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The unanimous verdict of scripture is that practicing homosexuality is a sin, ... Love ... must not compromise the church's allegiance to scripture.

The first goal is to get 10,000 students practicing Transcendental Meditation in the U.S. to create a wave of peace in America that will be a catalyst for peace in the world. It will be a peace-meditating group like a factory that pumps peace around the world.

You can only push these kids so far. We've been practicing three hours each day, and we've started to see some things. With a young team, you don't know if you're going to move forward or not.

You come to a new team, new system, it'll take a couple games, ... I'm not alarmed by anything. I'm just going to keep working hard and practicing hard and keep working at it. As a player, you get frustrated a little bit, but I know with time, everything will come into play, so I'm not that worried about it.

These guys actually have some degree of sophistication as far as practicing their trade. They are becoming proficient in the use of their weapons.

Alex is a great leader on this team practicing very hard every day without the promise of playing time. He's a very good shooter and everybody on our team respects his work ethic and I'm delighted he took advantage of the opportunity he was given tonight.

For a change, we shot our free throws well. That is one thing we will keep practicing on because that is a big part of the game.

It's like a jog-a-ton, only we will be practicing (not running) for three hours.

It's always important to play in the bowl game. All you have to do is look at the other six SEC teams that didn't make it and realize we're in the top half of the SEC. It's certainly fun for all the college kids and coaches to be playing in December, in January. A lot of them are not practicing and wish they were.

For me, I started thinking about next year there in the fourth. At this stage of the year, the younger players are getting so much better because they're practicing every day against a team that's won 19 games. That's a wonderful thing to be around. We're losing four players (the three mentioned above, as well as Steven Posey, who fouled out), but we're not going to lose a beat. We won't allow it to happen. The younger kids have to be ready to step in.

At Fork Union, Coach pushes all of us on the field and if you're not working hard, you know the next guy will just step up and take your spot. We all push each other and practice hard. Competition is something that's part of being here. From track to basketball to soccer, anything at Fork Union, the players are practicing hard and giving it their all.

I took those things away and we had a heck of a week of practice. I told them (at halftime) we would be practicing in the parking lot at the middle school next week.

It's not like an NCAA tournament. It's more like practicing our doubles.

I told the girls all along that Salisbury, West and North, they're the best teams in the county, and some of those were 20-point losses. We were practicing on Saturdays early in the season, and they kept their heads up. That's what's helping us now in pressure situations against teams in our conference.

I told the guys we are practicing this week and we will have a game Saturday. We really don't know what the situation is, but we need to be ready.

It really wasn't any different than shooting free throws in practice. And I've been practicing all year for a situation like this.

It's so easy to treat, and regrettably a sizeable portion of practicing physicians are unfamiliar with the condition.

Egypt is practicing its very normal role on its soil and does not threaten anyone and there should not be any kind of international or regional concerns at all from the presence of Egyptian security forces.

It's not a concern of ours at all. After going on a 26-game winning streak, it's not such a bad thing to lose one. Right now, we're just tired of practicing and ready to play.

It's something that we're practicing more and more, even myself. I'm trying to make myself more cautious as we are going through this process.

As a former practicing dentist in my home state of Idaho, I have long been concerned about access to dental coverage for our most vulnerable citizens.

There was one guy out there with a football after a Saturday walk-through and it was Priest, ... He's practicing scoring a touchdown, catching the football, turning and running to the pylon in slow motion. The next game he catches a pass, runs to the pylon and I say to myself, 'I've seen this play before.'

This means a lot. We came through some dark days to get here. The kids never stopped practicing hard. They never stopped working ... I think this says a lot about their ability to persevere. It says a lot about their toughness.

This morning I was practicing raga, and at one point I was singing a long tone and I became very peaceful and still. I thought this is really the highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else, just to be in a state of being to the highest point.

You can't kill a team by practicing too much.

They earned an opportunity to cheer in a parade in London, England. All-Stars spent a week in London practicing their routine and sightseeing.

The younger Janis was a painter, a drawer. She was a very serious art student for a number of years. My family memories of Janis are really more about her practicing the craft of visual art, sketching, constantly sketching.

They made runs, they passed to each other, got it off their feet. Everything that we've been practicing they did, and they finished many opportunities very well.

They don't have those sounds in their vocabulary, so they have been practicing a bunch of words beginning with WH and TH.

They had to get adjusted to practicing and playing like they're major role players instead of backup role players. I think that's why it took us so long to gel. We played pretty good basketball down the stretch in our conference.

They have a 3-1-1 half-court trap that sent us into a frenzy the last time we played them. We had been practicing for it ever since and the girls handled it fairly well.

It seems like we've been practicing with more focus than before. Guys are really focused on their assignments.

We've been struggling. I've been trying to get my messages across to them for a while, about practicing with purpose and having pride. And there's nothing like a win to get the message from the coach across.

Thursday's game was a difficult game to coach and endure. Today's was not. It was the best 40 minutes of basketball we've played since Washington State (on Jan. 21). There's an enthusiastic locker room that is excited about practicing on Monday. From those things, I'm pleased today.

I try very hard to maintain the confidence of my sources by speaking candidly with them, honoring agreements about the use of our conversation, and practicing journalism in an honest and straightforward way.

It's a bummer. We've been practicing for the last three to four months. I think there was a lack of commitment by some of the players.

It?s funny because we were practicing and Eric was flying around the goal and diving for everything. I told him, ?Hey dude, relax, the game?s tomorrow (so take it easy).? But that?s the type of attitude he plays with. I don?t care what anyone else says ? to me, he?s the best goalkeeper in South Texas.

It makes it all worth it. Practicing in small town like this, because I don't think it would've been possible in other cities.

It's given us good opportunity to get back to the basics and get in better shape. We're practicing every day except Christmas and New Year.

It's gonna be hard to give it up, I'm gonna miss it a lot. Being out there practicing with them, bleeding with them.

It's going to be hard because we did have that weekend off. But the team has been practicing hard, and I'm sure everyone's ready. They've been skating hard. I think mentally we're prepared, and we know what's coming up and how important it is. And everyone has the right state of mind right now.

It should be very interesting, practicing very hard. Definitely just going at it to get as ready as we can be.

It's been a long time for these athletes, since we got started practicing back at the beginning of August. With junior teams, it is all told early in the season, for which teams can stay away from the most mistakes.

It's been a good season. We're the only team practicing in North Dakota.

It's going to be an experience for everyone. (The Skiers) will have the advantage because they are used to playing on the courts, and they have been practicing indoors for about a month.

There is such a dramatic correlation between practicing well and playing well. . . . Talent has never been a question, either. We knew that last year when we recruited him. He has a ton of ability.

I don't like to practice in the rain. People get sick; they get hurt. It's one thing to play a game in the rain, but I don't like practicing in it.

I consider Ivan to be probably the best player, behind Federer, since the indoor season last year. It's a great win and great for my confidence. I wasn't expecting to do this well this week, especially after practicing on clay all of last week in Austria.

He's not even supposed to be practicing yet. He hurt his back lifting weights and they told me it'd probably be two to four days. And he missed like two periods.

I'd gotten in the habit of doing different things at home instead of practicing golf.

I feel a lot stronger this year. I've been practicing yoga over the year, and I can be in a positive place now. I believe there's hope for me and everybody else with MS.

For someone from like The Bahamas to get a shot, and there is that possibility, they would have to be in the gym just about every single day, working out, practicing and playing and try to absorb everything their coach tells them.

He put in more hours practicing than any player I have ever coached. He chose to make sacrifices to play the game.

The Japanese teams start practicing in mid-January. They have a decisive advantage. For the American hitters, particularly the power hitters, it's not there yet. You take power away from the American players, all of a sudden you're going to have close games.

The men have a quickness you don't always see in the women's game. By practicing against that quickness and strength, no matter who you face in a game, you're not going to feel overwhelmed.

All the boys did real good for their first time out. You couldn't ask for any better. We've got a few bugs to work out, but that's what this was for. We're going to keep practicing and get better.

The days of Lauren practicing every day, full practices every day, are gone. This last stress fracture showed Lauren the importance of being realistic and honest about her pain level.

And he was always out there on the ice practicing after I was through. He's always been a part of hockey or, I guess, hockey's always been a part of him.

All season we've been struggling with our free throws. We were practicing them and we were able to knock them down.