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This is a power play.... When you have all three branches of government controlled by the Republicans, you wind up with stuff like this, which is simply a misuse of power.

In Liberia there has always been a very strong executive branch that has not had effective checks and balances from other branches of the government. That needs to change.

In here, nobody is above the coconut branch whip if you break community laws. Whether you?re are chief, a priest, a tough guy, a mother, a child or a visitor, we are all subjected to the coconut branches if we break the law.

In general, we'd like to know who's related to whom, and the pattern of the branches of the tree of life.

If you don't have fundamental biology, all the branches are going to whither.

If you didn't have that genealogical information, you wouldn't have the first idea about those two branches or where they come from.

TCF Financial (has) this very unique strategy. It's (opening) 25-to-35 branches a year and just growing consistently, 14-to-15 percent per year in earnings, which really is a great kind of situation overall for the banking space, ... I think these guys are at the forefront of the trend. They really are serving Joe Lunch Bucket, as they like to say, and so that's a growing marketplace longer term for banks.

Sticks are something we all have in common. Everybody knows sticks - the twigs and branches picked up on grandfather's farm; the branches woven in grandmother's basket. Somewhere threaded in all the public mass is a common thread, and that thread is the human spirit.

Everybody is fine in my home, so I'm thankful for that, ... A couple tree branches and stuff, which is normal for hurricanes. They had a power outage, but nothing serious.

All of us in the venture capital area are going through a triage, where we have to decide which portfolio companies are so wounded we will never save them, ... As horrible as it is to go through that process, it's a cleansing process. To have some branches grow and bear fruit, you have to trim others.

It's pretty awesome out there, rain going sideways with the wind, trees down, branches everywhere.

In public esteem, the judges are the most highly rated of the three branches of government.

In reality, it reflects an attempt by the Bush administration to exercise unchecked power without the inconvenient interference of the other co-equal branches of government.

His belief in the Founding Fathers' vision of judicial restraint, federalism, and deference to the legislative and executive branches ... has enjoyed a tremendous renaissance in his time. He is truly the godfather of the constitutionalist movement in American law.

His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

But instead of a tree, we got a bush where many branches sprout close together.

I had the idea that the film would be much better served by a Branch Rickey look-a-like than a Harrison Ford look-a-like. I didn't want the audience to go into the film thinking that they knew me from some previous experience in the movies.

By midyear, we'll have in the neighborhood of 25 branches running Win 2000,

I pledged to him unrestrained support in his Government in its exceedingly difficult task from all branches and organizations of Economy.

Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.

Fiction is a branch of neurology

The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before.

There's three branches of government, the executive, the legislative, the judicial. In Pittsburgh, that court was all three.

They bought a lot of branches from Fleet, when they merged with Fleet Boston, ... I think you can look for 30 percent gains in that stock for the next two year.

They'll have to do some work to get the branches up to snuff.

They just have great cards. They've got all three branches of government. They've got the bully pulpit.

They want other branches and roots to flourish. I actually take this as a sign of Delta's commitment to Cincinnati over the long term. Cincinnati as a hub is not going away, and this is just tweaking it to make it more effective.

I have a duty to protect the executive branch from legislative encroachment.

The crew of the caravel "Nina" also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and rejoiced at these signs.

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

The do-not-call registry is still being challenged in court. Yet, the conclusions of the American people, the legislative branch, and the executive branch are beyond question.

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

The industry is out there building branches at an extremely active clip -- a new one is slated to open every 2-1/2 hours until the end of 2005,

The 'Come On Home' campaign will invite them back to see how far our branches have evolved, especially in the areas of educational enhancement and technology training. We think the alumni will be impressed.

An awful lot of negotiation occurs ahead of time, and in the overwhelming number of cases either there is no problem to begin with, or the problem gets settled through negotiation or an agreement that a certain number of stores or branches get sold off,

Live in your roots, not in your branches.

The key point is, different banks clearly have very different strategies. If you look at the Chinese market, you have to analyze: are foreign banks going for asset management or investment banking or retail market? If they go for the retail market, then they need distribution through branches of the Chinese banks.

You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.

A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days: / Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music by not being consistent. Consistency seems to be all important.

These are important policy issues that we have to get straight between our two branches of government, and the decision today is a big step in the wrong direction.

Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range of interrelated connections within the physical sciences, but formal studies isolated each branch of science.” I feel that I have advantages greater than Da Vinci’s such as access to more information, materials, and methods.

In the one branch he most needed

The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good.

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

For decades, this agency has invoked the phrase 'Forest Service family' to connote a cohesive, close-knit organization, but this plan puts whole branches of the family on the auction block. This whole misguided effort is an example of mindless management by slogan lacking in any analysis as to how to make the Forest Service actually run better or more efficiently.

There's an ancient mosaic called the Tree of Life. All religions are branches of one tree.

As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.

This may sound bizarre to some of you, but in Canada, one of the two legislative branches never go to the electorate. This is the Senate, which, like the Supreme Court, is appointed by the Government..and is therefore Liberal-dominated.

This means, even when our branches are not open, students can still get homework help.

You have to look at how competitive these loans are. People who walk into branches will be sold them but would be much better off getting a 100 per cent loan with no higher lending charge. The cost of borrowing that extra percentage is huge.

We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.

It is quite possible that Wal-Mart could, at some point, follow a similar course by simply opening a thousand bank branches in its stores and then challenging Congress to close them down. We think Wal-Mart will do this and that Congress will back down.

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

This is a very serious effort. We should be up to eight New York branches in the area by year end. Then we have plans for another six or so in 2007 and then another six or so in 2008.

They're branches off the original technology fund. In the next several years, we see accelerated opportunities in those two areas.

Collectively, Fort Wayne branches have had some of the longest transaction times in Indiana.

A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.

At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind

All religions are branches of one big tree.

If you want to do other things, you have to leave soap operas, otherwise you'll be there forever, which is not bad, you know. Some people have made a great living off of being on soap operas. But if you want to branch out you have to leave early, otherwise you'll never get the shot.

Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love.

The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights.

Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.

Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn't soon cometh.

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.

Have you ever heard the earth breath?

On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.

...you look like you fell out of a crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down.

The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.

Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law. They cannot make it. The legislature has to make it, the executive branch has to sign it and enforce it.

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.

The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been conjectured, sometimes a hundred years or more before they were proved; and they have been suggested by the evidence of a mass of computations.

We came from many roots, and we have many branches.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.

The federal judiciary is unlike the other branches of government. And once confirmed, a federal judge serves for life. And there's no court above the Supreme Court.

I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

If whole branches of Jews must be destroyed, it is worth it, as long as a Jewish state in Palestine is created.

The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine.

Childhood is a branch of cartography.

My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there.

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

Fighting the wild branches of a haunted tree is not something that every actor is confident enough to attack, literally and figuratively.

He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a dewdrop poised upon a leaf. The drop instantly blazed crimson, and a slight movement of his head made it show all the colours of the spectrum with extraordinary purity, from a red almost too deep to be seen through all the others to the ultimate violet and back again.

We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves!