1. Fifty years later, some of the tanks and field guns that survived the momentous battle are lined up, freshly painted, in the parking lot at the war museum. 2. The forthcoming European summit in Brussels may be marginally less momentous than the Potsdam conference of 1945, but that event provides the closest historical analogy to the odd circumstances in which next week's gathering will take place. 3. The table was littered with account books and pamphlets. 4. Advocates of school vouchers were disappointed that Mr. Bush did not push harder for a pilot voucher project in Texas. 5. Motorists are offered a guide to the 10 most popular routes likely to be taken by caravan enthusiasts this summer. 6. The question is whether the oil-consuming nations have enough leverage to persuade oil exporters to take action. 7. For more than a decade, Tony Blair dominated the nation's political landscape as prime minister, the most electorally successful leader of the UK Labor party since the Second World War. 8. ABB, the Swiss-Swedish engineering group enjoyed startlingly positive academic acclaim in the 1990s, only for the story to change dramatically a couple of years later. 9. Women who want to make the break back into scientific research should try emphasizing their academic age rather than their chronological age. 10. The CIA and FBI work at stopping threats before they happen, while the Energy Department focuses on responding to actual emergencies. 11. Whenever challenged with these lies we will aggressively push back with the truth. 12. Aggressive skating isn't exactly the safest sport around but it sure is one of the most exciting and impressive. 13. A critical role in early stages of children's education is assigned to parents. 14. As Africans we consider the forthcoming election in Zimbabwe to be critical. 15. It's critical to remove the dramatic effect the Depression had on this generation. 16. Because France does not collect official information by religion, it is hard to say whether the assumption is accurate. 17. Financial markets can value a stock or tx)nd more accurately than any individual expert. 18. The new text of the Constitution will merely drop the word «constitution», the UN flag and anthem and the phrase «foreign minister». 19. In East Africa, the United States is already intimately involved in a full-Mown offensive against al-Qaeda in Somalia. 20. Lord Drayson is reported to have made a personal for-
tune of around £80m from a revolutionary needle-free injection system and was made a life peer by Tony Blair in 2004. 21. The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. 22. The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years. 23. The team came up with a revolutionary fabric that was extremely warm, extremely light, quick to dry and easy to dye. 24. Hamas cannot expect sympathy if it continues to rain rockets against civilians in Israel. 25. Many South Africans sympathize with the strikers mainly because the economy seems to be doing better than ever. 26. The authorities made sure that candidates known to be sympathetic to the powerful Muslim Brotherhood, which is officially banned, won not a single place. 27. The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it (George W. Bush). 28. The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. 29. Instead of being a source of pleasure, the prospect of living longer has become a source of anxiety to many people without adequate pension savings. 30. For various reasons, such as a private agreement with the parents or some sort of dispute, grandparents often do not have formal custody. 31. Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply. 32. Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it. 33. We have to attack reality shows. I don't know how far it's going to go — it's a phenomenon that has invaded TV around the world. 34. I am not a member of the CIA or any other intelligence agency. 35. Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence. 36. The Los Angeles police targeted five hot spots last year. They now try to anticipate where crimes will occur based on gang intelligence. 37. It is our policy to correct mistakes as soon as possible. 38. For those who sought lodging at the abbey it was politic, if not obligatory, to attend at least the main mass of the day. 39. Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. 40. Two armed robbers led an extravagant lifestyle with £78 000 they stole from banks across England. 41. Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader — not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. 42. There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative. 43. Students of politics have been interested in many aspects of ethics in public service. 44. In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student. 45. Despite constraints on airline takeovers, such as the limits on foreign ownership and the liberal use of bankruptcy laws,
there is a long-term trend towards consolidation. 46. Civilian deaths have risen dramatically in Iraq since the country was invaded in March 2003, according to a survey conducted by researchers from Columbia University.