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We played as marked people all year. When you start off 16-2, you get everybody's emotional game. Everybody's fired up to go against you. Kids accepted that responsibility and played up to it.

The past winners of our World Racing Championships awards have truly reflected the winning spirit to support the growth of great international competition. As our member organizations look forward, we must provide a sharper focus on world rankings and recognition that can be widely tracked and accepted by the entire racing world.

Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as a compliment.

We are pleased that Henry has accepted our invitation to join the Board. His experience and expertise will be invaluable as we advance our carbohydrate-based therapeutic compounds through clinical trials.

We are pleased that our employees accepted this region-leading contract. We believe that our engineers are the best compensated in Wichita. This contract puts us in a position to work with our engineers and other employees in building a competitive business in Wichita.

We became enthralled with the view that wealth trickled down from the top and that if you poured money into rich people, sort of like an ingredient, prosperity and jobs would squirt out of them like donuts. And if you understand economies in the 19th-century way, that view is plausible, and I think a lot of people accepted it.

We didn't start her tonight, but she really accepted the challenge of coming off the bench. She did a great job, and this game will be one that keeps her going the rest of the year.

We definitely made more plays than they did. We accepted the pressure. This was a bump in the road for us.

We were accepted to both. One of our producers was contacted by the (Palm Beach) festival director, who said we can't play in both, because they are competing now for basically the market share.

We were a little disappointed that adding artificial turf to the infield at Joe Martin didn't end up being part of the accepted bid. That's something we all wanted because we have so many rainouts.

We don't know exactly how they were built, presumably people who worked on site were asked to just build them. Sometimes, like in the studios, we just accepted the patina of paint that had accrued over time and just left it as a kind of found surface, which distinguishes and differentiates the rooms.

The delegates in Buenos Aires have to be reminded that climate change is not something which will happen in the future, it is happening now, most dramatically in the Arctic. The main cause is clear and undisputed. Increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere due to the burning of fossil fuels is accepted as the main cause of climate change by all scientists save those working for the fossil fuel industry. Polar bears may be some of the earliest victims, but the rest of us are not far behind.

The convention (on refugees) provides that they should be accepted at the nearest port and I think the issue is a very serious one.

The critical point is whether there is progress on the cardinal issue: whether Ethiopia has accepted the boundary commission's decision in good faith. The formal statement from the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry yesterday does not encourage one to think in optimistic terms.

What we're trying to do now is get the parameters accepted in a way where the reservations are reconcilable and, therefore, we know that both sides are in a position to negotiate seriously.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.

If I was concerned about being accepted, I would have been doing Ansel Adams lookalikes, because that was easily accepted. Everything I did was never accepted...but luckily for me, my interest in the subject and my passion for the subject took me to the point that I wasn't wounded by that, and eventually, people came around to me.

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

There are many paths and they are all valid if they work for the individual, ... All the paths are sacred and all should be accepted in the recovery family.

Why an arbitrary figure of 30 days? The US Government has long accepted it only takes one day to be exposed to Agent Orange.

When Lance was diagnosed with advanced testicular cancer, he was presented with the greatest challenge of his life. He faced that challenge and won. Now Lance has accepted a new challenge to make cancer a national priority and he needs all people -- walkers, runners, riders, volunteers, donors -- to rise to the challenge and join in this fight.

We were worried about our chemistry, and we were reluctant to make changes because we were winning. But we wanted to put what we thought was the best team out on the field. We're just trying to put the team first, and the girls have accepted all of the changes really well.

We don't want to hurt ourselves. We want to make sure that the kids who have been accepted and are there now have as wonderful an education as those there now. On the other hand, we have to look at all our options to sway the decision of the board.

We were notified at 11:55 tonight that Damon had accepted an offer from the Yankees.

When my parents came over, they weren't accepted by the British people. They struggled to hold on to their own values and traditions. They worried that we would lose our Asian identity.

When our leaders allow and even encourage abuse at the 'outer limits', America suffers. A nation that works to bring freedom and liberty to other parts of the world shouldn't stomach brutality and inhumanity within its ranks. This abuse of power was engineered and accepted at the highest levels of our government.

There is a basic misconception of rhythms. Our side has already accepted the document. The Belgrade side says they want to redraw the whole document.... I think that is a very unserious attitude.

There is absolutely no question of his stepping down as the leader of opposition. We have accepted his desire to leave the party chief's post.

There has to be a few widely accepted cards -- kind of the Visa and MasterCard of the identity world -- and it's not clear that anyone wants that job.

There have been some offers back and forth, but we haven't accepted anything at this point.

We thought it was bad policy and bad politics, and I guess they accepted our argument. There's no need to antagonize organized labor,

We would all be very happy if Ciampi accepted to stand again. He has been a great president, but it is up to him to decide.

In this society these days, women are widely accepted in all kinds of cross-gender areas. So yeah, it's time!

If you're considered a beauty, it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around.

Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender.

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ''home'' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

You have to be invited to perform at the convention usually by a taped audition. Many schools submit tapes to be considered, but very few schools are accepted or invited to perform.

We have not accepted the document as a basis for negotiation, and we intend going to the talks to oppose the document.

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

We want people to understand this deadline is for new disaster applications. If they have already applied, their cases will continue to be processed. New applications will not be accepted after the March 11, 2006, deadline.

I've accepted the fact that because I'm human, I'm terrific in one thing, good at some, mediocre at a bit more, and terrible at others. And if you're human, you are too. You'll have to discover the one thing that you are good at and major in it.

When we end up in a situation where we have been rejected, there is an acceptance in Christ of a new place He is going to take us. It is like nothing we have ever experienced. You are accepted in Christ, never rejected by Him.

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

Wayne reached out as soon as he accepted the job to become general manager. We realized we had a lot of work to do in a short period of time if we were going to reach an agreement and avoid the arbitration hearing, which always is the goal.

We accepted a higher proportion of English-learner students than any other state in the country, ... Our exclusion rate of English learners was 12%, while Texas' exclusion rate was 37.5% and New York's was 29%.

We accepted American ideas that each side will examine its own activities, ... that our security teams will sit together to clarify what happened, and then we'll sit with the American partners to see what happened and to try and make sure that better coordination will be in the future and that such events could not be repeated in the future.

We accepted coach Dixon so quickly. The team is so close. We've trusted coach Dixon.

We accepted full responsibility for the wrongdoing that occurred, and we felt that the loss of scholarships, extended probation, and other penalties imposed by the NCAA were an appropriately severe response to the violations. Our appeal was focused on the additional postseason ban, because we believed it fell disproportionately on the current, innocent players and coaches.

We accepted his decision with sadness, but also with the knowledge that changes needed to be made. The board is confident that the new leadership will bring a renewed focus on execution and performance.

We accepted the (U.S.) initiative, trying to be helpful in getting the peace process back on track. We are not willing in any way to renegotiate the initiative ... I think the clock is ticking very fast.

When I was a boy, we all learned the story of George Washington and the cherry tree and accepted it as gospel truth. The present, more enlightened younger generation, however, is well aware that this incident never happened, but that it was the invention of Washington's most famous biographer, the Rev. Mason Locke Weems.

When I was in Taiwan, we were there for about 8 months, and I was 11 at the time, so it was definitely a culture shock. But it was a really interesting time to be there. I didn't entirely realize how different it is from the States. I just accepted it because I was there and my parents needed to be there.

When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology.

The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly, and it has to be accepted . . . that Angela Merkel will be chancellor.

Until the parties have accepted all provisions of the agreement, preparations for NATO military action will continue,

Until today, I've always regarded my most profound professional responsibility in my professional life the blessing I had to hold in my hands the human heart, recognizing all its glory and all its potential, and then technically seating it into the chest of a dying woman to give her life and a future she would not otherwise have. . . . A few moments ago, my colleagues gave me a responsibility equal to that -- some would even say a heavier one. I accepted that responsibility with a profound sense of humility. They gave me their confidence, their support, their trust -- and elected me to serve as their leader in the United States Senate.

We're going to tie ourselves to his wagon and let him pull us around. He's our leader and he's really matured and accepted that role.

There is no question he has accepted the role and is trying to have as big an impact on every game as he possibly can. As he gets more and more comfortable with it, I think his -- and the team's -- play on offense will continue to improve.

We broke students into two groups. The first group could be accepted here as freshmen and full-time undergrads. The other 64 are enrolled in a continuing studies program, which they can do for a limited amount of time. They are people seeking temporary assistance.

When we got this inquiry from Mr. Silverberg, we called London and we talked to the Royal Mail. We tracked it all the way to their incoming distribution site. It was accepted by the Royal Mail, and it's from there that the trail went cold.

We go up just into space - space is most commonly accepted to be 100 kilometres above the earth's surface, and we go up just beyond that to about 350,000 ft.

What has happened is that everyone has accepted that over time this is going to become a global issue and in that context (efforts have) been ratcheted up a level,

What he said was he had a conversation with a referee. I found that unacceptable and (also) his declining to identify him. ... He accepted the fine and acknowledged the statement that he got a call from an NBA referee was, shall I say in error, inaccurate. That makes it over.

Very few people spend their whole career - eight, nine years - on one team. It has to be the right situation, right setting, right spot. But I think this is a good place to be. It's really nice here. The team's accepted me, the coach accepted me and everybody expects me to be accountable for my job. I like it.

We're extremely pleased that he accepted this opportunity. We're excited about his background and what he might be able to do for the district.

We appreciate the fact that they have accepted coach Callahan's explanation of this gesture. We also recognize that any kind of gesture is not in character either with coach Callahan or our program.

We applaud him because his statement was swift, it was responsible, and it was contrite, ... We accepted the contrition and the spirit behind it and our board, in our session, unanimously accepted this statement as well as accepted Rev. Jackson's apology.

We've accepted the fact that the earnings growth for the quarter is around 20, 21 percent year-over-year for the S&P. But there's been this behind the scenes look or under the surface look at revenue. And we haven't got the best of forecasts for the second half of the year in many companies going forward. And if you don't have that pristine look -- where you come in this earnings season totally clean -- you've gotten battered. And I can't even name more than a handful of stocks that have come through.

We've all be impressed with the way Gordon has conducted himself. I'm delighted he has accepted the manager's job.

We are a discipleship school, not an evangelistic school. For a student to enroll here, the parents and the kids both have to have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and savior.

When I was a senior, I got accepted into the Julliard School for Dance, but ultimately decided to move to L.A. to act, so that was a fun conversation with the parents. I truly have some of the greatest parents ever.

Bianca has accepted the fact that she'll play wherever she is needed. She knows all the positions and all the plays.

At this point in time, we don't have any manufacturers who have accepted the challenge of taking on Honda.

Ben was a little different. Sometimes you wonder about homesickness, but he's really handled it well -- a lot better than I would have if I was his age. The players have accepted him. His work ethic is outstanding.

Consider that an accepted challenge. He's finished nationally.

Don't exchange a lot of money ahead of time. In Europe, credit cards are accepted almost everywhere. I was in Iceland recently and they even take credit cards in taxi cabs.

We were thinking before the game they were going to take us for granted. I felt insulted by it, because a lot of teams think they are going to walk all over us. The good thing though is that basketball is not played on paper, and we accepted the challenge tonight.

TV is like high school because you go into these series, and the people that work there have been doing it for seven years, like 'One Tree Hill,' so you are going into what is already a family - if you are accepted by that family, then it's fantastic fun.

When I started acting, I hoped I could make some kind of positive contribution to this world. When I get a letter from some kid in Nebraska saying that, prior to Han, nobody wanted to be his friend because Asians weren't cool if they weren't into martial arts - Now he's accepted and recognized as a human being. That's pretty awesome, right?

Every coach is biased about his own kid, but I wouldn't trade Kevin for anybody. He accepted not making the Dandy Dozen as a challenge. A lot of people, including some colleges, looked over him because of his height, but his size makes him play harder.

Everybody who wants to be Irish is accepted Irish in my pub. Today's just a special day to be Irish.

Everybody would be hurt if we basically accepted the situation as it has been offered and as it would be today.

I shall make classical music to be enjoyed and accepted by more people. I'll also play more Chinese songs on my albums.

Is it possible to respect someone and hate their guts? ... It is? Then, we've accepted it.

I started off in radio, then made little films for Granada. I applied for a job at 'Weekend World,' and they turned me down; I'd also applied to the Foreign Office, which accepted me.

I used to sit in bed at night and flip through design-school catalogs. I found out that Parsons accepted a small number of high school juniors, so I applied my sophomore year and got in.

I've been bullied my whole life, whether it was about my peers or comments on Instagram or Twitter, whatever. And I never talked about my story, really. I feel like I've kind of accepted it because I realized that just comes with the territory.

I've been coaching a long time and this might be my most satisfying year. With all that the girls went through, they've never accepted less and given less than their best.

The top five critical success factors for team selling are clearly defined performance and activity goals, accepted roles, ground rules, trust and good communication and conflict resolution skills.

They always define it as coming out of the closet, but I don't consider myself to be out of the closet. Where I live, you can't really go out and be yourself. You couldn't go out together, two guys, as a couple and ever be accepted. It wasn't accepted in the past, it's still not, and I don't think it ever will be.

While the government accepted the decision to shift policy, that was because it was a symbolic move and had no real implications for long-term yields. There's no doubt they'll put more pressure on the Bank of Japan to keep the zero rate policy.

Today, you've accepted the invitation to take part in a very important initiative for the economic health of Westmoreland County's future.

The government and armed forces have promised to respect the electoral results. That respect will be sacrosanct, ... At the same we demand that the results be accepted in peace.

The government has accepted that migration is a fact of life,

I started dancing when I was five, and I trained intensively as a competitive dancer up until the end of high school. I did all genres, and later on a did a lot of extra ballet on top of that. I actually got accepted to Julliard for dance during my senior year, but I ultimately turned it down to come to L.A. to act.

The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.

The talks are sufficiently constructive and serious that we're going to continue them. President Ahtisaari and I have accepted an invitation from Mr. Chernomyrdin to return next week. So we're continuing them,