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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

George Bernard Shaw

Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.

Alexander Hamilton

First and foremost, Operation TIPS is a program under development, and its blueprint is not yet finalized.

Barbara Comstock

Accreditation recognizes a museum's commitment to excellence and the high professional standards of operation. This excellence is achieved through an ongoing process of learning and improvement.

Kathy Roberts

Restarting a refinery is a very delicate operation. These things can blow up. They are complicated, old and cranky.

Roger Diwan

The estimated cost is $60,000 to the county for the operation. If the county wants him in jail, it should pay for the surgery.

Bryan Williams

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

David Mamet

I'd always had a strong urge to set up my own gift business, but I didn't want to open a retail operation until I'd experimented with it.

Shere Nagarwalla

I really don't think we're in the same position as Arizona or New Mexico because Operation Gatekeeper has been very effective.

Diane Feinstein

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

All that's going on is a continuation of the operation to free the city of bandits.

Viktor Kazantsev

When you live with your own hogs, it says something about how you care about the operation.

John Whitaker

While the ... center was started with the best of intentions, the cost of its continued operation is prohibitive.

Jim Richardson

The things in place won't change if the operation changes. What's in place are all policies of the Coast Guard, Customs and Homeland Security.

Chris Bonura

He had a knee operation when he was in high school. He's never missed a game with the knee problem in the N.B.A.; never missed a practice or game. The only thing he's ever missed any games for in the N.B.A. was for an elbow operation.

Rod Thorn

[We] can report that the service was withdrawn, due to lack of patronage, after its operation on Friday 23 December.

Martin Wright

The Big White Lie: The Deep Cover Operation That Exposed the CIA Sabotage of the Drug War.

Michael Levine

Our intelligence, co-operation and many other features we have as modern humans developed from our attempts to out-smart the predator.

Robert Sussman

Therefore, the government will launch an operation to enforce the law against the practice.

Industry Minister Fahmi Idris

We need an all-precinct operation, with precinct captains and block captains.

Michael Dukakis

No pomade or bear grease, not even baptism, can grow back the foreskin of which we were robbed on the eighth day of life; those who, on the ninth day, do not bleed to death from this operation shall continue to bleed an entire lifetime, even after death.

Greg Lemond

There were no injuries, the operation of the flight itself was not disturbed, so we feel this is an appropriate punishment.

David Procopio

I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it.

Quincy Jones

The longest hours of operation are [on the South 40] [but] a lot of focus goes into lunchtime [on the Hilltop campus] because that's when [we are] feeding faculty and staff and the students.

Katherine Carmody

This administration's strength has been in deciding what they want to talk about, having a message. It's been a good offensive operation, but it's been weak on the defense. That's one of the things they need to fix.

Martha Kumar

We always are in conversations with Southwest Airlines to expand their operations at Sky Harbor. With Southwest having the largest single operation at Sky Harbor, we talk with them constantly.

Scott Phelps

Job boards are the most important advance in employment since the creation of the resume. No less important, job boards have been in operation for more than a decade so it's high time they had their own trade organization.

Peter Weddle

When you see the kind of numbers we've seen, it has to be a high-volume operation.

Watson Okubo

The aim of COREPER is to enhance co-operation between the two communities of the island and create a better climate, so as to increase the chance of resumption of talks for a settlement on the Cyprus problem.

George Lillikas

The housing market in Central Oregon remains strong, as the region continues to be one of the fastest-growing areas in the nation. We are very excited about being in the expanding community of Madras and look forward to making this facility a base of operation for this important market in Oregon.

Phil Cox

We believe an acquisition would enable Softbank to get its mobile-phone operation off the ground much more quickly and smoothly than if it were to start from scratch.

Tetsuro Tsusaka

Sometimes we saw them selling drugs. They're no longer there, since the strike force has been in operation.

James Johnson

A lot of condolences. They thought it was a great thing. They thought it was sad for Rochester to lose a world class operation like this.

Kurt Ritchie

To justify this expense in a commercial operation, operators need to potentially be losing $17 per acre.

Bart Drees

You clearly were the ringleader, you were orchestrating this operation and you recruited the others to assist you.

Michael Addison

It was just a very small helicopter operation with two aircraft.

Bob Cole

All three agencies were with us. They assisted with the search warrants and the arrests. The operation ran as smoothly as possible.

Joe Green

Individual donations and grants from charitable organizations helped us and pay for the observatory's operation. They have been the main source of support.

Kevin Boles

It delivers an absolute body blow to their Bronx operation.

Mark Mershon

First Midwest is a highly efficient and focused operation, and they will do this without interruption to our customers.

Calvin Bellamy

I've always had the idea that we were conducting a military operation. It always seemed to me to be in a state of emergency.

Lincoln Kirstein

We have been preparing for this operation for months, but it depends on what the elk do. We have to go with the flow.

Terry Palmisano

This was an all-Berkeley operation. And it went so smoothly. It was executed just perfectly.

Officer Ed Galvan

With the six-speed operation, it does require less manpower. The hope would be that the plant would get more volume going forward.

Ben Ippolito

We'd have to see some pretty significant increases, because of the high cost of operation.

Robin Taylor

It's the kind of equipment they would need if they are going to have a very meaningful regional operation. The message that they are sending is that they don't have many warm bodies in the Metropolitan Detroit area.

James Mctevia

This is part of an ongoing operation taking place throughout the metro.

Alex Wright

He flew here last week to look around and check our operation. We didn't make him an offer then and still haven't.

Peter O'meara

Randy came to work 18 years ago in development in Dallas, so he was in the development area until about four or five years ago. So, he is very familiar with the development operation at Baylor and with our constituents.

Larry Brumley

We need international co-operation to fight the virus.

Yuri Thamrin

They decided to pull out of the robot operation because it doesn't fit their merchandise strategy.

Koya Tabata

He has pulled out. The examination has shown a fracture of the left arm. It needs to be immobilized and he may need an operation.

Gerard Rougier

The cutting operation was a huge bottleneck.

Bob Burke

I came here with the belief that I had full control of the operation. It's difficult to work when you are promised one thing and you get there and it's something else.

Lester Murray

I think they are trying to spread it around, to keep everybody happy and so they don't get delayed by a bottleneck in one operation.

Chris Nicely

It's a 24-hour operation. We've got a virtual army out there.

Steve Stengel

We really have to assess the affect of the store closings on our headquarters operation. It is the intention to reduce corporate expenses.

Jack Ferry

I think what is needed is to launch a professional intelligence operation.

Yusuf Lakaseng

This is a very exciting time for our company and our employees, ... We've found a nice niche with our commercial printing operation and this move will allow us to pursue continued growth opportunities.

Robert Stafford

We entertained all of the big names. It was a high-volume operation. When the Lakers weren't playing, we had the Clippers and the (NHL's) Kings and concerts. It was some place.

Tony Fasulo

There has to be operating standards for every facet of the operation, it's not that they're mysterious. The university never mandated that they be here. And that will stop.

Michael Coleman

We're never going to be able to raise as much as Jim Talent. But we're committed to maintaining a competitive fundraising operation.

Adrianne Marsh

This successful operation could be attributed to the joint efforts of the soldiers with the participation of the American forces, and of course, with the prayers of everybody.

Angelo Reyes

I can say now that Israel is not responsible for that operation.

Nabil Shaath

There is a great deal of potential, but there are also a few challenges for any potential operator. They've got to make this a viable operation, and we have to be realistic.

Judith Sayers

If half the businesses here got knocked out, in 30 days they'd be back in operation. The only investment we need to keep this place operational is a highway.

Ted Falgout

We just need to make sure that we are collecting enough revenues to run the operation, but we clearly are not in this to make money.

Su Shin

It seemed like he put it in the air in the normal time. The operation seemed good.

Mike Scifres

Layering debt on the operation of the Hall of Fame was something we were absolutely committed not to do.

John Tate

This is the only suite that delivers on the majority of what a client needs to run a large hospitality or gaming operation, letting them focus on their business, not their IT.

Kevin Patterson

We had an excellent covert operation that had the men under surveillance.

John Morris

But the system must be capable of a wide range of operation, ... During a major fire the demand can go up four-fold. It can go up to 13.5 to 14 million gallons a day. We have the capability to go up that far. When our firefighters go out they will not be pulling air through.

John Stockton

A significant chunk of this operation will target the big cities - especially Delhi and Mumbai - as we would like to tap these markets first.

Arvind Mediratta

The molding operation is going to grow here.

Dennis Campbell

We didn't kill them. The court sentenced them to death. There is a huge difference between killing and transferring the defendants to the court. They carried out an operation, an attempt on the president's life.

Barzan Ibrahim

Its a multi hundreds of thousands of dollars operation. There's at least 100 marijuana plants, maybe a couple hundred marijuana plants in there, in the three garages.

Paul Miller

The deal is being well received because Fox has a great track record of box-office successes, a great group of assets and a fully integrated operation.

Larry Petrella

Men who have little or no symptoms from a hernia, it is safe for them to defer having an operation until they do have symptoms.

Dr. Olga Jonasson

It's just streamlining the operation.

Douglas Aiken

This was a legitimate military operation which took place in the framework of the Caucasus front.

Akhmed Zakayev

Operation and maintenance of the water and wastewater systems have essentially been abandoned.

Charles Collins

If we're going to do this operation at all in patients 65 and older, it should really be done in places that can deliver the lowest risks to the patient.

David R. Flum

Our presence here is to be low-key, especially inside the funeral home. This is not about us. This is not a police operation. It's a funeral for a fallen soldier.

Lt. Don Whitehead

Today's agreement is no doubt the best way to celebrate our 20-year-long close co-operation with China.

Gustav Humbert

This complexity made good co-operation essential, and the BD team provided it.

Jamie Boone

This is a massive prospecting operation.

Pat Townsend Jr

We have everything, including the normal golf-course food. So far, it's been really nice to have the grill here. It helps the entire operation.

Brad Bogard

During that demolition operation, there were no reports of chemical munitions, nor were there reports of anyone experiencing symptoms consistent with exposure to chemical agents.

Bernard Rostker

He didn't want us to come to that house. This was a sophisticated marijuana operation.

Paul Miller

We have just about used every nickel in our account to cash-flow the operation.

Greg Davis

If we went with the same type of operation as we had in the past we probably would have ended up with the same result.

Glenn Januska

We've got about 550 soldiers and airmen deployed in support of operation Iraqi Freedom and operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

Lt. Veronica Saffo

My nephews have a bigger operation, so the increases are probably affecting them even more.

Carl Miller

The Billerica operation will maintain its autonomy and operate as a subsidiary.

Robert Lapenta

The occupation is the cause of this type of martyrdom operation whose aim is to fight the occupation.

Yussef Rizka

If the operation of this centre is deemed to be successful, we'll then discuss with our dealers whether we should open another one in Thailand.

Daizo Ito

We understand that there was some civilian casualties during the operation. We do not yet know how many casualties or how they occurred.

Roger King

In my opinion the active part of the operation is near completion.

Igor Sergeyev

No one except us knows all the parts of the operation. In that way it's like a conspiracy.

Matt Sloan

We asked the Pakistani authorities to put him under surveillance and follow him. They had the operation so messed up that the guy identified (that) he was under surveillance and didn't go to the meeting.

Gary Schroen

It's going to be a long-term operation. We're talking many, many weeks, months.

Marty Evans

They want our operation to be completely separate. They don't want our staff to encounter their staff in the hall.

Martha Cramer

He has not only been a part of building a successful business operation, but has given back to the community in many ways.

Kathy Hall

Some basic accounting fiscal areas that we would expect for $1 billion operation were just not up to what we would have expected. You would expect to go to personnel files to find salary information, and it wasn't there. In some cases, there wasn't a personnel file.

Bruce Myers

There are so many more features and services now that (ease of operation) is becoming much more important. There'll be even more features five years from now.

Kirk Parsons

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Walt Kelly

This is kind of a test for them to see: Is the new odor-control equipment going to work, how are things going to go? This is by no means a green light for them to go back into full operation.

Connie Patterson

It would be an entity that would define our boundaries in The Woodlands. It would allow for a central form of government operation and would probably consist of a normal form of tax revenue and sales tax revenue.

Bruce Tough

It took him time to come back. He felt he was there, ready to click, then he had this operation.

Patrick Mouratoglou

I've never seen an operation that was more coordinated, fewer arguments and disagreements between Austin and New Hampshire.

Charles Bass

The air traffic operation continues to run smoothly, even though we are experiencing delays in the system.

Arlene Murray

I would be on the first airplane out of here. We would have our operation in the U.S. up and running in 30 days.

David Carruthers

The rescue phase of the operation is over.

Kazimierz Krzowski

Joe, as it turns out, had a sex change operation.

Kathy Clopper

These are the final preparations for commercial operation. Previous trials have greatly accelerated the development of the whole industry.

Yang Hua

Were hoping they can take over the whole operation. It will make it easier on us.

Mike Deroche

We're strictly a cattle operation. We don't raise any cash crops or grain.

Don Zilverberg

Insurance, as a means of economic compensation, has always played an important role in ensuring the safe operation of an Olympic Games.

Wang Wei

This is the first film co-operation between China and North Korea.

Piao Zun Xi

This (rescue) operation will not stop. We will continue as long as there is hope. . . . We don't know how much air they have, in what condition they're in, if perhaps there are long air pockets.

Juan Rebolledo

The rescue operation is over. We don't expect anyone else to be found under the wreckage.

Krzysztof Mejer

Get the money to carry out an operation in America.

Ahmed Ressam

Only by augmenting bilateral, multilateral as well as regional and international co-operation and setting up an anti-corruption mechanism can an effective fight against corruption be possible.

Li Yufu

We are an incredibly performance-focused operation. We have developed a culture around growth and focused work.

Nancy Schlichting

Taking care of those still alive is equally or more important than prolonging the (search) operation.

Puji Pujiono

But how well organized they are, what their capacity is to actually mount any operation remains to be seen.

Mick Keelty

This bears all the hallmarks of a Hezbollah type of operation.

Clifford Beal

The spot is the key to the operation. Misplacing this femoral tunnel only three or four millimeters can have a devastating result.

Angelo Colosimo

What you've got here, essentially, is a very high-powered marketing operation--meaning Microsoft--versus Linux.

Greg Hill

We should see some progress by the end of the week, ... We intend to be in operation soon at all our campus sites.

William Lewis

I think it's a good marketing strategy, ... When it is built, I would like to see it in operation. If it works, we'll be doing the same thing.

Kevin Brown

It's not easy, but we have professionals who have done it year after year. It's a large operation.

Kerri Hanley

A BOA is not only responsible for the daily operation of the branch, but also must provide top-level client service and marketing support for my activities.

Greg Myers

It is going to be a challenge for them, there is no doubt in my mind. But if they run the operation professionally and with Iowans in mind, I think they have a shot.

Charles Edwards

The Congolese army doesn't yet have the ability to sustain or even plan an operation against the FDLR.

Jim Terrie

This city would be a mess without our program. GAPIT is a seven-day-a-week operation, and without it, you would not recognize your city.

Michelle Phillips

I'm feeling personally that 24-hour operation is going to be a detriment to the neighborhood.

Jim Higgins

What we are finding in this operation, people do care about their government and they're engaging themselves civically. I'm amazed at that.

Jeannine Larue

A lot of my experience in climbing, not to mention carrying a heavy pack uphill long distances, comes from my service in the Marines [during Operation Desert Storm].

Tony Carenzo

I think that what we've got is a boutique-type operation. If we could get into a large chain, that would be awesome, but somehow I can't see us competing with Levi Strauss.

Howard Skolnik

Some of these refineries will not be back to full operation, perhaps well into next year.

Paul Horsnell

Not a terribly complicated operation to perform.

David Wade

It was clear early on that these individuals were involved in a large operation involving gambling, loan-sharking, extortion and drug trafficking.

Captain David Vice

I don't expect to see one of those plants in operation, one that is purposefully built for this, for anything sooner than 15 years.

David Keith

We look at two things. Whether [plant operators] have programs in place to manage aging equipment and whether continued operation would cause damage to the environment.

Diane Screnci

We're not one size fits all. That's the beauty of our operation. We've got people who sell us 20 and 30 head and we've also got people who bring us 350 head.

Dennis Wiese

We think this will have even more impact than a NASA operation. NASA is one customer, what we see are many customers.

Rick Homans

It could have been used as a concealment facility the way it changes course. These things are hard to verify because the Underground Railroad was a clandestine operation to begin with.

Nicholas Bellantoni

Investors are already positioning themselves, assuming that the operation will be concluded. The assumption is that only the details are missing.

Catarina Pedrosa

Contradicted the spirit of co-operation and partnership between our countries.

Akhmed Zakayev

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

As far as a financial clean-up operation, this is going to be the biggest one we've undertaken. Even though it's significantly larger in scale, though, it's nothing we haven't done with our previous acquisitions.

Hamish Brewer

Jack and I are very easy with each other, ... He'll run the operation. He and I will meet daily. I'll offer my advice.

Roger Ailes

It was not a very gracious way of stopping the operation, by screwing the employees.

David Redmond

The negotiation for the JOA (joint operation agreement) has been concluded.

Maman Budiman

This is not a vanity operation, it's a high-risk operation. This at least allows people who are considering this surgery to go in a little bit more with their eyes open.

David R. Flum

We are looking at areas where we may be able to work with Qantas in the future. However, no agreements have been reached on any co-operation on the Tasman.

Mike Tod

It's a dream come true for us. A few years ago we were just a two-plane operation and now we have our own home.

Tony Fernandes

We will do our very best to minimize the disruption to their operation and our management and salaried team will be addressing their priority needs.

Joanne Miller

Even when there was a difference of opinion among us about our operation, he had a way to bring us to ground zero and come up with a solution. And he was always telling jokes. He kept us laughing.

Lisa Johnson

We will have to look at the centre position because in addition to losing Graham, Ross Armstrong is going into hospital in the next week or two for an operation and that leaves us kind of bare in that area.

Jim Hay

We are delighted that Cliff has agreed to head our St. Louis operation. We will benefit from his wealth of talent and experience. We look forward to continued growth and development of this region with Cliff's leadership.

Bill Palmer

I don't think domestic banks will lose any competitiveness, thanks to their huge networks and well-known branding among local citizens. In contrast, they will find more room for co-operation given foreign counterparts' new thinking and expertise.

Katherine Tsang

We have a seven-days-a-week, 18-hours a day operation. We have to adjust how we do our business, because we are here to serve the citizens.

Tim Dentler

Kevin will have an operation next week and will be out for four months.

Jim Mccreedy

But there?s no way it will cover the costs of the whole salvage operation.

John Fish

When I was manning these gates with the military, we had between 20 to 25 officers. But the normal operation for this management is 10 to 14.

Stacy Adams

The suffering is so huge. That is the beginning and end of this operation.

Jaap De Hoop Scheffer

It's such a big operation that it's hard to give a lot of detail.

Michael Crowe

We figured that this was a company with 85% of its stock price coming from its net cash, ... So we were able to buy Apple's manufacturing and design operation basically for next to nothing.

David Decker

It would be like a little post office inside the mall. This would be a new type of operation for the postal service.

Gary Sawtelle

An operation was then mounted to rescue them from a house in Basra.

John Lorimer

There's every reason to believe a Wal-Mart bank would operate with the same recklessness of its retail operation.

William Mcnary

It's absolutely positive ... we are proud to have supported the shareholders in this operation.

Alessandro Profumo

This is a group operation, involving more than one person.

Teri Barbera

Jack, Jerry and I had been talking about the merger for a while, ... Jerry and I would like to leave the operation up to Jack. We trust his skills.

Masayoshi Son

Certainly, Pittsburgh is important to us; we have a good relationship with the airport there. Right now, it would not look like we would be looking to expand that operation.

Mark Giuffre

There's a new management team in place that has a much better logistics operation and logistics management, so I would not anticipate seeing problems there.

Bill Crawford

The operation wasn't great. The snap was high and the kick was low. It's been a combination of everything.

Patrick Moore

We have not been able to use this kind of technology in operations -- and did not in 'Operation Allied Force,' ... This technology would help you understand the terrain and understand its limits.

Louis Caldera

CareFirst had housed its HMO operation in these buildings, and when they abandoned the [HMO] business, they held onto the buildings.

Barry Johnson

He had an excuse. He displaced (his palate) and entrapped his epiglottis. The next morning, it was clear so we didn't do an operation on it. He's been fine since. Hopefully, it's a one-time deal. He was certainly impaired.

Mark Frostad

There are unique challenges to do a security operation with another country literally in view.

Marc Raimondi

Pleased the operation moved forward in a peaceful fashion.

Joe Lockhart

It is the company's responsibility to bear the cost of this surgical operation.

Ramesh Chandra

(The cost) is considerably less than everyone anticipated. The around-the-clock operation, 24 hours-a-day, has resulted in cost savings.

Brad Gair

They accepted the media plan without knowing what was coming, ... I don't know what's in operation here.

Tim Arnold

The fact that Bloomberg did a good opposition campaign in the free media and Freddy didn't means he had a better operation than Freddy did, ... It doesn't mean the media was slanted.

Joseph Mercurio

Some people are mad that I 'let' the federal government set up this operation in the town, ... I didn't really have a choice.

George Grace

The operation on the ground will start on April 15.

Marko Jonozovic

The operation went well, but the minimum he will be out is two months, so he is definitely out of the autumn internationals.

Mark Davies

This is not a two-bit drug dealer. It took a sophisticated operation to take him down.

James Carbone

Monitoring the wells after the plant is in operation will be too late.

Martin Koczanwics

Since the day of the operation, I have a face like everybody else.

Isabelle Dinoire

It saves power and shortens the speed [of operation].

Richard Sneider

We think this is truly a body blow, not only to the (Genovese family) membership, but the leadership of the Bronx component of this operation.

Mark Mershon

Since the acquisition of Eckerd, our American team has invested considerable efforts into its integration and operation.

Jean Coutu

There is a good relationship between our agriculture ministers and there are many possibilities for co-operation in this field.

Christian Wulff

Kenny came through the surgery beautifully. Hopefully he will be able to be up and around soon without the pain he was feeling before the operation.

Dema Guinn

We believe that Northrop may not find the disposal of the automotive business a simple operation.

Nick Fothergill