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We wish the last two years had been smoother. We wish there had been no injuries. We wish he could have played more and played back to the standard where he wanted to be. I know he was totally frustrated by it.

The prior reviews had a certain sense of cover-ups than an honest full-fledged review. It's essentially to raise it a notch from a standard review to a now criminal review. When you have people taking testimony under oath, it makes it harder to cover things.

The public should know the board has met a high standard in their (hiring) process, ... We appreciate their cooperation with us and their efforts to ensure the best professional educational leadership possible for their students, staff and community.

We certainly have standard procedures like most hospitals do. We are cooperating with the Department of Health and police to find out what was different that day.

We scored some pretty good goals, but I thought we should've had four or five more. We've got to maintain our standard no matter who we're playing and what the score is. Right now, we're not doing that.

Viz is another guy that I think is great with not only the Latino guys but he's also great for guys like me. Anybody can draw on his wealth of experience. They set a standard for the right way to play the game and the right way to conduct yourself in the clubhouse and on the field. Their example is very important.

We feel that Bobby is the best manager in the game and his leadership has helped the Braves to set a very high standard of excellence -- not just in major league baseball, but in all of professional sports.

You either deny terrorists any acceptance in the international life, or you make your double standard policy work the way it has been working - 'I don't like that guy in this country, so we will be calling him a dictator and topple him. This guy in another country also dictatorial, but he's our dictator.'

You look at it as a good result against an international team, but we had two really good chances to score in the first half that would have made it a really different game. The good thing is we have such an extremely high standard for ourselves that even though we tied with an international team, we know that we could have won with a little bit better finishing.

This simple action by the president and his family helps send a message to the rest of America that spaying or neutering your companion animal should be a standard procedure in every household,

To be honest, drugs and alcohol are bigger concerns right now than steroids. Those are huge problems with kids right now. So if you test for steroids, you have to test for all drugs. And if you test kids, then you also have to test coaches and teachers. You have to hold that standard across the board with everybody.

Total contact casts are clearly the gold standard in offloading the bottom of the foot.

This one was initially set up for an (X-ray type scanning) exam sometime during the next two or three days following its arrival, which is a standard time frame for containers.

This one is really the gold standard among achievements in sports.

This new standard is like telling a two-pack-a-day smoker to cut out one cigarette a day.

This new draft version...identifies the newly ratified OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) as our standard for office documents.

This new billing standard launched by the BSI offers the opportunity for streamlining and improving the billing process and could bring substantial benefits to both industry and the consumer,

We're disappointed. Disappointed, but not deterred. You can't look at the hires collectively and not reach the conclusion that there's a double standard and there isn't a level playing field.

When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.

Vijay (Singh) has set the standard for the 40-somethings and I'm not even there yet.

Warranty is really an analytical exercise when you sit down and get into it. Our software tracks warranty claims and payments. It handles product recalls. It does a whole raft of things. But the real strength comes from the end user data analysis that people do on their own. They crawl through the data to see what they can find. Even though we have 50 or 60 different standard analysis reports, a lot of times, it's just people going in and doing some basic data analysis, seeing a pattern, and tracking it down.

We are very proud to have received this patent. It is a solid endorsement of our on-going commitment to be the innovative leader in the news industry and set the gold standard for our industry.

We are supporting that effort through modifications in our payment system by not following the usual and standard Medicare and Medicaid rules,

We didn't hold ourselves to a standard that said we needed a certain type of song because that's the type we had on the last album.

We have detected areas of the brain activated by deception and truth telling by using a method that is verifiable against the current gold standard method of lie detection -- the conventional polygraph.

We could solve all our problems if only we were the efficient, rational human beings of standard economic theory and had politicians willing to think in the long-term interest of their people rather than their own.

Both Ford and Volvo have looked at injury and fatality rates in rollovers involving vehicles that meet the federal standard to vehicles that have roof strengths that are multiples of the federal standard, and there isn't a difference.

Bridgewater-Raritan is the standard in the area and in the state. We have a chance to dethrone the champion. To be the champion, you have to beat the champion.

Even I slept well last night. We actually tried to take it easy so that we didn't feel much pressure. We tried to isolate ourselves from the outside world and told each other that this is the standard we are going to believe in. We are not doing something unusual. We have the merit to perform like this.

Either way, ... we pay the price: higher import costs, a cutback in spending on cheap foreign goods, rising inflation, perhaps chaotic financial markets, a lower standard of living.

(Biladeau) had such a high standard for what he wanted to accomplish and I know that helped me improve as much as I did,

Everyone who has come before has set such a high standard - I want to keep that going as much as I can. And if it's in my power to do it, I'm going to try to.

Every other Sutter hospital has recognized the importance of our reasonable requests. What is wrong with Eden Medical Center? An industry standard contract directly improves the quality of care our patients would receive. I do not want to strike, but like the caregivers who walked the picket line for nine weeks at CPMC, I am willing to do whatever it takes.

Every country should choose its own way to promote and protect human rights in line with its national conditions, ... There is no uniform standard with regard to national human rights action plans, institutions or education.

Every company in Bangalore has such standard security procedures in place.

Based on our recent service provider studies, we see an intertwining of MPLS and Ethernet -- most providers of metro services are using or planning MPLS as a standard approach for augmenting and scaling their Layer 2 services. A cost-effective solution that has a mix of Layer 2, routing, and MPLS capabilities will help give these service providers the flexibility to expand their customer reach and increase revenue.

As the natural displacement from other consumption goods toward energy goods occurs with rises in energy prices, it is easy to conclude that our natural wealth and standard of living will inevitably decline.

a standard that Europeans created basically for their own purposes.

A standard sitcom... is a very standard idea, like these people falling in love and living with each other, and all these people living with each other. It's like, okay, we hooked them up in episode 15, how do we bust that, how do we find a new kernel in it?

At our place, he's the best we've ever had. Without a doubt, a tremendous leader. He just set a standard that's going to be hard for anybody to match.

At that time (in 2004), discussions were had with some members of the board and Father Smyth. Those people who discussed it said (to Smyth), 'You're certainly worth more than (the standard priest's salary of about $20,000 a year), and we should be getting the value of your services,

At Mardi Gras, the different tribes will basically play war games, and so my brother is what you call a Flag Boy, which is more of less like a tribe's diplomat. He carries the game's standard and is really the line of where the game starts.

At this point, we are not interested in any of it. But that could change. It is a fast-paced world now. Remember Standard Foods? It was big in the 1960s, and now you can't find them.

At the very least we will be able to pick up very quickly what the side effects are. And this is something that standard clinical testing doesn't (offer) for several years.

Doctors want to be able to design trials to look at multiple potential treatment combinations and use biomarkers to determine who is responding to what medication. At the end of the day, when they enroll the last patient in the study they want to be able to treat that patient optimally depending on the patient's disease characteristics. Using a Bayesian approach, the trial design exploits the results as the trial is ongoing and adapts based on these interim results. That kind of thing is an anathema in the standard approach.

Continuing on this unsustainable path will gradually erode, if not suddenly damage, our economy, our standard of living, and ultimately our national security.

Council Rock has been a great program for many years. It's a standard in our league we all shoot for. We were anxiously looking forward to the game. We have to learn to channel emotions in a positive way. It's a long season.

Competitor magazine is by far the standard for the industry and what every other fitness magazine wants to be,

Doug Hamilton established a standard of excellence for this club, on and off the field, and it is our responsibility to continue to live up to that standard.

Customers are looking for someone who can import a physical-security component to their network and include it in their standard data correlation and reporting.

Currently the world capability is somewhere less than 500 million doses of vaccine with, you know, close to 6 billion people in the world. In addition, the dose that's required to induce an immune response with this particular vaccine is a significantly higher dose than the dose that you use to protect against the standard run-of-the-mill seasonal flu.

Crystal Reports is the gold standard for enterprise reporting, and tens of thousands of organizations rely on it as the core of their mission-critical business intelligence solution. Receiving a CRN Product of the Year award is a great accomplishment and is further confirmation that Business Objects continues to raise the bar in the business intelligence industry. We continue to update Crystal Reports with new features that take reporting to the next level and enable organizations to give users secure, independent access to the information they need to run their business effectively.

Contributing financially to charitable organizations is certainly noble and should be encouraged and is something that the Gores have done when the resources were there. However, to truly judge a person's commitment to helping others, you need to consider what they have done with their lives and how they have spent their time -- and by that standard the Gores are extraordinarily committed.

And the trajectory that our debt is taking now beyond $14 trillion is going to have an impact on our currency. It goes south, and our currency's going to have an impact on our standard of living and affect every family in this country, and over time, our international competitiveness.

And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.

Another hand thy sword shall wield,Another hand the standard wave,Till from the trumpet's mouth is pealedThe blast of triumph o'er thy grave.

Another hand thy sword shall wield, Another hand the standard wave, Till from the trumpet's mouth is pealed The blast of triumph o'er thy grave.

Engrossing, vividly written in the style of the best thrillers...It should become the standard work on the region.

Each has contributed mightily to the creative and artistic community, having achieved unprecedented milestones. They have raised the standard of music-making to a new level.

Each class represents a different challenge. For instance, this semester I have public speaking first block, an honors English class second block. and a standard English class during the fourth block, so I have students from all ability levels. Usually my kids are motivated, but if not, I do my best to.

Fiscal 2005 saw Absolute achieve significant milestones toward establishing our company as the standard for Computer Theft Recovery and Secure Asset Tracking. We reached an agreement with IBM/Lenovo to embed our software in the BIOS of all new ThinkPad laptops, we began enforcing our intellectual property resulting in several competitors choosing to either license our patents or resell our software, we announced an agreement with LoJack to brand our consumer offering under the well-known LoJack name, and we continued to expand our sales and marketing relationships with key OEMs.

'Faraway' takes only minutes or a couple of bus stops to play. The easy to use touch controls work beautifully on the iPad. This is the game that should come standard on every new iPad.

FDA approval should be the gold standard for comprehensive examination of drug safety. We shouldn't be second-guessing the agency's processes.

The responses range from absolute denial to complete admittance, ... Some said, 'We had no knowledge of it' - that's a pretty standard response - and some said, 'If we paid it, we don't know we paid it.'

There's plenty of time to look at this for a while until either he shows improvement or else we go back to more of a basic offensive standard ... and take that guard responsibility away. Move him into a forward place where he can make plays and he can still be a participant in the offense.

There's still plenty of consumer demand for direct-view televisions. They provide people looking to step-up to HD television a great value and for others satisfied with standard definition, an attractive price and solid performance.

There's a difference between the criminal standard and the management standard.

There's going to be some ups and downs. ... A couple of times they didn't play to the standard that they're accustomed to, and I think we'll see the very best of it.

There's no substitute for careful driving, but we think stability control is potentially life-saving technology that should be fitted as standard on all new cars.

There's no doubt that what has emerged in the years after 9/11, unlike the situation in Britain, there were practices sanctioned in the U.S. that fall far below the standard of conduct that should have taken place. It is for the American system of government, in all of its branches, to address that. It is not for a British politician.

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

There's no way we can ask for a treaty that has one standard for the United States and another for the rest of the world.

The Today show remains number one; Meet the Press continues to set the standard on Sunday; and Dateline is still the most innovative newsmagazine on television, with as many as four or five hours in a single week. After years of flux, we've stablized and improved the programming at MSNBC. There is more work to be done, but we've taken positive steps just as we did at MSNBC.com. We've added depth and diversity to the best television newsgathering team ever assembled. I hope you all share the pride that I have about NBC News.

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

I set a high standard for myself. I seldom meet it, but life is a journey and I'm in the middle of a fascinating one.

It would have been helpful if the standard was released many months ago. Companies have already done what they're going to do for July 1, 2006. But for year two, three and beyond, this standard will have real benefits.

They are a large company that has a huge supply chain ... if they change their practices they could set a standard for the industry, as well as for their own company, and it can have huge impact.

They all talked about it. It was a standard part of their pitch.

The WPT has become the gold standard in poker and the Budweiser brand is the same to beer. It's a great match of two iconic brands.

The way he treated people and how he ran the company set an exceptionally high standard of personal decency.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant recognizes our commitment, while at the same time it illustrates the commitment of the Kellogg Foundation, to challenging prejudice -- whether conscious or unconscious. Our goal at the Journalism School is to set a new, higher standard for education regarding the coverage of race and ethnicity. We endeavor to be leaders in the field.

These are standard technologies and can be done securely.

The risk assessment behind the existing arsenic standard is probably not accurate due to the interpretation of the science that went into the rule.

The rink is much smaller than the standard Olympic size so it's hard to skate perfectly, but I think we did okay.

The rink is much smaller than standard Olympic size, so it's hard to skate perfectly. We've only had two practices at this rink before today.

These actions are further evidence of Aetna's long-standing commitment to being a corporate governance leader, ... Many shareholders in corporate America want more say when it comes to electing directors at companies. Our board studied other alternatives, including cumulative voting, and decided that implementing a majority vote standard for director elections most effectively responds to shareholder needs and strengthens our board's accountability to our shareholders. We also believe that the package of enhancements adopted today is consistent with corporate governance best practices.

The room was too warm, with the sort of cat-barf-beige carpet that has been standard for meeting rooms for a millennium because it hides coffee stains.

The roof crush standard is a proposal and we'll certainly take all comments into account when we write the final regulation.

The rollout of WCDMA will continue, ... but service providers are also upgrading their GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks, so it will take a little longer for WCDMA to become the ubiquitous standard in the GSM family of technologies.

It would be sweeter, ... Everybody would like to see the Yankees not make the postseason one year. If Boston wins that division, and we do our job by beating the Yankees, it would be a tremendous thing. It means we're playing good baseball against a team that sets the standard for good baseball.

These challenges require of us not just standard responses, but urgent and extraordinary interventions that will ensure that the benefits of the current scientific and technological advances are shared by everyone, including those in the most remote and isolated villages of the world,

These storms are pretty big and broad sometimes, so you take no chances. This is standard operating procedure when storms like Rita appear.

These safety features started out as technological advances available only on luxury cars. Now, they are coming available as a standard feature.

The Serious Fraud Office has a duty to record and consider reports of possible overseas corruption involving U.K. persons or U.K. corporate entities. This is a standard preliminary process in such situations to consider whether closer inspection in the U.K. is appropriate and, if so, by which regulatory authority.

The 'Station to Station' film is a fast-moving journey through the modern creative landscape. It's a kaleidoscope of voices and impressions rather than a standard linear film.

The state gives us only so much to build a standard gym and we will have to add to it.

The standard was set right there ? nobody else had any excuses. I don't think that everybody has lived up to that standard that she set. To compete the way she does, with the balancing act of what else was going on in her life, was more than anyone could have asked.

The standard theory may survive as a part of the ultimate theory, or it may turn out to be fundamentally wrong. In either case, it will have been an important way-station, and the next theory will have to be better.

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it.

The standard practice of a not-for-profit operation is that service fees are not refunded, but the face value of a ticket is, ... Funding for the arts has gone down, as everyone knows, and so it's used as a contribution, for lack of a better term.