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A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

Marguerite Yourcenar

The ability to observe what happens to electronic energy in DNA on such short time scales also extends the hope that methods such as ours can finally determine how DNA is damaged by UV light in the first place.

Bern Kohler

Skimping the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales.

Tony Campolo

As soon as you let somebody who will pay up to $20,000 come and shoot a large elk in a pen, that kind of tips the scales way away from an agricultural activity because the products themselves would not be worth that much.

Steve Weber

Typically, these things would die off in smaller scales. We're hoping that we've seen the worst of it, and we should see it disperse.

Jim Egan

He made crucial discoveries about the nature of rivers, especially their remarkable regularity. He showed that this regularity of form applies to all rivers, whether they are in sand boxes or draining entire continents, at scales of a laboratory flume or the Gulf Stream.

William Dietrich

But as ever, there is a failure to translate this across, because Europe is lacking a long-term strategy for health care covering drug development and device development that is funded over the long time scales involved in getting new drugs to market.

Ruth Duncan

We are going to be presenting proposals that tip the scales a little more toward pedestrians and bicyclists.

John Whalen

There's far less overhead, no inventory, and, [because] we're using a technology infrastructure that also scales, the more we have, the lower the cost.

Judy Kirkpatrick

We believe over time, customers will move to more function and higher scales sets of infrastructures. Customers needed an entry point to do SOA based on Web services.

Robert Leblanc

It's challenging for everyone. Whenever Wal-Mart scales back, it is hard for suppliers to be flexible enough to respond quickly. The volumes are big.

Michelle Bogan

We're prepared for it (making weight at states). We'll be bringing our own set of (portable) digital scales with us to Bangor, so everyone can check their weight before the actual weigh-in.

Bob O'connor

We have an obesity epidemic, with more than 20 percent of our 7-17 year old children in urban centers tipping the scales as either overweight or obese.

Wang Longde

Carbon dioxide is the one thing that we've done nothing about so far, from really any of our economy aside by from increasing efficiency, and its the one thing that will substantially change the climate on time scales of 100 years or so.

David Keith

The cancer project scales up to well over 100 Human Genome Projects.

Anna Barker

The horror of what happened to Lesley Ann also killed my wife. Hindley sentenced her to a long, lingering, painful death. I just wish God had evened up the scales of justice before she died.

Admiral Sir Alan West

He drew for me on a piece of paper all of my scales. Every week it was something new. That was my first introduction to music theory.

Ben Jaffe

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Ambrose Bierce

We bring to the table expertise in measuring the strength of materials at the smallest of scales.

Subra Suresh

This is a business that scales with volume and with revenue slowing significantly, it gets more difficult to actually reach scale.

Sara Farley

Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.

Kirk Hammett

The campus is wonderful because it has many environments and scales of space that you can find a space for anything. And the statues are part of what gives the campus its stature. They enhance space.

Jim Horner

At IBM, we strongly believe that our unique joint-development partnership with AMD at East Fishkill, N.Y., is key to overcoming power and heat challenges as the industry reaches near-atomic scales.

Gary Patton

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

Honore De Balzac

With the company running at only 30 percent to 35 percent of capacity, and given a business that scales with volume, this must be a revenue story. More efficient operations can only take you so far.

Sara Farley

'Where there is a will there is a way,' is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

Samuel Smiles

With one of the lowest pay scales in California, officers are leaving San Diego and going to other cities where they can earn a fair wage.

Bill Nemec

There are restrictions on city commercial banks on where they can operate... But through merging together, they can expand their business scales.

Ryan Tsang

The scales were tipped a good bit. We schedule these bouts because the teams are very good and challenging.

David Micahnik

This may tip the scales for some of those women. We could have significantly fewer cases of breast cancer in this country.

Dr. Kathy Albain

He was manipulating the scales to try and make the weight.

Bob Arum

As per the 5th Pay Commission's recommendations, the 6th Pay Commission should have been set up in 2003 and revised pay-scales become effective from January 1, 2006, but we were told by the Union Cabinet Secretary that the government is not in a position to set up a new pay commission.

Rp Singh

Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.

Paul Sweeney

The jobs data should tip the scales one way or another.

Andre Bakhos

They have to get this resolved so they move on to the other issues. Until they know how many people will be left after the retirements take place, they won't know how much money GM will have to pay to subsidize the wages and benefits for its former workers who are left at Delphi, once the new pay scales are implemented.

George Anthony