You can spend a very pleasant week here, driving the modern roads and drinking the good local beer, without suspecting that the area harbors the most intensive songbird-killing operations in the European Union.
On the face of it, this seems to be turning into a rather pleasant week for Steve Jobs Steve Jobs.
I would like to thank all the Chairs and Co-Chairs and participants of the pWG and the two EWGs that have worked in preparation of the excellent main documents that we will discuss here and wish all of us a successful and pleasant week.
At their mountain hideaway, to which, for a pleasant few weeks, magazines sent reporters to profile them and transcribe Paul's one-liners, they were attempting to write an original romantic comedy.
It can't have been a pleasant few weeks for Chinese officials, who found themselves almost alone in representing the junta's interests while it massacred Burmese citizens and the world watched; even the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ordinarily the most hands-off of groups, condemned the internal behavior of a member state.
I'd like to have written to you from San Remo, where I spent quite a pleasant three weeks' holidays: silent, homely, seaside holidays just as I wanted them, managing to avoid the excessive numbers of people at the beach or at the dances.
"On the other hand," says Mr Young, "I spent a pleasant couple of weeks at the start of the year in South Sudan.
It is quite conceivable that a casual visitor to Hawaii could spend a pleasant holiday of a week or two and not see a single native Hawaiian species.
So on a pleasant spring evening, a week after nearly 20 car bombs struck around the city, killing dozens, almost 50,000 people came to dilapidated Shaab Stadium, which was built in the 1960s as a gift from a Portuguese foundation and more recently served as a base for American soldiers.
Even as his opponents, like Joe Amato, climbed the ladder of the sport, drag racing remained a pleasant three-day-a-week hobby for Manzo, a getaway from his sewer construction business.
So the sudden arrival of new album mbv a couple of weeks ago was a pleasant shock.
