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I was surprised by the comments made by Sean Davis. To be accused of deliberately going into a challenge in an attempt to cause damage is absolutely sickening.

(Nigel) basically, right or wrong, felt like the band was very close to Paul and we're good friends and we're very much a team and he felt he couldn't challenge Paul on things with the band there. I think it's sort of his own crazy insecurities.

I would rather be the son than the father. It's more of a challenge coming from the son's of view. When the game is over, we will still be father and son.

When the kids were small, you had to tell them what to do, ... But now that they're older, you have to challenge them. They have to improvise. They have to bring themselves into it. Otherwise, it doesn't have any life in it. They had to act , and acting is not doing what somebody tells you.

When the Medicare drug benefit was passed, AARP issued a challenge to the drug industry to keep increases at least to the rate of inflation until people had better coverage. By and large, that's not happening, ... Prices are going up more than twice the rate of inflation.

We had a very hard time last year against some of the league's better pitching. We're going up against some good pitching again so that will be our challenge this season.

My hope is to challenge asinine modes of thinking about femininity and provoke discourse about issues surrounding feminine roles, body image and female sexuality.

My hunches are Monroe will challenge for the league title. They have a lot of kids coming in.

My greatest goal with each of my records is to really bless and encourage people andto maybe challenge them to think outside themselves.

My heart is filled with tears for the victims and all those who have lost loved ones in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. No one can challenge Mother Nature. All we can do now is band together the best we can as one family and help everyone get back on their feet.

Should these conditions prevail in the rest of this year, it will be a challenge to equal the record profits of 2000.

Somebody from the left is much more likely to make a decent challenge to Chavez.

Of all the campuses in the district, I don't think any school poses as much challenge as Jefferson does in terms of ADA requirements.

Occasionally, someone has run against DeLay. But I don't recall any attention being paid, and I don't think the congressman took the challenge seriously. This is the first primary where he has had to extend himself.

obviously we have a public relations challenge here in Turkey as we do in different places throughout the world.

Obviously, we're being tested early. You know, we were in a position to win all three games. We didn't get any of them, but the effort is there. It's part of the challenge of the game. You've got to get over it, get beyond it.

One of the things I'm proudest of in my career is producing so much of August's work here. I'm going to believe that since August is such feisty guy, he'll meet this health challenge like he's met the challenge of writing an extraordinary cultural history.

One thing we have learned, disruptive technologies rarely unfold in ways we expect or predict. Our challenge is getting people out of the home and into the theaters to be entertained.

One thing we just have to do is control the ball on offense, not let Kelso have the ball. That's the easiest way to prevent them from putting points on the board. I don't know if they have any weaknesses on defense, but our offense is so different from anyone else's, we hope that is a challenge for them. That's one of the reasons we picked this offense.

No one called me up from the booth saying we should challenge it. That's what those guys are supposed to do. I didn't get a phone call.

One of the arguments made by the House managers is that you have got to treat the president like federal judges. I think the White House will challenge that.

One of our goals was serving. All the girls did a very good job. I don't think we started missing serves until that last game. They all did real well. All I asked for them was to challenge each pass and I think they did a good job, each one of them.

One of the things I heard when I got here was that we educate our children so well that they go someplace else to be successful. That's a challenge our whole community has to work on, to have them be successful back here.

My goal is to give our guys who performed well at lower positions last weekend the challenge of higher flights this weekend. Our upper and lower classmen will be rotated high and low throughout the weekend. We want to expose them to them to the challenge of playing high, but we also want to continue to build their confidence.

More than half of people who leave their jobs do so because of their relationship with their boss. Smart companies make certain their managers know how to balance being professional with being human. These are the bosses who celebrate an employee's success, empathize with those going through hard times, and challenge people, even when it hurts.

More than nine years into our longest economic expansion on record, more employers are now using health insurance coverage to attract and keep workers, and are absorbing rising costs rather than passing them on to their employees. But this may change if the economy cools down, and the bigger challenge that still remains is how to help the 44 million Americans who are uninsured despite the robust economy.

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Of course I also want to challenge the current outdoor world record of 2.09. That is something I feel very capable of doing.

Of course I am here to learn and develop too. It will be a great challenge for me and I like that.

No one will pick up where Stern has left off, ... Howard is a one-of-a-kind broadcasting phenomenon who has not just a brilliant intellect and personality but an enormously well-honed set of radio skills and natural talent. Infinity faces a major challenge losing him, and Sirius will be the beneficiary of tremendous buzz.

Plus, to challenge him. We got to remember what we're trying to accomplish over here, regardless of what the other team's trying to accomplish. He had some adversity and I thought he bounced back pretty well through it all.

People who buy hybrids also want to support the innovative technology to spur a technological answer to the challenge of high fuel prices and dependence on foreign oil.

No, he would not be entitled to counsel to challenge his detainment,

Nothing -- I mean nothing -- and no-one -- I mean no-one -- will stop me going through to the end, and trying to be ready for the challenge of 2007,

Next time you see a kid skating, before you stereotypically bite his head off. Try to remember that the child skates for a reason. He like the challenge and is rewarded with his own brand of self-esteem every time his wheels roll full circle.

Next week poses a tough challenge against some good teams. I hope the weather is decent this weekend, so the girls can get in some needed court time to work on their ground strokes.

Now the big challenge probably is to make sure he doesn't feel like he has to do too much, just has to play his position but doesn't have to be the hero every play or every game. We don't want any of our guys thinking that.

Now the real challenge starts for Danbury Youth Services and this community. I'm hoping that within a month or two that the corporate world in Danbury will come forward with money that will match the $20,000.

Obviously Matt's goals have been a big bonus, but he also enjoys being with us and is enjoying the challenge of first team football.

Obviously, our record isn't very good, but we are working hard. It will be a challenge playing a good Mississippi State team this weekend. They have so many returning players, and they've got a lot of guys that have been together for a long time. That shows in the relaxed way they play.

Obviously, it's going to be a big challenge for us. You have to be at your very best to win there.

Now that the regular season is over and we have our first playoff win, maybe we can challenge those teams above us in the league playoffs. But in any case, I think we'll be ready to play in the state tournament.

Now that we know what we're dealing with and what the reality is and the challenge is out there, there are some minds that are changing. The reality is, it is very difficult to try and schedule five non-conference football games every year.

Number 5 is a setback. The challenge to improve is even bigger. We want the title back.

Now we're back to work. The challenge is more mental than anything else.

Now we can go to court and challenge the government's assertion.

Now we faced a greater challenge -- keeping it up, maintaining the humor and professionalism we started with, during the typically very rough third year.

No one was really doing it down here before. We started this out of a desire to do something new and challenge ourselves.

Peter has proven himself through the ranks as a coach. This is the next challenge for him. I think he's very capable and ready to handle these duties. I always felt that international experience is a key for this type of position, and Peter certainly brings that to the table.

People will go to where the big names are. The challenge is to create a place where people want to come.

Obviously injuries are an issue and a concern of our clubs. Location of the Olympics plays into that, the significant time difference we had in Nagano (for the '98 Games) was a challenge and it led into a longer break than we would have otherwise liked. There are a number of issues that you deal with as you make these decisions each time around, and probably the most significant is our experience here and whether players are getting hurt.

Obviously, it'd be a challenge to move a ton of people off Cape Cod. But I don't think a full evacuation of the Cape would ever be necessary.

Right now, Brandon is our starting quarterback and I would never challenge that position at this point. He's going to be our starting quarterback until he proves he can't be. With a year of experience now, he's that much better.

Right now, it takes a large company employing hundreds of really smart people to support Internet services. Our goal with this center is to develop technology that eliminates the need for such a large organization, opening up innovation opportunities for small groups or even individual entrepreneurs. We can help do this by applying statistical machine learning - the same technology used successfully in the recent autonomous vehicle grand challenge - to the development of computer systems.

My job as a teacher is to challenge students to think critically about issues that are affecting our world and our society.

If we have to win games late, well, we try to get them out of the way early. We try to build a lead early and execute offense late in the game. But if we have to win games like this, I think we can step up to the challenge and win them.

I'd like to think that we can be one of the teams in the area that can challenge Ridgewood and IHA, but our ultimate goal with this group is to make it to the State Meet of Champions.

I'd like to sell the place out. We've had 13,000 (fans), but when you say it was packed that's a whole different deal. So I challenge people to do that.

I don't doubt for a second i could do it. I don't doubt either that I could be good at it. I just think it's a much different mental challenge to make than it was physical.

I don't just want to sing about simplistic things all the time. It's good to have a mix of songs that have a real depth, and that provoke and challenge people, and then songs that are fun and people can enjoy.

I'd like to come back and make it my challenge to be unbeaten next season.

I don't know who would challenge it, other than the bad guys, the people who have an interest in selling drugs to children,

I don't know that I have a good solution to the problem. Now we have another challenge in public education: It's not about wind speed, it's about storm surge. I have some bold ideas but I'm not going to come and say this is what we're going to do. There's a certain percentage of the population that aren't going to leave, I don't care what.

I did what I had to do. I did a good job stepping up to the challenge and so did the team.

If we fast forward two years, the biggest challenge for carriers in the industry is upgrading the technology in their networks.

If they can produce a transcript showing 14 core courses, then how can you challenge that? I would say that we would follow set admission standards, and if they met those standards, I don't see how you could not accept that.

If they do air a partisan film, we'll challenge the FCC and the licenses of the local stations that broadcast the film because local stations have a responsibility to the community to air real news, not partisan messages,

If they don't race in a pair, to me it's like they've run away from a challenge and that's not the people I rowed with and raced with,

We?re just excited to still be standing. We very much look forward to playing a very good Connecticut basketball team in the next round and have some sense of understanding about what?s involved in that task and what a challenge it?s going to be.

We needed a challenge like this, ... I think we did a good job keeping our poise when they jumped out to an early lead. Everybody just kind of stayed with it.

Last year was last year. This year, I think Gonzaga is a much improved team. They have better versatility. The challenge this year will be a lot greater.

Leadership remains the leading challenge of these kinds of regional efforts.

LBT pushes the state of the art in telescope performance, and it is a tremendous honor to be named the director. I'm excited by the challenge of completing the ambitious vision and satisfying the partners' scientific aspirations for this powerful, path-finding telescope.

We made a few mini-runs that kept us in the lead ... our kids were able to put together a couple flurries. Those were important, because we knew it was going to be a challenge tonight.

We want to make sure the company and the (Public Utilities) Commission focuses on what we think is a potentially very difficult challenge for the small business community. We also wanted the commission to be aware this is a grave concern and is not just going away.

When you consider all the identity theft that is taking place now, the challenge for RSA is to monetize that, ... It's easier said than done.

We're excited by the level of innovation and ingenuity that all of the entrants demonstrated. The eBay Developer Challenge 2006 winners offer buyers and sellers the ability to access the eBay marketplace from wherever they might be, extending the eBay platform in ways previously unimagined. They are all great examples of how innovative developers and affiliates can create viable businesses using eBay Web Services while taking the eBay user experience to a whole new level.

we resist the manipulation of fear and challenge the narrow focus of the security agenda.

Losing that first set was a challenge to her to raise her level of tennis. She knew what she had to do and she made it happen. She was in control of the third set during every point and maintained that control for the victory.

Milwaukee is the team we would probably play in the playoffs, so we wanted to send a message that it will be a challenge to play against us. We came back to tie the game twice, which showed a lot of character for a young team.

She's a hard worker. She's playing basketball all the time. I see great things coming from her next year. Next year the challenge is that they will be keying on her.

Since I don't have any kids of my own, it's a challenge for me. But it's the best thing that ever happened to me. This gave me an opportunity to raise them and teach them things.

My lack of enthusiasm was due to my illness the night before. I was in the hospital until 3 a.m. and had to be up at 6 a.m.. Even though I was feeling just as sick as I was earlier, I decided to do the challenge with the rest of the girls. It probably hindered me from doing the best of my capabilities, but I wanted to show them that I could be strong.

Measuring literacy is a complicated task -- one challenge is that we are testing adults, and you don't find them gathered in classrooms.

Maybe we got too full of ourselves after the last game and figured we had arrived. I'm not going to blow a gasket, but I'm angry that we didn't respond to a really terrific challenge for us.

Millions of ordinary people across the globe rallied to the immediate aid of communities devastated by the tsunami. Now our collective challenge is to finish the job, to leave behind safer, more peaceful and stronger communities.

Missile defense has constantly been a challenge because of the technology required to intercept and destroy a warhead in space or on its way back down to Earth. It's a very difficult thing to do.

Mike is our No. 1 coming out of the spring. He accepted a challenge like a man. He commanded the respect of the players.

Mike managed over 160 disasters during his tenure at FEMA, and his service in those disasters has been commended by many, ... He has done everything he possibly could to coordinate the federal response to the unprecedented challenge posed by Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans levee breach. He is a good man, and I personally appreciate his work and his commitment.

Most people don't know the ACLU receives taxpayer dollars when they challenge our values and heritage. The American Legion aims to make sure Americans not only learn about it, but also learn how they can take action to stop it once and for all.

Most of the viewers of wildlife hunting shows and videos have no idea how much of a challenge (hence the name of the competition) it is to successfully film a hunt for free-ranging animals in the wild. This competition highlights the skills of the cameramen who help bring the 'outdoors' indoors to millions of viewers.

She ran a very strong race. She pushed herself to challenge the leaders.

She is excited to run the higher hurdles. It's a new challenge for her.

She played very well. She took up the challenge and competed well.

She does a fantastic job of rebounding and enjoys playing defense. She enjoys the challenge of trying to lock someone down.

She decided she was going to take that challenge at halftime, and she did.

When you read reviews on Yelp, you get a good sense of what's going to happen when you walk in the door of that business. The challenge is that there are fifteen million businesses in the U.S., and its very hard to communicate with all of them about how Yelp works, and why it works the way it does.

Maggie's are very excited about this event and delighted to know so many people are taking part to raise money to help build the first Maggie's Centre in London. We know those entered in this event have set themselves a hard challenge but their efforts will result in Maggie's being able to offer all those going through the challenge of a diagnosis of cancer.

Scott (Pruett) took me out and gave me a few pointers on the track but you really don't feel it until you get out there yourself. This place is pretty neat, especially with the tight corners and elevation changes. It's going to be a challenge (in June).

Many of our athletes are taking finals during Dead Week. I think our greatest challenge will be balancing finals with trying to win a national championship.