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Our translator said: 'Why are you so scared? We're accustomed to this kind of music.' I was like: 'This music sucks. I play rock 'n' roll.' 

Out in the more rural areas of the county, where people are more accustomed to hunters and trappers, there is not typically this type of concern, but this one is right adjacent to the city limits.

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People have become accustomed to the convenience of shopping for cell phones and pagers at retail stores. Now they can switch and start saving money in less time than it'll take to drink their cup of coffee.

People have increasingly been attracted to the cleaner, simpler living space that a loft can provide. People are more accustomed to or hungry for the urban lifestyle.

People have got to become accustomed to the high cost of fuel,

People often get irritable or develop headaches when they suddenly stop using caffeine. This is because the body gets accustomed to this chemical, and when it's missing, the body reacts in negative ways.

Maryland's offense got a lead, and held the ball for long periods at a time, and it's tough to get into a rhythm that way. Our defense started to do things we are not accustomed to doing because we needed the ball.

I was glad to be playing against those guys in practice. They made me better every day. I had to gain weight. I had to get stronger. I had to get accustomed to the speed and pace of the college game.

It felt like we were able to rewind some things and get back to the basketball we're accustomed to playing.

I think they're accustomed to seeing the Palestinians acting different from other Arab regimes.

John will be a great player once he gets accustomed to varsity pitching. In addition to his bat, he has a strong arm. He threw out two of four base runners in the first three games.

Most schools use (similar trips) as a recruiting tool. It's nothing they're not accustomed to hearing from other schools.

The athletes were more accustomed to the area and we had a better plan. In general it was a better event.

(That was) more like the senior, two-time all-conference player we've been accustomed to seeing.

Most of our girls are accustomed to playing several games in a short time frame. As a coach and as a team, you want to play games. Plus, you might see a different brand of softball than you are accustomed to playing, and that can be beneficial as well.

Midwestern banks are accustomed to shifts in the local economies. They plan for it. However, they do not avoid it. They get hurt. Their loan losses rise. Their earnings tumble and their stock prices are impacted. It will happen again.

We just couldn't make shots we're accustomed to making. It was disappointing for us and I know the kids were disappointed. The season ended too quickly for all of us.

You can get accustomed to certain balls off the bat. I had one tough ball that I'm glad I had. The more balls I get hit to me, the more comfortable I'll feel. I hope it works out, and I hope to get to a point where I'm comfortable.

We have such large fields they kangaroos are almost as if they would be in the wild. But they do become accustomed to people.

We're both accustomed to being the center of attention. We're both accustomed to being spoiled by the people around us. And we don't expect to have to compete with somebody for all of that.

We really put it upon our shoulders to come out and play well. Caron had it going early and I had it going late. Those are the things that we're accustomed to. Teams know that we're the highest-scoring trio in the league. If we're playing well, it's going to be hard to beat us.

We had heavy-duty equipment on the site, and I'm accustomed to working around the water. We thought it was a thing we could do.

We've had calls on a variety of guys, but there's no intent on our part to move him. For me, it's important as I get accustomed to this role to have an open and honest relationship with these guys. I didn't want David to focus on anything except what's in between the lines.

We've been fighting through adversity all year. We're accustomed to fighting adversity.

We came out without a lot of intensity and shot the ball well early in the game. They got off to a slow start ... we had not played them this season, and I would like to think they weren't accustomed to the type of pressure that we like to apply.

We are accustomed to seeing troubled companies pruning their staff and letting people go, but Best Buy is really hitting on all cylinders.

We are quite accustomed to pretty modest growth in trade book sales. It's not growing fast in Spain, in France and the U.K. The way we've constructed our business in most countries is to have a very balanced operation. So if in one year trade is not good in France, you're going to have a best seller in the U.K.

The penalties, I've never seen so many flags fly in a game, ... That was certainly different than what I'm accustomed to being around. Obviously, one was thrown on me, and I'm very ashamed of that.

We are not going to see the strong increases in productivity that we've become accustomed to and I think we're at that point now and that's the message in these numbers.

We are happy to have Intel join the World Congress program. Leaders like Louis are accustomed to making strategic decisions concerning uses of technology in healthcare and will help the Congress open up opportunities for better IT implementation and access across these fields.

We basically want to provide the Internet with the kind of reliability people are accustomed to seeing in their telephone network,

Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so China. It was thwarted in its attempt to hold the 2000 Olympics, which, as a result of American-led pressure, was awarded to Sydney.

We want to be able to get students acclimated and accustomed to alumni activities early. As a result, in the fall, you will see more alumni activities involving students.

Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.

We are working with a limited pool of horses and it has taken its toll on our entries. Cutting back to four days a week the next two weeks will allow us to have the quality and quantity we were accustomed to before the outbreak of the virus.

You have to be willing to get up when you're knocked down. ... We scientists are rather accustomed to falling flat on our faces! If you don't fail, you aren't trying anything new.

When I saw the snow for the first time in my life, I felt very excited. The weather condition was much better than I thought, and I became accustomed to it soon.

The PGA Championship, last of the majors each year, might well be accustomed to having fun poked at it by the print press for being mired in August, but this isn't fair.

When you get large, lucrative contracts, the expectations are a little greater. The statistics aren't what I'm accustomed to, but what I brought each Sunday was going out and giving it all I've got.

When you look at the team since we made the trade, we were in games, but we just couldn't get over the hump. The team's really getting accustomed to what we've got to do to win. We think we can beat anybody at this point. ... There's expectations for us now, and that's a good thing. When there's no expectations, it's no fun. It's drudgery.

We've just got to settle and get accustomed to some new roles. If we can that, we'll be fine.

We are excited to provide our enthusiastic PC customers with a great retail partner to experience first hand the difference our computers offer in immersive game play and powerful multimedia capabilities. We want to give Best Buy shoppers an upscale computer selection to accompany the terrific service and advice they are accustomed to today.

Expatriates often have to learn to live with a different amount of space than they were accustomed to. It is just part of the experience of being an expatriate.

We've had a lot of guys thrown into roles they weren't accustomed to, and when you do that they may play well one night but then struggle the next. What were striving for is to get that consistent effort night in and night out. When we don't show up mentally, it shows on the scoreboard.

We've grown so accustomed to each other this year. We're always able to find each other on the ice. We don't even need to look for each other.

What is so striking about the 50-year period since independence is the extent to which African states have suffered so many of the same misfortunes, ... a flamboyant, autocratic figure, accustomed to living in style and demanding total obedience.

We are very accustomed to handling complicated and sometimes lengthy product evaluations, and we don't 'give up' just because we may be reviewing a controversial device.

We are trying to get accustomed to the rapid arrival of the heat. Playoff preparation is continuing.

You feel good physically, but your body does things the first time you get on the mound that you're not accustomed to the first few months. So you get tired quickly.

We should be better prepared this time around. We've got 21 freshmen that have played two-thirds of a Division I hockey season. They're more accustomed with the pace of the game and the ebb and flow of the game.

Brooks never impressed me because you were accustomed to him making the plays. This kid reminds me a lot of Brooks on those plays. Brooks owned those things. Brooks was very good on those slow rollers coming in.

Bitcoin woke us all up to a new way to pay, and culturally, I think a much larger percentage of us have become accustomed to the idea that money no longer comes with the friction it once had.

At one point I was doing a live television Western five half hours a week with horses and stunt men and it was a nightmare. The reason that this is apposite is that it accustomed me a) to work quickly b) to work with many cameras and c) to be hysterical. And I've carried that with me in my life and work.

At that time the world was still not accustomed to buying insurance over the phone. People just didn't feel comfortable buying insurance out of a magazine from someone they don't know.

And when it did come back, it wasn't in the spot she was normally accustomed to getting the ball. She's a prime player, she showed she could shoot at the end of the game. She's a great passer.

Due to the unrelenting 'self-promoting' actions of the committee's investigative coordinator, I have been unable to implement the standards of professional conduct I have been accustomed to at the United States attorney's office,

First of all, Urban has brought together a fan base that was fractured. We were not having as much success as we were accustomed to, and here in Gator Nation people expect us to be successful. People look at Urban, look at his record, and they like what they see.

There's going to be some ups and downs. ... A couple of times they didn't play to the standard that they're accustomed to, and I think we'll see the very best of it.

There's no excuses for that in my mind. I should still go out there, with a healthy elbow, and get guys out. I'm accustomed to challenging them with a fastball. If it's going to be 91, 92 (mph), then that's what I've got. You can't change your pitching. But it is frustrating.

The track here is not suitable to prepare them for the Games and the whole idea is to make them accustomed to the smaller, tighter track. This is 47 degrees at its steepest and calls for a lot more control and concentration so we want to make them comfortable on that type of surface.

The whole project is somewhere north of $3 million. We want it to basically be a spa for your car, and we know we have to match the expectations of what people in this area are accustomed to.

I've touched base with him just to make sure he is ahead of schedule at this point. He's fully aware of how important it is for him to be in a little better shape to start out spring training than what he's probably accustomed to.

The so-called pathological liar has learned from an early age that they get punished more often for telling the truth than they do for lying. They get so accustomed to devious behavior that they lie without much thought or emotion.

The talent was there, but we had to bring the winning out. Sometimes you can grow accustomed to losing. We had to change that mentality and make believers out of them. Doing that got the ball rolling.

I've become accustomed to it. It's always a soap opera around here, no matter what. If there's not a soap opera going on, it's not Boston.

Teams seem to put us in black jerseys whenever we go anywhere that's hot. We're accustomed to playing in that.

Perhaps participants are growing accustomed to market fluctuations or they are simply waiting until the volatility subsides.

Of course, you do have to get accustomed to being satisfied a little bit at second-hand by people who actually do some of the key work.

The NASCAR guys are accustomed to this type of car, this type of tire, and this racetrack. They do have an advantage.

South African cinema-goers are accustomed to seeing the top global hits very soon after they are launched internationally, but if we are not attracting the audiences, we won't be able to afford the going prices for the top new releases.

Once we got accustomed to it and slowed down.

Compared to what she was running, these things are pig heavy and have no power. If I had to jump into an Indy Car, I'd be as lost as she was. Now that she's getting accustomed to the cars, we are beginning to see her potential.

As far as I know there is nothing like that (in Arizona). That is really beneficial to folks accustomed to a retail center like that.

A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.

That swing at the end of the first half was an example of something happening that we're not accustomed to. We're usually pretty good in that situation ... but not that time.

The model of development we are accustomed to has been fruitful for few and flawed for many. A path to prosperity that ravages the environment and leaves a majority of humankind behind in squalor will soon prove to be a dead-end road for everyone.

This is a situation, in my opinion, where Terry is accustomed to saying African-American. His script writers wrote in 'people of color.' He's trying to go from memory and got confused and said

This is such a different type of disaster than we're accustomed to dealing with.

This is something discussed in advance each week. This is an option always available to us. It took a matter of minutes to make it all happen. At least we were moving it to a place where race fans are accustomed to watching races.

This approach was radical in 1938 when the play was first produced. Audiences were accustomed to realistic plays that often elaborately emphasized the specific details of time and place and, for Wilder, lacked the quality of universality and theatricality.

Thirty-one of 31. The last time I checked, that's pretty good. I think, too, having been in Europe, getting accustomed to a new holder is a process in itself. . . . And France is on a roll right now. These aren't just extra points. Some of these are bombs from 44-, 48-, 50-yard area. He's been good from all the hashes.

This is a difficult situation that we are not accustomed to.

A lot of the guys are pretty accustomed to how things work here.

A lot of these guys are used to playing with more time and space. They played the game a lot slower in their native country. They are not accustomed to the high pressure, the voracity of the Americans. When players accustomed to more time on the ball don't get it, they sometimes feel the referee isn't protecting them the way he should. He gets frustrated because he isn't performing the way he is accustomed to, and he lashes out, often at the referee.

They have a history and tradition of winning in Campbell River and they expect nothing less than to be in this series every year. And that's the type of tradition we're looking to build here. Right now we've got a lot of veterans who just grew accustomed to being knocked out in the first round and we want to change that. We have no illusions this is going to be an easy series just because of the standings. Campbell River expects to win it every year and we need to work hard to show we belong.

They force you to make decisions a lot quicker than we are accustomed to and the decisions we made were not good ones early. We played almost the entire first period in our zone. Defensively we played fairly well but we were in our zone the whole period.

There were a lot of things set up against them. A class like this is going to help you in certain ways. That's what you want out of any recruiting class. At the same time, the depth wasn't quite up to what Tennessee is accustomed to.

This man was accustomed to significant swings. He'd make big, he'd lose big. He was an active, aggressive trader,

This is the tip of the iceberg of a very oppressive regime that we have almost become accustomed to in America.

There's a tremendous amount of pride and tradition. While we haven't had the kind of success the last couple years, the guys realize the history of the program and the expectations. We expect to be there and we're not accustomed to not being there.

There's an entire generation of hunters in North Dakota that are just accustomed to CRP being there. We're talking 21 years, and that's what they know on the landscape. I remember what the landscape looked like in the '70s, and believe me, I prefer the conservation activities on cropland remain, and also, CRP is an integral part of what is out there now.

All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest, freest' country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and - among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.

The more tracking that's done even within the family, the more we'll all be getting accustomed to tracking, and ... it will become more and more acceptable.

It was definitely a good experience, getting a NBA type coach and being able to play 30 minutes a game. Going from college basketball I wasn't too accustomed to the style of play in the NBA, so being there helped me out a lot.

It's a country that's accustomed to elections every four years. Clean, crystalline, transparent elections.

It's a chance to get a little accustomed to the surroundings, but it will be different with several thousand people in here on Friday afternoon. Part of it, though, is getting a little bit of the excitement of being here out of the way, from when we walk in here for the first time.

I told him on the sideline that there are days where you're not going to be sharp. Those are the days you almost have to will yourself. Even though your not playing the way you're accustomed to playing, you've got to find a way to eke out points.

I, too, soon got accustomed to the deadly missiles, - in fact, I had already started to make observations of their peculiarities.

It's a little different from what we're accustomed tobut it does establish a little more formal procedures, ... The procedures can be altered if we find they don't work for us.