In my early days, a goal against us was shrugged off. Nobody liked conceding a goal, but once the ball had gone into the net it was accepted as 'one of those things' and everybody in the team would concentrate on trying to get the goal back. But once the maximum wage had been lifted and win bonuses became all-important, it was suddenly considered a crime to concede a goal.
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Marks Spencer was among only a few retailers to make gains, closing up 2p at 382p after the chief executive Stuart Rose unveiled the group's Cardinal Place store, its first new opening in central London for over a decade. There is little doubt that MS will achieve top of the range estimates, even if the all-important third-quarter like-for-like sales are down 4 on non-food, ... what we worry about is the ability to grow profits.
Charity is not a virtue to expect in others only. It is the all-important Christian attribute to be found in ourselves.... We believe that charity must begin at home. Can we hope to be charitable to the stranger if love does not abound in the family A sure step in the direction of improvement and progress in our own lives comes when we share with mother or father in their dependence as they shared with us in their productive years.... We cannot as children ignore our obligations to our parents by passing responsibility for their care to others....
The strong man meets his crisis with the most practical tools at hand. They may not be the best tools but they are available, which is all-important. He would rather use them, such as they are, than do nothing.
I don't think these companies results have merited getting hit this hard, but investors are getting concerned with consumer spending as we move into the all-important Christmas season.
We have had a series of rate increases since last year, and so far we have not felt any impact on retailing off all of these increases. However, eventually something will have to give. I would predict that, say towards the end of the year, the fourth quarter, the very all-important holiday fourth quarter, we are going to see that the rate increases will finally take a bite. And that could be a comfort to retailing.
That's what is all-important to everybody in here, ... that you make the decision that's in the best interest of your family.
It's not an all-important thing to us, but there is some pride involved. We certainly didn't want to finish this year going into the postseason under .500 and have that stigma on us. More importantly, we played good baseball.
During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.
The Americans are violently oral. . . . That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least.
Mechanization or industrialization of this sort has really only left man with one all-important mission in life to conquer nature.
In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia. I didn't spend enough time with my children. Now, when I get an all-important call, I sometimes say that I'm having lunch with my granddaughter. And I do not apologize
Hopefully, this dramatic and historic step toward peace will be embraced by the (Protestant) unionist community and become a new dawn for the peace process, so that the all-important restoration of the Northern Ireland Assembly can take place as soon as possible.
This is a volatile report, yet it garners attention because it provides insight as to how the consumer feels, which is all-important right now. A low reading due to higher oil prices may negatively impact retailers.
The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.
However, it was agreed that any further consideration of these alternatives needed to be informed by the performance of the non-food brands through the all-important Christmas period and the balance of the 2003 financial year,