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It's payback for wrongdoing in a previous life.
I would like to retract my previous statement.
Complete the following form to know who you could have been in a previous life.
The accident happened previous to my arrival.
This novel of his is inferior to the previous one.
I would like to, but I have a previous appointment.
I'm sorry, but I have a previous appointment for tomorrow.
I regret that a previous engagement prevents me from accepting your kind invitation.
Minutes of the previous meeting were accepted.
He asked the policeman how many people had been killed in traffic accidents the previous day.
He died previous to my arrival.
He said that he had met her on the previous day.
Betty has a previous conviction for theft.
I had lost a camera the previous day.
It is that Emmet's theory is compatible with previous theories in physics that is of most significance.
The previous owners of our house moved to Liverpool.
He said he had come to Japan the previous week.
Net profit for the period is estimated at 5 billion yen, largely unchanged from the previous one.
Please list your previous jobs on the application.
Has your neck thickened during the previous year?
Movie subtitles
Or did you also have a previous life?
I knew that when no one came for the funeral of the previous Magistrate's daughter.
In the past, because of your mistake, Father, you know well what happened to your previous wife who came here, and what you paid for that.
When the corpse of the previous Magistrate's daughter was found.
But I have a previous engagement and I was hoping you would accompany me.
Although I lent the previous coroner one of my finer texts and I never saw it again.
But her previous wishes were to remain here to the end.
At dawn Hutter set out to investigate the horrors of the previous nights.
Judging by his incoherent remarks, he had seen, during the previous night, the ghosts of all those he had slain.
They were a little previous on that.
You did not tell me you had a previous engagement.
And yet you've been very outspoken against the previous commissions to solve the racket problem. Why is that?
She has a previous engagement.
However, it's a wise man that profits by his previous mistakes. and from herein, gentlemen. I have made some other financial arrangements.
The outer arm, that was also observed in the previous survey, and the dark coloured areas in the inner parts of the Galaxy.
And the previous night, he was with her.
Sherriff reread HG Wells' novel after many years, and wondered why so many writers of the previous scripts had chosen to ignore what Universal had purchased.
They had to add an extra page for previous offenses.
Captain Bligh, apart from the conversation you overheard was Mr. Byam's previous conduct such that you believe him guilty?
Sorry, previous engagement.
Just this evening I found out that my father had already made a previous commitment.
Is it true that on several previous occasions you had words with Mr. Hammond?
I also observed that the design on the torso had been done within the previous twenty-four hours.
Mr. Elliott Templeton regrets he cannot accept Princess Novemali's kind invitation owing to a previous engagement with his blessed Lord.
A previous engagement.
Sergeant, my previous orders were to see these wagons safely across the river.
That morning Jeff was trying to recover from the previous night's excesses.
Every day I love him more than the previous.
More than the previous.
She can't come this evening. She has a previous engagement.
Why did you lie about that previous conviction?
He's my son by a previous marriage.
A previous engagement or some illness in the family.
No previous record. Attempt suicide last night with necktie.
News and current affairs
In fact, excessively constraining rules of origin have proved problematic for some of the EU's previous recognition agreements, such as those governing professional-services standards.
In March, a leaked Bush administration report showed that US emissions were expected to rise almost as fast over the next decade as they did during the previous decade.
This year's Cup, unlike the previous one in Japan and South Korea in 2002, didn't witness any real upsets in the first round.
But like all his previous initiatives since the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington almost five years ago now, the NME ran into trouble from the outset.
The world must fervently hope that the Turkish proposal for a Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform is more serious and sustained than previous similar efforts.
Previous legislation, if not reversed, will lead to large abrupt tax hikes and spending cuts, which the Congressional Budget Office forecasts would likely cause a recession in 2013.
The Wall Street Journal's Justin Lahart reports that the 2010 share was higher than the previous peak share in 2006.
The perpetrators are not hardened criminals; many have no previous criminal record.
Demand growth at a pace that in any previous decade would have been seen as highly satisfactory is suddenly desperately insufficient, and Bush is being blamed (with some justice) for the slack labor market that has resulted.
Look at Putin's attempt to rig Ukraine's previous presidential election, and the on again off again criminal charges brought against the opposition leader Yuliya Tymoshenko.
This proposition overturned the previous Keynesian orthodoxy that macroeconomic policy should aim at full employment, with the control of inflation left to wage policy.
In de-regulating financial markets worldwide, the Thatcher-Reagan revolution brought about the corruption of money, without improving on the previous growth of wealth - except for the very wealthy.
It would last only eight months, like the two previous recessions of 1990-1991 and 2001, and the world would decouple from the US contraction.
It is widely predicted that when this happens, the economic and human losses will exceed that of any previous war.
Yet even this growth was not enough, given previous governments' generous promises of health care and pensions - promises made even less tenable by rising life expectancy and falling birth rates.
Indeed, today's enthusiasm for currency unions ignores the poor track record of previous attempts on the continent to establish them through peaceful means.
Recently, South Korea's government made it clear that it would continue to engage North Korea, but in a more principled way than had previous administrations.
This is a huge contrast with the financial sector's position in the previous three decades.
Thus, Swiss researchers caused excitement in 1986 by announcing the discovery of superconductivity in an oxide of copper at twice the temperature of the previous record holder.
Tolerance for failure was slim in both initiatives, so they tended to rely on the previous generation of scientific insight, because the resulting technology was more trustworthy.
Patients who self-reported a previous diagnosis of bipolar disorder that was not confirmed by the SCID did not have a significantly higher risk for bipolar disorder than the patients who were negative for bipolar disorder by self-report and the SCID.
Unfortunately, the parallel between today's US crisis and previous financial crises is not mere hyperbole.
The shadow of two previous events that took place on September 11 looms over the outcome - indeed, over the fact that the question is even being considered at all.
Nobel laureates such as Martin Luther King, Lech Walesa, and Aung San Suu Kyi are but a few of the many examples that the Nobel Committee has recognized in previous years.
They responded that such previous action by them had not been reciprocated, and they reminded me that Hamas had previously insisted on a ceasefire throughout Palestine including both Gaza and the West Bank, which Israel had refused.