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We believe Europeans' striving to have their own forces to ensure their security and to eliminate crisis situations is well founded, and are prepared to act together with them in these matters,

What we're striving to do is focus not just on the Buffalo Bills but on all the small market teams.

We're trying to do what the Patriots have done. We've got a long way to go, but those guys know how to win. They've been there. They've done that. That's what we're striving to do.

The partnership with MoneyGaming provides our users with a unique and sophisticated gaming experience. MGN Digital is constantly striving to offer the very best in online entertainment and we felt that it was essential to partner with a skills gaming company that could deliver a wide range of exciting products and greater opportunities to win high stakes.

The president's striving for cooperation should in no circumstances be regarded as a demonstration of weakness,

Without a (an executive) director, we don't have much. That's what we've been striving for for the whole year.

Unfortunately an apology, no matter how heartfelt, just doesn't carry enough potency in a situation like this to bring any real comfort or amend any of the wrong. I understand completely that certain actions have certain consequences. . . . But after considering my case, perhaps there might be a clear basis for striving to seek a merciful course within the bounds of justice.

But I've gotten very used to winning in a fun way and playing great tennis. That's what I'm striving for, at the same time as having to be happy getting through an ugly win.

We've been looking forward to this since we started playing in the summer. This is what we've been striving for. All the running, all the lifting, all the conditioning - this is what we worked for.

You cannot separate the two entirely. Sport is about competition, and the striving of individuals to be the best. It is all about standing standards.

We've had a lot of guys thrown into roles they weren't accustomed to, and when you do that they may play well one night but then struggle the next. What were striving for is to get that consistent effort night in and night out. When we don't show up mentally, it shows on the scoreboard.

We're striving to clean up the process. It's a compromise that everyone is frustrated with. I'm sure we're going to have some pretty heated debates about it.

We're striving to be more consistent with our decisions. People should be able to know what to expect when they come to the commission. Before, the only thing the commission was consistent about was inconsistency.

We all help each other out. We help critique work. It gives you ideas to think about. You're always striving to get better. This is always staffed by other artists who can talk about your art and you.

The operators are striving to give users a better mobile data experience; having to insert a card and install software is a hassle for some users, and often a barrier to adoption.

We want to form one unit for the future. That means we're striving to have a mix of already successful riders and young talents hungry for success. We're getting very close to that goal with the team that we've assembled up till today.

We've been striving to make this for quite a while,

We controlled the tempo with our hitting, and that's all we've been striving for is to be consistent. We don't have a weakness on this team as far as a hitter.

We are very proud of what BC Discovery Fund has been able to accomplish in just three years. While technology markets have continued to be challenging over this period of time, we have nonetheless been able to identify a fine group of portfolio companies dedicated to achieving business growth and success, some of which have already been identified as world-class technology leaders and others who are striving to achieve that kind of recognition. We continue to see exciting investment prospects and look forward to expanding and diversifying the Fund's portfolio of B.C.-based technology companies.

We are striving to increase productivity to fight spiraling dollar costs.

We are striving to better meet our customers needs. Our research team is focused on designing a new wind turbine that will not only be one of the most powerful in the world, but sets new standards in efficiency, reliability, and cost of energy as well.

We are striving for perfection, and that's our goal. In our business -- the luxury business -- if you are not 100 percent satisfied, we do not deserve your money.

We are striving ever more to globalize our curriculum. We are seeking to get more international students and more international involvement in the advisory boards.

Bill is striving for common ground reducing the number of unintended pregnancies, getting to a place where there are fewer and fewer and fewer abortions. One of the great things about campaigning is you get to define and redefine yourself, and that's what Bill Ritter is doing right now.

As the pool of highly qualified candidates shrinks, employers are striving to make themselves more attractive to candidates. Strategies include expanding benefits, addressing the work/life balance issue and increasing salaries to attract and retain top talent.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.

Each year, we're striving to make smarter, safer, better products.

There should be a democracy of voices in literature. There are people who live with a kind of striving and with a certain kind of tenderness - it's not an unusual thing - and maybe that's not written about enough.

I spent the first 12 years of my life growing up in Singapore. Back then, in the early '80s, it was still a tropical island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula striving to shine on the world stage.

I see nothing (in proposed regulations) for people striving for higher level of standards,

The world we are striving for must be a civilized one in which all nations enjoy the same benefits of the scientific and technological revolution.

The work ethic of this group is very good and they are always striving to improve.

The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against fundamentalism.

Seeking means to have a goal; but finding means to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.

Radisson is quickly earning a reputation as a leader in the global hospitality industry by striving to achieve total guest satisfaction and keeping attune to the needs of today's independent-minded frequent traveler who desires to have some control over their hotel experience. And that is evident in the amenities and service we offer at the Radisson University Hotel.

Stuff was a lot more in sync this time, and guys were firing off the ball. We're striving for no mistakes.

Once you come to Texas, you automatically get that feeling that you're striving for excellence.

Once you come into Texas, you automatically get that feeling that you're striving for excellence. Once you put on that burnt orange, you're playing for your school.

During my campaign, people of my age and younger said consistently that they would not vote because their votes simply no longer matter and because no government or member of Parliament cared a whit about their problems and their striving for employment.

Coming on the eve of that country's congressional and presidential elections, the waiver decision is intended to lay the groundwork for increased future cooperation and to support those in Colombia who are striving to strengthen the rule of law and buttress their embattled democracy,

As everybody has wished for a long time, I'd like to see higher and better uses in that part of the community. That's what we're striving for.

The brain is big in every sport, ... Andre has become a swollen brain out there. He doesn't go for winners on every ball. That's what Andy is striving to do. That's what we are striving for. He's like a piece of clay right now. I don't think it's good thing at any sport if you're too good at 21 or it's too easy. You have to keep working and keep improving and he can do that. He's 21 and he's getting better.

Alas! We are ready to commit a great sin by striving to slay our kinsmen because of greed for the pleasures of the kingdom.

You're always striving for the pollsters to translate into an excellent spring. But there are seven or eight teams in the SEC that can honestly challenge for (the conference), so it should be pretty exciting.

This going to be a tough weekend but the players are striving to improve all the time and a win is possible. It just shows that the players want to keep on growing.

This is about striving to be more environmentally friendly.

They're trying to do a lot of different things to provide for a variety of needs out there. They've had mixed success. But there's a lot of creativity and they're striving to capture more advertisers.

There isn't anything we are striving to attain, but we want to be able to play a string of two-night stands instead of our staple one-night stands.

A budget should be judged by whether it creates a foundation for the success of American working families striving to buy a house, or to send their kids to college, or to save a little for retirement and, if they're lucky, a vacation.

It's almost as if this new televised tragedy has brought back the fragility we felt on Sept. 11 and undermined our striving for a sense of security.

It's always nice to be No. 1, but the something that we're really striving for is to be No. 1 at the end of the season. That's really all that matters. We're really just focused on conference play right now.

The numbers don't surprise us. The rising cost of energy is an issue no one is pleased with. Customer care is a core value here. We're always striving to do better.

It's so jarring to go from Baghdad to Cambridge, to go from a place where people are fighting and striving and dying to a place where the biggest concern is what kind of cheese to put in your sandwich.

It's simple, ... I'm always striving to do more. Whatever I accomplish, it's not enough. I don't get satisfied. That's not my nature.

Everybody wants to win and had all the ability to win. And I think the push of another teammate of yours is good because you can get slack, you can think you've got it figured out but in order to stay on top you need to keep striving for the best.

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it ... So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.

Tanner is a coach's dream. He works hard, is always striving to improve, and leads by example. Tanner is a rock-steady performer. You know exactly what you're going to get every time he steps on the mat. He will give his very best effort from start to finish.

It's important anywhere. The winning organizations, that's what they have. They have a plan and stick with it. Everybody knows what's going on and knows what to expect. That's what we're striving to get to, I guess.

I walked in the locker room and the girls said, 'We're 3-0 right now in the new season,' and that's our thing - we have three more games, we're taking care of business. We have goals that we're focusing on defensively and offensively, and the girls are really striving for that. I think it's narrowed in our focus a little bit.

They are going to turn a lot of attention to a growth strategy ... striving to meet the investor growth expectations that underlie the stock price.

Things have changed fast, but that's what we've been striving for. We just have to keep pushing ahead.

This is just another way the local Fraternal Order of Police is striving to serve the people of Chilton County.

It's not about the future. The future is for us to be better right now. That's what we're striving for.

Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.

That's always the balance that you're striving to get to. I'm not sure anybody knows exactly. The only people that know exactly are the ones that are undefeated.

I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished.

I'm not striving for fame, that's for sure. I don't particularly like the idea of celebrity. I would like to be successful with my music, so I realise that there's a balance to be made there.

I'm ready to go. I'm really trying to win a championship this year. That's what I'm striving for. There are a lot of new guys and there have been some huge changes, but I think it's all for the best to help this team become a champion.

I'm trying to teach my guys consistency. Consistency is the key to success in the restaurant business. If you come in here tonight and you order the filet mignon, and you come back in a month to find its all different, you're not going to be as happy. You're going to want it to be just as perfect as last time, and that's what we're striving for.

Including college viewing in the national ratings will give our clients a more complete picture of television viewing, particularly among young adults. Nielsen is continuously striving to improve the accuracy and completeness of its measurements. Expanding the National sample to include out-of-home college students is one of many initiatives we are pursuing.

I'm not a real stern person. I'm very sarcastic, joking around 24-7. No one on this team is very serious. In game situations and points where I think we should be at a higher potential I get a little mean. With these girls, it's a little different because I know they're striving their hardest.

I know what it's like to be married and to live in a house with a garden, but it's not something I'm striving for at the moment.

If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest

I'm happy right now but am always striving to do better, ... Today, I can sing with anybody. But I also know it's a gift.

(Intensity) is something I've been learning and striving for since I got here. Coach is always on me about my intensity level. He told me I was talented but I had to pick up my intensity level. In the past, I would often defer. This season I wasn't allowed to do that. He had to stay on me to make sure I bring it every night. Now I'm seeing that all the hard work paid off. Playing hard all the time can be rewarded.

In our ludicrous efforts to 'change' and be perfect, we try to fashion a perfect world for ourselves. We start to imagine that we are actually in control of our world, which is further from reality than an all-parrot moon landing. The universe, our universe, is out of our control. We live on a speck drifting around in an infinite vacuum with countless trillions of other specks. Our world is in a perpetual state of perfect chaos and entropy, with everything falling apart and dying and being born haphazardly. Meanwhile, we try to make life as neat and clean and orderly as a computer research facility, when in fact it is more like a junkyard. It always has been, and it always will be, no matter how much fussing and sweating and striving we do to make it different.

I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a relationship. You don't have to try to explain things. You just know. It's like you're in the band together and striving for the same goal.

In My opinion, yoga is difficult for the one whose mind is not subdued. However, yoga is attainable by the person of subdued mind by striving through proper means.

I guess one of the big things is that it is a unique opportunity and you never know if you'll have another one down the road. One of the things I tell my players, and I include myself in that, is the process of striving for self-improvement. I look at this as a great opportunity for professional development.

By striving to move the Intel-standard PC world towards a 32-bit operating system, new 32-bit applications and friendlier hardware standards, Microsoft Corp. can be compared to a person trying to kick a whale down the beach. What's amazing is that with Windows 95, the whale moved.

For the initial Memory Ride, we had six riders, consisting of mostly family and friends. And last year, 150 riders from all over the country participated in what truly turned out to be a terrific event. This year marks our 10th Anniversary and we are still striving to promote awareness of Alzheimer's as well as help fund research.

The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us.

This is a good road win for us. But it was indicative of how we have played on the road - really good at times and other times not so good. We are striving to find some kind of consistency.

All inherited possibilities and all influences of the body, all environmental influences, including educational application, are perceived, assimilated, digested, and answered by a living and striving being, striving for a successful achievement in h

The idea that you can work hard and save and finally buy something and have it taken from you because somebody else richer can make more money off of that land makes a mockery of what everyone is striving for.

And it was perfect! The new opening kicked it off just in the right way. The voicing of the instruments was perfect. It was an orchestration that could not have been better. All of this just from someone who said, 'This opening is not the sound that I really want to have, so I'm going to add this in to make sure that it's right.' This is the type of thing that's constant when you're working with Wayne--this striving after something that's out there that he's going to be able to bring in and make available to us.

The foundation is just everything. Throughout my childhood, my parents were always behind me in everything I wanted to do. Having the support behind me made me strive and keep striving and just have that no-fear attitude. ... We do everything together.

The Chinese people will develop ourselves by means of striving for a peaceful international environment, and promote world peace with our own development.

The Commonwealth is a vital and positive partnership between countries striving to develop trade relations and promote democracy and human rights, united by shared values.

All of the players are striving to improve on fairways hit, greens in regulation and lowering their putt totals. If everyone shows improvement in those three areas, we will continue to lower our team totals.

The market was striving for newness and someone to bring a new concept and invention. We shook the industry up from the big boys who had had the market to themselves. We got lots of PR, invented products and took a market share.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifest

. . . I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. In my degradation I have not been so degraded but that the sight of you with your father, and of this home made such a home by you, has stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me. Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never to learn the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,And one is striving to forsake its brother.

Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is ''All striving is vain,'' will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.

As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

Striving to be better, oft we mar what's well.