By many accounts the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had come very close to concluding a peace agreement with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert just a few months earlier, yet was hesitant to do so knowing that Olmert would soon be indicted and out of office.
Executives at America Online and Time Warner acknowledged yesterday that they wanted the cable company to reach a deal as soon as possible, knowing that Time Warner had made a blunder by letting the dispute become so open that it drew unwanted attention to the proposed merger between the companies.
Paul Farmer stood nearby, listening, knowing that soon the tour would end and he would go back to work.
The swashbucklers have used media appearances at home to great effect, knowing that soon the focus will return to more traditionally popular sports like soccer and auto racing.
The sacrifice, clearly, was worth it – and the crowd on Centre Court rose that day to acclaim a new hero – not knowing that soon he would have to withdraw again from tennis to mend his back.
On Wednesday night the Canadian band Barenaked Ladies brought to the stage its nation's martyred silver medalists, Jamie Salé and David Pelletier, not knowing that soon they would be sharing the gold.
Mussina hung his head as soon as Lugo connected, knowing that the ball would land where it did: in the seats over the left-center field wall, tying the game, 4-4.
If the overnight flight from New York to Paris is rarely relaxing -- too short for a full night's sleep, too long for just a meal and a movie -- I take some comfort knowing that soon after we land I will have bread and butter.
And when the employer is privately insured, the insurance company is in a position to offer the worker a small lump sum soon after the accident, knowing that the worker may well accept it rather than incur the delay, costs, and uncertainty of a court case to obtain the full value of the claim.
It was hard to look at it knowing that soon we might drown in it. .
