I want everyone here to note that I'm wearing pink for this occasion, pink, the color of soothing, softening and reconciliation. Lately it's become Dick's favorite color — replacing his old favorite, terror-alert red.
Lynne Cheney
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The ministry is not going to soften its stand when it comes to destruction of forest because reduced forest cover is a threat to livelihood.
Francis Misonge
Recent oil and fuel inventory trends are clearly demonstrating that the oil industry is no longer in crisis mode and that energy prices are likely to continue to soften.
Bart Melek
The European Central Bank is widely expected to hike rates this Thursday. Cyclical support for the dollar may be starting to soften a little bit.
Robert Sinche
We believe that since Intel's pre-announcement in early December that consumer and commercial demand has continued to get worse with commercial showing the most disturbing trends. In addition, we believe that servers, which had actually been on track for part of the quarter, saw some softening that we believe is related to corporate IT budget stretch outs.
Daniel Niles
For the remainder of the year we expect further rate softening in this segment.
Clifford Gallant
Minister Farrakhan may be softening his harshness toward Jews and gays. The proof is in the pudding. If I'm sitting there and there's a tirade against Jews or against gays or against Mexicans or against anybody, then I'll have a completely different opinion.
Rick Garcia
Some people are looking at breakevens that are lower than feeder contract prices. The summer contracts are beginning to soften, but there have been opportunities to hedge them for a reasonable margin.
Jason Sawyer
That is really the only sector in this employment outlook where you can see a softening that is carried through a quarter as well as on a year-over-year basis.
Jonas Prising
That could lead the Fed to soften their statement tomorrow.
Brian Garvey
The prime minister has made this announcement in view of the improvement of relations with India and softening of the Line of Control. The thaw has changed the nature of security concerns.
Kashif Murtaza
It's a team effort. It's a building process. I have to keep the defense off Calvin [Johnson.] I have to give him an outlet, give Reggie an outlet to open up our running game and soften up their defense.
Damarius Bilbo
We're definitely softening, definitely slowing down. We're catching our breath and getting ready for the next boom.
Linda Rheinberger
The bottom line is we have a very strong growth profile at the moment, with no real signs of any softening in investment.
Ben Simpfendorfer
It won't escape the jury that this guy is not all there. I'm not sure that makes a huge difference in the guilt phase except for softening up the jury for the penalty phase.
Laurie Levenson
Any sign of softening will see markets bring forward expectations of rate cuts. Tough talk on interest rates may provide further opportunities to sell New Zealand dollars.
Sean Comber
Market prices are continuing to soften for natural gas (nationwide). You see that show up in electricity prices, too, because so much electricity is generated by natural gas-fired plants.
Claudia Rapkoch
The judging is tough. They don't pull any punches or soften the blow at all.
Lynn Hartmuth
Selling homes this first quarter was certainly more difficult than one year ago. We experienced softening demand, to varying degrees, in a number of markets and continue to be constrained by long delivery times at many of our communities.
Robert Toll
The economic environment in Australia, New Zealand and internationally, remains supportive of reasonable earnings growth in the medium term, despite the softening associated with more stable housing and high oil prices.
John Mcfarlane
Demand at our communities, which began to soften in early September, now appears to be improving, although demand pressure from speculators has certainly passed.
Robert Toll
For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.
Louis Kronenberger
We're still in a period of rising commodities prices. Even if they started to soften, the big mining companies have still locked-in long-term contracts which translate into a degree of earnings certainty.
Don Hamson
At the end of the day, we are seeing a bit of a softening in forward momentum.
Kathleen Stephansen
The idea of the cluster is to soften the blow of Europe losing employment in the production area. And it'll pay off by giving Europe's weavers and other raw material suppliers a ready market.
Laurent Ruessmann
Beyond that, these kind of prices can have a psychological impact on the economy, softening consumer confidence. If you are concerned about future prices, you may think twice about purchasing something now, especially if it's a big-ticket item.
Bryan Singer
If you remember, fall of 2004 spiked high for us. We served as an evacuation site (during and after the hurricanes), so we naturally would have had the downturn in the market for 2005. But, even with that, we did see the market softening in 2005. I don't think there's any one reason. But the hurricanes were on people's minds.
Danielle Courtenay
The insurance market understandably appears a little unsettled by the massive hurricane losses of 2005. However, risk managers may experience further softening in the casualty market. Barring more major catastrophes, premiums should fall further this year.
Karen Beier
We use two-thirds water, one-third semi-skimmed milk and cook for 40 minutes on a slow heat. Slow soaking and cooking of organic oats soften the mix.
Anthony Stone
The housing sector has likely passed its peak. The boom is winding down. I expect continued softening in housing if rates remain at these levels or go higher.
David Lereah
The cuts are a bit higher than we thought would happen, ... Still we think this is not a quick fix for DaimlerChrysler. The main problem for Chrysler going forward is the softening of the U.S. market and increased competition in its key markets, such as the minivan.
Michael Dean
The softening U.S. economy has driven a sharp reduction in demand for business travel, ... At the same time, fuel prices remain persistently high. We don't foresee a near-term recovery in demand so we expect the balance of the year to be very challenging.
Tom Horton
Sales at our national consumer electronics retailers, which are our primary distribution outlets for DirecTV Systems, have been slower than we expected, in large part due to the softening economy, ... In addition, we are seeing continued slowing in the contribution of subscribers from the rural markets that are served by the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC).
Jack Shaw
What happened in Melbourne this week was pretty unacceptable and they're obviously softening us up for an even higher price next week.
David Cumming
Price growth is on a softening trend and we continue to believe that the outlook for the housing market over the medium term is one of flat to falling prices.
George Buckley
Franchising always has been important, but it's more important now, ... The market is softening, the consumer is a little more discerning, and unless you have some brand recognition, some franchise power, it's going to be hard to break through the clutter.
Steve Beeks
We need to see imports soften off if we are ever going to solve the current account deficit problem. That's why we've seen the currency respond to the wider deficit. It's worrying that the current account deficit will stay large.
Robin Clements
We continue to believe the company's assumptions appear to be somewhat aggressive given the recent softening in demand trends and the weak orders in the quarter.
Patrick Murray
Our biggest goal is to bring Kiplyn home. We want to put her where she needs to be put, then let justice go from there. We're hoping that these people who have been arrested, will soften their hearts and tell us where she is.
Richard Davis
Interest rates have been creeping up slowly, and we've definitely seen somewhat of a softening in home sales.
Lauren Young
There has also been a softening of prices of 10 to 12 per cent.
Bharat Tandon
The actual size of the fall in February is fairly significant. Obviously if the trend does soften in the next few months then the housing market could be losing some momentum.
Alan Castle
The reason I would expect a concurrence from the liberal justices would be to kind of soften the blow for the losers to indicate ... that they themselves interpreted the opinion narrowly.
Robert George
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.
Donal Henahan
But looser underwriting standards and the more widespread penetration of riskier mortgage products have raised questions about how these loans will fare in the event of a rise in interest rates or a softening in house prices.
John Dugan
There's a lot of human characteristics about him that will soften him on some of the issues involving the common man. He'll have his share of votes where he'll agonize over voting with the Republican line.
Richard Chesteen
The market is focusing on weather, which is softening product demand everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere, not just the U.S. Northeast.
Naohiro Niimura
More mature regions like the U.S. and Europe were significantly affected by consumer conservatism and a softening business segment, while Asia and other emerging regions were more robust.
Loren Loverde
The subscriber growth is above market expectations. The fact that they've done it in a way they can reiterate their margin guidance rather than have to soften it further is reassuring.
Darren Ward
The only potential shadow ... is the slight decline in commercial premiums, which reflect an overall softening in that market.
Matthew Josefowicz
Our results for the first quarter confirm that discretionary consumer spending is softening in New Zealand and Australia.
Keith Smith
Yes, the president is softening his pre-election hard line but I think it is still not enough to revive the peace process.
Sunanda Deshapriya
I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.
Silvio Berlusconi
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
Goldie Hawn
I'm seeing some gradual softening of about 5 percent in real estate prices so far this year, but nothing precipitous that would indicate a bubble exists.
Bob Moulton
The first-quarter comparable stores sales growth was slightly ahead of our expectations, with sales exceeding our outlook early in the quarter, but softening during the final month.
W. Alan Mccollough
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving
Rising energy prices and interest rates may overshadow the optimism employees have in the labor market in the coming months. While we don't expect worker confidence to fall dramatically, we are likely to see a softening as people struggle with greater day-to-day financial strain.
Steve Wolfe
Their intent was to soften the blow, but, you know, the fact is it was not the truth.
Bill Vernon
We are seeing a different environment and performance in the second half of the fiscal year compared to the first half, ... Some of the issues that negatively impacted our third quarter will continue to impact the remainder of our fiscal year. We, like many other companies, are watching the effect of a softening economy on our business.
Bruce Rohde
[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
The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.
Whittaker Chambers
These actions have been designed to adjust our costs to softening global market conditions and, as the market recovers, to restore the trend of improved profitability that we had achieved over the last two years.
Christopher B. Galvin
The shortage of selling communities, coupled with some softening of demand in a number of markets, negatively impacted our contract results. It appears we may be entering a period of more moderate home price increases, more typical of the past decade than the past two years.
Robert Toll
It will be a tricky next six months, I think. There are a few indications that suggest the (retail) market may soften a bit and I think the market is half expecting that.
David Spry
It's when people view these changes as enduring that it really can affect their current spending behavior. I think that is happening probably, and I'm hoping that house price appreciation, the equity accumulation, will help soften the blow in consumer spending.
David Seiders
We noticed some softening in the advertising market. We thought it was a prudent time to tighten down the screws.
Peter Chernin
It is a testament to the American judicial system and the American people that 25 years have not been able to erase or soften the facts of the case.
Louis Freeh
They've been talking about this for months and months, years and years, weeks and weeks, but we found out officially yesterday. There will be no way to soften the loss.
Tammy Robertson
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
While we are encouraged by the improvement in second-quarter pricing and volumes, steadily increasing imports continue to adversely impact our business. After a brief period of improvement, we are seeing both our order book and prices soften due to surging imports and increasing evidence that the growth in the domestic economy is slowing.
Thomas Usher
The softening in the housing market is probably the leading indicator as to where our economy is headed. Yields at these levels will no doubt affect consumer spending.
Stephen Kane
Oh my gosh, it's spring time. The temperatures are perfect; the snow is perfect. There are longer days, longer light. The warm temperatures aren't really going to affect the ski conditions. They might soften the snow, making it a little bit slower. But there's several feet of base up here right now. We prepare for warm temperatures.
Vicki Baumann
That nature designed for our sex the care of children, she has made manifest by mental as well as physical indications. She has given us, in a greater degree than men, the gentle arts of insinuation to soften their minds and fit them to receive impressions; a greater quickness of invention to vary modes of teaching to different dispositions; and more patience to make repeated efforts.
Emma Willard
People were worried that like Lucent and maybe a little like Ericsson things were softening up for them. But it doesn't look like that.
Edward Snyder
Why shouldn't Lost in the Fog be the even-money favorite? ... He is 10-for-10. But I'm hoping that they all soften him up for me. There are a couple of horses in the race with a lot of speed.
Edgar Prado
China's leaders won't be very open on their opinion of this issue, even though China's position is against terrorism and maintaining public support for the United States. Beijing cannot publicly support Megawati to crack down harder on Islamic radicals, nor can they support Indonesia's recent softening of commitment to crack down.
Zhang Xizhen
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