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It is an absolute bonus to make friends out of colleagues, but we are genuinely friends and our relationships grow stronger every day. We rely on each other for strength because we've been through so much in our lives together already.

It is an absolute disgrace that a Swiss citizen has got away with a virtual tap on the wrist for raping a South African boy, simply because the definition of rape does not include male- on-male rape.

It is an absolute disgrace. You can't bug anyone's telephone without a warrant, which is express written consent personally signed by the Home Secretary. Why should you have less protection over the Internet?

It is an absolute honor and privilege to be selected as the head football coach at Virginia Military Institute. I accept the challenge to elevate the football program to the VMI standard of excellence. I am eager to meet the team and the VMI family.

It is an absolute poison and a scourge on society and it is time to talk about it,

I think the most absolute truth is only as good as the time that it's told. It's only as good as where the person, the receiver of that, is.

I think they are showing a greater willingness to look for new suggestions, new ideas, new approaches than at any time in the presidency. I think they realize the larger system has failed: They are not where they want to be on Iraq; the first week after Katrina was an absolute failure.

I think anybody (who) is willing to sit with it a reasonable period of time will come out OK - if they didn't buy at the absolute peak of the market. Right now, I consider that we are at the peak of the market - or close to it.

I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.

Rock climbers and gymnasts are involved in challenging activities that require the absolute safest environment. We provide that at all times and without cutting any corners.

Rituals involving strenuous and/or repetitive physical movements are meant to free the mind of all frivolous thoughts and divert the focus to the point of one-mindedness or absolute concentration.

Our program has consistency. It is an absolute accepted part of the school. I don't have to push it or promote it.

Overall, the athletes were really good. We were expecting a tough fight from B.C. and Quebec, and we got it. All our athletes gave their absolute best.

Our army is the people's army that is under the absolute leadership of the party,

I think Ogden needs to keep these absolute treasures. Ogden High School is one of these significant buildings that needs to be kept intact.

I was very comforted by that. The absolute last thing that the right wing wants to hear is that the Constitution means anything other than what it meant in 1789.

I was thinking about how quickly it all passed and what an absolute joy it was -- even the bad days were good days.

I will tell the exact and absolute truth regarding the situation. I received a phone call from the band basically firing me from the band.

I was in a lot of pain warming up and when I tried to push out of the blocks it felt like someone had gutted me. I was in absolute agony.

I was here with Camille and lived in Florida when Andrew hit and nothing compares to this. This is an absolute nightmare.

I was happy. To be honest, I thought I was only 1-up coming to the last hole, not 2-up, so I figured I had to make at worst a par and at the absolute worst a bogey and I was fortunate enough to do that.

I think people are now realizing, or starting to realize, that every word, more or less, I said in the book is the absolute truth,

I think people got a view of absolute greatness, back and forth. The bigger the moment, both of them stepped up even bigger and bigger.

I still see the economy as absolute the No. 1 factor, (even with) as many other factors as there are nowadays,

I think he's been everything to this program. He's been an absolute high-level competitor since the day he stepped foot on campus. I'm going to miss him, as a coach and as a teacher. He's been a special player for me to have an opportunity to interact with.

It does take a little longer to build a house here. It is a cyclical business and we are at the absolute peak of building.

It does look like we reached a shorter-term capitulation but I don't think sentiment ever got negative enough to suggest an absolute low.

It isn't so much the absolute price of oil, as it is the increasing price, ... If we sell seats based on $50 oil and then fly people at $65 oil, obviously it's not going to be good for earnings.

It is a joke, an absolute nonsense to even suggest such things.

I think we can be right in there if we compete to our absolute best. It will be good to see where we can score, and if we need to shift things around.

It has been an absolute joy to have them and watch them. Not only are they extremely productive, but they are very durable and very unselfish. Sometimes with big-number guys, they aren't as much into the team concept as these two.

It has been an absolute joy to watch this project come together and see how the community has embraced it. We always talk about smart growth and this is an excellent example of that. This is smart growth defined.

It gives me a huge buzz when people say they've enjoyed my books, because this grew out of a hobby, and it's an absolute passion, and it's lovely when I get feedback.

I think we hit the ball real hard today again. The hardest-hit ball turned into a double play. If that ball gets by, we score runs. Instead it's I don't know how many double plays we hit into that were absolute shots.

I think you're going to have other confusion from all of us. Many of us, we've been going to the same pharmacy for 30 years. I'm disappointed that we couldn't have had an absolute simple plan rather than this confusing thing.

It is something that we would welcome, but it is not an absolute necessity, ... does not have to hit home runs to be productive. What we need is for his production to get back to where it needs to be. He is one of the premier RBI guys in the last few years and we need that to re-emerge.

It is pretty clear to us that from a long-term trend perspective the phenomenon of Dubai is real. We might have debates around absolute valuations at any given point of time, which is what people do when they are picking stocks, but in terms of the long-term I think we are fairly comfortable with Dubai as an economy that will be a significant factor in the region as well as globally. This is why we are putting significant resources here.

It appears that the data we hear about hedge funds' performance is absolute noise. Even if you accept the unique aspect of self-selected self-reporting, you can't wash out all the failures and expect people to buy your 'perception' of performance.

tried mimicking me right from the start. It was a distraction. Their captain, who has been mouthing off all about sportsmanship, is talking to the (chair umpire) on every second point of my serve. That's not sportsmanship ... that's absolute rubbish.

Troy's remarkable vision, understanding of the game and penchant for hard work were evident since day one, ... He has already blossomed into an outstanding announcer and I'm looking forward to the work that he and Joe Buck produce with the added room that a two-man booth provides. I know they will form the absolute best NFL broadcast team in the business.

True humanness consists of a continuous series of tiny acts executed with absolute sincerity and largeness of heart.

Time is of the absolute essence if we are to restore the public's trust.

We believe the limits of the human condition prevent anyone from having the absolute truth. That's the whole idea of this University, isn't it?

The problem is, things can't get any better, or that's the perception out there in the marketplace. In fact we would concur with that opinion. This is a notoriously cyclical sector; that isn't likely to change any time soon. Housing starts are at absolute peak levels. People are concerned where the upside is.

Those kids are fantastic people and hopefully they'll understand why I took this job. I wish nothing but the absolute best for them for all but two games next year.

We are in absolute position to be the bank that moves into the Pacific century,

We have always had absolute zero tolerance for sexual meetings. As for short-term liaisons, who is Match to say whether an encounter will last one night or a whole lifetime?

The alternative was absolute impotence. So people were eager to try it out, especially when the potential of failure presented no obvious downside.

The ability to quickly access and recover lost messages has evolved into an absolute requirement. This is true, even at mid-level organizations. For these firms, that requirement adds yet one more task to IT staffs already overburdened. Continuous Exchange Protection is specifically designed to solve this challenge, making it easier for companies to comply with the regulations without having to devote significant time or resources to the effort.

The absolute consistency and performance Kim has given us for four years is very, very unique. It's special and deserving of recognition. It really indicates the impact she's had throughout.

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

The absolute motivation for this was really to give clarity and certainty to all of our ecosystems, so we can really start our new year ... with all of these issues resolved, and a clear exciting growth path going forward with no more of the noise and distraction.

The absolute necessity is diversity has to be in portfolios.

The absolute numbers are in the opposite direction.

The Absolute Truth of Knowledge is precisely non-Knowledge. If this Mirror called Knowledge remains in the phase where nothing is reflected in it, then it does not have a Self anymore, it does not have any element, is as empty and sterile as if it were not. Thus the Mirror is non-Knowledge more than it is Knowledge and becomes Knowledge only when other Prints of the Matrix Words reflect in it.

The absolute worst piece of information that can get out is your Social Security number.

The absolute worst visit of any college athlete that I've ever been associated with. It was god-awful.

The absolute worst way to hunt elk is off an ATV, ... There is something about the pitch of an ATV that's just wrong. They are much louder than an average passenger vehicle or 4-wheel-drive vehicle.

That?s the new NHL and that?s what they want and that?s what they?re going to get. They?ve gone from one extreme to an absolute other extreme, and that, as a player, is frustrating.

We've been given absolute assurances that they won't move into Kosovo,

We forecast strong spending on software applications in calendar year 2001. But the priority stack has shifted towards supply chain/B2B collaboration and select areas of CRM/content management. We believe the heavy damage is already done. While we can't call the absolute bottom, we believe we are nearing the trough.

We made it our absolute mission to do regional coverage, not just coverage from one city.

We can say with absolute certainty that we're back.

When it comes to words, Cindy is an absolute expert.

We continue to focus our attention on absolute volume growth driven by Customer and Firm trading activity. Ultimately, the success of an exchange must be based on its acceptance by these two constituencies. I am pleased to note that ISE remains the number one venue for Customer and Firm combined trading activity in equity options.

We continue to make progress toward reaching pro forma operating profitability in the fourth quarter of 2001, ... This quarter, the U.S. was profitable on a pro forma operating basis for the first time, and this is our sixth sequential quarter of improved absolute pro forma operating results.

Who can know the absolute truth of illusion or emptiness? That is why we feel the fulfilled sense of this world.

We played the worst game at the absolute worst time, but we were hoping one game wasn't going to spoil all the wonderful things we did all year long. I'm pleased the committee, in my mind, did the right thing.

We are the car manufacturer who grew the most, not only in growth rate but in absolute numbers, which was very rewarding ... since we were not on the front line of the incentive game,

You are going to have double the traffic at the worst time. They can't widen the road (because there's no room). It's going to be an absolute nightmare.

We had him rated high up there because of his athletic and football ability. But that's the cherry on top, that he is such a good person. He's an absolute A-class, first-rate person.

We effectively managed our distribution channel to closely match our shipments in with distributor sales out. Channel re-sales were seasonally down about 3% during the first quarter but were more than 17% higher than a year ago. We managed our sales into the channel to this level of re-sales, resulting in a slight decrease in absolute inventory levels for approximately flat weeks of supply in the channel compared to the prior quarter.

We got done three times on the counter by an awfully good team and they managed to stick their chances away. We had a boat load of chances at this end and we missed some absolute sitters and it cost us in the end. But the game can be very cruel sometimes like that and we were just on the wrong end of it tonight.

That was an absolute nightmare day for us, ... We lost four players that day through injury, but the result killed us too. There wasn't the same desire to go and win a football match because the players didn't need to. We were already safe, having got to the 40-point barrier quicker than Leicester had ever done before.

The real challenge is when the ball gets shot. Once it's up in the air, it's an absolute nightmare trying to keep them from getting to it. That's the most difficult thing about playing them.

T he fact almost 40,000 Scots waited more than six months for treatment is an absolute disgrace, and these figures clearly expose Andy Kerr's claim that no patient waits more than six months for treatment as nothing more than a cruel deception.

We've shown we can play with anyone on any given day. I think we deserve the No. 3 or 4 seed, and the sixth seed at the absolute worst.

The only time I was under oath was Monday, and I told the absolute truth,

The only time I was under oath was Monday, and I told the absolute truth, ... Those were not sworn statements ... My perception was that it was legal jockeying.

The only way to describe my involvement in 'Planes' is that it's an absolute dream come true for me. Getting to be a bad guy in any project is fun, let alone being a Disney villain. I can't imagine anything getting better than that!

The only way to work with start-up companies is to give them absolute flexibility to do whatever they want. A start-up will have a business plan that will change many times over the first few years of their lives. If we have restrictions over what they can do with their technology, we're not going to be able to play in this game.

We design the look of all of our structures not only with backyard appeal in mind but also with absolute safety in mind.

There is clear repudiation of the government's absolute position that the courts have no role. The Supreme Court did offer the executive a real change to balance how much procedure the detainees would get, it's not that they have all the rights of a U.S. citizen in every court case, but it does absolutely reject the president's claim that it is only his choice who gets to go to court and when.

There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the idea that more people might connect with music. That infuriates me more than I can say.

Traditionally, operating systems had been written in tight assembler to extract the absolute highest efficiency possible out of their host machines.

The only reason we played that hole was because there was no other fairway to play. Everything else was under water. It was an absolute mess. It was a monumental operation just to get the thing done.

We don't have an absolute stud, per se, that throws mid to high 80s. But we've got five or six quality pitchers that mix it up, throw strikes, and now they've learned how to win, which is the key.

We promised an absolute majority and that's what we're going to give the country.

The path of the imam is the absolute path of the Islamic republic. He was the founder of the revolution. He is the reference of the revolution.

The payroll survey is the best measure of the absolute amount of employment and employment trends, and this is really quite a pessimistic report.

The peace process lies in absolute ruins, ... And the responsibility for that -- and for restoring it -- lies with (British Prime Minister) John Major.

We are really going to miss her greatly when she leaves, ... but we have absolute confidence that she will do well when she gets there. She is a very confident young woman.

We don't have with a few absolute studs. We have a team full of solid, smart players.

The deepest thing I have to say in comment to that is that the principle work is to be done within the individual him/herself, and to learn to cope with one's own masculinity and femininity within is an absolute prerequisite before one has the right to talk about exterior relationships.

We called timeout and I actually walked out to see if you could kick a field goal there. There was no way. It was an absolute quagmire. That was out of the question.

When I wrote 'The Shadow Thief,' I had an obsession with Peter Pan. I get focused on things. In fact, I was an absolute horror to live with at that stage. I had a big fight with my mum because I wanted her to change the windows so Peter Pan could visit me.

We passed a gas price cap law without knowing what was actually happening. The price cap brought us from no government intervention in the markets to an absolute government intervention.

We have been having a good time, and been cooking, ... You ought to see their faces. It's a joy, an absolute joy.

We can't base our absolute actions on predictions of what might be, ... We know there's a lot of uncertainty. If we get to the point where we have to nourish this beach every year, we know we'll have to try something different.

We view the decision as one of absolute vindication of what our clients have been saying for the last 13 years. And it's our sincere hope that the state will embrace the decision instead of continuing to litigate the matter and decide that all children of South Carolina need an education if they (are to) have a chance to be productive citizens.