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wasn't and troubled
At times I was troubled by fears that I wasn't doing things the right way, that I would have regrets, or that someone else had performed a certain procedure successfully but had never bothered to write it up for the medical journals, or if they had I couldn't find it.
This led the company to ask Jerry Yang to resign and the board to go with an outside candidate for the CEO position that wasn't associated with this troubled period.
Though the woman in question survived, the incident troubled Okita deeply and he came to the conclusion that falling in love wasn't worth such pain, and consequently he kept his distance from women ever since ( something he later realizes didn't occur when he met Sei, because of her nature as a girl who wanted to be thought of as a man ).

wasn't and with
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.
Follow pool-care instructions to the letter, and be sure that one person ( in the family or not ) is regularly responsible for each aspect of the job, with no chance for claiming, `` It wasn't my turn ''.
He said he was the lonely type and working in a cellar you saw funny things coming out of the cracks in the wall if they wasn't nobody with you.
She was complying with the law in regard to registrations but she certainly wasn't checking license numbers or bothering the tenants.
The rice wasn't dosed with opium, indeed it had no taste at all, not a grain of salt.
It's just barely possible with this crowd that the kidnapper wasn't able to get a table.
Nellie Harris wasn't old, she was ancient -- a tiny shriveled woman with a face like a tan prune.
It wasn't a new boat, about five years old, but fitted with fishing outriggers and chairs.
She said that proved she wasn't to be trusted with a fire in her room, and she could be burned to a crisp without anybody knowing it.
Of course she wasn't herself right now, but as her strength came back her spirits didn't seem to rise with it.
She apparently wasn't satisfied with his reaction.
It probably wasn't hard for him to keep his nose to the grindstone with nothing but Edythe to come home to.
When she wasn't crying, she was in our bedroom fighting with Wally.
Her first class wasn't until ten, but she always got up to have breakfast with me.
if Mike had had a finger in it, he had gotten away with it -- and what happened to supreme bishops worried Jubal not at all as long as he wasn't bothered.
He wasn't likely to come down with hot chills and puzzling striped fever.
They ended up with another losing season, but it wasn't as bad as the previous year.
It was the only time I wasn't with him.
It wasn't until 1977 that the directors of the group decided to establish a laboratory with the mission of creating a small optical digital audio disc and a small player.
Seconds after Cantor's building was struck by the plane, a Goldman Sachs server issued an alert saying that its trading system had gone offline because it wasn't able to connect with a Cantor server.
It wasn't until 1902 that the familiar push-button user interface was developed, with the introduction of the Dalton Adding Machine, developed by James L. Dalton in the United States.
The successor of B3-21, the Elektronika B3-34 wasn't backward compatible with B3-21, even if it kept the reverse Polish notation ( RPN ).
Although the 1570 was compatible with the Commodore 64, the C64 wasn't capable of taking advantage of the drive's higher-speed operation, and when used with the C64 it was little more than a pricier 1541.

wasn't and ordinary
In their first season review, John J. O ' Connor said Dream On wasn't " different from ordinary network fare ... except for, as might be expected, the more freewheeling language and treatments of sex "; by the season's third episode, the show's protagonist is " already becoming just another nice bachelor father, not all that different from the one John Forsythe played on television several decades ago.
: Gray wasn't really a conservative in the 1920s: he was more of a general populist, hostile to loan sharks and speculators while celebrating hard working ordinary people whether they're successful (" Daddy " Warbucks ) or not ( the poor struggling farmers, the Silos ).
It wasn't until centuries later, when the doors were opened to the public, that ordinary people could admire the effort that Shah Abbas had put into making this a sacred place for the ladies of his harem, and the exquisite tile-work, which is far superior to those covering the Shah Mosque.
It wasn't until centuries later, when the doors were opened to the public, that ordinary people could admire the effort that Shah Abbas had put into making this a sacred place for the ladies of his harem, and the exquisite tile-work, which is far superior to those covering the Shah Mosque.

wasn't and fear
The Æsir said Fenrir would quickly tear apart a thin silken strip, noting that Fenrir earlier broke great iron binds, and added that if Fenrir wasn't able to break slender Gleipnir then Fenrir is nothing for the gods to fear, and as a result would be freed.
As if seeing a ghost wasn't nerve-racking enough, she's also begun to fear for her life.

wasn't and individual
Because of this, he wasn't always a true villain, but sometimes just a selfish individual with no evil agenda.
Rehabilitation was part of the tumultuous chain of events in 16th-18th century European societies at this time where there was dramatic, drastic and radical social changes in the shape of economic, political, judicial reform in society and wasn't much concerned with reforming the individual criminal, at least with elimination of criminality, which it was powerless to do.
While librarians worked in the libraries built by the various emperors, there wasn't a specific office or role that qualified an individual to be a librarian.
According to classical rabbinical literature, in order for the Urim and Thummim to give an answer, it was first necessary for the individual to stand facing the fully dressed high priest, and vocalise the question briefly and in a simple way, though it wasn't necessary for it to be loud enough for anyone else to hear it.
'" On a personal level ", wrote Zappa in what should have been a put-on but wasn't, " Freaking out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricted standards of thinking, dress and social etiquette in order to express CREATIVELY his relationship to his environment and the social structure as a whole "'.
He wasn't favoured in any of the three individual events in which he competed, but nevertheless won all three of them.
Hargreaves describes the sense, " It wasn't just the mountains or the trees or any of the individual elements.
Initially, very few station jingles were made, but it wasn't until the mid-50s that individual cuts were assembled into packages that could be syndicated to stations all over the country.
La Rosa tired of revisiting the Godfrey affair, in part because it had been rehashed so many times, but he was also known to declare publicly that Godfrey was, indeed, the individual who made his career, but always adding, " He wasn't a very nice man.
However it wasn't just the licence that propelled the Crusaders forward in 2008, the Super League trophy was brought to Bridgend and Cardiff in April with fans getting the chance to see it at shopping centres and schools, rugby league was introduced to Pembrokeshire for the first time, and just like in previous seasons various Crusaders players picked up individual awards and honours.

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