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Everybody's proud of what we've accomplished by following our basic procedures.

Anytime you encourage critical thinking you risk offending somebody, ... ... I think the basic idea of tenure is to shelter people from political ups and downs.

Any agreement requires a compromise, and compromise means you have to trust the other side to follow through. Frankly, I do not think this basic confidence exists on either side.

It's really basic stuff at this point that they have to learn to do better. It's one-on-one, combination blocking stuff that they have to do.

The new constitution represents a serious assault on citizens' basic rights and freedoms.

It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that's attacked by Alzheimer's disease. So we can now use some of the basic understanding of this part of the brain to ask the simple question, 'What is going wrong with these special cells in the hippocampus at the very earliest stages?'

Not only do they learn character development, but they learn basic life skills. We also teach them job skills. We try to instill in them the need to stay employed.

Not only have there been recent cases of prisoners being tortured in detention, but to hold this huge number of people without basic legal safeguards is a gross dereliction of responsibility on the part of both the U.S. and UK forces.

Not only is the Web site creative and fun, it provides a wonderful overview of the basic scientific concepts involved with electricity and natural gas. It also has important safety messages that can prevent injuries and save lives. It is a wonderful resource for any youngster who wants to learn about energy.

On a regular basis, to appease White House or campaign staffs, Secret Service officials order agents to ignore basic security rules and let people into events without being put through a magnetometer or metal detector.

On a very basic level, that's kind of what it comes down to,

Once the water subsides, once the basic services are restored, the biggest problems that people face are the mental health problems, ... When will life get back to normal?

No matter how they dressed it up, it was the same basic proposal, and it just wasn't going to happen.

It's nobody's fault. I did it, ... Sometimes you have to make things simple and get back to basic stuff.

As more companies transition to IP, they are looking for higher-value services that help them better manage their IP infrastructure. With our Remote IP Application Management Service Basic option, we continue to help companies overcome the challenges associated with managing IP-based IT systems with a broad continuum of service options.

'Dating Game' wasn't social commentary, political analysis, Shakespearean-level drama or even blunt-force comedy. It was just the televised equivalent of meeting someone at a bar. But it appealed to our most basic Darwinian instinct: selecting a good mate. You can't go wrong when a show's premise is hard-wired into human DNA.

Consumers are going to have choices at various points between performance and efficiency and all the trade-offs in between. They are managing to package these vehicles in such a way that they're exciting for consumers and still meet their basic needs.

Dogs are also like people in that they need to learn something every day to keep their minds stimulated. He needed to learn basic behavior, like heeling when I was riding my house, and how to behave in public.

It's really going back to the most basic processes of examining what a business does and why it's successful. The availability of information available to investors is vastly greater than it used to be and I think that is to everybody's advantage.

It's possible the money boys and fancy lobbyists will win, but it's also possible we'll win. This will establish the precedent that we're really all in this together and if you're going to do business in New York, you have to meet our basic standards.

Apart from its obvious errors, it displays a significant misunderstanding of core aspects of the Katrina response that could have easily been corrected in the most basic conversations with DHS leaders.

Every vendor has been screened. We have the basic information on all of our vendors in order to assure that they're bringing the best to our brides.

Expanding access to contraception is the best way to prevent unintended pregnancies, and Planned Parenthood continues to work with pharmacies throughout the country to improve access. Women should never have to worry about being denied contraception, which is basic healthcare for many American women.

At the same time, however, we continue to be discouraged by one basic trend: a steady increase in our loss estimates without a correspondingly large increase in revenue or profitability estimates.

The judge adhered to the basic democratic principles built into the Freedom of Information Act, ... Only an informed public can intelligently decide whether its government is doing a good or a bad job.

The contacts helped me see basic shapes of things and basic forms; but I couldn't see any real details. And they hurt so bad. I called them the little circles of death.

The content of many cutting-edge games is becoming more and more vivid, violent, and offensive to our most basic values.

The content of many cutting-edge games is becoming more and more vivid, violent and offensive to our most basic values.

The countries urgently need international assistance to build up basic surveillance and control systems.

The issues have been about full and fair disclosure, transparency, and basic fair dealing, which are all required by our laws.

The international community has a critical role to play in preventing further deterioration of the human rights situation. They need to continue to pressure the government to respect human rights and to meet their obligations under international law - including by restoring basic freedoms such as the right to peacefully demonstrate.

The Internet has flourished as the most revolutionary communications medium in history, based on a model where carriers do not interfere or choose what people do online. Even simply picking winners among services threatens the basic Internet model of communications, where users get to decide which services are the most important to them.

Their front four is very dominant. We're going to try to do just the basic things, try to get them to jump offsides and just try to mix things up on them.

The investigators started complaining that the smell, the mold, the doors became unaligned, the floors were sagging, just the basic deterioration of the building had them concerned.

The federal government continues to support the critical work of our nation's firefighters by ensuring departments attain a basic capability level through the competitive Assistance to Firefighters Grant program.

The lack of security awareness among small businesses is a growing concern. With continued focus on education efforts tailored for the small business community, we hope to increase understanding and provide small businesses with the basic tools necessary to run their organizations securely and productively.

It's ironic that the porky king of cronyism who for years flooded Alaska with frivolous benefits for special-interest groups is now taking a hard stand against the most basic of benefits for same-sex couples,

It's ironic that we started out with a basic commitment to economic integration and then we get to a situation where we can pay off and never handle the larger social issue. The logic is to produce economically integrated towns all over New Jersey. We have to keep our eye on the ball here.

It seemed to me that the desire to get married - which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again

The urge to dominion is God-given and is basic to the nature of man. An aspect of this dominion is property.

The U.S. can still maintain research institutions, such as Caltech, that are the envy of the world, yet it would be hubristic and naive to think that this position is sustainable without investing in science education and basic research.

The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.

It's difficult enough to really react to all the data typically included in defense budget. To not even have access to the basic top line over view before you have the opportunity to question the secretary seems problematic. It doesn't have the out years beyond 2007; usually, in fact in all previous blue tops, it had those numbers.

It went very well. We had 10 kids come out for the team. You need to start with the basic nucleus and grow from that.

It will probably lead a basic squirrel life, but it may have a slight advantage at concealment by being able to blend into shadows and shady areas.

They are not paramedics, but they can do some basic work, such as taking blood pressure, testing body temperature, and disinfecting.

They aren't listening on a lot of basic bush issues that are going to provide employment in the country,

In addition, on the issue of grade compression, employees who meet or exceed their performance targets will receive an additional fixed amount to their basic salaries if their annual salaries fall below a specified threshold.

I just took a whack at it. It comes down to basic plays, simple plays. We were paying attention to the details.

I like to always remind my dancers about ways to avoid injury. One of the basic ways to avoid injury is to always make sure to stretch and warm up your body. This will loosen up your muscles, which will help to avoid common strain injuries such as shin splints and ankle strains.

I like to read, especially nonfiction. I love learning, so I study languages, cook, learn basic HTML, and enjoy other activities that stimulate communication and the dark recesses of my musician's brain.

I like to see photographs: I like to see my family. To me, when I open a basic browser, and it's that very elegant silver simple user interface, I am unhappy. I don't need elegant and silver and simple!

Iranian students are denied basic rights Americans take advantage of every day. But there is a brave student movement in Iran working for change, and we need to support them.

In science fiction, basic doubts featured prominently in the worlds of Philip K. Dick. I knew Phil for 25 years, and he was always getting onto me, a scientist. He was a great fan of quantum uncertainty, epistemology in science, the lot.

I know blind programmers who work in C and Visual Basic in addition to mainframe languages, because as long as they can get at a text file, they can do programming. But if the graphical tool kit you are using requires you to drag and drop items on the screen, you can't do it.

It helped spread far and wide the basic values of freedom, democracy, equality, justice and peace, and promoted in a big way the awakening of the people of all countries, especially those of colonial and semi-colonial countries, thus exerting a sustaining influence on the development of human civilization.

Churchill for all his love of the present hour, his unquenchable appetite for new knowledge, his sense of the technological possibilities of our time, and the restless roaming of his fancy in considering how they might be most imaginatively applied, despite his enthusiasm for Basic English, or the siren suit which so upset his hosts in Moscow - despite all this, Churchill remains a European of the nineteenth century.

Clearly, both are needed. But if we're not getting the basic vaccines we already have today out to these kids who need them, how well are we going to do with expanding access to new vaccines?

Clearly it's going to affect the Gulf Coast economy quite a bit. You've had a lot of property damage. Basic services are down.

I really believe safe, clean housing is a basic need that should be available to everyone. Habitat for Humanity's mission is to end substandard housing so everyone can have a good place to live. We do that. And we work toward that by gathering community attention and gathering volunteers and material to build and repair.

If there were an exact and universal scale of punishments and crimes, we would have a fairly reliable and shared instrument to measure the degree of tyranny and liberty, of the basic humanity or malice of the different nations.

I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.

If you wanted to target the people actually in need, and assume for the sake of argument that there's a need for television, that it's a basic necessity, if you looked only at the people who don't have cable or satellite today, and looked only at the first television in the household, and not the third or the fourth, and looked at only those people who cannot afford a converter box of their own, you would be looking at a few hundred million dollars, certainly less than $500 million. That's a much, much smaller number than we have on the table now.

If your foundation statement misrepresents the basic statute, then this basic mistake permeates the document.

If you take basic skills funding away from these training companies, a lot of them could go to the wall.

In that spirit we wish to accept this highest honour - in the cause of peace - not for ourselves alone, but for all researchers in basic chemistry.

In the most basic sense, development aid is anything that is an investment in the future.

In today's world, a national broadband network is basic infrastructure and a source of competitive advantage.

Investor sentiment is important, but not nearly as much as basic company growth. While the vast majority of the first-generation Internet companies may not survive, the leaders ? those with first mover advantage and no small measure of luck ? will survive and will take the Internet to its second, more mature phase of development.

In my view, the basic mantra for being successful in a competitive market is not by increasing tariffs but reaching the benefits of lower cost to customers.

In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable of generating behaviors and, ultimately, thinking. Instead, the true functional unit of the central nervous system is a population of neurons, or neural ensembles or cell assemblies.

In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years.

If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.

But he has thrown obstacle after obstacle in the course of protesters, including stopping us from holding a rally in Central Park, a very basic constitutional right.

Children entering school today without basic reading knowledge are at risk of long term failure.

Children in this impoverished region were vulnerable prior to the disaster and are in an increasingly more desperate situation today, especially those in remote valleys. Many have had no access to basic health care and suffer from treatable ailments and malnutrition. We estimate that half of the 80,000 people injured in the quake were children.

HHS has removed basic health information on one site at the demands of an extremist group, and has completely omitted all content about GLBT youth on another. This is outrageous and unacceptable. We're proud of Rep. Baldwin's call to action on this matter of basic fairness.

High tariffs keep them out of key markets, and tariffs and subsidies together drive down the world price of their exports. Without the income that trade could provide, it is their children who go hungry and who are deprived of clean water, medicines and other basic necessities of life.

I looked at it as a fresh start, ... We did basic 7-on-7 drills, and I went out and just worked hard. That's all I could do.

By affecting basic brain functions, amphetamine may expose experimenting teenagers to an increased risk of heart attack if they re-use the drug later in life.

I didn't realize until then there was such a war-torn country in this world where people couldn't even afford to have the basic needs in life, such as food, accommodation and education. I was shocked.

He's the got the basic ingredients: He's got intelligence and courage.

By logging on to our website and learning some basic first aid we can all help reduce the number of people killed by accidents and cut the number of flowers we see at the roadside.

Genetics is in pretty deep weeds right now because we put billions of dollars into basic scientific research to sequence the human genome and very little in the transitional aspects of moving it into health care.

Germany has signaled it is ready to move but that does not change our basic view

Gap's basic and fashion merchandise is certainly not getting the right mix in order to sell more goods at full price.

Generally we don't like them as a basic principle. In some cases it is working reasonably well from a shareholder point of view and that has to do with the people involved.

He's the one who put together the basic plan (of Neighborhood Councils). I wish him well. He will be missed.

The U.S. is unique among advanced industrialized nations for failure to provide basic universal coverage to insure access and remove the fear of financial consequences in bills when ill.

The vote was a vote for common sense and basic fairness. It is a victory for Florida taxpayers, working families and businesses who can all breathe a little bit easier knowing that once this legislation is signed they'll be less likely to be targeted for a lawsuit simply because they have the ability to pay.

The world is a challenging place in terms of wars and peace, basic human rights and freedoms. The Holy Father has a major role to play in global affairs. The pope is more than a spiritual leader. For the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, he is an inspiration of holiness and goodness and, above all, the faithful proclamation of the Gospel.

These tools are changing the basic core economics of software development.

They worked together very closely for years. The basic day-to-day tools and the basic approach shouldn't change at all.

They have only handwritten manuscripts, because you can write very small and then you can carry the most basic manuscripts with you.

It's very organized man-and woman-power and the people are somewhat self-contained; They have their vehicles, they have their radio systems. They come with a basic component of food to be able to last a few days and can work in a very stressful situation and be able to keep control.

It's very positive, I think. And the messages are firm, but not graphic. Just basic fact.

It's working on little things ? like not crossing your feet over, keeping your head up when you're going to make a tackle, staying low. It's all just basic fundamentals that you lose as time goes on if you don't work on them.

It looked like we had a good inside, outside combination going on. Their defense limited us to just a few basic plays. Of course they're very good basic plays. When we handled the ball, and things like that, they went well for us.

It was a basic run-through of how we would facilitate our SNS, or strategic national stockpile plan, which is how we dispense meds to citizens in La Salle County, whether it's medication or vaccination.

It was a basic story -- three or four or five girls start off together, one finds love, one goes crazy and/or dies, and one of them becomes a huge success -- but Rona's take was very up-to-date. What made it work for the time was that it had a fresh young-career-women-in-New York quality with a fillip of shock.