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The sales process has to be more tightly regulated to ensure that consumers get all the information upfront and are not bamboozled with offers for taking out the card whilst the sky-high interest rates are barely mentioned.

It was worse when I stood around or sat down. During the game (against Austin), I could barely move.

The recent cold snap seems more like a last hurrah for Old Man Winter, and with barely a few weeks left in the winter season, inventories for natural gas remain in near record territory. This will ensure that any price gains for natural gas in the aftermath of today's report will be limited.

The reason that he got a sitting with Washington was that his father was Charles Wilson Peale, a very prominent American artist, a friend of the revolution. On the morning of the sitting, he (Rembrandt) was so frightened about confronting the great man, that he said he could barely mix his colors. And so his father had to come along to hold his hand, so to speak.

Tony Blair barely escaped this year, and now George W. Bush, if elections were to be held today, would be in a serious challenge as well.

To be honest with you, I can barely believe what I saw with my eyes.

A couple of times this week I barely got any sleep, but you know what, I've never been much of a sleeper. As long as I get around six hours I'm fine.

After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.

The older one, who was formerly a good student, had barely been to school all year.

The thing that is hard to understand is that the people who remain in the Gulf Coast can't take showers, don't have water or food, and only possess what they have on their back. My dad said that they barely got out alive. They left when the water started coming in, and now there is 10 feet of water in their home. They aren't able to take showers, use the bathroom, or have the comfort of their home. They just have each other, and the trust that we are coming with help.

I waddled in about 7:30 in the morning, and I could barely stand up for the kickoff.

Primarily, they were removed because they weren't receiving adequate shelter. They were exposed to the rain. They had just little plastic barrels that they could barely fit in. They couldn't even turn around.

Ex-transport is only barely up, and the decline last month was only marginally revised, so it's a bit disappointing, because it marks essentially the fourth month with no orders growth at all.

Financial markets showed barely any reaction to the move.

When Microsoft came out with IE there was barely anything else available and IE was good enough for newcomers.

The moment will come and up until now the board have been thinking of other things. We have barely finished the holidays, we have had an assembly and also 'Ronnie's' contract. Apart from this the contract is only a piece of paper and I will work the same for Barcelona with or without it,

The money we get from Waterford just barely pays for insurance and officiating costs.

Coca-Cola's legacy dates back more than a hundred years, whereas the AOL brand is barely a decade old, but today Coca-Cola and AOL are two of the most recognized and powerful consumer brands in the world, ... We look forward to helping Coca-Cola use the online medium to extend its legacy into this new Internet century.

Almost no one had heard of (George Mason) before on a national scale. Even on a regional level, people barely heard of it.

A lot of people just don't have the money, ... They barely have enough for gas.

They tried to surround me. They put a lot of guys around me. I felt like my hook was barely missing. I don't feel like it's been there the last three or four games.

They should've given us a chance, they barely gave us a few days. We didn't get anything.

Our defense was barely there. We didn't have any rotation.

Farmer weighs 180 pounds and is playing tackle. Frye and Roach barely played last year. Alcorn is a first-year player. Bryant played JV (junior varsity) last year. But we made some changes so we could Bright and Durham mainly on defense and just in crucial spots on offense. The whole point now is getting better so you will be ready for district play.

Eric was the only skier that pulled off an inverted maneuver in the course. We decided to go with the flip, knowing it was going to be difficult and there was a risk he might not be in the top scores of the day if he couldn't stick the landing. Not only did he land it but he took a lot of speed through the middle section and stayed just under control. The crowd couldn't believe it, I could barely believe it.

There was a cushion that was barely smoking, so I threw it out the back door.

The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.

We barely had time to get in there. There was an old roaring sound all the time.

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse, and I don't think that I'm better than you but I don't think that I'm worse. Women learn to be women, and men learn to be men, and I don't blame it all on you, but I don't want to be you

We barely won the last two games (at home against Maryland Eastern Shore and Howard), so we are definitely not satisfied. Everyone in the locker room feels that we should be winning by larger margins.

The wheel is so heavy! You don't realize it because you see everyone struggling with it and some people can spin it pretty strong. I had a little difficulty with it, I barely got it around. It was definitely pretty heavy.

This government's budget is barely six months old and it's already been blown to smithereens, ... The government seems to have abandoned all pretence of control on the public purse.

You still have buildings that are well over halfway flooded with water, ... What you use as landmarks is, you use the streets signs, which you can barely see the tops of.

This is a small, rural community with about 13,000 people in our area. The hospital was barely making payroll, so we renegotiated contracts and that left two physicians delivering babies.

Your committees need to reject this desperate attempt to revive this barely effective drug.

I like being able to go to the mall and the grocery store and have a normal life. I've seen what those guys go through. I witnessed it with Frank. He could barely walk in the mall without getting mauled, and people following him. They can have all that. I just want to make a good living, be able to support my family and stay under the radar. I like my privacy too much.

After the surgery I could barely stand up. It's really frustrating having to take slow steps back.

I'm not a natural employer. I live very privately, and we like our privacy at home. To be sitting and talking with your wife or your family and to have somebody walking around and you're ignoring them, I couldn't handle that at all. I can barely handle a cleaning lady coming in every so often.

I'm barely at home enough to enjoy the simple lifestyle that I want to live.

I'm barely hanging on by a thread here now, ... If these people have to go, I cannot afford to keep this building open. There will be another boarded up building on South Main Street. Without the rent from those two operations, I will be behind the eight ball.

I'm barely making ends meet. How can I start a business?

I'm basically drawn to defeated, injured, hurt, barely walking characters.

If somebody pulls up, you don't have time to recover. You barely have time to recover, anyway. They're going to be sore on Monday.

I had an L-wedge from the middle of the fairway and I barely kept it on the green by one foot. I don't know how you're supposed to do it. We got to kind of our limit this afternoon of not being able to keep a ball on the green.

I hadn't been going to church, ... You know, sometimes you get busy. But I was really looking forward to coming today. I barely slept last night thinking about it. This incident really restored my faith in God. It closed one door but opened another.

I'm pretty organized. I'm pretty controlling. I don't have big plans or designs. But I don't rely on a Palm Pilot or help or other technology-no! I'm barely good with emailing and a fax machine. I organize things in my head; I have a pretty good memory, so that helps me out a lot.

I'm really happy I can play like this after only two or three matches for the year. I barely made a mistake in the first set.

In the house itself, the gable is much lower than in the painting -- you can only stand up just barely at the apex.

I had a lot of trouble speaking as a kid. I didn't really speak in coherent sentences until I was, like, 6 years old. There was a long time where everybody was very worried, because my sisters were so advanced for their age, and I would barely talk.

If you didn't beat us by the seventh, you weren't going to beat us. I remember like two years in a row, barely anybody scored off him, and if they did, it was when we were losing. Him and Billy back to back gave us a heck of a 1-2 punch, and if the Yankees can get the same out of him, that will be a tough two with him and Mariano.

I just barely can remember Lauren's shot. I barely remember the entire game.

I just cold shanked my approach into the trees to the right of the fairway. I was stymied by a tree and had to hit a shot left-handed back into the fairway. From there I chunked a sand wedge that barely made the green. Then I somehow got down in two for a double.

At current prices, even first-tier companies barely break even for monitor and notebook panels.

At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and some of the European companies. I barely knew anything about Balanchine.

The body barely got out before dark hit. The ice initially wasn't bad to dig through, but then as they got deeper it became more difficult.

It's really amazing. Our economy is growing at over 4 percent real growth and in the midst of that we have barely any inflation. Quite unprecedented.

On a scale of 1-10, this is barely a 1. This is patty cake.

You throw $5 million into a program like that, and it barely pays for the secretaries.

The next time anyone is inclined to sneer at the basics as "traditional," I suggest he or she visit with a 12th -or even a sixth-grader who can barely read, write or compute and look at the pain and frustration on that student's face

That's definitely the biggest home run of my life. For five minutes afterward, I didn't know what I was doing. I was on a high for five minutes. I barely remember running around the bases. When I got in the dugout, I was being a maniac. Everybody probably thinks I'm crazy.

The Federal Reserve, with the ink barely dry on its statement of intent to move in a measured pace, has begun a new theme that says 'measured' may be too slow.

'Suits' fans. I've never met a more diverse audience: across gender, race, class. It's incredible. People who are high-powered lawyers to doormen. A Chinese immigrant cable installer - who barely spoke English - loves 'Suits!'

It's definitely one of the best things that's ever happened to my career. I came out here. I barely made it into finals. After that, I knew I could just do the best run I had planned.

It's way better. Before I could barely walk, so to be hitting, that's big.

It's difficult mentally, physically to always be at 100%. There are times in the year when you have injuries that may barely allow you to play, ... There may be things at home. When I have one thing to focus on, I feel like I play my best.

I had barely turned 12 when my parents packed me off to Doon School. I was transported to a world of confusion with 600 other kids, no home-cooked food, no made-to-order clothes. It was a shock, but I adjusted.

I really barely ever see anyone use a wooden stick. Almost all of them use composites.

I haven't taken his pulse lately; it barely moves. But he pitched well for us last year, and sometimes a little bit of a language barrier is an advantage. You're not having to answer a lot of questions and converse with a lot of people. It sort of insulates you. I have no doubt he'll be able to handle it.

If you slept too many hours, you didn't even know it. We barely caught the tail end of it.

In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died.

I just need to get the strength back because I can barely shoot the puck.

Can you believe that just last weekend I was at my prom?! ... And now here I am with a record deal and an album to record in the next month. I'll barely be done in time for finals and graduation!

I looked at Sioux Falls but all they had was private colleges. I could barely afford public school. I would have had to sell the wife and kids to be able to afford private.

Before the Chase, we were barely selling the suites out, ... Last year we had to bring in 12 temporary suites. This year we're building 16 new suites, and those are sold out. We'll be putting up some new temporary suites too.

He took me under his wing. I came here and I barely spoke English. He asked me what I wanted to do. I said, 'I just want to play hockey.' He said, 'Why don't you move into my house?' That was great. I didn't have to worry about anything but hockey.

I didn't know anything about music when I started a band. I barely knew how to play a guitar. I didn't know how to produce records. I learned how to play bass guitar and keyboards in Rilo Kiley. I picked up a lot from my collaborators.

I don't know if you know this - I don't drive a stick. I mean, I barely drive my automatic. I get to work and everything, but I'm not any kind of driving prodigy.

I don't know how you can clean someone else's toilet. I can barely touch my own.

I played a really steady match and just wore him down. By the end of the match, he could barely stand up.

There's very little about being in a functional-M.R.I. scanner that is natural: you are flat on your back, absolutely still, with your head immobilized by pillows and straps. The scanner makes a dreadful din, which headphones barely muffle.

The rest of the world is paying very high prices for Australia's mineral and energy exports while import prices, excluding oil, have barely risen over the past few years.

This is a very personal interactive sport. Autographs, balls into the stands that fans can keep, the proximity of fans to the action. And we've barely begun to scratch the surface of what we can be.

These visitors (from outside the country) stay twice as long (at vacation destinations) and spend twice as much as our own citizens and we've barely begun to tap the potential,

They barely got the money out the door to recruit, train and deploy these individuals. It takes too much time for this to have had an effect, ... That's what's absurd about the White House claim.

They basically only have enough inspectors to inspect hospitals and inspect new construction and that's it. They can barely keep up with the new construction demand.

It was huge. They barely missed any free throws. They beat us on the free-throw line.

It was looking like we were going to take advantage of them tonight but we barely made the game.

It was a bit of a gamble and as it turned out it was not the right choice. When I came out I was barely able to maintain the pace of the safety car and we went to the back after we stopped again. I worked my way back up through the field but late on I was following Monteiro when he accidently hit the pit limiter button. I had no way of avoiding him and I hit him, losing my front wing and going off into the wall.

It was a blessing because, to see all of us three years ago, we could barely get in the building. So for us to have a medley and represent a place that has been hit so hard ...

A promise more precise; the sealing of Confessions that till then were barely breathed; A rosy dot placed on the i in loving; A secret that's confided to a mouth and not to ears

As energy prices have spiked and world demand increased, the United States' reliance on oil controlled by Venezuela's anti-American despot Hugo Chavez has become a real danger. But it's a danger the networks barely even mention.

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.

All we're saying is, let small business have a choice. Right now they barely have one or two choices in the small-group market. Let employers choose what they think is best.

The drop in supply from central banks, added to the new investment demand from the E.T.F.'s (exchange-traded funds), and Japanese and investment bank buying, keeps gold driving forward, barely pausing for breath.

The genuine excitement in this work lies in the practicality of detecting the stellar radiation from hitherto uncharted distances corresponding to a time when the universe was barely 100 million years old, ... Not bad for an 85-centimetre telescope!

The good news for Lazio is Clinton is losing ground. The bad news for Lazio is he is barely gaining,

The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.

The idea of turning over thousands of detainees to a system that's barely got itself together, much less has shown itself to be reliable, would be frightening.

The first year I got here there was barely a band and then the numbers increased a lot. Each year since then, the numbers have dropped slightly.

The typical pattern with a natural disaster like this is that the regional economy gets clobbered but you can barely see it in the national statistics. This time it is very different because of the impact on the energy infrastructure.