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We made significant gains this spring and have developed some momentum. We were pleased with the results and were more encouraged with the overall changes that we made to improve as a team. We anticipate making more gains this summer and creating more momentum leading into a successful fall.

How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that.

Hypertension is an important risk factor for kidney disease, but dietary sodium has other damaging effects on the kidneys. High salt intake drives the production of oxygen radicals, leading to oxidative stress in kidney tissue.

Hydrogen may well be one of the leading technology growth areas in the state.

He was our leading receiver last year. I think he's going to be a great, great college receiver. He's still a work in progress and we're still working on some things. He's getting better at some things. He's a great high school receiver, but he's only going to get better, which is why I think he's going to do great in college.

I admire tough guys. All around, he's a great quarterback. He makes plays when he has to. He's pretty much the complete package. So I don't think there's a lot of difference between the two of us. He's leading a school with great tradition and so am I.

I also want to put on record the very high regard which the British government as a whole, and I personally, have for Kofi Annan, in leading and steering the United Nations through a period of great change in international relations,

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

He wants to win. What more can you ask for? I think it's all you can really expect from a general manager. I think those guys are leading us down the right path. I guess we'll know more when the season starts and what adjustments we need to make. They're slowly but surely doing it. What more can you say?

He can smell the Schwab Cup, ... and can smell being the leading money winner. And that's where he's headed.

He'd be the most likely guy in the group. But a lot depends on what we do leading up to Spring Training.

He is the leading voice on border security and illegal immigration. We feel that we need to address this issue not only on a national perspective, but also on a state perspective. The state cannot wait solely on the federal government for reaction.

Greene wasn't at his best physically, but he was at his best in leading us to that last field goal. I was sitting there thinking, 'This is the last game he's going to play in this stadium. Who am I to keep him out?' So I let him go back in.

has enough evidence to indict the 10 leading members of the regime.

has become a leading proponent of one of the most cosmopolitan, and controversial, trends in constitutional law: using foreign and international law as an aid in interpreting the U.S. Constitution.

Guy was a leading figure in cinema both in the UK and in the United States for over 40 years.

Guy was a leading figure in cinema both in the U.K. and in the United States for over 40 years, ... I had the most profound respect for his remarkable talent.

(Hall) did a great job leading the team. He was breaking people down off the dribble and creating for his teammates.

This was a good tournament, regardless of the outcome. This was a team that gave us a precise feedback of where we stand. Leading up to the match I really didn't want it to settle in with the kids that this was a given loss. I think all of us kind of knew it could go either way.

This was a good kickoff to what I think will be a pretty good run leading up to summer.

There are so many emotional stories in our lives that the cameras missed outside of the competition, which viewers never got to see. This online 'scrap book' gives us a chance to share the entire journey leading up to, and during the Games to really illustrate the ups and downs an athlete and their mom's experience along the road to becoming a U.S. Olympian.

I was leading off the inning, and the count was 2-0, so I was pretty sure he was going to throw a strike, ... I didn't think he wanted to walk me, so I was expecting one out over the plate.

King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.

Jake Jacobs has been thoroughly involved in executing Spyder's business strategy, and has been integral to the company's success. He's a leading expert on fabric technology, and has incredible industry knowledge and experience. His soul is the brand. It just so happens that he's also my son.

Katie assumed the additional responsibility for our Human Resources organization in 2004. She has done a good job leading two areas of the company that are critical to success in today's business environment.

Just put the ball in play, hit it hard and you make things happen. If you're leading off innings, that's what you have to do.

Joe will make an excellent facilitator for dance in this area if he's given the time, space and resources. There are people in Buffalo who control the resources and who make the difference, and you have to have dancers like Joe and Cathy, who have a national and international reputation, to create the buzz that will bring the money out of these leading companies or families.

Joe Roby's leadership during his 28 years at DLJ was instrumental in building that firm into a leading investment bank, ... We wish Joe continued success in his new role at CSFB.

I take my leading skill very seriously. I don't like sit back and watch people do the wrong thing. I'm a motivational leader. I love quotes, I just try to put that motivation in you to bring you to your best potential.

I think it's a great move for Motorola. GIC is the leading maker of cable set top boxes. Slap on the Motorola brand name and distribution and it's a real good move for Motorola.

I think it proves I can hold my own in a big studio movie, and I can play a leading man without making him a stereotypical leading man. We can be sensitive human beings in this world and be tough guys, too.

I think it has created an excitement for opera that will produce growing audiences. Nationally, it is important that operas have robust partners across the country to join in productions. That will mean Denver audiences will see some leading productions that have been produced in other places.

I think it is impossible for any Spaniard to imagine a World Cup without Spain. The reality is that we are not leading the group but there's no use looking back on what might have been. If things don't go our way we should still be in the playoffs but I'm convinced we've still got a chance of finishing in first place. Let's see what happens.

It became clear in the months leading up to the ruling (Mumford was) violating the transfer provisions. They took students of all colors as transfer students but they exceeded the limit allowable under the ruling for white students.

I think it's gone pretty well. We're very fortunate to have a very balanced basketball club. Bobby has always made some strong contributions. At times he's been our leading scorer. He's also drawn a lot of attention. We've faced a lot of zone defenses because he is 6-8. Bobby recognizes when he gets the ball in the post when to get the ball back out to the perimeter.

It could be that home builders are trying to work off the supply of permitted properties they have in the pipeline. If you look at leading indicators of the housing market, you really have to say this cannot be sustained.

I thought, 'you're on tour leading a crazy life right now, but you've just asked me to make an album and I'm going to hold you to that'. He was really encouraging, which is nice because I doubt myself often.

I think their team really unified today without their leading scorer. They made shots all over the place, a very good shooting nigh for them.

I think the past three years Jim Beattie has been leading the effort with strong assistance from Mike. Now it will be Mike's chance. I think Mike is very capable and a very bright guy who certainly is adequate to perform the job.

I think that Green Bay actually - and I don't like this because you love Brett Favre - I think they almost are leading him toward retirement. You took away two of his anchors on the offensive line, two of the great offensive guards in this league. So he's going to get the kind of pressure that we haven't seen him get in the past. He's going to be in games where defensively you know he is going to be in shootouts where he has to throw rather than when he wants to throw. He's going to be throwing all the time.

I thought he brought up great points about leading by stepping back.

I thought Dane Hughes played a very good ballgame. Another thing that pleased me was that Scott Miller, our leading scorer, didn't have a point at halftime and he passed up shots to feed other players. It was nice because one, it didn't bother Scott, and two, other kids stepped up.

It hit the end of my glove. It just sneaked out of there. I know he was trying to throw up and away. You obviously don't want to throw it there. You don't want him to get the barrel on the ball. But that's not where we lost the game. We lost the game by not scoring a run with Wes Helms leading off the seventh with a double.

I think the arbitrator chose to accept not only the Eagles' version of the evidence, but I think he went even further and pieced the evidence together in a way that it really didn't involve. He describes all of the events leading up to the suspension, but ignored the fact that Terrell was a model citizen from the week he was gone in training camp until Nov. 3. If you view, as (Bloch) did, the one week (Reid) sent (Owens) home as a form of discipline, that wiped out all prior conduct.

Lamar is a very good team that can really score. Coach (Billy) Tubbs does a good job of getting his guys prepared. They have a guy (Alan Daniels) who is leading the league in scoring and can score in a lot of different ways. We will have to find a way to contain him to be successful.

I was a hot commodity, ... Being African-American didn't hurt me - I was one of the leading young theoretical economists of the generation.

I thought we did a good job and continued to put pressure on them offensively. Our offense is leading the way.

I thought we blocked exceptionally well. We hurt them with screen passes and every time we had three or four guys leading the way.

I think we're seeing investors being convinced that we hit the bottom and from here we'll go through some softening of the economy. But if we're going to get back into the market, we want to do it now because the market is a leading indicator.

I think we've gone through the dog days now. What we are doing now is preparing ourselves mentally for the next 29 days leading up to the playoffs. We are 53-13 overall and 29-2 at home. I'd say we have taken care of ourselves fairly well.

I think what we've done is started a good, healthy pullback for a while. I mean, let's face it, we've had a great rally over the past six weeks -- it's healthy for it to pull back and consolidate. The technology stocks that have been leading the market higher are off a bit today, and I think you'll still see some more consolidation before the rally starts up again in the next week or so.

I think both kids played their best all-around basketball in that five-game playoff stretch leading us to the state championship.

I think as we look at our starting five, it has to be a point of emphasis. We want to get more physical as a program. We lose two big guys with Phil and Buddy who are our two leading scorers inside.

I think it's very important to the Canadian national interest to have strong, leading global competitors in as many industries as we can. I think it's important to keep Canada visible on the global economic map, I think it's important for our capital markets to have industry leaders, I think it's important from an employment and a technology standpoint, and I think it rolls right back into Canada's competitiveness.

It has always been our aim to increase the spread of medals. We have directed our funding towards sports where we felt we could improve our performances leading into Beijing (the 2008 Olympics). We are also encouraged by the way sailing and equestrian have bounced back after disappointing results in Athens.

I think today's the day of tremendous national anguish. Many people thought this whole process would polarize Israeli society because that seemed to be the environment here leading up to the national disengagement effort.

I think that's why you're seeing some of the leading fortune 500 companies picking up on them.

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I think some of the companies are trying to improve the situation. To be honest, if I can figure it out, I don't see why people who are leading some of the largest companies in the country shouldn't be able to figure it out as well.

I think that made them wonder if they could win. A five-point play to tie the game is a pretty big blow after you've been leading for the whole game.

I think that it would be very, very difficult for the president to explain that, in the context of information leading up to why that would be so,

It is important that we have a fair and thorough process leading to the truth and so the leaks and speculation must end.

I think we're not going to see them close like they always do with the half a dozen big-time kids in the last 48-72 hours leading up to signing day. But they've got a great opportunity to get a C.J. Spiller at the end and a few others. I think they'll do well and finish somewhere in the top 15, I would suspect.

Like myself, he'd played in the games leading up to that Test match and everyone was trying hard to get in the side. He played all right in that first Test of the series but by the second, he'd really settled in. It was just a learning curve for him. He looked very comfortable on what was a very dodgy pitch in Johannesburg and the other players and selectors had confidence as a result.

Last year I was leading the race when I retired, and I have won here in Formula 3000, so I am feeling quite confident,

Last year in the spring it was an alternator belt that broke when we were leading that took us out of contention, and then in the fall last year we were leading at the end before fuel strategy cost us the win. But Richmond is a terrific racetrack.

Later this year it will fuel new dual core processors and quad core processors in 2007 that we expect to deliver industry leading performance and capabilities per watt. People will see systems that can be faster, smaller and quieter with longer battery life and lower electric bills.

I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.

I went into 17 and it was one of those deals where the rear end starts leading the front around. What you do. After that I adjusted the brake bias and it was fine and I could settle down and make up positions.

I went and looked at all Mark's work. He can get huge laughs and not imitate Jim Carrey. The bonus is the emotional reality of Mark. It's a given that he'd be there in a crunch for his leading lady.

I want to thank him for leading a one-minute prayer for the souls of the victims. In times like this, we should unite and stop quarreling. Ratings change every day... There's no need to compete. In my opinion, the more game shows and noontime shows on the air, the better, because that will help a lot of people.

I was always going to lay it down once we turned off the main highway. I know how hard it can be riding along there - it's hard if you're leading and it's hard in the bunch so it was a good place to go.

I will continue to focus on global strategy and to do everything I can to help Yahoo! realize its full potential and enhance its leading culture of technology and product excellence and innovation.

I was just sick and tired of hearing that John Denver song for five days leading up to it,

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I was just hoping to weather the storm. But the planets must be aligned somewhere. When you win and one of your leading scorers doesn't score a point, you just thank your lucky stars.

I was kind of nervous over there because I was leading 5-up through 11, and then he was coming back at me. I was not hitting very good shots on those holes.

I think they needed to do it. They might as well do it now while they have a leading position.

I think they're predominantly, as far as their personnel, very similar. Banks is their leading scorer, but they have some other consistent players.

I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre.

It is another day of resources leading the way although the overall market was fairly positive - that was helped by the charts suggesting a major break-out in the US.

It is an historic step, and I am delighted that the U.K. played a leading role in its achievement.

It is because the doctrine of human unity based on the spiritual oneness of all beings, is not propagated in the right manner that we have today many divisions leading to many conflicts.

I think there's some real fundamental support for the Governor, ... He's as tough as an old rope, and he'll be leading this state for a long time.

I think the (report on leading economic indicators) is much more important than people think. Maybe in the fourth quarter of this year and the first quarter of next year, the economy will in fact pick up.

Just at it did when the Great Game was played out in the decades leading up to the First World War, ongoing industrialization is setting off a scramble for natural resources. The coming century could be marked by recurrent resource wars, as the great powers struggle for control of the world's hydrocarbons.

Jamie is one of the most accomplished pitchers in Mariners' history, leading the major leagues in winning percentage over the last eight years, ... But it is his commitment to making the difference in the life of those in need through the Moyer Foundation that has made people see you as a great baseball player and a great humanitarian.

Jimmy is one of the nation's top setters. He has done an excellent job of leading us from the day he got here. He worked out in the off-season with the football team and is now a bigger, stronger, faster, more flexible and more physical player.

J.D. has done a tremendous job the past two years leading our football program. We want to reward him for the job he's done. The University is committed to J.D. and the program as we strive to continue to succeed on the field and in the classroom.

Jews have not only become equal citizens in Western democracies, they have become leading citizens. And, of course, the reestablishment of the State of Israel has given Jews a political presence in the world they have not had since biblical times.

Kristen has been hitting the ball phenomenally over the past two weeks and been making outstanding contact. So we were very comfortable with her leading off the inning.

Korea's consumption growth is currently very much dependent on sentiment and unanticipated wealth gains, leading to concerns about the sustainability of consumption recovery.

Korea is leading the world in mobile TV.

Kobe was leading us perfect tonight. Everybody expects him to come out and score 40 because it's the playoffs, but he did what a leader and general should do.

Last year, he was our third-leading scorer. His freshman and sophomore years he was our leading scorer. Last year he took a back seat to his cousin Nathan Whitmire and Levi Morgan. With Levi in the post we moved him out to the wing a little.

I think for a long time we thought we were 'fortress America' and that we were impenetrable. Maybe in our heart of hearts we knew sooner or later that it was going to happen, ... But to take a look at the president and extraordinary vice president ... I couldn't think of a better team at a tougher time to be leading America, so I'm optimistic about it.

I see him leading a team, I see him leading an organization.

I saw a lot of blood in the hallway. There was a trail of blood leading from one end of the hallway to the other.

I reviewed every issue of the World for the months leading up to the 1903 and 1905 World's Championship Series. There's not a word suggesting any link between the paper and the series.

Peach has never been a pushover, but this classically styled game really lets her put the hurt on her enemies. Our damsel in distress has become a powerful leading lady.