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It has been an absolute joy to have them and watch them. Not only are they extremely productive, but they are very durable and very unselfish. Sometimes with big-number guys, they aren't as much into the team concept as these two.

I think we can be right in there if we compete to our absolute best. It will be good to see where we can score, and if we need to shift things around.

It isn't so much the absolute price of oil, as it is the increasing price, ... If we sell seats based on $50 oil and then fly people at $65 oil, obviously it's not going to be good for earnings.

I think the absolute worst job I ever had - not because it was a terrible job, just because I was just so bad at it - was when I worked at a scenic factory in Chicago.

I was just in shock. Absolute shock. I couldn't believe it.

I think they are showing a greater willingness to look for new suggestions, new ideas, new approaches than at any time in the presidency. I think they realize the larger system has failed: They are not where they want to be on Iraq; the first week after Katrina was an absolute failure.

I think the most absolute truth is only as good as the time that it's told. It's only as good as where the person, the receiver of that, is.

It is an absolute poison and a scourge on society and it is time to talk about it,

It is an absolute honor and privilege to be selected as the head football coach at Virginia Military Institute. I accept the challenge to elevate the football program to the VMI standard of excellence. I am eager to meet the team and the VMI family.

It is an absolute disgrace. You can't bug anyone's telephone without a warrant, which is express written consent personally signed by the Home Secretary. Why should you have less protection over the Internet?

It is an absolute disgrace that a Swiss citizen has got away with a virtual tap on the wrist for raping a South African boy, simply because the definition of rape does not include male- on-male rape.

It is an absolute bonus to make friends out of colleagues, but we are genuinely friends and our relationships grow stronger every day. We rely on each other for strength because we've been through so much in our lives together already.

Just absolute disaster from the standpoint of public safety, the community and the county at large, ... litigation catastrophe.

I think everybody agrees that the Commission is enforcing competition rules with absolute independence.

I remember when I was in Los Angeles, and there was one of the very big earthquakes, and it was just absolute pandemonium. I mean the streets were just - people were crashing into each other, people were looting, in just a very short amount of time.

People always question it, and then they go ahead and burn anyway. There's a reason why the law is in effect and this is an absolute case in point.

Our guys really couldn't say enough good things about Jeff. He was an absolute pleasure to work with. It's hard to imagine him as not being marketable.

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the propositionthat each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future.

Our program has consistency. It is an absolute accepted part of the school. I don't have to push it or promote it.

Overall, the athletes were really good. We were expecting a tough fight from B.C. and Quebec, and we got it. All our athletes gave their absolute best.

Our army is the people's army that is under the absolute leadership of the party,

Rituals involving strenuous and/or repetitive physical movements are meant to free the mind of all frivolous thoughts and divert the focus to the point of one-mindedness or absolute concentration.

Rock climbers and gymnasts are involved in challenging activities that require the absolute safest environment. We provide that at all times and without cutting any corners.

places absolute trust in the president, unchecked by the Constitution, statutes of Congress and longstanding treaties ratified by the Senate of the United States.

Playing 40 minutes of defense was the absolute key. We thought last week that we played about 20 minutes of solid defense, and we lost our defensive intensity in the second half.

Reggie Evans would definitely get best actor in the league. I am so sick of watching that guy flop I can't stand it. It is an absolute disgrace what he does.

re-establishment of order is for me an absolute priority... which has not yet been achieved.

Past tragedies have given people an opportunity to prosper. Now we face the challenge of ensuring all the money and material help will be managed with absolute honesty, ... We hope not a single dollar will be wasted.

People make parallels between this and the Gulf War, but 9/11 was extremely dramatic because it was the first time commercial aircraft were used as weapons of war. It undermined the absolute heart of the business.

Surviving and thriving in the wake of my mother's loss, I learned to believe in God. He has a plan, if you pay attention to the signs. I am inspired by the absolute proof of miracles.

Looking back as an historian, I find myself having great respect for Ronald Reagan's consistency: his absolute conviction that the Soviet Union - the only competing world empire at the time - was bound to collapse!

Live has come to a point where we're finally comfortable with being a big rock band and dealing with the absolute change of circumstance we went through during the last five to 10 years, ... We don't have to lash out against it anymore.

I will tell the exact and absolute truth regarding the situation. I received a phone call from the band basically firing me from the band.

I was thinking about how quickly it all passed and what an absolute joy it was -- even the bad days were good days.

I was very comforted by that. The absolute last thing that the right wing wants to hear is that the Constitution means anything other than what it meant in 1789.

I was happy. To be honest, I thought I was only 1-up coming to the last hole, not 2-up, so I figured I had to make at worst a par and at the absolute worst a bogey and I was fortunate enough to do that.

I was here with Camille and lived in Florida when Andrew hit and nothing compares to this. This is an absolute nightmare.

I was in a lot of pain warming up and when I tried to push out of the blocks it felt like someone had gutted me. I was in absolute agony.

I still see the economy as absolute the No. 1 factor, (even with) as many other factors as there are nowadays,

I think people got a view of absolute greatness, back and forth. The bigger the moment, both of them stepped up even bigger and bigger.

I think people are now realizing, or starting to realize, that every word, more or less, I said in the book is the absolute truth,

I think Ogden needs to keep these absolute treasures. Ogden High School is one of these significant buildings that needs to be kept intact.

It does look like we reached a shorter-term capitulation but I don't think sentiment ever got negative enough to suggest an absolute low.

It does take a little longer to build a house here. It is a cyclical business and we are at the absolute peak of building.

I think he's been everything to this program. He's been an absolute high-level competitor since the day he stepped foot on campus. I'm going to miss him, as a coach and as a teacher. He's been a special player for me to have an opportunity to interact with.

It delivers an absolute body blow to their Bronx operation.

I think it will hurt more people than do good, so I am an absolute 'no' on that.

I thought he wasn't going to run and it was going to be a disaster, but Cornelio said he had plenty of horse and he was just cruising. He knew more about him than I did. It's hard to tell through binoculars. He manages to handle things smoothly and he's an absolute pleasure to train.

It is critical that I, and the Board, have absolute confidence in the Manager to deliver success to the Club. Regrettably we do not.

It is desirable to have balance on the court, and two women, I think, are a minimum. But I don't think you can have a quota system either for women or a minority as an absolute determinant.

It is deeply regrettable that the Pakistani government has shown absolute disregard for the many direct appeals to exercise restraint and has willfully turned its back on the sincere efforts of the international community to encourage reason to prevail.

I think this has an absolute chilling effect.

I'm shy of comparisons to Dickens because he's one of the absolute greats and it's silly to compare a contemporary novelist with someone.

Man knows the Illusion of his Life and not the Absolute Truth, the man creates the birth of the universes he has once known, but of the Illusory universes and not of those who form or are a part of the Print of our God who is the Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one.

I'm in absolute shock. It seems that 2006 has been the year for me.

I'm in absolute shock. I cannot believe it. It is absolutely amazing -- I was so nervous beforehand I had (stomach) cramps.

The absolute worst way to hunt elk is off an ATV, ... There is something about the pitch of an ATV that's just wrong. They are much louder than an average passenger vehicle or 4-wheel-drive vehicle.

The absolute worst visit of any college athlete that I've ever been associated with. It was god-awful.

The absolute worst piece of information that can get out is your Social Security number.

The Absolute Truth of Knowledge is precisely non-Knowledge. If this Mirror called Knowledge remains in the phase where nothing is reflected in it, then it does not have a Self anymore, it does not have any element, is as empty and sterile as if it were not. Thus the Mirror is non-Knowledge more than it is Knowledge and becomes Knowledge only when other Prints of the Matrix Words reflect in it.

The absolute numbers are in the opposite direction.

The absolute necessity is diversity has to be in portfolios.

The absolute motivation for this was really to give clarity and certainty to all of our ecosystems, so we can really start our new year ... with all of these issues resolved, and a clear exciting growth path going forward with no more of the noise and distraction.

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

The absolute consistency and performance Kim has given us for four years is very, very unique. It's special and deserving of recognition. It really indicates the impact she's had throughout.

The ability to quickly access and recover lost messages has evolved into an absolute requirement. This is true, even at mid-level organizations. For these firms, that requirement adds yet one more task to IT staffs already overburdened. Continuous Exchange Protection is specifically designed to solve this challenge, making it easier for companies to comply with the regulations without having to devote significant time or resources to the effort.

The alternative was absolute impotence. So people were eager to try it out, especially when the potential of failure presented no obvious downside.

That was an absolute nightmare day for us, ... We lost four players that day through injury, but the result killed us too. There wasn't the same desire to go and win a football match because the players didn't need to. We were already safe, having got to the 40-point barrier quicker than Leicester had ever done before.

That?s the new NHL and that?s what they want and that?s what they?re going to get. They?ve gone from one extreme to an absolute other extreme, and that, as a player, is frustrating.

Who can know the absolute truth of illusion or emptiness? That is why we feel the fulfilled sense of this world.

We continue to make progress toward reaching pro forma operating profitability in the fourth quarter of 2001, ... This quarter, the U.S. was profitable on a pro forma operating basis for the first time, and this is our sixth sequential quarter of improved absolute pro forma operating results.

We continue to focus our attention on absolute volume growth driven by Customer and Firm trading activity. Ultimately, the success of an exchange must be based on its acceptance by these two constituencies. I am pleased to note that ISE remains the number one venue for Customer and Firm combined trading activity in equity options.

When it comes to words, Cindy is an absolute expert.

We can say with absolute certainty that we're back.

We effectively managed our distribution channel to closely match our shipments in with distributor sales out. Channel re-sales were seasonally down about 3% during the first quarter but were more than 17% higher than a year ago. We managed our sales into the channel to this level of re-sales, resulting in a slight decrease in absolute inventory levels for approximately flat weeks of supply in the channel compared to the prior quarter.

We got done three times on the counter by an awfully good team and they managed to stick their chances away. We had a boat load of chances at this end and we missed some absolute sitters and it cost us in the end. But the game can be very cruel sometimes like that and we were just on the wrong end of it tonight.

We are the car manufacturer who grew the most, not only in growth rate but in absolute numbers, which was very rewarding ... since we were not on the front line of the incentive game,

We played the worst game at the absolute worst time, but we were hoping one game wasn't going to spoil all the wonderful things we did all year long. I'm pleased the committee, in my mind, did the right thing.

We had him rated high up there because of his athletic and football ability. But that's the cherry on top, that he is such a good person. He's an absolute A-class, first-rate person.

You are going to have double the traffic at the worst time. They can't widen the road (because there's no room). It's going to be an absolute nightmare.

We have always had absolute zero tolerance for sexual meetings. As for short-term liaisons, who is Match to say whether an encounter will last one night or a whole lifetime?

We believe the limits of the human condition prevent anyone from having the absolute truth. That's the whole idea of this University, isn't it?

Time is of the absolute essence if we are to restore the public's trust.

True humanness consists of a continuous series of tiny acts executed with absolute sincerity and largeness of heart.

Troy's remarkable vision, understanding of the game and penchant for hard work were evident since day one, ... He has already blossomed into an outstanding announcer and I'm looking forward to the work that he and Joe Buck produce with the added room that a two-man booth provides. I know they will form the absolute best NFL broadcast team in the business.

tried mimicking me right from the start. It was a distraction. Their captain, who has been mouthing off all about sportsmanship, is talking to the (chair umpire) on every second point of my serve. That's not sportsmanship ... that's absolute rubbish.

We've been given absolute assurances that they won't move into Kosovo,

We forecast strong spending on software applications in calendar year 2001. But the priority stack has shifted towards supply chain/B2B collaboration and select areas of CRM/content management. We believe the heavy damage is already done. While we can't call the absolute bottom, we believe we are nearing the trough.

We made it our absolute mission to do regional coverage, not just coverage from one city.

The problem is, things can't get any better, or that's the perception out there in the marketplace. In fact we would concur with that opinion. This is a notoriously cyclical sector; that isn't likely to change any time soon. Housing starts are at absolute peak levels. People are concerned where the upside is.

We are in absolute position to be the bank that moves into the Pacific century,

Those kids are fantastic people and hopefully they'll understand why I took this job. I wish nothing but the absolute best for them for all but two games next year.

We are really going to miss her greatly when she leaves, ... but we have absolute confidence that she will do well when she gets there. She is a very confident young woman.

The peace process lies in absolute ruins, ... And the responsibility for that -- and for restoring it -- lies with (British Prime Minister) John Major.

The payroll survey is the best measure of the absolute amount of employment and employment trends, and this is really quite a pessimistic report.

The path of the imam is the absolute path of the Islamic republic. He was the founder of the revolution. He is the reference of the revolution.

We promised an absolute majority and that's what we're going to give the country.

We don't have an absolute stud, per se, that throws mid to high 80s. But we've got five or six quality pitchers that mix it up, throw strikes, and now they've learned how to win, which is the key.

There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the idea that more people might connect with music. That infuriates me more than I can say.

The only reason we played that hole was because there was no other fairway to play. Everything else was under water. It was an absolute mess. It was a monumental operation just to get the thing done.