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My experience of Chinese culture is indirect, through echoes. When I approach the cashier at my local Chinese supermarket, they switch to English before I've even said a word. They somehow know that I'm not quite Chinese enough.

More important (than heightened expectations of a policy switch next week) is what sort of policy framework the BOJ can present for the post-quantitative easing era, and there doesn't seem to be a consensus yet on this among the board members.

My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.

Now we will take a little bit of a break. We have about four weeks before our first outdoor meet. Some of the events will be different and the track will be different so we need to switch focus from indoor to outdoor.

Obviously, I'm very happy when one of my films becomes a blockbuster. However, after a point, I want to switch off. I have learnt to just move on. Too much pressure can make you wrong.

Obviously my last memory was not a good one. We'd like to have a chance to switch that around.

Right now, I'm just trying to get back on the field. I don't care about this whole record thing. I just care about doing the best job that I can. It's hard, man, when baseball is all I've ever known and all I've ever done, to hit the switch and dim the lights a little bit.

People who can switch from heating oil to gas are doing it. That's what's bringing in more industrial demand.

People who are dual eligible have the right to switch Part D plans every month without penalty.

Nauvoo's going to sag probably a little bit on us or run a little match-up or switch a lot. We're going to have to come out and make shots (today).

On the last possession we just decided to switch on everything and not let them get a very good shot.

If we're just experiencing some minor snow covering secondary roads, we'll switch several officers to our severe weather vehicles. The remainder will stay in their standard vehicles and handle service calls as usual.

If these two bills are passed on radio spectrum and allocation of funds, the grades will quickly switch to a B or an A.

If they were to switch back to incentives, frankly, it would undermine everything they've done.

I have done more than enough talking and it's now time to be quiet. If I keep on saying the same things to the players they will switch off, so it will be a case of getting the head down and getting on with the hard work.

Id much rather be playing Lock Haven than Nebraska, ... Im sure Jack would switch with me.

I'd like to talk to him before I comment on that. He has been an infielder most of his career. That doesn't mean he couldn't make the switch to left field.

I did television for a very long time, but if you're on television, words don't count. What the eye sees beats the words. If you switch sides, from radio to television, you learn that the wordiness that you learn on the radio is useless or not nearly as powerful, and you have to learn to trust that the eye will just beat the ear.

Ideas of traditional Japanese dress are coming into Western fashion, which is a switch because a few years ago it was the kooky anime/comics side of Japan that was animating Western design.

I cut the emergency switch just in time to keep 'Winnie Mae' from making an exhibition of herself by standing on her nose. That would have been fatal to our hopes.

I can handle any position that I may switch to, but I think probably the easiest position that suits my strengths is running back. I'm a guy that really needs the ball in his hands.

I am very comfortable fighting southpaw, ... both my right and left hands are powerful. My ability to switch on the fly really is amazing -- most guys are not looking for it and then BOOM, I switch to southpaw and they are on the mat. I think that is a major part of my game, and I work on that as much as I do my conventional style.

Certain applications are too big to write quickly. In other cases, businesses will not readily switch to another application to run on Linux if they are happy with the current software's performance.

I have a hard time telling them part. I told them not to switch numbers on me.

I have always been down to test what I can do and push the limits of my acting. I have always wanted to try new genres and stuff - but I love comedy. I grew up on comedy, and I love having a good time and making people laugh. But it is also really nice to switch it around and make people think and feel some darker emotions.

I have a switch in my apartment that doesn't do anything. Every once in a while I turn it on and off. On and off. On and off. One day I got a call from a woman in France who said "Cut it out!

I have a very healthy relationship to my work, and I find that if a scene is working, no matter how intense it is, you have the catharsis on screen, and you can let it go. I think it's, if at the end of the day you feel like you haven't cracked it, that's when you go home and it's more difficult to switch off.

I hate to say it, because I'm not a big believer in turning the switch on and off, but if there's one guy who I think could do it, it's Carlos. In his mind, he knows these are Spring Training games, and when it's Opening Day, I think the light bulb will come on. I'm not worried about him.

I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and you're always writing. Even in your sleep, you're always thinking about it in the back of your mind. The true writing - when you're officially writing - that's just when its front of mind, but its always there. You're always listening for a hook.

Given the difficult transition for other companies that have made the switch (to subscription accounting), we view this with some relief for Oracle stock.

I don't use GNOME, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do. I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.

I don't think it's a bait and switch in the least. We've been very open with what our plans are for Red Rock Resort.

Forty-eight ports makes good sense for us, ... We have a couple of suites connected over fiber with 30 to 50 users in each. We can buy a single switch for each suite instead of stacking multiples.

Goals? I want to be the best in the country at what I do. Which means I want to be able to hop around, help the team. Switch up. Make mismatches on guys. I want to be able to be a big-play guy for the team.

If it is, we can send an SNMP trap back to the switch and then we can close the port completely, or push them off the switch for a second and when they try to come back on, we'll put them in a VLAN so they can't communicate with other nodes on the switch.

I always think it's interesting to switch genres, because if I read a script and I know exactly how to manifest a story, I don't really want to do it anymore, because I've already done it in my head.

I always switch off from the business when I go across the threshold. Home is home, and I try to keep it that way.

He taught me to play every position and he taught me how to switch hit.

He had a 14-pitch first inning and a 38-pitch second inning. It's like somebody turned the light switch off.

He flipped the switch and took over our team. It's fun to have a mature guy who's not (just) surviving at quarterback. He's getting better every play.

He flipped the switch and had confidence and took over our team. This is now Vince Young's team.

He flipped the switch and had confidence and took over our team,'' said Texas' Mack Brown, who is still searching for his first conference title in 22 years as a head coach.

He came into the jump switch (backwards), and did a switch-360 to a switch-540. He entered the up-box going switch and did a 540 over the battleship rail. That was by far one of the best runs in the whole thing. It made the place go wild.

We try to flip on the switch too much. We think we can just turn it on. We've got to flip the switch on when the game starts. We can't feel like we can turn it on when our backs are against the wall and come back.

We just have to keep playing good basketball and winning games. Anything can happen. Momentum can switch and we could start losing. We can't let it get to us, being in first place.

to elevate Roberts, Ayres said. ''It makes a whole lot of sense to switch Judge Roberts over to the chief justice position.

What we wanted to do was just put to rest the question of, 'Hey, are they going to be around now that (Apple is) making a major switch to Intel?

He's a great player with great tools. Having another switch hitter is also great. I respect all switch hitters, because it's tough to do.

Going on projections, I think, is a very dangerous thing to do, because if the economy were to switch or change, those projections become meaningless, ... Face The Nation.

He's a long, athletic guy that can run, jump, defend anybody, make athletic plays, get out and run the court. When he has to switch on a screen and defend a guard, it's a mismatch in his favor because he moves his feet so well.

Historically, a parallel relationship exists between inventory and service: if you want high service levels, you need a lot of inventory. We want to switch that, and deliver high service levels with less inventory.

Hitting-wise I didn't think I would have as much success as I have had. I was glad they gave me an opportunity to switch over.

He's been known to hit big shots his whole career. We just tried to switch all the pick-and-rolls they set. I ended up on Jalen, and I was able to make the play, stop him from getting the shot off.

He's been impressive early on. We want Hank to be part of this thing for a long time, so this might be a better opportunity for Emerson to do some things. He has the potential to be an impact player behind the plate. He took the switch very positively and wants to learn and get better. We know it's early, but based on what he did last year with the bat and the potential he has defensively, it's an intriguing package.

He's been great. He's put a lot of confidence in all of us. We know if we want to try things on the court, we can switch things up. He totally backs us 100 percent, and we have 100 percent confidence in him.

There is an enormous number of people who travel on buses, who could switch if the price is low enough.

When they made it 2-2, I just didn't have the sense that it would totally switch the other way even though they caught up.

We lost pressure with the gas. It's not like the electricity where you can just switch it back on. You have to go into each place and turn it off at the meter. We are doing a lot of knocking.

Hundreds of thousands of satisfied TaxBrain.com electronic filers point to cost, convenience and simplicity as the most important factors in their decision to switch - and their commitment to never go back.

He was one of the leaders in the switch from hot type to cold type at the Courier in 1963.

He just said, 'Oh, OK,' ... From that time on, he was at every workout. It was crazy how he developed. It was almost like a switch went off.

Killed by a man with a switch blade knife, for 43 dollars my friend lost his life.

Jack was getting after it. We decided to switch him around and move him up front (from the midfield), because he can score when he's got the ball.

I would (switch) if I had to, but I feel like I'm a quarterback. If I get drafted and they switch me, that will be it.

Just looking at them, they really like to mix up their defenses a lot. They play a lot of zone but will switch it up. We will have to try to recognize that.

Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch that is brought into the service of diagnosing the human condition, that machine is based on principles of physics discovered by a physicist in a machine designed by an engineer.

John is as tough as it comes. At one point during the game, I asked him if he wanted to switch off and guard somebody else for a while. He glared back and me, so I knew what his answer was.

I switch on and off very easily; I'm inherently lucky in that sense. I sleep well.

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

I think in my life I have so many things that changed so much with work and my career, and I don't really get to plan out a lot of my days. So when I have something that's familiar - just something that's there - I don't really like to switch it up.

It is a challenging place to start the year because the circuit is probably the hardest for brakes of the whole season. The circuit is surrounded by sand and it can also get very hot, which can pose problems with the cooling of a new car. So reliability will be key, especially with this year's switch to (2,4-litre) V8 engines.

I thought that defensive switch really changed the match.

I think Wade relaxed when he saw that they were going to go out of bounds. Jesse went into a switch and brought him back inbounds for the takedown.

I think that we can win eight of our next ten games. We can do this because I see the bats coming alive. Its going to be like a light switch for the team producing runs.

I went to sleep thinking that wasn't going to happen. Then we woke up one day and it was like, 'Oh, this is going to happen and it's going to cost us a fortune to switch over.' Nobody likes change. But we started talking about it and we've come up with a plan. It's coming, it's going to be there and let's make it the best we can.

Just ask for what you want. I requested a six-month break from Facebook to visit my parents; I asked to switch projects. I told my husband it was time to get married after six years of dating!

Just don't switch from value stocks to growth stocks.

People are not going to switch from their trusted brand to a new and similar brand without good reason. This is why follow-on products constantly face an uphill battle when coming to market.

Our half-court defense is still our staple. That's what we are. We want to make the game hard for the other team. It's hard to run plays when you can switch and do the things we do.

Our front line is tough to deal with. We can go so many ways. We've got guys inside that can bang and get physical. We've got 'Danny G,' who is very active and a shot blocker. We can switch it up at any point in the game.

Our country has been asleep at the switch on these things. The basic economics are that the supply of fossil fuels is limited and the demand is outstripping the supply. It's a recipe for continued crisis if we don't start changing our ways.

Robby Gordon has a tremendous amount of talent, but when he pulls the helmet over his head, he knocks some sort of switch that makes him an idiot.

Our own studies have shown that consumers tend to switch over to non-store outlets in times of higher energy costs .

Our mathematics test scores are going to be late in coming, and we won't have that information in time for parents to make a timely decision about whether they want to transfer their children. The state of North Carolina has requested that the federal government switch the sanctions for this year only.

People have become accustomed to the convenience of shopping for cell phones and pagers at retail stores. Now they can switch and start saving money in less time than it'll take to drink their cup of coffee.

Some of the country's power plants and industrial users have the ability to switch fuels, and others are scaling back their usage altogether, ... It's encouraging to see that people have scaled back on their usage. That means we should be in pretty good shape going into the winter.

Somehow, the words don't have any vitality, any life to them, unless I can feel it marking on a paper. That's how I start. Once I'm off, then I switch to the laptop. I think it would all just be prose if it started on a laptop - not that what I do is poetry.

That doesn't give companies much time to switch over.

That defensive switch and Jacque's two shots won the game for us.

Looking at tape, we felt a zone would be effective against them. They're so athletic and we had a hard time controlling them off the dribble the last time. What we wanted to do was get a fast tempo to start, get them a little tired and switch to a zone. I think that was really effective tonight.

Market expectations for both are very fluid. All of this is driving Japanese yields up and causing the market to switch from the yen into the Swiss franc as the funding currency for carry trades.

Matt has been a good big-league player. We'll make the switch to get him some at-bats ... give Jeremy time to regroup. If Matt swings and plays the way Matt can, it will make things interesting.

I woke up and I was upset. A lot of times I watch tape, and I pause it and see what's going on. That would have been a neat game to switch over and see what he's doing.

I was very scared when I first started playing with Elaine and Bryce. I was used to four-four time signatures my whole life, and they switch up their beats and timing every other measure.

I think putting $500 million out there with the needs that we now have is like taking a switch to a gun fight.

I think one thing that helped the sound change, it's a real subtle thing; it's just one switch on my bass, it has three positions, and I usually boost the mid-range frequency, I lowered the frequency that I boost, and that goes out to the sound system, too.

It does signal a bit of a switch from a technical to more of a sales focus at the top.

I think I might switch my irons out and go back to my old set. I don't feel like I'm hitting the ball well.

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