Famous Quotes & Sayings

We allowed too many counterattacks. When we sent a defender ahead, we left a hole in the back. We didn't slide over to cover that. We found out quickly that we need to stay organized and not get too attack-minded.

We allowed them to keep them (the rifles) with them, but we restricted them to certain locations.

We allowed them back in the game on some threes, and they got to the free throw line too many times.

We allowed the jubilation to go on longer than it should have.

We allowed some games to slip away, we allowed ourselves to be put in that position. We have to hold ourselves accountable. And now let's go do something about it.

Jim Davidson

We allowed Mountain View to stick around. We lacked concentration all evening.

We allowed him to settle in and he took charge of the game. We're not playing the full nine innings to get the job done.

We allowed him to put the ball on the floor and get to the basket.

We allow children who maybe aren't welcome in other groups come in and be around their peers who are developing normally; we don't turn anyone away.

We allow a stay only if riders are declared for a race, and that includes the Melbourne Cup.

Those confessions of moral lapses, in public like this, might allow jurors to conclude that he is resigned, resolved and finally telling his part.

Those are the sorts of people for which there was a process built in to allow exceptions, to allow appeals, but the exceptions and appeals process doesn't do anybody any good if it is not expeditious.

Weaker mortgage lending in the first half of 2005 led to annual totals weaker than in 2004, but gross lending and loans approved for house purchase finished the year on an upward trend, after allowing for seasonal factors.

Waves constantly breaking on the structure start to erode it and make it become unstable. But I don't think that was a major factor in the canals. You just don't have the (open area) to allow wave growth to occur.

Ben Bernanke

I would argue that no financial instrument counted as regulatory capital should be allowed to receive any protection from losses.

We are committed to making changes to our business that will restore the public's trust, enhance the quality and independence of our audit practice, and allow all of our practices to thrive.

We are in the process of finding authors to sponsor these types of private-public partnership legislation that would allow us to utilize this valuable tool for infrastructure.

We are in the awkward position of not being able to expand our trainer base, whilst training facilities cannot allow 12 months' training.

We are delighted to announce a month of special opportunities in January 2006, culminating with an Open House event on Saturday, January 14 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. that will allow the public to get a sampling of the many features Slim and Tone has to offer.

We'll not back down. We're loyal British subjects who only want to be allowed to parade peacefully where we always have in our town.

Those names are being notified to the U.N. to make that part of the mandatory freeze list, to allow our counterparts around the world to freeze those assets and repatriate them,

Alex Ferguson

Tyler did a really good job for us. He threw a scoreless inning in the first game. He allowed three runs but none were earned in the second game. He did a good job closing games out.

Chris Murray

Two years ago, everybody called this a solution in search of a problem. Now everybody sees it as a predicate for allowing deregulation.

Unfortunately we allowed that game to be close and for it come down to that.

Marc Ecko

Unfortunately the spirit of the event, as it was originally conceived and as it has been presented to the appropriate civic groups and government officials since November 2004, seems to have been lost in the haste to stereotype all graffiti-style artists as 'vandals' and to brand this event as a 'promotion of crime,' ... At its core, this is an event designed to celebrate an art form born from the streets of New York over two decades ago as a means of creative self-expression, allowing the public a unique chance to experience the workmanship and skill that go into creating a piece of art fine enough to hang on the walls of any traditional gallery or museum. Upon completion, a 48-foot mural will be donated to The Point, a Bronx-based nonprofit youth development organization, while the remaining nine will be placed throughout the city for public display.

You have proposed a compromise which is basically acceptable, and will, I believe, both accommodate our concerns and allow the committee to proceed with its legitimate legislative purposes.

We were just not boxing out and allowed them to get second chance points. If we're doing that (boxing out) from the beginning we would have probably had a chance to win at the end.

We were just doing it mainly to slow them down and it allowed us to pick off some passes. For some reason, we couldn't stop them man, so we went to a zone look.

You know you're not going to have all the bases covered, but you have to concentrate on the strengths you have. I've had some good players every year I've been here, big-play kids that allow you to be a little more creative offensively and on special teams. But people tend to find an answer for us defensively, especially power-oriented teams that find where we've tried to stash our weaknesses.

Jack Straw

Whether he takes notice or not, I'm not sure, but what I am certain about is that if he does not call off his thugs, allow free and fair elections, allow the international media in, then these sanctions will kick in,

While we're glad that our colleague has been freed, the coercive circumstances of his release are alarming. Saudi officials must allow him to continue his work without further persecution.

Who can seriously doubt that the power which a millionaire, who may be my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest bureaucrat possesses who wields the coercive power of the state and on whose discretion it depends how I am allowed to live and work?

While working with entrepreneurs, I gained an understanding of what it takes to build a business from the ground up, and Iowa has a number of flaws in its bureaucracy that don't allow businesses to thrive and succeed, and most are prevented from even getting started. I understand what it takes to create jobs. Most importantly, I know how to listen to a customer and deliver what they want. It should be no different in state government.