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We have a very difficult job as police officers. Day in and day out, we confront dangerous people. It's easy to Monday morning quarterback from the confines of your living room. It's quite a different situation when you're out here on the street having to deal with it.

The president believes that we must remember the clearest lesson of Sept. 11: that the United States of America must confront threats before they fully materialize.

Unfortunately, these are not problems that we can leave behind in 2005. They will cling to us and form part of the challenges that will confront us in the new year.

The penalty was a joke and I would question is it right for the President of the IFA to confront an official during a match?

We are not going to deal with this problem, with the roots as deep as they are, until we confront these people at every single level. And not just their methods but their ideas,

The question is, when it comes time to confront those policy decisions, whether that could create more violence or unrest.

The contrasts are dramatic. They involve very different views of how to deal with terrorism. President Bush will make certain that we are combating terrorism at the source, beyond our shores, so we can reduce the risk of having to confront it in the streets of New York, ... John Kerry's record of inconsistent positions on combating terrorism gives us no confidence he'll pursue such a determined course.

There are many obstacles that confront us. One of the most important of course is the claim that divestment is anti-Jewish. For that, my advice is very, very important: Work with progressive Jews and Israelis.

There are many obstacles that confront us. One of the most important, of course, is the claim that divestment is anti-Jewish. For that, my advice is very, very important: Work with progressive Jews and Israelis.

Who's going to take any action against her? ... There are five bosses in this county, and she is one of them. No county employee is going to confront her and risk their job.

We run the risk of changing the kinds of bacteria we confront every day in the home,

We're not abandoning the resistance for the government. We're putting the government in a position that strengthens and backs the Palestinian people when it comes to resistance. Our weapons will remain in our hands and so will the weapons of all the Palestinian people, with all its forces - security, military and popular forces, to confront any possible new aggression.

You have to confront the things that happened the year before. To stick your head in the sand is the wrong approach. We need to figure out what went wrong and why it went wrong, then address those issues and move on. It's been fun for me to have a full training camp and to have some time and patience in the preseason without being under the microscope of winning and losing.

You have to confront it. You can't let it fester. If you don't deal with it, it will explode.

The President has the responsibility to tell us his thoughts on how to confront these growing problems.

We have to be very aggressive and creative in how we get our movies out theatrically. The main problem we confront is how expensive print advertising is and how do we get around buying big print ads.

While I have worked hard to bring folks to the middle to craft common-sense solutions to the many problems that confront our nation, Washington is mired in gridlock, gamesmanship and constant partisan bickering.

We will carry out protests outside the offices of the company and also confront them.

Films don't change the world, but they can make people talk. And they can make you look at the world with fresh eyes. This movie provides a credible, authentic portrait of that day, and it allows us to draw some wisdom from it. Wherever you sit politically, we are all in that same stage of being wounded and trying to figure what to do next. Those people on United 93 had the courage to confront what we're all dealing with. The question is, do we?

extremely overvalued and confront a high risk of a future price correction.

Family, many, many years ago, was a simple, correct family, and now I think if you're going to do a family show, you'd better make sure your characters are liked by the families watching, that's it. And now it's more about issues that confront families and their kids, and those are very important issues.

The government should prepare if-then scenarios, or protocols to confront the possibility of emergence of alien race in front of the world in order to have predictable public responses. It will be far more better to have them well-prepared and disseminated before, than facing the potential chaos and panic when the time come.

We all have to find some way to deal with stress or to confront it and find a way to counteract it and balance ourselves.

Very few veterans can return to the battlefield and summon the moral courage to confront what they did as armed combatants. Wallowing in their pain and at times in self-pity, they are often incapable of facing the human suffering and death they inflicted, especially on the defenseless and the weak. They have a habit of disregarding, as they did during the war, the people who live in the lands they brutalized. Walking among the very human beings who bear the scars of war, they see only their own ghosts.

Theoretically, our writers will come to us with nothing. And they will leave with the first draft of a novel, a portfolio of poems or even the first act of a play. The biggest monster of writing is the first blank 250 pages and the program is here to help confront those challenges.

There is no substance to the allegations that there is any hesitation on the part of our government to confront the challenge of HIV-AIDS,

We will be unable to find satisfying responses to the numerous challenges that confront us today without a close trans-Atlantic partnership, ... Dear George.

unceremoniously shoved his father out of the way and went to confront the woman. ... He raised the shotgun and pointed it at the woman.

We will not use the oil weapon now because we don't want to confront other countries.

We're disappointed to be postponing these dates, but it's a relief to know the source of the problems I'd been having with my voice. And it's much better to confront it now (rather) than later when it could be more serious. We'll be back on the road in June when we can give 100 percent.

Everything he says is based on his life and what he's been through in his career. He was trying to let us know how to handle things we might confront in our careers.

everyone understands that a team effort is needed to confront the drug crisis.

As the world's financial capital and the site of the recent terrorist attacks, there could be no better place than New York City to confront these issues,

Dodgers owner Frank McCourt and I have made it crystal clear that character is an essential attribute for everyone within the Los Angeles Dodgers organization, ... As we have already stated, Milton Bradley has health issues that we expect he will address. We are disappointed that he is facing challenges away from the ballpark, but we are confident he will confront these issues as well.

Dodger owner Frank McCourt and I have made it crystal clear that character is an essential attribute for everyone within the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. As we have already stated, Milton Bradley has health issues that we expect he will address. We are disappointed that he is facing challenges away from the ballpark, but we are confident he will confront these issues as well. As these are personal matters for Milton Bradley, the team is not distracted and remains fully focused on winning the National League West Division.

Don't ever give up on your kids. And do not be afraid to confront them - I can't tell you how many times we get calls by parents who want us to do something about their kids, but don't want their kids to know they called (the sheriffs).

Even if all parties approach the court's mandate with the best of conscious intentions, ... that mandate requires them to confront and overcome their own racism on all levels a challenge I doubt all of them can meet.

The results for the third quarter reflect the extremely difficult market conditions that continue to confront our industry,

There's no place for vigilante-ism or anything like that. If they saw something and wanted to write it down and they weren't going to confront it, we'd be happy to partner with them. But if they're going to confront and try to become the sheriff of their block, they're just asking to get themselves in trouble.

There's no need to let your family know the details of what you throw out or donate. You can leave communal spaces to the end. The first step is to confront your own stuff.

I spent over five years fighting crime for the Secretary of State Police on the streets of East St. Louis, earning both a lifesaving award and the Secretary of State's Medal of Honor during that time. We like to think that Macoupin County is safe from the problems of the big city, but unfortunately, violent crimes and methamphetamine production are on the rise in rural areas. My experience working in St. Clair and Madison counties will better able me to confront methamphetamine production and violent crime head-on while still understanding the rural needs of Macoupin County.

The richness of America is that we are diverse. We're not Sweden. We're not Norway. We are a great American experiment. And as soon as we start trying to forget race or turn our back on race, number one, we don't confront the real racial realities that still persist.

The Serbian authorities have flagrantly and provocatively chosen to heighten tensions by bringing thousands of people into Belgrade to confront the peaceful demonstrations by the opposition,

These (election) results may confront us with an entirely new situation which will need to be analyzed.

The status of the bargaining is that we are continuing to talk. We continue to frankly plug through some of the more difficult issues that confront us. It's become sort of an intense, exhausting sort of a process. We're working through the issues one at a time.

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The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we're forced to look at each other and really confront that moment.

I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society.

I wanted to confront someone with something he had done as a child. That was the general idea, guilt and consequences. Then I wanted to make a film with Daniel Auteuil. And the third thing, I saw a documentary about the 1961 massacre. I was stunned that in a country like France it could be buried for so long.

Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.

see the world in a very specific way and try to impose their views on the society at large. A lot of what I do is confront these assumptions and try to stop the assaults so the public can make an informed, unbiased decision. I like to take on causes that other firms might avoid. My clients appreciate that I like to get in the arena, take off the gloves and throw down.

Saddam did not have a serious military plan to confront the coalition, but he had a serious post-defeat plan which he's putting into operation,

quiet example demonstrated to millions new ways to confront the evil of segregation.

Our ambitions are bolder. We're going to stand up for those parents and children who live in our inner cities, where too many schools fail too many children. And we're not afraid to confront the difficult questions.

Someone who lives here really never has to confront traffic.

As all of us saw on television, there is also some deep, persistent poverty in this region, as well, ... That poverty has roots in a history of racial discrimination, which cut off generations from the opportunity of America. We have a duty to confront this poverty with bold action. So, let us restore all that we have cherished from yesterday, and let us rise above the legacy of inequality.

that there are some people on earth who are so wicked and so evil that nothing can be done but to confront them.

Young people should ponder over problems that might confront them and be prepared to cope with them in a way that their parents, their leaders, and their Heavenly Father would have them cope, that they might keep themselves clean and pure.

This is an escalation that we have been expecting, ... The government of Iraq is determined to confront the enemies.

This is a place to make decisions and a place for people to decide what they are going to do, ... We are doing an injustice to people if we don't make them confront decisions.

The United States will actively confront the policies of this Iranian regime, and at the same time we are going to work to support the aspirations of the Iranian people for freedom in their own country.

This culture that is mingling in our society has no justification. Our society will confront them and say, no, no matter what their cause is, be it the occupation of Iraq or Palestine. We will do everything to defend ourselves.

This is a matter of integrity. Baseball must confront its problems head-on.

They don't want to confront this issue. The kids have indicated that they want this to happen, and that's what this is supposed to be about.

They are calling on people to confront terrorism, so I think that is certainly very positive." ()

They are reaching out and offering the workers a service, but they are also laying out the possibility of workers beginning to work together. So as an individual, you don't have to confront the largest employer in the world. You can do it as a group.

(The report is) a testament to the fact that the Canadian manufacturing sector continues to confront a wide spectrum of challenges, including elevated input prices and a muscular Canadian dollar.

The relationship you have with your mother is like nothing else. They do kind of know everything about you, even though they don't confront it. That is often a dynamic from childhood onwards. As a teenager, you want to be independent and do slightly furtive things.

There's a missing 'r' in the critical word 'pantry,' ... I feel it essential to confront this error head on and set the record straight. I have never, in all our years of marriage, come across my wife with cheddar cheese in her pantry without the 'r.'

As we confront their constant delay and inclination to do evil, we will categorically not allow ... militias, ... This is the final call for them to disarm.

It's a clever move, they don't want to directly confront the regime.

For five years, Republicans in Washington have consistently failed to help working families confront skyrocketing health-care costs, out-of-control home heating prices and soaring college tuition costs.

It's not true, and it's never been established by any evidence that's been provided certainly to us or in a court of law. What we're trying to obtain on his behalf is an opportunity to confront whatever evidence the government has so we can, in fact, establish that he is not what the president says he is.

It is time for China to confront the blood collection scandal,

It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.

The No. 1 national security challenge to confront us is a weapon of mass destruction going off in a U.S. city. Well, it could come in a seaport. So we should focus on what it would take to make sure that doesn't happen.

Each of us holding a three-by-five (foot) American flag (is letting) the family know and providing some confront that yes, America really does care about their loss.

The attorney general received FBI briefings, and challenged the FBI to do everything possible to confront the threat, ... He repeatedly asked them, 'What are you doing? What more can we do?'

It's incredible. We have condemned this despicable act and we hope the reporter makes a full recovery. This is a newspaper that was already censoring some of its coverage because of attacks against it. Attacking a paper that was not doing aggressive coverage gives us a clear picture of the dangers that reporters confront in doing their job.

I've had to fight to be myself and to be respected. I'm proud to carry this stigma and call myself a lesbian. I don't boast about it or broadcast it, but I don't deny it. I've had to confront society and the Church, which says that homosexuals are da

No matter what I've done, what I've tried to do, everybody says it can't be done. And it's continuous across the complete spectrum of the various kind of realities that you confront with your ideas.

Nothing is more important to me than the integrity of the game of baseball. When it comes to the integrity of this game, an impartial, thorough review is called for and baseball must confront its problems head on.

I want to confront ... acknowledge that there were some people interested in the guild. If what underlies that interest were concerns about policies that I had, then I wanted to talk about them.

They confront us and deal with us in a very harsh and illegal language, but ultimately they need us more than we need them.

They can ask him what his views are on those subjects, and whether they represent his views today, ... They've got a lot of paper to confront him with.

The return of Armstrong is a manner very sporting to confront the situation they've created for him. It seems to me 100 percent correct and I encourage him to return, because he's a great champion and it's logical that he does it.

These plant and benefit actions, while painful for our employees, are necessary as we confront a serious situation, ... More tough decisions will follow in the months to come.

On balance, it is healthy that these issues are being aired. People have been concerned about them and it is important to confront them.

That said, if we allow ourselves to be intimidated and silenced by the liars, our democracy will not survive. We have to continue to confront them.

The Congressional Budget Office tells us by 2052, Social Security could meet only 78 percent of its obligations. Medicare is in even worse shape. The shortfall in Medicare is eight times the deficit in Social Security. But the president has no plan to deal with that. The truth is, we need to confront all these challenges sooner rather than later.

I'm firm, but fair. I think one of my weaknesses is I'll harbor my feelings for a while and then all at once ... let it go. I'm not proud of that necessarily. ... I'm not afraid of confrontation at all. I don't like to confront players, but I will if I have to.

In failure you confront yourself, ... Don't rush through failure, because if you take it step by step, you realize that it isn't.

I have no agenda but I do have a commitment. If I am confirmed, I will confront every case with an open mind.

I have no agenda, but I do have a commitment. If I am confirmed, I will confront every case with an open mind.

I never intended to confront my father, but it became inevitable, ... Ironically enough, it happened on Fathers Day.

If our fellow men could be aware of our opinions about them, love, friendship, and devotion would be forever erased from the dictionaries; and if we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.

If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!

If you can cope the pride when winning, then you can confront despair when lose.

If you can admit that you haven't yet understood everything, faith can fill the emptiness in heart to confront the hesitation.

Instead of waiting until the shortages get so acute that prices go through the ceiling and people across America confront blackouts and other shortage-inspired problems, let's start on it now with the president's comprehensive plan and we can avoid those difficulties,