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The reforms that we are to undergo this year - many of which extremely difficult - serve the interest of modernizing our society and economy. No one will ever gain if Romania joins the European Union still unprepared. In the long run, our goal is to transform the European integration effort into tangible benefits in the living standard of each and every Romanian citizen.

We're starting to see some tangible signs of slowing in the economy. That's working against the dollar.

Maybe its time we get a toolbox that doesnt just count whats easily counted, the tangible in life, but actually counts what we most value, the things that are intangible.

We remain concerned with the company's longer-term positioning, given its choppy sales showing despite significant store-level investment, and its poor return on capital. The majority of its remodeled stores should have yielded their most significant same-store sales impact in 2002, and we see few tangible growth drivers ahead.

Unfortunately, no tangible breakthrough was made with regard to crime in the army, where hazing accounts for 25% of crimes. Altogether, 2,609 servicemen were convicted of crimes of this kind.

Universities are very aware and sensitive to LEED and sustainable design, but most see the certification process as costly and burdensome, with no tangible benefit.

There are both solid basis and immense potentials for cooperation between China and Morocco. Enhancing cooperation in various fields will definitely bring tangible benefits to the people of the two countries and play an important role in facilitating world peace, stability and development.

We believe that Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino will provide tangible economic benefits to the community, most notably in the share of slot revenues. It is a $125 million investment in an area that hasn't seen that kind of investment in some time, if ever.

When you've got big sky, big places and less people, people act differently and treat each other differently. It's tangible. It's not just a concept. I grew up in the country and then moved to the city, and there is a tangible difference.

And we find people who can improvise in character and create a character that is totally tangible and real and still get laughs, but you're getting laughs totally within the confines of your character.

What people see here, however, are all history and truth. No director and actor, no matter how talented they might be, can make such tangible products. And this is only a glimpse of history.

A state's income level is directly linked to the education levels of its residents. And we must support our schools - with real, tangible resources. There's no way of getting around that fact. And if you cut school spending during tough times, your state is going to suffer. Poverty rates will increase. Property crime will increase.

It wouldn't be right to return to the table and negotiate a formal agreement absent a tangible demonstration of respect for what Canada has accomplished in the quasi-judicial system.

We've been blessed with this opportunity to share our love and concern for others in our community through something tangible - the prayer shawl.

These field improvements in Cincinnati and Covington are tangible signs of our Youth Football Fund in action.

The tangible difference is that we can tell our story without a filter.

These buildings are a tangible sign to me that this community cares about its young people, ... And that is what matters most in the whole scheme of things.

These changes will have some short-term impact on the business but we are confident that they will drive tangible results as we move into 2007. While 2006 is a transition year, we remain focused on our long-term objectives, which are to fundamentally change our business, enhance profitability and attain the financial goals we set out for ourselves by 2008.

We need to look at getting people in Michigan money in their pockets and do something tangible to reduce the price of gasoline.

With higher inflation still a tangible threat, officials cannot rule out the possible need to move beyond neutral.

Visualizing yourself at a healthier weight can give you something tangible to reach for.

We all understand the concept of insuring tangible assets such as our home and our vehicle against loss. What too few people realize is that a nest egg can be 'insured.' The simple fact is that we need to begin 'insuring' our retirement assets in the same way we do our treasured belongings. The Hartford continues to take a lead role in developing income and longevity solutions to help our clients, along with the education to put everything in the proper context.

The other is less tangible -- the emotional attachment to a city or a neighborhood. There's a powerful human desire to return to that and restore that.

reach out in prayer and tangible support to our brothers and sisters as they live through these overwhelming days of loss and begin to face the difficult challenges of the future.

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

American Red Cross-branded product collections will become a powerful tool to help us reach a broad audience with vital safety, health and preparedness messages. Licensed products are a tangible way to bridge the gap between people knowing they should be prepared, and having those people actually taking action to ensure that they are prepared for any emergency, large or small.

They told me they wanted proof that somebody has a -- what did they call it? -- a tangible work product. All you need to do is pull up my site and hit 'print,' and you've got it.

Public broadcasters, libraries and museums have a unique ability to connect people to their communities, and communities to the resources, ideas, and knowledge that they need to solve problems. Using these grants, public broadcasters, museums, and libraries in the seven communities will be able address local concerns in tangible and valuable ways.

Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature and responsible way, to start delivering tangible results that show we are taking people's concerns seriously.

There's nothing finite or tangible about an electronic transfer or use of a credit card. We don't feel the pain of parting with our cash, but we still get the high from making a purchase.

This disparity between simple pharmacological effects and clinical experience might be due to the time it takes for serotonin axons to grow. For the patient, this hypothesis provides more tangible evidence of a real effect in the brain.

This initiative would not have been possible a year or two ago. This is a tangible result of the nation's increased investment in medical research over the past ten years. . . . We stand on the threshold of creating a future that will revolutionize the practice of medicine by allowing us to predict disease, develop more precise therapies and, ultimately, preempt the development of disease in the first place.

This is a big step for me professionally, and I hope it will help my reputation to grow as a professional artist. This is a tangible result of having a goal.

This is someone the other girls see every day at practice. It makes nationals more tangible for everyone else on the team.

This is a strong performance and we have made tangible strategic progress during the first half. Through our chosen markets in premium consumer and commercial kitchens, we are aligning ourselves with growth areas and bringing innovation to them. We have first class brands, leading market positions and a high quality management team so we expect to maintain the momentum we have established in the second half and beyond.

This is helpful and tangible to take to Tallahassee and use it as the content for a bill.

The NCAA championship is still what we're playing for. But we tend to stay focused on something a little more tangible than that . . .

Indian incense offers a physical, psychological and spiritual link between our tangible world and the intangible realms beyond our senses.

Information technology has changed the world and now the world is changing IT as concerns about growth, customers and market needs top the business agenda. In a world of increasing competition and customer choice, IT is rising to the challenge of making a tangible difference in the business.

In a time of great racial inequity, Julius Rosenwald worked with communities across the South and Southwest to improve educational opportunities for African-Americans. We can't risk losing the tangible reminders of this great collaboration.

I had this pile of documents that exposed how this industry was trying to hook people to killing themselves and to make a profit, and then I was seeing this incredibly tangible way to fight back and prevent the tobacco industry from leading people to their deaths.

In this profession I think it?s really helpful. I think you just have to focus on getting better. We?re trying to just have some tangible goals and things that individually and as a team we can do better. As long as we?re working toward those things, our players have been pretty good to not get caught up in the wins and losses.

As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.

Tangible is what the company does to appease customers, and psychological is how they do it. For example, we had a student who paid for flowers to be delivered on Mother's Day. By accident, the flowers weren't delivered. The florist profusely apologized for the oversight -- that was the psychological. Then, he recovered by delivering a different bouquet of flowers to the mother's house every day for a week after that -- that was the tangible.

Tangible progress across virtually every aspect of our income statement and balance sheet gives us increased confidence in our ability to execute and to return to profitability.

Tangible results are yet to be achieved in these two fields, and I will continue my efforts in this regard,

Syria must come up with tangible counter-proof to the accusations in the report.

Once again we met our performance goals of double-digit earnings per share growth and a return on tangible equity above 18% for the year. This year was exceptional. We took an opportunity to leverage our strong earnings performance by making strategic investments in the future growth of our company through a significant de novo expansion. We grew deposits faster than loans while expanding our margin. We raised additional capital through a very successful equity offering during the fourth quarter. And most importantly, this was all done while continuing to meet our primary financial goals.

It's quite a welcome milestone to see some real tangible activities that are going to take place regarding the disposal of these chemical weapons.

The U.S. has to do something tangible to show respect for the process,

In the meantime, the Government will proceed with its review of Canada's existing legislation that governs the financial services sector. This review will deliver tangible improvements for consumer protection, streamline regulation and create opportunities for our financial sector.

If you want to give a tangible present, but you know the recipient wants cash, give a little bit of both. This strategy is helpful for occasions that involve a public opening of presents, like a bridal or baby shower. You can give something that can be wrapped and opened, along with a card containing a check.

By providing full visibility into engagement performance, Productivity Insight demonstrates our commitment to be accountable for our results. As our strategic platform for complex outsourcing engagements, Productivity Insight provides tangible access to Keane's best practices, allowing us to enforce rigorous management disciplines, ensure consistency across engagements and global delivery teams, and drive continuous process improvement efforts.

Hong Kong would do its best for achieving tangible progress in the upcoming Sixth Ministerial Conference (MC6) of the World Trade organization (WTO) and most ministers promised to play a more active role.

Memories are less tangible than dreams.

The magic that works, to me, is the magic that feels completely grounded and real and tangible.

Politico reports, multiple advisers to the Right To Rise super Pac concede privately that the $40 million spent on positive ads aimed at telling Bush`s story yielded no tangible dividends.

A friend and I started doing peace marches, and a lot of big politicians participated. But I thought we had to have something tangible for our kids.

As an actor, acting is like playing a sport. You do this thing that's intangible, and while it's happening, it's great. But then when it's done, there's really no tangible product. Someone else is capturing it and turning it into something tangible.

you will see tangible byproducts of this report.

The dividend of peace must not just be theoretical but also a tangible reward for people around the world.

You can't forget it because it's tangible and you can see it,

These initiatives are tangible examples of our plans for future growth across all lines of Caterpillar's business in China,

Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.

For almost 20 years, ... Craig and the (Chemical Weapons Working Group) have been invaluable in their efforts to ensure that the millions of pounds of chemical weapons stored at Kentucky's Blue Grass Army Depot are destroyed as safely and expeditiously as possible. In large part due to their efforts, we are closer than we have ever been to taking tangible steps towards chemical weapons disposal." ()

I trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute at Tisch, which is a huge foundation for young actors. They teach you their methods and give you the sense that acting is much more tangible than most people think. I think there's a mysticism of what acting is, in the fact that it's this ungraspable, spur-of-the-moment thing that nobody can understand.

It might not be the best start we've had but this is a difficult place to come, they're a good side and they might have scored on another day. It's pleasing just to have something tangible out of the three games.

It's a real, meaningful, tangible way to help families across the board.

As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action.

They are talking about mechanics, what we want to see are tangible results on the ground.

It's a tangible way of helping people in terms of health care and hands-on experience. It helps students get involved abroad and in their own community.

It's emotional as well as economic, practical as well as personal, tangible as well as intangible.

It's a strange feeling, especially after last year when we had such a huge lead at this point. I don't think I can put into words what it feels like (to play games with no tangible importance).

We certainly see a lot of people coming to us with Internet businesses to sell, ... But the deals are not getting done because these companies have no revenue and no tangible assets.

It's a very tangible possibility that we could go into special session at this point.

This was the first tangible presence of the federal government or any civil authority in the Rogue Valley. Unlike, say, the stereotypical Western vision of Fort Apache, the primary mission of this fort was to protect the Indians from the whites in that period of time.

There's an inflection point happening right now. Symantec feels that it's beginning to happen, in terms of its becoming a real, tangible market.

This is a very tangible example of that. Things are different than they used to be.

They really want to see something more obvious and tangible as they have been at the sharp end of IRA violence. The unionists want to see the melted-down guns.

I believe I have enough substantial information that I've gathered since my youth to give people tangible answers, if they'll let me, ... There are a lot of people who study this topic, but when we tell the truth, we're looked at like we're nut jobs.

I cannot say there are any tangible results.

Because men who do any significant kind of caregiving are often seen by family and friends as heroic, they are more likely to be offered social support and tangible assistance by them,

The tangible source of exploitation disappears behind the façade of objective rationality.

If he had any type of run support, he'd have 20 wins easily. He's been that impressive. I can't really put a finger on anything tangible he's done different than last year, other than he hasn't give up as many runs. ... He hasn't changed his approach, he hasn't changed his stuff. His velocity hasn't gone up.

Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul.

Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.

It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.

June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible.

Both must make tangible, immediate steps toward this vision.

Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.

Stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.

Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.

I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.

Yeah it feels a bit more tangible, I suppose, even though you're in a green box for part of the time.

Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.

To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.

The compass represents spirituality, no end and no beginning....the ruler represents 'tangible evidence' ... a measurable event... both coming together shall represent a Human Being...the intersection of life and consciousness...

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.