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We did very extensive market research, and it pointed to a fundamental dilemma we faced in distribution. The banks were not enthusiastic. They either would not order it, or would wait until there was public demand. Well you can't prove the demand if you can't get it to the commercial sector.

What we have pointed out is that we often hear promises of greater resources devoted to R&D (as a result of a merger), but there is absolutely no proof that in the mergers over the last three to five years that that has occurred.

The real solution to this crisis is a true and meaningful Nuclear Free Zone in the Middle East, not one which is paid lip service to. It is a vital first step towards removing all nuclear proliferation risks in the region, as well as providing the essential security guarantees from nuclear weapons states outside the region. If we don't seriously contemplate this option then the world will, as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan pointed out a few days ago, lurch from nuclear crisis to nuclear crisis.

We came here to win, ... I pointed out to the guys before that we'd won everywhere (in MLS) but here. It was there. Maybe at the end of the day, it was a just result. But it's hard to give up two goals on restarts.

We have consistently pointed out that The Bahamas neither produces these substances, nor is it the ultimate destination for them. That does not stop those who consume the drugs from blaming countries like ours for this scourge. It is most unfair.

with a flashlight pointed right in my eyes.

We like their athletic ability. There are a lot of good athletes in the junior and sophomore classes. And everything is brand new for them, so they really have to pay attention. We have new offense and defense and we're trying to create a team atmosphere. All the things we're trying to establish to get the program pointed in the right direction.

We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe.

When I was born, the man in the sky pointed to me and said, 'That's the guy.'

There has been a consistency and a frequency of these allegations that have been swimming around. There's been an upping of the ante. There's been increased speculation. Clearly on Sunday there were further things that pointed to it.

This reorganization will enable Lighting and Appliances to provide more cost-effective and pointed approaches to supporting all of our customers needs,

This reorganization will enable Lighting and Appliances to provide more cost-effective and pointed approaches to supporting all of our customers needs,

We're not ready to win a State championship with them, but I thought they passed their first test. What I really like about them is every scrimmage they got better. We have pointed out mistakes and every scrimmage they got better.

We actually challenged one another in the deliberation room. We challenged the issues, and we came to the decision that pointed to reasonable doubt.

Until the storm hits and we get in to look at the damage, it's hard to tell how long this could last, ... Rita is pointed right at the belly of the industry.

What's really reprehensible is that friends of the oil industry in Congress are using ... a disaster, which essentially pointed up our shortcomings in protecting public health and safety, to repeal environmental rules that are designed to protect public health and safety.

When we first started out, everybody wore a type of snowshoe that had long pointed tails, which throw up a lot of snow.

The point about it is that if you're pointed toward some kind of goodness, some kind of light, something positive, you find your way through these trials and tribulations, ... I've basically dedicated my whole lyrical life to people's ability to cope with the struggle because I do believe there is a struggle. And I don't mean it in a negative sense. I just mean it in a realistic sense. Nothing is greater than staying right on the positive, but sometimes life can have a way of just pulling you back and dragging you a bit.

With what they're going through and what they have at their disposal, it's going to get us pointed in the right direction sooner than later.

Bill has pointed me in a good direction as far as what to smoke and the difference in quality.

Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me (raw young pupil that I was) that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.

Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson?

What people respond to in this culture is loud and brash and pointed and sometimes vulgar -- that's what gets people's attention, on TV and radio and in books. Shades-of-gray books are very difficult to sell.

unceremoniously shoved his father out of the way and went to confront the woman. ... He raised the shotgun and pointed it at the woman.

At the time of the AGM in November, we had pointed out that development expenditure in aerospace would affect the first-half performance.

I still don't know how I got it. I went around my man that boxed me out and I heard the whistle and he (the official) pointed at me. As of right now, I'm still clueless how I got it.

As the judge pointed out, loathsome and inexplicable for various reasons.

I spoke to some players after the game and pointed out a few mistakes we made.

These were problems they knew about when they designed it. We met with ODOT. Mr. (Jason) Stephens attended a meeting in Chillicothe and we pointed out the problems and the problems haven't gone away, ... We have flash flooding with less rainfall; property is being damaged and township roads are being flooded.

The sheikh pointed out that all divine religions are built on the spirit of love and it is important that all of us work together to fight extremism and terrorism,

The suspect appeared at the door of one of the bedrooms and pointed a pistol directly at Officer Potts. Officer Hollingsworth saw this from his position and fired four rounds striking the suspect,

We need to come to a track like this and hopefully turn our luck back around, ... This track has been pretty good to me over the years and our Silverado team needs a good run to get ourselves pointed back in the right direction.

We need to come to a track like this and hopefully turn our luck back around. This track has been pretty good to me over the years and our Silverado team needs a good run to get ourselves pointed back in the right direction.

When the doctors showed me an X-ray of my brain, they pointed to a black hole on the upper left side and told me that all memory from that spot was dead. I thought to myself that I hoped that's where I kept 'The Orange Blossom Special.'

When I went back and looked at the film, Jerry (Gray, the Bills defensive coordinator) pointed out that on certain plays I'm more disciplined than others,

It was a new unit at the checkpoint, and new units are always pretty hardcore. We pulled up and (a soldier) puts his face in the car and says, 'Slow down. You have a .50 caliber pointed at the back of your head. Of course it was pointed at the back of my head, because I was in the back seat.

We also have a public health system that's been gearing up for terrorism and other threats, and really stood pointed and ready to engage in this effort.

The recent data out of U.S. have pointed to some slowdown in growth and that's helping ease concerns about further interest rate increase in the U.S. I'm more focused on the positive element of an end to U.S. rate increases rather than the slowdown.

The open letter has always been an interesting rhetorical strategy - a way of delivering a pointed message to a specific individual or group while also reaching a wide audience.

The reason that some are uncomfortable with 'Taking America Back' is understandable -- in the same way that thieves are uncomfortable when police approach them. The guilty among us do not like truth pointed out when that truth uncovers our weaknesses, sins and fears. ... Joseph Farah does not only describe today's America. He also prescribes. And his prescription, how to take America back so that right and wrong are once again honored, is a prescription that WE KNOW works because for 200 years, that prescription made America the greatest nation on earth.

Up until two months ago, the state's case pointed to Main as the shooter.

Two Canadians are dead and two innocent Canadians have the finger (of suspicion) pointed at them for a heinous crime that is unfathomable.

We didn't hide a thing from them. We showed everything and the biggest thing was the fact that we gave them every opportunity to see any facet of the city they wanted to see. You know, the areas of the city that are most devastated aren't areas that we as student-athletes frequent. We made sure that was pointed out.

No prosecutor would accept that from an ordinary witness. You'd get a subpoena the next day and ask specific, pointed questions until you got answers, or you'd indict the guy.

As one of the judges in the Court of Appeal pointed out, the interpretation so given results in unfairness. It is unjust that if insurance companies agree to insure a party to the extent of a sum in excess of the statutory minimum and collect premiums based on that sum, it is unjust to require the companies to pay over to the injured party, only the minimum coverage required by the statute.

As many legislators have pointed out, what's good for California is not necessarily good for Pennsylvania.

As many people have pointed out, the scene in 'Kung Fu Hustle' where the Landlady was chasing after me resembled the Roadrunner, ... I loved to watch cartoons and read comic books when I was small. In fact, I still watch and read a lot of them now. They give me great ideas.

As Craig Littlepage apparently pointed out, that slate is wiped clean.

Almost all of my competitors suggest that they too stand for these ideas, but as I've pointed out in the debates, the devil is in the details,

They (VCB) may have needed those vehicles; we just pointed these things out. We wanted to see what the norm was throughout the county. People just need to be aware of what they are doing.

They told me not to move and I did what they said. I didn't move an inch, not with that gun pointed at my head.

pros and cons that can be pointed out with regard to any of these witnesses.

Personally, I felt a lot of fingers were being pointed at me for the failures of Cleveland. They chose to label me as the problem, as what was wrong with Cleveland Browns football.

Other administrations ceded to fact, and saw the benefit - the value - to meaningful public dialogue based on fact. They understood that was one of their obligations, to engage with people who were there to ask pointed and pertinent questions and demand answers to them. They understood that's how it worked and that that was the precedent. This administration has said, 'What does that have to do with me'?

Poverty in Venezuela is worse than ever. I didn't discover poverty because Chavez pointed it out to me.

There's some technical things they've pointed out that we decided we agreed with.

There was a lot of fill on top but the magnetometer really pointed out anomalies. We found a pipe that was probably to the well pump and then we found a sill log on which floor planks would have been laid.

There's nothing he did wrong. No blame is pointed at him whatsoever.

The paper pointed out to us we did not advertise that we were having a conference,

We had a break between patients on the last day there, and one little girl got to sit on my lap and look at the pictures our photographer had shot and stored on her laptop. She was so tickled. She laughed, and pointed at the screen and chattered away like crazy in Spanish.

This is the best part of it, talking to you guys. Being the quarterback, you know that cameras are pointed at you and people want to talk to you. You have to be smart ? and know it comes with the territory.

This is the biggest stage in America, ... If you like competition, if you like the spotlight, if you like being pointed at for every little right and, more importantly, every little wrong, this is the place to play.

This is the day we pointed to. It's optimistic. It's enthusiastic. It's exciting. Really, on a scale of 1-10 of expectations, it's past a 10. It's just great, just wonderful.

After we lost, I did a lot of thinking about dominating this game, getting the team going. Coach said this was just like any other game, but we really had bull?s-eyes on this one, circled it, had all the arrows pointed to it. We made sure we were focused.

In China, the dead are not forgotten - my relatives cheerfully pointed out all the niches of deceased friends and family, as if gesturing at the homes of the living.

I never knew that I had an unusual voice. It wasn't something anybody really pointed out to me.

I never even heard of him or met him in my life. But when I got downstairs, he said, 'I've been waiting for you.' He walked up to me and I took his picture. I pointed at him and told him that he had to leave. But then he came up to my nose and shoved me, so I shoved him back.

I'm not sure who messed that up. Obviously we're very fortunate to have been able to actually be pointed in the direction of child pornography. So, if UPS gets the credit, so be it.

I knew Josh was on the black line, and when (the official) called that, I knew right away what he was looking at, so I went over to (the official) and pointed on the ground.

I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.

I've known Snoop for a couple years. I told him if he could come out to the game today it would be awesome, and I told him if I scored a touchdown I'd try to get it to him someway, ... Right before that play he looked at me and I pointed at him. He pointed back at me and when I got into the end zone I slipped him the ball.

I'm not sure. I don't get the sense that consumers have fixed the blame yet ...I think we may be one event away or some catalyst away from that blame being pointed at Washington or the administration. I'm not sure it's there yet.

The book industry has been deeply embarrassed and I think that her show pointed up the disconnect between publishing and the real world.

Dad went back to that Western Auto store. The wagons were still stacked the same way. He pointed to the wagon on the bottom and said to the salesman, 'That's the biggest one you have, but not the biggest one you sell, right?' The salesman told him he could order a bigger one. Dad told him get it ... and when they put me in that wagon, and you couldn't see me from under the (wood panels) on the side. ... That was what 'Blue Suede Shoes' meant to him.

David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that's exactly it. You want to be known to be funny without having it pointed out.

Concrete is a very hard, dense surface that sound bounces off, almost like a billiard ball would bounce off a hard edge. Or if you think of a sound wave as a wave of water, it hits a wall and splashes back as an echo. Or if you think of a flashlight pointed at a mirror, that light would bounce right off and create a glare -- an echo is like an acoustical glare.

It's been pointed out that this is what students spend downtown in a night. I know people who have had to drop out of school because they just can't afford (the cost).

I had a very uncomfortable conversation with Turner. When I pointed out we were his constituents, he claimed we did not represent the general constituent support for this.

I just tried to keep it simple. Keep my head down and make sure my foot was pointed toward the goal post. I'm just glad we did it when we had such a big lead. I'd hate to go out there in the final seconds of a tie game.

I noticed that the (drunk) individuals had moved on, ... He (the AT&T security guard) pointed to a package under a bench in front of the tower and told me that one of them must have left it there.

I raised a parliamentary inquiry and pointed out that the word detained was against the context of a resolution that was approved by the House granting us protective custody and that should be clarified.

I rang the people at Racing Victoria on Monday and pointed this out to them.

In 'Power Play', Finder uses the thriller structure to make pointed observations about gender in the workplace, the corporate caste system, and the true nature of risk in the global business environment.

It has been pointed out to me, more than once, that for someone who chose a profession steeped in procedure and protocol, I had little use for either.

Clearly they were bullish and they were really pointed to (the fact) that IBM is getting a benefit from the Internet.

His good deeds came out. I pointed out in closing argument that that is inconsistent with greed. So I really believe justice was done.

I live in New York City, and one day many years ago I was with a poet, Gregory Corso, walking through Greenwich Village. He pointed to a doorway in an alley that he said led to a tunnel under Manhattan, a tunnel he'd use to run from the cops. I started learning about old Prohibition-era speakeasy tunnels under the city, for running whiskey.

In the past, that (increase in work week) has pointed to fact we'll see strong job growth in next few months.

In the letter, Milosevic stressed that the main reason that he was not allowed to go to Moscow for medical treatment was the existing fear by some that the careful examination by the Russian hospital would reveal that his health was being systematically destroyed. Milosevic pointed out that during the last five years he had never used any such antibiotics, especially since he never had leprosy or tuberculosis or any kind of infectious disease except for the flu.

In that prehistoric time, before the Internet, before information floated in the ozone, I was a soccer novice who had never heard of Socrates until somebody pointed him out - swarthy, shaggy, tall, slender, mysterious.

Intuition is a completely natural mode of perception; Jung pointed that out. If you are not using your intuition, you are kind of just limping along; not functioning in your full capacity in making decisions.

I just pointed and shot. When this precious relationship that we had was damaged by my thoughtless actions, the only thing that could satisfy her womanly vengeance was the life of the one that had, for an instant, taken her place.

I just pointed to him just to show him I've got more to my game than just swinging.

because the three boys pointed their fingers at these two security guards, and they couldn't leave that out of the loop. There was no reason to believe the boys were lying.

I pointed out how well conditioned they are. We like to think we're in tip-top condition too though. It's all about mental focus. If we do what we do well, we'll pose problems for them.

I pointed out that I had been a senator five years when I was 35, and no one says to me what you said in 1974 as a senator we can forget,

I pointed out the window and said I would put a 40-foot tall piece right there. I wasn't even 30 yet.

I pointed out to them the severe economic impact on a city still recovering from the terrible tragedy of the September 11th attack, the financial hardships being experienced by those employed in this and related industries, and the disappointment of theater-goers from around the world that the strike was causing,

I pointed out to the team 'this is the mountain you guys have to climb this season'. Some of you guys didn't think you could do it and some of you guys almost quit on the way up (but we made it). It is tough but this is how our season is.

I pointed to each kid before the match and challenged them. I told them either they were going to show they were contenders or pretenders. ... They proved they are contenders and did a nice job coming back.