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I think it starts - we always start in the state of Michigan. And we did not recruit a large number of guys from this state this year. It already is apparent that next year will be a very good year in this state. We start here, but I think our coaches did a great job. I was in 16 states in 15 days in January, and so we were spread out, and yet I think we've got an outstanding class.

It has been apparent for some time that the American people are frustrated, sick and tired of the partisan bickering. We have to support the president.

It became apparent Mr. Wu had violated firm policies in sending his early morning e-mail and that his employment was in jeopardy as a result,

It became apparent that Lionel was told what to say in the letter and to the psychologists.

It became apparent that there is a lot of passion and emotion behind this issue. It is what we think is right and needed to be done.

It became apparent that we had to do something.

It became apparent this was going to bust open.

It became apparent to us that it is a lot easier to provide great technology - as our competitors did - than to replicate a great consultative, advice-giving, advisory force, which Merrill had.

It became apparent very quickly that he was never going to be comfortable in or make peace with the mask. You spend a long time as an actor learning what to do with your face. It is the big tool that you have, and so are your eyes. When you take that away, it's difficult.

It became apparent we were going to lose a lot of history. We didn't want that to happen.

It became very apparent this was an away game for us at the banquet last night. I've played in some pretty hostile environments ... and a lot of things that have gone on in my career have helped prepared us for the game.

It became very apparent to me after visiting with the administration, visiting with the president, that there would be no rebuilding of New Orleans unless people felt safe. That is the number one issue.

I think it's been demonstrated by the recent travesty we've had and the horrible results of the tremendous damages that are going on right now, so I'm really re-evaluating our approach, because the thing has gotten so bad. There's no apparent desire to change. We're going to have to go to war.

We have the kind of team that doesn't have any apparent weaknesses. We've gotten a little better and older at most positions.

Though they're ranked No. 1, I still think they're underrated. Texas may be one of the best football teams to come along in the last 10 or 20 years. The reason is they have no apparent weakness.

The apparent bubbling up of inflation we saw earlier in the year has quieted down again. Basically it's a picture of inflation staying reasonably tranquil. The Fed should like that.

The apparent concern is that Wall Street would view such a move in a negative light, and cruise leaders are trying to (downplay) the long-term impact that rising fuel costs are having on their business.

The apparent increase in gambling among youth is staggering. All of the West Coast states and Idaho and Nevada have set the age at 21 and only two of our Indian casinos allow people under age 21 to gamble.

The apparent influence of White House economists has been quite small throughout the Bush administration, which hasn't changed much of late.

The apparent lack of operating leverage remains the single biggest issue for Amazon.

The apparent strategy of Pfizer is to take over AstraZeneca, dismember it, and put the different parts of it into its three new divisions, with the ultimate aim of selling off one or more.

The apparent widespread abuse of loans provided through the Supplemental Terrorist Activity Relief Act is nothing short of an outrage,

The appendix itself and its apparent uselessness is a flimsy basis for a worldview.

understand the importance of the game pretty quick - just by our attitude and the red letters on the schedule, how we talk about it and the fact that we break down to it (after practice) every day. It's very apparent that game means a lot to us.

We are now taking deals from those players, where before they got them for no apparent reason, ... Companies used to make a summary decision to use just one specific database product, and so they did, irrespective of the need. Today, they are more enlightened and more demanding, and they will use a legacy database for legacy applications and a modern database for modern applications.

We do not believe the apparent weakness in the fourth quarter represents a clear change in the trend.

We believe the rise in Chinese crude oil imports in October signals a period of stronger Chinese apparent demand figures over Q4 2005 and Q1 2006.

We did receive incorrect information that was provided to us, and we made the decision to loan the money based on the financial statements that were presented to us. It's apparent that there are some discrepancies in those financial statements and the recommendations were for us to get legal advice and we're doing that.

Traders were watching a sinking dollar and the apparent diversion of petro-dollar profits into bullion (a repeat of the pattern that was last visible in the gold run of 1980).

We did speak to Aussie Stadium after full-time and it became apparent that it would be impossible to move the game.

Was Karla herself caught in Paul's web, a victim? Or did the fact that she joined him in his crimes in spite of having an apparent conscience make her evil even deeper than his?

We don't know who owns the house, but it's apparent the children have been going there for a while.

We don't know why the numbers are up. There hasn't been any apparent growth in the county, yet some of the enrollment figures have grown and we aren't sure why.

The experiment is to ask the question; the observation is to look at yourself and see what happens. Being a science the law cannot vary. Any apparent variation is in you, you will have stepped off the way of facts into conclusions.

While our first quarter is traditionally a lower revenue quarter due to the seasonality of our business, license revenue was also adversely influenced by an apparent spillover into August,

We thought that these guys were going to compete with each other, but it's apparent that they would rather just merge. If the average consumer is lucky, he or she has two choices now: the phone company or the cable company. And the average consumer knows that two choices is not enough.

We have never had this much depth on the women's sprint side. We have very healthy inter-team competition and the results have been apparent at the meets.

The refs decided to let the kids make the plays down the stretch. We're not going to dwell on (the apparent non-calls), and the refs probably took the right approach (to the end of the game).

The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental.

We believe that everyone executing the leasing and financing documents thought they were acting under the authority to execute those documents. We are conducting our own inquiries into whether those parties had the proper authority to take those actions. It is apparent that Mr. Smith did not act unilaterally, but was acting in concert with officials in the county. We are working to resolve this matter right away with all parties, including National City Bank and Butler County.

When we began our analysis of the videogame landscape, it became apparent that EA SPORTS was best positioned from a marketing and development perspective to maximize the sales opportunities for college football.

When we found out you could register extended names, it became apparent to us that there were a lot of missed opportunities,

The pleas entered today are admissions of guilt in one of the largest corporate accounting fraud schemes on record. This apparent but ephemeral performance by the company propped up its stock price, causing investors to suffer untold losses when the scheme collapsed.

There are certain apparent violations, basically, of people giving in the name of another in the video industry. We have been investigating this for a year.

We believe that more concrete evidence of this re-acceleration should become apparent by the end of (the first quarter,) yielding a considerable catalyst for future share price appreciation for most stocks in the sector.

We believe that shares reflect significant optimism about the future of the combined NYSE/Archipelago model, and . . . challenges will only become apparent as the hybrid system and Regulation NMS are implemented during 2006.

Crude is being held back by the apparent consensus that OPEC will keep pumping.

Even though I have not loved from the beginning this wonderful soul, even though I have long disappointed and tortured it with my apparent instability, I have come to understand that when you do not seek you will find and when you do not love from the beginning you will live the greatest love, that will become the love of your life.

Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement comes apparent failure and discouragement

Every bump draft will not create a penalty. Every time a car touches another car will not create a penalty. Unless it becomes very apparent to us that there is an unnecessary hit, specifically in one of the no zones, we will not issue a penalty.

At the core of the change is the commitment the Disney Co. made to Times Square two and a half years ago when the changes were not so apparent and the first question asked was 'How could you make an investment in Times Square?'

At this juncture, given the apparent strength in demand and the narrowing margin on unused resources, I am focused on making sure that inflation and inflation expectations remain well anchored. I do not know how much policy firming will be needed to accomplish this objective.

The United States has been obviously eager to refer it to New York, to the UN Security Council for the past three years, ... And it's been the EU diplomacy, and the EU-3 diplomacy in particular, that has forestalled that. Here, with the breakdown of an apparent agreement, the Europeans had promised to move forward with a referral. The votes haven't come behind the Europeans and the Americans on this, so they have really no recourse but to delay and buy time.

I've been looking forward to this time for the past six months, ... Since I got the job, this is the first time I've been able to really coach. It was a good start. I thought everyone really competed out there. That's what we are looking for. The roles the guys will play this season will become apparent through competitive practices.

The tires were deflating - at least two of the tires were now running on rims. It was apparent he was losing control of the vehicle.

The trend became apparent at the end of last year.

You can't criticize Independence Air's management for trying something, but it was apparent it wasn't working after a month. They should have changed it then, but they were all too busy drinking the Kool-Aid.

As the negotiations wind down, it is becoming apparent that the E.U. isn't interested or, at least politically, not capable of getting the job done,

The stakes are too high to not be able to devote every bit of my being into winning this race. But after being in this campaign for over six months, it is very apparent that I will hurt my family and also the ultimate goal of this campaign if I continue in this race. It has come down to a choice between my family obligations and the campaign for Congress and my family will always come first.

When you juxtapose that with the apparent insensitivity of the demand curve, then what happens is that even though it's a relatively small reduction in supply, you need huge price increases to rein in demand.

There are a few more spots that aren't quite as apparent as the one on my forehead.

These allegations are all news to us. There is way more to this situation than meets the eye and it will all come out during the course of the trial(s). Mrs. Brown is deeply saddened by this apparent conspiracy to besiege her perfect record.

The wounds from the East Timor crisis are still very apparent in Indonesia and it's one of the things that makes Papua so sensitive -- the fear that Australia will do an East Timor with Papua, that's why this issue is so damaging.

It was very apparent Duke wanted this game and they went after it in a much more aggressive way.

It was very apparent that Duke wanted this game and they went after it in a much more aggressive, determined way than we did. Quite a difference in how their defense affected what we did offensively and what we did to them. They pretty much ran what they wanted to run. They handled traps. Defensively, they disrupted us and we did not disrupt them.

It was very apparent that this guy is a first-class football coach.

Wittingly or otherwise, the US negotiating team has executed an apparent cave-in - embracing precepts crucial to North Korean objectives but inimical to Washington's own,

There is some information that is connected to this apparent suicide that causes me to believe it was not a suicide.

There appears to be a material deviation on apparent US dollar strength (or euro weakness) as the gold price finds strength from physical demand, inflation fears and gold as a currency.

There do appear to be at least two issues where the validity of a signature is at issue. One of those is adverse to us and one of those is adverse to the county. The apparent forged signatures aren't on the primary agreements involved, but we certainly would like to find out the source of forgeries, if there are any.

Boot Camp For New Dads is an innovative, proven approach to assisting new fathers through this critical transition. Its impact becomes very apparent when class participants return as veterans to help orient the next group of new fathers-to-be.

Even though the party has been open to intellectual debate and even though the prime minister said he wanted a battle of ideas, it became apparent that this government could not face the party through such avenues and resorted to such draconian measures.

Even thought the apparent risk is low the important thing to do is reduce exposure.

We wanted a place to cook, sleep, eat and work on one floor and it became apparent we couldn't do all that on an 18-foot-wide lot.

Opponents on both sides want the debate to be about science, ... mainly because of the apparent legitimacy science carries as compared to debating actual values, which these debates are about anyway.

After the child was seen by the medical examiners office this morning it became apparent the injuries where not consistent with that explanation.

Facilitating the work of respected Arctic biologists with our ship and logistical capabilities is one way we can help tell the world about the dramatic impacts of global warming already apparent in the western Arctic.

With oil prices getting higher and higher, the competitiveness of nuclear energy will become more apparent and it may change the perceptions of the risks inherent in nuclear technology.

Both platinum and rhodium remain at or near the highs for this rally and are benefiting from broader metals interest and, in the case of rhodium, apparent genuine shortages.

The more I see of this, the more it becomes apparent that there is no solid reason for that secrecy, ... It is in the context of public disclosure and media attention that we really figure out what is going on.

Notwithstanding the sorry state of the company, the apparent lack of financial controls, the consistently disappointing results and the abysmal investor relations, we estimate that the value of Ligand's assets far outstrip the current enterprise value,

Nowhere in the world are the synergies of small and large businesses operating side-by-side in a dynamic market economy more apparent than in this country.

Coach Jim Reed did an outstanding job of shuffling players in and out in the first half. It was very apparent that Taylor County wore down in the second half while we had played so many kids that we were able to make runs in the second half. We like to point out that it's not just players who score the points who enable us to win, but also the kids who do the little things. But we do like the kids who can score as well.

All around us, we see plants that have endured chronic ozone exposure with no apparent adverse symptoms except premature aging and reduced reproduction, ... Could this relate to the human experience? That's what we need to find out. But, in the meantime, it's important for us to determine how ozone exposure affects our forests, our wetlands, our crops, and even our backyards.

A lot of the hurdles we would face were made very apparent to us.

Although the investigation is in its initial stages we have found no apparent connection to any type of terrorist activity or group.

A lot of the time I will go in a room and see that three or four animals right next door to each other are feather pickers, but that doesn't mean that they've learned it from each other. We wondered if unsocial things in the environment might be responsible for this apparent clumping of behavior.

This has been coming for years, and now we're facing the crisis. I don't like it, but it's a choice of being dependent on the Russians or dependent on the space shuttle, and it's becoming more and more apparent that it's riskier to depend on the space shuttle.

They've come up with some sort of fine or something, or some sort of Notice of Apparent Liability, they're after me again, ... I don't care how many times, as long as they don't come after me personally.

Ruiz and his gang continued to commit crimes over and over again while out on bail. It is apparent to us the only way they're going to stop ripping people off is if they're locked up.

Our data shows that more games do not yield more gamers. In fact, an examination of the title mix across competing carriers reinforces the lack of any correlation. It is apparent that other factors, such as subscriber demographics and pricing, play a bigger role.

People don't really look for the sticker on the product anymore. In the rest of the country, people have gotten conditioned to do without it, to no apparent ill effect.

Our downtown development funding mechanisms have been creative and innovative. There are all these different funding mechanisms that they have accessed that are not readily apparent to communities.

Fixed costs are becoming more apparent in the numbers. Investors have been negative and waiting to see evidence in the past, and we're finally seeing evidence that costs are becoming fixed while revenues are growing.

There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books.

Why Iraq, when so much evidence points to substantial Saudi involvement with people financing, and the apparent cooperation of elements of the Saudi government, as shown by the refusal to grant U.S. investigators access to known conspirators held there?

With a study like this coming from someone like Topol, the debate becomes more apparent to physicians and consumers.

The only thing that surprised me about 'Lincoln' is that most of the critics who reviewed the film seem not to have grasped what should have been apparent right from the start, which is that 'Lincoln' is at bottom a play with pictures, not a screenplay.

We are so visually stimulated that we don't even realize how important touch is. Our other senses get downplayed, but they can cue us into stuff that maybe isn't that apparent by our vision.

We are starting off by offering one year, and we are going to do the right thing. If it becomes apparent that it needs to be longer, we will revisit that.