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That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.

We know the sheer volume would be the biggest challenge.

We are really pleased that people are so passionate about the Top 100 DJs poll and their dance music. The poll has continued to grow over the years and we're delighted with the phenomenal response this year. The dance scene is now much more accessible to far more people than it ever was five or 10 years ago. This is reflected in the sheer volume of votes received.

We still have to work on timing for getting out of the house to do stuff, but we are starting to get the hang of it. The hardest part is getting three kids in and out of seat belts every time I need to go somewhere. The first night they were here, everybody slept except for me. I was too scared and excited. The next night, and each subsequent since then, I slept like a rock. I guess that's the sheer exhaustion from going from one child to three overnight.

This scene originally looked very different. The actress was standing on a wooden platform, surrounded by a railing to keep tourists from falling down the mountain, hardly as dramatic as the finished product. It was amazingly challenging, due to the fact that the camera was constantly moving around her, and the sheer amount of work required to perfect the shot. Trees and bushes had to be added, a village in the background required removal, and clothing was even added to the actress. It was a complete and all encompassing transformation.

The project will use state-of-the-art technology on both the hardware and software side. The sheer size and scope makes this project physically complex and technically challenging.

We were able to survive on sheer willpower. Everyone in McKeesport knows I have no pride when it comes to begging for money for the library. We've come up with some unique ways to raise money, such as basket raffles. You have to come up with creative ways to continue programming.

One day you'll understand the sheer awesomeness that is me.

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

This will be an investigation of some complexity given the sheer number of crimes that he's likely to be charged with. So this is a process that's only going to get started today and probably will last several months.

There is absolutely no question about the sheer brutality of this act.

When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then, crude oil was found, and it took 60, 70 years, and then natural gas. So it takes 100 years or more for some new breakthrough in energy to become the dominant source. Most people have difficulty coming to grips with the sheer enormity of energy consumption.

When Chris shoots he was shooting the last-second shot for a reason. It went off the top of the glass and I thought, 'Well, it's hopeless now because Chris missed it.' Collin grabs it and puts it back in and it was like just shock for a second. Then, it was sheer craziness.

We also have to provide services to the emergency personnel who are working the search and rescue. It's an amazing operation right now, and no one organization is doing it by itself. We are all pulling together to try and help each other due to the sheer mass of the storm and damage done.

When you look at the volume -- I think in '95, when they had the last slide, they were talking about 600,000 tons of sand and mud coming down -- there's really nothing that can stop something of that magnitude. It's almost completely a sheer cliff.

While (Hurricane Katrina) is more devastating that 9/11 and (brought) far wider destruction and dislocation, the way 9/11 happened, the malice behind it and just the sheer terror of flying planes into buildings, I think it was so shocking to people that it truly shook them to the core.

Without question, this county, probably because of the sheer size of some of the facilities, has to be the casino leader in California.

With its sheer numbers, it's the most complete class I've signed, but it's also the best class I've signed.

The governor is now in sheer panic mode.

We see tremendous market acceptance when Microsoft's next big enterprise software product comes out. And when you look at the sheer numbers, it's arguably as big a market as the original Windows market,

We wanted to slow Brewer down and make it a low-scoring game. In the first half we did that. In the second half, the sheer physicality of Arkansas dominated the game. Their better athletes took over.

This was different than some other parties because of the sheer numbers,

We don't score on sheer individual talent. Sometimes we run stuff just to run stuff without an idea what we're going to get from it.

You may design something in steel, but to make it, you need to know how to manipulate the material. On a sheer technical end, you have to know how to weld stainless steel.

Too many companies are just being big for the sheer sake of it. Too many CEOs thinking bigger is better.

When I started knocking on Highland doors in May 1983, two things struck me more than any other. First was the sheer depth of hostility towards the Tories in general. Second was the particular hostility towards Margaret Thatcher and her local ministerial spear-carrier, energy minister and incumbent MP of 13 years' standing, Hamish Gray.

Very large patients usually need five times as long to be brought out of their homes. The problem is not so much carrying the great weight as the sheer volume of their bodies.

To us, that's a major loss, just because of their sheer size.

We had sheer determination and drive to fix the 07 front and back. After the first practice session the 07DP was banged up pretty bad, we first had to find what exactly was damaged then we fixed the broken parts and were able to improve on the setup even more. Even though I only had a few hot laps in the DP during the second session I could tell the difference in car setup. They could not have gotten it any better in those 45minutes.

both because of the sheer magnitude of what has happened, and its implications, and also because this was an attack not just on a number of buildings in the United States of America, but on the very notion of democracy.

At the start of the year, I felt that given the machinery, there were bound to be places where I would win because of sheer chance. I didn't want to rely on that because I knew I had to show my ability. So I looked at the season and made an assessment as to where my best opportunities might come.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education -- sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

There's some of that, and then some of that is just sheer determination, guts, and talent. He is a phenomenal competitor and he is blessed with great talent. Not to take anything away from anyone else.

The sheer volume of Vietnam veterans now is overwhelming.

The sheer volume of communicating with three-quarters of a million people is quite an undertaking, much more than I expected.

The sheer visual impact of the display, coupled with the enormity of the numbers of victims, is humbling and troubling at the same time. It serves as a reminder that we as a society cannot let anything like this ever happen again.

The sheer size of this creature humbles us, ... It tells us that the Earth is not ours, but a treasure we hold in trust for future generations.

The sheer poverty was like nothing else we had ever seen before. It was to the point where people didn't want to leave because they had nothing else and nowhere to go.

The sheer number of things making us feel remorseful is so great that if we don't seek forgiveness, we could end up psychologically disabled. So people go around asking to be forgiven just so that they don't continue to go on suffering. But often its too facile.

The sheer number of damaged cars out there means that people need to be extra careful.

The sheer number of claims and inquiries can be overwhelming -- tremendous energy is required just to get your arms around the problem.

The sheer magnitude of this event requires a little bit of patience.

The sheer magnitude and frequency of wholesale price rallies are such that absorbing these increased costs to protect market share is simply not a commercially viable option.

The sheer level of fascination on the subject is really a symptom of how this issue affects people, particularly women who are in utter disbelief that anyone would consciously go the other way -- to actually try to gain weight,

The sheer hustle of our team is what helped us pull away. We didn't play that well. We do have a lot of depth and hope somewhere between the third and fourth period that begins to show.

The sheer growth of the sport and the broad demographic that follows the sport make it appealing.

The sheer economic power created by this mega-combination, and the opportunities for abuse that would accompany it, outweigh the very limited public interest benefits that either the applicants or the majority find here. The more I review the issues at stake in this proposal, the more I am persuaded it should not go forward.

The sheer density of advertising creates a psychic mass, an overlay that can sometimes be very tense or aggressive. As a citizen, you have to participate in that every day. You have to walk by until it's changed.

The sheer blizzard of litigation is destroying the American firearms industry, ... the strategy is to bury the American firearms industry in litigation and bankrupt it.

The sheer act of tightening will be viewed in the bond market as the sun coming up in the East." ()

The state we're in now is because of the policy decision to co-opt those people who in the past committed human rights abuses. There's a culture of impunity. They continue in many cases to abuse the rights of people under them. There are drug problems in the north, tribal problems, sheer criminality.

The state personnel were overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of children to be protected and transported,

The three hires were brilliant hires from everyone else's view. The sheer arrogance and recklessness of this has divided the union in a way that might be irreparable.

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.

The thing about the boomer generation is the sheer volume of it.

Thanksgiving's the most intense travel period of the year, when you look at the sheer numbers of people taking to the skies and highways in a short period of time. It makes for crowded, and sometimes treacherous, roads.

So much youth basketball is being played around the world, in countries everywhere. And the sheer volume of kids means that Winthrop and Monmouth can get some pretty good players.

Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extension of the world in time and space. That we are here, prosperous, safe, unlikely to go to bed hungry or be blown to pieces this evening, while elsewhere in the world, right now in Grozny, in Najaf, in the Sudan, in the Congo, in Gaza, in the favelas of Rio....To be a travelerand novelists are often travelersis to be constantly reminded of the simultaneity of what is going on in the world, your world and the very different world you have visited and from which you have returned home.

Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction.

People think I just walk up to a sheer cliff and climb it with no knowledge of anything, when in reality, there's tons and tons of information out there, and I'm already well tapped into it.

Anything I've done that really worked happened because, either by sheer will or a lack of options, I was incredibly focused on one problem.

As a stunningly talented producer and writer he brought pleasure to millions of people, and it's a tribute to his sheer creative energy that he remained active up to the very end.

Back then, you did it yourself and we hope this encourages people to do the same. The nobleman's collection is not so much about the beauty of objects, but more about their sheer ingenuity. You can see he's responding to the ingenuity, responding to the intelligence.

You never stop thinking about technique, but really, the reason we're actors is because of the sheer joy of those few moments you get every now and again where you're totally present. The rest is just struggle and misery.

This is a sheer farce, this is not a real trial.

This is not the kind of investment they can keep on going, given the sheer scale of it and concerns about high oil prices and their impact on the global economy and corporate earnings.

This is probably going to be as big a contract as we've ever done, just from sheer volume.

This auction has opened a space at the bottom for a new generation of artists to come into auctions. The auction results are a sheer boost to young artists. Just like China, Russia and the US, Indian contemporary art was the next big genre to arrive on the world scene.

This is a case of deceit and sheer fraud.

This is an area of about 20 million people.... The sheer rebuilding effort is going to take billions of dollars.

There's a little bit more weakness in the Nasdaq and in the tech sector than we expected -- it may just be that the sheer number of buyers aren't there. But the retailers are up and there's a little positive action in the manufacturers, which could be a defensive play on the part of investors.

This is the most damaging series of cartels the Commission has ever investigated due to the sheer range of vitamins covered which are found in a multitude of products from cereals, biscuits and drinks to animal feed, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics,

There was a lot of red tape, ... We were able to cut through some of that by sheer force.

At its most base level, the sheer wealth of these candidates shows that representative democracy in California isn't representative at all. These are wealthy, white individuals and that makes it that much harder for them to represent all of California's diversity.

It's just sheer luck. That's what surveys are about.

It's just sheer love and just the people -- when you win, you want to see the people that you love. That's where they were. So whatever it takes to see the people that you love.

It's 90 percent boredom and 10 percent sheer terror.

It was a terrifying moment, and a moment of sheer relief, ... I saw that there was exactly enough room in the soft tissue betweenthe outside of my face, and the beginning of my skull, there was just enough room to hold that bullet.

It's a classic example of what CDF preaches against, ... People build in wilderness areas with narrow streets and very few ways of getting out. There's sheer panic with people worried about their homes and their lives.

I totally underestimated the degree with which people just get sick of 24-hour-a-day talk television and talk radio, the degree to which this whole scandal just became sort of disgusting by sheer repetition,

I took up boxing out of sheer interest and to help my parents financially.

It's the third time this week he's pitched. I don't think I could coach 50 years and be prouder of a kid that him. He's missing 5 MPH off his fast ball tonight, but he basically got through three innings on sheer heart.

It's surprisingly bad. In sheer amount of e-mails, it's larger than any outbreak of the year.

It's a pretty big storm system. It's really tapping the moisture from the Gulf and the sheer strength of the storm is leading to really heavy snow.

It's going to be difficult to handle the sheer volume of information and the slick materials and giveaway incentives.

It's sheer numbers. They're able to attract a type of player that we're not able to attract at Kent State. We're not making any excuses but we're probably not going to be able to get a McDonald's All-American, where they can.

That is an incredibly fast response. The sheer volume of commodities we're moving around in South Florida in all those affected counties, we're doing it faster than we did last year in all those storms.

It's not a good start for cooperation if such an alliance is founded on the basis of a sheer emergency.

The best interests of this boy have been undeniably neglected and his mother's wishes ignored, ... intimidated Elian's American family with its sheer weight, power and force.

The attrition rate and the physicality we see in the game these days is immense, as you could see from the six Premiership matches last weekend, some of which were basically 80 minutes of sheer warfare.

Students are the true winners in this change in policy. The change is most likely to lead to an increase in the sheer number and variety of programs that become available to them.

It's impressive how such a tiny creature in sheer numbers can drive you insane.

Oil will continue to be the backbone due to its sheer scale plus the rate of expansion envisaged. I'm not sure if this is enough evidence of diversification or conversely is it just evidence of the benefits of a booming oil sector.

It won't be hard for the sheer fact that I'm 0-3 in these title games. So I understand that it can be as close as 60 minutes or it can be a lifetime away.

The world is incomprehensible. We wont ever understand it; we wont ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.

The VR-1 is our first entry into the semi-rugged market, so we set out to make the best laptop in terms of durability, published standards, and sheer computing performance,

It was just the sheer demand of people wanting stuff and the demand of supplying it.

In hindsight again, you would like to see a higher factor of safety today. But, you really can go back to the same two things: the actual failure mechanism was not anticipated and then the sheer strength at the toe of the levee was weaker.

I knew when I shot the 'She Keeps Me Warm' video that the comments were not going to be homophobic... that they would be about fat-shaming. I'm a large girl making out with somebody. I knew just that sheer fact would set people off.

I like films better than the theater because you have to spend so much energy projecting your voice from the stage in the sheer effort to be heard.