My heart had sunk once again, though now only slightly.
Mr. Romney once supported abortion rights, though now he says he has changed his mind.
Like many on the Zionist left, of which he was once a respected member, though now he considers himself more realistic and less dogmatic, he says in effect: It's enough that I am aware of the wrongs, the crimes and the mistakes; I don't need to take responsibility for them or do anything about them.
I am of a religion that fesses up to our sins once a year and even though now is not the time, I must get the following off my chest and be absolved of my indiscretions.
And to show just how crazy this could get, the Danes are spending a fortune trying to prove that their end of the same ridge — though now detached — was once part of Greenland, which belongs to Denmark.
They noted the lucrative pay package required to lure her from Lucent Technologies in 1999 -- mostly stock once valued as high as $85 million, though now less than $35 million -- and the fact that she expanded the corporate jet fleet.
Her high profile and the rich pay package required to lure her from Lucent -- mostly stock once valued as high as $85 million, though now at about $35 million -- grated on traditionalists in the company.
As a fan of what I once though was a "guilty pleasure" has now become simply guilt.
Likewise, brands from Gucci to Louis Vuitton once again began producing fanny packs, though now, they are truer to the original '80s silhouette, and even go by "bumbag" (though some still insist they are waist bags. Ok, dahling!).
Analysts in Iraq and elsewhere have cautioned that an operation to retake Ramadi -- once a city of almost 500,000, though now largely depopulated -- could drag on for some time against well-entrenched militants adept at urban warfare and slowing down attackers with explosives planted in buildings and vehicles.
