The opportunity to write about her materialised with an unusual condition: there would be no face-to-face interview.
Feared cuts at Trinity Mirror are materialising with a number of high-profile staff being made redundancy targets, including senior executive Lee Harpin.
The regulatory P-criteria must ensure that this concern does not materialise, with a sufficient margin of safety.
But a much-touted informal encounter between Mr Rouhani and Mr Obama failed to materialise, with a senior US administration official saying such a gesture had turned out to be "too complicated for [the Iranians] to do that at this time given their own dynamic back home" - a clear reference, correspondents say, to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
Most Israelis would be only too glad to terminate their occupation, but only if there is genuine peace (as materialised with Egypt), not a daily barrage of rockets – as happened when it withdrew from Gaza – or waves of killers.
Her first proper blockbuster materialised with V for Vendetta, in which she played a girl caught up in an underground anarchist cell, while pitching for artsy status in films such as The Other Boleyn Girl (in which she played Anne Boleyn, Wong Kar-waii's indulgent My Blueberry Nights and Wes Anderson's celebrated short Hotel Chevalier.
But neither of the incoming deals materialised, with FSG understood to be reluctant to meet a £6m asking price for 29-year-old Dempsey.
The result is a developer-led spectacle of ambition and competition materialised with no sense of place and history.
In front of him the Virgin Mary has materialised, with Christ sitting on her lap.
