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My wife said this was supposed to be a steppingstone, and we've been here 22 years. The kids play only because they love it. If they leave early, it is only to chase other goals in academics. You don't have to worry about who is on scholarship and who is not on scholarship. It changes the atmosphere both in the meeting rooms and on the field. You give up the lights and a little money just to coach this.

My parents were wonderful people, but there were terrible rows between them, and at times I found the atmosphere at home unbearable. The Arthur Ransome books gave me an alternative childhood and the tools to escape.

Longer days mean more hours of sunshine. Those hours infuse the atmosphere with more energy, which, in turn, can fuel strong storms.

Lone eagles, soaring in the clouds, fly with silent, peaceful poise,While turkeys, in their earth-bound crowds, fill the atmosphere with noise.

Marietta got exactly what they needed out of region. If we can beat Marietta then we can win state. The region meet is completely irrelevant to state. It is an entirely different atmosphere with the stress and intensity. And we get to see half the rest of state we haven't seen all year.

I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain

I was truly impressed. They have done a fantastic job and it was hard to start from scratch. Getting used to the heat, living in tents, and they are not so young, ... There is such a different atmosphere up there compared with Zimbabwe.

It feels good to be playing a junior tournament again. It has been quite a while. I love the Easter Bowl, with all the age groups here, and both boys and girls, the atmosphere and activity here, as well as the tough matches, there's nothing like it.

It doesn't surprise me that this conflict is coming to a head, given the old-boy mentality that still pervades over there. They are still in a bit of a honeymoon period. Everybody knows the transition from a clubby atmosphere to being a public company isn't going to be easy. I think people are willing to cut them some slack for a little while, but that's not going to last for long.

It created an atmosphere and got things going.

It'd be like having dust storms in Arizona immediately affecting the atmosphere in Brazil.

I think it will probably be the kind of atmosphere that you hope for as a coach. This is what it's all about. It will be a great game.

I think I've got to help everybody have a better atmosphere to do their job. I don't call the plays on offense and defense. I have over the years, but prefer the role of being able to help those guys. I don't feel like I've helped them as much as I could have.

I think the team that plays in the opening round has a little advantage in the semifinal game. District play is a totally different atmosphere and it certainly took us awhile to adjust.

I think this is going to be a great atmosphere even for non-basketball fans. We have two stellar teams with a chance to go head-to-head in a pivotal game. I'm sure it's going to be a packed house.

I think this is a great opportunity for us. Playing at The Pit can be a lot of fun. It's a great atmosphere and a great place to play basketball.

I'm so excited. Man, it's going to be awesome. Last year's Opening Day was a day game in Baltimore, and it didn't really have the sort of atmosphere this year will have. We'll be at home, it's the Yankees and Randy Johnson -- that's just perfect. It couldn't be any better.

I might be biased but the Millennium Stadium is about the best in Europe. The closeness of the city centre to the stadium itself makes for a brilliant atmosphere and everyone is near the action on the pitch as well,

Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that is of value in drying and hardening the structure of thought. The greater value of indirect experience lies in its greater variety and extent. History is universal experience, the experience not of another, but of many others under manifold conditions.

Love is not a theme. It's an atmosphere, a mood.

It's a strange atmosphere always over there, it is darker and less glamorous, and you don't feel as high. It is a different kind of test - can you raise your level in a less exciting environment and perhaps still a very difficult one?

The all-ages atmosphere is about music and community and having a good, sober time. Not about older men dancing with teenage girls.

The architecture was beautiful. There's an atmosphere there you just don't get in the United States.

The application for that is that we'll eventually understand the variations and be able to see the atmosphere well enough to predict them.

The athletes are still out competing the same as a Division I team, and I think we've done a good job of creating an atmosphere where they're responsible for their actions and their play.

That was the loudest atmosphere I have ever been in. I had goose bumps.

That was the first time this season everyone's scored. I was pleased with the way we played on Thursday. It was a playoff-type atmosphere with a big crowd and our kids were up for it.

That was a major reason why I wanted to come to Phoenix. I'm so excited about the style of basketball that's played here and the atmosphere and commitment to winning.

That was a great junior high basketball game. It was a great atmosphere between a couple of great teams. It's really great to be moving on.

That was a real battle and it was like a playoff atmosphere n it was real exciting. We played hard and it was a knock-out, drag-out game that was close all the way.

That's the type of atmosphere we're trying to build here. As the year has gone on, the crowds have gotten bigger and bigger.

I was really impressed with the way he threw the ball. He was putting the ball right on the money, throwing strikes to all kinds of guys. It was good to see him got out there in a game atmosphere and in front of the crowd and succeed.

I was really happy with the way we battled back. We had a great crowd and it was just a nice atmosphere for Senior Night, our last home game. I still think we're making strides, but Larkin's a good team.

I was proud of our kids for how we battled in the second half. We were down by such a deficit and it was a carnival-type of atmosphere in the first half. We played with a lot of heart and desire. There was no quit in the batch that was on the floor.

My colleagues and I want to start people thinking about the phytoplankton in the ocean and the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as an evolutionary problem in the context of the organisms that are doing the cycling. We think that's a big factor in climate regulation,

We have our hands full. It makes it tougher, no doubt about it. It's going to be a home atmosphere for Florida. We're going to be in a hostile environment. We have to do our best to keep the fans as quiet as possible.

We continue to fight together. Hermann is not that old, and I'm not that young anymore. We've experienced a lot of things together. There is a good atmosphere between us.

We put in extra bleachers behind the baskets and we still had a lot of people standing. It was a great atmosphere for a high school basketball game. We just needed a couple of 6-8 guys.

We hope the experience of hosting last year helps a little this year. It's a different atmosphere and a different week leading up to the game.

You always worry about kids going home to their hometowns. You don't know how they'll react. But we try to make it easy for them, and create the atmosphere that it's a business trip.

Yesterday, we didn't show up, we didn't play the way we wanted to, so we re-focused and re-prepared for the game tonight. It's a playoff atmosphere when you get to play the same team the following day with it fresh in your mind what happened the previous day.

We emphasized before the game that we couldn't let the atmosphere and early intimidation blow us out. We tried to give it away early, but the kids bounced back. We knew (the speed) was coming. You can talk about it and simulate it all you want, but you've got to deal with it on the court.

We are trying to create an atmosphere for all views to surface and all positions to be heard.

We are thrilled that Sally Mann and Catherine Opie responded with such enthusiasm to curator Thomas Padon's invitation to create new work especially for the exhibition. Looking at all of the photographs in the exhibition, I am still struck by the diversity of artistic expressions to the form, atmosphere and symbolism of the garden.

We played some decent football and the boys were in confident mood today. We also missed several opportunities, which could prove fatal on another day. On Thursday we will be under heavy pressure and the atmosphere will be different, but we must be prepared for that.

When you're doing a network show in the States, you're just a slave to the ratings. There's so much money invested that there's this pervasive atmosphere of fear and anxiety. Every morning after an episode of your show airs, everyone is fixated on the numbers to try and determine how the show did.

We had an advantage over some of the teams because it was our track. There were so many supporters at the meet who made the atmosphere very comfortable for competing, and much of the excitement from the team was from everyone feeding off of each other.

We had four good games up there. We got a lot of good things out of it. A lot of guys got some good, big-game experience in a hostile atmosphere similar to what we'll face in the NCAA tournament. We got better last week. That's the biggest advantage.

We had tremendous fan support and the atmosphere during the game was exciting. The team was ready to play and gave it their all.

We had to use a lot of hand signals. ... This is the kind of atmosphere we practice for - the toughest situations, the toughest arenas.

We have come together in reconciliation ... so that we can ensure security and create a conducive atmosphere in East Timor so that there will be no need for acts of terror by either party.

We have to keep in mind that there was an explosion that consumed oxygen, that other contaminants are present in the atmosphere inside the mine, and that the rescue effort is being done carefully to ensure there is not another explosion.

Usually with blocking patterns, it's a week, maybe two at the outside. The next time the atmosphere goes into the whole block, which could be later this year, the low could be way over the western Pacific or over the Mainland so we won't get wet. (In March 2006), it was kind of like being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

With the earth's atmosphere quite clear at the moment, those with a good view will see the moon brick-red, perhaps with a tinge of blue,

We've done all right in the first three. Now we hope to finish strong. I don't care what the sport is, tournament atmosphere is great. It's fun to be around athletes competing at a high level. Some of their energy rubs off on you as you go through the weekend.

We have always believed that the atmosphere will act in the future as it has in the past. This assumption can fail in some years but when applied over a period of several years we find that the atmosphere and ocean does indeed have a long period memory in most years.

We have to work on our shooting more than anything else. It's a big place so there could be a little wind or anything different to affect you. We'll get used to the court and the atmosphere and be ready to go (tonight).

We have these trails of electrons left behind, and the wind in the upper atmosphere causes them to drift. It pushes them one direction or another. We can measure the speed at which those electrons are drifting and infer the wind speed.

We have the offensive capability to break any game open. We knew it was going to be tough tonight. Obviously they wanted to win here, and I think it was a moral victory for us, keeping a tie and going to RFK because RFK is tough. It will be a great atmosphere and we will be ready.

We have the classic global warming signal. It is like the blanket on the bed: When we wrap the Earth with a blanket of greenhouse gases... we trap heat under it at the expense of the atmosphere above, which then cools.

When I saw that on the schedule, I wished that we were at home, ... How great would it be to have a doubleheader here at home with the atmosphere and everything that goes along with a World Cup qualifier, especially one as big as the U.S.-Mexico?

We got this property from the ancestors of the Jewish community of Hebron. This is our land and we agreed to this sort of agreement to calm down the atmosphere in Hebron and to make sure that the Jewish families will return.

We are now beyond nature's normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature did something for a million years. It actually goes back a lot further than that, but the ice core records show a million years. So, nature has this normal oscillation within this zone, and all of a sudden, we're forty percent outside that zone.

We all really like Montreal a lot. It has a real lively, living atmosphere - it's not squeaky clean, it's got a real grit to it, a real story.

We are delighted that St James' Park will play host to Alan's testimonial game to celebrate his unparalleled career both at club and international level. It will be a fantastic night. The atmosphere will match the occasion and Alan will be given the perfect send-off.

We'll experience a different side to Melbourne this year. The Australian Grand Prix isn't the first round of the championship this season and the race has been put back a month into the Australian autumn. The city always gives Formula One an extremely enthusiastic welcome though and I'm sure we'll all be won over by the atmosphere again in 2006.

Those who don't like the festival atmosphere might just come for the music.

The political atmosphere is charged. Democrats can't afford to be seen as soft on defense or terrorism. They're going to have to fight the social cuts without bargaining on defense.

The policy of detente with the Soviet Union, which was begun by President Nixon in 1972, was broadly seen by 1975 in bad shape, if not in tatters. In other words, were able to take advantage of the relaxed atmosphere to pursue the same goals they had.

We played a solid 14 minutes but the bottom line is you got to play 60 minutes, it's a playoff atmosphere and we've got to do a better job. We've got to play a lot better defensively in our own end.

We did something that nobody thought we were able to do. It's a different atmosphere here.

We're likely to break the 8 yuan per dollar level this month. The diplomatic atmosphere has played a role as it suits Chinese interests to move a little quicker as the U.S.-China relationship is at risk of deterioration.

We're collecting almost all the aspects of water, including its temperature, flow, duration it's been in soil, where it came from in the atmosphere and how long it stayed.

The props received a lot of action. The atmosphere was terrific, and people were living and dying with every play.

This study demonstrates that the pre-20th century atmosphere was essentially devoid of the long-lived gases currently depleting stratospheric ozone. It underscores the human contribution to these gases in the atmosphere and the need for compliance with current international agreements to bring the atmosphere back to pre-ozone hole conditions.

We do believe that it's a question of how the overall economy is faring. The atmosphere is improving, everyone's looking forward to a positive development of the economy and we do believe that the confectionary industry will benefit from this.

We definitely have some stuff to work on before districts. Being in this championship game atmosphere is going to help us though.

We don't know all of the controls on how these plants grow and thus cannot predict how things will change in the future as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues to rise. For example, seldom do people go to sea to find out what is happening in the wintertime. We did just that.

We work on that defensive pressure all the time and those steals were the result of the work of everybody on the floor. It is tough coming out here in this atmosphere and trying to come away with a win after losing the momentum in the second half.

We worked very hard to create an atmosphere where the idea was to celebrate community and cross boundaries.

The delegates in Buenos Aires have to be reminded that climate change is not something which will happen in the future, it is happening now, most dramatically in the Arctic. The main cause is clear and undisputed. Increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere due to the burning of fossil fuels is accepted as the main cause of climate change by all scientists save those working for the fossil fuel industry. Polar bears may be some of the earliest victims, but the rest of us are not far behind.

We're excited to be placed at Penn State. It's more than just our 12 players and coaches. Now all our fans have an opportunity to come and support us the way they have all season. It should make it a very exciting atmosphere for us.

We stayed composed because we know what we can do, and we just want to stay within ourselves and play our game. We didn't let the crowd or the atmosphere rattle us. We just did what we do.

Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses.

We want to add more players to this group of players, so we want a positive atmosphere in recruiting, as well, that will pay dividends for years to come.

Some time ago we discovered the carbon cycle - a long-term set of chemical reactions that govern climates based on how much carbon is free in the atmosphere. At that point, it became clear that humans were affecting our environments far more profoundly than we realized. By releasing so much carbon and greenhouse gas into the environment, we're making long-term changes to every aspect of the natural world.

The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment ... seems to result from a combination of causes our democratic regime and its tendencies toward leveling and self-protection, a reductionist-materialist science that inevitably interprets eros as sex, and the atmosphere generated by "the death of God" and of the subordinate god, Eros.

The expectation in this community is so high, they'd run me out of town if I didn't make it. The atmosphere around here is that we're supposed to be here.

The experience that night was fantastic. I think that's where most of my enthusiasm comes from. It was an amazing atmosphere that they created there. We had the benefit of having the L.A. Galaxy against one of the bigger Mexican teams, so there was a large Hispanic crowd, but the point there is they are passionate about soccer. The fans are there; I know they are there because I've seen it.

I want to be on the field. It's a better place to talk to the guys. It's a relaxed atmosphere. You want to make sure you know what's going on, not just with the hitters.

The product itself should be it's own best salesman. Not the product alone, but the product plus a mental impression, and atmosphere, which you place around it

You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts.

There are no rhymes or reason, actually. Having said that, you know, cause there are people who are absolutely single-minded about their process and they can still come up with great work. But (what) I enjoy and it's the same, I suppose, as I became more of a family man, I enjoy, I enjoy an atmosphere where it, you know, doesn't have to be about conflict to get good results.

I went to sexaholics anonymous for six months. For research. I wanted to see the structure of the groups, how they were conducted, and what the atmosphere was like, and also to be able to describe the people as human beings, rather than as the dirty jokes that they are in our culture.

Having that college-town atmosphere with a live repertory company available was a real gift. I found myself gravitating toward the theater from about the age of nine. I guess it was the environment that got me started.

I was never not in a show from ages 11 until 18. It was a great creative atmosphere but also a professional kind of atmosphere. When I finally went into the professional world, I felt ready. I was prepared for work.

I rarely use the Internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes, the lack of direct human discourse, all in an atmosphere of scam and hustle.

You feel free in Australia. There is great relief in the atmosphere - a relief from tension, from pressure, an absence of control of will or form. The Skies open above you and the areas open around you.

I like to create an atmosphere where actors feel safe enough to take risks.

I just hope that I get a chance to keep making pictures in the atmosphere of freedom to make mistakes, and to find those magical things. Then I don't care what else happens.