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Toyota wound up with this paradox. They're selling a car meant for young people to older people. It's not where they wanted to be.

You look at the relationship between 50 state sovereigns and the federal government, and the states always come out on the short end of the stick. They've consistently traded autonomy for cash, and they've consistently wound up with neither.

Well, the score says it all, 42-10. It's embarrassing. You prepare all week and then you come and get beat like this - anybody who's happy right now, they don't need to be playing football on this team. National television game, we've got a chance to make a statement. Instead, we wound up getting blown out the way we did. That's embarrassing.

We let a lot of games slip away. We spent a lot of time chasing points, and those points wound up costing us the playoffs.

With all of Constance's juggling of dates over the years, I started out as the youngest, then became her twin and finally wound up as the oldest sister.

We were wound up pretty tight and I think too much intensity kind of got the best of us.

This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region.... He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision.

We had a couple of rough days (against Sidney, Bismarck) and it was nice to heal the wound a little bit. Traditionally Parent's Night gives us a little more because guys know it's their last home dual and you always remember that last match and your final match of your season.

With a single depression fracture at the back of the head, we believed that the only animal capable of inflicting a wound like this was a raptor but we could not prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.

First and foremost, it was a lesson in propaganda. We were wound up, thinking we might be under surveillance, there would be hidden cameras in our hotel rooms, our phone lines would be bugged, they'd go through all our stuff. As Americans, we really aren't allowed to know much about Cuba or the people there.

We were fortunate that we had 140 (singers and dancers) audition. We called back 60 and we wound up with 35. That's a lot of people, and a lot of dancers.

We've had several families contact us, and will be coming in as they run out of resources. And we're getting families who wound up in surrounding counties.

We'll hopefully get this thing wound up in a reasonable time,

This was in June, 1866. Frank wrote for me to come to him at once, and although my own wound was still very bad, I started immediately and stayed with him at the house of Mr. Alexander Severe, in Nelson county, until he recovered, which was in September.

This wound up being a bend-but-don't break game, ... I hate to play like that, but that's what this game became. The opportunity to win was still there, and it came down to, 'Are you going to get it done, or aren't you?'

We spent about a year negotiating with Hollywood. Wound up negotiating real seriously with three studios -- a big one, a medium one and a small one. Every one of them came down to the same thing, control,

We were prepared for a more difficult ride than we wound up with. An S&P 500 of 3 percent is not terrific, but it's not a bad year.

Vibrio vulnificus is a milder bacteria in the same family as cholera that enters the body through a cut, scratch or wound or by drinking or eating something, often shellfish, contaminated with it. It can be treated with antibiotics if recognized early. If evacuees or rescue workers notice a suspicious wound that's red, swollen or tender at the site of infection and is sometimes accompanied by a fever, they should try to get immediate medical care

You have to start periods strong and finish periods strong. All is not lost here. They?re going to continue to keep battling. It?s all part of the learning experience. It?s salt in the wound when you lose, but it?s murder if you don?t learn from it.

Brown has been tremendous all year long, at the beginning, I don't know if he was wound up a little bit or what. He made some great plays down the stretch and he really came through at the end.

And though my brother Sir Thomas Lucas died not immediately of his wounds, yet a wound he received on his head in Ireland shortened his life.

There's no wound deeper than a pen can give, It makes men living dead, and dead men live

The United States has means to wound Latin American countries deeply, chiefly by altering trade policies to cut imports in ways that would throw thousands out of work.

I still don't understand it. Maybe it was because he was wound up.

I started out tight. Everyone was fighting tight. For whatever reason, it wouldn't run on the bottom. If we kept it wound up on the high side, she'd go.

I've been close. So it was fun. With Jason hitting the shots, I said, 'Jason, I need one more.' He said, 'I got you.' But I wound up getting it from RJ. Even better.

I've been blessed. I got to live the American dream when I was coaching, and I continue to live the American dream. Without basketball in my life, I don't know what I would have wound up doing.

The wound was very characteristic of a shark bite. It was pretty much a slam dunk.

The wound is still open but although we can't forget it we must move on.

The science is in. The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.

The same thing is happening to me as happens to people in dreams when they see and feel a wound but can't remember having received it.

The standing of the various parties now is like a big strand of spaghetti all wound around itself. By the time of the elections, everything could look entirely different. That's how fast things change here.

The suspect then left but one of them dropped his cell phone. The victim had a minor stab wound to the neck.

The suspect became angry and began cutting the victim. It appears that she sustained a wound to the top of her head and on her left arm while the victim was attempting to defend himself. She was taken to the hospital, treated and released.

The thing that is eerily reminiscent about all this is you have exactly the same conditions as you had, unfortunately, in America in September. A clear, blue sky, beautiful, spring-like conditions and many, many people out and about. And suddenly, this bizarre sight of this huge building with a gouging wound in the side of it.

I wanted to do what they have at the bank for my house. I wound up with something better.

See that right there from Marcus? That was my worst wound of the night, and it came From Marcus. We jumped into one another, and Marcus' braces caught in my arm.

Ryan did a good job getting it started. I thought we had really good puck movement on that, and it wound up not being a pretty goal, but we'll take it.

Saliva has antibacterial properties. It also has things called nerve growth factor, skin growth factor, histatins which help with wound closure. So when you see an animal licking a wound or even a mom kissing a child's boo-boo, there's some, there's some good science behind why one might do this.

North wound up having a strong program last year. And South-you can't get any better than state champions.

After a long discussion with Mr. Holmes, we finally wound up with, I think, an agreement which will satisfy all parties.

Sparky Lyle threw me a slider, and it wound up in the seats. We won, and it was a memorable moment.

So why must it wound him that the most despairing music is full of beauty? Why must it hurt him and make him cynical and sad and untrusting?

Once you trigger the sexual harassment then it almost always goes to the authorities. Had it been a different category, (the situation) would have wound up differently.

COENOBITE, n. A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness; and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.O Coenobite, O coenobite, Monastical gregarian, You differ from the anchorite, That solitudinarian: With vollied prayers you wound Old Nick; With dropping shots he makes him sick. --Quincy Giles

At some point in my life I hope my mother and I will get together...unfortunately that got dragged out into the public eye. This is a wound that needs to heal slowly and time does that. And we love each other.

A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by a wound to the heart.

As plastic surgeons, we use our general surgery training to help treat initial trauma in the field to save the patient's life or limb. From there, they are transferred to Germany to help them stabilize, clear the infection and allow the wound to heal a bit,

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.

This is a nightmare, and I am not against this development, but there is a right way and a wrong way. To put another development here without looking at traffic calming measurements would be ridiculous; to add insult to an open wound is being irresponsible.

They returned fire and in the process the off-duty member sustained a bullet wound to his chest and died on his way to hospital. One constable was wounded in his back and is serious. The other sustained a flesh wound to his chest and he is stable.

A lot of parents are extremely thankful we're trying to fill a void they'd had in the past. We've been looking for a long time to fill in the gap between regular ed and special ed students, which wound up being our biggest percentage of dropouts.

There were four Pan Am families that were based in Berlin, Germany. We were on the same crew there in 1970 - we all started skiing in Europe and we all wound up moving to Incline, supposedly to ski for a few years - but we lived here ever since." ()

This is the most accurate our team has been since I can remember. It wound up being one of those games you dream about.

There is still something real wrong within the community of police. There is a deeper wound here for this kind of thing to happen. There is a deeper wound that you as a police department must figure out.

At first I didn't have anyone to block, then Skyler came my way and I tried to give the defender a good hit, and wound up giving myself one, ... I'm cool though; all of us will be back for Tennessee.

A superficial gun wound is like saying 'minor surgery' ... It's a little different when a doctor describes it.

A bad wound may be cured, bad repute kills

A bad wound heals but a bad word doesn't

The more someone persists in their innocence, the larger the wound gets in the community. You can't heal in a case like this when the finger is in the wound at the heart of the community ? the way the knife was in the victim.

It was fun watching two of the best go at each other. Unfortunately, three times we wound up on the short end of the stick.

It was fun to see a big crowd and have the fans excited about the season. I think it got everyone wound up for the upcoming season.

It was a single gunshot wound to the head and neck by another.

It's a very unnatural environment to be in, up on a stage. So you put up defenses to hide. Like looking at the ground with your hair in your eyes, or being tightly wound and quite aggressive and uncooperative, as I used to do.

It really wound up being good learning ground for me on how to conduct myself professionally and be part of a great organization.

I took a job with the U.S. Census Bureau. In The Locked Room, the third volume of the New York Trilogy, there's a sequence where the narrator talks about working for the census, and I took this straight from life. As in the book, I wound up inventing people. Kind of curious.

Daniel had to put up with a lot from me. Here's a boy who's tied up with a man pushing his finger into the wound on his head, laughing and delighting in the pain he's causing. He had to act as though he was in agony and terror without having many words to say. I was full of admiration for him.

Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.

That stab wound punctured Jeremy's heart and lung. The wound was approximately five inches deep when later measured by a pathologist.

Nothing salves the wound of controversy like money.

It's hard for people to understand what happened to me, how my dream was shattered, ... It hurts a lot, and it's a wound that's going to take some time to heal. It's frustrating because you know this is what you like to do. But sometimes, you need time to think things out, recharge your batteries and start all over.

It seemed like everything they hit wound up going into our goal. They are a good team. Everyone was telling me they aren't that good this year, whatever.

It was not until I began to write a book called 'Light Years' that an editor really stepped in. The editor was Joe Fox at Random House, and he wound up editing a subsequent book.

It was one of those days where at the beginning it seemed like every ball that bounced out of a pile wound up on their sticks. We held the fort while that was happening. Then we started to get a few breaks.

It turned out just great. It's another example of going with the flow. Each room has something that was a mistake that turned out so much better -- that gives the house so much character. Every place that that happened, I wound up loving it so much more than the original.

It was good to get two wins, no matter how they wound up looking like at the end. We've had a string of games where we've just not gotten the breaks at key times, like the other teams has, so tonight it was good to come away with two wins.

They couldn't hit the broad side of a barn before that. But then they got jacked up, and the balls just started dropping one after another. I wound up giving out 20 or 30 tickets. But it was worth it.

They were bigger than us but we knew that we had to push to the basket. We had to go strong and not worry about them blocking our shots. When we did, we drew fouls and wound up going to the line.

They went on a big run and wound up capitalizing. Our defense wasn't as good as it's been in the past and they capitalized.

It was just before we got (Sullivan) and we were struggling, so I came back early (from a groin strain) and it wound up bothering me for about 10 more games. There was a lot more pressure then, but there isn't as much now. I still want to get back as quick as I can, but the guys are doing really well.

There was an enormous motorcade, several dozen cars, which then wound its way from the airport through the city where there is still very, very intense anger over the NATO bombing and the deaths that were caused by it,

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires constantly to be wound up

I kept that ball. But I wound up giving it to Tug because he really deserved it.

In college, I was a cartoonist at 'The Daily Northwestern.' So I draw myself. I was an animator. But basically, I went to Northwestern to major in English, wound up in college for two years. Studied animation there. Came to Disney. My first week at Disney was the week that 'Star Wars' came out.

In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last wound 30 years later, in December 1996, the month my father died.

I'm never comfortable at theatre opening nights. If it's my own production I'm too wound up to be able to enjoy the performance and too wary to enjoy the event as a social occasion.

I know well there is no comfort for this pain of parting: the wound always remains, but one learns to bear the pain, and learns to thank God for what He gave, for the beautiful memories of the past, and the yet more beautiful hope for the future.

I knew that whoever wound up hosting the show was going to have a front-row seat to some pretty amazing interaction with some very deserving people.

I'm sad to say I've been under really tremendous pressure from my side and from the House side to wind this up, and we have wound it up,

In 2002 when he came to the Giants, his impact on the club was immeasurable. Without Kenny Lofton, the Giants wouldn't have wound up in the post-season and the World Series.

I needed a concept of God that worked for me, and I wound up giving my life to Jesus Christ. I thought I was always going to have to wear skirts over my knees, not be able to listen to music, and have no personality. Fortunately, it's so completely opposite.

I had a brother who was an attorney, so my first intention was to go to law school. I wound up in the police department, and I loved it.

In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

I just think it would be electric for the city. People are just so wound up.

I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.

I pronounced him dead at 12:30 p.m., ... The apparent cause of death is a single gunshot wound to the chest area. He has been taken by the Department of Forensics for an autopsy.

I thing they're really rolling well right now. They've been putting in a lot of hard work and it shows. I'm very happy. We moved from 16th place to eighth place (in Berks). Here we had a tougher division than we had last year, and we wound up with the same record at 3-2.

But he wasn't bleeding at all, and he had this wound that was open from his groin all the way down to his knee, ... The leg was rotated . . . 450 degrees, all the way around.

But it's a different place than Microsoft a few years ago would have wound up.

I didn't finish high school. I wound up working for a big paper mill. Then I went to work loading box cars and glass ware.