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backbone interested supporting workers
We're interested in supporting workers who are the backbone of the industry. Jonathan Tisch
backbone oversight
It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone. Bob Barr
backbone building commercial customers era feasible hope lead next powerful
Working with the Internet2 community, we will be building more powerful applications that will be feasible only on a backbone like Abilene. We hope this will lead customers into the next era of e-business as these applications migrate over to the commercial Internet. John Patrick
backbone economy main money source south
Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan. Salva Kiir Mayardit
backbone country demand developing high involved power rapidly
Power plants are an infrastructure backbone that I want to be seriously involved in; this is because the country is rapidly developing and has high demand for electricity.
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And Republican women have always been the backbone of our party. We do the work, we are strong believers in conservative values. Having more of those voices in place at a state level is going to be a great improvement for us as a party. Kerry Healey
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Most people know us as providing drinking water and taking away sewage, but we are the backbone of fire protection, ... We've spent close to $3 million in improvements largely to improve fire protection. John Stockton
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This proposal is going to create a national identification card for the first time. It literally sets up the backbone for a system to track all Americans throughout their lives -- their movements, where they're going to and where they're coming from,
backbone companies defend members money patent picking quickly themselves theory weak web
Let's say you get a patent on something like a pop-up window. Of course, you could, in theory, go after everyone on the Internet, but you don't. What you end up doing is picking off the weak members of the herd, companies that don't have the money to defend themselves or independent Web sites, or occasionally big companies that you think will not have very much backbone and will quickly settle.
business soul prosperity
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. Charles Dickens
business fighting men
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers. Charles Caleb Colton
business men morality
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
business clever men
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
business law brain
Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?" Charles Stross
business past derivatives
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future. Alan Greenspan
business colleagues depends
...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
business years risk
What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
business greatness views
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
businesses care cars clean encourage flat front grass growing owners property tires weeds
There are some businesses that have weeds and grass growing in front of the lots, cars with flat tires and cars parked on the sidewalks. We want to encourage the owners of the property to take care of that and clean up in front of their places.
businesses city downtown fact support supported worked
We started back then and then worked on getting the support of the city council. The most important fact was that the businesses in downtown supported us. Out of the 24 businesses in downtown, 22 supported us.
businesses dad grew people stories
I grew up with stories of people who start their own businesses and do really well. So I thought, 'OK, that's what you do.' I can thank my dad for that. Nick Woodman
businesses expect increased openings orleans population return students
When we got our students back, the population of New Orleans increased by 10 to 20 percent. A lot of businesses pegged their openings to the return of our students. We expect the students to be a big part of rebuilding.
businesses economy fiscal huge lacking money package spending stimulus takes
What's lacking is confidence, so businesses aren't spending the money they have, ... That's why I don't necessarily think it takes a huge fiscal stimulus package to get the economy moving.
businesses former help ideally massive near people permanent program provide
We're going to have to have a massive program to get these people permanent housing, ideally near or in their former communities, to get them jobs, to help restart businesses and to provide transportation, Robert Reich
businesses city company continued los park plays property role shape studio theme time universal vision vitality
Universal City plays an important role in our company and in Los Angeles. Now is the time to shape a vision not only for the continued vitality of our studio and theme park businesses but for the property itself. Ron Meyer
businesses courteous night people
We're doing it at night because there are a lot of businesses on that road, and there are a lot of people who live on that road. We're going to try to be as courteous as we can be.
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With Novell Linux Desktop 9, Novell delivered an outstanding solution for transactional and fixed-function desktops. With its successor, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, we are now positioned to serve the sweet spot of the market, the general office worker. This desktop is already generating great interest in businesses of all sizes, and it represents a tremendous new opportunity for Novell.
capitalize community unique
We are a unique community because of the university. We should capitalize on the opportunities with the university.
capitalize found inside jackson open plays run strength tory
We still wanted to get an inside game, we thought that was our strength tonight. But they made plays and Tory Jackson found the open man's hands. ... They had the momentum, they had that run and we just couldn't capitalize on anything.
capitalize whenever
Whenever we get those opportunities (to score), we want to capitalize on those situations.
capitalize good lose offense run steal
When we got a good offense going, we would lose it on defense. We couldn't capitalize when we would get a steal and run it down the floor. We're a Jekyll-and-Hyde team. Scott Parker
capitalize complete jump mistakes periods team three
We're going to have to play three complete periods (today). We'll see a better team (today), a team that will capitalize on your mistakes and jump all over you.
capitalize confident games grind road showing team win
We're real confident right now. We can win in any kind of game, up-tempo games, grind it out games, on the road games especially, which we were able to capitalize on this year. It's showing how much our team has grown. LeBron James
capitalize strengths weaknesses
You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger. Gary Sinise
capitalize deserve scoring
When you can't capitalize on scoring opportunities you're given, you don't deserve to win.
capitalize fascinated people public ready reinvent
She will have to find a way to reinvent herself, and the public is ready for that. People are fascinated still, and there is a way for her to capitalize on that.
government people should
People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people. Alan Moore
government giving enemy
In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government. Alan Green
government favors corruption
In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
government purpose regulators
The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
government support political
Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.
government self credit
We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
government giving needs
We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution. Al Sharpton
government america united-states
If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
government opportunity work
We want the opportunity to work with the government on this.
growing-up women thinking
... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.
growing-up people needs
Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment. Alan Watts
growing-up book comic
I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. Alan Ritchson
growing late critique
A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.
growing bigs distrust
There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.
growing-up school boys
Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.
growing-up hands world
A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?
growing-up tired talking
Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed. Alan Bradley
growing middle standing-still
Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying. Alan Arkin
ideals
Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them. Charles Henry Parkhurst
ideal
I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
ideally information word
Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print. Erin McKean
ideal promoting totally unhealthy
I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that. Cameron Russell
ideal longer loses simply virginity
The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event. Tom Stoppard
ideal insist
I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world.
idealism
With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion. Timothy Noah
ideals concessions
I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals. Coco Chanel
ideal man manhood shows
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is and what kind of man you long to be Thomas Carlyle
learning enemy safe
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
learning ignorance knowledge
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.
learning evolution programming
Optimization hinders evolution. Alan Perlis
learning nouns programming
Any noun can be verbed.
learning thinking language
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
learning thinking knowing
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
learning machines program
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
learn offspring reason
We want them to go back to doing what they used to do, which is migrate. The reason they migrate is for food. When they don't migrate, their offspring don't learn to migrate.
learn people stop tolerant
We want to stop profiling. The more that people learn about Islam, the more tolerant they become.
opportunity deuces letters
Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.
opportunity men often-is
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
opportunity female lovers
Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
opportunity mind glory
The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.
opportunity extremity
Our extremities are God's opportunities. Charles Spurgeon
opportunity honor denial
When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.
opportunity library today
I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
opportunity voice people
It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
opportunity giving people
I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.
providence mark ifs
We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes
provides recognize turn turned vehicle
When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.
provide strongly
I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process. Martin Seligman
provide run
We're going to run some new plays, and we think they're going to provide us some more momentum.
provide services
We're being called on to provide services we don't have,
providers step ultimately
Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.
provide town type
She said she had no idea which town she in. Fortunately we were able to provide this type of intervention before a catastrophe occurred.
provide students
We're able to provide a lot of opportunity. These are the things that students see the most.
provided statements
Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.
purchasing rover symbolic wider
The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous. Martin Jacques
purchasing
They said, 'Well, it can be done, but we'll have to do it a different way (rather than purchasing the series).' So here we are. Richard Petty
purchasing review wholesale
It's a wholesale review of the county's purchasing code. Tom Mitchell
purchasing temporary
It's your temporary "wants" purchasing your unnecessary "needs".
purchasing fairs
All's fair in love and purchasing. Emily Oster
rate
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
rates worse
This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.
rate recognized
We have recognized that our churn rate was too high, and we have been monitoring the credit,
rates wants
Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.
rates
Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility. Leon Black
rate turkey
Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target. Ali Babacan
rate stays taxes
The (property tax) rate stays the same, but the taxes go up all the time. John Parsons
rate success
The rate of success is high, under the appropriate circumstances.
rated reflects strengthen tendency
There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance. Yoshihiko Noda
reduction
Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint. Monica Crowley
reduction
Phil's not going anywhere. He hasn't been fired, and he's not going to be fired. There is no reduction of responsibility. There is no rift. John Collins
reduction left seasons
With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season David Stern
reduction revenue slight
Even a slight reduction in revenue can have a significant impact.
reduction forensics eloquence
Forensics is eloquence and reduction. Gertrude Stein
reduction sit
We will sit down with her and there will be reduction of that this year. Herman Frazier
reduction together
If you put all that together you end up with a reduction in volume.
reduction
Hopefully, we'll see a reduction in those numbers.
reduction breasts
I had a breast reduction. Patti Stanger
small-business enjoy taxes
The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes. Chris Alexander
small-numbers community energy
Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists... David Suzuki
small-details details add
It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression. Cary Grant
small-acts millions
A small act is worth a million thoughts. Ai Weiwei
smallness
I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness. Barry Diller
small-acts bless acts-of-service
Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
small-objects hands eggs
There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof. Diana Gabaldon
small-changes lasting-change healthy
It's the fact that no matter how bad it's gotten, the body wants to be healthy. The body wants to bounce back. When you do these changes, you do these small changes every single day, and you trust the process of what you're doing. You really do make lasting changes onto your body. Bob Harper
small stuff turned
When we were younger, you know, small stuff was small stuff. But we turned it into big stuff. It's just part of being young. Nikki Sixx
states secretary
I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever. Madeleine Albright
states evident secretary
I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.
states barometer interest
...interest is the barometer of the state... David Hume
states hyperbole constant
I live in a constant state of hyperbole. Eden Sher
states senators productive
I was very productive as a senator for my state. Carol Moseley Braun
state
We wrestled better than we did in the first. We got after the guys, and they wanted to get to the state final.
state
to play in the state in which they're franchised. Paul Tagliabue
state
We're realists. We know we're in a state where the Legislature is anti-choice. Susan Hill
state systems whether
When the state inspectors look at us, they will see that the systems are in place. You have to have a system whether you have one person or 100.
vibrant
Rio's a beautiful city, a vibrant place, special place. Eduardo Paes
vibrant
My characters populate a big, vibrant world. Sometimes they rub shoulders. Sometimes they don't. Julie Kenner
york
My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special. Michael Musto
york
Mick says, Would you join the band? I say to him, Mick, you know I'd be there in a New York minute. Ron Wood
york
I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor. Erik Estrada
york
When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection. Carine Roitfeld
york
I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.
york
I am the oldest young designer in New York City. Michael Kors
york
Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care. Ira Glass
york
I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian. Samira Wiley
york
When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here. Ringo Starr