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The thorniest issue of late is that Merkel's shadow finance minister wants a 25 percent flat tax and no loopholes as a way to stimulate the economy. The left says it will mainly benefit the rich, and some among Merkel's ranks object too.

The state is going to be asking for the maximum time and restitution, we don't object to those parts of the recommendation. They are also going to request house arrest and an adjudication of guilt, which we will oppose.

We would have taken the zero even if Houston loses.  The object is just to get (our magic number) to zero, ... If you have your preference though it's to win a game to get there.

When you have a small object traveling at an incredibly high velocity, slamming into the earth's atmosphere, the friction makes the speeding object heat up so much that it can internally fracture and turn into what we call a fireball,

What any country now knows is that they've got a prime minister they can sit on, and that he will, if they've got some part of Australian law that they object to, there's a very good chance that when they sit on the prime minister, they will get a result.

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor

This threat was very, very specific. It had specific time, specific object and modality. So, you know, we had to do what we did.

Very frankly, I think the courts need to find a way to respect the Constitution and defend our children. And we've got to be very careful that we don't energize individuals whose object it is to abuse the children of America, and to have that happen on the Internet, ... Larry King Live.

There is a lot you can do because an object exists in a directory. In principal, any object in a directory can be given any attributes that you want to give it. Group Policy is taking more advantage of the capabilities that Active Directory has to offer.

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

To shield a client with 'On the advice of counsel,' we object in the strongest terms,

To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as soon as one is pitied.

Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.

ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

Or you could just have a big object tossed in close to the star. It goes into orbit and it will get torn apart by the gravity of the star once it gets close enough.

Rather than see the Art Center as an isolated object in the green, ... we were intrigued by the possibility of creating a positive, reciprocal relationship between the building and the landscape.

Undivided, yet appears as if divided in beings; He, the object of knowledge, is the creator, sustainer, and destroyer of (all) beings.

Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God.

Detachment, non-fondness with son, wife, and home; unfailing equanimity upon attainment of the desirable and the undesirable; and / Unswerving devotion to Me by the yoga of exclusivity, love for solitude, distaste for social gossips; and / Steadfastness in knowledge of the Supreme Spirit, and the perception of (the omnipresent God as) the object of true knowledge is called knowledge; what is contrary to this is ignorance.

Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

A life cycle can be imposed on an object. An object can be very energetic and active, and then it has a dying phase and a phase of decomposition.

Although it depends very much on how an object is presented and interpreted, it is conceivable that some people may interpret air-sickness bags in an artistic way.

A lot of people get around with canes and dogs, ... I've always been a dog lover, and to pick between an inanimate object like a cane and a dog, there was no question in my mind.

Practical acts are such as, through the medium of our bodily movements, alter the object or its relation to ourselves or to other subjects.

The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.

Why do you object to war? Surely not, because men, who eventually die anyway, are killed in war? St

We did not object to the court not issuing a default warrant for him.

This galaxy is a rare find -- a tiny galaxy that is still building up the mass of its black hole. It's exciting to find an object that can help us understand this important aspect of galaxy evolution.

This comparative indifference to clearness and consistency of thought is visible even in that chief object of our national concern, education.

Your object is to see yourself exactly as you are.

You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time.

You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it is only a trial if I recognize it as such.

You object? You object to doing what's right here? You object to closing this so-called loophole? ... it's amazing to me. They want to have an argument.

This is the first object to be confirmed to be larger than Pluto in the outer solar system.

This is the first time an artificially evolved object will have flown in space.

I learned my values. It's better to be poor than to be beholden. Wealth is not the object of life. You should be polite as long as possible, and when you can't be polite anymore, don't run.

Incredibly average, ... There wasn't much entertainment today but necessity overrules entertainment and necessity's money these days. You'll keep your job by winning, not by going out and playing fancy football and losing 5-4. The object is to try and keep your progress going, however you can.

If the object is to spend less on defense, we would be wise to make sure that we are not spending U.S. taxpayer dollars to arm our potential opponents.

If Judge Starr's object of this whole investigation is to net Monica Lewinsky in a conviction and jail time, then we have to look at how our tax dollars are being spent.

I'm like an object lesson. I'm a poster child for maybe where they should go. I'm holding out my hand.

In the '60s, to say this obvious fact that women were treated unequally was to make yourself the object of scorn and ridicule.

In the summer of '84 I went again to the United States, my chief object again being to see Whitman - though I had also friends to visit.

No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution, but an entirely new start is, so to speak, made in every generation.

No longer will we be an object of fascination for others, who would consider us a strange and an estranged segment of humanity.

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

The best way to measure gravity it to drop an object in space and watch its trajectory.

Every observed change of place is caused by a motion of either the observed object or the observer or, of course, by an unequal displacement of each.

That is true, I do object to the level of your memory, it's apparently pretty low,

Once the children were in the house the air became more vivid and more heated; every object in the house grew more alive

The thing I object to more than anything else is that we've got Australian foreign policy being determined by senior officials in Washington.

The Nokia 8800 has clearly found an audience with individuals who appreciate quality materials and world-class design. The Nokia 8800 is as much an object of art and desire, as it is an advanced piece of technology. As the first mobile phone to be crafted of modern materials like stainless steel and mineral glass, the Nokia 8800 brings a new elegance to the art of personal communication.

The Nokia 8800 is as much an object of art and desire, as it is an advanced piece of technology.

Dolly Parton has been a union member for 30 years. We don't understand why a company that has her name on it would object to its employees being recognized by the union.

It's possible they were formed by some object getting tossed in too close to Saturn and it got torn apart by gravity.

The message we are trying to get out is to be conscious of different points of view and people's different experience. Our overall position is we don't want anybody abusing a resource - that we would object to.

Their home stadium is a New Jersey landmark, and it is an insult to us for them to remove the name of the state. We strongly object to this lack of respect for the state of New Jersey.

They can say what they want but it all comes down to the bottom line. And no doubt they'll make it harder for citizens to object to these plants.

I realized there might be monetary or financial reasons to jump in and write a 'Winter's Bone Retriumphs' or something, and nobody would object to me doing that in publishing. But it would be a waste of my time, and they always take a little longer than you thought they would take.

I just think I'm OK, ... The object of most of my work has been to raise it above my standard. And so, you know, I never think I'll be as good as the people I look up to.

I'll make a general comment about this whole dependence on 'celebrities.' I object to this situation as it is right now, where they have inadvertently or manipulatively become the spokespeople for the African continent.

I object to any characterization of our government, in good faith, coming to this court ... seeking to intervene when there's serious allegations of abuse.

I object to being characterized the way I have been characterized by people who don't have a clue as to who I am as a human being or who I am as a commander,

I object to the court's comments. I'm entitled to make objections.

If you must fire do a good job-a few casualties become martyrs, a large number an object lesson. ...When a mob starts to move keep it on the run. ...Use a bayonet to encourage its retreat. If they are running, a few good wounds in the buttocks will encourage them. If they resist, they must be killed.

In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.

I remember how, back in the 1980s, the Scottish Flow Country became an object of bemused controversy as rich celebrities and businessmen from south of the border acquired great tracts of this vast wetland in the far north in order to plant non-native conifer plantations that attract hefty tax breaks.

Because there are now online databases of federally funded research, and these databases are searchable by keyword, sex researchers have to be careful how they title their projects. It's become a simple matter, for those who are so inclined, to find and target researchers whose work they object to on religious grounds.

Hopefully as we go along in the season we play better and we start playing better competition. But whoever you go out there (against), the object is still the same.

The vulgar allow that this expression implies a mind that thinks, an act of that mind which we call thinking, and an object about which we think. But, besides these three, the philosopher conceives that there is a fourth-to wit, the idea, which is the immediate object.

There was a period of sort of minor deception. Then the book seemed to be being advertised initially as the official history, and I did object to him saying that.

There still could be some groups of people that would object to (our method) because at one time the cells were derived from a very early human embryo.

It wasn't a pretty game, but that makes no difference at this point. Whether you win by one or 21, the object is to win and keep playing.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

The most insignificant insects and reptiles are of much more consequence, and have much more influence in the economy of nature, than the incurious are aware of; and are mighty in their effect, from their minuteness, which renders them less an object of attention; and from their numbers and fecundity.

the mother, being so holy, could possibly be object of an attack by Satan.

Soon, we expect that Swift will find bursts that are even farther back in time than this explosion -- more distant than any object ever observed. We are in the process of pushing back the boundaries of the observable universe.

The formidable Heights of Abraham are now surmounted; and the city of Quebec, the object of all our toils, now stands in full view before us.

All neurotic symptoms have as their object the task of safeguarding the patient's self-esteem and thereby also the lifeline into which he has grown.

The edge of a black hole, the event horizon, is a boundary that marks the point of no return. Once an object crosses the event horizon, it cannot escape and will be ripped to pieces, atom by atom.

A long series of sterile weeks lay behind us, and here at last there was a fitting object for those remarkable powers which, like all special gifts, become irksome to their owner when they are not in use.

The flight commander on board the aircraft reported hitting an object on the takeoff run, ... aborted takeoff.

The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.

The ideal is to have the losing party feel that he is not the victim of the judge, but simply the object of a profession that is the same for all.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

A lot of medicines are not there to cure diseases. That's fine - drugs that keep people alive who wouldn't otherwise be alive are useful. What I object to is the drug companies' advertising, which you see everywhere in the U.S., which claims that they are curing diseases when they're not.

The changes are needed ? we can't risk that happening again. The people who object to this new format may not come back. But hopefully they'll understand.

The changes to make Linux accessible on the desktop will be in the user interfaces of things like Gnome (Gnu Network Object Model Environment) and KDE (K Desktop Environment), rather than in anything we do.

The idea being there so that it became almost like an object that was there, that you could go back and visit whenever you wanted to.

The idea is in the mind itself, and can have no existence but in a mind that thinks; but the remote or mediate object may be something external, as the sun or moon; it may be something past or future; it may be something which never existed.

And that is what (opponents) want. They're not concerned about the welfare of these people. The people who object are those who are from the outside who have a political agenda for the next go round of city and state elections.

The tribunal did not object to us doing this, also.

For example, before, they couldn't grab an object like a rattle. Now they can.

For a lot of African American women, it's very affirming to come to this show. You finally see yourself for an hour and a half and it's in a positive light. And you're not the sex object or the mammy, you know, that there's a gamut.

It's not the presence of Christian doctrine I object to so much as the absence of Christian virtue,

It's not the idea of historical preservation we object to; it's the ordinance and the raw power it creates.

It is understandable that an agency like FAO could be, in some people's minds, an object of protest.

At least 10 separate, distinct times where his head was struck with an object or against an object.

It struck some object under the bridge. The mast broke off at the base.

It's not so much the size of the explosion, it's the fragment metal pieces: Nails that are added to the explosion cause the damage. The object is not to blow up the building, it's to kill people,

It's an interesting object and it's raised some interesting issues, but a worrisome threat? No. We've got plenty of time.