| In practice, when the United States announces and deploys the first stage of its NMD, it may be perceived as something of a non-event. |
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| The green salad bordered on a non-event thanks to the iceberg lettuce, but the orange-tinged dressing had a nice sesame scent to it. |
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| The big sell-off has been mostly a non-event, though not so much for want of would-be buyers. |
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| Fly the airplane to the bottom of the envelope, and stalls are a non-event, a good indication of landing manners as well. |
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| Work at Elections Canada in Ottawa during non-event periods on projects and developmental activities, as required. |
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| The reality is that Budget Day has become a non-event because we have a new budget every second day. |
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| Everyone wants this great big win, but if we get it, they say it's a non-event. |
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| It's not going to be anything special, I want it to be a bit of a non-event. |
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| This is significant when a few centimetres can be the difference between a disastrous flood and a non-event. |
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| This rare heavenly event turned out to be something of a non-event, and our own planet is still intact. |
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| From a negative point of view, the Blue card is somehow seen as a non-event. |
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| Day one of Shane Warne's cricket comeback started as a media circus and ended as a non-event as rain stopped play. |
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| The second half was a complete non-event with Listowel raising the white flag of surrender. |
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| Before I read your article I listened to parts of and read excerpts from the conversation and came to the conclusion that it was a non-event. |
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| Contribute significant input to Elections Canada in Ottawa on all special projects and activities requiring the collaboration of ROs during non-event periods. |
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| The second leg was almost a non-event, as Mechelen managed to hold their opponents at bay in Eindhoven until the 78th minute when Johann Gillhaus scored what proved to be the only goal of the leg. |
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| However, the creation of the new ministry was considered a non-event since adequate entities to fight corruption already existed within the executive. |
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| Canada Lands did such a good job with the public process, communicating the vision and gathering community input, that the public hearing was almost a non-event. |
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| Fortunately, the only medical incident was a non-event in England-although it became a media sensation that caused Carpentier to miss the state dinner at No. 10 Downing Street. |
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| Apart from that the day was a complete non-event and as soon as I got home I crashed in front of the telly with a cup of tea and a packet of chocolate digestives. |
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| This may have been a non-event of Olympic proportions, but at least it all looked jolly impressive for 15 seconds on local TV news later in the evening. |
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| As a result, the Cultural Revolution proved to be something of a non-event, in comparison with the chiliastic aspirations with which it had begun. |
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| During non-event times, Confederation Park is an urban oasis where you can get away from the hustle and bustle of the busy downtown core. |
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| My brother and I expected big flags and banners but the actual moment you crossed the border, with its wee road sign, always seemed a non-event. |
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| Mr and Mrs Rees, by email WHAT a non-event the civic reception at St Andrew's was. |
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| Regarding Alastair Down's column and his request to have the non-event of stewards' inquiries televised, I've got an even better idea. |
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| What arrests the recall then stifles the mind, A simple non-response of a non-event kind. |
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| A non-declared non-event that never happened lives in the never-never black ops zone of public reporting? |
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| Has the stimulus, then, proved a bit of a non-event architecturally? |
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| To me the most striking feature of this week's economic events, was to observe what a non-event the proceedings before the Myburgh Commission have become. |
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| After traipsing around the byroads in Knockleigha, peering over a few fences and clambering into a few ditches, the safari was beginning to look like a non-event. |
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| I suggest the budget is a non-event, paying lip service to worthy causes such as the environment, students and crime, but by no means is it a green budget, an education budget or a law and order budget. |
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| This was a non-event for the financial institutes and their software partners, since the only thing that changed for them was the euroSIC access number. |
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| The transition to the new millennium turned out to be a non-event, thanks largely to the meticulous preparations in many sectors, including the financial sector and the Eurosystem. |
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| What creates a huge fuss in one jurisdiction, at one point in time, may be a complete non-event somewhere else, or even in the same place, several years later. |
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| The election was a non-event for broad layers of the working class. |
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| Yesterday's conference was a non-event in terms of political controversy. |
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| About a year ago, the election seemed like it was going to be a non-event. |
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| Overall, it seems likely business can expect the Budget to be a non-event, with no headline grabbing increases and little solid to say about the growth of the economy. |
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| After all, how can you revolutionize coverage of a non-event? |
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| Maybe there'll be a bowl of ready salted crisps and a selection of over-baked fatty parcels plus a token lump of fruit to round off the whole culinary non-event. |
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| While some academics call a stock split a non-event, Roger Perry, CEO of Rightline. |
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| And if you're a northern female slimy salamander with no such luck, you may want to head south, where your counterparts make egg-laying a two-yearly ordeal. One non-event is certain. |
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| The politics sounds like a typical EU non-event. In fact, not so: EU governments dislike being tied down by Brussels, but few will mind tying down their own citizens, or at least cajoling them with tax breaks. |
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| Kyle made us look much more of a threat going forward once he came on after the first half, which was a non-event, with our midfield being largely ineffective. |
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| As regards the visibility of UNESCO, it is not always easy, in a time when there is a plethora of information, to interest the media in the Organization's preventive action which, by virtue of its very nature, is a non-event. |
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| British aid to Bulgarian partisans was defined, by silence, as a non-event, an unhappening. No official statement acknowledging this aid has ever been made. |
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| Non-event days are trading days on which none of these events occurs. |
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