Gallagher played a potential career threat to Tim Robbins ' studio executive in The Player ( 1992 ); the comatose fiancé of Sandra Bullock in While You Were Sleeping ( 1995 ); a real estate salesman having an affair with Annette Bening in American Beauty ( 1999 ); a media executive in Mr. Deeds ( 2002 ); and a political reporter exposing media ethics during a presidential debate in The Last Debate.

However, after the Grass Roots enjoyed a Billboard Top 30 single with " Where Were You When I Needed You ", the band's first album failed to chart, and Dunhill forced Sloan and Barri to recruit a real band to perform as the Grass Roots.

Were executed hundreds of drawings, sketches and scale models started as early as 1980, was eventually selected and developed the design of the Fiat Style Centre that best responded to the theme given to investigate a car destined to a particular user, " select and elite " a real flagship miniature desired by women as much as a handbag and signed by the men as their favorite perfume.

Following Mrs Wilkes ' death in 1967, " Such, Such Were the Joys " was published in the UK, but with only the name of the school and the proprietors in original form-the real names of his fellow pupils were still disguised.

Four years later, Anthony published his first book, The Games Were Coming, a cycling story inspired by real events.

Were two conventional armies to fight, the loser would have redress in its nuclear arsenal.

Were we to move from the observation that there is thinking occurring to the attribution of this thinking to a particular agent, we would simply assume what we set out to prove, namely, that there exists a particular person endowed with the capacity for thought.

Were he unable to pay for his enlarged army, there would likely be civil conflict, potentially open revolt.

Were this an ideal world, one in which interests and purposes never jarred, its inhabitants would have no need of a specified set of ethics, according to Baier.

In his own article on the encyclopedia, Diderot also wrote, " Were an analytical dictionary of the sciences and arts nothing more than a methodical combination of their elements, I would still ask whom it behooves to fabricate good elements.

Were the offence considered only under this point of view, it would not be easy to assign any good reasons to justify the rigour of the laws.

Were it not for my ideals I would abandon the work ".

Were the plan to succeed, Lin would arrest his political rivals and assume power.

Pope was said to have remarked that: " Were it to have nymphs as well – it would be complete in everything.

Were people to bear the full costs of their “ irrational beliefs ”, they would lobby for them optimally, taking into account both their instrumental consequences and their expressive appeal.

Were the Earth flat, light rays that bend down would soon hit the ground and only nearby objects would be affected.

The pre-release single, " Om du var här " ( If You Were Here ), became a hit as would the second single, " Saker man ser " ( Things You See ).

Former Democratic speaker of the Assembly Bob Moretti said, " Were I in the governor's seat, I would want someone like Meese on my side.

Were he left to his own devices and no longer under your strict supervision, he would soon run to seed as all the others have done.

Were the shield to show the tinctures, the blazon would be: Or, a lion rampant azure

Were the pattern to be suddenly reversed, the rhythm would be destroyed as in a reversing of one magnet within a series.

The Master said, Were a true gentleman to settle among them there would soon be no trouble about lack of refinement.

Were it not for this late push, The Last Emperor would have joined The English Patient, Amadeus and The Hurt Locker as the only Best Picture winners to not enter the weekend box office top 5 since these numbers were first recorded in 1982.

Kappen writes, " Were we to succumb to the first, we should be losing our identity ; if to the second, ours would be a false, obsolete identity in a mental universe of dead symbols and delayed myths ".

Were they 4. 5 mm diameter, they would jam in the bore.

… Were you here, I would willingly confer with you as to the plan of our conduct ; whether we should eve in our usual way, or, to avoid singularity, both take a better supper and throw off the toga.

Were the Hubble Space Telescope, with a 2. 4 m telescope, designed for photographing Earth, it would be diffraction-limited to resolutions greater than 16 cm ( 6 inches ) for green light ( nm ) at its orbital altitude of 590 km.

Were it not for Athenaeus, much valuable information about the ancient world would be missing, and many ancient Greek authors such as Archestratus would be almost entirely unknown.

Were they to be insulted again because of the South's great victory??

Verbs can also be marked for both mood and tense together, such as the present subjunctive ( So be it ) and the past subjuncitve ( Were it so ), or all three, such as the past perfect subjunctive ( Had it been so ).

Were any railways in Niger to interconnect with railways of adjacent countries, choosing the best gauge will be tricky.

Not to be confused with the short story " The Naming of Names ", first published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1949, later published as " Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed ".

A remastered version, with Grapelli's contribution fully audible, can be found on the 2011 Experience & Immersion versions of Wish You Were Here.

There seems to be no measure, no principle, no cry, to influence men's minds and determine elections ; it is simply, " Were you, or were you not?

Nicolas Sarrebource de Pontleroy, Montcalm's chief engineer, said of the fort's site, " Were I to be entrusted with the siege of it, I should require only six mortars and two cannon.

A longer version of the song was released as a single on Atlantic Records, reaching No. 30 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart early in 1972 ; the additional lyrics in this longer version lend the song a greater sense of sadness, and make poignant reference to social changes taking place in the 1960s and early 1970s A few perceptible drifts can be observed when listening to each version chronologically: In the original version Jean Stapleton was wearing glasses and after the first time the lyric " Those Were The Days " was sung over the tonic ( root chord of the song's key ) the piano strikes a Dominant 7th chord in transition to the next part which is absent from subsequent versions.

Were precedent sufficient justification on its own, then practices such as slavery and gender-selection infanticide could be justified by the same argument.

Ali had trouble walking to the stage at the 1996 Oscars to be part of the group receiving the Oscar for When We Were Kings, a documentary of the fight in Zaire, because of his Parkinson's disease.

Were the sky ( in the absence of moon and city lights ) absolutely dark, one would not be able to see the silhouette of an object against the sky.

Yitzhak Magen and Yuval Peleg entered the discussion commenting on how one could feed such large numbers of community members: " Were we to accept the claim that the sect lived at Qumran for about 170 years, we would expect to find hundreds of cooking and baking ovens as well as thousands of cooking pots.

The 60-second commercial shows a sad Robert Mugabe dining alone at Christmas in a large mansion while he reminisces about " happier times " with former dictators, such as playing water tag with Muammar Gaddafi, making snow angels in the sand with Saddam Hussein, singing Karaoke with Mao Zedong, pushing P. W. Botha on a swing set, and riding a tank with Idi Amin in a similar fashion to Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet embracing each other from the movie Titanic while the music from " Those Were the Days " is being played.

Were there breeding populations of large, unknown birds, Capparella contends they could not remain unknown very long.

He was also one of the large cast of And Then There Were None, as well as the vehicles for Lily Pons.

Were aliens to attack, or the Arctic glaciers to melt, the world would be able to use its communicative technologies to band societies together and defend itself at large.

Public artwork included the Yellow Submarine, a statue of John Lennon, a Blue Peter ship, the Wish You Were Here tourist sculpture, a kissing gate and a red dragon slide and a large red bull sculpture.

Were such an event to recur, the economic and ecological impacts could be large and potentially serious.