Famous Quotes & Sayings

Quite a lot of what we do before we adopt a building ordinance is to consider the way the building looks. City staff and the Planning and Zoning Board also pay attention.

Rather than go through such a pointlessly repetitive exercise, the court ruled that the chief of the Forest Service properly adopted the broad moratorium through an agency-wide rule,

Rather than starting from an approach which focused on particular/specific types of transactions and provides views on whether revenue arises from that transaction, and when and how much revenue, the exposure draft establishes broad principles and then explains how those principles are applied to particular transactions. This means that the principles are in place to provide broad guidance. They can be applied to transactions that may be of particular importance to some jurisdictions, but not in other jurisdictions. The problem with adopting an approach which focuses on specific transactions, is that some types of transactions may be missed. This is particularly significant for international standards intended to encompass many different jurisdictions, with different resource flows and administrative arrangements.

Prominent problems include too quick growth in fixed-asset investments and bank loans, which the country will adopt measures to tackle to ensure a steady and relatively fast economic expansion.

Prominent problems include a too prompt growth rate in fixed-asset investments and bank loans, which the country plans to adopt measures to tackle, as well as measures to ensure it keeps its steady economic growth.

Project and portfolio management is critical as development is increasingly distributed, as organizations adopt service oriented architectures, and as audits require evidence of regulatory compliance. With IBM's new project and portfolio management software, organizations can more effectively govern their software and systems development projects.

Our third quarter results demonstrated the ongoing strength of our business model. We also delivered on the growth strategies that are enabling us to expand our industry leadership position, including advancements focused on accelerating the adoption of Internet media and the viable business models to support it.

Our efforts to get this convention adopted by member states of UNESCO are driven by our unshakeable commitment to protect and promote Canada's rich cultural diversity,

Eric Thomas

Our experience last year leads us to believe that the House will be more hesitant to adopt the reforms necessary to fix the H-1B and green card systems.

Our aim is to provide shelter and clothes to all the affected people before the onset of winter. Therefore, it has been decided that Army will adopt two villages, while Indian Air Force, BSF, CRPF and ITBP will adopt a village each for reconstruction,

Open standards tend to encourage creativity. We believe that entrepreneurs everywhere can better improve the world with open platforms to work from. Our affiliates in emerging countries and all their portfolio companies will almost certainly benefit from the adoption of open standards.

Isabella Bird

On the whole, I find that it is best to adopt as far as possible the travelling equipments of the country in which one travels. The muleteers and servants understand them better, and if anything goes wrong or wears out, it can be repaired or replaced.

Of course, we know this British government has adopted a so-called ethical foreign policy,

Oftentimes families will adopt two kittens, as they entertain each other while they are at work or the kids are in school.

Dennis Cardoza

Often an impediment to foster children's placement to permanent homes occurs when a child from one State is adopted by a family from another.

Of larger significance is that this initiative fuels the potential adoption of a certified Red Hat Linux stack within U.S. government departments and agencies. For instance, Red Hat offers certificate management, clustering and other applications on top of Linux.

John Mill

No stronger case can be shown for prohibiting anything which is regarded as a personal immorality, than is made out for suppressing these practices in the eyes of those who regard them as impieties; and unless we are willing to adopt the logic of per

The move was adopted following pressure from the United States and its aim was to waste time while paying lip service to democracy.

Mohammad Khatami

Adopting unequal measures as the foundation for relations between countries and transforming ties between East and West into a class struggle between oppressors and oppressed has done nothing other than create armed peace, brutality, conflicts and terrorism,

Junichiro Koizumi

Adopting a stance that does not fear pain, does not flinch at the barriers of vested interests, and is not shackled by the experience of the past, I want to establish an economic and social system suitable for the 21st century.

Louis Farrakhan

Adopt a family, then the government can assist the families to get back on their feet,

A female rabbit can get pregnant again within hours of giving birth. So it's important to get them spayed or neutered. Male rabbits tend to be a little calmer when they're neutered -- they don't spray, that sort of thing. All the animals adopted from us are already spayed or neutered.

A fairly rapid evolution has taken place in transportation over the last few years with the adoption of the Internet. Really the focus is in inventory management and the management of cargo.

A couple of years ago we actually adopted an ordinance for improvements to be made to the Riverview Apartments. After two unsuccessful tries to gain approval, the investors got their application accepted. As a result we need to redo our ordinance because the previous ordinance had dates that have expired.

William Butler Yeats

Style, personality -- deliberately adopted and therefore a mask -- is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

Something that's attractive for one customer could be a recipe for disaster for another. It comes down to what you envision for your customer. Just adopting wholesale what other retailers do is not going to do it.

Some people will no doubt regard it as a sell-out. But it's about engaging with contemporary culture rather than adopting an aloof view.

Kofi Annan

Specifically, I ask developing countries to improve their governments, uphold the rule of law, combat corruption and adopt an inclusive approach to development,

SPARC for some time has not been highly regarded for various reasons. We adopted a completely different design philosophy.

Geraldine Brooks

So, you know, Nathaniel was my first child, born when I was 40, so, uh... And then in due course, he wanted a brother, and then I thought, 'Oh, that'll be bloody lucky!' So, we ended up adopting a beautiful boy who was then five years old, from Ethiopia.

Once you show that important, thoughtful companies have adopted majority voting, you could prompt a mass movement in that direction.

Once we adopted a framework for developing policies, standards and procedures, we made really good progress. The documentation process really started to fall into place.

Once there is significant evidence that the Fed is finished increasing rates, investors will begin to adopt late-cycle patterns.