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These pressures have spurred the growth of a robust local independence movement — something few could have predicted before the handover.

Movies were selling left and right last week for more money than anyone would have predicted before the festival began on Jan . 10

"We all are spending more time thinking about security issues in a way we wouldn't have predicted before Sept. 11," said David Shenk, author of "Data Smog" (HarperSanFrancisco, 1997), a book examining the proliferation of digital devices.

There is even a hint of modesty when he concedes he should have predicted before the election started that the Lib Dems would wield decisive political influence despite losing seats.

While there are "a lot of days" that she thinks "this isn't what I signed on for," for the most part she is far more content with her choice than she could have predicted before the children were born.

In the men's event, Thomas Johansson of Sweden and Jiri Novak of the Czech Republic both advanced to a semifinal that only the most imaginative observer would have predicted before this tournament began.

Does the P.R.T.M. predict anything about human behavior that no other theory has predicted before?

Still, the Titans won in Pittsburgh, which few people had predicted before the weekend.

Many had predicted before the vote that it would be close".

Party sources had predicted before his resignation was announced that the meeting was likely to be very frosty.

"I do not think it will come to a decision this time," Ruiz had predicted before the fight.