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Our goal is to do everything practical to make Broadwater the best possible solution to meet this region's growing energy needs. We understand that no major energy project will be embraced by everyone when first introduced, but we are confident that the facts and extensive analysis presented in this filing will demonstrate to all that Broadwater will be safe, reliable, and environmentally sound energy supply source, as well as one with a profound impact on the regional natural gas prices faced by rate payers.

I was both thrilled and overjoyed when I heard about the re-discovery of this wonderful manuscript, a true original by an artist for the ages. This wonderful find brings back the excitement of fifteen years ago, when the Seminary celebrated the unearthing of an original score by another musical genius, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. At that time, we called it the 'Mozart miracle'. It seems appropriate that this time we are thankful for the 'Beethoven blessing.' Through the extraordinary generosity of the Doane family, God has once again blessed us with a gift that is of rare and practical beauty.

I tend to take a more practical and pragmatic approach to things, rather than a theoretical or ideological approach, ... But I do think when it gets into an area where the correctness or incorrectness or my agreement or disagreement with a particular precedent is in an area that is likely to come before the court or could well come before the court, I do have to draw the line there. ... My views on the cases that I think are not likely to come before the court, I'm perfectly willing to discuss.

It doesn't mean that they can't get the judgment against you, but as a practical matter, the creditor is not going to be able to collect on it.

I think that people want to know how to do practical and everyday things like how to get the pomegranate seeds out of a pomegranate.

I think the practical impact should be quite small,

It is not practical to build super-tall office buildings in the post-9/11 world,

I think we must do everything in our power to extract practical benefits from that disaster, and extreme tourism in the exclusion zone is one of the measures.

I was much involved in the development of the spark chamber as a practical research tool.

The quality of the professors was tremendous. They provided practical advice and insights from real world experiences that you can't find in a textbook. I'm involved in real estate and I learned a lot about investments to pursue and, more importantly, investments to avoid.

Those who are responsible for quality in manufacturing tell us that they want practical applications for implementing measurement technology in their factories. MMCW will address their needs, as well as continue to bring all quality professionals the latest information on measurement technology.

We know that cash flow is a top concern for small businesses and that they look for practical tools to help keep money flowing smoothly. Whether small businesses simply need to update their PCs or plan to invest in their first server or a new custom business application, the fixed-rate loans from Microsoft Financing enable customers to shift their focus to acquiring what they need to move their business forward, instead of how they will pay for it.

We are disappointed that Chris will not be able to return this season, but this is the safest and most practical course of action to allow the time necessary for his injury to heal properly.

We have had so many discussions with so many different publishers that it isn't practical to keep it under wraps, ... Too many people know about it.

We're really moving on to the practical questions now to see how we can implement some of these recommendations.

The Academy of German Law was the meeting place of the most prominent legal minds in Germany in the theoretical and practical fields.

Where we want to be is at the edge of where the customer is. We're not looking to introduce things that don't have an immediate practical value. We're looking at those things that we know our customers are doing today, and through using technology as an enabler, how do we make that experience better.

Mostly because inactivity has never suited me well, and it isn't practical for me to write other books with worldwide implications and so on.

We just decided that this was a more practical approach and that's what we did. Hopefully, Monmouth County will have success with their project in the long run.

We got their united support, ... move forward on practical matters.

Unless you have a true rapport with a student, it makes it difficult to help them deal with something this bad. We also had a word of prayer at our meeting, which was probably more effective than any practical advice.

We need less theoretical debate and more practical application and acknowledgment of what Europe can and does do so that it is brought home to people in a relevant way.

We focus on practical solutions that don't reinvent the wheel.

We can apply this to our post-9/11 environment, ... because we have not lost our idealism, love of freedom, civil liberty, and commerce-but we do have a very practical task. As the president told Attorney General John Ashcroft at the time, 'Do not let this happen to America again.'

Microsoft is now taking a viable approach, ... It's a more practical way to go about it.

We recall how, starting with purely practical and quasi-physiological groups, the child begins by elaborating subjective groups, then arrives at objective groups, and only then becomes capable of representative groups.

We hope this will rally member states around the authorization process. We want practical improvements in the system.

We believe the Pakistani Government will punish the criminals, and take practical measures to protect Chinese nationals and institutions there.

We believe this is viable, we believe this is practical and we believe the money will be there.

We are thrilled to build on our early success in Cary by working with KB Home to create beautiful yet practical homes for an expanding number of communities across the country. And by creating a line of Martha's Choices products that reflect Martha's exquisite attention to quality, design and functionality, we hope to deepen our connection to the home and to our customers.

We've looked over time for a number of things, practical steps by the parties to defuse tension. We've looked for a dialogue between them, if possible, to resolve the issues.

We finally decided to organize the second round on April 21, which is a Friday, for practical reasons.

The fact is, there won't be a consensus agreement reached before the deadline. It's not practical given how far apart the two sides are. But there's no light switch today. It's not turning off of one, turning on of the other.

There is a point beyond which it isn't practical to expect so many different things from the same group of people.

What we need to do is sell this idea (to the town). It's not going to sell as a 'Save the Church' (proposal). The way we need to present it to the town is to find a sensible, practical use for this structure.

We hope to reopen as soon as it is safe and practical pending power and services, and approvals of the state and local officials.

There is no doubt that the negotiations will not be easy, ... There is a need for practical steps to implement the principles of the joint statement adopted at the previous round of the talks.

(The proposals) recognize her concern for children and their families in times of sickness, when practical support and advice can often be as important as medical treatment,

There are Palestinians who see (Sharon) as someone who did a lot of practical harm to the Palestinian cause. And some people who feel he is the only strongman in Israel who would be able to implement any agreement and enforce it on his own people.

The peepholes provide waiting partners or friends with a preview of the lingerie being tried on - providing the shutter is drawn across! Quite apart from the fun element, it serves a practical purpose, allowing customers to get a second opinion without having to gingerly open the fitting room door.

We do best when we are holding information and we're the only ones who have it. From a practical point of view, we can't tolerate the leaks.

We worked closely with Ahern's management team to find practical solutions for both their systems installation, as well as their needs for secure network connectivity. Utilizing our Virtual Core technology enabled Ahern to implement very secure connections in a flexible and cost effective manner. Ahern is an excellent example of our unique ability to provide customized solutions.

The decision to keep everything in a small town in Mississippi was not a practical decision. Daddy's fame would have grown much more quickly in New York. Our wealth would have grown much more quickly in New York or Paris. It wasn't practical. It was philosophical.

Well then there would have to be housing for them to move to and we're looking at all possibilities but we obviously have to have a practical solution as well.

While our core solutions each provide distinct advantages for different types of credit unions, they all leverage a service-oriented architecture, our unified technology direction that's focused on enhancing member service through a practical blend of powerful, established processing capabilities and new innovative technologies like XML and .NET(R).

When doing this field work, we put in thousands of hours. We needed to boil it down in a practical way, so all the data cannot be included. The point of category B is that we will add the necessary information from our data.

When Bush was sworn in the second time as governor, his father is standing behind him, and as he turns after taking the oath of office, he walks past his father's outstretched arms to Bullock, who truly was his practical political mentor, and he embraces Bullock first.

This research provides a new DNA-based tool that can be used by Great Lakes beach managers to test the water quality in the morning and make same day decisions on beach warnings or closing - often before people even go into the water to swim. This tool is an excellent real-world example of how EPA is working to protect the health of people. We can provide them with useful, practical information with which to make decisions that affect their lives and health.

We would like to see zero fuel duties, of course. But we have to put our hands on our hearts and admit that the government needs money for all kinds of things, and this is one way to get it. People do want their schools and hospitals to be better, so this is just practical politics.

We sat and glowered at each other for 40 years, then we tiptoed around each other for 10. Now we are in an era of substantial and practical cooperation. Russia is a special and major partner,

We think that is a good practical way of raising the quality of education.

We're not out of it by any means, but we don't have total control now like we would have if we had beaten Mount Vernon. For all practical purposes, if we lose another, it's over. We've got to take care of business and hope the chips fall in our favor now.

Too often students are told they have to wait until college or beyond to gain practical experience and explore career options. YITC provides students with a unique opportunity to get an early start and gain firsthand experience working with experts and realizing their potential in the IT field.

You have to be practical and not just have a panic reaction,

There does seem to be a statistical advantage, but the practical advantage is still an open question.

would seem to have only limited practical relevance in the current situation.

The other side said (there are) 799 federal and state laws mandating the use of English. ... We would say those kinds of laws are not at issue here. I think that English is the official language of this country in a practical sense already. And I think that most people who come here both learn English and want to learn English.

Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand.

What's particularly interesting is that, while some of the new human rights courses focus narrowly on human rights law, others concentrate on practical skills such as campaigning and lobbying. That's very valuable.

What Hurricane Katrina destroyed in hours will take years to rebuild, ... The public expects the government to be careful with taxpayer dollars and put them to use in a smart and practical manner.

We are practical people who will endorse people who work for working people - whether they are Republican or Democrat.

We are looking forward to working with these authorities to develop practical solutions to congestion problems and support the development of a national road pricing scheme,

Yes, I have a turn both for observation and for deduction. The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical are really extremely practical -- so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese.

Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration.

At the most basic level, prioritizing design also represents a practical consideration. It's far easier to design first and engineer later.

Co-operation is very important for both practical needs and strategic development. Therefore, the government of HKSAR attaches great importance to co-operation and exchanges with Shenzhen.

Contemporary societies, while gifted with many means, do not always manage to facilitate the mission of parents, both on the level of spiritual and moral motivation and on that of the practical conditions of life.

Dialogue and many practical common projects are more important. We came here to build bridges but it must be two-way bridges.

What people want from Mr Blair is not more polished rhetoric about the future but practical solutions to the problems of the present.

Every situation has qualities. Essentially, we quantify them and that's the practical side of our lives, so the involvement with perception and in acquiring the perception is our ability to understand qualities. They exist only as long as a human being keeps them in play. They're - Therefore they are akin to energy.

Everybody knows him as pretty easy going and a practical joker when he was a player. I think it will be a little more fun in the bullpen area. It's going to be about learning how to pitch and having fun while you're doing it, not so much walking on eggshells down there.

Attempts to protect the current level of immigration by wrapping it in the language of tradition or humanitarianism generally distort both history and the practical realities of our own era.

I started, you know, to work as a diplomat during the Soviet days, and in spite of ideology being very high on the Communist Party agenda, I can assure you that in practical terms, we have always been trying to be pragmatic.

It would not be practical for us to look at a four-day week. The school districts looking at that have much longer bus routes.

It would have seemed practical to play the two Hawaiian events like most guys competing this week but I am restricted to 10 and that's why I have had to say 'no'.

I've been entirely opposed to it since Day one. The next practical thing to do is to get out, and since I don't imagine we're going to clean up after us, the Iraqis are going to have to clean up all the junk we leave behind.

The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea of the primitive mind. Law is invented, then morality, then love, then forgiveness. Thousands and thousands of ideas, knit together over time, each one less practical and more ornamental than the last, all stretched taut above the wandering, wondering heads like a little pavilion; a temporary shelter for the human project.

The winning entries this year show a great combination of creativity and practical results. The winners are excellent both in terms of innovation and impact on the business. These winners show us what the future of learning looks like.

The whole Pete Rose issue, I believe, is dead for all practical reasons,

As the Republican nominee, it was Romney's job to find a way to speak to some of those groups of voters and offer practical solutions to their difficulties that both resonated with them and sounded plausible to them.

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was growing up, and I've been obsessed with the practical logic of farmyards - the turning radius of tractors, where the chickens and ducks might go. It's not a place where stand-alone aesthetic decisions make a lot of sense.

Israelis and Palestinians have cooperated in the past to achieve historic agreements as well as practical cooperation on the ground, ... They must find a way again to end the current psychology of confrontation and begin to restore the psychology of peace-making. That is what we will be trying to achieve in these meetings.

The theater is a kind of international language, and I like it. But I have a practical bent of mind, too. In any other field, I could make only about a tenth as much as I do acting. That's why I want to be a producer. It pays better, and you have more control.

The students had a 'textbook definition' understanding of democracy, but nothing in regards to practical application. I was asking what democracy meant to them.

The straight galleys are done to maximize space. They're fine at the dock. And being fundamentally antisocial, I don't care if my back's to the crowd. But from a practical user standpoint while under way, I can't really get used to them.

The short listed entries all demonstrated the right combination of innovation, utilisation of resources, value for money and practical benefits in terms of both process improvement and service to the citizen.

These projects have demonstrated they are practical and exciting and will add to the proportion of the UK's energy that comes from renewable sources.

(The plate) is clearly a program in which legislators agreed that providing practical assistance to women facing difficult pregnancies is both benevolent and appropriate.

These are very practical things, very important things.

The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value.

What are the practical benefits of getting dinged by six different airlines on your computer at the same time?

What happened with Practical Magic was that I wrote the best score I think I've ever written for a film that engaged me not at all.

Visiting the tour center has been especially rewarding for me and my staff. The visit provided practical information on how to better address the diverse needs of our client families. There has been a growing desire on the part of families to add personal touches to funerals. This exhibit has helped me understand how to do this to create more meaningful funerals.

Women and Company is proud to participate in this program because we believe all women should have the opportunity to achieve their financial goals. More and more women are finding they can begin to achieve financial independence by starting their own businesses, and these grants can have a practical and immediate impact as they strive to grow these businesses.

We all want to take credit for everything, but the good practical joker understands that his craft depends on autonomy.

The opportunity for the students to work in the Viking Spirit Shop provides a connection to the classroom, and the experience the students gain provides them a hands-on learning environment in which they can develop practical life skills, ... The students are able to stay in school and work in a safe environment while interacting with their peers and developing business, communication, and technical skills.

Theoretically, they still have time to do it, but from a practical standpoint, I don't think they are going to let it happen.

The reason is, it's a joint study and from a logistics and practical standpoint, it does not make sense to have only one trauma center participating.

To spend part of the revenue from land use fees on agriculture is a practical way to increase investment in the countryside.

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