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Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where performing is no longer a neutral act. They have created an environment where they can convert the normal commercial interaction between artists and their fans into the means to apply this racist law.

I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.

I'm not an evangelist Christian at all. I can't try to convert anybody. It's not in me to do that. But my faith has given me such an appreciation of people and meaningful relationships, and a world view which I didn't have before. And although I will fail every day, it gives me something to aspire to.

I can't wait for them to convert old movies to 3D. I am 100% confident I want them to convert 'Terminator 2' to 3D more than I want anything in the world.

As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'

For Jews, the paradigmatic convert is the biblical Ruth, who sought not only a new relationship with God but also a new nationality.

How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?

I don't think the job of the antiracist is to convert the far-out heathen racist, or give them their 'come to Jesus' moment, as it's called. They'll either have those or they won't, and usually, when they have them, it's not because of something someone said per se; it's because of some life crisis that makes them rethink.

Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.

We have an ideal location for a couple of organic wineries on the island. But the reintroduction of commercial agriculture to Lanai is 100% dependent upon increasing the available water on the island. So we're going to use solar energy to convert seawater to fresh water.

I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I was going to convert to Catholicism, but I didn't want my grandmother spinning around in her grave like a rotisserie chicken.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

It is not possible that one man can convert another into a piece of property, thus at once annihilating all his personal rights, without the most flagrant injustice and usurpation.

If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory into long term memory.

The National Popular Vote is about getting states to convert from the winner-take-all rule. The states that pass the legislation will assign all their electoral votes to the candidate that got the most votes in the country, not just in the state.

There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to convert food into worms as soon as possible. In three days a single worm produces 300 progeny. So why put your resources into developing if you can make a brand-new worm in no time at all?

I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!

Once we have inexpensive energy, we can readily and inexpensively convert the vast amount of dirty and salinated water we have on the planet to usable water.

If you're going to counsel people - and that's all my ministry is, it's a counseling ministry more than anything else - people have to believe that they can trust you and that they can listen to you, that you're going to try to help them and not just politically try to convert them to your views.

I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.

Any investigator worthy of baptism becomes a convert worthy of saving.

Every convert is a son or daughter of God.

Personally I think its a bunch of crap. All thats doing is making the teams spend millions of dollars to convert and those guys in the shop are going to make that car go just as fast in a couple of years as its going today. So were going through this exercise and the car of tomorrow is just making everything we own today the car of yesterday and two years from now were going to be right where we are today. NASCAR has to do what they think is right, but I dont agree with them. Thats just my personal opinion.

My father's politics and ideas were, to me, unforgivable. He was a Jewish convert who became very anti-Semitic, and I didn't find the anti-Semitism forgivable.

OK, this goes back to 1995. Tell you what I'll do: I'll convert this to a $50 fine, community service -- five hours at $10 an hour,

One of the statistics you look for in pizza is trying to establish a loyalty rate. If you get someone to try your pizza, can you get them to convert to you?

Mormonism is not historic Christianity. When people say, 'Well, Mormons and Christians all believe the same things,' my response is, 'If that's true, why are they always on my front doorstep trying to convert me?'

Now we only have to convert a realistic chance into victory.

Obviously, the scores are real low. And the good news for me is I have to go out and play a really good round tomorrow. There's no holding on here. It's go out and be aggressive, stick to the game plan, give myself as many birdie opportunities as I can and hopefully I can convert them.

Many of these ships still have 20 or 30 years of life left in them and can accommodate several hundred passengers in great comfort. We will take a retired cruise ship and convert every two to three cabins into luxury suites and sell them to investors.

There are people who love beef but they're concerned about it (fitting into a healthy diet). We're not out to convert the world but to learn more from a cooking perspective.

Significantly, when we convert this group of restaurants to developmental licensees, the results we currently report from these markets will be replaced over time with a royalty--- a royalty based solely on a percentage of sales, and our capital requirements will be eliminated.

I'd assume he can convert it and pay some of his legal bills, and that is perfectly OK with me.

Friday night in Sauk Centre was a rough night. We started off playing tough but did not convert on key free throws once we were in the bonus. This led to some momentum for Sauk, and they capitalized.

Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies into adversaries and reconcile differences without resort to violence, are societies in which the genocidal temptation is unlikely and even inconceivable.

Get the lead and help the customer move forward in their purchase decision. Convert the customer shopping online into a referral, the referral into a telephone conversation, the conversation into an appointment and the appointment into a sale.

I am extremely concerned about the recent application, approved by current directors, to convert to a mutual savings bank. And I'm even more concerned about the lack of communication from board members and executive management to members.

I don't think it's time yet. We need to convert a lot more people to the habit of buying music online. I don't think a way to convert more people is to raise the price.

For most of the game, we handled (the pressure) pretty well. But there was a stretch there where we threw a couple of errant passes and a couple bad decisions. When you play a good team like George Washington, they're going to convert on those.

If it sells well, our hope is McDonald's will embrace this across their entire system and all 13,000 stores will convert to Fair Trade in the next year or two. With McDonald's, I think that sends a very powerful signal to the entire industry. Fair Trade is here to stay and mainstream Americans are concerned with fairness and they are willing to buy it.

Business owners have been burned by the recession in the past, so they'll take on some temporary staff and then convert them to full time when they know the recovery is for real.

I felt a certain responsibility to help the British, as I had urged the British to abandon their export trade and convert to war production.

To convert on that and have Ben score a touchdown, we had momentum going into (halftime). We came out in the second half and Willie busted a wide open touchdown that put us up 14-3, so that was a huge play.

Today, I just didn't hit the shots the way I've been doing the first two days. I hit some really good ones, but I also hit some really bad ones. My wedges were awful. I had a few easy ones and I failed to convert every one of them.

We've been working a lot on our free-position shooting. We need to convert those chances. From what I've seen, Oregon is a pretty aggressive team, so we will get our opportunities. That can make the difference for us.

We take all these undesirable medium-weight substances and convert them to the useful higher- and lower-weight products.

We're obviously disappointed that we're not getting the results like we'd prefer, but fundamentally we're doing good things. We possessed the ball and attacked very well on Sunday (a 1-0 loss to Cincinnati) and we hit the crossbar once, so we had opportunities in the game, but we failed to convert our chances. We need to be more organized and execute better when we have our opportunities to score goals.

He was able to convert a great idea into a commercially viable machine.

He can take his campaign funds, which he raised more than a million bucks, and now convert that into his legal defense fund.

If the standard mileage rate was first used when the vehicle was placed into service --used for business -- then the taxpayer may convert to the actual expense deduction to offset higher fuel cost for the current year. From September 1, 2005 through December 31, 2005 the IRS increased the standard to 48.5 cents per mile. Despite the increase in the standard mileage rate, one should carefully weigh which expense -- actual or standard --they should use for their 2005 return.

I find extraordinarily exciting the prospect that we could take an asset that was created by the state government to meet higher education needs for the institutions and students and convert it into an immediate investment.

The purpose of the conference is to highlight the emerging field of industrial biotechnology, which is being used to convert agricultural wastes to renewable energy and to make many types of manufacturing processes more environmentally sustainable.

Really, we failed to convert and in the second half there was no execution. For Essex, they played a great game. Our defense was lackluster, but they just out-played us.

I wrote a novel about an economic/environmental collapse titled 'Soft Apocalypse,' and that's definitely the sort I'm best prepared for. To write the novel, I did a lot of reading on what we might expect, so at the first sign, I'm ready to convert all of my assets to gold and ammo and stock up on freeze-dried food.

People are curious, and they want to know about Monterey. But we have to figure how to better convert inquiries into actual visitors.

Our goal was to chip away and cut the lead in half by the four- or five-minute mark. We gave ourselves an opportunity to do that, but we just couldn't convert any baskets out of it.

I think that was the big difference because they just dominated on the boards. We had trouble scoring. We didn't get very many good shots and when we did, we didn't convert them.

I suspect this thing cannot get resolved very quickly. I doubt that the parent can get a (restructuring) plan filed very quickly unless their plan is just convert all that parent debt into equity.

Job growth in Missouri has definitely slowed over the past several months. In terms of hiring, Missouri experienced January job losses. However, strong new orders should convert to an improving employment picture in the months ahead. Durable goods producers were much more bullish in their economic assessments for January than non-durable goods manufacturers.

I think the biggest thing we have got to do is just continue to attack the basket. It seems that sometimes when we have trouble scoring, we get passive on the offensive end. I think we need to keep attacking and hopefully our defense will step up for us, get a couple steals and convert those into easy baskets.

It is a mystery to me that we did not convert any of our penalties, but Constant Spring did enough to win. Hopefully we'll get it right on Sunday.

I think there were times when we definitely missed Ben. It seemed like we'd make a stop on defense, but we couldn't convert on the other end. I think if we had Ben in there, we would have had more of a flow on offense and he could have helped us get some better shots.

Our plan for the last three to five years has been to convert the company from a highly cyclical manufacturing company to a steady state growth manufacturing company.

Our vein structures are completely different, especially when you look at the palm. In a way, it's like looking at a bar code. We convert your veins to a bar code.

Our collective challenge remains to convert these changes into improved performance in both the Premiership and the cup competitions,

Our goal is to convert the traditional retail online photo site into a cross media environment for the ordering of photos and music. We will take the traditional photo site, which has the capabilities to process photos and other related photo merchandise, and combine it with the ability to order music and other content, such as videos and games, for on-demand production on a CD or DVD within an hour - all new revenue streams for the retailer.

I think our problem right now is that we're not getting the opportunity to run. What we need to do is convert on third downs. That's something that's been our emphasis this week.

Keating understood the power of tradition yet he loved to break the rules and create a new orthodoxy. That's what he did as treasurer saying, in effect, that Labor runs a market model with equity, and it worked. When he became PM, he tried to construct a new set of Labor beliefs based on Asian engagement, reconciliation and the republic. For Keating, these weren't just policies; they were the new Labor template handed down from the mount. The trouble, of course, was his inability to convert a lot of the public.

Kate came out very aggressive and really gave us a spark in the second half. Overall we got better spacing in the second half and that allowed us to convert some big buckets inside.

I think it was good enough to help us win. We need to keep it in that frame of mind. I was able to get the ball a little more. The biggest thing for the running game is rhythm. When you convert third downs, you can sustain rhythm.

It has always been inevitable that, living as a small minority among a Christian majority, some Jews would convert to Christianity.

I thought we got impatient in the fourth quarter where we could have done a better job of extending the lead. It should have easily been a 12-14 point ball game, but we didn't convert on some free throws.

I thought we got some good looks down the stretch and we just didn't convert them. We need to do that to be competitive. Give them credit. They have been here before. They hit big free throws and got the rebounds they needed.

I thought we came out in the first half extremely focused and very intense. Defensively they never did have any easy passes, and we were able to convert on some turnovers to give us a little bit of lead.

I thought we came out in the first half extremely focused and very intense. They just never did have any easy passes and we were able to convert some turnovers to get a little bit of a lead.

I think it's a crime to take what is, for visual purposes, a wonderfully pristine area and convert it to a landfill.

I think we had a better percentage from the arc than we did inside the lane. We felt like we were good perimeter shooters, but we haven't demonstrated that ability all the time. But, when the defense gets extended, we have to be able to convert in the lane so other teams at least have to honor that.

I thought we had the opportunity to put the game away. We made a lot of line breaks but couldn't convert them into five-pointers.

We had opportunities in the medium range passing game and didn't convert and maybe could have gotten some points. I think the way we approached it was the right way, we just need to complete more passes.

We had our chances but we couldn't convert them, that was our problem. The group is still wide open, there's still a chance to advance.

The problem - the greatest inefficiency of the process - is that you also wind up with a substantial quantity of medium-weight products that are not useful and you are stuck with them. What we are now able to do with our new catalysts is something no one else has done before. We take all these undesirable medium-weight substances and convert them to the useful higher- and lower-weight products.

We are committed to helping automotive dealer customers create and convert more opportunities using Cobalt solutions.

We have to work, we can?t rest on any possession, we have to give maximum effort. We got some loose balls, we got on the offensive glass. We were able to convert on those hustle plays.

The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to convert it into words... and then you start to create a work of art, and that's another miracle, and it remains mysterious to the writer, or to this writer anyway.

We just couldn't hit shots. We were missing shots. We had good looks, we just have to convert them. We've got to do a better job of taking care of the ball and get shots at the rim.

That's what it will take to move, but that's not even counting the estimated $500,000 it's going to cost to convert the station into a museum.

We just can't convert our chances. We had the puck up the middle of the ice a lot, and didn't get anything to show for it.

We just want to play and put a really good show on. Since there's going to be a lot of different people there with different tastes, it's a good place to convert some people over to our stuff.

We just weren't able to convert key power plays.

That was the final dagger when it was 60-56 and we were not able to convert a couple times. They are a mature team that got a second life in the NCAA to make some things happen. We had to play at the top of our game to win this.

We fouled them as much as we could in the fourth quarter. But we failed to convert when they missed them.

We dominated the first half and still did not convert chances. But we just have to keep on working hard and go on to the next game.

We couldn't find the groove for our shooting tonight. They out hustled us and we couldn't convert their turnover into points for us.

We expect to convert congressmen and their staffs to our own view point in trade policy,

We were two points away from making it an even game. But in the second half we didn't get those stops and convert those points in transition like we did in the first half. That was the difference.

We played pretty well. There were some shots that we need to be able to convert that we didn't.

We had great intensity the second half. But half a game is not going to get it done against a good team. The opportunities were definitely there. We got some great defensive stops, but we couldn't convert on the other side.

That was just inexcusable. We can?t let them get a first down on that play, but we let them convert a bunch of third downs on that drive as well.

The only way to convert the heathen is to travel into the jungle.