"If Bush and Obama were to suddenly leave, then Baathist officers would surround the Green Zone and kill all the leaders," said Mohammed Ridha al-Numani, a Shiite cleric who has known Mr. Maliki since they lived in Iran in exile in the 1980s.
"It was kind of like the days of sail ships when explorers would reach a new island, leave and then suddenly there would be a colony of rats where there were none before," says Fahlman. "As the internet spread so did smileys".
"If suddenly one of our players is going to leave then we have to find a replacement.
Come on, everyone, lets not grow up at all until at least a year after we should have left university and then suddenly grow up within a month.
I remember the splashes of sun, the blue of the sky and the murmuring canopy of leaves, and then suddenly it became known to me that I was done.
They listened to his records and smoked weed all day and then suddenly left.
After you wrote to me, I made a list of everything I wanted to do when I left the hospital, and then suddenly I was doing it.
He never sat down at the dining table and never even took off his coat, and then suddenly left during the meeting to go visit his parents' graves at the cemetery across the street.
The songs were well played — 10 new, most of the rest choices included on the band's first best-of album, to be released next month by Capitol (without the approval of the band, which has left the label) — and then suddenly over, with quiet and slightly tense shifts between songs.
On the eve of taking over as chief of MI6, Amelia Levene is briefed by her predecessor — handed the keys to the United Kingdom, so to speak — and then suddenly leaves town on a two-week vacation.
