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Sandro definitely brought a lot of ideas to what we're doing, and helped with the cohesiveness of the album. It's really good to have an outside perspective in deciding things like which songs to keep and knowing when they're complete.

Readers are responsible for deciding if the information (they read) is true. There has always been bad journalism.

People use it for everything from trying to build a road, deciding on a prison almost any kind of public purpose like that.

Our society has shifted to a quality of life mentality and has lost sight of the value (and) sacredness of all human life. We now as a nation are deciding when it is OK or not OK to kill those suffering from disabilities.

People are taking a much harder analytical look at these stocks and are deciding that there are better places to make money.

After the down day yesterday, obviously resource prices will be the deciding factor. Gold is off again this morning, so you could see some weakness there.

The name recognition of the people involved has long been a factor in deciding what's news. I tell my class, 'If all of us go to a party on a Saturday night, and Tony Gwynn, the president of San Diego State and President Bush's daughters are there, and we all get stopped by the police, who's going to get the news coverage?' It's going to be the people who are well-known.

The one thing about Clarkie is he's always going to give us an opportunity. For me, that was one of the biggest deciding factors when I re-signed (with a four-year deal). As a player, there's no better feeling than being a part of an organization or franchise that is willing to go that distance and give you a chance to win. He's done it again.

After a reasonable amount of time, the secretary will likely deem this set of guidance as the final version, but the Air Force will need experience with how the guidelines work in practice before deciding on the finalization date.

After deciding to retire it was a pleasure to recommend David James -- so I know the position is in safe hands,

Now, ... it appears that companies are disregarding the fact that serious labor shortages persist, and are deciding to trim their workforces after a merger or acquisition.

Deciding to pursue watercolor painting after I retired has made a considerable difference in my life. I find it challenging (which is good for me) and fun (which is also good for me). Having lessons with Odie McReynolds and getting involved with the Ground Floor Studio painting group was a good move. We support each other and critique each other's work - we constantly learn from each other. The individuals in the group are very different with very different painting styles but we have found that we are compatible. The love of creating is a great common bond.

Deciding on when to kick is crucial and depends on how the race is unfolding.

Companies are looking at their operations and deciding where they can outsource. It is a trend that we are seeing and Boston Communications is benefiting from that,

Denny has never pitched out of the bullpen. We weren't sure what we were going to get out of the bullpen from Denny. We have a pretty good idea of what we're going to get from Woody. That probably was the deciding factor.

Ann stepped up and made some huge plays that ended up deciding the game.

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

That game will go a long way in deciding who's still standing at the end of the year.

A lack of analytical skills could keep you from making progress in your career, and could hurt you as a citizen deciding who to vote for and which policies to support.

A lawyer is in an awful position about that. It's not fair to the accused who is charged with a serious crime if a lawyer says he's not going to take the case because it reflects badly on the accused and that's not fair to him. On the other hand, if a lawyer is deciding to take the case and hasn't made up his mind, it's also difficult for the accused.

You want the card to do the speaking for you when you're not around. When someone has a Rolodex of cards and they're deciding who to call, it's a subjective thing. So you want to make sure your card works the way you want it to.

You see on the tape that they (the defendants) are celebrating. They are mugging for the camera and making crude comments. They're dancing around. They know that she's unresponsive, they know that she's unconscious. They're deciding what to do next. They're competing with each other to see who can do the worst things to her.

A lot of employers are never going to see an OSHA inspector, and that fear is never going to motivate them. I'm not convinced employers look at the OSHA citation situation in deciding whether they're going to do the right thing in protecting their employees.

They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.

They did the right thing in deciding that the Longhorn code was a tangled, hopeless mess, and starting over. But Vista is still an enormous, complex structure.

There's a science to ordering potatoes. Are they skinny shoestring or big, fat steak fries? You just have to let your taste buds guide you when deciding what to eat.

The relatively high voter turn-out and the fact that the polling was conducted in a largely free, fair and peaceful manner attests to the determination of the Congolese people to participate in deciding their nation's future.

There is that. And the timing issue is the single most difficult one that there is. The way we got to this time period is by considering all the other ones and deciding they all had bigger problems than this one did.

A strong CPI figure could be the market's deciding factor for a rate rise in March.

About half the league would like him to visit. But it's his turn to start deciding where he wants to go and how many teams he wants to talk to.

A bunch of practice isn't going to be the deciding factor. Our kids need to go home, enjoy the time, go to church and pray and come back on Monday ready to play ball.

It's just a matter of when it's going to happen. I'm seeing it right now, that people are deciding to use an alternative fuel.

It seems the Fed is moving toward putting even more emphasis on economic data when deciding how to act on monetary policy.

It was good that Chance was on because it was a game that was very close at the end. It could have gone either way, and he was definitely the deciding factor. Zach hit a home run that got us going and we battled. We made some mistakes, but luckily Chance was able to hang on for us.

It's a classic example (his appointment) of someone learning the business and then deciding that he wanted to go into administration and gets the proper education and came back.

It's a deciding time, you either win or you go home. We've got a lot of guys on the team that will probably play their last games for the national team. We want to give it our best and play a little bit longer.

It's a diabolical bill. It put the financial body of the government in charge of deciding what is endangered, instead of biologists and scientists.

It's an issue of government is out of control, government is deciding for the people what the issue should be.

I told them, 'Why not do 20 of these in a row today?' ... It was the players deciding to do it without mental errors. I prayed to Jesus Christ to try to let them play mentally like they practiced. If I had any help at all, it was asking God not to win (or) not to play good, but let the players play like I knew they could play mentally.

For consumers, it may be waiting to see how the market shakes out a bit before deciding to buy at a price that's at the top of the market, particularly if they have to stretch to do that.

It's now about how we react to the defeat in our cup-tie on Saturday and then the three or four league matches after that. They will go a long way to deciding our top-six aspirations.

It's more related to plant biology than weather. But weather is a deciding factor on whether or not you can burn on any given day.

It's a very complex network of genes making products which go into the nucleus and turn on other genes. And, in fact, you find a continuing network of processes going on in a very complex way by which genes are subject to these continual adjustments, as you might say - the computer programmer deciding which genes ultimately will work.

It's been a little tough trying to get everyone to stay calm and focused. But I'd rather have that problem than deciding which game I wanted to go watch.

The night before the race I was at the hospital with Rush, deciding if he was going to race at all. He showed a lot of grit to even perform that day, let alone win the race outright.

The minute you start the process of deciding to make a film and you're communicating that vision to anyone, you're in the process of selling. If you don't understand that, you're not in show business. You're just not.

The offence did not merit a red card and it was very harsh on Dafydd. We will have to wait until his hearing before deciding whether he will be in the 22 on Saturday.

That's the deciding factor -- if you can quite the crowds on Sunday. You know the big roars are for the Americans. If we can keep them quiet and get up early, it's a big thing to keep the crowds under control.

It's not as simple as deciding who's your 10. He has to fit in with the players around him. You have to see if he can play with your No9 and No12.

The biggest thing is deciding where $10,000 more has to come from.

The Bank of Japan has independence in deciding policy steps. We want the bank to take responsibility for the results of the policies it implements.

The authorities have got the ballot boxes ready with the votes inside and they are deciding whether it would look better internationally if Mubarak wins with 75 per cent or 80 per cent of the vote.

Take this as a rule of thumb. There are smart folks doing this transition, and they're deciding how to do it in the best way.

It's a natural reaction when you feel people are here outside the law, that they should be stopped or sent back. But people need to understand greater forces are at play than a person deciding to cross a border - that in globalization, for example, labor is moving as much as capital.

It was a hardship for the family. They lived in a suburban home, and they didn't have a car for a year before deciding to move to a retirement community. The boomer generation is faced with these tough decisions now. And, of course, we're going to be older drivers in another 15 to 20 years.

It was a matter of him turning it on. I always had a lot of hope for him ever since we signed him. Because he had what you're looking for ... big, long arm span ... tall ... quick. It was a matter of him deciding it's time.

It's very rare that Latinos are the deciding force in an election.

It was a 10-9 vote in the end. I won't tell you who had the deciding vote.

It took us six months of dabbling, poking at it, deciding what was wrong and what was right. The dill put us over the top.

It was just a kangaroo court. It's like a judge deciding someone is guilty before the trial takes place.

They've had trouble deciding on a name. But they're good. They play a lot of rock from the late '70s and '80s. They're trying to play music that other bands in the valley don't.

This is just a reminder of what's out there. It boils down to if the officers use good judgment or not in deciding to shoot or not to shoot.

Smoking, ... calms me down. And it's enjoyable. A little bit of what you fancy does you good. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life. These are decisions you make yourself, not government.

At this time of the year - I know it doesn't sound very inspirational - but mostly rest. We played 27 games and guys are hurt. It's mostly just licking your wounds and deciding whether you're going to mail it in or go compete.

That might not be enough to cause a team not to take a player, but if a team is deciding between two players and everything else is equal, it might be a cause for concern.

The fall semester is still a long way off though, so Professor Arthur will not be fully deciding about his return until the summer. However, he is enthusiastic and hopeful.

I'm going to do what retired people do - not worry about business. Maybe some traveling and some golf as well. Mostly I'm just looking forward to waking up in the morning and deciding what I want to do.

I hope that this game doesn't become the deciding factor. I hope that they'll look at our Big Ten schedule as a whole and our body of work, rather than just a one-game performance.

In deciding how best to approach the Chinese - or any - market, we must balance our commitments to satisfy the interests of users, expand access to information, and respond to local conditions.

In Burger's heyday they were deciding 150 cases a year -- so many that they were talking about creating an intermediate appellate court to handle some of the load. Rehnquist comes in, and with the platform of being chief justice, all that disappears, to the point where the Court is being criticized for taking too few cases.

In any geopolitical tension environment you're going to have people that are going to take their money away from the market and traditionally they would move it to cash, but I think what they are doing now they are seeing the dollar decline and are deciding to move it into gold, which has been moving higher.

I have very little confidence that any state court is an objective and impartial tribunal for deciding this case.

I had a chance to go on the Supreme Court of the United States, and my whole family was more disappointed in my deciding not to do that than in my deciding not to run for president - much more.

If you can detect the disease earlier, perhaps you have better chance on deciding the therapy and perhaps prolong the life of the patients.

If you look at their field goal percentages from last year, and compare them to this year, you'll see a huge improvement. That is due to dedication and deciding that they are going to become better offensive players. Their ability to play better offensively combined with the other weapons we have, made us a tough team to stop.

In this particular race, I think it was certainly the deciding factor.

I like to be out on the field every day, ... playing both sides. Games can be won on the defensive side as well as the offensive side. ... Defense was probably the deciding factor.

I just putted better today than I did all week. I have five three-putts this week, and to still be 10-under par is solid for me. I think the ball was deciding it wanted to go in the hole today, and I'm glad it did.

I really wanted to come to U of A. It was really a close decision. The only deciding factor was staying close to home, but if U of A were in L.A., I'd have been there.

I recommend tidying by category, not by place. For example, instead of deciding that today you'll tidy a particular room, set goals such as 'clothes today, books tomorrow.'

I'll get today out of the way first before deciding on a final plan of attack, but it's probably either the Hawkes Bay Guineas next or the Caulfield Guineas,

In the third set I didn't know the team score. I made myself believe that I was the deciding match. That helped me get through the third set.

If you're sitting in a corporate boardroom in one of the other 50 states deciding where to put 100 stores, you want to pick the best 100 places. When I say, 'Lady Lake, Florida,' no one jumps.

City planning just doesn't sound that interesting, but when you're actually the one making all the decisions and deciding where to put the freeways, all of a sudden it gets extremely interesting,

Cleveland, I felt, had an opportunity to take it to the next level. I feel like coming to Cleveland from Washington, Cleveland's basically in the same place Washington is. That really was the deciding factor. I didn't want to go to an organization that was trying to hold things together to just win basketball games. Here, we're putting pieces together so we can advance to the playoffs.

Because all these fans came out to see us in this kind of weather, I really didn't want to go to extra innings. So I was really committed to deciding it if I could.

HOPE VI isn't here just to build houses. It's here to build lives. The hope is, if construction is for them, they can figure out their specialty. By helping them to start deciding on careers, we can help them down the path of homeownership. That can lead to the building of equity and wealth in their lives.

I don't know if we have to do anything since Damian is technically committed to Florida. However, we're still deciding how to announce it if he goes to Arkansas. Damian will announce something before Wednesday because we want that to be about the team, not Damian.

Because banks were having trouble deciding what was reasonable, we have gravitated toward 1 percent of the principal. This is not a hard and fast rule, and banks may establish other payment amounts.

By casting the deciding votes on CAFTA,ÊUtah's congressmen have made themselves responsible for any future attacks on U.S. gambling regulations that CAFTA makes possible.

By casting the deciding votes on CAFTA, Utah's congressmen have made themselves responsible for any future attacks on U.S. gambling regulations that CAFTA makes possible.

By mid to late October, you're getting into the fourth quarter, and people are starting to look at their year-end results and deciding whether they can bail out now and still look good for the year. That's going to be as true now as it was (in 1987).

Ice Bowl. The concept began about 15 years ago when disc golfers deciding to play for charitable causes.

I feel I got a decent look at it. It just didn't go in, but there are a lot of little things during the game we didn't do that was the deciding factor.

He's now forced to wait for his appeals to come through, and he's sitting it out before deciding on his next option.

I could go to the International Court of Justice, but, that would be going against my government. I will wait for the Pakistan Supreme Court judgement before deciding on my future course of action.

I don't mind losing to union people. I don't want management deciding who the next president of Council 94 is going to be,

I do not condemn material things as satanic. The deciding factor is the man who controls them and uses them. If your motivation is absolutely God-centered, absolutely unselfish, then the material things are there for you to utilize for the benefit of humanity.

He probably underestimated how cynical people are about politicians' switching parties or deciding they don't want to serve after being elected.

Governor Bush did not have any knowledge or participation in deciding to finance that movie.