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He's a solid outfielder with a strong arm. He can hit to the opposite field and he has some power.

He's been the one who's said we want a kinder and gentler SEC, the opposite of what we should have had, ... We could do a lot better than Harvey Pitt in that position today.

He's getting a lot of base hits to the opposite field, which is a positive. He stopped hitting the lazy fly balls to right field. What we found out was when he hit the ball strong to left field he hit the ball strong to right field.

He's funny, he's completely opposite of everything that's been written about him. Obviously there have been some unfortunate situations with him, but coming into it I think everybody was open minded and there was no doubt in anybody's mind that he was going to have a good time here and he was going to get along with the guys. Since I've been here, there haven't been any jerks or bad personalities.

We looked back at what we felt we needed to do better in Arizona (on the spring trip) and worked on that yesterday. We hit it back up the middle, and I had guys going to the opposite field who hadn't done that in three years.

He was a callow young man, not physical. Kind of the opposite of what he is now.

He didn't miss it. Everything was down to Damon. We had been pounding Jeter in all day, so we wanted to go down and away with the splitter. Instead, it was up - exactly the opposite of where we wanted it.

Kicking students out will only increase drug abuse, which is the exact opposite intention of the law.

Jorge Posada is a genuinely loving man -- the exact opposite of this so-called 'fan,'" ()

John (Beck) floated the ball into the end zone and I tried to run underneath it. It was just out of reach. When I was coming down my left hand turned all the way around and my full weight on my thumb pushed it the opposite way. It was broken pretty bad; I have screws and a plate in it right now.

Joe Will be ready to fight in 2006 and hopefully Lacy will be in the opposite corner.

I think it is wrong at this point to assume that this will have some negative affect on implants. We think the opposite is true and that more patients could be identified through this mechanism.

I think it's important to view the issues on the broadest possible reference plane. In fact, if you firmly believe in any issue, I urge you to read the opposite of it. Most of the time, it'll merely reinforce your original beliefs, but on the rare occasion, it might change your mind.

I think that the NHL is ripe to have some franchises move. Hartford is a viable area when it comes down to that. To be in the Northeast, in New England, with hockey, is viable. I think the economics of the league have stabilized. They're not perfect, but they're a heck of a lot better than they were. I wouldn't draw the conclusion that Hartford can't work. In fact, I think I'd draw the opposite conclusion. I think it's a much stronger location than several of the cities that are currently hosting NHL teams. And I know that there's a lot of talk about franchises moving around. I don't think it's a slam dunk, but I think it's very viable.

Lance Guest in 'The Last Starfighter' had such integrity and held himself to such a high standard that I just wanted to raise your own standard to meet it. He is a hard-working, giving actor. He made me feel secure and better in my role opposite him.

I thought we got a lot of good looks on offense. We ran the floor well. We looked opposite and that got the defense moving. We took a lot of open shots in rhythm and more times than not, you're going to knock them down.

I thought they won, and I started to cry again. It feels great to win ... It's a completely opposite feeling this time.

I think it's very timely that Indiana sets up and provides more dollars for student loans at a time when the U.S. Congress is just about going in the opposite direction.

I think that the future belongs to democracy, but not to capitalism, because they are opposite camps.

I think that it's unlikely that her candidacy will be viewed as viable from mainstream Republicans in New Hampshire unless and until she gives some indication she wants to run. So far my indication is she's given the exactly opposite indication.

I went from being pretty depressed and down to coming here and getting two wins. It's been kind of the opposite sides of the spectrum. I'm very fortunate to come here and have some success. ... Things like this happen in this game. Guys get cut and move around. I wouldn't say I was shocked. I'm happy that things have worked out the way they've worked out so far. Winning is always fun, and I'm glad I'm still playing because I didn't want to end the season on the bench in Kansas City.

I think there's an awful lot of me in Big Bird, but Oscar is pretty much - I think I know how he thinks because he thinks exactly the opposite of what I think is a good way to be.

I saw everybody there and kept looking in the opposite direction,

People are always asking what it's like to have Paul ... The truth is that the image that Paul gives before the television and the press and on the track is completely the opposite of how he is in person.

People always portrayed us as enemies, like two boxers on opposite sides of the ring, but of course it was never really like that,

Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all.

Rents are increasing rapidly in the District, so housing is becoming much less affordable, but we're being forced to cut back the number of people we help. That's the exact opposite of what we should be doing.

Research shows mandatory minimums don't serve as a deterrent and actually have the opposite effect,

Place it against a vertical surface to reflect furnishings on the opposite wall to give the illusion that there is space behind.

Playing opposite her was just a dance in sharing -- a beautiful dance in sharing, ... We were like singing a song to each other.

People often say that having a family makes you make safer choices. It's been the total opposite for me. It's really made me want to make bolder choices.

Some magazines are run from the top down, where the editor-in-chief decides what every article is going to be and who's going to write them, and then they're doled out. My idea is to do it the opposite way, to do it from the bottom up.

That first dual was one of the worst performances we've had in a long time. We were pretty flat. There were a few close matches against Van Buren and we ended up getting pins. The opposite happened against Keokuk.

My music is the opposite of Nintendo. It works best for people who have an active attention span and are able to create worlds inside their head. It's a stimulus for the imagination, and it requires a bit more from the listener to build a world between the cracks.

Lobbying is a constitutionally protected activity because the opposite of lobbying is to treat public officials as demigods.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me.

I think right away (following the two wins), you could see what they did (to us). We went into Minnesota with a lack of urgency. I don't know whether that's carried on, but (the Red Wings) took the opposite approach and they've been working hard since then.

I think everybody in basketball knows that about 70 percent of the rebounds go opposite of from where you shoot it. So we just figure if you get more players on the opposite side, we've got a chance mathematically to grab a lot more boards.

I stumbled on this little scene. And little by little, that scene took over my life, ... You could make a living being a blues musician. There were a lot of clubs where you could play this type of music every night. And a lot of roots rock clubs, and bands like the Holmes Brothers, Chris Whitley and Blues Traveler playing opposite sides of the street corner. And a lot of camaraderie. Nobody was thinking of record deals, so there wasn't any feeling of competition.

It definitely could have got to us, we could have done the exact opposite and thrown in the towel. Instead we won pretty much the rest of our games.

The absolute numbers are in the opposite direction.

That was an incredible experience, ... I hear people say that the field was weak (because it was played opposite of the British Open), but winning is winning. Now that I've done it, I know I can do it again.

That still has to be there. And so, it's kind of an interesting question you brought up. Because, on the one hand, yeah, it'd be lovely. I certainly don't see that happening. In fact, I see the opposite happening.

I was reading a book and found myself crashing into the person opposite me. The train was going over and over and over, and people were thrown onto the floor.

I was on the opposite side of the golf course, and there's nobody out there watching us play golf. You knew where she was the whole time. It was almost like a Tiger-type following. You know where she was on the golf course. That says a lot. I don't think that wears off until that goes away for some reason. I just don't see that happening any time soon.

Most business absolutely think charging your customer higher prices and decreasing the total quality of their product will increase their profits. That is absolutely false! The opposite is true because quality always, always, always attracts more customers and profits will increase greatly.

We have over 50 studies, and there is no clear-cut answer, ... We have positive studies. We have negative studies. I think the state of the art was beautifully illustrated in 1995 when we had reports from (two) respected teams of epidemiologists with opposite conclusions, two weeks apart.

You can get it going and knock out your opponent, or it can go the opposite way.

We continue to find Safeway's lifestyle-oriented repositioning strategy sound but somewhat limited. Although it will effectively appeal to the middle 60 percent to 70 percent of the market, it is less competitive at the opposite ends of the demographic spectrum.

When I took the job, we spoke about pursuing a liberal economic policy. Now, the state has evolved in quite the opposite direction.

We put good aluminum on the ball. But we were flat. It was completely opposite of how we were last week.

We have to stop their opposite Macias, because he's their go-to guy every time. We have to focus on him, and then focus on our side of the court, with us working hard and everything.

We're definitely very happy to get that many points against that good of a team. It's hard to explain. Sometimes your expectations of what kind of game it is and what kind of score it will be are exactly opposite of what happens.

You also then have to acknowledge that when the team performs poorly, it'll go in the opposite direction.

We end up producing the opposite of what we intended, and turn our children into unpopular, isolated adults.

We got away with one. That was something where I was like, 'Well, what can you do?' I can recall plenty of games in my career where I was on the opposite side of that.

We played pretty well -- compared to Monday we played a lot better. We hit the ball pretty well -- going inside-out and going the opposite direction and we only had two errors and that was a fresh change from Monday.

We believe the opposite is true, ... The more China opens its markets, the more its domestic industries will be able to compete.

With the Fed stopping, and policy elsewhere in Europe and Japan going in the opposite direction, it should be relatively positive for the euro and yen.

We played on Sunday nights opposite All in the Family. We were supposed to knock off All in the Family. Well, we didn't. They had a different audience and besides, it's a classic. So in the network's view, we were a failure, even thought we were in the Top 20.

We have the opposite problem at Ford Motor Company. Right now, we have approximately 700 technician graduates who have been trained through our technical career entry programs and are now looking for employment.

Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect - they're all empty.

Tollbooths and gatekeepers are the exact opposite of what the Internet is all about. Down that route, consumers can count on paying more and getting less - less content, fewer services and reduced innovation.

We came out the exact opposite way I thought we would and dug ourselves a hole early, but we were able to scrap back and got the job done. We got a lot of contributions from a lot of different people and have a team capable of making runs. A lot of it is sparked by our defense, and when we decide to guard people, we can be pretty good.

We are not training terrorists, ... Actually, it's the opposite of that. We are assisting in training counter-terrorists, anti-terrorists, those kinds of things.

We had expected an upward revision in the second-quarter G.D.P. estimate on the basis of other recently released data, ... but trade kind of goes in the opposite direction.

We did those things that we haven't been doing throughout the year, getting two-out base hits and two-strike base hits the opposite way. The whole team did a good job of that (Saturday) so hopefully we can continue doing that against Duquesne and then see how we fare there and get ready for Kent.

The reaction of the fans being on the field and then seeing how you kind of want it to come out, then seeing the exact opposite all in a matter of minutes. People were pretty shocked and devastated.

Traditionally, our offensive line is depleted every year. Seniors usually dominate it so this is unusual for us. We normally have a starter or two back in the skill positions, but we have the opposite of that this year.

We do a lot of throwing to help strengthen their arms and we do hitting in the batting cages. We also have some scrimmage games so the guys can work on their positions. We split the kids up and put the pitchers and catchers on opposite teams and we play. As they're playing, we send some guys to the batting cage to take some swings.

We don't just talk about the religious aspects of the youth. We have on-the-job training, how they can better themselves financially, how they can deal with peer pressure, and how they relate to the opposite sex,

Writing is very much an emotional process; it requires you to be very in touch with your feelings. That is the opposite of what you're taught as a medical doctor. We're supposed to be detached and logical. Maybe because I started off as a writer and then became a doctor, I'm able to integrate those two.

The deaf culture is portrayed very accurately on 'Switched at Birth' because the writers did the opposite of the norm. They did their homework before portraying anything on television.

We shot poorly, turned the ball over. We didn't play well. Twenty-eight turnovers and 13 assists? That's usually opposite for us. That sums it up for me. Can't say much more than that.

We only had two hits the entire game. We had guys on second and third and we needed a big hit, but no one came through. It was the opposite of the first game.

When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and of finding less joy in the mystery of things. And I've found the exact opposite to be true. I find that I'm getting warmer, and that I'm more mystified by human interactions.

When people think of bed bugs they think of lower class or seediness. But really the opposite is true. They often come from hotels. Nice hotels with a lot of international travelers.

When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.

When people ask me what sign I was born under, I say "I'm not certain, but it could have been the one that says 'Dining Car in opposite direction'.

We're trained to think that rapid growth after six years of expansion is finally going to kick prices up a little bit, but in fact they're going in the opposite direction,

We saw little evidence yesterday that the Godzilla-size footprints of funds bailing out of gold was present. We did see evidence overnight that millions of tiny (individual-investor) footprints make for an equal-size impact on gold -- in the opposite direction.

We're not puppets on a string, but the shows are, and they get dangled and placed opposite one another. It's a business. There you are.

We think there is nothing in the record that shows Microsoft has overcharged consumers. It's the exact opposite of what Microsoft's business model has been. Every market Microsoft has gone into has resulted in lower prices.

We've cut a $3 trillion hole in the budget for the next three years for tax cuts he said were going to create 344,000 jobs each month starting in August, and things are going in the opposite direction,

We just have to make early adjustments. I tend to try to drive the ball the opposite way just so I don't get too far out in front.

We had a dinner party with eight people last week. And six of the eight got lost. One ended up in Kentucky, one (group) on Columbia Parkway and another ... on the opposite side of Mount Adams.

Trying to get the attention of the audience in the opposite way it's done in Hollywood today, which is to bombard the audience.

There are rates that may not move at all and there are rates that may move opposite to what the Fed has done.

With counter protestors, that is where many of the issues arrive. They usually have the opposite side of extreme thinking and things like nasty name calling between groups can happen.

When we lost at Curry, it was the opposite because we got down 15 right away. A team like that, it just gives them confidence. You get up on them, they're going to fold. So it worked out well.

We've opened it up to where they can work in multiple areas at one time. The only restriction we have is working on opposite sides (of the road) from each other.

Two out of three times, the opposite was true.

When should a company take a position on a broader social issue and when should it not? What message does the company taking a position send to its employees who have strongly-held beliefs on the opposite side of the issue?

Both sides threatened to mobilize voters against me. The threats really had the opposite effect.

We need to shine more sunlight on the corruption in how radio stations choose songs. An agreement behind closed doors between the FCC and the big radio companies is exactly the opposite of that.

You can just wait long enough and someone else will have an opposite opinion.

We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.

Tonight, we celebrate the contribution made by two Latinas from opposite ends of the programming spectrum: news and drama. Be it fact or fiction, we know that our reality -- Latino images and stories -- is often bypassed,

The opposite opinion is that we're probably too harsh, and that I can accept. Often defendants say I am too harsh, often defense attorneys argue about the charges I bring, that I'm sued, too. That I expect and am ready to confront.