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:: If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all!

Nevertheless, the Contras remained tenuously encamped within Honduras and weren't able to hold Nicaraguan territory.

Wilson backed the team into the traces, and wished they weren't going to town at all.

They weren't as well paid as they should have been.

As if that weren't enough, they also had a triple-wide " Bydo Monitor " as a peripheral, that of course R-Type Final 2 would support.

During normal times sailors weren't allowed to take any water away.

Sometimes there weren't even any seats.

I felt that if we weren't the best, it would be my naval career.

Because Holstein cattle weren't a beef breed, they were rarely seen on a ranch, though one might be found now and then for the milk supply.

She tried to think of his unpredictable actions in the eleven years she had known him and discovered they weren't so many after all.

General Motors was reported to be a suitor while Volkswagen, the Renault-Nissan auto alliance, and Hyundai Motor Company had said that they weren't interested in buying the company.

Initially, only a handful of wounded people were found at the site, and in the weeks that followed it became evident that there weren't any survivors to be found.

Punk historian Ian Glasper indicates that " For several months gob-smacked audiences weren't sure whether Napalm Death were actually a serious band any longer, such was the undeniable novelty of their hyper-speed new drummer.

Another technique uses the transparency feature introduced in GIF89a: a GIF file can be constructed as a series of overlapping full-screen images, each image filling in colors from a local color table that weren't in the previous ones.

One completely written chapter of " Secret Wars " involved the X-Men, but transporting the X-Men cast to L. A. ( where production for the Spider-Man animated series was based ) from Canada ( where the X-Men animated series was based ) was too costly in the previous episodes the X-Men appeared in, so the episode was dropped and only Storm was used for the rest of the chapters of Secret Wars due to the fact that Iona Morris ( who was the first voice of Storm ) lives in L. A. Hulk and She-Hulk weren't used in these episodes because the Hulk show was on UPN.

The government offices were being opened but they weren't being opened fast enough and meanwhile the cold penetrated everything.

" As with the Federation's own Prime Directive there were inconsistencies — Printing and soap were allowed but knowledge of more advanced economics weren't.

Nicholas ruefully commented that " most of ' em weren't that easy ".

You weren't there!

Because many of these contestants weren't on the show for more than a couple of episodes many of their surnames are unknown.

Towards the end I felt the singing wasn't really being heard ; the songs weren't really being heard ".

In 2004 similar shows were broadcast in Germany and Belgium, but they weren't very popular.

The Knicks reportedly wanted Albert to accept a salary commensurate with his reduced Knicks schedule, but also weren't happy about Albert making what Knicks management felt were overly critical comments about their team in spite of their losing record.

His efforts weren't good enough to prevent the club's second successive relegation, but they did get back into positive points before the end of the season.

From the 1970s to the early 1990s DBS systems weren't available, and cable TV systems of the time only carried a few channels, resulting in a boom in sales of BUDs in the area, which led to the systems being termed the " West Virginia state flower ".