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From what I've seen all year, that hasn't been called. It's a two-minute at best. That's the consistency factor. It's a two-minute call in every other game. Then Shawn Williams gets a two and a 10 for arguing and that hasn't been called all year.

I don't think people are arguing about security.

He didn't do much arguing of the case, but probably did a lot of the research. And then, for the Supreme Court, he even had his train ticket, but was told not to go. It must have been crushing.

When they say 'teach the controversy' their ringing phrase they want us to pretend to students that scientists are arguing whether evolution took place. This argument is not taking place.

He's arguing that the limit may be starting to be reached as foreign investors avoid an over concentration of their portfolios' in dollars, but that the impact would likely not be traumatic.

There is no group arguing that the Fed has gone too far. There is a broad consensus that if the data shows rising operating rates, further moves will be needed.

Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.

That Auburn game was embarrassing. We had a lot of fussing going on with defensive players. We were arguing about assignments and not playing together. We looked bad on national television.

is a really good lawyer, arguing really bad facts.

I think even before Katrina I would have been through. I would have been arguing to pause, if I were still there.

Larry Mackey is an experienced trial lawyer and an accomplished leader whose skills were instrumental to preparing and arguing the government's case in the first Oklahoma City bombing trial, ... The trial team is in very good hands.

People aren't arguing about the third quarter, they're arguing about what is going to happen now.

My worry is that in the absence of discipline, what we will see a month from now after the initial relief bills are passed, are efforts by policy-makers of both parties and a variety of interest groups to take advantage of the disaster by arguing that all sorts of expansions in tax cuts and certain spending ... are needed,

I'm shocked that we are arguing about a poison and how much of a poison we are supposed to take in.

Resistance to action on climate change is crumbling. The business community has a number of prominent leaders arguing for action, and the science on climate change becomes clearer and more inescapable by the day.

Right now the available data sets appear to strengthen the case for arguing that the lower-end model projections for future temperature increases are the more likely ones.

Over at Barb Bowman, she's arguing that we should turn off Facebook's tracking of ads. I totally disagree; those trackers make newsfeed filtering work better and potentially could help bring me better ads, which improves my life.

I think he did it because he was very mad, very mad, ... Even the voices in his head said, 'Do it, don't do it, do it, don't do it,' and he stood with a loaded gun arguing with himself.

It appears the police department this morning was arguing that when Channel 2 put on Captain Eric Adams, all of a sudden magically it transformed him from spokesperson for 100 Blacks into a representative of the police department.

It could be midnight and we're still arguing about a fifth-rounder. It's a labor of love. We all have passion for it and wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

It contributes to it. What do you think politics is, if not arguing about principles?

I think we need a full analysis of both options. I?m arguing both be equally analyzed before a decision be reached.

I was arguing the fact that the catcher had to go so high to get the ball and bring it down to tag our guy on the head. It was unfortunate the way things ended, but we shouldn't be caught in those situations. I probably should have pinch run for Mike in that situation, but I was thinking how tough it would have been had we gone extra innings without his bat in the lineup. It was a decision that didn't work out for us.

Time and again, Apple CEO Steve Jobs gets grilled when he introduces digital-music products. When the iPod came out in October, 2001, critics complained the $400 unit was hopelessly overpriced. Many said the same thing when Apple unveiled the iPod Mini in early 2004, arguing that consumers would never fork over $250 for just a few gigabytes of storage. And a year later, some naysayers called the iPod Shuffle plain silly, given its lack of a screen to navigate through songs.

Unfortunately we are arguing amongst each other so much when the bottom line is we don't own anything. We are offspring to a record label owner.

Those arguing that the Fed will soon take a time-out from gradually normalizing the level of the fed funds rate will have found little encouragement in these minutes.

Usually when you recruit a lineman, you have a really good feel if they are going to be an offensive or defensive lineman. Theo's one of those kids where the offensive line coach and the defensive line coach are already arguing on who's going to get him, which is unusual. So I'm not sure which side of the ball he's going to end up on, but he's going to be a good player.

You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a wind-blown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

You can fill this table up with people who are racist, homophobic, Satanist worshippers, sexist and we can be arguing but if you put on a song, I guarantee that people will stop and listen and that's what I love about music, it can bring people together.

You can go on and on and on, talking and arguing about it. But at some point, you have to say, there are charges and we'll make the charges,

With all the lawn fertilizers, agricultural fertilizers, golf courses, etc., nobody's arguing that there are more nutrients in the system than is natural.

While we've been arguing in the Philippines (as to who is at fault), business-oriented producers, consolidators, shippers and transport companies in Singapore, Malaysia and China have been developing strategies to efficiently compete in global markets, ... They're winning; we're losing.

I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.

The only way to get an FOI request honored these days is to go to court. We can go to court and win, but some regular person is not going to know how to file a complaint in federal court and prepare a brief arguing that the administration is in violation of the law. And no one has endless resources to fight every denial. It's very effective, what they've done. They keep the information hidden.

We're arguing over who has the receipt for the groceries, and before you know it the police are on the scene. For some people, it doesn't take much.

We're arguing that it is creating a national ID system.

We are not arguing that new 'on-demand' services should be exempt from legal standards. But this is not the most effective way either to protect consumers or to create a healthy media sector in Europe.

This radical proposal is a 180-degree flip-flop from what the administration has been arguing in court. Instead of protecting public health, now EPA wants to protect the polluters. The proposal would completely sabotage clean-air law enforcement, and it would be open season for power plants to pollute even more than they do now.

I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.

It says in the Bible that if you argue with a fool, you become one. That’s why I don’t talk to Fred Durst!

My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.

a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.

Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so.

When the Republican Party is no longer the party of fiscal conservatism then clearly I would argue that we've lost our way.

It has become fashionable in Washington to argue that Obamacare cannot be reversed. That is nonsense. It's a fight worth waging, and a fight which can be won.

when arguing with a chicken a grain of corn is always wrong

One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

Your friend will argue with you.

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.

You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.

You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.

I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.

Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument.

The message of "The Winner Takes It All" is straightforward: It argues that the concept of relationships ending on mutual terms is an emotional fallacy. One person is inevitably okay and the other is inevitably devastated.

Many can argue - not many converse.

Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse

I never argue with people about movies.

If everyone is getting money, no one is getting disrespected, and no one is getting hurt, no one should be arguing.

Some people find it difficult to argue with a woman Prime Minister and shrivel up.

Macey was just starting to argue when Abby asked, "What can you tell me about the gunmen?" "They're amateurs," Hale said at the exact same time Macey told her teacher, "They're pros.

I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a poor approximation of what we are -- an imperfect manifestation of a much better totality. Even the best of us sometimes bite off, as it were, less than we can chew.

I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.

Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

My father would argue two side of a möbius strip.

Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.

We don't call it discussing Talmud; we call it arguing Talmud.

There is a consensus that the caps, targets and timetables approach is flawed. If we spend the next five years arguing about that, we'll be fiddling and negotiating while Rome burns,

It's funny-my married friends tell me all the time, 'What you have is so much easier.' When you're doing it on your own, you don't have to [argue over] how you're raising the kids.

Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.

One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered.

Drink without getting drunk Love without suffering jealousy Eat without overindulging Never argue And once in a while, with great discretion, misbehave

I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.

Too often in the past, Tony Blair has gone to Washington and instead of pressing the British case or British arguments, he has effectively done what the president asked him to do and forgotten that he should be arguing Britain's corner.

To me that isn't arguing balls and strikes, is it?

We were arguing over the color of the frosting and we don't even have a cake.

Never argue with a drunk or a fool.

There are two ways to argue with a woman, and neither of them work.

Most people argue over who's right, not about what the truth is.

You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of the greatest successes in the history of the earth and turned it into one of the greatest disasters in the history of the earth.

Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers. But I would argue that there are big virtue effects in economics. I would say that the spreading of double-entry bookkeeping by the Monk, Fra Luce de Pacioli, was a big virtue effect in economics. It made business more controllable, and it made it more honest.

I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced better accounting.

My view is that you never argue with the customer about your name.

If you argue against reality you will suffer.

Insanity is arguing with reality.

To argue with reality is to argue with God

I find it hard to argue with Reagan's old slogan: Trust, but verify.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

What they're arguing about right now is whether there's enough evidence. There's never enough evidence. There's never certainty in medicine.

We're not arguing so much anymore if this is a harmful chemical. Now the questions are, what are we going to do about this?

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit

I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not arguing, but engaged in a rousing discussion.

I argue very well. Just ask any of my remaining friends.

I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

What option do I have. It's logical if the clock started on the touch. We were arguing over 0.1 or 0.2. There's nothing there.

What really triumphed here were the pressures exerted by our government, which asked that Pinochet return, arguing he could be tried in Chile.