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With the tournament sold out, great weather and a great field, it's not surprising that were experiencing some delay.

We have a lot of competition now. There are cheap rings sold in malls for $3.50 each, but we've made our business on a sized toe ring.

We have always sold out every year. The Banff people do such a great job of selecting films to tour with. They are international and high quality and bring human drama.

We could have sold that property and made a lot of money, selling it to some distribution center that would just mean a lot of trucks going in and out.

We could have sold more of those flashlights. We completely sold out. These flashlights really seemed to appeal to people.

Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop.

We were so strong yesterday that I think there is a natural inclination to sell a little bit off. But this is a dip to be bought rather than to be sold into.

We were sold this idea because it would save money. Now we're spending a million dollars just so no one's feelings get hurt.

We were sold out prior to Ivan. Then four buyers dropped out, and we gave them back their money. And we've got some people who bought lots and don't know when they will build.

We were sold a bill of goods, and the buck will stop well short of the president's desk,

Today, the FDA sent a clear message that all candies sold in the United States, regardless of their country of origin, must meet the same, stringent safety standards.

Tickets sold for both Thanksgiving and Christmas are ahead of where they were last year, so it looks like people have tried to book early to beat some of the price increases, ... A key message for customers would probably be to book now for the holidays and not delay to avoid further price increases as the airlines' inventory gets short.

Ticket sales have been absolutely amazing.. we've sold over 1.3 million tickets more than any other commonwealth games by a long long way.

Yeah I've heard so many great things about it. I went to see it on Saturday but it was sold out. So...

We never had any expectations for our first album, so I don't know why we should start now. We hope that we at least sell the same amount we sold of our last album. If it's more than that, great. We're on an independent label so we're not afforded the same things that major label bands are. We don't have the same outlets available to us, but we have different outlets that work for us that don't work for major label bands.

Unlike the farmers in 'AIDS villages' who sold blood, these people are very spread out and don't know each other. They only slowly find out they are HIV positive and that there are others like them.

The problem is, everyone knows how the Super Bowl works. Everyone knows they're going to be sold out.

We haven't been sold on the necessity of this,

The only responsible action would be to stop treating animals as commodities to be bought, sold and traded, to cease building amusement attractions that exploit animals, but instead focus on protecting and promoting animals in the wild.

The practice of shaving makes its first appearance in the Bible in connection with the story of Joseph, who as a young man was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt, where he was subsequently imprisoned on false charges.

The quality sold in the amusement business did not measure up, and that is how we got into the package business with our superior product.

Weapons systems the U.S. sold to the Shah of Iran wound up in the hands of Islamic militants who seized power there in 1979; a comparable scenario in Saudi Arabia is hardly impossible.

We are delighted with this agreement for Campbell to acquire the entire portfolio of brands being sold as a result of the undertakings to the EC.

We are 90 percent sold for 2001, and a substantial portion is sold for 2002.

We are on track to reach our goal of 220,000 units sold in 2000.

We did very well and sold across the board. Furniture appeared to sell especially well at the show. We sold a nice J&E Norton two-gallon bird jug with especially strong blue color. A visitor from California bought all three of our Nineteenth Century schoolgirl samplers. The show is well run and always a pleasure to do.

We are not making money off her son. I have no control of material released or sold prior to his death. The money we have made was when he was still alive.

We are concerned about the possibility that Vista will include software elements which are available separately, either sold by Microsoft or by other software companies.

We plan to offer a significant number of the shares to members of the public. Interest exists there. The shares will be sold this year and next.

We probably sold about 500 tickets overnight and this morning. We didn't get down under 1,000 like we wanted, but it was enough movement that hopefully the momentum will continue. We also heard from a number of our season ticket-holders that were disappointed because they weren't going to be able to get to the game and wanted to watch it on TV.

We probably didn't deserve to be in the game. Olie played so well. We sold him out.

We prefer to give them away than to have them go somewhere where they will be turned around and sold again.

We're kind of traveling gypsy musicians. We stopped paying rent in 1998. We love touring and we love being on the road, and to do what we're doing it would be impractical to have a home anywhere. So, we had a big garage sale, sold everything but the essentials and that allows us to do about 200 shows a year in 45 states and Ireland.

There are over 1,500 tickets sold to the performance, filling the majority of the main floor and grand tier. There are still some good seats available.

We still have a very good core following, and the shows have been almost one hundred percent sold out.

We still believe that dairy products sold should be pasteurized. We believe that to be the safest way to go. However, if the General Assembly seeks to add an exemption, we believe that, number one, the farm should be inspected for safety and cleanliness, and two, the product should be tested to ensure that it is free of pathogens.

Those foreign cars that are being used now will be sold at open auctions and replaced by domestic-made cars,

Yards have always sold homes and they always will.

Wal-Mart's much slower rate of sales growth in November clearly shows this is a matured global business. As supermarket goods continue to increase as a percentage of sales -- and this includes consumables and perishables sold in big volume at Sam's Club -- we will expect to see a persistently slower rate of top line growth.

The property is sold and there will be no more garden center at that location.

Track clubs are a coming phenomenon. There is one in Chicago that is sold out. They are building one in Salt Lake City. There is no reason why New York shouldn't have one.

We were all over them from the start, and Marquette was a tired hockey team at the end. I sold the kids on this all week. I convinced them they could win this game, and they finally believed it. We've worked hard this year and have taken some lumps. But this is the reward for all of that work.

We don't know how these will be sold or the exact structure. ... We have begun marketing these papers today. We have received inquiries already.

We didn't have a lot of success with that first album but we sold a few thousand and we'd done a John Peel session which got some plays.

We began to sell out in the last three or four years. This year, we were sold out at the end of February.

We are not a big company. We sell in New York, London, Paris, and a few other places. Eighty percent of the clothing is sold in Japan.

The demand for seats and other memorabilia from the final season at Busch Stadium has been absolutely tremendous. We have sold out of seats and continue to get calls.

When the prime minister sold his shares, people didn't understand it was a private matter. We were quite off-message at first.

The dead birds are being sent to market to be sold as meat... because people are not sure if the government will assist them.

The fact that they didn't get all the fields sold is evidence that either the trust or the terms are not what (investors) are comfortable with.

The fact that Terry was directing the movie sold it to me,

The expert who the client will have seen when the project was sold will tend to only visit most projects occasionally, and often they will be spending their time out selling new projects,

What I told my team after the game was first thing, that I've been a part of some great wins and some great teams. (But) I've never been around a group of guys that sold out for each other like they did in the second half.

We shot 'Dharma & Greg' six blocks from my house for five years. I had a Dodge Durango that I sold after five years, and it only had like 12,000 miles on it. My whole life was within eight square blocks of my house. There was a golf course across the street. In my downtime, I was on the driving range.

Wal-Mart has a box set of Garth Brooks' music that went on sale this fall, and it's my understanding that any future releases will be sold exclusively through Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores. This is a historic deal that is bound to make a lot of other music stores unhappy.

We learned about the agreement reached on Tuesday. Yes, some of us neighbors do feel like we were kind of sold out, and we have been left to fight this on our own.

The real test is what to do the U.S. holding. It would be positive for the share price if they sold it.

There are a lot of guys that have looked fantastic and done a great job, but I'm not sold on anyone until they do it at this level.

There are no tickets left; they sold out. There is no other way to answer that.

We call this The World Is Yours, ... It costs $1 million. Other jewelers thought I was losing my mind making it, that I'm going to get stuck with it. But already we have sold four of them.

We only sold a portion because, upon the advice of the World Bank, those carbon credits that we are still entitled to may be sold at a higher price later,

While some of my other books have sold more widely, Midnight seems to be the most passionately loved. There's something about its secret, rather dark fairy world that appeals very strongly.

We can't wait for the 2006 Pirates baseball season to get started! Sales have been extremely strong this off-season. We've sold 10,000 season tickets to date and more and more fans continue to purchase each day.

When I was younger, I would see shea butter being sold on the street, and I was interested how people were still coating themselves in the theater of Africanism. You see that in dashikis and hairstyles and music.

When I was first writing 'Feed' - which was the first book I published as Mira - I talked about it very openly on my blog, on Twitter, that I was writing this book, and it wasn't until after it was sold that I said 'Mira Grant' wrote this book. And the reason there was really purely marketing-based.

When our daughter was born, a light went on for me - there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn't the dream I was sold on. I'd had enough of it.

When one considers the fact that 2.7 million tickets have been sold and that around 15 million fans applied for tickets on the Internet, the proportion of those prepared to give up their tickets is only in the region of 2 percent.

We would like to have sold more tickets, but we're going to come out all right.

This sale represents the continuation of our Company's strategy to dispose of assets located outside of core markets and provides the opportunity to recycle capital into acquisitions and development in our higher growth markets. We have sold $27 million in properties year to date versus our stated annual goal of $100 million.

When bands got really big and sold a lot of records back in the day and did really well on the road, everyone developed a certain ego. And there's a certain entitlement that comes with that. And it stops people from communicating the way you used to communicate when you were in a band together and it was all for one, one for all.

When I sold my first book, 'A Conspiracy of Tall Men,' it was part of a two-book deal. It wasn't hugely lucrative, but it was enough money for me to quit the paralegal job I had in San Francisco.

Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

This year... when this 80 is booked, we will have sold 100 planes in China, so we are well on our way to achieving the same volume as we did last year.

We didn't expect it at all. We had about 6,300 seats sold on Friday and thought with a strong walk-up that we might trickle past 8,000.

We got here a little too late, and they were all sold out. So we went home without it. This time, I'm getting one.

We believe industry dynamics should improve in 2003, ... more effective measures to stop the flow of illegally sold cigarettes.

With an amazing 96 percent of all Subaru vehicles sold in the last 10 years still on the road today, used Subaru vehicles hold their value and are very much in demand.

There are probably two sporting events in the world that are bigger than the festival in terms of people ... the Olympics and the soccer World Cup, ... The soccer World Cup sold 2.7million tickets last year and we sold 2.6million between all the festivals.

This segment of the market is going gangbusters. We've sold more million-dollar homes in the first three quarters of this year than all of last year.

This segment of the market is going gangbusters, ... We've sold more million-dollar homes in the first three quarters of this year than all of last year.

We have signed an agreement with the regional authorities that the stake will be sold at a public auction.

The paper was sold out before the first copy was printed.

The only thing I'm down on myself is I should have sold it either way. I should have either said, 'No catch,' or, if I did have a catch, that he was out. Which I never said: 'He's out.

The person who sold the semen made money,

There are amazing similarities between Forest Danger and his sire, Forestry . Both horses were extremely fast and both were campaigned by Aaron and Marie Jones. Both are great-looking horses that sold for a lot of money. Forest Danger set a new track record while Forestry set a new stakes record and both were grade 1 winners.

What's important to note here is that a lot of these amendments that have passed around the country the last few years, that they were sold to the public as strictly defining marriage. But many of the amendments don't do just that -- there are far-reaching affects.

We were surprised by the quantity of data that a single one of these Trojans was able to steal... We don't know how many were generated or sold before the system was dismantled, and so the number of companies whose data is now in jeopardy could be very high.

While it's tempting to view the sports car segment increase in price as contradictory compared to its loss in retained value, it is important to understand that the retained value metric is only considering 3-year-old vehicles, while the used vehicle price metric includes all model years sold as used. As such, 1- and 2-year-old vehicles are going to significantly increase the average price.

While I certainly don't have sympathy for the auditors and accountants who sold the shelters, I have perhaps even less sympathy for those who were rolling the dice just to see if they could avoid paying their share of taxes.

While he is in Boise, Vice President Cheney ought to explain why the Bush administration sold out the Idaho sugar industry,

With our new infrastructure, Cole Haan can closely monitor its cost of goods sold and have better control over its bottom line.

Without Gil Reed pushing this facility and the Pine Tree Zone incentives, we would be someplace else. This is a great facility. They have loading docks, they can do our shipping, they have a welding facility, there is plenty of electricity and Gil really sold us on the great work force.

When we needed to find a hippie bookstore that sold secondhand books, I thought of Abandoned Planet (518 Valencia St.), which is right across the street from where I used to live, ... When I was a starving writer-director-actor, I'd go to the Muddy Waters Cafe (521 Valencia St.) every day, buy a $3.50 burrito and eat half for lunch, half for dinner.

When we started, we were renting office space in a garage in West Port. There was no room for manufacturing. I sold the products, mainly custom window coverings. In those days, there was a huge network of people sewing from their homes in St. Louis. It was a cottage industry.

We will have to have poise. You know they are going to be keyed up. You know they have their non-alcoholic champagne on ice. The place is sold out. It's going to be a great atmosphere. We want to have the approach that the pressure is on them.

We've only had a few of these in stock but all of them sold out. Those are priced at 14,000 pesos.

We are expecting a 6 percent increase in homes sold in 2005 over the number sold in 2004. And that may be a low estimate. It may be more like 7 (percent) or 8 percent.

We are excited about entering the luxury automobile segment in the rapidly growing Latvian market as we have experienced 86% growth in cars sold in our existing business last year. It is an honor to represent BMW, one of the leading luxury automotive brands in the world. We believe that by combining the execution capabilities of BM Auto and Baltic Motors' management with the recognized BMW brand, BM Auto is well positioned to capitalize on the Latvian automotive market.

Two out of 10 Expeditions we sell are sold in Texas. That's a good reason. It shows them we care about this market as well.

Finally I paid every bill. My plantation in Pennsylvania had been sold and nothing was left to me but my humble talents.