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Conservatives want someone with a clear, written record. The Roberts hearing has been superb as a technical, tactical matter, but it's left some people in despair and just clamoring for someone with a written record. The left keeps asking, 'What does the right know that we don't know?' Well the truth of the matter is, we don't know anything. We're all being asked to take a leap of faith.

Core sales slowed hugely at the end of the year, almost certainly as a result of the cash flow hit caused by the post-Katrina leap in energy prices. This is now over, and sales should rebound strongly in the first quarter.

Don't leap until you know exactly what you can afford and how you'll afford it. Stretch, but don't dream impossible dreams.

Early in the season, we had leads and they dwindled away. For us to be able to go on the road and do it is another leap in our program's effort to get back to respectability.

There's still a leap of faith involved for a lot of people when they go into online dating. Although the stigma has mostly gone away, they're still doing something that might feel a little bit uncomfortable, and to be able to take that step within a predefined community can improve the comfort level for certain users.

Isn't that a little bit ridiculous? You've got a guy walking down the street and he sees some unfriendly offices, and to make a leap from that to say we're talking about Enron -- that's really a stretch. They've chosen to make a campaign of this but they have no basis ... other than that they seem to have some complaints from their membership.

It wouldn't be a giant leap of imagination for them to consider selling all of it. Even if they sold all of it, it's not clear that will generate significant stock appreciation for Time Warner.

There will be this kind of quantum leap forward in the way people use the Internet over the next several years. There will be ushered in a next generation Internet user experience. That will be marked not only by the introduction of additional devices that take advantage of the Internet, but it will be marked by a whole new set of ways for programs to work together, for users to share data with one another and with programs, and basically, almost a whole new user interface model of the world.

It was tough at first. It was tough to go out there and trust what I was working on because it takes a leap of faith.

It was a leap of faith. I hope he fulfills the expectations that he activated today. He has the energy. It's up to the administration to give him the resources.

It was a leap of faith for me. I decided to leave my job and find out how I could become more involved. I started talking to my family and to spiritual directors and they all encouraged me. The calling was definitely there.

It was a leap of faith, but it was an educated leap. We looked at what Coach B had done turning around programs and who was coming in. My parents and my sister and I did a lot of research.

The shock of the hurricanes and subsequent leap in gas prices has begun wearing off just in time for the holiday season.

SALT was an initiative of South African astronomers that won support from the South African government, not simply because it was a leap forward in astronomical technology, but because of the host of spin-off benefits it could bring to the country,

Putting it in ITAR termsthis is one small step for ITAR, one big leap for Virgin Galactic.

Adding close to $200 per benefit will be a tremendous help. However, heating bills are (in my opinion) running in the $100 to $200 per month or more range for LEAP recipients. Over the winter months, this will amount to $600 to $1,200. So there's still a gap. But the governor's proposal, if it passes, will help significantly.

Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivity, from individual existence to universal existence.

Once you wrap that screen around, and you get really good sound you get immersed, ... You mentally make the leap that you're in this game. It's really amazing.

Despite the fact that we have spent gazillions of dollars in schools on technology, it's still just a leap of faith that kids are better educated because of that. Students need to have some opportunity to digest material serially, like reading a book from end to end. A tiny screen might stop you from being an analytic thinker 'cause you just can't see enough of a thing at once.

Anyone who has worked for a big brand-name company with a good reputation, and was successful there, has a real advantage, especially in moving to a different industry. Hiring someone is really a leap of faith, and interviewers know they can only tell so much about you from the interviewing process, so having that brand name in your background is important. It's almost like an endorsement.

This is going to be a real intellectual leap forward. You can start looking at (geological) processes -- hot springs, gullies, volcanoes -- and we can spot many more minerals.

This is an ideal combination for both companies. It provides both companies with the unique opportunity to take a quantum leap and become more competitive and continue to thrive in the consolidating global pharmaceuticals industry.

This could have been a very expensive mantelpiece for my shelf, ... But I realized that if I couldn't sell this, I shouldn't even be in the business. Instead of investing the money I earn with the Stones in the stock market, I decided to have faith, leap in and invest in myself.

This agreement will mean great things for Michigan's students and great things for Michigan's economy. Michigan needs the best-educated work force in the country to succeed economically, and these changes are a giant leap in that direction.

They took a leap of faith to put me in the rotation right away. It's a compliment and I'm just trying to take advantage of it, like I did in spring training. It's one of those things I've got to get over my own fears of being out there. Once that happens, I feel like I can be a part of this team and really just rely on these guys to win games.

This merger is a leap for Gold Fields into the international arena that could not be achieved through organic growth alone,

There was a speaker stack, a leap of faith, he jumped. He landed it, but he blew out his heel. Diego finished the show from the floor with a bunch of people standing over him, taking pictures.

This is the most significant move in African fashion in the last decade; and represents a major leap forward for our designers. Our goal is to make the world-class talent of South African designers more accessible to international audiences.

They're big, they can leap and they're good shooters. They killed us on the boards with 23 offensive rebounds.

As no new refinery has been built in the United States since 1976, the construction of new refineries constitute a giant leap forward toward greater energy independence.

It's easier to leap if you're already dancing.

It's a tremendous financial leap for a historically under-funded non-profit.

It's a big leap for us. We think it will show the world the next step for on-demand computing, just as we showed the world the first step.

It's a chance for the fringe players and a lot of the A-League boys to step up and show what they can do at this level. It's a big leap from club football to the international arena. Some players aren't able to make that transition - so this game may answer a lot of questions one way or another.

It's a brilliant day for the environment. It's a huge leap to have achieved a result on this very complex international negotiation.

It's about taking a leap of faith, ... and hoping it turns out all right.

It really is a quantum leap forward in the performance for the user both in voice and in data. The speed of it is really a system experience.

It's a leap of faith. The agreement is under 10 pages long and we could have signed 100 pages, but what counts is not words but deeds.

It's a leap of faith. It seems like the right time in my life and the life of the community.

It's a leap of faith. It's a last-ditch measure when we feel we're at the end of the game. It has been very effective for some patients.

It's very clear to me from all the e-mail messages I've got here, that we were America's team for about an hour and we had within our grasp the opportunity to make additional history. We made a big leap this year, we demonstrated we can play at this level, we've got a good coach, they have a bright future. That's what tonight was all about.

For an investor, it's a leap of faith that these ratings are accurate and predictive.

It's the Japanese automakers that are leap years forward in electric motor technology versus the American automakers. That's why Detroit is interested in what we have to offer, because it is a way for them to catch up really quickly.

It looks like the economy picked up in the second quarter. The leap higher in commodity prices is helping underpin profits and driving export earnings and investment.

It looks like a major leap in reclaiming good sense, but I don't know that.

It's like taking a leap of faith almost, leaving a decent job with decent benefits and doing something you really want to do, ... It's something I'm seriously considering.

DANCE, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.

Eventually, you get to the point that the paradigm involved in this won't work. You've got to do something different. The addition of leap seconds is going to be an increasing nuisance for people who are counting on a time scale where a minute actually contains 60 seconds.

It's somewhat of a contradiction, ... I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not going to leap out at you and scream. I also can't control how a book is marketed. To say the book marketing is aggressive, fine, I'm happy with that. Push the book. That doesn't mean that my personality or writing style changes.

Not that I'm trying to put myself on the same plateau as coach Olson, but it struck me that he was very successful at Iowa, a well-established program in the Big Ten, and he made a quantum leap to Arizona at a similar stage in his career.

Superstition Vistas sits out there vacant, not because there aren't buyers for it, but because we can't plan it. We don't have the money. Our inability to plan the land has caused development to leap over it. That's not supposed to happen.

It's definitely for the adventurous traveler who wants to get off the beaten track. This is a total leap into the past. If you're looking for a luxurious vacation, I wouldn't necessarily recommend Romania. But if people want to educate themselves and see someplace really different, it's a great place to go.

It's definitely the best opportunity that I've had. This is a huge leap forward. When I walk in, I see more than four guys working on a race car. I see more than two race cars. I see equipment everywhere. I see engineers.

Oh it is good to ride and run,To roam the greenwood wild and free;To hunt, to idle in the sun,To leap into the laughing sea

They want to have a big movie star in that role. I'm sure a lot of other people were considered. He wouldn't be anybody's first thought. People forget that he has musical-comedy chops. He comes from musical theater, from Broadway. That's where he began, and so he has a sense of that style. It certainly is a great big acting leap for him. It's going to be interesting to see how he does it.

It was hard at first knowing I couldn't get on the court. But I learned so much by practicing and watching the other girls. Plus, it gave me a good opportunity to get into the weight room and get stronger. I think that probably helped more than anything. I was able to improve my vertical leap and just add some muscle.

I knew it was special enough to leave everything I had in Kentucky. Not only would I do it again, I would do it precisely the same way. I already had this new music in my blood. The whole process of doing that was innate leap into some other music form. I didn't have a choice.

If people were aggressively concerned about falling house prices, rising interest rates, you would not expect to see a leap in consents being issued for houses.

In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.

Intel. Leap ahead.' is a simple expression that declares who we are and what we do. This is part of our heritage. Our mission at Intel has always been to find and drive the next leap ahead -- in technology, in education, social responsibility, manufacturing and more -- to continuously challenge the status quo. It's about using Intel technology to make life better, richer and more convenient for everyone.

I really think that for us to begin the quantum leap into the next level, we're going to have to do that either with a single or several transforming transactions.

I pondered long and hard and really put off answering him, King Hussein, when it was clear that he was proposing, ... He (King Hussein) was taking a huge leap of faith in proposing we share our lives together.

In terms of the kind of hurdle that Microsoft and IBM have to leap over, the kind of growth they have to deliver is not as significant a bar as it is for Intel.

Before you take the data from this study and say 'we should leap out to say this proves we should have national licensing and registration' it would be useful to know one of the things they didn't look at, which was. 'Does licensing and registration also depress gun ownership by law abiding people?

Customers can tell you how to evolve a product, but they can't show you how to make a leap.

hoping something would leap magically from the canvas into me. 'Who are you? Where are you?' I'd shout over and over.

Households with children may use their washing machines every day, ergo they will be big users of detergent and fabric conditioners. And it's not a huge mental leap to say they also eat a lot of food. If they've got babies, they're going to be using a lot of diapers. And the kids are probably going to eat a lot of confectionary, and they'll be using a lot of soap and shampoo.

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

'Charlotte's Web,' which I read sitting on my mother's lap, was the most emotional experience: that was when I made the leap from seeing how to untangle words to realizing how books both contain and convey strong feelings.

Gentle Reader, The Word will leap on you with leopard man iron claws, it will cut off fingers and toes like an opportunity land crab, it will coil round your thighs like a bushmaster and inject a shot glass of rancid ectoplasm.

Risk is good. Not properly managing your risk is a dangerous leap.

Hope walks through the fire and faith leaps over it.

If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.

Nature does not make leaps.

Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those.

If I'm sitting down to design an intown transit network for Atlanta, this route would just not leap out at the top of my priority list,

I caught on the old, ancient field, where we had kids leaning over the fence and rocks in the outfield. We had three rows of bleachers on one side and basically a lot of dirt and dust. We had a good time, but to look at what we played on in the '60s and what we're playing on now is a leap into the future.

I believe that a Hispanic country star is out there, and that this will happen soon. I also believe that when it does, it will be a woman because female artists in general just seem to make that leap from 'wannabe' to 'star' with more ease.

The more we practice risking to leap, the more proficient we become, the more our fears melt away, and we grow ever stronger in the doing.

Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.

Leap, and the net appears.

To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.

When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.

Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.

Never try to leap from a standstill.

We are the hurdles we leap to be ourselves.

It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

History doesn't crawl; it leaps.

I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present.

Old pond, leap-splash - a frog.

When your hands leap towards mine, love, what do they bring me in flight?

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

You could potentially use mirrors to make a huge leap in computer technology, and they've been working on that in places like the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, funded by places like Intel and the big computer makers, ... I think in the next few years, it's going to break.

Their model has a lot of hurdles that they need to leap to get it to work.

The initial conception for Vista was to be exactly that kind of dramatic leap forward on a number of fronts. But we're 10 years further down the boulevard of history. The software is incredibly complicated to build.

The union is delighted. The new CBA is a big leap forward for the players and means a fairer system for all. It also means seven more years of labor peace. Fans can now forget about the lawyers and owners and enjoy football.

This is a great leap forward in the evolution of our mobile video strategy, and we look forward to developing more exciting initiatives in this space over the year to come.

This is a huge and very important leap forward in terms of what customers want from their PCs and the related products that go around them,

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.