At the time, he commented, "I wonder how far off we are from ceasing to issue traditional press releases altogether.... after all, no news agency could possibly suggest they reach a greater portion of the planet than the Internet".
Russia responded to the apparent Georgian preparations by dispatching 400 paratroopers and a battery of howitzers to a staging area not far from the cease-fire line, provoking a strong protest from NATO.
Would be nice to have some icing on the cake in the summer transfer, as has been alluded to by GM Hanauer, but it's hard to see how what we've seen from the Sounders thus far will cease.
Within the frontiers the army was kept at full strength, mostly by local recruiting of legionaries and apparently of auxiliaries, too (so that Vespasian's system of having the latter serve far from their homelands gradually ceased).
This is not to say that utopian and dystopian prediction has ceased - far from it; but the social changes now imagined for the future, or for societies that bear a strong resemblance to our own, are not remotely constructive.
"You can't go too far from the set rules, or it ceases to be a martini.
When the Apollo programme involves 20,000 contractors, it ceases to matter how far from the actual launch site their factories are; they could as easily be in Britain as in the United States.
Haaretz quoted him telling Israeli diplomats that the reports of a cease-fire were "far from reflecting reality".
Mr Kudrin told the Kommersant newspaper: "It never ceases to amaze me why a far from impoverished oil company should crave those loopholes so vehemently".
Fierce clashes near Damascus as Syrian forces assault rebellious towns before truce goo.gl/1v1FK #AlArabiya #Syria #Assad — Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) April 5, 2012 A cease-fire would be far from an admission of defeat by Mr. Assad.
