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We've lost 450,000 barrels a day of production, which is significant. Shell hasn't given us much of an idea of when they will be able to restore output. This is a pretty reasonable reaction given that we don't know how long it will be before the production is back to normal.

We're willing to pay the surface owner to exercise our existing property to right to the reasonable use of the surface to access the minerals. That's a property right we own, that we paid for, acquired.

We're willing to pay a reasonable amount to put this matter behind us. We want to go back to focusing on our business and not on ancient history.

We're waiting to hear from him. As an employer, we'd like to know what's going on with our employee. We're all professionals here. We would expect to hear from him in a reasonable amount of time.

We have an expectations problem. If you offer it for traffic, a reasonable person would expect you would offer it for transit.

We believe the current range of analyst estimates for the first quarter ended September 30, 2005 and for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2006, are reasonable and achievable.

We'll pay a reasonable price, but we're not paying $2,000. It's not like we smashed light fixtures.

We have the challenge of an 18 month integration to go through and when we look at our assumptions it's wise to be more reasonable with regard to those assumptions than more aggressive. The real key to the success of this integration is what we are going to look like after we complete it in the September quarter of 2007.

Today's UK data all came in above expectations, pointing to a reasonable growth outlook for the rest of the year.

Trial counsel could have used Heaton's admissions to argue reasonable doubt as to the prosecution's case against Mr. Rutherford or to point the finger at Heaton as either the more culpable or individual killer.

We need to establish some kind of reasonable working level so the water for the science center and aquarium remains adequate while still allowing commerce. It's a balance.

We had couple of close decisions which could have gone either way. I thought it was a reasonable effort from our bowlers.

We are willing to license these patents on fair and reasonable terms,

We haven't complained about it...As far as steel prices, raw material prices are concerned, we had that under control in 2005 and I expect that we will manage to have a reasonable development in 2006.

We are committed to working with the union to find a reasonable compromise even for the dismissed employees.

We are in an environment where there are a lot of M&A rumors and a reasonable amount of (actual) M&A so I do not think these rumors are confounded.

We know now more then ever that we need to perform at our very best for the entire 90 minutes for this game, if we're going to have an ideal preparation and reasonable lead up to the finals the week following.

We'll have a PDA (personal digital assistant) and cell phone for different uses and they should have wireless capability built into them, then we might have a car and we may be carrying a notebook PC. Those will have wireless capabilities built into them so it's very reasonable to assume that we will have more than a few devices that will have wireless capability built into them and of course service providers will have that much more revenue stream so I think the price per service will be reduced significantly just to stay connected.

Unicom at HK$16 is probably offering reasonable value. Above that it was too expensive.

Unicom at HK$16 is probably offering reasonable value, ... Above that it was too expensive.

You have to abide by the quiet or courtesy hours specific to your living arrangement. On one hand you should be able to play at a reasonable volume for a decent period of time, but then again you can't be rocking out for six hours a day every day.

Though we believe Dell can outperform the Nasdaq in 2000 after a poor 1999, we believe this can only happen after expectations have been reset to more reasonable levels. We believe downside on the stock is to the high $30s. We remain on the sidelines until then.

We did not submit an ordinance that we believed would not pass constitutional muster. The Supreme Court says we can make reasonable time, place and manner restrictions in order to achieve a legitimate public interest.

We don't have a set schedule, but refreshing every 45 to 60 days is a reasonable goal. Publishing a brand new index every 28 days has suddenly become imperative. Something that we've seen because people have become more savvy in their searches and because competition has been pushing the envelope.

We are always interested in helping the community in any way possible, but any assistance would have to be within reasonable financial parameters and would have to go before the Board of Trustees.

We are actively at the bargaining table, and we already have agreements with one-third of our work force, and the terms are reasonable and fair. Obviously we're going to have similar agreements with ... these other unions.

We're not terribly surprised. Everyone in the institutional community supports reasonable restrictions on severance plans.

We are relieved this process has come to this point. We thank the U.S. Forest Service for the opportunity to build the village with reasonable access.

We are quite positive on the Singapore market given that economic growth has been coming in above market expectations. Valuations are reasonable and earnings are continuing to come in.

We are pleased that the court has agreed today to grant Napster the discovery schedule we proposed, allowing a reasonable amount of time for Napster to obtain and evaluate the extensive discovery material, ... The record industry's anti-competitive behavior has prevented consumers from paying for the music they want over the Internet. We look forward to exploring these issues further.

The only reason this plan looks reasonable is that it is scaled back from something that was fairly audacious.

The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.

The P/E is reasonable for a software company that's growing at the rate that Symantec is. If anything, I think that their business is going to strengthen as time goes by.

We are investment driven, not market driven. We do our research on a global basis and only invest in Chinese companies under the global context. We only pay a reasonable price in that market for value, growth or dividend income.

Yeah, I guess everyone's had a reasonable amount of sex in their lives, some less than others.

There are three, perhaps even four people who are very well known -- I'll leave it to you to guess the names -- who want to join F1, but who are currently unable to because of the costs involved. If we manage to reduce the costs, to 100 to120 million dollars, for a reasonable budget, they will come.

There are three meetings until the election, and it would take that long, at least, to go into the public and solicit people interested in the position. The more reasonable thing to do is to let the election fill that spot.

The question is going to come down to if it's reasonable accommodation or not. We can not comment on a potential case but in general people should be accommodated to enjoy a facility to the same extent as any non-disabled person. I am providing (Mr. Paulsen) what is considered very reasonable accommodations. Just get me a slip and we will (issue a card) and it's done.

The question, I believe, is from where did they come? I have no reasonable assurance that they came from St. John's Church.

We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.

We don?t know that any charges will be filed, but we have to eliminate other causes as well to remove any reasonable doubt should any charges be filed. We have to eliminate other causes, including a train going through and sparking the fire.

We don't know how we're going to use the force. So we have to have a capability set that will withstand all reasonable futures.

We do expect to see our electrical bill to increase but at a reasonable rate because of some of the things we have done.

We are making the kinds of contacts and developing the information that allow us to describe this as proceeding with reasonable success,

We want to be reasonable about it, but we know fans are victimized. We want fans to be careful. We want them at the Super Bowl.

We want this site to keep customers as informed as possible. So we will publish estimates of service restoration whenever we have a reasonable estimate.

We want this initiative to be seen as reasonable and fair. Our initiative treats all property owners the same, and we wanted to pick a reasonable period of time.

The contract offer that we made to the IAM is respectful, balanced and well above market. We remain willing to discuss reasonable proposals around that offer.

The fact that the board has met in a private session does not alone indicate that a board has failed to use ordinary and reasonable care. In fact, boards routinely meet in closed session to consider a variety of issues. However, ultimately the decision of the board must be consistent with the authority granted to the board.

The expectation is that Koizumi will win by a reasonable majority, that reforms will go forward and the opposition to the Japan Post sale will be crushed.

The facts are it was self-defense. It's more than a reasonable doubt.

What I think is going to happen is that tests in relation to reasonable management action taken in a reasonable way is going to be blurred with those concepts of procedural fairness and what you're going to find is the QIRC considering appeals against decisions to grant workers compensation to dismissed employees where the employee was denied procedural fairness.

What we tell our maintenance crews who patrol the roads is that if it's reasonable and is not a distraction, they should let it stand.

Glenn McGrath had a reasonable career in Australia.

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

We should vigorously promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation on the basis of mutual trust, further reduce restrictions on export of technologies, and remove trade barriers, so as to create a fair, just, reasonable and open environment for trade,

We knew we ran the risk of putting assistance in the hands of potentially unscrupulous individuals not affected by the hurricanes. We concluded that it was a reasonable business risk and mitigated the risks as possible.

We have continued to see positive trends in written business during the month of July and, as such, believe that the analysts' current range of estimates for the fiscal first quarter ended September 30, 2005, and the fiscal year ended June 30, 2006, are reasonable and achievable.

We're trying to stand up not only for First Amendment rights that have been recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court but for regular people who want to challenge incumbent politicians and require reasonable resources to do that. This law makes it very difficult to unseat an incumbent--if you hit your limit you can't even drive yourself to a campaign event.

We owe it to future generations to ensure that toxic chemicals do not destroy the frog or the wetlands it depends on. These pesticide-application buffer zones are reasonable and effective protection.

When lawmakers seek to rewrite our Fourth Amendment rights, they should at least have the gumption to do so in public. Americans have a reasonable expectation that their federal government will not gather records about their health, their wealth and the transactions of their daily life without probable cause of a crime and without a court order.

While reasonable people can differ about capital punishment, it is indisputable that advanced DNA testing lends support and credibility to the accuracy and integrity of capital verdicts,

While Person A might believe the kitchen counter provides a reasonable surface on which to place one's balled-up sweatsocks post-gym, Person B - about to cut up some vegetables on that same counter, perhaps for a meal intended to be shared with Person A - can only read the sockball as a message that says, 'Hi! I have contempt for you!'

We've been receiving complaints about this for years and years. Why did you stop this person? State the reasonable suspicion you had. ... And we also want that data to be stored, so you can see what an officer is doing over time.

We have been saying we need a home heating oil reserve, we've been saying that stocks are low, and we need (legislation) passed, ... We need the Congress to approve a reasonable trigger for releasing the oil in the reserve.

We would love to put (a trophy) in there. We played off for one a couple years ago. We played reasonable footy but we lost the game. We didn't handle the loss well.

We would look at the facts of the case and make reasonable decisions.

This will allow us to recoup a more reasonable charge for damages. They haven't set numbers, but it would be something more appropriate for the value of the land. Damages will include not only the land, but also the fact that Tyler Water Utilities will have to monitor the wells as long as they are in production.

There has to be a reasonable budget policy that limits the countries in their spending.

There has to be a balanced approach, which first satisfies our need for security and at the same time makes sure we allow reasonable access to foreign investors to the United States.

We knew it was going to be a rocky opening after yesterday's earnings reports but I think it was a very encouraging day. Valuations are reasonable but the fundamentals are going to get better.

We thought that was basically defiant of what we requested. We felt it was reasonable to have him there to (answer) questions regarding that transfer.

We thought that the 72 hours that passed was more than reasonable amount of time for him to offer some explanation for his unexcused absence. We still do not have that explanation, and we'll move on.

We think we're at a reasonable level at this point. We don't have any explosive plan to go out and hack away. We've taken a lot of whacks at that. Right now we're looking to get stability -- stability in our product cycle, stability in our manpower, stability in our plant situation.

We think we have made a reasonable decision though we cannot be sure it will ultimately be proven to be the best one.

We think these women had a reasonable expectation of privacy. It's against the law in California to secretly videotape employees while they're changing clothes, and there's no exception in the law for Hooters.

This trend is going to be with us for the foreseeable future. Growth will continue and will be very strong, but it will be more moderate than it was last year, ... Make no mistake about it - this growth will continue. Consumer spending will continue to grow, but it's not going to suddenly stop or go back. It will continue at a more reasonable pace.

To say that a reasonable man would have realized the grave danger is to say that a reasonable man, under the circumstances, would have more closely inspected the container to make sure it was safe to drink from and detected the label on its handle.

Torture is defined, with reasonable certainty, severe pain and suffering, physical or psychological. It is defined about as well as legal terms can be defined.

We didn't get out a lot. We went from hotels to grounds most days and we watched a fair bit of telly and stayed in reasonable hotels, so it was fine.

We had a burden to meet and that burden was proven: That she committed the offenses beyond a reasonable doubt, ... I did what the law required me to do. I presented all the evidence.

We base searches on information that we have. Our test is reasonable suspicion and that's what we use to determine whether we could search a child or not.

We believe it's a model policy that strikes a reasonable balance.

To tell you the truth, I don't know nothing about him. I've never seen him fight, but I know I want his title and I'm ready to shut his mouth as soon as he's ready to be reasonable with his demands.

With a stock trading at seven-and-a-half times earnings on almost any range of reasonable outcomes, I think that company is dramatically undervalued.

With a single depression fracture at the back of the head, we believed that the only animal capable of inflicting a wound like this was a raptor but we could not prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.

This will hopefully lead to more reasonable negotiations since NTP risks losing all future royalties if the workaround is implemented.

There is reasonable optimism still in investors' minds. We are still seeing good support coming through from corporate earnings and there are plenty of mergers and acquisitions rumors and actual which get investors excited.

There is reasonable doubt. You can't fill in the blanks. You can't speculate.

There is no requirement that the contributions required from employees be reasonable or affordable. This is why so many Americans who have jobs do not have any health insurance.

There are a number of players I suppose in the side that have got reasonable experience, having been around international cricket for quite some time.

When you get a market where there's a lot of indiscriminate selling, you can buy some pretty good companies with yields of 3 percent or more trading at reasonable valuations. That's a good situation.

When you have a reasonable P/E and you raise the E that's how you're going to outperform.

The price is in fact, very reasonable in exchange for valuable direct interaction with professional mentors. The opportunities are endless with possible publications, available venues for works and of course networking.

While it may be reasonable to expect that prices will, in due course, ease from the exceptional levels of recent months, I have little doubt they will remain above their long-run averages for a number of years. As a consequence, the outlook for 2006 is very encouraging.

While I know that taking injections is not a way of life, I'm only looking at a few years, so that's a reasonable approach towards it.

Without question, women are leading the charge. Has sex appeal helped? Sure ... But we're going to maintain reasonable tastes.

We need to be working on this to identify what are good balances while at the same time, maintaining a reasonable standard of parking and other types of design that would support those businesses through the long haul.

We have made voluntarily improvements to address every reasonable concern that the CDT has made us aware of. 180solutions and the CDT share the same vision of protecting the rights and privacy of consumers on the Internet.

We will need official statements from race management and credible data. If that's the case, and it would be reasonable to believe that a runner would have made the standard, then we'll give the nod to the runner.