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If the allocation of resources is not done properly, the market cannot function efficiently and it will ultimately hurt growth.

If the function of this Court is to be essentially no different from that of a legislature, if the considerations governing constitutional construction are to be substantially those that underlie legislation, then indeed judges should not have life

He has been very interested in investigating the brain function of monks who have practiced for many, many years, to investigate how their brain function might have been changed by their practice,

He was a reflection of what was going on. The poem 'Howl' was a howl against the hypocrisy and silence of the generations of the 1950s -- of the people who failed to perform their function as real elders.

If it meant we couldn't function as a court, I'd have no hesitancy (refusing the cuts). If, for example, I was told to get rid of two more in our respective offices, I don't think we could function.

The rand is still stuck in a range, but with a firmer bias. This has been a function of the renewed rise in precious metals prices. The rand is once again making use of its commodity status.

The bodys immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.

Form does not necessarily follow function

He's kind of gotten caught up in what we're doing. He knows where our guys are going. He knows how to function within the plays, but the defense is going to tell him where to put the ball. He needs to start looking on the other side of the ball now.

He's almost impossible to leave out because he's enormously talented but we've had chances and scored goals in the last two games, which have shown that we can function without him.

He's been clear of asthma for four years now, ... His pulmonary function tests are clear.

He's been clear of asthma for four years now. His pulmonary function tests are clear.

What Merkel is trying to do is to restore to some extent that balancing function within Europe and between Europe and the U.S..

There is a growing population of consumers that value the imaging function of their mobile phone. These consumers are willing to pay more for their handset; tend to take, share, and print more pictures with their camera phone; and spend more per month on wireless services. Vendors need a product and marketing strategy to appeal to this lucrative imaging-centric market segment.

Heinrich Heine once imagined the exiled Israelite as a dog who regains his stolen manhood only when he embraces the Sabbath bride. I see western swing performing a similar function in hardscrabble Texas, turning dirt-poor hired hands into Dapper Dans with magic feet at the Saturday night hoe-down.

He is moving and responding to stimuli and the things that we're doing. It means that he has brain function, central nervous system function if he responds to stimuli. That's good.

We took all our knowledge on the full function product, called Tivoli Identity Manager, and worked with a number of mid-sized and small organizations, and channel partners, to identity what the primary needs of the marketplace are.

Joe feels that he can function better in his dual role as a Sunday starter. He's obviously a bat that we have to have.

My peripheral vision has been severely limited because of my diabetes, which means I can see just fine looking straight ahead. But if I am at a function with lots of people, I am constantly bumping into people - even kicking them!

My version of falling in love is borderline psychotic. Should be avoided at all costs. Get obsessed. Can't fall in love and function at the same time. All-consuming. Tunnel vision. Euphoric.'

Myocardial oxygen consumption is determined by the work of the heart and is a function of arterial blood pressure and heart rate.

My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

Some journalists may be silenced through intimidation, others may be bought into compliance, but the end result remains the same because democracy cannot properly function without media which is genuinely free of governmental interference and control.

Regulations require broker-dealers to create and preserve a comprehensive record of each securities transaction they effect and of their securities business in general. These requirements are integral to the investor protection function because the preserved records are the primary means of monitoring compliance with applicable securities laws, including anti-fraud provisions and financial responsibility standards.

Our rating on this share is a buy. And again that is really a function of the fact that I believe eBay is one of the few Internet and e-tailing sites out there that is really poised for dramatic growth for the long term.

Part of the function of icons is for private devotional purposes. Early in the church's history, icons made it easier for worshipers to understand biblical themes and stories, as they could not read. Icons also create an atmosphere that enhances the worship and act as constant reminders of the divine.

Paul Gascoigne is a North East legend who deserves everything he gets from a function like this.

I will continue to work in Congress to reign-in the federal judiciary and return it to its constitutional function of applying the law, not legislating from the bench.

Jewelry is art, wearable art. We don't want to see the same thing on two people. We rarely carry the same piece twice. Madison is too small of a town to have two of my customers at the same function wearing the same piece.

Jason is really important for Dale. They've been a duo for such a long time, they function together.

Management's conservative guidance might be more a function of lowering the bar to facilitate exceeding expectations rather than a change in the company's fundamental growth outlook,

It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.

I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy and not hide it, you see.

Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing

It is a very complex problem. For kids with mild ADHD that are sent to school, it may be quite traumatic to try to function in the increasingly structured environment as they move up in grades. It is difficult to find optimal solutions, and the highest levels of expertise and resources are needed.

I think there will come a day when people will purchase drivers by ball performance and not the hype or numbers written on the club. Driver true-loft performance is a synergy of factors. Only the ball flight can tell you the true dynamic loft -- and that is a mixed function of measured loft, face angle, center of gravity, moment of inertia top to bottom and face roll.

Remote forest areas that function as refuges for threatened island species are increasingly rare and should receive the highest priority for conservation on the larger islands of the Pacific.

Retailing and consumer spending are a function of a four-letter word -- jobs. And there are no jobs being formed in the United States at the present time. We are in an unfortunate labor climate, one that might be called not at all propitious for retail spending.

RIM, as a phone with email push capabilities on top of scheduling and other functions, is a very attractive value proposition compared to handhelds that lack some capabilities. This is a mature market; beyond PIM, we haven't seen any new function for handhelds bring a really broad return-no new killer app.

Our change in rating is primarily a function of near-term valuation.

Our primary function is teaching and research, and there's no good reason not to do that,

Our bodies are getting healthier and we're living much longer and the biggest threat now to being able to function well and productively when we're older is in the functioning of the brain,

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We cansubordinate feelings to values.

I think Coke's circumstances are a function of the difficult economies they are facing around the world and just getting their revenue growth restarted, which has not happened as quickly as they would have hoped, ... I don't think it's symbolic, though that there's a real long-term change in the dynamic for them.

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

It doesn't impede the work of the Salvation Army. We've created strong local units that are able to function quite well regardless of what transitions take place.

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.

It is not clear to us whether the slower revenue growth is a function of weaker market demand or historically weak competition becoming more efficient, ... To be sure, Dell's share gains must come from other major vendors in this increasingly concentrated market.

I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we just function on assumptions and secondhand knowledge.

I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt early on to make every place my home.

We need a governor who will function and treat his position as a job. It's not the position you take on issues, it's about being able to get things done.

Today's higher prices are a function of longer-term supply and demand trends and lost energy production during the recent hurricanes.

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.

The present council of ministers will continue to function until the appointment of the Prime Minister.

The president also wants to make sure that our legal justice system, our criminal system is working, that they can work and function as it should be in investigating this case.

Unfortunately, the fix changes Outlook so drastically for many organizations that have applications integrated with it, such as Siebel, PeopleSoft, or SAP, that those applications just aren't going to function they way they're supposed to.

Those numbers are a total function of his name, not him. He has a short record that has been described as thin.

We are in fact moving rapidly toward having a national ID, something which bothers me greatly. We've always been a nation in which the mechanism for providing identification, primarily through driver's licenses, has been a function of the state governments.

We know that some individuals who have taken these diet medications have heart values that are thick and don't function properly. They can cause the heart to perform poorly over time and become weaker over time.

Where you go when you first get online these days is probably a function of who helped you get online and what they've pointed you to, and also whether you have any specialist interest, ... You might find quite quickly there is some sort of home for you there with like-minded souls.

Most normally active individuals only need to maintain normal range of motion to function at a high level and to function safely.

We intend to support the government if what it asks us to do respects our basic principles and the interests of Quebec. If the government respects those conditions, we will try to let it function for a good while.

We have open courts to make public confidence in the truth-finding function of the courts.

Most of the pieces served a function, such as this bronze oil lamp in the shape of a wrestler. So there's form, function and above all beauty.

Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.

Michael (Hyman) arrived with a true understanding of how a children's department should function in a JCC, based on his experience in Buffalo.

We believe that the United Nations needs new leadership for the 21st century, somebody who's going to get up every morning and decide that reforming the U.N. so that it can function in the 21st century is his or her major goal,

We are basically hoping he survives and that he has some kind of ability to get some rehab so he can have some useful function again. But we are talking about the basics, we are talking very basic things. The complexity of this man, and what he did for a living, this is not to even be considered now. This is absolutely unrealistic at this time.

While all the sub-functions we closely examined in this study are critical to a sound medical affairs effort, we found that research/clinical operations received the most backing from companies. Clearly the sub- function holds great value to medical affairs.

While the brain is working, you go on trying, ... Life depends on the brain function and that is still working. He's just desperately ill man in (intensive care) and we struggle on.

We're already starting to see valuations get stretched again. It's not unlikely that we can get back close to 1,700 on the Nasdaq, but I don't think that's necessarily justifiable. That's just a function of trading psychology in the short run.

The creation of this new set of professional qualifications, which will be recognized on an international level, will raise the profile of the compliance function even further and help create a respected career path for compliance professionals across the world. This can only serve to reinforce the integrity of global markets and increase investor confidence.

We've seen growing respect for NGOs' impartiality, which is a function of a long-term trend of people losing faith in the impartiality of scientists.

We have quite a few styles that perform more than one function to fulfill small- or limited-space needs. Most of Ikea's furniture is designed around the European market, which is calling out for smaller-scale items.

There are different cowboy boots. There's fashion with function and the boot for utility. Basically, it's Fifth Avenue or fashion in the Western world.

There are no longer really state economic systems that can function by themselves. Most of our largest corporations are in every major market in the world. We're intertwined.

What we lack is a coordinated public information system in the event of a major incident. What we need is a system that will function instantaneously and automatically every time. . . . That doesn't exist now.

We hope to dispel some of the myths, identify knowledge gaps, sort out some of the issues related to juniper woodland expansion and increase the overall understanding of western juniper place and function in the northern Great Basin.

I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.

The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.

We want to change the way people look at art, what its purpose can be, what social function it has. It can be playful and fun.

I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.

I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.

We have had success getting guys through here with this injury, ... I know it's magnified when it's your quarterback or a player of his magnitude. I understand how it becomes magnified, but we have a track record of being able to manage that injury, and we will see if we can't do the same. If he can't function at some point, we'll shut him down.

Privacy is a function of liberty.

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals

Hope is a function of struggle.

It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.

what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.

It is not music's function to express rational necessities.

I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.

Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.

This stimulation is similar to the way the nervous system normally increases heart function when triggered by emotional or exercise stress, or in diseases such as heart failure,

This store will function as an active laboratory for testing a range of new ideas and merchandise in a fully operational setting. If something doesn't work, we will change it and try something else. And when an innovation resonates with our customers, we will consider introducing it in other stores.

Tissue loss follows T-cell loss, meaning that people with poor immune function also show severe brain damage. This was a revelation. We used to consider these separate phenomena, because HIV harms the brain and immune system in different ways. Now we see they are intrinsically linked.

The project should support and broaden the current retail function, be conducive to reinstating the office and residential function of the area, and is expected to be a catalyst for increased private sector investment in the area.

The proposed new council is a major improvement over the old Commission on Human Rights. It would be reckless for the United States to force a vote because that will invite amendments from spoiler states to weaken the council. The time has come to accept the overwhelming consensus behind the council and to work to make it function effectively.

(Yale has) made it a priority to provide high-paying jobs and keep students on campus. The university sees the value of student employees in general. Certainly in my office I see them as vital ... I don't think we could function day to day without them.