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It's a shared experience. That's a definition of community. When everyone gets the same images, experience, they have something to fall back on. It provides a base for a common ground.

It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth.

I told my class the other day I have no idea what judicial activism is, ... Maybe the best definition of a judicial activist is a judge you don't like.

It's the nature of all relationships, really: The straw that breaks the camel's back is rarely the most obvious thing, ... meets the dictionary definition of a crony.

It's a lot easier to say you are giving Indiana contracts when you change the definition of Indiana companies to include pretty much everyone including Wal-Mart.

It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of is it's music where a lot of different elements are played at the same time. The harmonic, the melodic... You're pushing the boundaries on every level. That could be true of rhythm and blues as well. I'm a musician.

It makes you question whether the definition of 'proficiency' any place is anchored in real-world demands.

It's going to be an important case, because it will go forward in raising a lot of questions ranging from rules that all journalists should follow when protecting their (sources) to the very definition of what a journalist is in the digital age.

It's a very loaded term. The actual definition is determined by state governments, who define what taking 'unfair advantage' of a crisis is. Attorneys General monitor these situations closely.

Every block of the city is a quintessential definition of the highly diversified New York food cultue. Each area is divided as a small village of its own unique flavors and history. The variety of cuisine that the city provides is almost infinite. Starting from Tribeca, Chinatown, Little Italy, Soho, Lower East Side, Meat Packing district, Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Gramecy Park, Theater, Lincoln Center, Upper East Side, Harlem, The Bronx, Brooklyn to Queens; New York City will never fail to surprise us with its treasure of cuisines. The answer is in the pride New Yorkers take in saying "ONLY IN NEW YORK

That's the definition of college sports. You're always going to be faced with challenges and adversity. It's how you handle it and what you do with those challenges that is going to define you as a person.

That's the definition of a team win on both ends of the floor. We were as balanced offensively as we have been all year. Defensively, we were as fundamentally sound as we were all year.

That is completely the definition of the silhouette, ... We work on the legs for 30 years okay? Our proposition is evolution of what we present the last season. (It) is always a continuation.

Each of my symphonies has a fresh character with a specific definition of their own.

Everyone's definition of what God means can vary. But music is something that really takes you to that - 'sublime' is a great word. That thing that is greater than we are. The beauty, the magic of the universe.

Talk about changing directions -- this isn't a 180-degree turn, it's a new definition of a U-turn.

It's important they come up with a reasonable definition and it appears that the commissioner and her group is moving in that direction.

It's cheating if your spouse considers it cheating. It's hard to give a blanket definition of cheating, because it's based on the morals and beliefs of the marriage. But what matters is: does your spouse consider it cheating?

It's amazing ? it looks like he's just playing catch with the mitt, even with the movement on his pitches. The other day, St. Louis has a good hitting lineup, and they were missing balls by a foot. You want the definition of pitching, it's him. You wonder how he gets it done.

It's a national dialogue that a lot of people by definition can't participate in today.

It's hard to come up with a simple definition of who you are, ... Right now, I don't think there are many common bonds across the board for the four and a half million people who live here.

The use of conventional signs is my definition of writing, ... information is being passed through three different levels in ways suggestive of a conventional system.

They basically just got rid of the flat definition which said a foster child is any child you care for as your own and cared for the entire year. In a way, a lot more people could qualify for the Earned Income Credit than did before.

They have to find a better definition of the ball in the stands.

They will have two- or three-hour meetings before the public arrives. They will hash out everything and the only thing the public gets to see is the vote, without the benefit of why Council Member A voted the way he did, or Council Member B voted the way she did. So we?re trying to clarify the definition of what a meeting is.

This is in line with the recommendations of the Legislature's Task Force on Long-Term Solutions which is calling for the elimination of the definition of wind exposure class C from Florida's building code statutes.

The new definition is only a recommendation and is not legally enforceable. Public comments are being accepted for the next 60 days.

Again, my definition of correction here is short term and this correction is in the context of a long-term bullishness,

It's not a matter of which is the appropriate definition to be applied, ... but what it (i.e. the action) was.

Art is why I get up in the morning; my definition ends there. You know it doesn't seem fair, that I'm living for something I can't even define. And there you are right there, in the mean time.

Anyone looking for a definition of the pre-9/11 world view need look no further than at how leading Republican senators have blocked Democratic efforts improve port security since the 2001 attacks.

Expanding our definition of a healthy lifestyle to include mental exercise is profoundly important. What people have failed to appreciate is that the mind is like a muscle, ... The great news is that working on crosswords, balance exercises, memory games, and other mental exercises is fun and produces results fairly quickly.

A pandemic by definition is everywhere. You can't expect Uncle Sam to come in and help. It won't be like a hurricane. Every community will have to fend for themselves. There is no cavalry.

The kids have done a great job picking up the scheme. We had to teach them responsibility on defense. Sometimes you want to play for yourself as opposed to other people. The first thing we did was talk to them about being selfless, as opposed to being selfish. We printed out articles and gave them the definition to put in their lockers.

The kids have done a great job picking up the scheme, ... We had to teach them responsibility on defense. Sometimes you want to play for yourself as opposed to other people. The first thing we did was talk to them about being selfless, as opposed to being selfish. We printed out articles and gave them the definition to put in their lockers.

The lack of global legislation adds to the complexity of the situation. It's not realistic to have global legislation, but we do need international consistency. One example is 'child abuse' content, which has a different definition in the US than in the UK.

The joke is the comedy equivalent of jazz. It's raunchy, it's free of constraints, yet has a simple 'melody' to hold on to. It's about where you take it, not where it's going. If that is not a workable definition of art, I don't know what is.

I'm encouraged. You get a strong rally for a few days, a couple of days of selling so people can take some profits, then new buyers come in at the lower level. That's the classic definition of an uptrend.

I have only been able to do my own broadcasts and my own TV and public access shows because of this Supreme Court definition and victory.

In most states, the courts have not looked beyond the biological connections, marriage or adoption in determining the definition of a parent.

In legislation that became effective in 2005, Congress adopted a uniform definition for most people. It won't change what they can take, but it'll make it easier for them to understand.

I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.

If the pollster asks the constitutionally accurate question, should the definition of marriage remain with a man and a woman as long as homosexual couples still have equality when it comes to benefits, most Canadians will say to leave the definition of marriage alone and let homosexuals have equal and beneficial unions also.

If the record deficits are what winning looks like, I'd sure like to know their definition of losing,

If passed, the HR 4437 would permit the government to prosecute almost anyone who has regular contact with an undocumented person by broadening the definition of alien smuggling to include family members, employers, and immigrant advocates. These provisions are likely to drive undocumented immigrants further underground and increase their vulnerability to exploitation.

If passed, HR 4437 is likely to drive undocumented immigrants further underground and increase their vulnerability to exploitation by broadening the definition of alien smuggling to include family members, employers, and immigrant advocates.

If you ask Alabama voters what Lucy Baxley stands for, you'd have a hard time getting a substantive answer. She's going to have to create a definition for herself before her opponents do it for her.

If you look through the history of wearables, I was named the father of wearable computing, or the world's first cyborg. But the definition of wearable computing can be kind of fuzzy itself. Thousands of years ago, in China, people would wear an abacus around their neck - that, in one sense, was a wearable computer.

If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is so meticulous.

If you have very few individuals and you affect a few of those individuals, you almost by definition are going to have impacts on the population because you have so few.

In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men the power to establish laws. What gives them the power to establish laws is the same thing which secures obedience to them - organized violence.

Internally, we have got a strategy for all of our products of how we deliver value to customers via the cloud. Stage two is how we monetise that value. If we are number one on delivering that value and delivering customer satisfaction, that is a good definition of winning.

If you take the definition to the umpteenth degree, you could call that an assault weapon.

I never tried to kid anybody that I'm some internationalist or something. And when my country is at war, I want my country to win, whatever the definition of 'win' may be. Now, I can't and don't argue that that is coverage without a prejudice. About that I am prejudiced.

I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified.

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I guess I would define it as we didn't play with urgency for 60 minutes. My definition of urgency is do what you have to do to make the play. We worked hard, but urgency and hard work are two different things.

I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.

I just feel good for my kids. We've been on them. We've been telling them to believe. They've got to continue to believe. The definition of keeping the faith is 'belief without proof.' And we're starting to prove it. The work and effort is starting to pay off.

Clearly our definition is that she was a legal adult. We are really committed to making sure this young woman's rights are protected.

citizens should not be excluded from a decision as fundamental to society as the legal definition of marriage.

Cloning of a human being is intuitively and properly viewed with almost uniform horror, because replication of a human by cloning would radically alter the very definition of what a human being is.

but I think we need to have a better definition as to what that means.

He's the definition of pitching. He's not overpowering, he doesn't have this tremendous stuff. He gets it done every day.

How do you ever know if it's enough? To me, I guess one definition that it's enough is does the individual know it's wrong? Does the individual know that it's illegal? Does the individual know that it could be harmful? My hunch is you could go into an elementary classroom, and those kids would know that (about underage drinking). I certainly know that at the senior high school, they would know that.

I don't know if getting a record like that is something you should be proud of, or if it is the definition of a good baseball player. It is something to get on base with.

I didn't know Gate well, but I always appreciated him, most of all, his feisty, independent spirit and warm heart, ... Gate was the original contrarian, but there was always a well thought-out argument behind it. It wasn't just that Gate was unwilling to play the fool. He simply refused to live up to anyone else's definition or expectations of him. But I think this was part of his genius. From the start, Gate defined himself, both as a musician and as a man.

Changing the definition of milk will drastically change America's dairy production as we know it. Processors will seek low-cost, low-quality imported product, not the high-quality, domestically produced milk American consumers have come to depend upon.

By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even a small amount of Negro Blood... is a Negro. Logically, it would be exactly as justifiable to say that any person with even a small amount of white blood is white. Why do they say one rather than the other? Because the former classification suits the convenience of those making the classification. Society, in short, regards as true those systems that produce the desired results. Science seeks only the most generally useful systems of classification; these it regards for the time being, until more useful classifications are invented, as true.

By definition you can't have an epidemic of a development disorder, ... This is a medical problem.

By definition of 'Economics 101' it's a perfect marketplace. That's why it's so competitive: it's very easy to compare prices.

By no definition are the others out of the running. We'll go through the summer and a brief part of fall camp before naming a starter.

I doubt anyone can speak with authority about this number, since even the definition of what constitutes a hotel is unclear when you leave the U.S..

He's one guy we admire, ... We love Arnie. The best way I can sum this up is when I tell my kids to look up the definition of class, his picture is next to the word. That's what we think about him. Not one person out here doesn't think that.

How this president handles the Middle East in general and wins in Iraq in particular will be probably the most important definition of his presidency.

I don't like science because I don't think it makes sense to put a definition on everything. It's a lot more exciting to think of things as mysterious.

I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease. But I think that is literally half-baked. If all you do is work to fix problems, to alleviate suffering, then by definition you are working to get people to zero, to neutral.

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For perhaps the first time since the beginning of the hip-hop culture, we've been able to provide an empirical definition of what this market truly is. We finally have the hard data showing the difference in core values between young people who affiliate with hip-hop and those who don't, and the eye-opening differences span a wide range of areas from shopping behavior and purchasing decisions, to attitudes towards cars, media usage and fashion.

The key here is not what you are playing but how you will be playing. Revolution will also create entirely new genres to expand the definition of video games.

The ultimate definition of visitor-serving is going to be massive. The economic success of downtown depends on it.

This is a classic example of a censorship crusade by local government bureaucrats who are relying on their own subjective definition of obscenity to arrest someone even before any court has found that this Web site is illegal. What right do Polk County officials have to decide what people who live in Berlin and London and Hong Kong and New York access in the privacy of their own homes?

The entertainment industry at large has pretty much given away high definition to consumers. They haven't really charged a premium for it on television. That makes consumers more likely to buy Blu-ray but less likely to pay a premium for it.

A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.

You will get to the right place on all these other issues if you keep constantly expanding in your mind the definition of who is us and shrinking the definition of who is them .

You've got to keep in mind that Albee says he is working towards a new definition of tragedy,

All they want is an opportunity to vote on the definition of marriage. Now that the people have spoken, the good congressman has decided this is a divisive issue.

The Dow Theory says when correction lows are established, you want to see a retest of the highs, and if the retest of the highs in both averages fails and the market goes below those intermediate lows, that is under definition of the Dow Theory, a bear market.

The dictionary definition of 'nonpartisan' says it's not controlled by any one political party.

The current Bush administration was trying to circumvent the Clean Water Act by having the Army Corp of Engineers change the definition of valley fill.

The changes in technology and consumer interests demand that we be innovative and visionary in our approach to home entertainment. The digital market has evolved to the point where it has earned its own place in our home entertainment business. Digital distribution and high definition have evolved from a theoretical concept to a new retail business, and that's why we're making the strategic moves necessary to ensure that we aggressively market this business in the months and years ahead. And it all begins with people -- putting the right people in the right place at the right time.

The chances are good for AOL to succeed here because its definition of success won't be the same as it is for Microsoft or even Yahoo. What AOL wants is wide use of business clients connected to its worldwide user base, and to make money off that.

America's definition of open skies is that we can come in and do what we like, we want access via Britain to the rest of the EU -- you can't have access to the U.S. internal market.

All the FBI said was that under the definition of this one particular federal corruption statute, these activities could not be charged criminally with the expectation of a conviction. That is not at all to say that they didn't happen or that they were false. All the things we reported, the FBI confirmed.

The median person still thought that their prices were going to go up. That's the definition of a bubble.

The issue with technology is, it's -- by definition -- change. You can't just go to sleep and say I'm going to forget it for 20 years.

The Lexus LS 460 was designed to expand on the definition of the full-size luxury sedan as well as the level of innovative technology, especially as it relates to safety.

The legwork is always hard. Really finding people that you think are good enough. Just the definition of what we have to do is finding good enough people that you really think are special.

The legislative calendar is shorter and, almost by definition in an election year, tempers will be shorter, too.

The legal definition is where your principal office is. So we are now in line with what took place five years ago.