In a low-turnout special election, it's the only item on the ballot. The opponents - who would be well-funded - would be able to focus on it and have a great opportunity to defeat it. In a general election, there's so many things on the ballot that the average voter is lost. |
In a situation where you don't think any of your roommates are home and you locked the door before you left, the first thing you should do before even putting the key in the door is turn the knob, ... If it turns, you should already be thinking that something might be wrong. |
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Tony Blair (1953-) |
In late 1997, we considered whether this evidence justified a referral to Congress, ... We drafted a report. But we concluded that it would be inconsistent with the statutory standard because of the difficulty of establishing the truth with a sufficient degree of confidence. |
In light of the company's plan to become more focused and streamline our operations, we believe the timing is right to relocate our global headquarters to Memphis, because of the improved efficiencies that will result from having all of the company's leadership in one place, |
In my country, we don't mix sweet stuff and salty stuff in food. Here you could put honey on chicken, we don't do that. We find that disgusting. I liked it; I like turkey with cranberry sauce. For us it's something, we can't accept it. When I tried it, it became my favorite. |
In one sense what may pass between the pope and myself may be trivialities. In another sense the fact of talking trivialities is itself a portent of great significance. But the pleasantries which we exchange may, as one church leader said, be pleasantries about profundities. |
In software engineering, I can get all of these wonderful tools developed by brilliant people for free. In some cases, the real innovation occurs in the open-source world. I really believe hardware design has the potential to become just another software-engineering process. |
In summary, while it is still early in the quarter, if these trends continue, combined with the anticipated highly competitive environment for technology products during the upcoming holiday season, we would expect to see further pressure on earnings from ongoing operations. |
In terms of my client, my client hopefully will be old news, and she will have a job somewhere and building a career. I will be back to the normal practice of country law and no longer in the Beltway. With any luck at all, my next tour will be of New York, not of Washington. |
In the first place, we have to stop giving up so many fouls. But we have to be tougher on our marking. We can't be pushed around, we have to get that first punch in and we have to grab and hold. If they call a penalty so be it, but we have stop giving up goals on free kicks. |
In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist. |
In the Olympics, we still don't understand what happened. We looked at video and were not sure what it was, but we fixed whatever was that mistake. We concentrated to make it all clear and powerful. We didn't really change anything, but we got our feelings to a higher level. |