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It's easier for home offices to qualify as a principal place of business now, ... Telecommuters wouldn't be able to claim this, since they are employees, but I'd see this being useful for anyone whose primary work is selling products and traveling outside their home to meet clients.

It's a strategic relationship. I haven't talked with Max yet, but it's a useful alliance that we still want to do.

It's as much about good communication and trust as anything, but we're pleased with how it's come along and you saw the value of it last weekend when we were able to keep a pretty useful Canterbury side at bay.

It's a useful early indicator of where the hot money is going to go that day,

It's a useful continuation of working lives as opposed to just simply giving money away.

It's a two-way street when you give somebody information. We don't take information to the players unless we think it will be very useful to them. As a player, you have to do something about it and take a step forward and try to make some of the adjustments that are being suggested.

It was the less risky and economically sensible approach to take. Taking a phased approach was also useful in learning lessons from a virtual pilot.

It's a very useful service because it allows people to travel to Saint John for hospital appointments, to shop, to attend UNBSJ, various other things and come back in the same day.

It's a very useful image. Blair is smaller and scurrying along behind Bush, trying to keep in step.

It's a very useful and necessary effort to begin reflection on how we are going to handle the diplomacy of the endgame.

It's a complement to it. For the countries in Kyoto, it will be a very useful tool for them to meet their obligations.

It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy.

It's a free collection of world-class, useful software put together in a convenient installation manner.

It might be at such an astronomical price that it won't be a very useful service.

It might be useful for someone at home or traveling, but not at the mosque. Everyone here already knows what time prayers are.

It's a really great thing for volunteers to have. It makes them more useful during a disaster. When I went to Mississippi for Katrina, there were times down there when they didn't have enough drivers.

It really helps if you know your subject matter immediately. I find that enormously useful because then you can concentrate on all the usual novelistic things - the character, the plot and so forth - and you don't have to spend an enormous amount of time learning another trade, essentially.

It's useful when a problem comes up that you have no experience of. You then have somebody you can refer to, ... The workplace would be a far nicer place if people said 'thank you' a bit more often.

It's useful to validate specifications as they go through standardization.

It's useful to think of the imagination as an aspect of the body because it seems to have processes of its own that are obscure to us.

It's useful to remember where we were in 2003 with liberation. In 2003, Iraq had the highest debt ... as a share of gross domestic product in the world. And today about two-thirds of that debt has been written off as a result of the support by the international community.

It's useful to raise admission standards, but we need to be sensitive. We need to make sure IU stays a diverse place and stays a place that rewards people who come here to work hard.

For at least another hundred years we must pre­tend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

It's one of those balancing acts, those judgment calls where you want to provide your constituents with information that may be useful to them, but you try to do that without being criticized as being too political.

It's a local company with some useful code, engineers who obviously have skills and background and experience in the type of systems management that HP has. We don't know the terms of the deal, but it probably was not all that expensive. It looks to be a good deal for HP.

It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

It looks like this could be a very cost-effective technology. It could be useful in automotive applications where components need to be cheap - for example infrared lasers that monitor the gases and petrol in the engine.

It makes for such a powerful, ongoing useful information resource community.

It's hard to get through a day without a child feeling some type of frustration. Yet, parents typically do such a poor job teaching children how to express anger in a healthy way. I provide parents with many useful tips for learning to prevent and manage a child's anger.

It's pretty rough, I just wish they would leave me alone. I'm just trying to be a useful citizen. I've got to live with it.

It's up to you to decide if you want to commit to being part of the community. We want to be useful whether you choose to be a part of the community or not.

Despite a lack of hints from the company, we believe it is useful to hypothesize on new initiatives Apple may have in the works and take a look at which initiatives, if any, make sense for the company, ... We believe Apple has a foundation in place to be the hub for consumer digital media.

Does the difficulty in ensuring each and every employee of such companies is not tied to insurgent groups and not potentially providing useful targeting information to these groups argue against continuing to employ such firms unless there is no alternative?

The new Sprint-cable partnerships will forever transform what used to be merely a cell phone into an indispensable third screen in customers' lives, ... With the convergence of technologies and capabilities accelerating, we will create personalized content, useful innovative applications and easy-to-understand navigation required by consumers.

It's much harder to argue that there's a useful role for (the California institute) if there are no restrictions on the NIH.

It's mostly been a fun project. But I've also heard from Korea scholars and people at think tanks who say it's a useful research tool.

It's not as if we intend to introduce some major shift in approach. It's rather that we will assess in 2007 whether, in light of the cases that we've been dealing with, it would be useful to further clarify the principles.

Economic policymakers face enormous uncertainty. Economic models provide a set of useful tools to frame future outcomes, but as we were reminded repeatedly during our efforts to forecast the economy in 1974 and 1975, models can go off track in myriad ways, ... Objective and thorough analysis ... is the most effective counterweight to this challenge.

The big pharmaceutical companies are set up to handle blockbusters with their massive sales forces, and I don't think they have done anything to really address this future in any useful way.

The biggest hurdle is those that have relevant information may be afraid to come forward, ... PC makers may have a lot of useful information, but if they rely on Microsoft, there may be some reluctance to come forward. Hopefully, this will show the government is serious and those companies will go forward.

Still, there may be technologies that are very useful in identifying people over the age of 18 because they have all kinds of identifying characteristics, while those same tech may be useless for 12- and 13-year-olds.

Students will learn skills that are useful in all majors. Students majoring in communications and organizational development could really benefit from this course.

Not that a B.F.A. in theater arts has been the most useful degree one could ever acquire.

The ballot is only useful as a screen from arbitrary power.

That is particularly useful for those creating service and training manuals, online brochures, and catalogues.

Targeted ads, I think, are useful because I don't want to see all the crap. I'm not interested in buying a Mercedes Benz, but I am interested in buying a new MacBook Air. So if organizations like Facebook can actually make the ads more relevant to me, if they know what I am interested in, I have no problem with that.

It is the task of theologians to establish the limits of justice and injustice regarding the intrinsic goodness or wickedness of an act; it is the task of the observer of public life to establish the relationships of political justice and injustice, that is, of what is useful or harmful to society.

It's a model that's very useful for a very narrow set of U.S. interests.

It's been very useful for those students who are shy and may not participate in face-to-face classroom discussions.

I've learned a lot, ... a lot more than I thought I would. Some of the hazardous material information is even useful in the hospital's day-to-day business.

No man of honor, as that word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste and temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, or to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his

No, I'm not leaving the electric violin to Vanessa Mae. I'm still playing quite a lot of electric stuff. But only when there is a need for it. I like rocking out. And the electric violin is useful for many other things. It's useful for really good effects and it's also great for rocking out, with the drums and the bass, get into really heavy stuff. At the moment I'm not really doing any projects involving that thing.

nominee with relevant non-judicial experience would bring a different and useful perspective to the court.

It was a complicated situation for us as we had many players injured. But it was a useful match.

It's very useful for people with high-profile jobs.

I wanted to set this up as I think it would be a useful exercise for councillors from the local areas discuss issues of concern with the gardaí, ... It would also be useful for the gardaí as there are areas where our views would prove useful to them.

I wanted to write a beautiful book that was useful to other people who find themselves in the same position.

I want to be able to take a laptop computer and make another laptop computer, not a speed bump. The dream with our technology is to be able, at low cost, to recover the polymer in its originally useful form.

It will be useful to the world at large in addition to the markets because that will give a feel for the first time about how, in general, the world thinks Iraq is going.

The U.S. have taken useful steps ... there is much more to do.

The vehicles are replaced based on the useful life cycle of the equipment.

They are not toys. They are very useful tools that save you a lot of money.

They are not suspects, but we would like to talk to them - they do have some information that can be useful to us,

They are keeping the source code, (which) means that their product becomes wrapped in it and encapsulated, and in a sense (this is) going against the ideals and benefits of what made Linux useful to them in the first place.

They were toast, pretty much done. Most of the harbors were at the end of their useful life.

These pills can be useful pills, but they don't match up to the hype we've had that they really cure the illness.

These two companies give a must-have lesson for all retailers. Shaper Image has seen sales jump in the double-digits because they keep innovating and offering new, fun and useful products.

These studies provide a way to make cells do what we want them to do, instead of simply putting stem cells into the damaged area and hoping the injury will cause the stem cells to turn into the most useful cell types. It really changes the way we think about this problem.

A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.

The new contract would be more useful for hedging purposes.

It's really useful to talk these things through informally, without commitment, without being reported as your government position. I think the mutual understanding is growing, even if the mutual acceptance is not necessarily growing.

At this time, it's probably most useful to encourage that discussion to continue rather than weighing in on every possible proposal.

The message was certainly delivered in forceful terms that this was certainly not a useful thing.

The Chinese understand that slave labour, which they thrive on, is not productive or useful to the economy if it is only extracted by torture.

I'm giving him a Useful Pot to Keep Things In.

I'm going to be practicing my Chinese before I go. Probably just in basic conversation around the house. I hope to gain useful insight that I can bring back to my peers and community. I want to be able to share my knowledge about China with the students in my school and tell them about everything I learned.

I'm disappointed and I am surprised. I think it would have been useful to have an extraordinary category. Now it's going to be easier to make it sound like all this indirect stuff was a result of the attack.

I loved my time in Congress, but people who spend all of their time planning to run for office have very few useful skills to deploy when they finally get there.

I'm sure there are going to be a lot of people who will be sad to see the U. Brew go. It's not just a place to get coffee; it's been extremely useful for small concerts and films.

Information can be useful if you can do something with it. If your commute goes across the American Legion Bridge, there aren't that many other options -- you can go through downtown Washington or you can swim. We don't recommend swimming.

In his current assignment, Mike has led the team that has helped GM gain back market share in California. He's built strong relationships with dealers and employees in creating marketing initiatives, all of which should prove especially useful as we focus on additional key markets where we need to improve GM's performance.

In basketball, you want the players to be at the right level of arousal. If they are pretty highly aroused, it is useful for doing certain things like jumping, running fast, playing intense defense. But when you step up to the foul line, you want to pull all of that down and get calm.

I'm not an extreme tree-hugger. I do believe trees grow and are a useful agricultural product that can be harvested without damaging the ecology and wildlife.

I mean, we're here to try and do something useful and help keep the Internet something fun and useful for us and have a good time while we're at it.

I like 'nerves'! I like the word 'migraineur'. I like the word 'madness'. These are OK words. The 19th century had a very handy term: 'neurasthenic'. I think that's a very useful word. We all know what that means: it means extra-sensitive.

I like scoring goals and creating plays, but I think I would be more useful at midfield, ... My brother always played defense, but last year, they asked him to play forward because we needed help there and we had a lot of good defenders.

I like science fiction movies, but I think they are useful for giving us ideas and I think science fiction is very good at giving ideas.

Improvisation has to do with exploring something like two brothers in a room together. You find out things about situations by discovering the things that they aren't saying. It's a way to explore scenes. Sometimes it's more useful than others, but it's always there to see if there's anything that you might improve.

If nuclear technology is useful for the United States, isn't it useful for other countries? We do not accept global nuclear and scientific 'apartheid'.

I'm happy I've been all my life with my nation, was respected and honored by my nation, could be useful and help my people.

I lived in Shetland for a short while in the seventies and have been visiting ever since, so I have lots of useful contacts!

I live by Edith Wharton's rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.

If there's a way to solve the problem of actually getting all that information together and setting it in the hands of somebody who can make a useful decision, then it's a promising possibility.

If people want to believe that our ancestors were riding around on dinosaurs or that the protracted, increasing, and devastating warming of the Earth is just nature doing its thing - I guess I feel I have more useful battles to fight.

I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities.I failed history.

If you have an aging bunker, you might be able to get a few more years of useful life out of it.

In the last 15 years, 70 to 77 percent of all parents with children under 13 find this ratings system very useful to fairly useful ... in helping parents make their own decisions.

In the first stage of boyhood, he is led from ignorance and 'innocence' into the world of knowledge, when he is accepted as a pupil by a Guru (Preceptor). After that, he has to serve the Guru and obey him, without feeling burdened and bound. In the second stage of youth, he has to share with society the means and measures for its progress and security; he has to start earning for his livelihood and spending his income with intelligent care; he has also the duty of providing examples to those younger than himself and guide them into socially useful paths. At the same time, he must follow the footsteps of elders and learn from them lessons for his own advancement.

Insistance upon specifics at this stage, given the history of the relationship, may not be a very useful negotiating tactic.

I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.