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Our organization was founded in 1955 so it stood to reason that we would do a '50s theme. This event is meant to take us back to honor the founding families of our United Way.

Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and get us started, and every generation since then has found a way to advance the ball down the field.

It is crucial that we recognize the important separation of powers principles that our democracy was founded on, ... There should always be a check on the executive branch's power, the president's power, to take away that most fundamental of liberty interests and that is the government's ability to detain a person, possibly indefinitely.

The Achievement Scholarship Award was originally founded during the 1960s Civil Rights Act and is specifically for African-American high school students. It's a much smaller program but operates in a very parallel way.

We really believe in the Victor Valley. Frontier Homes was founded in the High Desert.

We can't lock everybody up forever or we will just turn back to the sort of society that founded Australia in the first place, with transportation and ridiculous sentences for minor crimes.

We founded Eos on a simple premise, that an airline could know its customers well enough to become a true specialist, offering a superior travel experience at a competitive price.

This nation was founded on small business, and I want to help make this community grow.

This nation was founded by men and women who wanted nothing more than freedom to practice their faith without government opposition, ... If we don't stand up for the religious rights of people around the world, who will?

The defense attorneys have a well founded fear, especially considering how the government has handled this up until now, that Wen Ho Lee is going to go home, they're going to debrief him, then the government is going to run into court and say 'We don't think he's been truthful, he's violated the plea agreement' and throw him back in jail,

The decision to leave a company you founded and move on to a new project is never an easy one.

We've come a long way in the 10 years since we founded the company. As one of the earliest pioneers in online gaming we have been part of and important to the birth and amazing growth of this industry. It has been a very difficult and long road but we've succeeded when others failed and that success comes from having a great partnership between Rob and myself, a talented and dedicated team, great partners and a willingness to risk everything in order to succeed.

But our society is founded on the fact that we don't want to give the government this broad-based power.

Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history, because it was a town that was founded by Quakers in 1733.

We were founded on Aug. 29, 2003, and now have 70 employees, about half in London and half in Tallinn, Estonia, and some in Luxembourg.

While the name Houston 1836 refers to the year that our city of Houston was founded by brothers Augustus C. and John K. Allen, we also incorporated the star and silhouette of Gen. Sam Houston.

What was really tough for me was that Lars Magnus Ericsson founded Ericsson in 1876; we've always had a consumer product. And I'm the 16th CEO of Ericsson, and I decided that we don't have any consumer products anymore.

We are turning the page, but we aren't tearing it, ... Islam is founded on pardon.

Variety was founded in 1905 and used street lingo,

Believers are not to rest in suppositions and ill-defined ideas of what constitutes truth. Their faith must be firmly founded upon the Word of God.

Digital was a company founded and run by engineers whose philosophy was, if the product is good, people will beat a path to your door.

Far be it for the public schools to teach this, but the U.S.A. was founded on basic Judeo-Christian principles. Don't believe me - take a trip to Washington D.C. and tour the Supreme Court building. There you will see a sculpted copy of the Ten Commandments on the wall.

There's recognition at last about how much there is at stake here. If you're a country founded on freedom of expression, you can't just ignore that when making deals with other countries. What a company does in the world affects the world.

The town of St. Charles near St. Louis was founded by a trapper named Blanchette. There is a section that's called Frenchtown on historical markers.

The United Nations was founded 70 years ago, at the end of World War II. Since that time, Japan has steadfastly walked the path of peace and rebuilt a nation. And, since the mid-1950s onward, we have actively worked to share our experience of development with other nations, especially in Asia.

The Wilkinson physicians have strongly supported Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital since it was founded more than 50 years ago, but I think the community has a right to know about the capacity problems that exist.

The supreme need of the world is peace and good will among men. It must be peace founded upon justice and fairness, the righting of past wrong, and the securing of the future as far as possible against the evils of the past.

Sadness... reflecting on the proud legacy of trust and fair play on which Reliance Industries was founded by my visionary father Dhirubhai Ambani, and how far RIL appeared to have moved away from those original values.

Santa Fe, or Holy Faith, was founded in 1610, same year that wall you're leaning on was built, 10 years before the landing at Plymouth Rock.

People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence

The Muslim Brotherhood, or 'the Brotherhood' for short, is an Islamic group founded in Egypt in 1928. It has been pursuing a secret campaign to take over the government since its creation.

'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions.

One could say that Patagonia is radically environmentalist, a company that's founded on those principles. But there are other examples, too. I spoke at a World Wildlife Fund dinner fundraiser last October hosted and funded by Starbucks.

Detroit is exceedingly important to Spirit. Our company was founded here and half of our employees call Michigan home.

As a white woman with a privileged education, I'm keenly aware that I founded an organization that can only realize its goal if it enlists many more leaders who share the backgrounds of the students and families we work with.

As a company founded by a competitive cyclist who wanted to create the first great-tasting, nutritious energy bar, we're ecstatic about helping bring professional cycling to California. We also value the opportunity to reduce the environmental footprint of this event while raising awareness about global warming.

You're really talking about the human condition because there's no country on Earth that wasn't founded on violence done to somebody.

This country was founded on the concept of asylum that you never return those who flee persecution to countries where they are persecuted. Are we living up to this commitment?

This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue.

This building was built 32 years ago, and it's a landmark here in Orange. Wells Fargo has been at this location for six years now, and has carried on the tradition of the original First National Bank, which was founded in 1889.

Although the U.S.-Mexico Border Counties Coalition was founded nearly a decade ago because of the high costs border counties bear to incarcerate criminal undocumented aliens and provide emergency medical care to undocumented immigrants, we want to take this opportunity to remind Congress, and the nation, that immigration is only one issue that affects the border.

America has succeeded because she was founded a Christian nation and if we hope to stop the moral decline in America and the world, we must return to those principles. We are preaching a simple message of doing what is simply right and to stop doing what is simply wrong.

America is truly special because it's founded on an idea. It's the ideological and philosophical equivalent of a formless God, in other words, you know? It's, again, the only great country in the world that it is formed out of words.

They founded the League around a kitchen table and held a provisional meeting to become a member of the League in January of 1954. But in order to become a formal chapter of the national organization, you had to do a study of your local community, you had to begin the process according to the league format.

This is the single greatest expansion in research and development since Amgen was founded in 1980. What's driving this is our robust pipeline.

This market continues to look very strong ... Enthusiasm among speculators is founded on its constructive fundamentals and general interest across commodities.

This is the largest deal we've ever done at Hudson since the company was founded in 1998, ... It will also be one of the biggest deals done in 2005 (nationally) in terms of the tax credits it generates.

At a lot of companies founded on principles, the notion of making money is almost antithetical to the ethos of the place. From the very beginning, our business has existed to meet the needs and desires of multiple constituencies: customers, team members, vendors, shareholders, the community.

A country founded on freedom should not maintain a tax code that arbitrarily places an extra burden on husbands and wives,

It was founded to afford people to get an education. That philosophy still exists.

It was founded out of frustration and anger. A lot of work just wasn't getting finished. The original goal was helping filmmakers to finish their work, but it's changed over the years.

It was founded essentially on that 50 years ago.

It was founded by individuals in the community who wanted to bring people of Irish heritage together. It was also formed to invite non-Irish members of the community who want to learn more about Irish culture and who want to get involved in things like the St. Patrick's Day parade. Membership is open to anyone, Irish or not.

It was a lot of hard work, this team is founded on hard work, first and foremost. We battle and get through games by working hard.

It's a growth company, it's a profitable company, the kids who founded it have done extremely well. But it's starting to get very lofty.

For a country founded on property rights, this is a terrible blow.

It's not a good start for cooperation if such an alliance is founded on the basis of a sheer emergency.

It's an exciting project. It's international and it was founded here. We need to look for more such opportunities.

New York Stage Originals is the company that founded Tap Kids,

No matter how much hatred and contempt you have for what that man did in the '70s and '80s, it's about what happened in this case. It's about the law. Without the law we have nothing. It's what our country was founded on.

The new Constitution is founded on the principles of the protection of human rights on the one hand, and the renunciation of war on the other.

Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.

I know that because my grandfather founded the company.

In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.

I named it the Zen Fencing Academy for my hero, a gentleman by the name of Joe Odom, who sadly passed away last year. He was my role model as a fencer and as an instructor. He founded a club in Pittsburgh, Fencers For Fun, as a method of keeping kids off the streets. He always came to (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) to help us out because we didn't have a coach. We always referred to him as the 'Zen master of fencing'. He was that wise old Pat Morita kind of character.

If people ... don't believe that, but still, for the most part, are Republican otherwise, they can be with us. But we're not going to change the course that this party was founded on,

I just happen to believe that what's at stake in the early child's development is so vital and so important, and I think it is founded in the main, in the broad cultural sense, on the relationship between the mother and child.

Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one from which it was copied

Honda deserves a standing ovation for not playing it safe again. The engineering passion that Honda ... was founded on radiates from these new Civics.

Cartoonists tend to be quite lonely, solitary animals and the whole point of the studio when it was founded was offering a team that could do larger pieces of work and larger commissions than a single cartoonist could ever hope to do.

I believe that a human embryo is worthy of legal protection, ... Western medicine has been founded on a principle: First, do no harm.

For the people who founded Farm Aid, it's probably in a much different place now than they thought it would be when they started it 20 years ago.

You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.

All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute.

The idea behind the museum was that this office is as old as the country, and the story of America is closely tied to invention. This office was founded on the idea that creativity and innovation should be encouraged, and you can actually see that here.

The E.U. is founded on the Treaties which apply only to the Member States who have agreed and ratified them.

A great character, founded on the living rock of principle, is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency. It survives the man who possessed it . . .

The earth with its store of wonders untold,/ Almighty! thy power hath founded of old; / Hath 'stablished it fast by a changeless decree, / And round it hath cast like a mantle the sea.

The Forum for Corporate Directors was founded in 1991 specifically to promote the highest standards of corporate ethics and best governance practices for board of directors of both public and privately held corporations and institutions, and this annual dinner program was created in the early 1990s to honor the best of the best among Orange County's outstanding community of corporate directors.

The country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.

America was founded on the principle of freedom of speech.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.

The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.

Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits

Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony. If you protest, my friend, wait till you arrive there yourself!

Today, President Bush is faced with a decision that affects each and every American and has the potential to impact every facet of constitutional law and the freedoms this country was founded upon.

The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion

The Government does not intend these things to happen, the Commission on whose report the Bill was founded did not intend these things to happen, but in legislation intention is nothing, and the letter of the law everything, and no government has the

There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents; for with these it would belong to the first class

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from wantà. The fourth is freedom from fear.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom...in a clarification of life--not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.