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Tom abandoned all hope of finding a better job.
You're always finding fault with me.
You are always finding fault with me.
Most scientists think little of his finding.
Finding an apartment can be difficult.
He had no difficulty in finding the place.
Hope of finding the child alive is fading rapidly.
He had no luck in finding work.
She is always finding fault with other people.
I had no difficulty finding your house.
I had great difficulty in finding my ticket at the station.
My boss is always finding fault with me.
Stop finding fault with others.
I had no difficulty in finding his office.
Finding a solution that worked was a process of trial and error.
We had much difficulty in finding the bus stop.
Movie subtitles
All of our searching is leading to one ultimate goal.. finding intelligent life somewhere in the vastness of the universe.
If we don't find that, the chance of finding these tall, elegant, grey, ET guys is gonna be highly diminished.
We're closer than ever to finding the answers, because scientists have picked up the scent in this cosmic hunt.
In the hunt for alien life, scientists are focusing their efforts on finding small, rocky planets like Earth.
What amazes me is that scientists are finding life aplenty in environments similar to that, and that just goes to show that life can flourish in even the harshest conditions.
We're finding micro-organisms not only living in these hot springs but flourishing.
Finding life, even primitive microbial life, would change our place in the universe by telling us that we're not alone.
And it would most likely be an indication that we're getting closer to finding an intelligent civilisation.
If you can check out a few million star systems, you have a really good chance of finding a signal from ET.
We are closer than ever to finding answers to one of mankind's greatest questions..
Finding the answer could be mankind's greatest challenge.
As I see it, he's staying here only for finding his mother.
Even you don't say it out loud because you're worried if it will delay finding your mother, isn't it?
If you're serious about finding Pepper, he'll meet you here.
Well, I can't have him finding out in a room full of people.
Your first order of business should be finding oxygen.
I'm finding it real hard to wrap my head around all this.
Right now, the only thing that matters is the immediate threat. Your husband. Finding out who he is and who he works for.
Finding you, stopping you. You'd think I'd be happy you're gonna spend the rest of your life in prison.
The only way we can save Eva is by finding the place where the living corpse of the vampire rests and driving a stake through its heart.
I intend to do a better job in finding out who informed the French authorities about it.
It's been awful coming here, finding you gone, not knowing where to look for you.
I'm finding out.
Imagine, in this icecap, finding someone who knows Spain.
If you must know. I haven't had enough time to recover from the shock. of finding my husband a trifle different than you described him.
When you're over the shock of finding yourself one of Scotland's richest girls.
Any way of finding out?
Imagine my finding you right on my doorstep.
Frankie set up a distraction so I could make the catch without Nick finding out.
Be honest, kid, you were worried about her finding your porno collection.
Now this might be because of the sun and this whole desert, shot at scenario thing but I'm just finding it a little hard to concentrate.
I have no clue how I ended up finding that body.
They are just deliberately finding fault.
COOPER: After finding out that Cam was still alive, I wanted him and his stuff out of our apartment.
And as far as I'm concerned, finding a missing person is of equal importance to solving a murder.
Finding you, stopping you.
You birds are all in on this thing, and you're all trying to keep me from finding my shirt.
Always finding new ways to make a mess.
I had a terrible time finding you.
Of her finding out.
Every time I come into this room I'm afraid of finding you.
News and current affairs
The challenge of the post-2015 development agenda lies in finding creative solutions to support prosperity, equality, and sustainability.
With relations in the region and with the West approaching something like normalcy, Serbs were beginning to feel, at long last, that they were finding peace with themselves and the world.
Given entrenched gender segregation and paternal dominance, this finding appears to reveal a strong desire for greater individual choice in what has traditionally been a family-driven decision.
So only a guilty verdict would suffice, but it still had to be qualified with a finding of insanity.
This is a consistent finding of opinion polls in westernized countries.
Finding a route out of it will not be easy, for no escape seems obvious: Argentina's debt is now expressed in dollars and, as in Asia in 1997, a devaluation will increase the weight of the debt.
Other criminologists argue that this finding, if well-founded, should then apply to any criminal law: every day, criminal prohibitions are infringed; yet if we did not have such prohibitions, crimes would be even more rampant.
Again, not surprisingly, politicians tried to have this finding deleted.
Hans Blix will head the UN arms inspectorate charged with searching for, finding, and destroying Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
Extremists might still exist, but they would be marginalized, finding few recruits or supporters.
Merkel's new coalition will sit neatly alongside the new Japanese government of Yukio Hatoyama, which is also dedicated to finding a new and peculiarly Japanese model of economic growth.
Whether by misreporting imports and exports or exploiting corrupt government officials (which China has in ample supply), private capital eventually starts finding its way around the controls if the incentives are strong enough.
Even Western bosses keen on China, it appears, are finding it hard nowadays to praise Jiang, as he crushes the Falun Gong spiritual movement by imprisoning or confining its members to psychiatric hospitals.
The real question now facing the planet is whether we can continue improving our technologies or finding cheaper substitutes.
New York - This week the United Nations Human Rights Council will debate the report of the fact-finding mission led by Judge Richard Goldstone on human rights violations in the Gaza conflict.
As China will be importing three-quarters of its oil from the Middle East by 2020, one step forward would be China's cooperation in finding solutions to the region's problems.
Decades-old, apparently immovable autocracies are finding their hold on power unhinged; change is invading their static environs.
Regulators have struggled with the problem for years without finding a solution.
After a period of calm that has now lasted a decade, dire economic warnings are back. Forecasts for the world economy are turning pessimistic, and economists in export-dependent Argentina are finding much to worry about.
Imports of cheap Chinese goods threaten to displace regional production, particularly in labor-intensive manufacturing sectors that are finding it difficult to compete.
Such plans, however, are by no means foolproof - not least owing to the difficulties of finding concealed nuclear assets and safeguarding reactors.
But old and unresolved rivalries within Asia are finding new expression as political ambitions and military budgets expand.
Even finding nothing in such places is important, because these new data have predictive power, narrowing the field of planets, or moons, that might harbor life.