"I don't think we're good enough". Lee Dixon chips in with the sensible observation that we do seem some way off the very best teams at the Euros, only for know-it-all last‑word freak Alan Hansen to add, in his default setting of Eeyorish finality: "A long, long way off".
Lee Dixon chips in with the sensible observation that we do seem some way off the very best teams at the Euros, only for know-it-all last‑word freak Alan Hansen to add, in his default setting of Eeyorish finality: "A long, long way off".
But Monday's ruling would apply the 2012 ruling retroactively — an unusual decision for the court, which generally does not apply rulings after the fact and has long upheld the finality of convictions after inmates have gone through the appeals process.
Many more of us desperately yearn for change, grappling with growing while waffling at the thought of saying so-long with such finality.
Silence, broken only by a long, unwavering note of finality.
There was a sense of finality after finally emerging victorious.
"The proposed agreement brings certainty and finality to a long painful process," Daniel M. Petrocelli, a lawyer for Mr. Skilling, said in a statement.
Which, in an odd way, makes those close to the school long for the relief of finality, no matter the NCAA's conclusions and subsequent punishment.
But before retreating there for good, he would add finality to a long career in which he emerged as "Jackie Shin" on American Army bases in a postwar South Korea ground down to dust, rose as a homegrown rock poet and then fell with his stubborn refusal to write a song glorifying the nation's military dictator.
But the vote, which was largely a formality after last week's unanimous approval by the franchise committee, provided a finality to the long-delayed shift of ownership.
