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Those who first advocated religious toleration were thought wicked, and so were the early opponents of slavery.

We didn't score much but we held our opponents way down. We played solid defense both games.

We play tough, I just don't think we bring it every night. Sometimes we let our opponents get an edge on us at first. If you let a player get comfortable with you and get into their rhythm, then they can do whatever they want.

We play in the Ivy League, where we're one of the better teams year-in and year-out. We play in a major metropolitan city. We play four games against Big 5 opponents every year. That has all the makings of a good job.

When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on.

When a team gives you an out, you've got to take it. We just cannot allow a team extra outs. We don't have the strong pitching that our opponents have. When the outs are there, we must take them.

We did things necessary to stop our opponents at crucial times and win games. Defensive rebounds and taking good shots in the last four to five minutes.

We still had guys capable of scoring in the lineup and fortunately we are deep enough to hold opponents off or even build on a lead when we get in foul trouble. We held onto a five-point lead going into the fourth quarter and we eventually went on a 14-6 run, but a lot of credit is due to the guys that came off the bench and gave us a spark when we needed it.

We are just really happy with today's results. We put together two solid rounds and put ourselves in a good position for another one tomorrow. Playing with two top-ranked opponents gives our kids some great experience and it's an opportunity for them to show they can play with the best in the country.

We definitely see that it's attainable now, but we focus on opponents as they come. We're winning, but even better, we're getting better every game.

We believed Brad was the elite coaching candidate. He came from a winning program with the Philadelphia Eagles. He's an NFC guy, knows NFC opponents and played an important role in the development of Pro Bowl quarterback Donovan McNabb.

Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.

The best have the courage and I say this all the time. The courage to take the ball all the time, the courage to make sure that they are not going to be intimidated by their opponents, and the courage to express themselves at all times and I think that all the great players have got that.

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

What we're trying to accomplish in all of this is, when possible, we'd like to play in-state, around our fans. And we look at where the opponents are and see which site makes sense, because there is also a financial aspect in all of this.

When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.

Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.

But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!

There's no doubt Milos Raonic will be a very tough final opponent, after all he beat [ Roger] Federer on Centre Court to get there.

Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around - to defeat an opponent and lift you up.

a man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.

the baresark loses all fear; his method is all-out attack, and invariably he takes his opponent with him even if he falls.

I prefer being able to see my opponent. It is just different for me; I didn't grow up with the internet age really.

So be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and patience you might show a young child - the child you once were. If you won’t be your own friend, who will be? If, when playing an opponent, you are also opposing yourself, you will be outnumbered.

If you face just one opponent, and you doubt yourself, you're out-numbered

It's been reported that some of Arnold Schwarzenegger's opponents have been circulating naked pictures of Arnold on the Internet. Yeah, in a related story, Arnold is leading the other candidates by four inches.

Earlier today, President Bush said Kerry will be a tough and hard-charging opponent. That explains why Bush's nickname for Kerry is math.

Walks killed us and we missed some easy fly balls. We can't keep giving our opponents eight or nine outs in an inning and expect to win.

We have contacted some top opponents to play them on March 1 and we are just waiting for their reply. We are ready to take them on home and away.

With a 12-game regular-season in effect, we want to play seven home games each year. You would rather play opponents within the state that people are familiar with and can identify with than play a school with no name recognition. Financially, it's a win-win situation for everyone in the state.

We congratulate our opponents and call on them to accept our victory.

We don't care how big or strong opponents are as long as they are human.

When I was working on the unauthorized biography 'Stan Musial: An American Life,' which came out in 2011, old opponents recalled how Musial knew their names after they had been in the majors only a few days.

We're much further along than I thought we'd be. We've tried to focus on us more than our opponents of late.

We knew Meridian would concentrate on stopping David. All of our opponents have done that in the second half. You can't leave Cortez open.

We've competed against a number of our possible opponents over the last few years and we believe we're now ready to do our very best in Melbourne.

We've built this fan base not on scheduling patsies. We've built it on bringing in the top opponents throughout the country from a lot of conferences and our fans deserve that. We also think that to be the best you have to play the best.

We had a chance the last four games against easier opponents than Ottawa. It's not a playoff, but it's almost like a playoff game.

This will have a profound impact on stem-cell research. The opponents of the research will feel themselves to be vindicated.

The players want to leave a legacy that they were tough. When they get out on the field they want their opponents to say. 'You know what, those guys were tough.' That's what I would say the attitude of our team is.

The players really like the idea of having a permanent home where the team can feel comfortable, get more support from the fans and where our opponents will feel uncomfortable,

When you do things that are uncharacteristic, we had to play well on special teams, and we didn't do that. When you do things that are not characteristic, even subtle things, you have to give your opponents a lot of credit.

The players here are all super-high caliber so it means a lot. I've kind of seen what my opponents were willing to give me and adjusted at the table.

(Without Jagr) it probably gave our opponents some confidence at least.

We are excited about our upcoming foot-ball season. I think everyone knows we have worked diligently to improve the quality of non-conference opponents and this schedule is a direct result of our efforts.

Finally I can sign something my opponents won't criticize,

Both our opponents packed in a zone defense and we did not shoot the ball well. But we did play well enough on defense to get things done.

We've been outhitting our opponents most of the time. Tonight, we got the big hits in the second game, and that's the one thing that's been eluding us the whole season.

We've been outhitting our opponents most of the times lately. We're just not getting the big hit. Tonight, we got the big hits in that second game. That's one thing that's been eluding us the whole season. We got a couple of them tonight.

we've been opponents in politics, but never opponents in purpose.

We're improving each game on defense, but we have to get even better. We've been playing a lot of close games lately, so it's important to keep our opponents off the scoreboard.

Transitions are a time of testing, and both sides will have something to prove -- the NATO forces to show they are tough, their opponents to show they won't run. There will be more troops and more targets. It will be a pretty messy summer.

Yes, we're a good deal worse than I first thought. We've been bad in the first half in both our games and we've only improved when our opponents have tired.

While the president continues to highlight the successes of our troops, and the plan for victory in Iraq, his opponents in the Congress have yet to provide a plan of their own.

We wanted to play against tough opponents and we got to learn something.

Well I expect we'll have more of interlocking or balanced schedule with all our (Coastal) opponents instead of the unbalanced schedule we've had in the past.

We're stronger at the back and opponents are having a hard time scoring goals against us. Scoring goals is not our problem. We've always done that.

I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of possibilities, and break them into dichotomies, assigning one group to one pole and the other to an opposite end, with no acknowledgment of subtleties and intermediate positions and nearly always with moral opprobrium attached to opponents.

The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.

We've held our last three opponents under 50 points. If we hold the next team under 50, I'm going to be doing a lot of defensive clinics.

We had a good road trip last time and, hopefully, we'll continue to try to do that. We are seeing two tough opponents and we are going to see what we are made of.

We have a couple of tough opponents coming up. Millis is a good squad and I don't know much about Dover-Sherborn, but we just need to play our game.

To all the players I had the chance to play with over my career, I thank you for all your hard work and dedication, your friendship, and for making this entire experience one I thoroughly enjoyed. To all my opponents over the years, I always had the utmost respect for your talents and how you competed every night. To the equipment guys and medical staffs, I thank you for all the hours you quietly put in to make sure that the players have the best opportunity to do their jobs well.

Those two Big 12 opponents on our pre-conference schedule will provide us with a great challenge, while the return trip to South Dakota State and that whole trip around Christmas break will really tell us where we're at as a team. I think we've got games we can learn from, especially with seven new players and nine of our 15 being freshman or sophomores.

This was our weakest point. We didn't have a player consistently score in double figures so that opponents would have to worry about stopping two or three different players. It was a struggle.

We cannot afford to underestimate any of our opponents but if we continue to play as we have done so far this summer, then we will qualify.

We kind of knew it before the game because of some of the opponents they faced, we had played also. They only had one good player in the middle.

We tried to set the tempo early. We knew we would be flat, and our defense helped us pull through it. Defense is what we do best. Our goal is to hold our opponents to 45 points and under. Allowing only 30 points is a credit to the kids.

We talked about it all week long among the coaches and the players. To give Richfield its credit, they had a lot of good football players last year but everybody has one of those opponents and Richfield traditionally brings tough, football-playing kids.

We talked about it all week long among the coaches and the players, ... To give Richfield its credit, they had a lot of good football players last year but everybody has one of those opponents and Richfield traditionally brings tough, football-playing kids.

We just need to go out there and play our game, and not worry about how our opponents have fared against other teams. We will just take it one game at a time wherever we go.

With four games left, plus the playoffs, she has a shot at the record. She's definitely somebody our opponents have to pay attention to out on the perimeter. When she gets a good look at the basket, we feel pretty confident about her ability to make the three.

We felt all three were sectional-caliber opponents and, obviously, Northwest is in our sectional. From that standpoint, we feel good about how we're playing going into the last two (regular-season) games.

Weight is a controversial topic in the NFL. I mean, you tell a guy to watch his weight but he goes to six or eight Pro Bowls in a row because he mashes his opponents because he is big. To me, that's a life issue. Is there a difference between an NFL player being heavy and a CEO working 20-hour days?

We certainly want to make sure that we have a complete profile, so we know who our opponents are. But, what we are specifically researching, I can't go over.

We did a much better job on Richey tonight. Overall, I thought our effort was much better. Teams like Shorter and Berry are tougher for our team to play against. We are geared towards the other more physical opponents in our conference.

We like to pressure our opponents and play an up-tempo game. We're young, and we're still developing.

We created more opportunities than our opponents and this gives us confidence for the return leg.

Boxing is a never-ending story. New fighters keep coming along. Opponents keep popping up. The next superstar is always on the way.

At the moment she has no real opponents and has had no big problems to solve. This is no secure basis of trust for the chancellor.

Conroy weighs in at 106 and wrestled opponents near 114. He wrestles non-stop. He has the heart of a lion. He pushed his opponent to the edge in both matches.

Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.

The responsibility for lying to the American people and targeting critics and dissidents needs to go all the way up the chain of command. Scooter Libby was clearly one of the administration's attack dogs unleashed on opponents of this fraudulent war, but he serves higher masters.

The Tory decision wouldn't seem to have done Ken Clarke's hopes a great deal of good and we think David Davis now has the clear edge over his opponents with Liam Fox - whose odds we have halved from 12/1 - potentially his main challenger

I shared with him I understood the dilemma he was in that no matter what decision he made, his opponents would find a reason to criticize him but that if he used the surplus and increased taxes on business, not only would they criticize him, but he would risk losing his base.

I've been in this league a long time and I never feel like the SEC is given its due. If you look around the country right now, there are leagues out there that are very top heavy, but there are not many out there that have the balance that our conference has. If you look at what some of our teams have done to quality opponents outside the league, it's pretty impressive.

I've worn down opponents before and today that's what he did to me.

I've never thought about it that much; I just try to have a plan of how to play the game. Within that plan you have to take teams that are good at defending physically and make them think. In the first half we didn't make Hearts think enough. We made them defend physically, which they handled. We made them think more in the second half. Again, you just can't play the one way all the time. If the team you play against can get in that mentality, then all they have to do is defend. If you can make opponents think, then defend physically, then think... that is what you are trying to achieve that with your team.

It was another very encouraging game. We played a strong game and look to do the same against some tough opponents Saturday.

The Social Security surplus is always being spent. Now it's going to defense and rebuilding rather than paying down debt. From a psychological standpoint, spending it may even be good for privatization. Opponents might use that surplus as a hedge, saying we've got money in a lock-box and don't need to privatize.

Tens of thousands of documents have already been released ? more than any Supreme Court nominee in history, ... And with each new release of information, it's growing increasingly difficult for the president's opponents to complain with a straight face about the need for more information.

Scoring a goal is a euphoric feeling-and it's not so much the puck going in. It's the reaction from your teammates, the opponents and the fans-like, to shut up a crowd or to have your fans go berserk is the greatest feeling. It makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

Ryan is one of the quickest kids that we have ever had. Both offensively and defensively, he gave opponents problems.

Right now, we've got three big-time opponents coming up and I think our kids are going to play well. Whether we can beat them or not, we will find out but ... we've just got to go play.

Sam is our strongest and most skilled player. With him and with the way Michael Williams is playing right now, we have what some of our opponents might call a two-headed monster.

People argue that heavy trucks require longer braking distances for any given speed, and lower truck speeds help equalize the stopping distance. On the other hand, opponents of lower truck speed limits have suggested that the differential speeds increase speed variance and therefore have a negative impact on highway safety. Our research demonstrates that it is likely that both of these arguments are correct.

Opponents would have you believe the law would change Missouri into a Wild West shootout,

Opponents on both sides want the debate to be about science, ... mainly because of the apparent legitimacy science carries as compared to debating actual values, which these debates are about anyway.

Opponents of U.S. sanctions have made 'unilateral sanctions' their special target. They argue that sanctions observed by many nations would be much more effective. True enough. Far better for trade with an outlaw regime to be restricted by many nations than by just one.

Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot.