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We definitely get away from the offense. Everyone is just running around and wants to do it on their own and not executing. But that's not how it works and you end up getting blown out.

We don't know if the cotton has been blown out, but most of the storm probably went to the east of the cotton-growing area from Pointe Coupee (Parish) north through the Delta,

We don't know how the fire started. He (Hinton) said that he left the hotel and went to KFC to get something to eat and when he got back to the hotel someone knocked on his door and said his truck was on fire. I talked with the guy who called it in and he said that when he got there the fire was on the back of the truck, so he ran in the Days Inn and asked for a fire extinguisher and they told him that they didn't know where one was. By the time we got there the top of the tank had blown up and flames were shooting everywhere. The truck was totally engulfed.

We believe 20 of the dead were women and children, six were men and another is unknown. It is difficult to get the exact toll because many of the bodies were blown to pieces.

West Aurora is a good team. If we had gotten blown out, that would have been really bad. But we battled 'em.

We've blown so many games this year. Good teams don't let up when they have a lead. We did that tonight.

Well, the score says it all, 42-10. It's embarrassing. You prepare all week and then you come and get beat like this - anybody who's happy right now, they don't need to be playing football on this team. National television game, we've got a chance to make a statement. Instead, we wound up getting blown out the way we did. That's embarrassing.

What if that thing would have blown right into his eyes or something like that.

We have been getting blown out in a lot of games because we have been getting so far behind. The last three we have had a chance to win which is a good sign. They needed that because they are trying.

When I was four years old, some friends of my family took me to see 'Fantasia' and I was totally blown away. From that minute on I wanted to be an animator.

This whole thing has just blown up ridiculously.

This whole thing about the hurricanes has gotten somehow blown out of proportion from what the original request was, ... How it went from that to what transpired yesterday, I don't know.

We knew that if we came in here and played around or didn't play with the right mind set, we were going to get blown out. We came in and took some of their 3-pointers away.

We keep sinking our hopes with self-inflicted wounds. Once we eliminate the mental mistakes and blown assignments, we'll start seeing the wins.

This year, we got beat by 20 a couple of times and that was hard to take. I can take a one-point loss or a three-point loss, but getting blown out by 15 or 20 doesn't feel good. Even at home we got beat by a lot at times and that's a personal pride thing. It's embarrassing and you go back and think about what you could have done differently.

We didn't get the big hit yesterday. We could have blown them out of the water.

We had a couple of blown defensive assignments that gave Wicksburg some big plays. We got a little big-eyed and we got tired. We had 101 snaps in three quarters. They were in better shape than we were.

Trying to get one of those birds and the snails together is problematic. So I suspect that some type of wading bird, with a cargo of stowaway snails tucked into its feathers, was blown off course by a storm and deposited the snails on these islands.

To this day, I still haven't touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and haven't blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry, or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.

The only thing I said to them before the game was if you don't bring energy, you'll get blown out. The kids proved to themselves they can play. The key will be, can we keep this up every night?

The only thing I'm disappointed with this year is ending the regular season on a four-game losing streak. But it's not like we're getting blown out. We've struggled with free throws and turnovers, and we'll get better. I just hope it happens this weekend.

When you look around the league, you don't see them getting blown out. They just play hard. They hang right there and they lose in the end because they don't have the talent that everyone else does.

When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end. You want them to be swept up in your story, on the edge of their seats, unable to wait to see what happens next, be blown away and afterwards just go, 'Wow!'

While I was in Kosovo, a 50-year-old man was collecting firewood. He was in a forest (and) he stepped on a cluster bomblet. He was blown to pieces,

With one simple move the president has blown a hole in the nuclear rules that the entire world has been playing by and broken his own word to assure that we will not ship nuclear technology to India without the proper safeguards.

We are excited to be aligned with a publishing label like 2K Games that shares similar development goals and vision. Fans will be blown away when they see the next-generation titles we are working on.

Experience gets you through tough times and that's one thing we've proved so far. After going down 2-0 in the series and getting blown out in Buffalo, we played really well here. But we need to do it all over again when we go to Buffalo on Sunday.

Every time I've done a fund raiser, I've been blown away by the amount of money and the generosity that our fans have.

Every time I try to talk to a police officer, I just get blown off,

We've been playing well enough to win all year. We know we can play with everybody. We've only been blown out a couple of times.

We were in real danger of being blown out right at the beginning. We couldn't get anything going on offense, and we couldn't stop them. We were struggling, sinking quick. But we adjusted personnel and our defense.

Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long John Hunter blues, before and after, that's what I am.

(Tonight) was a good game. We made two bad pitches, and they took advantage of it. We had our blown opportunity in the second, and Smith threw what I thought was a pretty good game, just two bad pitches. Ironically, this was probably the best game he's thrown.

To-night the winds begin to rise/ And roar from yonder dropping day:/ The last red leaf is whirled away,/ The rooks are blown about the skies.

To me, he has been the best player all year. Will it hurt him getting injured? I don't know, but as far as I'm concerned his statistics speak for themselves. In his position, he has blown everybody away. He's as deserving as anybody in the country, I think.

There is no reason in this world this tire made it. It should have blown five laps ago. I knew it was going to be bad. Ten laps into the race, I could feel it. I just slowed down and kept her straight and didn't spin the tires.

We have a case, a situation that's been blown out of proportion due to maybe my public image. There is nothing to be worried about from our perspective. We've done nothing wrong.

Those (questions) are never going to go away. It's always going to be this thing that gets blown up bigger than it is.

What I want to emphasize is that this is a victim of a homicide. This is a woman with children, with family members, who was sitting in a car and had a gun put to her head and her brains blown out.

We have absolutely blown the doors off the number of duck callers this year. There's going to be more duck caller booths than you can shake a stick at. If you like the noise, come and enjoy.

You hate to lose any game, but I don't mind getting blown out because it's a little easier. You're more relaxed, at least when you know the end should be near.

We were only disappointed because the kids worked really hard and didn't come away with a win to show for it. But I heard the kids say that they had never been so satisfied in a loss. We could've been blown out, but we came out and went toe-to-toe with them for 95 plus minutes.

What are you going to yell and scream about? Maybe you can say, 'Hey, you guys are playing hard!' I mean, obviously, our record isn't what we'd like it to be. At the same time, we're still going out there and staying in every game. It's not like we're getting blown out of the water.

We lost money the first year I was here, but we've made money every year since 1999. I think the board of directors that hired me would be blown away by what we're doing now. I know I'm blown away. We've grown into one of the more lucrative festivals in the state.

We had the wrong protections. We had blown reads by the quarterbacks. We had blown routes run by the receivers. We got to be perfect to be a good team.

The puck went in, and the referee admitted that he had blown the whistle before the puck went in and apologized. It was a really tough break. It would have been great to have the tie at that point, and take our chances in overtime.

We saw what teams like Chelmsford and others do by scheduling tough non-league games. Chelmsford got blown out by Gloucester, but still won their league. Non-league games don't hurt you, but they certainly can get you ready for your league season.

This situation has been completely blown out of proportion. This was just boys after basketball practice goofing off, simple horseplay.

We went through the motions like we're thinking we're big time. We could have been blown out of the building.

We went into this thinking we'd see 2,000 people total for both days. We've seen some awesome resumes today. I've been blown away by the type of employees we're seeing.

Brandon took it home. Everyone was blown away.

Both will get on track. Even though Brad has given up the lead and blown a couple of saves, I think he's throwing the ball pretty well. When he gets his location where he wants it to be, he's going to be fine.

Even in a city touchy about civil rights, New Yorkers pick a bag search over the threat of being blown up.

Everybody knows Jen went about it the wrong way. But really, all of it was blown out of proportion by the media.

Everyone was blown away when they came into our house. A lot of people talked about how it was a home that they would move in today.

As they make purchases and pay bills throughout the month from the checking account, they know they've blown the budget if they run out of money too fast,

Assuming that something like this happened, an appeal would have been filed. In the best case, that appeal would probably not have been heard until April, but now that all this information is out, it's impossible to know what might happen. I would be blown away if Ricky Williams used drugs, and that's how most of the people around him also feel.

CORONATION, n. The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.

Are you ready to have your mind blown apart by the most awesome show in the universe. ... Tonight is your night to rage against the machine.

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.

There's a glass shortage now because there was a lot of glass blown out by the hurricanes that went through here last year. We're working with a vendor now to get the glass replaced.

There's no question that the issue of power and cooling is a growing concern. The assumptions used for building data centers have been blown away.

There's no such thing as overkill. It's the law of the street. You put the other guy down and you kick him until he can't get up. Why take a chance? There are plenty of guys who have been 20 points up and have blown it.

There's no doubt in my mind that 'Slam' is going to be huge. It's a film about the power of language. People are going to see this and get blown away.

There's no FEMA. No Red Cross. No help. People are sick. The water is like toxic gumbo. We're the forgotten little town that got blown away.

It would have been very easy to put Brian in some area that would appear to be the end of the world, and he was one gust from being blown away.

They are all very relieved and feel that justice has been served. This was all just one big misunderstanding that got blown way out of proportion.

I've played a lot of games there, and every time it's always been a good one, except for that time we got blown out by LSU, ... Other than that, it was all good.

It was. To get blown out on national TV by a team we like to think we're better than ... We all knew what the situation was. We knew we had a history of that type of performance after a big game. We wanted to change that, but we didn't.

It was when '21' came out. I was in Los Angeles and my face was everywhere: on buses, on posters, on the side of buildings. I didn't feel that blown away by it. I was still hungry to prove myself. I realised that quite quickly, that I had to find something that challenged me from an acting point of view.

It was absolute silence in that room. Everybody was blown away by his message.

These comments were blown off. Board members wanted to accept what was being told to us by the Board attorney and KPMG. Their ears simply were closed to any other information that was being provided.

These comments were blown off, ... Board members wanted to accept what was being told to us by the Board attorney and KPMG. Their ears simply were closed to any other information that was being provided.

The sending off was a turning point to a certain extent. For me it is not even a sending off, it was a minor incident that was blown out of proportion and overshadows what was potentially a great game of football.

The thing with 'Alphas' is that, even though it's sci-fi, I run into lots of people that have watched the show for various reasons. They're like, 'I had no expectation, and I'm totally blown away and fascinated.'

I've been a huge fan of Steven Bochco's for over two decades. I'm blown away excited to see how much more he will electrify 'Commander In Chief,'

I've been a huge fan of Steven Bochco's for over two decades, ... I'm blown away, excited to see how much more he will electrify Commander in Chief.

Sometimes being with Victoria was like tiptoeing through a mine field. Put one foot wrong and everything is going to be blown sky-high. It was exciting, but often frightening. She had a terrible temper at times.

Ryan Hubbard also made a big defensive play for us. We had a little bit of blown pass coverage and Hubbard came flying over to knock a pass away that could have been about a 40-yard gain for them in the first half.

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

Power poles and trees were down, roofs were blown off and there was no electricity. Those were sad sights.

Put real life in perspective... I am not in awe by the media or HBO... they are the ones that have made Roy Jones into some kind of icon... they have blown him up... well I am the one who popped that balloon.

Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extension of the world in time and space. That we are here, prosperous, safe, unlikely to go to bed hungry or be blown to pieces this evening, while elsewhere in the world, right now in Grozny, in Najaf, in the Sudan, in the Congo, in Gaza, in the favelas of Rio....To be a travelerand novelists are often travelersis to be constantly reminded of the simultaneity of what is going on in the world, your world and the very different world you have visited and from which you have returned home.

Reality TV has blown away the need for a roster of familiar faces in films. Plus, films became franchise and didn't need stars. But the real difference between stars and celebrities is that stars have training and talent, and celebrities just have exposure.

People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.

People blame the 1960s for just about everything these days, but it was the decade when all that post-war furtiveness and small-mindedness was finally blown open, and opportunity really came knocking.

The mulch that is sold at Lowe's comes from known sources, not storm wood or blown down timber.

After every game they've lost, the next game they've come out and blown teams out.

The moral of the story is that with each person justice is served, but what is justice at the end of the day when my brains are blown out anyway?

The money is attractive, but we have to look long term at the health of our program. We don't want to go out and get blown out, because then all of a sudden the '07 game is not as attractive.

Demand is incredible. Customers are blown away by it. The flavor of whitebait is so subtle.

An electrician was called and ultimately determined that (the) problem was bigger than a blown fuse or two.

As a staff we take pride in what we're doing this season. We have a high level of cohesiveness. I'm very proud of these guys. I feel bad the streak is getting the attention and it's kind of blown out of proportion.

As a human being, you are certainly entitled to your own opinion. It's just that you're blown out of proportion in the media sometimes. Even if I weren't an actor, I'd still be active in things that are important to me.

That was a catastrophe, a performance I can't expect. If we had our normal form, we would have blown them away. Either I speak with each player about the problem - or I talk to the coach.

You only get blown out if you stand there and let people punch you and you don't fight back. That's what happened to us.

Young men and women are dying and being blown up at the very moment the American people are going the other way,

This is not an easy business folks, ... Disaster management is not a matter of reading a guide book and then showing up in the middle of a small town that has just been blown off the map by tornadoes.

The whole bloody place is blown apart ... This is going to be a long, slow recovery.

This government's budget is barely six months old and it's already been blown to smithereens, ... The government seems to have abandoned all pretence of control on the public purse.