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Ben was such a special guy. He had the utmost respect for people. That was one of the things we thought and admired about him and the love the kids had for him. The kids wanted to it because of the respect for the person. Watching him teach kids was a privilege. He was always energetic, always intense and an unbelievable teacher.

Being that I'm also from Mississippi, I've always been a big Steve McNair fan. He's such a great passer. He can really throw the deep ball. Plus, he can run with the football. He's just one of the most intense competitors you'll ever see.

Every time he comes to the plate, he's focused. Every single time. He's concentrating on the pitcher in the on-deck circle, and when he gets up, he's intense and ready to change the game.

Everybody is cranked up and that's why it's so intense and so much fun to be out there.

Everyone wants a free market until it's their market that has intense competition. Then they want protection.

Every possession, she took it to the basket. That was the difference. I give her a lot of credit for coming out and being intense and ready to play.

Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing kindness. It is a matter of intense self-interest.

Concentration on economic numbers and data is going to be intense for the next little while.

Conflict is not a bad thing, all creations need it. At the event when everything is so quiet and immerse, a conflict should be triggered. But when everything is so intense and chaotic, the existing conflict should be reduced. This is how everything is managed and sustained.

Conflict: Global Terror expands on the popular Conflict franchise that has sold more than two million units in the United States alone. Conflict: Global Terror provides a compelling gaming experience with an all-new graphics engine and intense online co-op play.

Doyle's an intense character. Doyle's trying to atone for his own past and he has to help Angel-but he doesn't want to become too involved. On one hand, here he is preaching to Angel to get involved with humans and really care about them, but meanwhile Doyle would rather be at the track betting the ponies and drinking.

Currency factors, high raw material prices and intense competition are all having an adverse impact.

An intense focus on getting it exactly right is why Abercrombie & Fitch is better positioned now than it has ever been,

Emotionally, that was the biggest game of the year and very intense all the way. They were mentally exhausted, but I know they're very pleased with what they accomplished. We only qualified for the playoffs, we haven't won anything yet.

Employment pressure will remain intense this year, and continued reform and restructuring of enterprises will make it difficult to increase employment over the short term.

Eric has been great the last three games. He's really intense now. He's listening to the coaches. He's playing great basketball. If he's not scoring, he's rebounding. If he's not rebounding, he's playing great defense. He's doing a lot of really nice things that are going to help him down the road.

Fans will see intense basketball and competitive games. It will be a great prelude to what will happen in the national tournament.

The result of the intense orientation toward those English tests is that some schools that have or are near Native American communities are tending to drop native language programs because they feel they don't have the time or resources.

There's really been very intense growth in the surf charter industry, ... You wouldn't believe how many and how varied the locations are that we offer packages to Fiji, Samoa, Maldives, Indonesia, and all over Central and South America. Even the Galapagos Islands.

There's something about Penn State that creates intense loyalty. We have a lot of people who come to Penn State and they are transformed when they get here. They get attached and it stays with them all their lives.

There's no question about that. He's a pretty intense individual. He knows what he wants. He'll rebound and work for it.

There's no doubt that everyone in the industry is experiencing dramatic changes in technology and in the way we work with each other. But by working collaboratively to address intense challenges we can surface innovative, sustainable solutions.

(There's) nothing better than playing in a rink where the fans are loud and making a bunch of noise. It makes it a more exciting, more intense game, one you like to be part of. How do we know until we get there (how things will be)? I'm optimistic that hopefully (the fans) will be able to forget about the dark days we put them through for a whole year and come back and enjoy it.

I've been under intense pressure to come back to work, but the best my colleagues can do is a backroom deal.

I've definitely noticed more intense play from our players. I think the anticipation of the next game just keeps them willing to practice harder and to perform every day. Last year (in 3A), we basically knew the teams we were going to compete against.

The rivalry means great competition. It's always very intense like it was tonight. When you have two good teams like this, the game's always going to be hard fought.

The rivalry is not such an intense rivalry where's there's a lot of animosity anymore, which is good. Rivalries are good, but not when it's a ?I hate you' type of rivalry. Those aren't always good games.

The risk factors are the key reasons a person would use drugs. A kid could have all the information about drugs, but if they're not keyed in to the risk factors, they could still use. The regular school programs that incorporate drug education are not as intense as this one.

The score does not indicate what type of intense match it was. Lara was nervous about playing someone of that caliber in the first match, but I told her to go out and give it everything she had and to learn from the best.

I've never seen anything like that before -- four fights in eight second. I wasn't sure if there was going to be 20 straight fights in the first minute. If there was, we would've showed up. I just think both teams were intense and ready to play.

I've said it from the very beginning that any given day in this conference anyone could win or lose. It was a very good game and it was a game we needed to have on the road, pretty poor officiating, high intense ballgame and high pressure, it was a good game that we needed to have on an away game.

I've never had to raise money this fast. It's definitely an intense time for us. We'll have to put down cash, hard solid money that puts us into the place of purchasing this.

I've never studied it out, but it's not hard to realize that more numerous tornadoes seem to occur in that stretch. There's a history of intense tornado activity through that area.

I've never seen it staged or on film, but the story is so intense that I could feel the adrenaline running through my body while reading it. There's this chest-tightening anxiety of being thrown into the middle of this conflict between the different characters. I also love the idea that you can be drawn in by hateful characters. It takes a very good writer to create a character that you despise, yet find engaging. And there's the twist of the imaginary child. As it develops, you realize what is actually going on beneath it all. It's shocking and pretty horrifying.

I've never really had problems controlling my temper. I am an intense guy on the football field, and sometimes I get carried away. I got carried away two days ago. I'm just going to make the situation right from this point forward. Can I move forward? I have no choice.

It was unimaginable, pulling up to that. It was probably the most intense fire we've fought in five years.

It was an extremely intense match and A&M played very well. Losing two matches doesn't change our goals as we go down the road. We'll get right back at it Thursday against a very good USC team.

It was a little unexpected. Computer models didn't indicate it, but once those thunderstorms develop, you run into the possibility of intense snow squalls out of it.

It was another great experience to get a chance to learn from Coach Sutter. It was the same thing I brought back from Buffalo: The intensity. He is probably one of the most intense people I have ever met, but if you are a hard worker you will do fine.

These bad practices start with the high-rate cards and then they migrate to the cards that everyone else holds and then they become very intense in the marketplace.

These sensibilities are old, 19th century, republican ideals. That attitude has pretty much gone away. I've been reading muckraking books from the 1930s, when there was still this intense hatred and fear of monopolies - especially newspaper chains.

The shelters will end up probably without electricity or with minimum electricity from generators in the end. There may be intense flooding that will be not in our control which would be ultimately the most dangerous situation that many of our people could face.

The storm was so intense and arrived so quickly that people were unprepared to protect their assets. But there won't be any negative effect on the quality or quantity of next year's grapes or wines.

The spring is going pretty good. We see a lot of improvements with the offensive line, and we know we've got the ability to go out and make a lot of big plays. The coaches are like a little bit more intense this spring.

The show had an intense comedic energy that you do not find on other shows. There's an intense comedic scene happening all the time, and that's the way we tried to make them, really packed, tight, strong ? and that just holds the audience.

The surveillance is going to be so intense that it is very unlikely that there is going to be the type of situation we see everywhere from Nigeria to Indonesia.

The supermarket competition is very intense in Central Pennsylvania, and that competition helps control prices passed on to the consumer,

The tentative agreement on health care matters is the result of an in-depth analysis of G.M.'s financial situation and many weeks of intense discussion between the U.A.W. and G.M..

The thing about Henrique is that he's kind of a lazy guy, but when it comes to racing, he's got this intense pride. The guy doesn't like to lose.

I usually go around the circle three times, but I was never as intense and pumped up as I was for this.

I usually bring along a bottle of kombucha, thinking, 'This will be really good for me.' But I never actually drink it. The fermented mushroom-y flavor is too intense for me.

Thanksgiving's the most intense travel period of the year, when you look at the sheer numbers of people taking to the skies and highways in a short period of time. It makes for crowded, and sometimes treacherous, roads.

Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. That sort of blazing stardom must be difficult to cope with and maintain; my career has just bubbled along happily.

So much of our business is driven by speed. Because of globalization, we have observed an intense pressure to reduce downtime and thus, increase overall productivity.

Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.

Tennis is such an intense sport. They have the toughest schedule all year around. It's kind of cruel, actually. So for a couple of weeks, she was able to enjoy herself in Jersey.

See how the intense heat from the fire affected the paint?

Revere has won a couple of games in a row. Both teams will play really hard. This game will have an intense atmosphere, and it will test our mettle.

Right now we need to put 40 minutes of intense basketball together. Right now that's the biggest monkey on our back.

Practice was more relaxed. We need to be more relaxed. Last week was too intense. (Tuesday) we were relaxed and had more fun on the ice laughing and all that. Sometimes in hockey if you play too intense or too tight you don't play your best game. (Monday and Tuesday) were more relaxing days and I think that's going to show in our game (tonight).

Pressure to bump prices up, or levy temporary freight surcharges, will become more intense in September,

President Nixon cancelled in 1973 the Hubble Telescope while it was still in the development phase. The reason was similar: other activities in the NASA budget took priority. As a result of intense lobbying efforts by astronomers and other citizens, the situation was reversed and the Hubble Telescope -- then known as the Large Space Telescope -- was restored to the budget by compromise action in the Congress.

Prior to the war, the stock market was at its lowest because people were pricing in a more intense military conflict, which hasn't happened, ... The market has decided that these events weren't nearly as damaging as they might have been to the global economy.

Personally, I haven't been playing that intense basketball for a while. Iceland was good competition, but it wasn't that intense. It was a good first day.

People talk about security issues, about intense crowds. But we think that's a positive. The thing you have to able to do is manage that intensity.

People don't understand how intense it is out there. These kinds of things are gonna happen every once in a while.

Oscar Wilde defines a perfect personality as ""one who develops under perfect conditions, who is not wounded, maimed, or in danger."" A perfect personality, then, is only possible in a state of society where man is free to choose the mode of work, the conditions of work, and the freedom to work. One to whom the making of a table, the building of a house, or the tilling of the soil, is what the painting is to the artist and the discovery to the scientist -- the result of inspiration, of intense longing, and deep interest in work as a creative force.

Oh! dreadful is the check - intense the agony - / When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see; / When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again; / The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.

After years of investigation, followed by testimony from witness after witness, the only thing the government has proven over the past month is what we knew all along -- the current structure of the payment card industry has given rise to intense competition and extraordinary innovation, with the consumer as the ultimate beneficiary of unprecedented choice.

After Rilo Kiley broke up and a few really intense personal things happened, I completely melted down. It nearly destroyed me. I had such severe insomnia that, at one point, I didn't sleep for five straight nights.

After intense debate and discussion, whereupon the guiding question was whether we compromise with or take on the ZANU-PF dictatorship ... the council resolved to stay out of the ZANU-PF senate project,

The most preliminary line on a map will ignite intense land speculation in the areas affected.

Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that.

So, they held off and then at some point they had to continue, ... As they continued their trafficking, because of the intense pressure across the border, the seizures increased dramatically.

Specialists have given an answer after intense discussion. Looking ahead, I will implement the processes that are needed such as clearing up the issue of food safety and gaining the understanding of the general public.

So the most appealing, successful males are the ones who give really high intensity, aggressive displays without threatening the female. They observe female behaviors and they increase their intensity as the female signals that she's comfortable, without being intense too soon.

Sometimes I have problems where I get into a mode where even just looking at a page on a screen makes me panic. And getting past that is a really intense thing to do.

One-day cricket is an intense test of skills, we haven't performed as we should have.

During the course of the Shepherdstown peace talks this week, we have had intense negotiations on all the key issues.

Competition continues to be intense in wireless. This is yet another example of that.

Coach has a good personality. We're with him a lot. We get to see all the different sides of him. He is intense especially at practice, but he is good at coming up with some quick comments to throw out at us. He is a fun guy to be around, on and off the court. He's not always business.

Despite such intense winds and powerful waves offshore, we experienced no loss of life or significant spills from any offshore well on the outer continental shelf,

Antonio Tarver and Bernard Hopkins are two great champions who have enjoyed tremendous success. Both of them will be putting it all on the line in this highly anticipated fight. Fans will see them both fighting with the intense fire that only a fight like this can inspire.

Anti-Americanism in the Muslim world is intense and pervasive,

An important component of the reorganization is the additional resources and more intense focus we're bringing to the U.S. market because of the size and critical importance of the U.S. to our business.

are as intense today as they have ever been.

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

A novel can enlarge the empathy and imagination of both its author and its reader, and my experience, that sense of enlargement is most intense when I'm transported beyond the narrow limits of my daily life.

Another very intense guy. He plays hard when he's in there. He plays violent. We call him 'Violent Gras.'

A shared set of ethical values is the glue that can hold us together during an intense crisis. A key lesson from the SARS outbreak is that fairness becomes more important during a time of crisis and confusion. And the time to consider these questions and processes in relation to a threatened major pandemic is now.

The bottom line is that I'd rather let the kids play on. Kids are going to get emotional in a game like that and I don't think Brandon or Rudy were trying to do anything more. It was such an incredibly intense game, they just kind of got into each other a little bit. They were not doing anything.

The brain system for romantic love is associated with intense energy, focused energy, obsessive things - a host of characteristics that you can feel not just toward a mating sweetheart, ... there's every reason to think that girls can fall in love with other girls without feeling sexual towards them, without the intention to marry them.

Atty. Yorac received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service in 2004 for her unyielding determination to recover $684 million ill-gotten wealth for the government, after 17 years of complex and intense litigation,

That was a big game for us. It was the most intense atmosphere we have played in all year. We came out and played hard all 32 minutes. It was like a state playoff atmosphere and it will help us get ready for that kind of atmosphere when we get to the state playoffs.

That's not physically consistent with more intense storms, there's something fishy in that result.

That's his thing. I can't really fault him for that. Derrick is an intense player. Whenever he makes a play he's going to try to bring that energy.

A lineman's average weight when I played football was around 262 pounds. Today the average is 342 pounds. The players are less athletic which is an intense health risk - especially during hot weather.

The models show most areas around the world will experience more intense precipitation for a given storm during this century.

You must be a man of incredible intellect and intense instincts. I can see that by your lauding and praises. You have to be brilliant.

You only need two waves in a heat, so I try and keep my surfs short and sweet and not too draining. Keep them intense and try and get the two best waves I can.