The hose didn't work.

We need a garden hose.

I need a garden hose.

Sarkozy s Secret Rupture

Take this piece of rubber hose.

He was watering his garden with a hose.

Both sides want to prevent any serious rupture.

Slovakia offers a positive example of such a rupture.

If the water stops flowing, it's most likely from a kink in the hose.

The market has, they claim, already priced in such a rupture.

For Sarkozy, rupture reflects both mundanely tactical and deeply personal choices.

For Sarkozy, rupture reflects both mundanely tactical and deeply personal choices.

Senior leaders from both sides sought to save the relationship from total rupture.

Too much information was presented all at once. Taking it in was like drinking from a fire hose.

So far, few French people can see the sort of rupture that Sarkozy promised.

Perhaps too much uncontrolled rupture in style can ultimately lead to paralysis in substance.

Indeed, all left wing parties denounce Sarkozy s rupture with the Fifth Republic s military diplomatic heritage.

In the case of Royal, the meaning of rupture is both more obvious and more visible.

If we continue to claim that they are transparent, we are going to create a rupture.

People thought that was crazy. A coat on a fence would make them balk, shadows would make them balk, a hose on the floor ...

Indeed, the proposal amounted to a rupture with the near universal agreement that small depositors should be considered sacrosanct.

Instead, the party long defended the theory of a revolutionary rupture with capitalism, never clearly acknowledging its reformist nature.

The country will descend deeper into authoritarianism, political divisions will become irreconcilable, and yet another political rupture may become inevitable.

Eight months into his presidency, is Nicolas Sarkozy delivering the rupture from 30 years of French immobility that he promised?

PARIS A year ago, when Nicolas Sarkozy was campaigning for the French presidency, he promised a rupture with the past.

PARIS A year ago, when Nicolas Sarkozy was campaigning for the French presidency, he promised a rupture with the past.

Seed trays, drip tape, mulch film, water pipes, hoop house covers, twine, hose, fertilizer bags, totes, tool handles and everything we use to keep ourselves dry.

A radioactive leak, the rupture of an undersea oil well and, above all, CO2 emissions do not threaten just one country.

The country will descend deeper into authoritarianism, political divisions will become irreconcilable, and yet another political rupture may become inevitable. 160

Indeed, Erdoğan s has warned of a diplomatic rupture with the EU if Cyprus accedes to the Union s rotating presidency in 2012.

In terms of values, Royal, too, seems to represent a rupture with May 1968, with her emphasis on discipline and family.

Moreover, both candidates embody continuity with Chirac s Gaullist side for Sarkozy and with François Mitterrand for Royal as much as rupture.

The destruction of the mosque was seen as the most serious rupture between Hindus and Muslims since India became independent in 1947.

Any open rupture will weaken the hands of the reformers who want to have close ties with the West and the US.

For it was on a Turkish flagged ship that Israeli forces killed nine people, causing a near rupture in Israeli Turkish relations.

As a result, he has produced a rupture between the two pillars of the revolutionary regime the clerical elite and military security structure.

Hu and Obama will work hard to present an image of unity during the summit. Both sides want to prevent any serious rupture.

Russian aid would probably be complementary to European aid, and undoubtedly there would not be any actual rupture between Cyprus and the Eurozone.

The gas may bloat the body to twice its normal size and slow circulation, but tissues are elastic and porous enough to prevent rupture.

In fact, they have more in common than meets the eye, for each speaks of a rupture with the past while incarnating a form of continuity.

It's time for a pause in European integration efforts if only to avoid a complete, irreparable rupture of relations between nations that are supposed to be uniting.

Sarkozy has, in fact, brought about a rupture, albeit in an unexpected area the foreign policy consensus that has prevailed since the days of Charles de Gaulle.

Franklin Roosevelt used the fictional story of lending a garden hose to a neighbor whose house was on fire to explain his complex lend lease program to the American people before World War II.

This is inevitable, because that rupture is being fueled by the simple acknowledgement that responsible governments must place national interests ahead of nostalgia, grandstanding rhetoric, and strident ideology.

But it would also likely de legitimize the next government before it comes into power, rupture Pakistan s largest political party, and create a nationalist backlash against the US.