In Baker Lake, where Northern has been a presence since 1916, "the company was perceived for many years as taking money out of the community, and putting white guys in charge," Mr. Hart acknowledged.
See, the league has had a not-so-secret perceived problem for many years: How do you get your white upper middle class fans to root for players who are prominently black, and mostly "rap video black" rather than "presidential candidate black"?
We exploited one another – for money and grades, for lunchbox contents and goodwill – and fell out with one another, not just for a few days, but for years, over perceived slights.
The occurrence of a rape in Mumbai, which has for years been perceived as a relatively safer city for women in India, made it to the front pages of the nation's newspapers, but reports of sexual assault elsewhere in the country found scant attention last week, buried in a far less prominent spot in newsprint.
The need to acquire an integrated CIS had therefore been perceived in both university hospitals for years.
According to Gilligan, another part of the inspiration for the episode was the fear surrounding the perceived Year 2000 problem.
Small Irish towns circle around the same old obsessions and gripes and perceived slights for months and years and decades unending, and it is these that unite us, and the sheer depth of the bitterness that sustains us: our neurotic systems are powered to near-bionic levels of happy outrage on the engines of our talk, our bitching and our gossip.
The war of southern resistance to what was perceived as northern invasion roiled Italy for years to follow.
Largely drafted by the Justice Department, it contained a wish-list of expanded police powers that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had been seeking for years, and lowered perceived barriers to sharing information with intelligence agencies.
