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I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Ronald Reagan

This is scripted, and we can't blame you because you are acting on orders of your superiors.

Romeo Capulong

We get the strong sense that the degree of frustration with China is accelerating very sharply and is not likely to be assuaged by a few orders that likely would have been placed anyway.

C. Fred Bergsten

More of the same nightmare scenario of fewer orders and fewer sales, but no different to other sectors.

Robert Sellar

The recent spike in orders is extraordinary.

Taizo Nishimuro

It was certainly a good quarter, way better than expectations, but futures orders were less than we had hoped for. With that said, I don't think the model is broken.

Jamelah Leddy

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

Dag Hammarskjold

Without launch orders, we could not make a launch decision.

Pierre Beaudoin

We see general softness in the entire semiconductor industry, but particularly in commodity products. Customers are delaying their orders.

Mcgregor Scott

Since the order books at Boeing are bulging at the moment, with many of those orders coming from abroad, aircraft exports could continue to be a big positive for the trade deficit for some time to come.

Paul Ashworth

Hopefully, it's not because they didn't get the information ahead of time, because we notify them monthly and they do get exclusion orders.

Kathy Patterson

They commandeered our ambulances and stole them for four days. It cost us over $90,000 in billing to the government, and they probably hurt some people because they didn't respond to our orders to come back. They decided to do their own thing.

Richard Bell

We expect to see sales to our western customers increase. We'll be closer to the customer, which means they should get their orders quicker.

Doug Eckrote

Orders were up in this business and we are continuing to step up manufacturing capacity for our security products.

Tim Guertin

The longer-term up-trend in the index is intact. Inventories are extremely lean, global growth is firming and there are mounting unfilled orders.

Daniel Jester

At last year's fashion week, I got orders worth eight million rupees (180,000 dollars).

Suneet Varma

There's our customer service and we make our flowers fresh. We make the flowers up as we get the orders and do not sell them as we have them. We don't make it until you order it. This makes the flowers fresher and last longer.

Sandy Prince

It's one of the things that you fight though when your car is good enough to win, your teammates car is good enough to win, too. It's a tight spot to be in, but as far as the team orders or anything, there was none of that.

Kyle Busch

There are some negatives out there, but manufacturing and factory orders seem to be coming back and there will be a lot of rebuilding down in the Southeast. I think we've basically been too negative.

Michael Carty

The German economy is performing. Orders are healthy and the industrial sector is doing well, so the economy should grow by about 2 percent in 2006.

Steve Webster

We learned two things from Katrina, ... One, when government orders an evacuation, it must provide a means for all persons to evacuate and two, you have to provide a shelter with an adequate means to maintain order, hygiene, food and most of all, dignity.

John Flint

The fact is, they have to do their job. I may not support the war, but I support them no matter what - they're following orders.

Brian Littrell

We can't keep up with orders now, especially TV panels.

Chu Woo Sik

The only way to stop the violence is to rescind the expulsion orders.

Noam Arnon

I immediately knew it was my orders. I was excited. Ready to go.

Vance Moss

At the scene, some police did not follow orders properly, leading to mistaken firings and mistaken deaths.

Huang Huahua

Doctor's orders. I'm sure they'll push up on me a little more to see how healthy I am, but that's OK.

Ladona Pierce

I would guess you're not going to see a lot of folks announce orders during this period for Boeing products.

Cai Von Rumohr

We sell 60 percent off the rack and 40 percent special orders.

Carly Rager

We lost Internet and phone access and likely missed out on more than 5,000 additional orders due to Hurricane Wilma. Business owners should not make the same costly mistakes this hurricane season.

Shari Maxwell

The package of orders has reached $18 billion as of today.

Sergei Chemezov

So when Fernando got alongside him, he didn't fight his team mate. It is not about team orders, it is about working as a team.

Flavio Briatore

There were concerns about the economy, weakening in new orders, the strength of the dollar, Asian demand and railroad delays.

Norbert J. Ore

As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders.

Louis Farrakhan

When the size of the aircraft orders is so big, the economics of the engine prices being offered by GE would've been a key factor in determining the orders.

Kapil Kaul

This year we had to go back and make Easter candy three times because they were too conservative in their orders and they were running out.

Rob Nelson

We formed in 1993 to make it clear that we don't take our marching orders from anyone overseas, ... We have no connection to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Mahdi Bray

I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

Benicio Del Toro

Orders will be only 30 to 40 percent of last year's (level), and we see them leveling out next year but are cautiously optimistic that they will come back in 2001.

Alan R. Mulally

First we launched free calls for our customers, today we're launching free broadband forever. Our focus will now be on processing all orders as quickly as possible. Demand is going to be enormous.

Charles Dunstone

Our marching orders remain the same.

Sheley Secrest

The code is old and structured. Making changes in the TPF environment is orders of magnitude more difficult than it is in a modern environment.

Tom Cook

If we were able to obtain those orders and make that product, you would see this area booming.

Mark Glyptis

70 percent of all orders were outsourced to the sell side. That was the only way you could get orders done.

Seth Merrin

The fact that orders were up, and they're maintaining guidance is another example that it's not the end of the world.

Gregg Schoenleber

Now 60 percent of our cases have orders.

Pam Compton

After I get my orders, we'll look for housing.

Robert Stewart

The restraining orders and the cancellation of classes was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Derrik Sovak

Orders were one of the key causes of the disputes and the problems.

Greg Kutz

The army is under orders to defend every place.

Helmut Kohl

This strength could result in orders coming in as high as $1.4 billion, above our original $1.2 billion estimate for the quarter.

Brett Hodess

We have agreed orders with governments and we will fulfill them. It is important that this is seen separately from the pandemic offers.

Alexander Klauser

I am an airman, a pilot. In 1945, I was wearing the uniform of the U.S. following the orders of our commander-in-chief.

Paul Tibbets

We'll get orders from there of where we're going to go next.

Don Gibson

To be a record year in terms of orders.

John Leahy

Bonds are reacting to the drop in stocks. The machinery orders report is another plus.

Norihisa Takao

The software enables our dealers to place orders and to customize their own Web storefronts. It is all integrated into our database here in Ames.

Dion Buhman

In my view, this is the end of the political process. The only way these kids will get a diploma now is if a judge orders an injunction.

Arturo Gonzalez

DSP revenue was up 10 percent sequentially and orders were up 11 percent sequentially.

Tom Engibous

As a result, there will be very few orders won (by German companies).

Jochen Clausnitzer

Everything we do is basically computer-controlled. Ninety-nine percent of what we do is made to order on a four-day cycle. Whatever orders we get on Monday, we deliver on Thursday.

Jeff Hilbruner

One cannot deny that Katrina ironically may have had a positive effect on this index because of the big surge in orders.

Cary Leahey

Mr. Yates' role...was limited to following the directions and orders of his immediate supervisors.

David Schertler

I want to stress that these are indicative numbers, if tomorrow one of the countries is affected or a new country is affected, these figures will change. If, and we all hope we won't have to, we face human to human transmission, all of these figures would be multiplied by several orders of magnitude.

Fadia Saadah

If people expect flash prices to continue to fall, it will inevitably lead to slower orders.

Patrick Yau

It is still not as fast as today's silicon chips, but we can make it orders of magnitude better. We have a very clear picture of how to move on. Developing the first car is much harder than making a car that can go faster.

Joerg Appenzeller

We believe it will be a softer market this year, ... I would say 350 to 400 orders sounds about right.

John Leahy

He finally got to the point where he gave us a key to his print shop and we would print our own stuff and bind our own stuff. It got to where most of the orders in his shop were our orders.

Lindsay Gray

German manufacturers have rather good support from the orders side. In addition, they reduced their debt and financing conditions have improved.

Juergen Michels

Share prices were weaker as many investors are keenly awaiting the machinery orders (figures).

Hideo Mizutani

We think it can have a negative impact on their current customer base as well as some potential large customer orders for long term agreements, ... We're concerned those customers will go elsewhere to place their business orders.

Tim Dean

It's just so we can get the orders in and have that cushion of time.

Deborah Liftig

We have 34,000 sworn officers, not every one of them follows our general orders.

Matt Jablow

Dollar/yen has responded to horrific weakness in data which has continued over the last business day in Japan. Machinery orders were a bit of a horror story.

Russell Jones

While 9/11 had a negative impact, the industry is now rebounding very well with lots of orders and expansion of products.

Steve Kelly

It really was the Confederate currency that got it started. Dick's contribution was one of the first that was significant enough for us to know the Atlanta History Center was going to be able to acquire Sherman's orders.

Seth Kaller

To meet this deadline, my marching orders are to seek to conclude this comprehensive agreement by the end of the year.

Wendy Cutler

There was so much uncertainty in the market, and so much negativity [from the press and groups including Amnesty International] that it was just too hard for us to predict when orders were going to come in.

Tom Smith

We will provide just-in-time delivery of cars to buyers, which means it will produce cars according to the number of orders from customers.

Weiming Soh

We had to delay the launch of flights as we try to secure orders on aircraft, but we are now in final negotiations. The aircraft market is really, really tight at the moment.

Stephen Miller

That's an indication of their confidence in their logistics and fulfillment to get the orders to their customers in time. The last thing you'd want to do is not deliver a gift on time. You will lose a customer for life that way.

Scott Silverman

The decline seemed to kick in around the time of publication of data on machinery orders which is a key indicator of capital expenditure. It was well below forecast, down 12.5 percent on the month.

Russell Jones

They were telling us where to attack, ... They told us they had no orders to shoot, so we were listening. We had control in our hands.

Velimir Ilic

Flattening orders and improving leading edge capacity utilization ? the industry is clearly entering the trough.

Brett Hodess

My direction to you, gentlemen, as a matter of law, is that each of the orders was a lawful order. The defense contention that the orders were unlawful is wrong.

Jack Bayliss

If you look at the subcategories, you see a backlog in sales orders while inventory levels are down and purchasing commitments are up.

Michael Keenan

All the transactions were made in accordance to the Public Construction Committee's regulations. If a man's integrity is compromised by following orders, then how should public servants behave in the future?

Pasuya Yao

We appeal to state banks to help. Contractors who receive job orders from us should not be asked to give collateral. The project itself or the contract of work should be deemed as the collateral.

Kuntoro Mangkusubroto

We are aware that we cannot complete the purchase of the cemetery at this time. However, making an offer and, if necessary, initiating condemnation proceedings are allowed by both court orders.

Rosemarie Andolino

We believe there are still more orders to come in 2006 due to continued strength in the market. Notable competitions include Singapore, ANA, British Airways, KLM, Emirates, and Qatar.

Howard Rubel

Every commercial you see about travelers checks and money orders say they're as good as cash. No they're not.

Joe Christensen

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

Ruth Hubbard

The Army doesn't make policy. It follows the orders of the commander in chief.

Robert Stewart

It takes comparably low amounts of orders to trigger moves. I don't think there's much meaning in it.

Armin Mekelburg

We're overwhelmed with the orders and requests but it just seemed to be the thing to do. And it worked out and fell in place.

David Alexander

Firm orders from the two launch customers are valued at approximately $5 billion at list prices.

Boeing Co

None of the orders given to the defendant in this case was an order to do something which was unlawful.

Jack Bayliss

Keep in mind that export orders are a big part of this and since Asia has turned, so has manufacturing turned.

Kathleen Camilli

The only thing you can do is look historically. The next year tends not to be as high. Every cycle is different. The tendency is that orders will be somewhat lower than this year.

Randy Baseler

We still cannot predict the bottom with utmost confidence, although cancellations of customer orders have declined significantly.

Jozef Strauss

Of course I'm very disappointed, but I see this as a temporary setback. I intend to follow the doctor's orders, get well and be back competing as soon as possible.

Michelle Kwan

The recent weak data should remind us that the exceptional gains in business confidence and new export orders may be overly optimistic.

Alexander Koch

Last year's boom in aircraft orders, which reached record levels, suggests that a cyclical bust is not far behind.

Peter Harbison

We knew Europe and Asia-Pacific (future orders) would be difficult, but not to the extent the company just reported.

John Shanley

We will work diligently. We have our orders.

Susan Harris

If they do that, they can't hear my orders from the sideline.

Cosmin Olaroiu

We have emergency orders placed with our vendors for clean-up supplies.

Chris Brathwaite

You got a little bit of buying because of the non-defense capital orders ex-aircraft, but now there's not much going on. There are really no flows.

Alan De Rose

We should be getting a big pallet of DVD's by the end of September, ... We expect to have all the pre-orders shipped out by the end of the first week.

Ken Bell

Machinery orders are important and the better-than-expected numbers will be yen-supportive.

Robert Rennie

She turned her brother into an errand boy. She gave the orders. He brought her what she wanted.

Patricia Lessnerkraus

I think the contract started out at maybe $500,000, and they had a change order to get it to $700,000, but they ended up paying like $1 million, and there was no evidence of any other change orders or any other board approval for that last change.

Bruce Myers

These brokers were duty-bound to keep information about large customer orders confidential and to use it to benefit the customer.

Mark Schonfeld

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

Herbert Prochnow

A dangerous thing because every sect will seek orders from its religious leadership and this means that there will be no rule by law or constitution.

Mullah Bakhtiyar

Manufacturing is expanding, but not as broadly as in November. There was weakness in new orders and employment.

Gary Thayer

We do know they are getting more calls per day because they are not spending two hours a day filling out orders by hand and faxing them.

Stephen Hopkins

We do have a broader concern of the misuse or leakage of information regarding large ... orders.

Mark Schonfeld

Courts have often been taken as branches of the government and judges viewed as civil servants who have to follow orders from superiors.

Xiao Yang

New orders are certain to be much more expensive. Even sharp price increases seem inevitable.

Wang Chunli

(This possibility) is not due to additional orders, ... It is due to the view we have about next year, which we see now probably stronger than we Expected.

Noel Forgeard

The underlying strength evident in both durable and non-durable goods orders in recent months explains the momentum of the manufacturing sector.

Michelle Girard

It's largely been because of economics that there haven't been any successful orders in the last 30 years.

Thomas Cochran

Conserving nature is one of God's orders and part of our religious teachings.

Hasyim Muzadi

We definitely won't be doing that again this year. We have got extra orders in to make sure we have enough beer to go round.

Richard L. Evans

I was just following orders.

John Boorman

It gave us a huge edge over our competitors, and from that day on, it wasn't a matter of selling franchises. It was a matter of taking orders for them.

Kemmons Wilson

There have been prosecutions going down the chain of the command but not going up. Its not enough to prosecute the people who were following orders.

Avi Cover

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.

Smedley Butler

We could have as many as 200 orders in 2004. We are optimistic about the opportunities this year especially for the 7E7.

Randy Tinseth

The government is afraid of any organizing by its citizens -- they prefer we just take our orders from the Party.

Dai Qing

Orders are slow right now.

Michael Sutton

A back-to-back gain in orders will be a positive element for the market.

Soichiro Monji

If you treat people like adults they are far more likely to make money than if you simply give them orders.

James Timpson

Already, you're seeing some of these prop desks acting as if they were a hedge fund. And the hedge funds will go elsewhere to execute orders if that becomes the focus for the Wall Street firms.

David Easthope

Repeat orders are a clear indicator of customer satisfaction.

June Shrewsbury

I have not gotten instructions from the White House about my marching orders, but I am sure those will come as the days and weeks go by.

Carlos Marin

The promise of booming orders we forecast in January has turned into a reality.

Reinhard Kudiss

We know that foreign parties gave the orders to carry out the blasts.

Prince Nayef

It's very unusual to see this many money orders and cashier's checks. This money has to be coming out of those machines.

Lorraine Shinn

We always tell people who come in with big orders that signing up for one of our President's Club memberships would be a good idea.

Jeanette Morrisett

Airbus beating Boeing again and getting more than 1,000 orders were both unexpected. It is the A320 single-aisle family that is really going well for Airbus.

Yan Derocles

[England's lawyers have argued that she and others in her unit were acting on orders from military intelligence to] soften up ... they were joking around, having some fun.

Lynndie England

Brooks attacked him with a weapon that clearly could have crushed his skull. He did that in the middle of [Ames's] farm while committing violations of multiple orders not to be there.

Craig Cooley

We'll comply with court orders and if something else needs to be done, we will work with our lawyers.

Dan Jiron

That kind of acceleration is uncommon. They are getting orders. Activity continues to expand.

Richard Dietz

[Associates] know they are being fairly measured, and they know there's no way that their buddy is looked upon any better just because he gets better orders or easier jobs.

Paul Maurer

I don't like the outcome of what happened with this thing, we get a lot of these orders, but we have to comply with the law and that's what we need to do.

Jerry Yang

Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.

Milton Berle

We did not want to get into a position where we had more orders than we could handle.

Jack Butorac

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

Ang Lee

(McCoy) had access to the computer system. He'd go in and delete the paperwork after the items were ordered, so the company never saw a hard copy of the orders.

Lt. Pat Joyner

It's a huge change in philosophy. But (City Manager Anita Favors Thompson) has given me clear marching orders: Make this a world-class shelter and all that entails.

Dee Crumpler

People remember us and keep calling us (for orders).

Judy Mann's

When he does say something to you, you've got to take it to heart. It's not very often that he comes around and barks orders. When he does that, you'd better take notice and change something quick.

Chad Greenway

They did not. The border patrol finally got orders to let us go.

Andy Fisher

We still have huge back-orders from December.

Fujio Nishida

The company faces the dual challenge of lower power system orders and a likely hiatus in jet production.

Doug Kass

The number of orders and deals done has been increasing today on the exchange and the cases of deals may surpass the volume the system can handle.

Taizo Nishimuro

We're getting album orders from Australia, Turkey, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Germany, and of course the U.S. and Canada. His career is rocketing because of the FIFA game.

Louis Rodrigue

The overall picture in August as indicated by growth in production, new orders, and backlog of orders is one of continued growth in manufacturing activity.

Norbert J. Ore

You just have to listen to your body, as hard as that is to do, ... You want to be out there playing. You want to do all the things that are going to help your team. The bottom line is you've got to listen to your body and not disobey its orders.

Nate Jackson

We're giving investors the flexibility to manage their portfolio at their convenience and to see orders executed in real time.

Tom O'connell

I continued to see a dearth of orders, and there was just no visibility.

Joe Blankenship

We're getting album orders from Australia, Turkey, Switzerland, the UK, Germany, and of course the US and Canada. His career is rocketing because of the FIFA game.

Louis Rodrigue

When it came to entering mutual-fund orders, Bear Stearns essentially handed the keys to the system over to the hedge funds.

Mark Schonfeld

India contributed almost 12 percent of our total business of $120 billion in 2005. The Air India deal alone was a phenomenal one, as orders for as many as 68 aircraft were placed.

Dinesh Keskar

In 2005, a much bigger proportion of China's orders have gone to Boeing. Now Airbus is going on the offensive again.

Li Lei

They're going like hot cakes. We've had to take back orders.

Bob Roberts

The Reuben sandwich [orders] kept shrinking, and the oyster po' boys kept growing.

Jimmy Bannos

Will it be flawless? No. Will there be some customers that slip through the cracks? Yes. But for the majority of orders, they will be ready. The only way to get to 100 percent is on the fly.

Jeffrey Kagan

I'm going to follow my orders because I'm unwilling to go back to the hospital.

Ron Hirst

We do a lot of special orders and a lot of custom fittings and it has gone over real well with casino patrons.

Jill Thomas

It's a way of holding the doctor accountable, giving the doctor due process and protecting the public. These orders are holding up in district court. That's because we're doing a better job of proving our case.

Jill Wiggins

On April 1, 1943, I was told that orders had been received to send me back to the good old USA.

Chuck Lesher

The soldier who tortures can now simply state that he or she was following orders.

Jennifer Harbury

It may never happen over here. I'm not going to worry about something I have no control over. If it comes to Mansfield, I'll do what I need to avoid it. If I get it, I'll follow my doctor's orders and hope for the best.

Bob Coleman

They will continue to place orders as they have pared down some inventories, helped by good sales in the last quarter.

Rick Tsai

That's orders of magnitude more than what's at HP Archives, for sure.

Jon Johnston

We've gone from not having enough orders to successfully operate the business to having the lion's share of the market.

Gary Linden

Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.

Arthur Hertzberg

Our obligation is to give them the marching orders. We should take a step back.

Mike Carr

I really felt that the Legislature considered some of these same matters in the special sessions which failed, ... The governor said he is implementing the will of the people with the executive orders, but we thought that the Legislature implemented the will of the people.

Margaret Davis

By the time Arnold got elected, it was already too late for us to place orders.

Scott Wentworth

The unit's orders have been extended, but they aren't looking at any more time in Iraq, ... The first orders we received weren't very clear.

Tim Franklin

What happened in Australia shows how competitive the business is in 3G. I think this could be the beginning of a trend where you will see WCDMA increasingly dominating new 3G orders.

Peter Olson

It is very important that customer orders are fulfilled and we are working with the supplier base, which is being very supportive, to achieve this.

Alan Hudson

The orders will be delivered as they come.

Maria Kellokumpu

When you have orders that go down the rung, people interpret them by putting a very tight box around them.

Bob Freitag

We have now received orders from four different countries through DKSH and continue to test in many more.

Derrick Harris

All I can say is he performed appropriately. I am not a physician. I can't give a professional opinion of his level of care, ... His orders were appropriate.

James Welch

The economy has been steadily creeping up. Employment was up, and new orders were up a little. Production was slightly lower, but that's not unusual for December.

Richard Wood

People just assume that the bookstore orders the books and has all the control and we don't. I have the control over how many I order, but I don't have control over what's picked for a class.

Jennifer Davis

The basic argument is that after an outstanding year for industry orders in 2005, 2006 is not going to be as good.

Nick Cunningham

Every single day, we get orders that we have to reject because of this restriction. Lots of people are really interested in getting their message out on mail.

Robert Beaver

Following orders [they] believed to be lawful.

Guy Womack

That momentum has continued at this show. We've seen orders from dynamic markets like India. Another rapidly growing market is Indonesia.

Anthony Phillips

We receive lots of orders -- sometimes we have trouble meeting them.

Dindin Komarudin

For nine straight sessions foreign brokers placed net selling orders. There were concerns about how long selling by foreign investors would last.

Yasuo Yabe

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

Daisy Bates