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Fuel prices are up, and to a large extent we're being driven by fuel prices.

Fundamentally, the increase in exports and export sales has been a supportive factor. Ideas that ethanol-driven demand for corn will continue to increase at a brisk pace and that U.S. corn acreage may decline modestly in 2006 also provide fundamental support. Dry weather has driven wheat prices higher and has raised concerns about the 2006 growing season for corn and other crops. Speculative demand for corn and other crops has also escalated, as evidenced by the daily tally of the net position of the fund traders.

From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.

I am delighted to see Jonah back on the field again. I had the privilege of captaining him for the All Blacks and he is one of the most dangerous wings the game has ever seen. It is a testament to the kind of man Jonah is that he is back on the rugby field. He is driven by a desire to succeed and we will have to make sure we are ready for him.

I am driven by a fear of mediocrity and a sense of purpose.

I am driven / Into a desperate strait and cannot steer / A middle course.

I am driven to move quickly because I think there could be a lot of interest in Jim Leyland.

I am driven to the conclusion that, had it not been for the Shipman Inquiry, the GMP would never have made any more thorough inquiry into the matter.

I enjoy the writing process and producing; I enjoy seeing an idea come to fruition. I'm driven by very complex characters. You look at the pilot of 'Breaking Bad,' where there's so much depth to the character, you can't help but be invested when you watch.

From the time this game started, the guys in the middle of your lineup have hit the home runs and driven the runs in. Now, those guys tend to strike out, too.

If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.

IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

Certainly part of it is driven by oil prices. Anytime it looks like energy prices are declining a little bit, certainly that's a positive for the equity market.

But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: / And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.

I have been gratified by the clear determination expressed by NATO and its member governments to prevent a further escalation of the fighting, and I encourage all steps that may deter the further use of ethnically driven repression and the resort to violence by either side in Kosovo,

I had just got my license, and my dad was real proud of me for it, so he let me drive his pure stock car, ... I was kind of nervous, having not driven before . . . and I ended up wrecking the car. Needless to say, I had to buy my own race cars and stuff like that afterwards.

Here's a company with a great balance sheet driven by its international cable acquisition game plan more than anything else. Liberty has about 15 percent revenue exposure to advertising whereas Viacom, Fox, and News Corp. have about 45 percent exposure.

We suspect that right now we are in the midst of what is a normal 10 percent correction. This is normal market volatility that people aren't really used to. A lot will be driven by the releases on the economy at the end of next week, namely the employment number.

We've driven them out of the range that has existed for the last 1 million years. And the climate has not fully responded to changes that have already occurred.

We're optimistic the incidence rates will be driven back down. The challenge will be to get those 11-year-olds back in for their booster shot.

Hunted for sport by the rich, then driven from large tracts of its natural habitat by agricultural and housing development, the giant panda deserves better than to be scrubbed from conservation's ledger books through false accounting.

He was highly driven and motivated to help the channel.

If those train wrecks and if that gamesmanship is being driven by broad political forces, narrow margins in the House and the Senate, divided party government, difficult decisions that have to be made, genuine differences that exist, mobilization of interest groups if all of those things are true, you are going to find vehicles to have those fights, whether you have a two-year budget cycle or not.

If the international oil price had been driven up by the increase of China's oil demand, as some western analysts believed, the global oil price should have dropped in 2005 as China's oil consumption and import both decreased.

He has an incredible work ethic. He is driven for success and he has his priorities straight. It shows in how he goes about his life on and off the mound.

He had driven five times in the last 10 years. Not only did he drive very slowly but he seemed to have no ability to see beyond the box of his car.

He was definitely ahead of his age, way ahead of his age. He was a very driven young man at an early age. As a kid, he was driven to succeed. I just think that's something he had. Nobody was going to coach him on how to be successful. I think that was just something that was given to him.

He was driven by an unbridled passion to help others,

He works hard day in and day out to improve his skills. He has a lot of heart. He's driven from within. We have the kids fill out goal sheets at the beginning of the year. He had some lofty goals.

He's going to have a tough job given that Robbie has driven so well for us throughout the season but Darren's experience and speed in a wide range of cars together with his motivation augers well for China.

Hitler is a rotten speaker: raucous in voice, graceless in gesture, and loose in the composition of his speeches. It is not "personal magnetism" that makes him a power with the young -- the older are mostly driven to his gatherings -- but a belief in his genius that is artificially created by years of the most elaborate and most persistent boosting.

Historically, growth in revenue and earnings has been what has driven growth in chip stock prices, ... You may get disconnects for short periods of time. But the semiconductor business still remains strong.

Going forward, DaimlerChrysler's fortunes will be driven by Mercedes Benz.

The rally is being driven by tech. Money's going into the sector across the board. There's been an underlying bid in the market and any time you think we're going to get a real sell-off, it doesn't happen.

He's having an incredible season. He's talented and driven and the exciting thing is the best is yet to come.

He's a special person; he means a lot to this team. He's been very much an inspiration to this team. I think we're driven very much by trying to make this a special year for him.

What drives this business now is pricing its products correctly and making the right assumptions on costs. They also are entering into areas that will be more growth driven in the future.

Having driven the style of course they are going to give us, trust me when I say it's brutal.

He has only forbidden you what dies of itself, and blood, and flesh of swine, and that over which any other (name) than (that of) Allah has been invoked; but whoever is driven to necessity, not desiring, nor exceeding the limit, no sin shall be upon him; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

Within the Los Nettos community we are looking at higher speed connections, driven by our own need for good connectivity and sharing costs.

He needs to stay mentally strong. Kevin has driven in some big runs but he lets some situations get away that he needs to pick up. He's had some physical challenges but he stayed on the field.

My race is going to cost $22-million, ... That is an obscene amount of money, but it is driven by the size of the state of Florida and the costs of television.

My view is this is driven by Yucca Mountain, in part because it is kicking the can down the road.

I watch a lot of sports, and so far that's been what's driven the big-screen phenomenon. It's a status symbol; a lot of people get a lot of pleasure being able to show off this enormous piece of hardware.

Many feel we have too many lawyers already. ... In my view, new programs, new campuses and new schools should be primarily driven by demands of the marketplace and not by the demands of a potential student body.

My mother is brilliant but emotional and very much gregarious and connected to people. My father was brilliant but focused and driven and very narrow-casted.

Literally, it was just less than a mile from my house. I have driven by these places for 20 years and never knew. It opens your eyes and energizes you to do something to help out.

Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.

Some of the Afghan people told us that at half-time in games under the Taliban, an open-top truck would be driven on the pitch with a woman tied up in the back. She would then be beheaded.

Some of the evidence suggests that (Cooper) was shot here in town, then wrapped up and driven 45 miles out to Signal Mountain.

That build (in gasoline) is very mysterious, driven by another big drop in demand.

I said... how, and why, young children, were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

Stephen was pressed into duty last season and did a nice job. He is driven to succeed and works hard to improve. Last year's experience will come in handy for him.

Steve is a very driven man making a point ? that he's the best and the smartest and that he can change the world. This guy comes down to a mix of three things: pragmatism, idealism and sheer drive.

Our own sense is that a lot of this (trend) is driven mostly by economics. In certain markets where affordable housing is scarce this is much more common.

Part of the recovery overnight (in the price of oil) may have been due to anti-Israeli protests in Jordan, where 30,000 protestors had to be driven back from the boarder by security forces,

Part of this was driven by wanting to continue offering the Pell grants.

part of it is driven by low interest rates, part of it is stimulation by governments to get people to start spending more.

Our lives are driven and channeled by our decisions, whatever situation we find ourselves in, we got ourselves there.

Payment cards remain powerful tools to streamline costs and reduce purchase cycles. Our survey indicates that average cost per transaction with a purchasing card is only 25 percent of the average cost to complete a traditional, paper-based transaction. Driven by new technologies and advances in electronic and management controls, methods and procedures, the potential for U.S. federal payment cards programs remains great.

People have driven an hour to get here from Cave Creek. This is a big city. Three and a half million people live here. People are sick of strip malls, power malls and chain restaurants.

Our national savings rate is still far too low, driven by a personal savings rate that is not where it should be,

Our new fiscal year 2007 profit forecasts call for a fifth consecutive year of double-digit profit growth, driven by solid top-line growth as well as labor cost reductions.

I will go to my grave believing that participation is best driven by the well-stocked shop window.

I think what makes it unique is the emphasis that is given by the program to the idea of the students as scholars. A lot of our curriculum is driven by student interest and by the interactions that students have with the faculty and staff.

Japan's recovery is really firmly based and it is driven by domestic demand. For the rest of Asia, the pace of growth is expected to continue at a decent level this year and next.

Japan will maintain growth driven by demand at home, particularly by solid consumer spending, as the labor market is becoming tight, propping up wages and household incomes. Upward pressure on prices will intensify next fiscal year, when the employment situation will become much tighter.

Our in-depth analysis of Cisco's advanced technologies indicates that the segment as a whole should grow at a compound annual growth rate of 28% through 2008 driven primarily by Home Networking, Wireless and IP Telephony.

Our kids have been swinging the bats all year long. Five of them are hitting at least .500 and before today, Eric was hitting .730 and he's got six home runs now. He's driven in 11 runs and has at least 13 stolen bases.

Our kids have to be driven by something. Something's got to push their button, and I think being down by 10 is what did it.

Penny is an impressive young man. He is an excellent student who is extremely hard working and driven to be successful in academics, basketball and life.

My mum is very driven and has always kept me busy... She used to say to me, 'Nobody likes a teenager. So use your teenage years to work. Then enjoy your life when you're slightly older.'

'Malice' wasn't about horror to start with but an underground comic driven by the power of rumour. However, as nothing fuels a rumour like fear, I decided that it had to be a frightening comic.

Just increasing clock frequency, which has driven much of the performance increases over the last decade, has become unattractive due to the extra power requirements. Slower clocked dual-core processors can still offer performance increases with multi-threaded applications.

June was a difficult month for retailers and it's also typically a month during which comparable sales are driven by discount sales.

Jim's a dynamic man with incredible determination, willpower and energy. He's the ultimate in a driven person who has high expectations. The people around him respond. He's on the cutting edge with an outstanding football mind.

It is disturbing that there are individuals, driven by greed, who have sought to exploit the nation's efforts to assist those victimized by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, ... These cases stand as proof of our continued commitment to pursue and hold accountable those who would seek to profit from the suffering of others.

It is burdened with old and aging infrastructure, frayed at the edges, costly, some times unreliable, ... ...any misstep in human spaceflight could spell a very long hiatus in human driven exploration spaceflight in the U.S. So this underscores the need to realize that NASA cannot succeed alone in pursuing the exploration vision.

I think Mike works hard and has a lot of responsibilities. They went to the Super Bowl this year, and I think he needs a little time off. I didn't think it was driven by the calls on Super Bowl Sunday, I really didn't.

It depends upon how the oil companies and distributors determine the price that they think the market will bear. So it's a very market driven competitive type of situation.

It all came home to roost. While revenues were in line, costs were out of control. Too much staff needed to integrate the new and existing centers. There was also the sense it has been marketing products too aggressively. In its enthusiasm to sell new products and drive up the average spend per customers; it may have driven people away.

I think the Adidas-Reebok deal is more product and marketing driven than it is price driven.

I think that we don't want to let this thing hang out there forever, but I don't want to be driven by a date.

John is conservative in his political beliefs. He is somebody, though, who has not defined his life driven by his politics or driven by his ideology.

I think that the market is ultimately driven by real forces, ... Once you get a decline started, it's not clear whether people use that as a reason to sell or buy.

I think the fact that it's character driven meant that however technically complicated it got on set, I was always directing actors.

I think you are near (capitulation) at the moment and you are getting close to the bottom. Technology stocks are driven on the expectation and we're in a period now where expectations are being lowered. What you'll have happen is stocks will react to the fact that expectations are too low.

It is a partnership with Rick Warren, who wrote 'The Purpose Driven Life,' ... I did a concert live at their church and they're partnering with me to put the CD out.

I think there's a huge lack of political artists in America, and I think it really speaks to our consumeristic culture and how people are driven to be financially successful here. It's such a shame that we don't have people who are more inspired than that.

Results were driven by excellent execution in imaging and printing and good performance in services, ... While overall computing systems results remain weak, we saw improvement in certain segments, including storage and PCs.

Retailers are putting a great spin on this, saying that the customer benefits in the end. However, the self-checkout is not driven by customer service but by the retailer's objective to reduce costs.

Right off the truck, the car was unbelievable, ... That was the best car I've driven in a while.

rising crude oil prices, low fuel inventories, strong summer driving season demand and an environmentally driven transition to new gasoline specifications are combining to keep upward pressure on pump prices.

Our 2015 financial performance will continue to be driven by our Home Robot business. Home Robot revenue is expected to grow 10% to 12% in 2015 and comprise 90% of total company revenue.

Pakistan may be driven to test a nuclear device for political reasons within the country, (to) show its own people that it can do this, even though, from the standpoint of a national interest, it would be better off not testing.

Our children, from primary school, are driven to carry weapons and go to fight the Israelis with all their might.

Our world is driven by our remarkable ability to carefully measure and divide units of time. In a reasonable sense, the invention of clocks has had a greater effect on our lives than the invention of wheels. You can invent wheels relatively easily, if you live where trees fall over.

Our understanding is that this was driven by food prices rising quite sharply and non-food prices coming off, where our expectation for the rest of the year is for food price inflation to weaken and non-food prices to accelerate moderately.

Our upstream business -- exploration and production -- continues to be the major contributor to overall profits, ... However, the improvement in earnings from the year-ago quarter was largely driven by our U.S. downstream operations -- refining, marketing and transportation.

Our view is that Apple has had very good growth over the past couple of years, largely driven by upgrade cycle to its existing installed base.