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Greece's Prime Minister arrived in Brussels today to try and convince his EU partners to unlock more emergency funding, but instead received a dressing-down from leaders unhappy with the increasingly combative rhetoric and lack of reform from Athens.
In undergoing transition she risked her career but instead received a positive response, with Morrison refusing to accept her resignation, and is now the most senior of half-a-dozen transgender people in the Australian defence forces.
Accordingly, she was not admitted to N.Y.U.'s College of Arts and Science, but instead received a letter informing her that she was being considered for the university's General Studies Program, into which she was eventually accepted.
We expected the usual layered hodge-podge salad but instead received a jumbo roasted pepper perched on a bed of endive and filled with a neat dice of avocado, sweet onion and tomato mingled with pignoli and fresh basil -- a stunning and delicious blend.
To recap: Lars and his buddies downloaded Death Magnetic into the computer there and found the quality quite good and was expecting "fireworks and dancing girls" but instead received a "download finished" message.
Orton measured Batista for a punt kick, but instead received a signature running knee from Bryan.
Another one of their witnesses, state probation officer Joel Maringa, caused controversy when he suggested that Pistorius should not be put in prison but, instead, receive a sentence of three years house arrest and carry out a period of community service.
John Deere has gone as far as to claim that farmers don't own the tractors they pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for, but instead receive a "license to operate the vehicle".
If you attend a liberal arts college like yours truly did, you're not going to major in something directly pre-professional but, instead, receive a well-rounded education that enhances your critical thinking skills, theoretically readying you for a fairly wide range of jobs.
Most reported positive experiences regarding the care provided by their GPs, even when they re-told incidents where they felt care had not met their expectations, e.g. hoping for a referral to secondary care but instead receiving a prescription.
