It's a heated high school rivalry, and officials soon realized who was responsible.
Then something changed; perhaps American officials realized he was stringing them along.
It was an act officials should realize they should never have allowed to happen.
Only then did officials realize, he said, that there was more to running a hospital parking lot than making money.
British officials quickly realized that their strategies in governing were adding to costs.
"What the officials don't realize is they are going to immortalize these books," he said.
The transition is more serious than officials may realize.
Indeed, a long time had passed, 14 months, before officials realized that Justina was dead.
But the officials did not realize just how much those bidders had taken control of the auction process.
But now, just when the department is supposed to be on the verge of a solution, officials are realizing that they barely understand the problem.