Sooner than most of his fellow cadets, he passed the G.E.D. exams and began tutoring others.
What is striking is how Romney, despite picking up — sooner than some of his rivals might have — what Garon thought of the issue, completely fails to turn this into any sort of a human moment.
It is said that he no sooner sent parts of his collection to the library than he acquired new assets, including a 1399 account roll of the Paternoster Guild, which had been missing since the 1880s.
Under constant criticism for failure to act sooner, and mistrustful of his militia forces, he developed a plan of attack.
He would reach world number one rather sooner, within two months of his breakthrough at Augusta, and with Spieth already up to second in the rankings that particular piece of history may well repeat.
If enough signatures are gathered, a senator must run for election sooner than the end of his or her term.
In an earlier novel, "The Norm," he depicted the humiliations of Soviet life with a metaphor that's one part Pasolini and one part "Pink Flamingos": sooner or later, all of his characters are forced to eat "the norm," a ration of what is unmistakably human feces.
ORLANDO, Fla .— Newt Gingrich has been predicting that the battle for the Republican presidential nomination will last "until June or July, unless Romney drops out sooner," but the magnitude of his loss to Mitt Romney in Florida's primary on Tuesday could force him to recalibrate.
Much of the prose is simple atmospherics – "The only sound was the ticking of the office clock," runs a characteristic opening to one of the 81 chapters – but there are also deeper moments, as when Mikami laments that, as a detective, he should have understood sooner a vital detail of his daughter's disappearance, but, at the time, "he'd changed into a father, nothing else".
Then he can leave his office with dignity and even pride, hopefully sooner than the end of his five-year term in 2012, and maybe with a legacy that Pakistanis could learn to respect.
