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The pattern raises the alarm, however, that these species face two challenges that increase the risk of extinction: habitat destruction, which is occurring at alarming rates in the tropics, and reduced pollinator activity.

The pattern should be deeply concerning to everyone who cares about the principles of free speech.

The pattern that you will find in the people I appoint is they have extraordinary people skills,

The pattern we see is when students have a rough freshmen year, they come back for their sophomore year. But if they have the same pattern, they start to lose hope and start looking at other options; sometimes it?s night school, sometimes it?s a GED.

The overall momentum in construction remains solid. We expect this pattern to continue, with public and commercial construction taking the leadership baton in 2006 as housing starts ease back moderately.

We're not really sure why this pattern is holding up for so long. We're not sure if the pattern is going to break. We're kind of trying to understand it ourselves.

We don't know how long this pattern has existed because the kind of field experiment needed to detect the problem of low pollen transfer has been conducted by ecologists only for the last 25-30 years or so.

The decline in the length of the average work week ... tells us this leading employment indicator does not foreshadow any immediate end to this general pattern of weakness in the labor market.

What we've found is a whole new pattern of change that we hadn't thought of before. They changed their attitude toward the colony over time - and they really adapted to the reality they found in Virginia.

When Kevin takes a solo, ... there is a lot of information. He is thinking in these long rhythmic forms that will last 15 or 20 bars. For example, we will be playing in seven and he will do a pattern that will be in 13 over the top of that. He's just an animal.

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

We have got to be concerned about where we go. We have got to be concerned about costs. We have got to be concerned about changing demographics. We have got to look at changes in the pattern of health care delivery.

When I was younger, I wanted to pattern my game after Tiger (Woods) and Freddie (Couples), but the more I matured, the more I realized that my game is like those guys (Leonard and Campbell) - straight down the middle, pretty good with the wedges and consistent with the putting,

There is a change in the world's weather pattern that disproportionately affects Africa.

We would expect any deal reached with G.M. would create a new pattern for the other bargaining U.A.W.-represented auto companies.

We understand the history pattern (of the market). Prices go up, then come down. We're trying to manage resources in a way to remain successful, not only through the good times, but also when lower prices come.

True parents do not see to it that their children grow in a particular way, according to a preferred pattern or scripted stages, but they see to it that they grow with their children.

We've consistently seen a pattern of reduced taxes. We're losing $100,000 to $150,000 a year now. It's not necessarily new. Everybody experiences an economic crunch. We hope the new CFO will help alleviate the problem.

We are all in a holding pattern waiting to see what happens.

What we're seeing is a rapid cooling over the Pacific. I don't really see this pattern changing.

There is no pattern of demonstration that justices appointed by the president then try to defend the president's constitutional prerogatives.

What happens when the water gets down to the low 40 s is the bass suspend off the points and in the standing trees. That's been the pattern for years.

We're in this holding pattern and it's not lifting.

We're involved because these studies show a pattern and even a practice ? in fact a culture ? of inaccuracy in charging,

We're back in the pattern where we've been the last three weeks or so ? pretty mild. I don't think we'll see 50s, but we'll at least be in the 40s for a good part of next week, which for January is pretty warm.

When you talk about racism what do you look for? You look for a pattern, ... The black justices that have come before him for confirmation, there were 27. He voted for 26 -- voted, yes, for 26. I see a pattern there, but the pattern is what we're all proud of.

We're in a holding pattern waiting for that. We haven't received a decision and the election is right around the corner.

We're in a persistent pattern that doesn't allow the ridge of high pressure that normally builds up after each storm to build in and dry us out. The storms have just been coming back-to-back for just about the whole month.

where there's a pattern that's complex in a certain highly ordered way, so that it's best explained as a product of an intelligent cause. The other side says that's a code word for G-O-D. Well, that may or may not be the case.

Venezuela has historically a pattern of stabilization plans that then fail,

A similar seasonal pattern occurred in 2004 but then the TAI retracted only four index points from the November index compared to six points in 2005.

What I've seen, and I think this is a good turn of events even in the midst of tragedy, is that there seems to be more discussion about whether these extraordinary weather events, the hurricanes, are part of an approaching pattern that's related to global warming,

What we are seeing is a safari operation ongoing by Serb security forces against Kosovo Albanians. First, there is a pattern of shelling into the hills, beating them out of the bush if you like. Then they are on the roads ... being moved hither and thither, particularly being mixed up with military vehicles of course on those roads. Then they are put into trains and sent to borders but sometimes when they arrive they are sent back again.

Earnings season is finished, and the economy is taking this one step forward, one step back path. I'm looking for us to be in a holding pattern at least through the rest of February.

As summer in the northern hemisphere progresses, you see lightning moving farther north. You see a similar pattern in the southern hemisphere, but not so pronounced because there isn't as much land outside the tropics.

I see no signs of weakness in this market at this moment. The historical pattern and the current market trend suggest to me that next week will be a good week for the market.

Is it going to become a vehicle for global taxation of domain names? Are you going to allow folks who have demonstrated a pattern of suppression of content, are they going to be put in charge of running this thing?

It would certainly help, from the standpoint of agriculture, to start getting more frequent rain. ... The pattern for the next week or two doesn't lend itself to having significant precipitation.

I've been in a holding pattern with Dell, waiting to see if the stock is going to turn around. I don't know if this quarter is enough for the stock to turn around, but the numbers are decent.

The wind pattern is almost identical to the one we had when we broke the record on Lakota. We should have a fast run up the north sea to coincide with a low pressure arriving in the Shetland Islands.

The whole system and pattern of play under Sven is flawed. We seem to have lost the plot,

To put a restaurant in our residential area it not only going to change the traffic pattern, but change the noise pattern in my neighborhood, change the trash.

Yes, we didn't do this -- we didn't produce these videotapes on time. My letter to Sen. Thompson made clear we should have found them. But the one thing that is absolutely clear is that the only pattern here is not one of incompetence -- and we don't make an incompetence defense -- the pattern here is one of an ongoing intensive day-to-day effort to try to meet the committee's needs and that is the only pattern a fair reader can see,

We see very strong, solid demand pattern ahead of us. We're talking about 10 percent compounded annual growth rate between 2005 and 2008.

We're in a bit of a downtrend right now. There's a bit of a negative pattern technically and fundamentally. But we rarely follow through on these dips downward, ... This is a constructive process we're going through as we're working things out. It's a positive thing.

We've been on this roller-coaster pattern really going back to last spring.

As the record indicates, we've been fairly inconsistent. We're capable of beating anybody in the country and capable of losing to anybody in the country. That has been the consistent pattern with this club.

The Southern pattern was that every farm or plantation would have their family cemetery.

The simple point which I am concerned to make is that where ultimate values are irreconcilable, clear-cut solutions cannot, in principle, be found. To decide rationally in such situations is to decide in the light of general ideals, the overall pattern of life pursued by a man or a group or a society.

The question that remains out there is, 'is this merger going to work or is it just going to follow the pattern of all the other (airline industry) mergers and be something quite negative.

The radar showed a signature of a tornado. There's a certain pattern on the radar that points to the existence of a tornado. It's usually pretty accurate.

The Platonic Socrates was a pattern to subsequent Philosophers for many ages. As a man, we may believe him admitted to the communion of saints; but as a philosopher he needs a long residence in a scientific purgatory

When you have an experience, that experience is represented as a pattern of cortical activity. The memory system, which we think lives in the hippocampus, forms a sort of summary representation of everything that's going on in your cortex.

There are additional heavy showers moving into the area, and so it's pretty much a wet pattern that we're in a lot of moisture and unstable conditions so we expect these to continue at least through Friday.

We watched a pattern develop. Twenty years ago, seniors went to the beach after the prom and then to someone's house for breakfast. From that, it's turned into a weekend-long orgy that every year has become incrementally more excessive.

We've played at an extremely high level at times, but other times we've played below our capabilities. I'm hoping that we'll get that pattern out of our system and start playing a little more consistently. All three of our losses thus far were games which we felt we should have won.

When you look at other companies who have undergone situations like this, this pattern is not atypical. We are not watching the stock price every minute. We are building value for the longer term to get us back on the path of sustained growth.

An interesting fact about the bond market is that it displays a strong seasonality. Seasonality is as strong as you would find in some agricultural commodities. Within that, the pattern is that it rallies through the end of the year until Christmas Day.

The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them.

The ruling confirms the pattern of judgments supporting the University's position and the original jury verdict that Microsoft infringed on our patented technology and should provide fair compensation for its use in their products.

The vice president's secrecy on this and other issues, as well as his numerous false statements concerning pre-war intelligence, is part of a larger pattern of above-the-law, bunker mentality that the Bush administration has embraced.

You don't just want a mask image that will give you an acceptable pattern at exact focus and dose. You want the pattern on the wafer to be acceptable over a reasonable range of focus and dose errors and variations in resist.

The reason movies are released in this sequential pattern is to maximize profit for makers.

We all have our pride to play for and we will do our best here, and we will stick to a similar pattern before maybe changing things around for Northern Ireland and Azerbaijan in our final two qualifiers,

To some extent, the bond market's trading pattern has not been resolved of late. This might provide some resolution, and I think it is going to be resolved in terms of higher yields,

There doesn't seem to be a consistent ratings pattern for local versus syndicated morning shows. So much of it depends on what else is going on at the station and in the market.

We've had a consistent pattern with our focus on good possession soccer. ... I thought we put together 70 minutes of consistent soccer, a really good group effort.

We've had this pattern of strong month, weak month lately. May numbers were weaker and the expectation is for June numbers to be stronger.

To be honest, sometimes a rock worm feels like cheating because it's fishing a worm. It is a fantastic pattern that I've done really well on this winter.

We do not yet see an end to the pattern of aborted rallies and reactions that have characterized market action over the past couple of months.

We like to have some understanding about what local governments are looking for as it relates to a development pattern and we are also interested in local citizens' input. We try to take as much input as we can into our thinking before we make any decisions about the kind of development we will propose.

Even though the rising pattern in borrowing costs is a form of restraint, it is being offset by a surge in equity wealth as the stock market records consistent gains.

After a five-year plunge, we'll finally wriggle out of the pattern this year. Funds are expected to flow into the market as the result of expectation that the stock shakeup will create a better investment scenario.

I wanted more control of my life. I wanted work to fit in, not to dominate; to support, not to lead the pattern of my life.

The reason they're jumping on board is because of the attractive returns that the commodity markets have seen over the last 2 or 3 years. If you go into a more sideways pattern those returns get a lot less attractive.

Unfortunately, disappointing earnings have been a pattern for Magic Software in recent weeks. This is the fourth time in the last six months in which we have reduced our earnings-per-share estimates for the company.

But much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney. Mr. Wallaces warp of sense and his woof of nonsense is very tricky cloth out of which to cut the pattern of a post-war world.

But other licensees are interested as well. We hope to replicate that pattern throughout our properties.

The government will join, notwithstanding its failure to prepare, its neglect in co-operating with its allies, or its inability to contribute. In the end it will join out of the necessity created by a pattern of uncertainty and indecision. It will not join as a leader but unnoticed at the back of the parade.

We are emphatically behind the idea that we must in this country be full partners with the rest of the world in a robust and free-flowing pattern of travel and trade.

We'd been able to beat them on that pattern most of the night. I'd prefer he would have thrown it to the other side, but the kids played their hearts out.

So, when the sound moved, the pattern of firing shifted across the map of cells.

Despite repeated requests from the fish houses and fishing vessels, the Kalisz administration has ignored the industry and neglected the South Terminal's dangerous condition for several years. This follows a pattern by Mayor Kalisz of neglecting the city's streets, neighborhoods, school system, crime problem, and in this particular case, the city's number one industry.

Developing policy in a rapidly changing fact pattern isn't the most productive approach.

Notwithstanding a handful of continued announcements regarding downsizing or closure, the prevailing pattern in our industrial sector has been one of growth over a couple of years.

So this continues a pattern where the economic community seems to consistently underestimate the strength in the economy.

November's data suggests that the market has settled back down to the pattern of small rises in some months and small falls in others, with prices overall growing only very slowly.

At what point is the discretion in individual cases actually a pattern which has become a concrete rule and that rule violates the principle and the spirit of the law?

That's going to be great for us. We won't be affected offensively, and cutting down the clock will hurt the teams that play a slower, pattern offense.

That's what we've been working on since Dec. 22, and clearly we're very much in the game at this point. Once Knight Ridder said they weren't going to sell the newspapers piecemeal, we were in a holding pattern waiting until someone bought the whole thing.

They put in Bakelite patterned brown light switch covers, which were really handsome, so we kept them. We really loved the brown pattern so much that when we go to yard sales and antique shops we look for similar ones to clean and install.

This has been an ongoing pattern with him for years, decades. This is not going to stop.

This has been a pattern which goes back many years . . . Of all the issues of concern that the United States has with the People's Republic of China, that is the most significant,

They've adhered to the restrictions well. We just need them to continue that patience and to continue to use as little water as they can if this weather pattern that's predicted comes true.

They've been getting pounded. They've been very wet this fall. It just happens to be the pattern we're in right now.

They (the government) are clearly trying to lay the foundation not only for the browser market but also to allege a pattern of anticompetitive behavior by Microsoft against a whole series of competitors, not just Netscape.

They've got a pattern of imposing these restrictions on themselves with great fanfare, citing principles that they want to adhere to. And then as soon as they get as much credit as they can with the public, they fold up those principles and they fold up those restrictions like a two-dollar suitcase and go home.

Right now we need to return to a normal precipitation pattern for the spring.

Right now we're in a holding pattern to see what happens with the 18 holes. It hasn't been decided for sure either way.

Technical analysis also dictates that the euro should decline with a head and shoulders pattern on the weekly charts generating a downside target of parity.