Instead, candidates will continue to be hand-picked by Beijing, which has called the protests illegal and endorsed the Hong Kong government's crackdown.
Yet we sense that the baton of understanding will continue to be handed on, if in unpredictable ways -- just as the trunk, unopened for so long, has yielded its transforming secrets to progeny its owner could never have imagined.
And while there will continue to be hand-wringing about the ways female singers are sexualized -- cue the pro and con think pieces about Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Iggy Azalea, Lady Gaga, Kesha and, of course, Madonna, the mother of them all -- it is hard to argue with their assertions of power and independence..
It seems now the city's finances will continue to be in the hands of Big Mac.
And we can be sure that with our talented and experienced new editor, Huw Kennair-Jones, Ambridge will continue to be in safe hands.
We are confident the NBCU team will continue to be in good hands under Brian Roberts, Steve Burke and the Comcast team's leadership".
Meanwhile, the job will continue to be done largely by hand with some improved kit and the assistance of well-trained animals.
But finding the very best version of the new cast will continue to be the main challenge at hand.
The basic law of the land will continue to be the "Transitional Administrative Law" handed out by the handpicked Iraqi leaders under the direction of L. Paul Bremer III, the chief American administrator in Baghdad.
Hamas, on the other hand, will continue to be shunned because it appears on the EU's aforementioned list.
On the other hand, the WTO will continue to be under the tremendous stress of running the existing system and the round negotiations simultaneously.
