I think there's a growing realization or acknowledgment in the Legislature that we simply can't afford to get tougher and tougher on penalties every session. Enhancing penalties may have been politically popular in the past, but we simply don't have the money or the (prison) space now to do it.
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We talked about it the past two weeks. We knew that Randle El is an ex-quarterback, so we already knew they had a lot of trick plays up their sleeves. But they just got us on that one.
The past is the past. We're not worried about what happened last weekend or last year. As far as we're concerned, J.J. has been an All-American and a Player of the Year, and we know he's going to show up and have a great game for us on Thursday.
We needed to get a big lead and execute to withstand the pressure that was coming. That's the way we've beaten them in the past. But we let one play go into another into another and it just completely got away from us.
Lego has done some intelligent things with licensing in the past year. But they're just catching up.
During the past year, we continued to solidify our leadership position in online advertising,
Major bottlenecks ... have grown by 40 percent -- up from 167 bottlenecks to 233 bottlenecks over the past five years.
Some of the things that I personally observed, having been back in Louisiana ..., I would not envision as seeing at the same level ... here in California, largely because we have been tested in the past, by man-made and natural disasters.
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
do perfect by everyone, but I think with me they (public) will get a candidate who believes in the community and who has worked the past four years to do the best I can to make the community better.
As we move forward in this process, we believe it is necessary to focus our attention on the three cities of Atlanta, Charlotte and Daytona Beach. Based upon the proposals that we have reviewed internally for the past several months, we believe these three cities provide us with the best opportunity to build and develop a world-class NASCAR Hall of Fame for our millions of loyal fans.
But as far as cocktails, a couple of ladies that I've dated in the past really loved Rum and Coke. So I like that occasionally, with a twist of lime.
One of the biggest things happening in this is how our community is really coming together, ... The number of phone calls I've received in the past few days is just phenomenal.
Here you are,
Battered by the past.
We are, of course, proud of the many accomplishments we have achieved over the past 40 years. That said, I am even more excited about our plans for the future.
The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past. Look at Michael Jackson, he never evolved.
We sell our kids from Day One that it's all about May. To be honest, I didn't know if we could turn the switch on again like we have the past two years, but there's 10 seniors on this team and they want to get back to the final four.
People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
I went in thinking that I was one of the best players, that I could compete with these guys. In the past, I didn't think I was good enough to do it. I have a greater belief in myself now.
Paul Kellogg has been a beloved and visionary leader of City Opera and we will miss him deeply. During the past ten years we have been fortunate to have had the benefit not only of his extraordinary artistic sensibility, his wise counsel and his inspirational leadership, but also of his impeccable human values, warmth and charm. That said, we cannot help but understand that he wishes to have more personal time after many years of service to the arts and we salute and thank him for his formidable accomplishments and significant contributions both to City Opera and to opera in general. Paul Kellogg's vision for City Opera has charted our course for the coming years. We are grateful beyond measure and will miss him profoundly.
Bah humbug I've been visited by the ghosts of Saints past, present, and future, and they don't wear white sheets like most ghosts. Instead, they wear brown paper bags over their heads. Anyway, they all said it was time for a change.
I think he's going to be better this year he's more mature. In the past, he was a young horse and a little aggressive, but now he's matured. I had him relaxed all the way around and when I hit the three-eighths pole I had planned on making my move then. T
It was kind of in anticipation of. We didn't know what he might be proposing. Given that not only he, but the Legislature in the past, has felt the urge to subject the Education Fund to new uses, we felt it was an appropriate expression of concern.
The irony is in many places the railroads are laying track where they removed it over the past two decades.
As the yen looks to halt its sharp gains in the past week or so, investors started to take advantage of the stronger currency to buy overseas assets.
We've noticed, maybe in the past 10 or 15 years, roughly, there has been a change in young adult literature,
Being from Pittsburgh had a little to do with hiring him, because we had coaches in the past who didn't believe in Pittsburgh the way Bill and Chuck Noll do. They thought Pittsburgh was a special place.
Lindsey has been a great competitor for Council Rock North for the past four years. She has excelled in any and every event in which she has competed.
The market's taking a bit of a rest . . . after recording new highs for the year in the past few sessions. The Nikkei is also finding it hard to sustain gains given the lack of buying in the broader market.
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
Mike has been a wonderful mentor and role model as we have worked together over the past several years. He was successful in developing a very capable team that will ensure continuity going forward.
Firms in the past year have continued to invest in equipment and technology to improve productivity. And with good reason -- the cost of capital is below the cost of labor.
In our view, any solution should take into account the desirability, very high desirability, to continue to investigate into the past program of Iran so that all the questions which the international community has could be answered by the experts.
Oh, haggard mind, groping darkly through the past incapable of detaching itself from the miserable present dragging its heavy chain of care through imaginary feasts and revels, and scenes of awful pomp seeking but a moment's rest among the long-forgotten haunts of childhood, and the resorts of yesterday and dimly finding fear and horror everywhere
I've been critical of Senator Reid in the past for not necessarily helping us with this particular issue. But at the same time, you have to give him credit. When he talked about storage on site and recycling, that really is the long-term solution for everyone, ... It probably is time to see if I can be helpful in moving his ideas forward. He may have been ahead of the time when he said it.
(Tuesday) won't be the last. This is not the sort of cheap and easy (money) period of the past several years.
We have done well against some teams that have given us problems in the past. The bigger tests are coming after spring break. We need to eliminate the lapses.
Regardless of whether a major hurricane makes landfall this year, it is inevitable that we will see hurricane-spawned destruction in coming years on a scale many, many times greater than we have in the past,
Sometimes Rod says some things, and I start laughing, because it's stuff that has been said a thousand times through my past. It came out of the mouths of different people, but it becomes what you are. So when I hear him, I get a kick out of it.
In garden sanctuaried sweet,
Full favoured by the steadfast sun,
plunged in the Past, a life complete
He lived.
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.
I've kind of been hit or miss the past couple of weeks. I've done some really good stuff, then made a bad swing when I shouldn't. However, this golf course will do that to you. Sometimes you can't just dial it in to the perfect yardage to some of these pins. I just need to be out there making good swings and taking the results it gives me.
I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful.
Maybe it'll help, ... We've done it in the past. I don't remember the last time we did it, but he's available if guys want to hit off him. It's up to Joe and Donnie.
In years past, there was more ... pressure to perform. Coach has been real laid-back. He lets us just go out there and make plays.
It stings that their high school season is over, but the past two years, we made the playoffs and won a district championship. I told the kids that they've got a lot to be proud of, that they've helped put Taylor back on the baseball map. I told them not to focus on what happened today, but to be proud of what you did in your career. I'm very proud of that core of players.
Being at the University of Illinois for the past 28 years has meant so much to me. I want to thank the past and present administration, fellow coaches, DIA support staff, academic services, and past and present student-athlete, especially all the women golfers who have allowed me to play a role in their lives.
From a Dowling standpoint, what's happened there over the past three years is Dowling just hasn't had the size and the strength and the people up front to compete with what Valley's putting out there,
Lorena really is the environmental candidate. She's somebody I've worked with on environmental issues for the past six years, on state and local issues, and she has proven her leadership.