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Defensively we were playing scared and weren't coming out and being aggressive. Offensively we had to put a drive together and with Caleb hurt, we had to do some things to be able to move the ball. I wish I could say I had a stroke of genius, but I really didn't. When you look at it, we just kind of went back to basics and ran our leads and ran our option and that put us in good scoring range.

As far as our school system has come in the last decade, there's always a need for money. While the basics are funded by the school system, ... (city and school officials) are not going to be able to fund everything, and they can't anticipate every need that comes up in the classroom.

As a judge, you look at the basics of a recipe: Does it make sense, does the ratio of ingredients make sense? And is it a crab soup? Some of the entries we get are almost anything but.

A little effort goes a long way. Do one or two things on the list, not all of them. Otherwise, do a good job with the basics and be a friendly, hospitable host. As word gets around and your guests become regulars, your off-season problem will solve itself.

This is a way for girls to build self-esteem and learn the basics of cheering, stunting and tumbling. I love to watch their faces after they get done performing because they are so excited.

This is really the time to get back to basics and make sure that we're carrying out the fundamental issues of football.

A lot of it was just going back to the basics of what good teaching looks like.

Although weddings are emotional and spiritual, they also represent a series of business transactions. This book teaches the basics of negotiation and how to apply them to meetings with vendors.

They played good man-to-man defense, shot the ball well and defended us well. We didn't try to penetrate. We just tried to pass it around, and it didn't work. We have to get back to basics in practice. That will be the big thing.

They're like us in that they're not real big overall, but they play hard like we do. They just try to play the basics of basketball and that's what we do. We'll have two teams that fight until the end.

As we get rich, the basics of life - food, clothing and shelter - become a very small part of total expenditure. And people have enough money to purchase things that enhance them spiritually, and I mean the word 'spiritual' not necessarily in a religious sense but in the sense that it adds to your feeling of well-being.

It will happen, ... The basics have been decided. It could go very quickly but there's no definitive timetable.

It's a gentle nudge. We want all students to learn the basics of recycling and conservation.

It's all the basics Mom used to tell you.

It's surprising that some people don't know the basics of boating.

It's the basics presented in a pretty powerful way. It lays out the problem of global warming. They have some of the leading scientists describing the situation. They have some good case studies of businesses that have acted on it and provide some inspiration.

It's like 'What's an atom? What's an element?' ... Teachers feel like we need to hit the basics before we move on to something like the periodic table.

It's going back to the basics of using renewable resources for fuel,

It's given us good opportunity to get back to the basics and get in better shape. We're practicing every day except Christmas and New Year.

It's going to be a great year, primarily because Americans have taken a look inward, reassessed our values, have realized that some of the basics in life are that which is most important -- love of faith, love of family -- and as a result our communities will be stronger, ... So I'm really looking forward to 2002.

It's been a long journey back but I'm getting back to the basics of it. (The suspension) helped me realize what I was really looking forward to.

It's been one of the more interesting days. Obviously we're reacting less to numbers than to psychology. We're getting back to reacting to the fundamentals and the basics of the economy, and that's refreshing.

The next time anyone is inclined to sneer at the basics as "traditional," I suggest he or she visit with a 12th -or even a sixth-grader who can barely read, write or compute and look at the pain and frustration on that student's face

That qualifies as a ton of runs. Our hitting approach lately has not been what we teach. So we tried to get back to basics yesterday and do what we really believe in and for them to stay within themselves. That's what I meant by a ton of runs, for them to just stay within themselves and do what they know they do best. And that's what we did tonight.

It's not a situation of panic, that's the last thing you want to do. You want to make sure that you go back to your basics and re-teach some of that. We have to take things in stride. I've said all along that this conference can be won with three losses. I'm confident that we can get back on our feet and back to our winning ways.

The basics start with playing smart football, not turning it over and also running the football and playing solid defense. That's how you win. We've been doing those things. The first part of the year we weren't.

The beginning class teaches the basics for standing and they learn some throws and grappling groundwork. Kids are matched based on their size and skill level in class.

That is what this film is about. It is about Anakin becoming dark, and all that that entails, ... It gets back to the basics that make 'Star Wars' great. Good versus evil, all that good stuff.

It's incentive to get days off (to rest players) and preparation for coaches. Any time you can get into a playoff situation and get a three- or four-day rest, you can get back to your basics with some good practices.

New Zealand is a very experienced side, they do a lot of the basics well.

It was just making sure I knew the plays and defensive schemes and things like that. I've never had to do that, but they have 50 plays, and all of them have a twist or turn to them, so they're just trying to make sure I knew the basics of everything.

After two months, Teague was back doing drills in practice and she's still in the very basics of rehab.

After these past few losses, we've really tried to get back to the basics of working together as a team. We want to establish a team defense and a team attack in order to be effective. I also think we have what it takes to be a great team. We have the players, the heart and the skills. We just have to bring them all together for an entire game.

Serve and pass. You take care of the basics and go from there.

I learned a couple of things. I'm not the greatest cook, but the basics were a great start, and it was fun for the kids. I go to the grocery store on Thursdays, buy a lot of stuff, and start cooking, only the small things because there's no room for the big stuff.

I learned the basics at a very young age. If it's a sad song, act sad.

I love to teach, especially high school-aged students, because I like introducing them to the absolute basics of everything they're ever going to learn, the things I wish I had learned at that age. It's the stuff you can always go back to in terms of absolute fundamentals.

In certain aspects, I would suggest that students should go for a budget hotel because then they have more responsibility and are exposed to a wider picture in a short duration. In a big hotel where there is a huge hierarchy, in both length and breadth, the scope to get even the basics of all operations is a mammoth task. Also, a budget hotel has promotional advantages, which is quicker, easier and comparatively competitive as far as the package is concerned.

If I were to keep doing stuff like I did this season, I'd be doing the same stuff and it doesn't matter if the season kept going, or they put me in a high school game or winter ball, ... I'm not opposed to doing anything extra but I have to get the basics down first.

In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrights and stage actors, who are very well trained in the basics of acting because they need to get it right the first time - you can't have second or third takes when you're in front of a live audience, unlike in film.

If you don't draw and think well, your art career will be short and unpleasant. The basics serve the digital end and give the kids a vastly superior portfolio when they leave here.

In the industrial world we have the problem of having more productive capacity than we know what to do with. That's at the root of the unemployment crisis: we've got so productive at making things, we don't require people to be involved in making the basics of life any more. Or nearly as many people.

I know how hard he had to work this summer. He just got back to basics and started going by feel instead of being so technical.

I have put a lot of effort into boxing. This is not just a one-fight thing. I am making it my second career. I am not working eight-nine hours a day for nothing. I am 32 and just getting started, but I have the basics down. I know I still have a lot to learn. I feel I am continuing to improve everyday. I think I can take a punch okay because I have got hit pretty hard in sparring. I feel I can fight for three or four years.

In 2005, American consumers spent all their disposable income and also depleted their savings, resulting in a negative personal savings rate for the first time in decades. Chase wants to help reverse this trend for future generations. One important way to do that is to teach children about saving as soon as they are old enough to understand the basics of money.

Click, buy, checkout and wait for your order to arriveit's that simple. There's no need for creatively overdone Web sitesjust the basics will do.

For them, that's an achievement. To the extent that they still can generate some traffic and higher price points, they are generating better sales figures. They seem to be doing better in terms of their merchandising efforts and the basics of just running the business.

Once you have your basics down, you can start breaking the rules.

These are great practices for us. They give us a chance to do a lot of fundamental things. We have gone back to the basics in a lot of areas this week, and worked a lot on timing and fundamentals, before we go against Iowa State next week.

You want to see some of the basics of the city, which aren't expensive at all, like the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, which you can see for free from the Staten Island Ferry. Places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has a suggested donation fee so it can be as inexpensive as you like.

You've got to have a consistent, gradual growth strategy, and I think some basics are going to be required,

All week long we talked about executing better and about being football players, not spectators. We kept it simple. We got back to basics and got after it.

The Fort Minor record is all about getting back to basics in Hip-Hop, both sonically and for me personally. And working with Jay-Z again has been phenomenal. We can't wait for people to hear the final product.

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Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.

You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.

Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love.

If you really want to get beyond just tourist locations, where you aren't dependent on regular customers, then you have to go back to the basics . . . very definitely play down the gimmicks, play down the museum aspects of what you are doing. Make it a different enough restaurant that there's some reason to try it, and if everything else is good, customers will come back.

After you have the basics down it's all mental.

Champions are brilliant at the basics.

There is no shortage of opportunity. There is only a shortage of those who will apply themselves to the basics that success requires.

Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone.