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We had to go to our passing game tonight. They did a great job of shutting our running game down.

This team has won a lot of games by scoring early. Our plan was not to let them score in the first 15 to 20 minutes. Our defense shutting them down took them out of their game plan.

This will be a very tough game. They've got a quick team. Thomas is probably the Player of the Year in the conference. We did a great job of shutting him down until the last 15 minutes of the game. We'll need that again. It's tournament time. Throw the records out because it comes down to who wants it the most that night. We need quick spurts and quick transitions. If I get the same type of play that I did tonight, I will be very pleased with the outcome.

You have a company that cannot sell its power and customers who are going to have higher prices to pay. That's the price of shutting down the plant. I hope people are happy they can breathe better, but nothing comes cheaply in energy.

This terrible tragedy is certain to severely dampen consumer confidence and hence have the possibility of shutting down the consumer.

We had talked about matching up with him. We did a good job of shutting him down in the third quarter. In the last few minutes, he started getting loose and getting baskets. But that's what great players do.

We are breaking the IOS functions into separate units so that a software upgrade or patch can be added without shutting down the entire switch. Simplifying the software certification and deployment processes is a big benefit for our customers.

We feel with the game plans Tim comes up with, we go into every game capable of shutting down any runner.

We expect the first wave of the epidemic to go for eight to 12 weeks; then there is usually a second peak - how are we going to exist in those eight weeks without shutting the whole society down is a difficult question.

We don't want to shut anyone off. If a customer lets us know they have difficulty, we can work with them. Shutting off a customer is a losing proposition for both sides.

We did a great job of shutting their team down. Greg Fargo played well, but their goalie (Andrew Gallant with 32 saves) kept the game close.

Brian continues to be one of the best defensive catchers in the game, shutting the running game down. Offensively, his on-base percentage and slugging percentage continue to improve every single year. His strikeouts continue to be reduced every year.

Brewer did a great job of taking away our strength, which is our two inside kids. They did the best job so far this year of shutting those kids down.

Brittany Lumsden did an outstanding job of shutting down their scorer Megan Foy. Overall it was a real gutsy performance by our team, going two goals down and then coming back against a good team for the win.

Everyone was talking about Moss, but we knew the real key to beating this team was shutting down Jordan. He gets more touches than anybody else, and if they were able to run the ball and control the clock that way, it would have made our job a lot harder.

Every coach likes turnovers because you can get easy baskets. That turned out to be a huge advantage for us tonight. On offense we didn't worry so much about the posts but focused more on shutting down the outside shots.

As soon as you start, in a blanket fashion, shutting down public access to an entire category of records -- all financial records -- you're going to undo that public confidence in the courts.

At this point in the season, it's the second half of conference play. The good thing about our group is we're motivated, we're playing good soccer, we've been shutting teams down and, like we've been doing all season, we're creating good chances.

Emotionally our tank wasn't full yesterday. But we rebounded today with a lot of energy, a lot of jump and I thought we did a good job of shutting things down defensively. Bobby made a couple of saves when he had to and I thought we were strong throughout our whole lineup.

There's nothing like having talent. ... Our draft was good. Free agency was good. The maturity of the kids who were already here is starting to grow. And it blended together. I could just see from watching them practice ... it was going to be a much better defense. Did I anticipate shutting out the Jets? No, but I thought we would slow them down pretty good.

Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in.

I see the trade gap stabilizing, but it's hard to see it narrowing unless you get the U.S. consumer shutting down.

I've been working with these people for a long time and got to know them well. They announced that they were going to be shutting down operations and I saw it as a great opportunity.

I've never heard of this happening, ... Intentionally shutting down the Internet. That's news.

It was tough shutting the door tonight. And we still picked up a half-game against Anaheim on its day off.

It was tough shutting the door tonight, ... And we still picked up a half-game against Anaheim on its day off.

Raising profit thresholds are in line with the regulator's pledge to help good-quality companies raise capital and upgrade market fundamentals. Investors will be glad to see the market shutting its doors to poor performers.

Prices are high, but without those price increases we would not have seen the 20 percent decrease in industrial gas demand that has occurred over the past five years. One by one, industrial gas users are either shutting down or switching to substitute fuels.

Private sector users have the same security and critical operations issues as government workers. Shutting down the RIM network for anyone seems like an extreme measure.

Prior to this they didn't have much flexibility; they were shutting down high cost assets, but didn't have the financial flexibility to do profitable projects like reducing energy costs.

Our defense just played outstanding again. They've been really on a roll, shutting people down both run and pass.

Our defense has been awesome. They've been shutting people down and doing everything right.

Our defense did a great job of shutting them down but our offense really helped our defense tonight because they (Gladstone) didn't have the ball,

People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down.

No strike is imminent. The only people talking about shutting down the ports are with the PMA.

After the first half we just wanted to keep on shutting them out. It was such an awesome feeling.

Now keep in mind, this network is not yet profitable for Viacom. So by shutting down the network, actually cash flow estimates will go up,

Defense is our main focus. Our game is getting (defensive) stops and shutting people down and getting the win. Coach Doc talks about defense every day in practice, about how important it is. And we work on it every day.

Coming into this game, No. 24, (Kenney) Griffin was averaging like 22 points in his last three games. I think we did a good job shutting him down.

The brokerage industry shutting down for one day seems to buy some time to deal with the year 2000 problem. But in the scheme of things, and how far away it is from us right now, it really doesn't buy them a whole lot. As a matter of fact, it could cause some trading bubbles and other things that could load their systems even more.

That takes the pressure off a player like Abby. It helps her relax and just play. It actually helps her get more scoring opportunities because teams can't just rely on shutting her down. We have other players who contribute offensively.

You're essentially shutting down someone's right to run for office. It's done only if there are strong indications that, in fact, the campaign funds are being used for something blatantly illegal.

This is one of Andrew Carnegie's original libraries. It opened in 1902. It has always been a library and by the 1980s, when the steel mills were shutting down, we were able to hang on by the skin of our teeth. From 1985 to the early 1990s, we were struggling to keep the doors open.

The utility companies are very good at not shutting people off during the winter, but we're seeing that people are going to be facing huge debt at the end of the winter.

They're trying to move people to their paid subscription sites. They are shutting down services for which people are not paying and getting a good bit of P.R. out of it.

They've been turning off dams, tearing them out, shutting down nuclear reactors, preventing new utilities from being sited, ... We as their neighbors should not have to pick up their tab. It's just really a question of fairness.

They stunt and blitz a lot, so it's a matter of shutting down some of those stunts up front. I think if we can stop some of the stunts there should be some holes to run in.

They (Miami) had a tough game last night in Washington and we had to try and take advantage of that. We did a good job in the second half, particularly in the fourth quarter shutting down the paint.

They don't seem to have a plan for replacing the generation that they've committed to shutting down.

They had a nice run to begin the second half so I told the guys they had to tighten up the defense. From that point on, we did a nice job of shutting down their shooters.

They are shutting down that quarry. They have ceased operations there.

There is of course the direct impact of the shutting down of the U.S. economy, the loss of several hundred thousand jobs at least, and reduced output production in the Gulf,

This is the nuclear option. Actually, the nuclear option would be shutting down the plant. This is the neutron bomb.

They're not getting infected, but they're still shutting down.

A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light.

The most common mistake I would hear is people being excessively loud, and doing it with their door open so you could hear them all the way down the hall. Shutting your door kills a great deal of noise.

It's just a testament to how level-headed he is. He didn't get upset because he was not starting. But when he got called on he played unbelievable. He takes pride in shutting the other team's best post player down.

It seems that much of their offense goes through her. We have to concentrate on shutting her down.

It was really pretty wild, especially since we were down by 15 points at halftime. We just played better defense in the second half. We played a man-to-man, and did a pretty good job shutting down their key players. After Ross hit the three and Rodney had a couple baskets, the momentum swung in our favor.

For a while, all the mines were shutting down and now it seems like there is a change in it. And they're reopening it and we need something here.

It's one thing to support the Wright Amendment. It's another thing to support shutting down your home-district airport. What about the people who work at Dallas Love? What about the people who travel from Dallas Love? What about the companies that operate out of Dallas Love? Her decision smacks of heavy-handed government at its absolute worst.

It's like shutting the barn door after the horse escaped,

It's become a little bit of a pattern with franchises that were struggling. I'm not entirely surprised with the shutting down of the Houston franchise.

It's not a question of shutting him (Thornton) down. It's a question of playing against him hard and our guys have played against him hard, and we played against him hard.

It's not a question of shutting him down, because you know he's going to get his shots. You just want to force him into terrible angles to give your goalie a chance. You can't put Jagr out there eight times on the power play and expect to kill it off every time.

The biggest thing is shutting him down through the middle and keeping him to the wall, and trying to keep the puck along the boards. It's going to be a challenge.

The bigger the game, the bigger he played. I mean, come on, shutting out a team like Gaither twice during the playoffs? That's almost unheard of.

That hurt us obviously, because at the end of the game he would have been the guy playing the pick-and-roll at the top. He's our best guy at getting over screens and shutting that down.

It's better and easier on the transmitter to be on the air 24 hours a day rather than shutting it down at sign off time and then turning the thing on again in the morning at 6 am, its much easier this way.

It was a good race but we had a slight problem with one of the engines shutting down as we came into the bends on the last few laps, so we were really nervous. It was good to win again and we have got back some of the points we gave away last weekend. ... Because of the engine problem we had to keep going wide on the corners with Steve having to keep the revs up. We've had a few problems this weekend so I was a little nervous before the start of the race, but we got the result we needed.

It was a defensive battle throughout. Our defense did a good job of shutting them down with some really tight man-to-man.

They did a great job shutting down Alexa.

They did a great job of shutting down what we usually do and it took us a quarter to adjust. We played them even the last three quarters after the slow start. I was proud of them.

They were shutting down streets and had helicopters flying overhead. I didn't get to meet her, there was so much security and Secret Service.

They were very committed to shutting down the guard play in the first half. It exerts a lot of energy trying to chase those guards around the perimeter. We just had to stick in there and get our posts some looks and get them involved.

They (Hunter) did a pretty good job of shutting down our guards. So we just started passing it to the post and burned them with 16 points in the paint.

It was just a gut-it-out type of game. A lot of our players had a gut-check tonight. Reed did a great job of shutting us down inside.

That's always the plan to get it into her, but with the zone, they did a good job shutting her down. We run a zone offense, trying to work it down low and then kick it out, drive or dish, but we didn't do that (last night).

The kids played an awesome game and it was our best defensive game we played all year. It was a great team effort in shutting down their high powered offense.

The key to shutting down an offense is to shut down their receivers. If you shut down the passing game, their offense really doesn't have anything.

The Fed is simply stopping at neutral; it's not shutting down a growth cycle. That's great for the market in 2006.

The choice was between shutting down service or delaying service, because the recovery operation would have blocked the yard, too. So we decided to wait until after the morning rush to do the job.

The center of New Orleans is certainly not protection of farmland, so the factor of safety was incredibly low. We're talking about thousands of families without homes and shutting down a commercial infrastructure that's pretty darn important to the United States.

I mean, you're talking about shutting an interstate down for four or five hours... it could have been several days had it gotten to that point.

I left some balls in the middle of the plate again, in situations that you can't, ... I let them feel like they were in that game the whole way and not shutting the door is not something I'm accustomed to.

I know that by shutting these sites down, Fox is alienating the fans and the viewers, and like I said, the 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' Internet fan base is extremely devoted.

I knew it was going to happen. They did a great job having two or three guys around me all night and it was very difficult to get my shot off. They really were just concentrating on shutting me down tonight.

If you discover it, it won't let you get rid of it by just shutting it off,

If you knock out two to three refineries with a category 4 or a category 5, and you hit them head on, you'll feel the impact immediately, and it would a while before the markets calm down. The impact of this could be worse than Katrina in terms of shutting down refineries.

In this league, you've gotta hang in there. You're going to face a good pitcher like that. We were just lucky to get a couple runs at the end. He got ahead of us, and was shutting us down. Maybe that's where some of the experience comes in; when one part of our team is down, another part rises a little bit.

I just got blind-sided. That was the biggest thing. Nobody really had an inclination of it shutting down. Everything looked to be in order. The timing was wrong and the way it was handled was wrong. You just pick the pieces up and you run with them.

I hope not, but I think he is. In a short tournament like that, goaltending is huge. He's one of those goalies who can get in other people's heads. If he starts shutting you down after two periods you start thinking, and he's really great that way. He can get in your head for sure.

In scouting George Mason, they had been shooting 33 percent on their 3-pointers all year and as much as 42 percent. We knew we had to control their perimeter shooting. I thought we did a great job of shutting them down and keeping them off-balance.

If you see a screen go down, or the child shutting down the computer, something might be up.

He sounds surprisingly good, strong, like he had gotten some of his fight back. I think just shutting the engine down for a couple of days has helped him immensely.

But we are absolutely not shutting our doors, ... Everybody's very willing to help.

George really looked after me, ... After I left the band, I was completely isolated. It was like being on a very crowded street and then getting into a car and shutting the door. I was lonely, and he showed me so much warmth.

If I have to make the team on my vertical jump, my long jump or my running ability, I don't like my chances. I don't plan, unless my arm falls off, on getting this close to 300 wins and then shutting it down.

I could just see, from watching practice against our offense, it was going to be a much better defense, ... Did I anticipate shutting out the Jets? No. But I thought we could slow them down a bit because we can all run. They can all run. I think the blitzing packages kept them off balance a little bit.

I don't believe in shutting down practices just to win meets. Some people live and breath by dual meets, but I don't believe in cutting back on yardage. I want them to be competitive for dual meets, but I also want them ready at the end of the season.