It's just barely possible with this crowd that the kidnapper wasn't able to get a table.

Japan did something to a man -- and it wasn't just Japan, either, because the same thing applied anywhere overseas.

It wasn't just the pressure of work, although that was the excuse I often used, even to myself.

It wasn't just the obnoxious birds that had ruffled her own feathers, of course ; ;

But if she wasn't interested, she'd just go back to the same life she'd left.

For example, " Sheila just led a card when it wasn't her turn.

" I figured the old arm had just so many throws in it ," said Young, " and there wasn't any use wasting them.

But it wasn't just baseball that saw new businesses and growth.

" Pearson, however, said that grindcore " wasn't just about the speed of drums, blast beats, etc.

Grammer later commented, " Honestly, it just wasn't very funny.

I couldn't do much more than just donate money when I was on the show because there wasn't time.

Bob Herbert stated that " she just wasn't fitting in ... she would never have gelled with it and I had to tell her to go ".

" It wasn't just guys dropping the ball.

It wasn't anything tangible anybody said to anyone else, it was just kind of like everything over the years had come to a head on that one particular night in the one particular place, and it was not an organized demonstration .... Everyone in the crowd felt that we were never going to go back.

The allusion to " the big ones ", thus, refers to USA and USSR, just as Tintin wasn't afraid of Al Capone in America, nor of Colonel Sponsz in Eastern Europe

Well it wasn't like that ; it's just that Steed had to be alone to be accepted.

Due to controversies and arguments over the band being heavy metal or not than just with nu metal being heavy metal or not, lead singer Jonathan Davis commented, " I remember when were coming out we were fighting being called a metal band because we weren't a metal band, we were something that wasn't classifiable ," Davis says.

Larry takes issue with this, as his rabbi's relative was hit by a bike messenger (" Well, with all due respect, wasn't that just a coincidence?

The film, a war picture, was rewritten to accommodate Clara Bow, as she was Paramount's biggest star, but wasn't happy about her part: "( Wings is ).. a man's picture and I'm just the whipped cream on top of the pie ".

In making his 1981 re-recording of the Goldberg Variations, Glenn Gould considered playing this variation at a slower tempo, in keeping with the tempo of the preceding variation ( Variation 16 ), but ultimately decided not to because " Variation 17 is one of those rather skittish, slightly empty-headed collections of scales and arpeggios which Bach indulged when he wasn ’ t writing sober and proper things like fugues and canons, and it just seemed to me that there wasn't enough substance to it to warrant such a methodical, deliberate, Germanic tempo.

" He also pointed to a lack of a suitable British actor to portray Flashman ; Errol Flynn was always his favourite for the role ( although Flynn was Australian ): " It wasn't just his looks and his style.

Because of this, he wasn't always a true villain, but sometimes just a selfish individual with no evil agenda.

Mae is upset about this as he says he was " just having a good time " and wasn't serious.

" PALGN editor Chris Sell called him the best boss in Mario Galaxy, stating that it wasn't just because of the battles with him being " superb, screen filling affairs ", but also because he is " back to being mean again ".

It wasn't that, however, which decided them not to go to America.

The Acropolis was unique in the world and if that imcomparable work flooded by moonlight wasn't enough for both natives and tourists, then they were quite simply barbarians and the hell with them.

On his bookshelves were some of the latest American novels, including Bellow's Seize The Day, but he hadn't read them ( they were sent by American publishers ) and wasn't especially interested in what the American writers were up to.

Strange faces, most of them, and I wasn't even sure all of them had come from the League meeting.

Dan Bahat, the former city archaeologist of Jerusalem, regards them as unsatisfactory, as there is no known Temple of Aphrodite matching Corbo's design, and no archaeological evidence for Corbo's suggestion that the Temple Building was on a platform raised high enough to avoid including anything sited where the Aedicule is now ; indeed Bahat notes that many temples to Aphrodite have a rotunda-like design, and argues that there is no archaeological reason to assume that the present rotunda wasn't based on a rotunda in the temple previously on the site.

In his letter to Madame de Francueil in 1751, he first pretended that he wasn't rich enough to raise his children but in book IX of the confessions, he gave the true reasons of his choice: " I trembled at the thought of intrusting them to a family ill brought up, to be still worse educated.

Because the escaped replicants are the latest Nexus-6 generation Deckard had no experience with them, and wasn't even sure if the Voight-Kampff test would work.

Describing his actions, Schmidt said, " I wasn't put in charge of these units – I took charge of them!

Adams admitted that while he originally planned on writing a third Dirk Gently book, the ideas which he had for it would have fit better into another Hitchhiker's book: " A lot of the stuff which was originally in The Salmon of Doubt really wasn't working ", and he planned on " salvaging some of the ideas that I couldn't make work in a Dirk Gently framework and putting them in a Hitchhiker framework ... and for old time's sake I may call it The Salmon of Doubt.

In interviews that can be found in The Salmon of Doubt, Adams admitted that while he was planning on writing a third Dirk Gently book, the ideas he was having for it would have fit better into another Hitchhiker's book: " A lot of the stuff which was originally in The Salmon of Doubt really wasn't working ", and he planned on " salvaging some of the ideas that I couldn't make work in a Dirk Gently framework and putting them in a Hitchhiker framework ... and for old time's sake I may call it The Salmon of Doubt.

People got it into their heads that Annie Hall was autobiographical, and I couldn't convince them it wasn't ".

The daughters are mentioned a third time, in the Book of Joshua, where they are simply portrayed as being given land in the territory of Manasseh, to which their inheritance entitled them ; the text is unclear in regards to which part of Manasseh's territory they were granted land, except that it wasn't in Gilead.

Arum responded by saying that MMA fighters need to examine the revenues being generated and ask why the UFC wasn't paying them more.

However, he later stated that he was too unfamiliar with video games to judge them, although he still wasn't convinced at the time that video games are art.

Norman explained in 2001: " It's a song I wrote for all my artists because I wasn't going to work with them any more.

He wasn't keen on doing soundtrack work since it would make the music hard to obtain for fans, ' abusing ' them, so the second track the band were due to record became an Eddie / Alex instrumental, " Respect the Wind ".

) Repentance wasn't meant to be vague, but the Lord has made it plain and practical, so people can understand what is required of them.

The Pentium Pro ( P6 ) featured many advanced concepts not found in the Pentium, although it wasn't the first or only x86 processor to implement them ( see NexGen Nx586 or Cyrix 6x86 ).

A court injunction against Buffett prevented him from performing the song until the lawsuit was settled or resolved, so in 1986, when Buffett would get to the part of his show where he would normally perform " God's Own Drunk ," he would say that he still wasn't allowed to play it because of the lawsuit and instead played a song he wrote called " The Lawyer and the Asshole " in which he accuses Buckley's son and lawyers as being greedy and tells them to " kiss his ass.

Wine making technology improved considerably with the ancient Greeks but it wasn't until the end of the Roman Empire that cultivation techniques as we know them were common throughout Europe.

It wasn't until Quint Davis, producer and director of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, got them to " put aside their differences and hammer out the details " and headline the Festival in 2005.

On August 30, 1826, 8 provinces were created, with the Santiago Province being one of them, but it wasn't until 1980 that the Metropolitan Region was created.