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The ISO is going to the CEO saying there's a chance something bad, and possibly something embarrassing, could happen. But how much of a chance, the ISO doesn't know. And if he spends this kind of money, he can reduce the risk but by how much, he doesn't know. It's simply not enough data. Every other C-level executive does better than that and takes on the responsibility for defining the risk. Here, the CISO is putting the responsibility on the CEO. They don't want it, and eventually they won't take it.

The federal government was seen as key toward innovation and technological progress, by defining what's essentially civilian, like the space program, as a government endeavor.

The last couple of months have been very defining for him,

It's critical. It's a defining vote. And it'll keep us in the majority.

In terms of defining this presidency, the next several months are critical.

I have to say we were thrilled to hear him finally admit we have an oil-addiction problem. Depending on what he does, this could be a defining moment of his presidency. Or it could be rhetoric.

Intuit is defining and leading the new world of e-finance -- and that strategy is paying off.

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.

By the end of the miner's strike I was defining myself as a socialist, clued in and looking for the next opportunity to defeat the Tories.

Gender has become part of the defining way that youth organise themselves and rebel against adults.

They have to make a fundamental change in their proposal in how they are defining their expectations for the players.

It's an event that people talk about. It was the defining moment for this community.

It'll be the middle to the end of 2006 before companies have NAC up and running within the switch environment. 2006 will be the major year of getting your infrastructure up to date and defining your networking policies.

I really do believe it's time to buy and that's sort of a change of position for me. We've always felt that we have to test the bottoms that we've seen. We had a bottom April 4, and another a week ago, Friday. What you're seeing today is probably that test, and I really don't think the market is going any lower - I'm defining the market as the Nasdaq.

I never want to say that there is a defining moment, but we were down 4-1 and were able to come back. I think by doing so they showed a lot of character. I couldn't be prouder. I was impressed by our off the bench play, Katie O'Neil and Megan Jimenez both played a great, great game.

A news editor takes the hot story of the day. People take the salient moments of ones life - Those defining moments - and Rocky's got to be there.

The Bush campaign is trying to define John Kerry now, but for my money, the defining moment was 35 years ago when both of these young men, graduating from Yale from favored families, had a defining moment in their lives, ... John choose to volunteer and serve his country and risk his life doing so. George Bush did not.

The bottom line for me out of this is that from 1992 to today, researchers can't find a defining reason why the public view of the courts has improved. The only thing that has changed is the way we do business. The good news is we can make a difference.

A government which can't agree on the most important and defining part of its business, the budget, so that the economy minister is forced to resign must do just one thing: quit.

The great depression left a mark on all of the civilized world. It was a defining moment like a giant earthquake that reminds us of how little control we have over human destiny -- despite our technology and innovation.

Along with defining boundaries and public access, we need to be clear about the allowable uses and to begin an inventory of the landscape, including valuable wetlands, the wildlife and vegetation.

The entire team did a great job of staying focused on clients, and not getting distracted. The quality and depth of our people has always been a defining characteristic of this place. Clients gave us their business, which they don't have to do, and that speaks volumes about our people.

The difficulty is defining where the local loop and the fixed line infrastructure begins. It's a complicated story but I'm really skeptical if any of these reports during the summer silly season will lead anywhere.

The first decade of the 21st century is a defining moment for the Hispanic population and for the nation. We are in the midst of a Hispanic moment.

The Colon trade was the start of everything, ... It started the change. That was the defining trade.

We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over.

This has been the defining property of this Valley for a long time.

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

Every day when a man or woman gets dressed, they are in effect defining who they are. That daily clean slate is a time in our lives when we can determine who we want to be.

These aren't hollow, computer-generated numbers. They're there. They're real, I think. This could be a defining year with the conference, if things play out. You need to get over the hump, and once you do, you have a better chance to continue to build on it.

The trouble is, almost all filters today work using simple keyword-matching approaches, when what's needed is something with more natural language interpretation intelligence. Otherwise, any reasonable attempt at defining filters ends up either letting much too much in that you don't want in, or stopping bona fide messages.

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

It really brought home to me the fact that we, as Americans, do have a tendency to get in too much of a hurry. The different pace of the Italian way of life was really a defining feature of the trip.

As users of the Internet, we all have a role to play in defining what we want it to be.

Each Mules' team the last 12 years had their own mark on the school and on the program in some way. All I've asked this year's team to do is put their stamp on what is a great program. That's the thing; just defining their own team.

We Southerners are complicit in defining our region by what is peculiar about it.

We feel this is a defining moment in our ownership, and I think we did this as meticulously and as forthcoming as we could have. It really felt like this is our team. This is the direction we want to go.

It's a defining point for us, and for Penn State. You can't ask for much more in a game. Two teams that it means a lot to, with good records and two historic national powers.

To a degree, the West is reaping what it sowed from a major strategic blunder in the aftermath of 9/11 - the entire concept of a war on technique, that is, terrorism. Defining the enemy when fighting a concept was impossible.

We will be tested with this set of circumstances. It's going to be a defining moment of this football team.

I don't want to sound like a snake-oil salesman here. There will be debate. It's not really a time-consuming undertaking. It's a matter of defining your neighborhood elements.

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.

When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.

Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined.

There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.

If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry.

You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!

What we take anything to be profoundly affects how we go about describing it, and how we describe something profoundly affects how we go about explaining, accounting for, or understanding what is what we are, in a sense, defining, by our description.

That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.

I never say I'm an "ist" of any kind unless I know how the other person is defining it.

Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.

There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.

We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining your life.

The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to specific cases, thereby making the actions of government fair and predictable.

People have defining moments, i suppose, especially when they're children.

But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.

It's a weird feeling when people are defining you, and you haven't even defined yourself.

Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.

The introduction of the Xbox 360 was a defining moment for the industry in 2005. However, it goes without saying that the full impact of next generation consoles on the consumer market won't unfold until later this year when Sony and Nintendo's video game consoles hit U.S. retail shelves. The real story for 2005 was the incredible expansion of portable gaming. The GBA continued to realize stellar sales, and the introduction of the DS and PSP to the market brought older gamers to the portable format.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

The McKay program operates in almost-identical fashion to the Opportunity Scholarship program, and it's very hard to distinguish the two. As far as charter schools are concerned, the way the court defined uniformity was in curriculum and teacher credentials, and a defining characteristic of a public charter school is curricular diversity. So if the court means what it says, charter schools could be in jeopardy. You can only imagine how unions are salivating over this decision.

Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.

The lobbying on CNOOC was particularly intense on both sides, ... It was really symbolic of the problems that we are having defining what our relationship with China will be in the future.

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [...] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined by the objects of our regret.

There has been one defining production for me in each decade.

Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.

My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's “Beloved” where she says, “Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined” - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

Beating John Landy was my defining race.

Now, to take that which has caused us to create the world, and include it within the world we have created, is clearly impossible. This is why Quality cannot be defined. If we do define it, we are defining something less than Quality itself.

[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.

We need highly educated leaders, skilled in research and analysis, who will undertake a creative approach to defining and solving problems so that we can address the injustices and inequities around our world. On graduation from Cambridge, Gates Scholars are in an ideal position to bring new vision and apply their learning to the benefit of society at large.

In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation . A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with .

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious.

All of us need a vision for our lives, and even as we work to achieve that vision, we must surrender to the power that is greater than we know. It's one of the defining principles of my life that I love to share: God can dream a bigger dream for you than you could ever dream for yourself.

Other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others.

The defining factor [for success] is never resources; it’s resourcefulness.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.