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It is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others-for their use and to our detriment.

This stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet, and a great many Hamlets have since murdered Shakespeare

When Gale Norton agreed to the trust reform work group we bought into it; that's where they defined trust. The only thing Interior wanted in trust was the responsibility for land, and if you watch the budget that is what they are doing.

To me, the traffic studies were kind of a sham, because they never defined the criteria for the evaluation. The studies said the roads are adequate, but they don't state what would be too much traffic.

Tommy Hilfiger came in and created 300 shops. Now every one of the department store anchors has a Tommy shop and a Liz shop. It gave vendors more control, and it also was a real estate grab. There was no real defined reason to go to Marshall Field's because it has X, X and X that Carson's doesn't have.

The PBGC report misses much of what has been happening among defined benefit plans.

We are not defined by our trials,but by how we face them.We are all afraid; bravery is a choice,that though you may lose, you shall never be defeated.

We are really just at the recognition phase (in the United States) ... We have defined the problem and are recognizing the problem and trying to adapt. This (study) just points out how far behind we are in even accepting bullying as something that's not a normative behavior.

The defined touchdown zone is the first 3,000 feet of the runway.

Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.

Who will dare say he has defined art?

The cool thing about Kyle Killen, he writes really defined characters. I was a big fan of 'Awake' and also 'Lone Star.' I just think that he's a really, really special writer, and complex and deep, and a really smart dude.

What we suggested to Temple Terrace when we met with them recently was, 'Now that you have it on the MPO list, your project could be defined a little better.' So, then we can look to find ways to fund it. They have given us some preliminary numbers. They have some concepts such as landscaping the median of the roadway, and that's allowed, but we need to understand a little bit more of the specifics. At this point, it's been nothing more than concepts.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.

While some of our competition is narrowing its focus to just e-mail capabilities, IBM continues to expand and evolve Lotus Notes and Domino to deliver the extended business value of a true collaborative platform. Over the last 20 years, IBM Lotus has defined this industry and has been at the forefront of collaborative innovation. With a broad new set of programs, platform support and Business Partner activity to support the Lotus Notes and Domino platform, we're continuing to meet the growing needs of our customers and are well positioned to maintain our leadership role into the future.

We consider ourselves to be a service organization. All of what we do can be defined as services.

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

There is a defined movement in industry to integrate dissimilar scientific fields in order to produce novel next-generation products.

Who we are is really defined by the work we put out.

To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate symbolic representation. That is only another way of saying that in some branches of discourse it is desirable to know what you are talking about.

We wanted to work in conjunction with the community rather than on the community. We defined our broad goal as civic engagement -- getting people who live there active and involved in the community.

Defined brows instantly make you look more polished.

With the Web 2.0, we have a situation where customer experience is being defined on the Web.

We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential,

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined.

With no debate in Congress or directive from the White House, the Pentagon has narrowly defined its role as 'homeland defense' against an enemy attack from outside the United States, limiting its role in disaster response to a last-resort backfill for civil authorities. Not surprisingly, that philosophy dictates a very passive posture.

We're moving into an exciting new phase of personal computing, ... What an Internet appliance is being defined as today is anything that connects to the Internet that isn't a PC.

We applaud the FDA for defining what whole grain is. Unfortunately, the FDA has not defined any claims concerning the grain content of foods. Consumers should continue to check labels. Grains such as wheat, rice, oats or corn must be described as 'whole' in the list of ingredients to be considered a significant source of whole grain and also should be one of the first three ingredients listed.

With the season officially over and our new head coach in place, it's time to set the team on a new course. The Jets will not be defined by the challenges we faced in a single season, but how we overcome them: by embracing change and taking calculated risks.

Every time a sentence about great American writers is written, it will include August's name, ... He defined the Yale Rep's relationship to groundbreaking American theater.

At that time, there was general agreement among everyone involved in women's liberation that women should have a defined sexual self-interest.

Binge drinking is defined as ... five or more drinks in a sitting (which is approximately two hours) for a man and four or more drinks in a sitting for a woman. EE-CARD has two main focuses, one being educating youth and (the other), raising the awareness of our community.

Consider this, for starters. Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which has defined the character of the nation, is all of 268 words. The Declaration of Independence runs about 1,300 words. The Constitution, which has served us for more than two centuries, comes to some 5,000 words. The Holy Bible has 773,000 words. The federal income tax code and all of its attendant rules and regulations: 9 million words and rising.

Cord defined the concept, doctrine and implementation of covert action on behalf of the security and interests of our nation,

What's defined my career is that if you give me an opportunity, I will make a play to help the football team. I've had my share of opportunities, and I'm happy to say I've taken advantage of them.

Is it any wonder that those who attack us feel they have a license to do so? A license to kill? Police won't investigate. Juries won't convict. The public still thinks our lives are a political issue, defined by the mythic "Gay Agenda." America. You Kill Me! America kills all of us.

I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. 'The control of the appetites by right reason,' is how he defined it.

Things are not looking good for retirees with the collapse of the defined benefit plans. In 20 years, the only people with these plans will be government employees.

The top five critical success factors for team selling are clearly defined performance and activity goals, accepted roles, ground rules, trust and good communication and conflict resolution skills.

We've been optimizing (culture) media on the existing stem cell lines since 1998, but it has only been recently that there have been dramatic improvements. This is the first time it has been possible for us to derive new cell lines in completely defined conditions in medium that completely lacks animal products.

We've been out of office for so long, so you get in there and show what your plans are for the country, and people will be able to say oh, I didn't realize that. We'll be able to define ourselves rather than being defined by our opponents.

The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the virtual reality we experience. Such 'knowledge' is so thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in which everyone, until very recently, lived.

The players have to recognize that the NHL has defined resources and that they are what they are. The uncertainty of not having a future television deal has at least been resolved.

When you have a defined contribution, it puts more of the risk onto the recipient, ... If insurance costs go up, that means that your coverage is affected.

We will have an agreement very soon. We arrived at clear conclusions which are acceptable and they will get defined very clearly very soon.

There are 28 million people that went to work this morning who make less than the poverty level, ... Fifty percent of the workers in America used to draw defined benefit retirement plans when they finished their working careers. That number is down to 17 percent. More and more Americans face their old age without adequate financial resources to enjoy that retirement in dignity.

An eating disorder is defined as a psychological problem where one has disturbances with food and how they view their body and weight.

The San Diego region in many ways is defined by our relationship with the ocean. It's our front yard and a beautiful playground for families and visitors. It should be clean, safe, and inviting.

The viability of defined benefit plans in the U.S. is questionable. It's a real conundrum.

It would be a pretty powerful message. A significant amount of our funding comes from our association with the IBAF. Our mission statement is defined by it.

You have to go through a mental and emotional process to recognize who you really are. I finally recognized that I cannot be defined by one country.

We see and hear about Israelis and Palestinians only when they are defined by the global media as 'occupiers,' 'terrorists,' and 'victims.' But we forget that they are fathers and mothers and sons and daughters and neighbors and doctors and shop-owners and farmers and students.

We are defined and controlled by all that we have not transcended.

To me, Green Arrow in the past, what people loved about Oliver Queen pre-New 52 was his relationships with other heroes. Like his friendship with Green Lantern, his animosity with Hawkman, his romance with Black Canary - these are all the things that sort of defined him.

There is not a clearly defined dictionary of street lingo.

We've had such a tough time this year in the third quarter, but we won the third quarter in Orlando and Miami and we won it again tonight. They did what they were going to do and made a run back at us. Finally, we planted our feet, defined ourselves, and got the stops we needed.

To what extent the adjustment we are making in employment leads to a stable employment situation will be defined by our success on the market.

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.

We don't accept the concept of currency manipulation; it is not a clearly defined economic concept.

We have defined our challenge. We must now meet it head on. And we won't let the special interests stand in our way.

We have defined ourselves by our unprecedented lineup of major championship events, and today we are enhancing that roster, ... Adding the Triple Crown to the Breeders Cup gives us unique promotional opportunities for our telecasts and for the sport.

A covenant is defined as a contract. And the terms of a contract have to be negotiated.

Rather than just paying for overhead, which is all that is allowable under Texas law, overhead, 'Your support will fund a series of productive and innovative activities,' ... And they go on to list four activities, all of which are really defined as political activities under Texas laws.

The term "comics" long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. "Sequential Art" is a more accurate description of the form. I first suggested it because I believed something needed to be done to correct the feeling of inferiority by artists and writers in this field.

Some people make records that are defined by their sexuality, but mine really are not.

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Finding directors of any kind is more difficult than ever. Active CEOs, who are most wanted, are often not available for board duty. Boards need a well defined process to find directors they need.

Finally, we planted our feet, defined ourselves and got the stops we needed. It's always good when you can hold off a team when you've got to make plays and you've got to make stops. I think that was significant.

Science, properly understood, should merely be defined as the knowledge man can gain from observing the natural world.

defined by the outward differences in the appearances, we tried to extend this duality to the two geographic worlds in which the story takes place.

Defined contribution plans are extremely popular with American workers, most of whom use them as their primary retirement-savings vehicle. Despite this popularity, however, most workers are not saving enough or investing wisely, and many are increasingly at risk of not being able to achieve a worry-free retirement. We can and must do a better job of helping them.

Coach Green's leadership and focus in terms of what he wants and what he feels he needs. He's defined that for us very well, and then we just go after it.

August's accomplishments are unsurpassed - to me, the only writer to come close is Shakespeare, ... He has been the epitome of American theater for the last 23 years. He's defined it. His plays not only serve an artistic purpose, but they also serve a social purpose because they look at ourselves as Americans.

Automatic enrollment is the right proposal at the right time. It will be a real shot in the arm for workers who need to save for retirement at a time when defined benefit pensions are disappearing.

As long as Rupert Murdoch has owned it, the 'New York Post' has been defined by its shamelessness and total lack of interest in taking responsibility for its worst errors and poor judgment.

Al has defined himself as someone who identifies problems before anyone else and offers solutions while others are still mulling the question, ... The hallmark of his career has been his talent to navigate great public policy challenges guided by a sharp intellect and a big heart.

That's going to be a delicate exercise because it does involve essentially trying to establish defined grid of rates, but that is something that we've got together with the province on because it will be important to preserving stability,

As a player you like to have a defined role and I am going in there knowing I'll be a backup and I don't have to worry about competing for a starting job or a job, period.

American business is turning its back on the defined benefit pension system. They're basically leaving the employees who built these companies in the dust.

They're the ones drawing a line in the sand as to what the absolutes are. We've already brought in consultants to help with some of this stuff. Once (the investigators) give their response, once we have a more defined conversation with DCFS, we'll be in a better position to make that decision.

Eminent domain is already among the most awesome powers of government, and we must do everything possible to protect the rights of private property ownership. Eminent domain should be defined as narrowly as possible so that it is restricted to truly public purposes.

There was a belief at that time that we didn't need the (pro personnel) process so defined, or that position so defined ... that our head coach and our scouting department would be more involved. I think now there's kind of a belief that we should have a more traditional setup where there is a director of pro personnel. And it's more clearly defined.

While Greenspan has very well defined views on inflation targeting and asset price targeting, he took a step back and left them as issues on the table for the next chairman.

The party stuff was interesting, but what lasted is that we defined a new form of participatory programming that fused TV and internet. That's what I brought back with me when I returned.

We are so defined by our prejudices and our preconceptions, ... that it's sometimes shocking to realise to what extent we are so conditioned.

Torture is defined, with reasonable certainty, severe pain and suffering, physical or psychological. It is defined about as well as legal terms can be defined.

I've always been someone with a small circle of friends. Each stretch of my life has been defined by one person who was just my person. We became inseparable for a certain number of years, and that time was our season, just the two of us making our way through life.

This could be setting a trend here. With this school, you have a gifted curriculum, but they're not limiting it to traditionally defined gifted students. That's where you get a truly innovative model.

The Web 2.0 world is defined by new ways of understanding ourselves, of creating value in our culture, of running companies, and of working together.

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

This is a 401(k)-styled defined contribution plan, ... It has performed very, very well.

Your season's going to be defined in that box.

You need a clearly defined objective of what you want to achieve, ... You should start small, and consider all the items that will be tagged. And you should know when to say 'no' if RFID doesn't make sense for your application.

You need a clearly defined objective of what you want to achieve. You should start small, and consider all the items that will be tagged. And you should know when to say 'no' if RFID doesn't make sense for your application.

You're defined by your older brothers' or sisters' music.

This is not an ordinary criminal trial. This is an ad hoc trial in which all of the procedures are defined by the president. The public interest is best served by this court . . . . setting some limits.

This is the first time is has been possible for us to derive new cell lines in completely defined conditions in medium that completely lacks animal products.

In a world of music where success is defined by gold or platinum, our friend Phil Walden was best defined by his heart of gold.