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We intend to support the government if what it asks us to do respects our basic principles and the interests of Quebec. If the government respects those conditions, we will try to let it function for a good while.

Where you go when you first get online these days is probably a function of who helped you get online and what they've pointed you to, and also whether you have any specialist interest, ... You might find quite quickly there is some sort of home for you there with like-minded souls.

While the brain is working, you go on trying, ... Life depends on the brain function and that is still working. He's just desperately ill man in (intensive care) and we struggle on.

We are basically hoping he survives and that he has some kind of ability to get some rehab so he can have some useful function again. But we are talking about the basics, we are talking very basic things. The complexity of this man, and what he did for a living, this is not to even be considered now. This is absolutely unrealistic at this time.

We believe that the United Nations needs new leadership for the 21st century, somebody who's going to get up every morning and decide that reforming the U.N. so that it can function in the 21st century is his or her major goal,

While all the sub-functions we closely examined in this study are critical to a sound medical affairs effort, we found that research/clinical operations received the most backing from companies. Clearly the sub- function holds great value to medical affairs.

We're already starting to see valuations get stretched again. It's not unlikely that we can get back close to 1,700 on the Nasdaq, but I don't think that's necessarily justifiable. That's just a function of trading psychology in the short run.

We know that some individuals who have taken these diet medications have heart values that are thick and don't function properly. They can cause the heart to perform poorly over time and become weaker over time.

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.

Today's higher prices are a function of longer-term supply and demand trends and lost energy production during the recent hurricanes.

Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.

The president also wants to make sure that our legal justice system, our criminal system is working, that they can work and function as it should be in investigating this case.

The present council of ministers will continue to function until the appointment of the Prime Minister.

We are in fact moving rapidly toward having a national ID, something which bothers me greatly. We've always been a nation in which the mechanism for providing identification, primarily through driver's licenses, has been a function of the state governments.

Those numbers are a total function of his name, not him. He has a short record that has been described as thin.

Unfortunately, the fix changes Outlook so drastically for many organizations that have applications integrated with it, such as Siebel, PeopleSoft, or SAP, that those applications just aren't going to function they way they're supposed to.

We are not going to get the critical answers, the answers that are so central to recovery of function for patients, unless we proceed across all of these fronts,

Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly.

We play the Internet through Internet infrastructure companies. Their function is moving data.

(Yale has) made it a priority to provide high-paying jobs and keep students on campus. The university sees the value of student employees in general. Certainly in my office I see them as vital ... I don't think we could function day to day without them.

We are living in a world, where what we earn is a function of what we learn..

The proposed new council is a major improvement over the old Commission on Human Rights. It would be reckless for the United States to force a vote because that will invite amendments from spoiler states to weaken the council. The time has come to accept the overwhelming consensus behind the council and to work to make it function effectively.

The project should support and broaden the current retail function, be conducive to reinstating the office and residential function of the area, and is expected to be a catalyst for increased private sector investment in the area.

Tissue loss follows T-cell loss, meaning that people with poor immune function also show severe brain damage. This was a revelation. We used to consider these separate phenomena, because HIV harms the brain and immune system in different ways. Now we see they are intrinsically linked.

This store will function as an active laboratory for testing a range of new ideas and merchandise in a fully operational setting. If something doesn't work, we will change it and try something else. And when an innovation resonates with our customers, we will consider introducing it in other stores.

This stimulation is similar to the way the nervous system normally increases heart function when triggered by emotional or exercise stress, or in diseases such as heart failure,

The defense budget became increasingly a function of the defense of the local economy and had nothing to do with any military purpose.

The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.

We want to be able to introduce a desired function into the proteins.

Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.

The contractor, the provider for this fence was out of South Africa, and they contracted with a company out of California to do the maintenance, and we've just been very, very unhappy, ... We're continuing to hassle with them about getting this fence to the operative condition it should be in. But obviously, last night, it did not function as it should have functioned.

The fact that hedge funds have become so important is really the flip side of problems that could be generated. If they ceased to function in the way they are designed, that would create a fair amount of systemic risk.

The fact of the matter is when you look at the loss of life in Tanzania and the loss of life in Kenya, it was a simple function of where the U.S. embassy was located -- in the middle of the city.

Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

Marriage functions best when both partners remain somewhat unmarried.

Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.

the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.

No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet.

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

If it is a woman's function to give, she must be replenished, too.

A woman needn't be dragged down by her functions.

...loneliness is not a function of solitude.

When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.

The home is the basis of a righteous life and no other instrumentality can take its place nor fulfill its essential functions.

If there's anything weirder than an introverted writer going to lots of social functions, it's an introverted writer being converted into an accidental guru.

Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

We should recognize that we're seeing a generational evolution in work style. Instead of trying to stop it, we need to look for ways to work with them more securely. Ultimately, IT is a service function for the staff. They're giving IT direction in the way they want to work. They're actually out there trying to do more work for the firm.

When I was young, I remember feeling a real thirst for opportunities around the arts, for learning about how artists function and how institutions work.

We would assign a high probability to revenue of $145-$150 million and earnings per share a couple of pennies above our view. There is potential for upside as a function of robust demand for terrestrial 980nm pump laser/module shipments.

This report validates the success of our strategy to focus on owning the high-end market from day one, a market that has vastly different networking and security requirements than small to mid-size companies and was underserved by existing single function security appliances that were essentially PC platforms. Only Crossbeam delivers a no compromises approach that combines best-in-breed security applications from leading ISVs, multi-gigabit performance and carrier-grade reliability into innovative UTM devices that strengthen network security while lowering total cost of ownership.

To me, that was a function of them working efficiently together. But also with the community being willing to lock arms with the schools. We know that if kids don't go to school, it's not just your problem, it's everybody's problem. So I consider that part of it.

We believe over time, customers will move to more function and higher scales sets of infrastructures. Customers needed an entry point to do SOA based on Web services.

The question one should ask is whether this ties into the education function of the university.

This will function not as a bell tower, but as a vertical structure that collects the buildings. It's open and people will gather and walk around.

There are long-term complications from bacterial contamination that affect blood pressure and kidney function (but) the progress of those injuries is preventable if they're identified.

When you look at the big events ... small local groups don't function on their own, ... It has to be a regional approach. Communication becomes critical to that, because if you can't talk, you can't cooperate.

We must change the function of government. We must build up a government with regulated behavior and harmonious operations -- and which is fair, transparent, clean and efficient.

Both Vocational Education and Earn-a-Bike have a priority of developing individual skills, yet they do need to work in a team context to function well.

The governor's doctors have indicated that there has been a slow return of normal digestive function because of the ruptured appendix. A date has not been set for the governor to be discharged, and doctors will continue to evaluate the governor on a daily basis.

We see slippage in retail construction as a function of increases in energy costs, which cuts into discretionary spending.

We've been coming down here to East Texas and this alumni function for the last nine years now. Each year this crowd has gotten bigger and better. I think there's 100-150 people in there tonight.

We need to function as a team, and I've always thought of Denny as the coach. I think he'll do that extremely effectively.

The government continues to function properly and we continue to work as government,

Yes, there are bodily function issues that are a central premise of this movie and I think they're handled with amazing delicacy of humor.

We're taking a valuable property with a well-regarded history on Kauai and redeveloping its purpose and potential, ... The result will be a first-class resort of beauty and function offering an exceptional experience for vacationers at an attractive price point.

We're suffering from a shortage of rigorous ideas about what's happening to function in the human brain in these diseases.

There is not a person who feels secure. It's impossible to hold a fair trial in such a climate ... A trial is supposed to be a rational process. Fear is the ultimate irrationality. How do you function in fear?

We've got a lot of runs that have been playing for a month, and some of these markets are over-encumbered. So there's a weakness in some of these theaters that are playing out. It's a function of normal attrition, despite the Academy awards stuff. It's the core markets that it's important to sustain.

This was in essence ... a function of the fans wanting to show their support and love.

We function as an advocacy group in forcing the administration's hand.

What we are showing is a proof of principle that stopping the synthesis of a protein that is necessary for the formation of the telltale plaques reverses the progression of the disease, and more importantly, the cognitive function of these mice, which had already been impaired, has now recovered,

What we are seeing is not a function of the world running out of oil. What we are seeing is the legacy of a very long period where investment has been far too low. The problem is getting the oil out of the ground and delivering it to consumers.

What happens in China is of real concern to us. Most of us have been quite surprised that there has not been some evidence of human disease in China and we always worry if that is a function of transparency or the cases just aren't there. We just don't know. And the doubts are troubling.

We just recently had a function where we had to go into the student assistance fund to get players some clothes. Some of our kids come from backgrounds where getting a suit on short notice is difficult.

We just had to start from scratch. She was very self conscious about the situation because she couldn't smile. She also needed some function back, other than just the cosmetics.

What the fringe does is essentially function as a large-scale co-op.

What that does is allow us to have end-to-end control over product quality. It allows us to function more efficiently as a business servicing the needs of our customers.

We will try to increase our presence in the southern provinces in the course of this year to support the government to function and to improve its function.

We will not be able to function as competitively in the worldwide economy if we are not a diverse legal team. It's not optional in my view.

With film, the contrast of the scene is more or less a function of the film. If the light is very harsh or flat, you're more or less stuck with it. And with film, at least with color transparencies, that's true, too.

We expect him to function as governor (today) even though he is still in the hospital.

We chose the latter as we felt that large groups can only function when there are major issues, they need bylaws, etc..

We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty.

We see high growth with very low inflation. These aren't mutually exclusive. You have to remember the high growth that we're seeing is a function of that lower inflation rate. If we had inflation at 3 or 4 percent, growth would be a lot slower.

We should have killed the first game off, and we know it. Knowing how to manage games when you are ahead or behind is a function of experience. I think our guys are a quick study though.

We think of the typical eighth grader as young and immature. Sixty days later they're high school freshmen. Is it reasonable to assume they've suddenly gained all the maturity and experience to function competently at a comprehensive high school?

We are taking all precautions and are working to identify those responsible for these despicable attacks on the American people. The federal government continues to function effectively.

Every time I can go out there and show those guys that I can function out there, it's going to breed confidence in them, and that's a big part of being a quarterback, ... They can't believe in you until you go do it.

Earth is the laboratory for future discoveries on Mars. Without examining Earth's extreme environments, we wouldn't understand how processes worked to shape the landscape, chemistry and life at the limits. Without that understanding, we couldn't draw conclusions about how life can develop on other planets. By examining these windows to Mars, scientists step out of the vicarious and into real features on Earth that function similarly to those on Mars.

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will outsell the other.

Bob Kerrey attended a function on my behalf,

Everybody gets different guidance depending on what their function is,

Everything at Ikea is being driven by function and purpose. For us, it's much more about directing customers and providing easy access to and from the store.

Every team relies on greatness down the stretch. However, I do believe that good teams can function efficiently with or without one player. Our chore to function without the one player is going to be tested.

District 2 is going to have to barely function and watch every penny. Gradually, over time, the account can build up.

Digital cameras, including both digital still camera and video camera, will remain the most popular function of cutting-edge phones.

Crime is not always a function of size and density and people being packed in sardines.

And the story that we published today was only showing that what happened at that function was not an isolated incident, as Mr Brogden suggested, and the fact that he had chosen to stay on as the member for Pittwater, and was also entertaining suggestions that he might be able to make a comeback as a minister or a shadow minister somewhere down the track, means that he is still in public life.