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A lot of journalists who'd never dealt with Lucas, when they started competing ferociously for these stories, what they discovered is the land of Lucas is a very tightly controlled, rather rigorous domain.

Peter Bart

Even in Hong Kong, where awareness about avian influenza is high, there are still incidents of inappropriate behavior. Chickens imported from China are subject to rigorous health checks, and smuggling them into Hong Kong without these checks poses a health threat.

Peter Cordingley

The next couple weeks are going to be really rigorous - we're going to be working so hard that we aren't going to allow ourselves to lose.

Bijan Hejazi

This is a great thing for the high school program. It was a very rigorous process. It was very competitive. There were more than 30 applications and only three grants were given out. We're very honored to be selected.

Dr. Roy Seitsinger

The window of opportunity for Internet startups to get in before the big guys is closed in most cases. There's a difference these days from the heady early days. The cost of entry is getting higher by the week, and the venture-capital firms are more rigorous about their funding decisions.

Kate Delhagen

Every day our fund family strives to deliver results for our clients. To be recognized as the best in very competitive categories, and among such talented peers is a great achievement. Our portfolio managers adhere to a disciplined investment process backed by rigorous research. We thank them for their outstanding investment performance.

Judy Rice

Providing customers with the confidence and peace of mind that comes from rigorous inspection and certification process will result in increased customers satisfaction and loyalty for GM Certified and its dealers.

Paul Pejza

By focusing on more rigorous curriculum, we'll get students with better test scores.

Robert Kravchuk

What the FDA initiated was in some ways a natural experiment. This is the kind of rigorous scientific information the FDA should consider in evaluating its decisions.

Darrel Regier

Canine scent detection of cancer was something that was anecdotally discussed for decades, but we felt it was appropriate to design a rigorous study that seriously investigated this topic to better evaluate its effectiveness.

Nicholas Broffman

Rigorous, published, peer-reviewed research clearly demonstrates that treatment works. Medications can be an important and even life-saving part of a comprehensive and individualized treatment plan.

Brooke Shields

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.

Paul De Man

Also, make sure your children are challenged – make sure they are bringing more and more rigorous work home.

Margaret Spellings

Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will really accomplish great things in life are those who are willing to discipline their lives, who maintain their health, their vitality, their efficiency through this process of rigorous disciplining of what they take into their bodies and what they do in life. It's a very important thing in terms of championship living.

Bob Richards

None of our kids at Carroll play both sports. Academically, it's too rigorous.

Gary Turcott

We have rigorous plans to roll out several more hybrid products in the future, like the Camry next year. We're looking to establish Hybrid Synergy Drive as the leading brand.

Cindy Knight

It is a fairly rigorous process. This kind of verifies the type of education they are getting in Shawnee Mission.

Bob Brassard

I had recruited him to be my deputy. Sam had impressed me as an extraordinarily gifted lawyer. He was careful and rigorous. He didn't come across as an open and obvious conservative activist, like me, for example.

Charles J. Cooper

Too often in other states there hasn't been rigorous authorizing, and that has resulted in problems. Here, from the outset, we've taken great pains to be thorough.

David M. Harris

They've been through quite an extensive and rigorous basic recruit training academy -- 10 weeks of tough training -- some of the best training available.

Sheriff Gary Steed

Every winner that emerges from the rigorous Automotive News PACE Award review process is truly exceptional in the industry.

Keith Crain

Basing aid on a B average is the wrong kind of incentive, but basing aid on a rigorous curriculum is a better kind of incentive.

Paul Lingenfelter

I must refute the implication ... that a landscape architect is a glorified gardener. A landscape architect -- unlike a landscape designer, nurseryman or gardener -- must complete a rigorous education from an accredited university program.

Mark Epstein

We would be delighted to hear from any Siebel employee that would like to join our company that meets our rigorous standard for excellence and dedication to customer success.

Marc Benioff

Scores have declined the last two years, ... We have got to get kids to take the more rigorous courses and raise the bar for them.

Charles Collins

The most important thing we can do is to encourage all of our students to take rigorous coursework.

Joe Donovan

I don't know about the guys, but I'm tired. It's certainly been a rigorous schedule.

Jason Nobili

As we demonstrate these technologies in real applications, we will be able to advance the designs even further and incorporate the lessons we've learned. This is a rigorous process designed to demonstrate the technical credibility of the research that has been and will be conducted.

Todd Wright

So we've grown to know each other's positions well. I think this helps to make the debate more refined and more rigorous: we can avoid talking past each other and instead cut right to the chase.

John Corvino

Marketers must have rigorous scientific substantiation for the claims they make. In this case, the claims were inflated, but the science just wasn't there.

Howard Beales

The courses I took were very rigorous and demanding, teaching me how to draw from real life. I started to get bored with that mode of expression as I found it to be too repetitive. I was looking to push myself to do something different and abstract art seemed to be the perfect outlet for that.

Jacquelyn Singer

We recently concluded a rigorous site selection process, and ... reached the decision that the Beijing Economic Technological Development Area is the appropriate location for our finishing facility.

Nitin Kulkarni

It's a sign that something is wrong. It's a reason for people to ask questions whether their state standards are rigorous enough.

Kati Haycock

These national distinctions validate the effectiveness of our rigorous due diligence process in delivering strong performance to investors. With both the Principal Due Diligence Program(SM) and our fund family reaching five-year anniversaries, they are becoming proven performers over the long haul.

David Miles

We undertook very rigorous background checks before the job offer, as much with the Privy Council as with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the RCMP.

Melanie Gruer

We had to undergo a very rigorous process with the measurers.

Tom Schnackenberg

I managed to get through the mining exams - they're not very rigorous, they only ask you one question, they say 'Who are you?' and I got seventy-five per cent on that.

Peter Cook

Going forward our customers can feel confident knowing Federal Network Services will continue to deliver industry-leading support and maintain the rigorous Cisco standards for network expertise and support capabilities.

Doug Chesler

We are rigorous defenders of our users' privacy. In our opinion, this is not a privacy issue.

Mary Osako

This rigorous, data-based, economic approach to developing N rate guidelines provides an excellent platform for the future as technological advances come along, including new, higher yielding hybrids.

Gyles Randall

Since the 2000 election, Florida has led the nation in election reform. We have one of the most rigorous [voter machine] certification processes in the nation.

Jenny Nash

We're suffering from a shortage of rigorous ideas about what's happening to function in the human brain in these diseases.

Lawrence Goldstein

They'll be more rigorous as we expect more and more out of our students and put more initiatives in place.

Deetta Culbertson

If you looked at a major earthen dam being designed during the same time frame as the 17th Street Canal was being designed, there would have been boards of consultants and rigorous outside peer review that probably would have detected and caught many problems that are coming to light with the 17th Street project.

Larry Roth

She was rigorous and had high standards because she believed everyone could do great work. But she really did have a soft touch.

Felicia Londre

Some want the media to choose their camp, but our position is to remain rigorous and to report the news fairly.

Pattara Khumphitak

It's part of the overall package to improve education and increase college-readiness standards. We've already put in place a more rigorous curriculum and we're implementing several projects that are going to have an effect.

Deetta Culbertson

We reached our financial target thanks to continued revenue growth in key businesses, strict control of costs, risks, and capital, and a rigorous focus on core business lines. We have invested in growth businesses and regions during 2005 and will continue to do so.

Josef Ackermann

It's only evaluation stage. We have a rigorous process that we go through on projects like this and we're in the early stages of that evaluation.

Steve Renfroe

Based on our rigorous internal review, we do not have any reason to believe that there are any other transactions that require restatement.

Peter Colombo

Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few persons whose devotion is of long continuance.

Charles De Saint evremond

A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, ''Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.''.

Marquis De Custine

This art-making process is informal, fun and rigorous all at once.

Paul Butler

This is a very rigorous program that moves Michigan from one of the lower-level states to one of the top.

Bob Morris

The nature of a nuclear reactor is such that a very rigorous process must be followed in returning an unit to service.

Tony Stott

We will continue to offer the SAT classes and tutoring, ... But the key to constantly make scores higher is for students to take more rigorous classes and to be better prepared.

Charles Collins

Given the rigorous nature of the study designs and that both clinical trials confirmed the other's results, I think these findings should be reassuring for parents, children, and dental professionals.

Dr. Sonja Mckinlay

It's become a much more rigorous district.

Carol Stensrud

The analysis we've done -- the rigorous structural analysis based on the last inspection report -- indicates that this bridge should not have fallen down on its own accord without something else happening to it.

Gary Hoffman

An athlete could conceivably get a negative test from something they ingest without any benefit from a banned substance even though it can be found in small amounts in a product. But if it goes through our rigorous process, we can say the product contains what the label says it does - and nothing else.

John Travis

Approximately 50% of the cases are filed in the federal court, where standards for scientific evidence are far more rigorous.

Jami Rubin

There are some very rigorous standards of privacy with which this information will be treated.

Martin Cetron

A lot of times our original compositions have a harmonic approach and rigorous clarity that is far more a part of rock tradition than playing jazz standards.

Ethan Iverson