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He tackles enormous thematic questions and he's not afraid of writing what might be perceived as an academic play,

Going uphill, you do have to compensate by running slower. Rather than checking your watch (on a hill), go for the same perceived effort as you ran on the flats. I find the best way to do this is to monitor your breathing. If you are breathing more heavily going up the hill, shorten your stride.

He's going through that natural period where people want to nitpick the very few negatives he may have instead of extolling all his positives, ... And in a little over 31 minutes a game he averages 18 and 8. He comes to work every day. He's totally selfless. Yet some want to badger the guy about whatever perceived shortcomings he has. I find that unfortunate because if they spent half the time looking at all his positives it would be a much better story.

If Iraq becomes free and stable, we will have a major oil producing country that can help us stabilize the United States oil partnerships. If we were to give Iraq a loan rather than a grant, it would have been perceived by the Iraqis as if we're trying to ease them out of their oil money.

I went from being perceived as one of the best young coaches in the league to this negative perception in a span of about 30 games, ... It?s really bizarre.

Spirits are perceived as affordable luxury. People are more careful with their spending today. Maybe they can't buy a $40,000 BMW but they're willing to buy a good $60 to $70 bottle of Scotch. You don't get that kind of trading-up feeling with beer.

Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite people day-to-day about each other. Yet physicists in their own working environment are very social creatures.

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

Our reliance on U.S. cereal has been perceived as a negative by the investment community, probably fairly so, ... Our lack of diversification has limited our investments.

People may notice noise more if there are more operations. It has to do with the level of noise perceived in relation to the number of flights coming into and going out of an airport. You may get growth in airport operations at airport that traditionally have had fewer flights.

People have real reservations about the Republicans, but they aren't clear what the Democrats stand for. There is a widely perceived general disarray in the Democratic Party. It's too early yet for a leader to emerge.

OPEC wants to be perceived as part of the solution, not part of the problem,

Justice should not only be perceived to be done but be done and be seen to be done.

John Thompson took something that could be perceived as almost menacing, because he was so big and was so serious looking, and used that to his advantage to create Hoya Paranoia, ... Every game they played, John was the underdog and yet he had Ewing and Wingate and Williams. That takes a masterful genius to do that.

I think this was a man perceived as being the grandfatherly figure who wound up becoming Richard Nixon on a bad day.

I think that impact of that program is not as strong as when it was first announced, ... Zero percent financing was like a tidal wave and you had to get on the wave or you'd be swept under. But I think the program is still perceived as having a lot of value.

Lately, he's been outstanding. That's the way we perceived him from the beginning. It's nice to see him get to the level we expected him to be.

I think there is a concern that it will be perceived by the troops themselves as a lack of respect for the sacrifice they're making.

I think there's an increasing intensity of complaints from neighbors and users about safety or perceived safety.

I think anything that is perceived as parliamentary maneuvering to get out of this is not going to be accepted by the American public, ... It's going to have to be out front. It's going to have to be fair.

Repeating third grade at a new school, after having been asked to leave my old one for hitting kids who made fun of my perceived stupidity, I was placed in the 'dummy class.'

Overseas money is the primary driver based on a return of a degree of confidence. It is now perceived that most economies have bottomed out and are now on a recovery trend.

Paradoxically, the price strength of the past couple of days makes a production cut ... less likely, ... If OPEC does cut production it will be reacting to perceived weakness in market fundamentals later on this year.

Overall, I think that the past incidents, sometimes it's not exactly what it's perceived to be.

It exerts a lot of psychological pressure and undermines their perceived well-being. It makes you feel vulnerable. People start to question their future.

I think people have a growing interest in beverages which are lighter and have actual or perceived functional benefit. I think we've seen a decline in regular soft drinks for some time.

It is not constructive to have two of your most important agencies perceived as having a fight, almost a children's playground fight, ... This is going to be a difficult, challenging period, and we all need to act like adults.

I think we've always prided ourselves and perceived ourselves as songwriters, so it wasn't an album that we felt we had to do, ... But we knew that some day we'll do an album like that, and it will be fun. That's what it was really about. It was just the right time to do it.

I think we were perceived as the big, bad city trying to take their land. It's not as if we were trying to annex. This land is nearly worthless without it being cleaned up. And it's only worth something if we work together to clean it up.

I think we will need to study this proposal more so that we can decide whether it's simply a wedge-driving exercise, although I think it's not, or if it is actually a genuine attempt to address a problem that is now perceived on both sides to be there.

It is so filled with so many issues about being Latino in the United States. Being documented versus being undocumented, and Latinos and the way they are perceived across the nation and especially in California. I know that sounds super broad, and it is. But in the film, we touched on issues enough so that they can be brought up afterward, and then we could invite people to bring them up in a bigger discussion.

It can be perceived as horseplay. There was risky behavior, but fortunately people were sober. ... People could be slightly hurt, but no one was ever killed or brought to the hospital.

It could be the smallest pond in the entire world, but if you are a big fish in that pond, you will be perceived as having deep pockets.

We now have a national product we can sell in United States, ... When you're perceived as a regional sport, you can't sell national sponsorship agreements.

I wasn't a big fan of Instagram at first. I felt it was watering down the way music is perceived 'cause it made things seem more normal.

Thus we have to recognize that a thing as perceived contains besides sensory elements other elements present to the mind only in ideal form.

Users were virtually unanimously opposed to paying for current generation mobile TV offerings due to frustrations with perceived network quality and performance. Out of more than 50 test users, more than half experienced network-related problems over three consecutive nights of testing.

The act ends up being flushed out of the system in the U.S. and back in Canada they're perceived as losers because they had that American deal and nothing happened.

Wine is perceived as untouchable and intimidating, and young people are turned off by the imagery of a nose in the glass. It was not served up in a terribly friendly way, and we saw that as an opportunity to be different.

Most campaigns rely on photographs because the moment you do something that is a graphic interpretation where any artistic license has been taken, I think a lot of people are scared that it's going to be perceived as propaganda.

We had concerns about our child and what we perceived to be a lack of quality learning experience, so we decided to make a visit to get to the bottom of it.

Mid-cap and large-cap growth funds tend to have a lot of technology stocks and biotech stocks, and biotech stocks have really gotten pummeled too. It seems like there's been a flight from anything perceived to be risky.

We do take very seriously how to find efficiencies so we can provide the lowest possible prices to our customers for the part of the business we control. If that's perceived as being more hard-nosed than we were in the past, I'm not quite sure. I think our approach has been professional and positive.

Well, we're out of time here. Regardless of that, and what might be perceived as our disagreement on the substance of this, my great thanks for coming out and speaking to this under these circumstances.

The real history of the U.N. lies in the perceived failure of the League of Nations.

The poor are not perceived as voters. You can see that's what legislators think when they make these spending decisions.

We're growing, we've prospered and all we needed was just a chance. The old image of Oklahoma City being a minor-league city is outdated. We've always been a great place to live with low-cost housing, virtually no traffic congestion, fresh water and clear air. But we've never been perceived as a great place to vacation. All our positives started to mushroom up in the last 18 months.

We're happy to be perceived by most people as underdogs this year.

There are three elements to perceived popularity. A student has to be visible, recognizable and influential.

Toyota is at the top when it comes to real and perceived quality. One recall isn't a problem. It takes two points to draw a line and it that happens then you'll hear my tone change.

To me, the remarkable thing is it's pretty much unanimous the way blind people have been perceived in all cultures and for millennia. The first is, if they can't see, they must be stupid. The second one is, and this is a very old one, that blindness is such a terrible thing that it must be a curse from God for some evil that you committed.

was perceived as the most aggressive of the new breed of bank executives.

We are not going to reach out to them voluntarily and run the risk that it would be perceived as doing something devious. If the commissioner wants to bring us together, we're happy to do that. In the meantime, we're going to focus on our customers.

When aspiring writers ask me about how they should target their writing, I tell them to pay no attention to that kind of thing. It will restrict you. You will end up falling into stereotypes in an effort to tailor your work toward a perceived genre category.

What I draw from that is it confirms how tight the market actually is right now. To us, the big picture is we are in a situation globally and here in the U.S. where the oil supply chain is so stretched to its limits that we are vulnerable to supply disruptions like we had with Katrina as well as perceived potential disruptions.

The criminal justice system is often perceived as remote and unresponsive. Research shows local, visible institutions that engage the public are trusted more than remote and anonymous ones. Introducing community offender panels could provide an effective way of bringing the criminal justice system to the community.

What we're trying to do is make sense of this rash of standards. We're constantly being audited from all sides. We do our best to set priorities. The message, though, is that ROI has nothing to do with perceived value of assets. It's about protecting assets and maintaining consumer confidence.

There are many museums dedicated to technology, artistic endeavors, music, and that sort of thing. From that perspective, I think games really do have a place as a kind of collaborative art or a synthesis of all these various aspects into a whole, and that, in itself, can be perceived as art.

We don't want there to be a perceived unfair competitive advantage, ... They have to create a division between applications and platforms.

When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.

The re-imposition of sanctions will cause the EC to be perceived by Congress as not recognizing the tremendous efforts made to comply with our WTO obligations. New EC sanctions will reinforce the perception that the EU is primarily acting in response to the U.S. filing of a WTO compliant against Airbus subsidies.

When a consultant does other work for the company, it creates either the actual danger or perceived danger of a conflict of interest. The consultant should either work for the board, or work for the company.

We think this may be perceived as a near-term negative, as some had been looking for the new servers to be announced.

Wal-Mart has become aware of how they are perceived and that they don't want to be perceived as down market in part because it makes it difficult to penetrate certain urban and suburban markets. I think they want to get that middle-class customer to spend money with them.

You have to be perceived as pure if you want a shot in this campaign.

The Red Sox won four games in a row after being down three nothing, so anything is possible,but I think the markets would perceive this as a long shot. I think at some point today (Wednesday) Kerry and his people get together and decide they don't want to be perceived as sore losers.

Writers traditionally see themselves and are perceived as acting in the solitude of their rooms, doing their work. They can only survive if they have an audience and engage in the process with others.

To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is - in many respects - a valid one. Superpower rivalry during the Cold War ramped up U.S. and Soviet space efforts to a scale that Western Europe had no motive to match.

The possibility of danger is there, but the realistic dangers are quite remote. People's perceived potential problems are something they have to conquer.

Watch out for people who have a situational value system, who can turn the charm on and off depending on the status of the person they are interacting with. Be especially wary of those who are rude to people perceived to be in subordinate roles.

When we are exposed to a real or perceived threatening situation, powerful things happen in the brain to memorialize aspects of the event, including all manner of associated circumstances like where, when and how it occurred.

What this goes to show you is that in our league, coming in with a team that was 1-4 against a team that was perceived as being a top team, we were basically manhandled today.

Until South Korea ends its political transition, it might be perceived to be a little unseemly for us (America) to move forward.

What's not perceived to be an A movie anymore, is often subject matter that would have been thought of as a B movie many years ago.

What's really important here is that documentary commitment to telling the truth is being compromised by the need to accommodate perceived intellectual and copyright constraints.

The people who set that up (in Rancho Bernardo) were promoted within Sony . . . because they were able to make what was perceived then as Japanese quality with American workers. So long before Toyota and Nissan and others moved in the U.S. with car manufacturing, Sony was producing very high quality products in the U.S.

The perceived conduct of Vision House owner Michael O'Sullivan is counterproductive for offenders under community supervision, so I must relocate this small group to more appropriate housing.

The perceived impact of the delay may be the real issue to contend with for (chip) stocks in the near-term.

The perceived value of your product or service increases by associating it with top celebrities and a glitzy Hollywood event.

We are a fully professional orchestra with fully paid musicians, but we are still perceived as a small community orchestra. We need to change that.

Cruelty to animals needs to be a matter of public concern as it directly affect public safety and human welfare. It can no longer be perceived of as merely an issue of animal welfare.

Because it is difficult to suppress growing market exuberance when the economic environment is perceived as more stable, a highly flexible system needs to be in place to rebalance an economy in which psychology and asset prices could change rapidly,

Billie Jean and I have a very special relationship. We were perceived as different in the beginning, but now we laugh because we are very much alike. We're strong, we're stubborn. In a lot of ways free spirits, open-minded.

Enlightenment begins with disillusionment, is fueled by the perceived benefit of change and is made permanent by the creation and protection of a new order in place of the old.

At this point, I think most people are just delving back to his time as the provincial finance minister, and focusing on the tax-cut angle, which I think in the long run would be perceived in a fairly positive fashion.

difficult to suppress growing market exuberance when the economic environment is perceived as more stable.

Cool has become formulaic. You can walk into stores today, and it's all there: Anyone can buy what's perceived as cool.

Copper is often perceived to be the barometer for market conditions and therefore a significant fall in copper prices could remove speculative support from other metals.

Customers tell us there's a perceived impression that it's faster. Our research seems to indicate that's not necessarily the case. But it's like everything else, you're in control of your fate.

What is interesting to me is looking at how male and female writers depict men who, come in behind to fill those domestic duties, deal with personal and cultural lack of respect for doing what is lingeringly perceived as 'women's work.'

This year, professionals worldwide indicated that information security is now being perceived as a business enabler rather than a business expense, and as a result, they are increasingly being included in strategic discussions with the most senior levels of management.

Everything came down to key support levels late last week and so I think you're seeing a bounce off that, ... You've also got some economic reports that are being perceived favorably, plus McDonald's earnings.

At these events you have people who really want to support the charity, so the perceived value of what an item is worth becomes more than the actual value. I'd say licensing is probably a good 30 to 35 percent component of why things go for the price they go for.

At the margin, the change may be perceived as a small, dovish shift for the ECB governing council.

I've been perceived in more false ways since I've been in Chicago. Perception doesn't bother me.

I've been fortunate. I've worked in a lot of things where I had those kinds of experiences with actors who were perceived as very macho guys, everybody from Lee Marvin to Charlie Bronson to Harrison Ford to Robert Shaw.

The timing is highly favorable for third-party candidates. If you look at the state and local level, there are clearly recurring cycles ... characterized by the very kinds of conditions we have right now - voter anger, perceived failures in the political system.

We selected channels that were G-rated in nature, did not include 'live' entertainment programming and which contained content that was generally perceived as acceptable for the entire family to view.

As this channel has been growing rapidly in recent years, Scotia's increased footprint there should be perceived as validating the expected growth of this channel.

As the final results are not confirmed, there is scope for the New Zealand dollar to be a little shaky on account of the perceived uncertainty. This is exactly what has happened.