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Leadership is an interactive conversation that pulls people toward becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment.

Loughran played great. He was naturally in the flow of things. He got good looks, open shots, and his body language and everything was good. He was on fire. Cassels has been terrific, he's really been stepping up in the stretch run, pushing his teammates and getting the ball to the right people at the right time. And the rebounds for Ryder, Grant and Schneider were a big part of the run. A lot of people contributed, and we made our free throws down the stretch.

The 'plain' language of the enacted law is most fairly read as not applying to this case, or at the very least is ambiguous.

When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.

We're just getting to the point where we're having fun. Are we going to set carbon targets? Are we - god forbid in Arizona - going to do something about sprawl? We're going to do our best to get language in that will make a difference.

We're confused because information on a food label is in a different language.

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.

Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears.

Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Since the first day I walked into the clubhouse, everyone believed in me and had confidence in me, ... Even the language barrier. The manager not only speaks Spanish, he's my friend. He gives me a lot of confidence.

My job is the perfect excuse for watching action films, soaps, quiz programmes -- where the language is busy right now.

Max is absolutely livid about this. The administration screwed up royally ... The Federal Highway Administration were advisers to Max on this language and they approved it. They approved it and said the language was fine and now they are changing their tune.

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.

Most of the time, I find that dogs are in complete control of the house because they're confused about their role. Dogs instinctively follow a pack mentality. By training owners to use voice control and body language to establish authority, we teach them how to gain control so their dogs can become obedient, enjoyable family members.

She has been staying with me since April 4. It's been working out good. It's better for them because I can speak the language and cook rice, which is their main food, and I cook Filipino food every night.

Make your life a rose that speaks silently in the language of the heart.

Major League Baseball has not yet been provided with the filings made by the D.C. Sports & Entertainment Commission with the City Council last Friday, nor the text of the legislation passed by the Council last night. We are very concerned about what we heard during the debate, and we need to read the materials and the legislative language so we can determine whether they are consistent with the agreements between Major League Baseball and the city.

Sharon, ... has learned the language of the possible.

Many students from the social sciences have expressed a desire to learn the language because they know it will be useful in their field of work.

So many students have respect for him because of his hard work on the language and on Wales, but also people have respect for him due to his hard work promoting peace and his involvement in CND Cymru.

So, it makes sense that perception might be more influenced by language in the right half of the visual field than in the left.

Sign language is useful to the deaf but vital to the Italians.

Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate.

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

The primary goal of the choir is to rekindle interest in the language, ... The kids are interested in the Cherokee language and when we go on trips, we use a glossary of words that are in the songs and practice using them while we travel.

The principal of PS 58 has been reassigned pending an investigation into a possible breach of the English Language Arts exam at the school. If the investigation finds the test was compromised, the results will be invalidated by the state Education Department.

The only people advocating the Type IV change, that's the type of construction material, in that legislation were the three of us, that I'm aware of. At the time, Pruitt, he had the committee; he had the bill that was going to be settled in (a joint House-Senate) conference. So when that language was inserted it was a conference item and it stayed in the bill at his doing.

We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing. We'd go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.

We have sign language practices and sign language groups before each of our meetings.

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

To speak another language is to have another soul

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.

I can ask for cigarettes in every language

When I'm drafting right to life language, I don't call up the nuns.

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same ...

Language creates reality. Words have power. Speak always to create joy.

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars... We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality.

The four sweetest words in the English language — 'You wore me down.'

Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

Our language is the reflection of ourselves.

I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball.

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly strong for the basic system-type things.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax...

Metaphor is embodied in language.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

Kids used to sit back and listen to lectures. Now they're leaning in. Body language has changed.

I would say that thought makes what is often called in modern language a SYSTEM. A system means a set of connected things or parts.

Jack Reynolds (the developer's attorney) told me that a simple language change in their development proposal resulted in the need to rezone the site. They changed the language from 'senior living' to 'age-restricted' and apparently, doing so requires a rezoning if they want to develop the site in the way that they propose.

Green printing is TPL language for helping a community figure out what lands they want to protect. Cities are always going to develop or always going to need places to live and work. Meanwhile, there are special places that we want to save before they change the whole character of why people live somewhere.

I could tell by his body language that Andy was ready to save it.

I could tell by his body language that he wasn't in the right frame of mind and that gave me encouragement. When you see him slouching down the fairway you can feed off that energy.

Given that English as a second language classes are pretty hard to come by unless you've got money, it's sort of inevitable that children of recent immigrants who don't speak English are a huge fount of information about American culture.

Frankly I love the word 'nigga.' It is my favorite word in the English language because no other word incites more controversy today.

Future new highways likely would not have been built had the language not been changed. For the Governor, this wasn't an argument about Super Slab, this was an argument about future transportation.

Getting the goodness of light-skinned society ... Learn to live among them, learn their education, their language - all the goodness.

From Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe, we see the same patterns of under-representation and stereotyped portrayal of women in the news. The reason for these patterns is complicated. From the story angle and the choice of interview questions to the use of language and the choice of images; all these have a bearing on the messages that emerge in the news. These patterns are deeply rooted not only in professional practice, but in wider social assumptions about female and male attributes, roles and competencies.

From his language he recognizes that while higher prices are good for revenues in the short run, longer term they help destroy demand. OPEC is probably going to increase by 1 million barrels a day.

From our standpoint, the change in language represents a small step toward an eventual rate hike.

From requiring new security language in contracts with their business partners to testing new technologies and ways to identify container tampering, it is private sector stakeholders that have been the innovators in securing their supply chains to protect their employees, customers and businesses.

I am convinced that a lot of (IRA weapons) decommissioning did take place, but Father Reid has fundamentally undermined the very work he was part of. How can the word of somebody using that sort of language be taken seriously?

If anybody sees the work at the Defense Language Institute and the Naval Postgraduate School, they come away just overwhelmed with pride and excitement at how good these schools are and how diverse they are, and that's what the commissioners did,

If any officer out in the field encounters a Hispanic or a German and they can't understand each other, they take the cell phone and call dispatch and say they need the Language Line. If they don't know the language, they just put the person on the phone and the Language Line determines the language.

For us, being married to each other is the most valuable thing in the world. It's the only language people understand.

But they are not going to talk to us in the language of threats.

But we don't think this language quarrels with the consensus view of financial markets - and our view - that an easing cycle will most likely begin in September.

But what am I?/ An infant crying in the night:/ An infant crying for the light:/ And with no language but a cry.

China is having a tough time figuring out what the language is to allow them to back off.

I have a requirement for myself in making designations of elements. I need to have full language and I do not want the language to be only space.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Having two languages is better than having 500,

Hate language in the school hallways is huge. These students are too often the target of name-calling, violence and worse.

Gupta's work interests me because I think we share something in the sense that we have a belief in the language of our chosen materials and objects.

He observed neighborhoods, people in neighborhoods, and he learned how they talk. I think that is the greatest achievement that he has done - he brought that to his plays, the language of people.

When I proposed this amendment to the Legislature, it simply removed segregationist language from our constitution -- something I hope all Alabamians would support.

We talk about diversity so much, and so many times it's so inorganic in terms of the way it's used. I feel that example and the Korean couple on Lost are some of the best demonstrations of how incredibly compelling characters can even cross over the language barrier. I think in the diverse culture we live in that's far more truthful than some of the stuff we have on.

We're pleased the court agreed that these terms are in the public domain -- available for all to use, ... AOL's claim that it owns the everyday language of the Internet is another example of AOL's attempt to monopolize all aspects of services over the Internet.

We're obviously disappointed. The ruling allows insurance companies to mislead customers through contract language that ultimately limits their remedies when things go wrong.

I always felt that with an Antoine Doinel film, Truffaut was taking a vacation, that Francois could relax when making a Doinel film. All of the language came to him very easily. 'The 400 Blows,' I felt, was a collage of all his childhood experiences. Every time he felt an Antoine Doinel film was necessary, he'd make one.

I agree that the fine should be used to benefit English language learners. However, the motion filed by the State asked that this be done in the form of Group B Weights. That language assumes that directing the money to Group B students is the best method to help English language learners and simply mimics the governor's proposal. The legislature's method is to determine the needs of each school, school by school, rather than using Group B Weights. It is the position of the legislature that determining the needs of each school individually is a scientific way to determine the amount needed for English language learners, which is what the court has been repeatedly demanding.

I agree with the Treasury's interpretation that dividends to shareholders and share buybacks are not permissible uses of repatriated funds, ... I am also of the view that the statutory language makes it clear that the repatriated monies are to be used for domestic job growth, not for laying off employees or settling lawsuits.

He was more aggressive, he was in the strike zone. He worked quickly, which allowed the players to stay alert on defense. His body language and demeanor was a lot better, which he promised me it would be after our discussion. You like to see a young man do what he says, because talk is cheap. He said what he is going to do and he did it.

He uses language that would make your hair curl.

He usually says either 'yes' or 'no' and people think that's because of the language barrier. I think that's all he has to say. He's as calm as anybody I've ever met.

He creates characters that draw in an audience no matter what language they speak. His insight into the human heart crosses all boundaries. I know he is also making a huge influence in the lives of younger filmmakers and actors.

He was sent off for foul and abusive language to a linesman. That is totally unacceptable.

He can't read lips and doesn't know sign language. The only way he can communicate is by reading notes. He has a hard time reading, and a trial could take months.

He did not repeat the language that he used, which would embarrass me as an old salt.

I am in no rush. I just want to learn and be able to use the Arabic language. During the exams I will revise for just a few days before the exam. If I pass, it means that my language is okay. If not, I'll just re-take the class.

If someone has better language to get at this problem, he's certainly open to it.