But, announcing his resignation on Wednesday, he said: "If the government had been re-elected I would have served at least three [years]." He said his thinking about his future in the event of a Labor loss had "ebbed and flowed".
Seventeen of the 25 most important Islamic State leaders now running the war in Iraq and Syria spent time in US prisons As Isis activity ebbed in Iraq, he had become increasingly obsessed with two meetings that had taken place in Syria early in 2009, which brought together Iraqi jihadists, Syrian officials and Ba'athists from both countries.
It means the organisers will have to change tactics and refine their muddled message.The anger has not ebbed, and the movement is not going away.
Vikings, druids, and Myceanaeans were also given the credit, reflecting varying views of Britain's relations with abroad.Views on how to manage the site have similarly ebbed and flowed.
Even though both had posted better-than-expected results a day earlier, confidence ebbed in their stand-alone model, with its reliance on flighty wholesale funding.
Gradually the authority of the government has ebbed away.Today a powerful militia commander, Mohammad Omar, claims to control 400 armed men in Khanabad district.
Students had requested to speak with Ms Lam because they said they didn't trust the chief executive, Leung Chun-ying.During a tumultuous two weeks of protests, crowds had ebbed and surged in response to the use of force against protesters police fired 87 rounds of tear gas on protesters the first weekend and pro-government mobs attacked them the next.
As those industries have ebbed, so have the forces of economic equality.But although the workers have lost some of their economic power, they have not lost their votes and may yet use them to redress the balance.
At the outset, Mr Abe's government enjoyed huge popularity.Yet the tide in Mr Abe's affairs only ebbed.
The conflict has ebbed and flowed but this week took a turn for the worse.
But the occupation, at a time of British-backed Greek expansion in Anatolia, backfired: the real moral authority of the war victors over Turkey ebbed rapidly, as did the Turks' readiness to receive moral lessons from their foes.
