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Relatives could be aggressively advised to stop smoking or, if lung cancer screening is recommended at some point in the future, this is a high-risk group that could be considered for regular screening.

Olga Gorlova

I got to see some relatives I haven't seen in awhile; they came down and I had a good time.

Jon Buice

My father said you can't make a living in birds... my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant.

Roger Tory Peterson

Every gay home in town is filled to the rafters with friends and relatives from New Orleans, ... There isn't a person in this town who hasn't been affected in one way or another by the hurricane. We didn't get a drop of rain here, but our lives are changed forever.

Robert Baxter

Since a lot of the children have relatives over there, we try not to dwell on the negative. It's a scary process, so instead we send letters and cards to loved ones.

Janne Darata

We do some marketing to bring people in. But it's mostly friends of friends or relatives or members' children who are 21 or over.

Chuck Kolner

We get permission from relatives to see victims in accidents caused by alcohol.

Carla Granstrom

Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him.

Danish Proverb

This was her granddaughter and the relatives involved. The way it happened, some of what I've observed from her, some of what I've learned from other people, indicate that what she did, there's no explanation for.

Todd Anderson

This appears to be a typical drop house, where loads of aliens were kept. They are held for a while, until relatives pay whatever fee was arranged at the border to ransom them. Sometimes they're held against their will when smugglers raise the amount.

Luisa Deason

Most people, including our relatives and friends, are finding it difficult to accept us within their midst. The Liberian people must accept us as they accept others with different illnesses.

Saa Howard

We had an incumbent ... who couldn't think of a mistake he has made in four years and a challenger ... who has seven houses, married a billionaire and has French relatives.

Bill Plante

The good news is that a lot of relatives in Ohio get to watch Willy play without having to make that drive.

Lary Korn

I found the scrubs still in the plastic when I was cleaning out a relative's home. I thought that someone at the hospital could use it.

Angela Lewis

This research is part of a larger, ongoing project to assemble the evolutionary family tree of dinosaurs and their relatives.

Richard Lane

We believe the grandparents or relatives Harris lived with had other kids in the house, but it is not clear how many.

Diane Jackson

Even though he's older and frail now, the victim has a lot of relatives and friends who deserve some sort of closure on this. He's still very capable of getting around.

Holly Pera

He was starting to get inquiries from relatives as to, 'Where's Dad?'

John Schultz

Arab descendants normally discuss the immigration of their relatives to Brazil: where they came from and what they started working as.

Carlos Tebecherani Haddad

Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.

Greek Proverb

A very meaningful thing you can do is bring your son to have his bar mitzvah at the Western Wall. That's where our ancient relatives came from.

Liz Davis

The program cajoles people because they can see other relatives have already gotten their recipes in. Even for people who aren't technologically savvy, the technology makes it easy to submit their recipes.

Bill Rice

They showed no clemency when they attacked so many innocent people mercilessly, and it's deeply distressing to think that they may have any sort of remission. We as relatives will never get any sort of remission from what happened to our loved ones.

Susanna Miller

I really have a desire to do a certain kind of work, but deliver me from the class who cut up their relatives to see how their corpuscles match up.

Frank Richard Stockton

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

Jacques Delille

We feel this. Ed, Alan, feel this. I have friends, relatives that feel this pain. Help in any way you can.

Deion Sanders

In my view, if the father is in the United States and prepared to take custody, and the relatives decline to give him custody, there is no basis whatsoever in law, morality or general convention for them to deny the father access to his son.

Gregory Craig

There aren't any universals. You need to look at your proximity to your relatives, your health?I tell clients it's unique to their own situation.

Lou Stanasolovich

Not all the speculation by friends, relatives, prior employees that have some judgment about individuals that may or may not be involved.

Bernard Parks

He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.

John Barrymore

We request all members of the community to advise and inform their friends and relatives who are planning to come to Qatar about the seriousness of the situation, before they fall victims to illegal recruiting agents in India.

Ramesh Chandra

We told them that Geneva is the city of human rights and that they should free our relatives as a humanitarian gesture.

Camilo Gomez

It cannot keep patients in the dark. It has to take patients into its confidence. It has to actively earn the trust of patients in life and it has to actively seek the consent of relatives in death.

Alan Milburn

I appeal to the people to please go back to their families immediately. They will feel secure when they see their relatives.

Shivraj Patil

You have to do a little bragging on yourself even to your relatives-man doesn't get anywhere without advertising.

John Nance Garner

Of course, we have entirely sympathized with the victims and our condolences go with the families and relatives of those who have been affected by this.

Jaswant Singh

We would be relatives, and I would like to meet them.

Shigeru Yokota

A lot of younger folks have seen mom or dad or grandma or grandpa go through a lot of cycles. We go through ups and now is a great time to be in the industry. The '80s were not a great time to be in the industry. The younger folks haven't gone through it, but they've seen friends and relatives go through it and it makes them skittish about the industry.

Scott Hillman

We are telling the families that had relatives cremated to call the funeral homes and ask them, 'Were their relatives sent to the place?'

John Bankhead

A long generation time is an important trait that separates humans from their evolutionary relatives. In our study, we found that the chimpanzee's generation time is a lot closer to that of humans than it is to other apes.

Navin Elango

From the human rights activists in Syria, we have a picture that the Syrians have put the heat on anybody going to Iraq. They have arrested brothers, relatives going to Iraq to fight. They have arrested anybody coming back. Syria has been trying to crack down on these networks that are moving people through Syria into Iraq.

Josh Landis

She (later) went on to Salt because one of her relatives.

Adnan Badran

You'll take your business where you are. It will travel with you. Your office will be where you are. You will have video conferencing everywhere. So you'll actually be able to see the people you're talking to. So for families to see relatives, things like that, this will become very commonplace.

John Nugent

I?d love to be able to contact any surviving relatives of the remainder of the crew. All my efforts so far have drawn a blank other than finding Lorne?s brother. It would be fantastic if any of the relatives in Canada, if traced, could be there for the dedication.

Paul Reilly

We don't know whether these relatives are going be found to be suitable, important question. So even with people lining up to adopt this cute little girl, she could end up in the system for years to come.

Marsha Lowry

That he understood the nature and structure of various known Pakistani terrorist groups and that he had detailed knowledge regarding the mechanics of attending a jihadi camp. He also indicated that his relatives had various connections to jihadist groups.

Hamid Hayat

What we discovered were teeth similar to those of crocodiles—not surprising as birds are the closest living relatives of the reptile.

Mark Ferguson

My grandparents were from India only. My relations are all in India, my mother belongs to India but the circumstances took a different turn and it all changed. I still have my uncle, I still have my relations (in India), we don't have any relatives here.

Javed Miandad

It was chaos. There were so many relatives who had come to see their families. People were watching you as you walked through.

Sue Willoughby

The pictures and the banners and the trophies are all just reinforcement for him. The only pressure on Drew is the pressure he puts on himself to carve out his own niche. All (the Miller relatives) told him the same thing: You're a damn good player, just do what you do.

Dean Miller

For three months we gave the Miami relatives every opportunity to follow the law and allow the custody of the young boy to be with the father, and at every turn they frustrated the process, they moved the goalposts and we were left on Saturday with only one alternative.

Joe Lockhart

Relatives said he (Booker) made violent threats in the past, but were not sure if they involved the son.

Joe Hall

They are in a serious condition. Their families are very concerned, and we are keeping them closely informed about their relatives' progress.

Dr Ganesh Suntharalingam

I have worked with his mom and his wife, Anna, (who) is related to some of my relatives. Everybody is related somehow to a coal miner. Mining affects everything here.

Angie Mcdaniel

For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.

Michael Milken

First, we should make sure that the two be not near relatives and then consider that the couple can breed babies in Taiwan, so their age should be one to four as giant pandas usually get sexually mature at the age of four to five.

Zhang Hemin

My fear is that some of my players may have been sent off to stay somewhere else because their family took in some relatives, but I just don't know. That's minor in comparison. When I see the things that are going on in New Orleans my heart just aches.

Richard Oliver

All of us were farmed out to relatives or foster homes. We've had an interesting life individually. We didn't grow up together, with the exception of two brothers who were in the same foster home.

Christine Sanok

The lunch crowd has been very, very busy. They are all buying a lot of souvenirs to ... send to relatives.

Tim Piett

Politics, for most Americans, is not an everyday-life issue. It is not something that affects you personally. That is why these demonstrations are so interesting, because what it shows is that immigration is not an academic issue; it is a genuine issue on the Hispanic immigrant side. You are talking about your friends, relatives, neighbors.

Harry Pachon

My fellow Katrina survivors and I have experienced more tragedy in the last six months than most people have in a lifetime. We have lost relatives, friends and our community. The federal government should live up to its responsibility to rebuild.

Dorothy Stukes

What they did is call some of their buddies, some of their relatives, and provide these pin numbers.

Mcgregor Scott

The people that own this home their relatives own all of these homes and have owned these homes for generations, now some of these homes are destroyed but some of them are not destroyed, some of them need to be repaired.

Brandon Darby

We've got relatives from the South here who have been trekking in since last week. It's going to be kind of fun if they bring some of that New Orleans cooking with them.

Larry Jones

I'm putting the island in a trust so that only blood relatives can live on it for the next 360 years.

Debbie Anthony

Some people are just now getting back to their homes and to the homes of their relatives. The bodies are still coming in.

Frank Minyard

"I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. "See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job."

Bill Murray

The people that were in the building were the principal's relatives and she was playing a practical joke on them. They had come to tour the school and it was a practical joke.

Annette Singletary

People [from New Orleans] are still living in shelters or with relatives. How can they have Internet access when they don't even have a telephone? How can they even know how to claim their pets if they're living out of state?

Florence Robinson

We always think about the rights of the terrorists. But if there is an attack that you could have prevented, you also have to be able to look into the eyes of the relatives.

August Hanning

My son went to the local authorities to ask if we could get permission to meet my relatives but they are mum. They have been telling him to come the next day. I still do not know if they will let us go.

Ghulam Qadir

The slaughter of chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives, is absolutely diabolical. I can't imagine that this can go on much longer before these animals are extinct.

Richard Leakey

Death was much closer. Plus, your older relatives lived in your home and you saw them dying. And you laid them out in the front room.

Darcy Nichols

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

Addison Mizner

I think it's just a reminder of the high price our friends and relatives are paying in this conflict.

Chris Cook

I don't think that any [relatives] saw her after she left the hospital.

Lucille Czechanski

A lot of relatives felt he was told to turn his back on his background by Eddie Collins and not acknowledge that part of his family.

Bill Nowlin

Divorces are happening behind closed doors and the woman is banned from having custody of her children. She is being sent back to her home country to live with her relatives.

Homa Arjomand

She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times if she left him, harm would come to (her relatives).

Chief Joseph

Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develo.

J. Martin Kohe

As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be a human at the DNA level.

Francis Collins

We often face patients who are reluctant to start insulin injections. Either they're afraid of the needle or they've had bad experiences with relatives who started insulin and got in trouble with diabetes. And the reason they got into trouble is they started too late. This product will allow people to start insulin earlier.

Stuart Weiss

Overcrowding is a problem in a number of our neighborhoods and we have to find some way to address that problem [but] I don't believe the government can tell families which relatives can live with them.

Gerald E. Connolly

My father just got back from a trip to Canada and gas was $6 a gallon there. And I have relatives in Europe, where it's also $6 a gallon.

Doris Jones

People have lots of relatives everywhere.

Bob Roberts

Most folks will stay with their relatives or friends when these things happen.

Ray Lovell

When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.

Jimmy Fallon

It is good to hope but relatives of those missing should by now already know the reality.

Hector Reyes

They all ask the inevitable questions. Where are my relatives? Will they be found? They're very distraught.

Jason Green

I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

Roger Zelazny

We risked our lives for a South Korean dream. But many of us feel like boat people even if we are in the South. I sometimes ask myself a dangerous question. If a war breaks out, should I fight South Koreans or should I shoot at my relatives in the North?

Ri Kyong

Ever since our cousins and other relatives got here, he wanted to come to Miami. If he would've gotten here, I think he would have made his dreams come true.

Jose Llamas

I was 12 years old when I said goodbye to my family and relatives. I never saw my parents again. I learned they were taken to a camp in Czechoslovakia and my father died there. My mother went to Auschwitz.

Anne Fox

We called our home and it was ringing, and we called a few of our relatives' homes and it was ringing. We felt that's a good indication our houses are still standing.

James Robinson

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

Ralph Ellison

It's a sad time in our community. We're a small community, and we handle things differently in small communities, ... We know names. We know faces. We have relatives. It's all intertwined. It's a sad day for us.

Gerald Brown

I don't think a ruling in our favor means that suddenly every government form is going to have to be printed in every foreign language. That will not happen because in most every context, people can get the government forms translated. People can hand it to their friends or relatives and say, 'Read this for me,'.

Richard Cohen

Our members accompany family members looking for missing relatives to talk to American military forces and Iraqi government officials.

Jessica Phillips

After the visit there is always a meeting with the authorities about what we saw but it is strictly confidential. We will pick up messages for their relatives.

Mario Musa

I do a lot of baby-sitting for my relatives. And the musical keeps me busy.

Mark Poirot

It was pretty easy to get inspired for this game. There were tons of relatives in town for his 80th birthday. I was playing for my gramps tonight.

Jordan Hasquet

This year, there will be a category for groups of 10. It would be really neat if some families signed up with 10 relatives.

Sally Burkholder

Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.

H. L. Mencken

God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Mumford

As I have often said, whenever a disaster occurs anywhere in the world, there are relatives grieving in Queens, ... It appears that most of the organizations involved in relief efforts are currently asking for monetary donations.

Helen Marshall

Nepali listeners of China Radio International (CRI) played an important role in disseminating information they got from CRI of China's latest development to their relatives and friends so that our people are brought closer and closer by further understanding each other.

Sun Heping

It's based on an undercover case John worked probably four or five years ago that led him to Philadelphia, where he grew up, and he eventually puts one of his relatives in jail.

Joe Pistone

Relatives cannot help you in the studios," she says. "You stand or fall by your own efforts.

Glynis Johns

Some of them will be with Meow Mix employees and their friends and relatives. But we're also expecting a lot of regular New Yorkers to stop by.

Ira Cohen

We are conducting more interviews in those two areas, relatives as well as associates, ... So far we have no indication of any prejudices against any sort of religion or nationality.

Richard Garcia

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

Groucho Marx

This service will bring immense relief to the thousands of people who have their relatives across the Line of Control and are desperate to know about their welfare.

Mehbooba Mufti

The opportunity for ensuring this orderly process rests squarely with the relatives in Miami. We urge everyone to put the well being of Elian before all else in this process.

Robert Wallis

When I was 19 I started pestering my relatives who were willing to teach me.

Hankus Netsky

We still hope for an orderly process. ... The opportunity to ensure this orderly process rests squarely with the relatives in Miami.

Robert Wallis

The authorities are doing that to prevent people, including relatives, journalists and rights activists, from observing this trial.

Tolib Yakubov

Orthodox Muslim men are supposed to ignore females outside their immediate family, They are not even supposed to inquire about a male friend's female relatives. One should never ask the question 'How is your wife?' in this case, even though it is courteous elsewhere to inquire after a colleagues' family.

Terri Morrison

For the most part they looked fine, just a little dehydrated or cold. Nobody had identification with them. They had relatives' phone numbers with them, some were in shorts. The kids were in long shirts, shoes or sandals.

Arley Flaherty

You can get a hometown phone number so your relatives can dial a local number, and it's routed to your phone.

Louis Holder

Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs.

Esther Dyson

Ministers who are not anti-gay are very rare in the South. They're banished in a way from their own religions. I have relatives in the ministry, so it's not caricature in my life experience.

Tim Kirkman

Everybody gathers together, your parents and relatives and you don't go to sleep. The custom is to stay up all night. It's good luck.

Elise Marquis

We call our rich relatives the kin we love to touch.

Eddy Cantor

I've not been there for years. I have no relatives left over there.

Zaha Hadid