(Goya, for instance, has sometimes served him as an inspiration).
Over the years, there was speculation that, under Cherne, the I.R.C. had sometimes served as a front for C.I.A. activities — a charge that Cherne publicly denied.
He has sometimes served as a de facto spiritual leader for the Muslim Brotherhood, the most organized opposition group under the Mubarak government.
The White House has sometimes served as a protective bunker for presidents who were cut off from the country and surrounded by servile advisers.
In recent months, Mr. Mulgrew, a native of Staten Island and a former Brooklyn high school teacher, has sometimes served as the public face of the union.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the court's swing justice, was less categorical, and he has sometimes served as a brake on the ambitions of his more conservative colleagues in cases concerning race.
The Toronto International Film Festival's People's Choice Award, a prize that has sometimes served as a bellwether for future success at the Academy Awards, was given on Sunday to "The King's Speech," a feature directed by Tom Hooper, Reuters reported.
In public rhetoric, big unions such as IG Metall, which represents 2.4m metal and engineering workers, have been implacably opposed to changing working practices, for instance, but have been more far reasonable in private.But even though co-determination has sometimes helped to persuade unions and workers to accept change, it has sometimes served to thwart it too.
Having obtained our political independence from Britain to be the masters of our own affairs, we have now surrendered our sovereignty to the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund... Fianna Fáil has sometimes served Ireland very well, sometimes very badly.
