
  • Unfortunately, we were going in the wrong direction.
  • Other annual writing competitions are open to unpublished writers, but note that some unfortunately, ask for an entry fee.
  • Unfortunately, when these rules are broken there is a real danger that an ingenuous error will evolve from self-delusion to fraud.
  • Unfortunately it was merely the not inconsiderable technical prowess of his dancers that Page showed off in his emotionally inexpressive choreography.
  • Unfortunately, in close combat, the rule is straight forward and brutal: the more ranks you have the better.
  • Unfortunately, the society that we live in reinforces the belief that you can't make money doing what you love but rather earning money doing something that you have no passion for. Natasha Dern: Finding Success: Are You Doing What You Love?
  • Some of those antiquated attitudes are unfortunately still kicking around, according to Warner.
  • This, unfortunately, is a human condition we are now finally becoming keenly “aware” of. Legalizing drug user possession
  • Suddenly, benign words like "boutonniere" and "function hall" have the power to bring Andy to his knees but not, unfortunately, in the proposal position. Get Real Men Of Steel!
  • Before anything approaching a thorough and profitable study of the sounds of the American common speech is possible, there must be a careful assembling of the materials, and this, unfortunately, still awaits a phonologist of sufficient enterprise and equipment. Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 10. Vulgar Pronunciation
  • Unfortunately, because I was so worried that my art work would not be good enough, I wasn't really concerned about what I was supposed to be learning.
  • Unfortunately, that is highly unlikely in the United States, where a bloated budget deficit has already become a major talking point for politicians looking to November's congressional elections.
  • Unfortunately, on the last restart, I got caught behind a backmarker and dropped from third to seventh.
  • Unfortunately for Mark, although he came through the war unscathed, he has suffered since.
  • The syncopations available through this electro-extension were captivating, though Kim's performance was unfortunately marred by the multiple technical failures.
  • Good stuff, but unfortunately I still think Rand would just roll up and balefire everyone. I Can Haz Better Stories Pls?
  • It all comes down to ignorance though, fundamentally, if a substantial minority of the population is unable to even attempt an informed debate without resorting to pachydermal vitriol, then you will unfortunately be left with a corrupt, morally bankrupt set of lunatics. McCain's Lying Has Gone Too Far, According To ... Karl Rove!
  • Unfortunately, it is difficult to give the Pittsburgh Steelers that honor.
  • Unfortunately the minuses of the disc so outweigh the scant positives.
  • Unfortunately the tendering process is compromising the value of that investment. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do to improve matters.
  • Unfortunately, rather than considering specific solutions, opponents of spam are currently adopting a blunderbuss approach, latching on to every anti-spam technology going in the vain hope that one of them might do the job.
  • He usually works in this breezy location, which, unfortunately, he cannot afford to connect to the electricity grid.
  • Unfortunately, due to the large number of papers presented at most sessions, hardly any discussion took place.
  • Unfortunately the next day was gray and "muggy" -- a quality which the Queen had been told was characteristic of the Irish climate. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2
  • Unfortunately, she's picked a substantial, all-dressed high-school boy. Meli Diary Entry
  • The economy will eventually turn around and it will happen soon, unfortunately americans have become so clueless, partisan and ingrateful, that america will be stuck in soul less and angy recovery for years to come. Obama: Jobs news 'modestly encouraging'
  • Unfortunately, the conservative argument against gay marriage often reeks of hypocrisy.
  • Unfortunately, his vendetta against us will only serve to ruin football for the masses. The Sun
  • Unfortunately, however, kids today are not just growing upwards, they are growing outwards.
  • Unfortunately, since volunteering means absenting oneself from employment, not everyone can afford the experience.
  • Unfortunately, this approach has the unintended potential consequence of increasing stock option overhang.
  • Unfortunately it has not been possible before this to remove all diseased portions, no matter what method was applied, because often tiny lupous tubercles spring up which are almost invisible to the naked eye. Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated
  • Unfortunately they were unable to find a suitable person to fill the post .
  • Unfortunately, this manipulation results in their coming off as the most two-dimensional characters.
  • Seated in a large arm-chair, a smoking tumbler of mulled port before him, sat my friend Mike, dressed in my full regimentals, even to the helmet, which, unfortunately however for the effect, he had put on back foremost; a short "dudeen" graced his lip, and the trumpet so frequently alluded to lay near him. Charles O'Malley — Volume 2
  • I tried to get the money off him later, told him she'd changed her mind, but unfortunately he twigged and---" I laughed. GO!
  • Unfortunately, pesticides kill off beneficial insects as well as harmful ones.
  • Unfortunately, suburban sprawl in the area limits further extension of the quarry perimeter, and it is likely that this quarry may run out of stone to blast by 2015.
  • Unfortunately the public conflated fiction with reality and made her into a saint.
  • Not many cities, unfortunately, have been means to announce such certain mercantile headlines in the stream business climate. Editorial: chattem commits to city, growth
  • The latest survey of women's and children's health and nutrition, based on a survey of 23,000 households throughout the nation, reveals that a marked decrease in malnutrition is being replaced, unfortunately, by a higher incidence of obesity. Lloyd Mexico Economic Report - August 2000
  • The situation is at the stage where the total damage cannot be estimated, because the water has not cleared, as yet, and unfortunately today they are expecting more rain.
  • Finally Parker raises, but unfortunately has not space to pursue, the important issue of the light changes in patterns of theophoric name usage may shed on changes in religious attitudes.
  • Unfortunately, the headhunter forgot to inform the candidate, so the meeting between the candidate and the client collapsed in misunderstanding.
  • Unfortunately, the proposed code appears to be little more than another exercise in self-justification by the commission.
  • Unfortunately they can often be abrasive and overbearing personality types.
  • Unfortunately for him it is not entirely populated by dorks, and the same people that can succeed in sport can also have sharp intellect.
  • a subtone, his brain was afire with keen activity; but unfortunately for the going forward of things, this mental state was divided into so many battalions, led by so many generals, indirectly and indecisively, nowhere. The Place of Honeymoons
  • Unfortunately, bankers and investment analysts took it seriously - unable, it seems, to do simple sums.
  • Unfortunately, while it is eminently pragmatic, that doesn't mean that it's actually morally right.
  • Martin Kozlowski Asked to critique these endeavors, Mr. Gates demurs: "I applaud people for coming into this space, but unfortunately it hasn't led to significant improvements. Was the $5 Billion Worth It?
  • Unfortunately the bashing our President has incurred is evidence that we still need more growth. Gingrich praises Obama's speech
  • Unfortunately for Stanley, these are the footgear of baseball player Clyde Livingstone, who has donated them to a local orphanage.
  • Unfortunately for Dr. Newdow, the mother she spends the other 20 days or so with is just fine with the pledge, and the court isn't interested in refereeing the family feud. Archive 2004-06-01
  • Unfortunately, this species sometimes hybridizes with its distasteful European cousin (especially near urban areas), polluting its pure flavor.
  • Unfortunately, quite a few children with attention control problems are accurately described as insatiable. A Mind at a Time
  • Unfortunately time was against me and I didn't read as much of it as I probably should have done, so when I saw the pocketbook in a bookshop in Cardiff itself, I bought it immediately.
  • Unfortunately, the lady who usually catered to that sort of need was "inconvenienced" with her moon-days. Oathblood
  • Unfortunately, the tire blew out on my way to office.
  • Unfortunately, not all newsreader software (the programs you and I use to access newsgroups) can handle this new method, and that's creating a real bunfight in the binaries newsgroups.
  • Unfortunately, VOD probably won't offer movies in letterbox format with extra goodies like DVDs do.
  • Unfortunately some paint splashed onto the rug.
  • Now in Ljubljana, although unfortunately we're having a bit of a downpour, that doesn't look like it's about to let up. Breakfast in Bed
  • Unfortunately, I was still very clumsy behind the wheel of the jeep.
  • Unfortunately, the first test was not one of driving experience or skills, but how many squat thrusts and press-ups could be completed in five minutes.
  • Such lack of organization was unfortunately all too common among preachers of his day.
  • Unfortunately, in spite of some progress, many of these kids are still tormented and teased.
  • Now, unfortunately, it seems that I am retroactively a lawbreaker.
  • Unfortunately, the music on the whole is prosaic, even boring at times.
  • Unfortunately, the disclosures are hard to read due to legalese and boilerplate language.
  • Difficult in this practical time to find a sincere husband like Wally & a lover wife like Fae, they are a romantic couple disappeared unfortunately from the youth generation, except few young people. John Brown – the author’s official site » Blog Archive » “Wally” by Aslyn
  • Unfortunately, without his glasses, George literally could not distinguish a tramcar from a haystack. THE LONELY SEA
  • This unfortunately means that the difficult and tragic is overrepresented in the discussion. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unfortunately, for me, the audio is almost impossible to hear. Meet Dana Walsh (R CAND, CA-08). | RedState
  • Unfortunately she was sitting next to him - he was silently adamant about that.
  • Unfortunately, it falls short when it comes to the main story, which is (to be kind) overfamiliar.
  • Unfortunately, another hinderance is your son’s age. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Trying to Find a Job As A Teenager
  • Unfortunately, what could have been a powerful drama fell flat.
  • I actually caught the error and corrected it in the draft, but unfortunately, the uncorrected version was sent out.
  • Unfortunately, the severity of the fire meant that as he set a path for Le Bourget he lost both port engines as the fire consumed the left hand side of the aircraft and all controls failed to respond.
  • Unfortunately, this record didn't get a lot of airplay, which is a typical problem for so many bands today because the radio can be so narrow. Mike Ragogna: Monday Madness: Chatting with Rob Zombie, Danny Elfman, Devo's Gerald Casale and More
  • Unfortunately, Toni reflected, even war could not eliminate the emotional complications which beset man's life. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • Unfortunately, his name is often most closely identified with these works that actually are only tangential to his primary concerns.
  • Unfortunately, the advertiser didn't count on dim-witted viewers.
  • However, this patient unfortunately died shortly after transformation of this papillary thyroid carcinoma.
  • Unfortunately, the Dingle man managed to get his ball just nine metres from the hole but it was a very credible attempt for someone unused to the tee.
  • Unfortunately I have to update the operating system regularly; and when every PHP application running on my computer and in needs of talking to a MySQL database started malfunctioning after the 10.4.4 update, I began to transform my disappointment in angriness. The wonderful world of Apple RSS « Scripting News Annex
  • Unfortunately, the values and ideals were also created by those badly behaved Europeans in conditions that the European Union is now desperate to abolish, that is small and medium-sized, competing political entities. Myth of the week
  • Unfortunately for him, Alfred had been well trained and Bastide staggered back, clutching a bloody nose.
  • Unfortunately, fairly or unfairly, the way this has been done has created the impression in some minds that the President is running for a fourth term by proxy.
  • Quantifying the compensatory award Unfortunately, but perhaps inevitably, the calculation of the compensatory award is highly speculative.
  • The long PDF explaining their "polymorphic cipher theory" is, unfortunately, no longer available.
  • Unfortunately, there are way too many people that think the UN is the end-all, be-all.
  • Unfortunately, I don't see any future for nunhood in the western world. Women of God
  • Unfortunately the puckering is really distracting and it's not Althea's best work. Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 12 Recap: Let's Getty It Over With
  • Unfortunately, the kids 'space could have been much improved if the building design hadn't been negatively impacted by foolish conceits about historic design which determined the fenestration of the basement wall on the south side. Georgetown Library to reopen
  • So what's happened, unfortunately, in many, many states around the country, due to political pressure, not due to what's right for children, not due to what's right for education, not due to what's right for our country's economy, but due to political pressure, many states have dummied-down standards. Students Quiz Education Sec. Arne Duncan
  • He pitched once again phenomenally, unfortunately we only scored one run," Florida left fielder Jeff Conine said. USATODAY.com
  • I'm praying this is it... but unfortunately... in an alternate time-line, Peter and MJ have a daughter May(spider-girl who is a young teenager) and a red haired BABY BOY Ben(called Benjy). Is Peter Parker a Father in Spider-Man 4? | /Film
  • The problem with that, unfortunately, is that in my dotage I have rapidly fading memories, and rapidly fading images in my brain of who I did, and how what and when I did what I did, never mind why.
  • This unfortunately has once again canceled my Readathon aspirations. Readathon « A Working Title
  • This is a complex and interesting topic (not discussed thoroughly enough in the rather short article, unfortunately), but the subtitle of the article really killed it.
  • Unfortunately, if he doesn't agree with you, he tends to tear into you.
  • Unfortunately, Mr. Pennebaker's attempts to relay these results to a nonexpert audience sometimes get in his own way. 'I' Is a Window To the Soul
  • Unfortunately, the only thing we can do is hope to flush the poison out of his system.
  • I guess it's just the hand we've been dealt and unfortunately we just have to play it out.
  • Unfortunately their specific status remains uncertain as not enough data is known – while populations might be continuous with B. celebensis and hence referable to that species, a skull from near Kulawi in central Sulawesi differs from other babirusas in being particularly small, in having proportionally long lower premolars, and in various cranial proportions. Archive 2006-08-01
  • Unfortunately for the labourers of the castellany of The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
  • The term successful, unfortunately, is a bit of a-- a bit of a vague term. CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2006
  • But unfortunately, up to now, we know little about the model-making technique for no recordation about ancient bronze casting technology and the short of unearthed archaeological materials.
  • We ended up spending an additional day in Montanita (not that this was much of a hardship) but it was unfortunately due to (in addition to my oesophagitis) the Ecuadorian equivalent of Deli belly ... nice! TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • Unfortunately, once it has taken hold, cyberchondria can be hard to cure. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unfortunately these drugs are quite toxic and hinder the body's ability to fight off infection.
  • Their affection blossoms into love which is unfortunately unattainable.
  • Unfortunately, the bright neon sign did not emit infrared light.
  • Unfortunately, there is little prospect of seeing these big questions answered.
  • Unfortunately waning gibbous moon is up between midnight and dawn – the best hours for meteor - watching.
  • It is the habit of men of all nations to want to have things both ways; the Englishman is unfortunately so unable to express himself, _even to himself_, that he has never realized this truth, much less confessed it -- hence his appearance of hypocrisy. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
  • Unfortunately quite a few were killed by vehicles but if grazing had been effective on neighbouring paddocks, many of the roos would have been saved.
  • Unfortunately, credentialing requirements and subject matter for board examinations drive medical education and training.
  • Unfortunately he added to his list of injuries by twisting an ankle on landing.
  • Unfortunately, it makes the front stage curtain look shabby.
  • Unfortunately, the problems Mike has had to deal with are skimmed over in a hastily produced final chapter.
  • But, unfortunately, some parents seem to be oblivious to this perception and abandon such children to their fate.
  • Every politician has a promising career. Unfortunately, most of them do not keep those promises. Jarod Kintz 
  • Unfortunately, this kindly pledge is not forthcoming in the case of the third R, arithmetic, for in mathematics, virtually every time you turn your brain around they challenge or, maybe better said, taunt you with a new potentially ego-threatening subskill to conquer. A Mind at a Time
  • Every politician has a promising career. Unfortunately, most of them do not keep those promises. Jarod Kintz 
  • Unfortunately, the presence of minute ore particles had a real impact on our attempt to photograph the ships.
  • Unfortunately, very little data regarding outcomes following penetrating trauma in the elderly exists.
  • Unfortunately, the bus driver decides to call a one-man strike at the Palazzo Venezia and we have to foot it from there.
  • Unfortunately, no trace of the Royal High School's curriculum for writing and bookkeeping at the precise time of Scott's pupilage survives.
  • Unfortunately, Mary then decided her parking wasn't absolutely perfect.
  • Unfortunately, past the chalet, the wind has come up and the final 6 kilometres over the moonscape is a vastly different challenge from our first ascent from Bedoin. PezCyclingNews.com
  • Unfortunately, many of the most interesting and germane points appear in the endnotes.
  • Unfortunately, its excellent concertmaster and first violinist, Guillermo Figueroa, may be leaving, so the season became one long audition of violin soloists.
  • Unfortunately for Barbie, Blaine is always hopped up on coke and is probably more interested in Ken anyway.
  • Unfortunately, as a standard mattress wears, the springs soften and so do not support your spine.
  • Unfortunately, now four years later our original leader has become a cartoon caricature.
  • I unfortunately lost the pictures of his very slick bridles, but he has created two aerotow bridles from Spectra and Vectran lines in thicknesses used for shroud lines on parachutes.
  • Unfortunately, that business about the back door and the special restroom is probably too true of more than half the Republipimps, Cons, Neo-Cons, Tea Baggoids, and all of Dookie. Think Progress » Congressional GOP wants to keep Steele ‘out of sight, out of mind.’
  • Unfortunately, by the time they arrived, my tastebuds had changed their mind and started eyeing my Timothy's scrambled eggs in an acquisitive manner.
  • Unfortunately, across the club, I saw her still deep in conversation with several finely dressed men.
  • Unfortunately, the early nineteen-eighties were not perhaps the best years for small, traditional, inherited merchant banks. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
  • `Unfortunately, Mr President, there's nothing in the Constitution requiring the electorate to be consistent or even reasonable. WALL GAMES
  • Unfortunately his car had to be withdrawn from the feature due to a bent axle.

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