They're a lot quicker and stronger, so we wanted to be somewhat patient and make them be on defense longer. The fourth quarter, we obviously didn't do that at all with three or four turnovers.

Lyle Mcintosh

The figure is down somewhat from quarter one of 2005, but you have to remember there was a number of individual spectacular deals in the period including an 18 million investment in Irish Broadband. Overall we expect this year to be flat or even a bit better when compared to 2005.

Ulric Kenny

[This version] continues the trend to bring data mining more into the mainstream of business. Five years ago, data mining was an island unto itself. You needed to be a statistician to use it. It was always somewhat difficult to integrate it with the operational business.

Guy Creese

It's a somewhat controversial issue. We wanted to have a vote rather than force 'Big Brother' on the city.

William Carter

You know the cliche that politics is Hollywood for ugly people, ... Political conventions are sort of showmanship for people whose idea of great entertainment is the Gridiron. If you think the Gridiron is equal to Radio City Music Hall in its heyday, then you'll probably find the conventions somewhat entertaining.

Frank Rich

We played physical tonight and when you play that physical you can somewhat intimidate a team. I feel like we jumped on them and stayed on them tonight.

Vernon Hamilton

It's going to effect the economy in Indiana. It will effect the economy somewhat worldwide.

Alan Mills

Although we would have preferred a lower figure, at least the reductions made by the town boards keep the rate of tax increase somewhat consistent with last year. It's a relatively modest increase and for that we are grateful.

Florence Stahl

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

It's somewhat imagery related.

Dan Cronin

Given the somewhat unrespectful decisions by the Nicaraguan authorities relating to the granting of visas to (Cuban) rafters and other dissidents from Cuba, a climate has emerged which does not favor at all going ahead with these encounters.

Carlos Rodriguez

Real estate prices have somewhat moved in tandem with the stock market, and it's no coincidence real estate prices in Palo Alto (Calif.) have gone through the roof as technology stocks have gone through the roof, ... There's absolutely no doubt you can potentially make money if the market goes up.

Ross Levin

It is kind of bizarre to think that schools are somewhat celebrating the fact that we have yet another year of the same.

Michael Yaple

If you can't see through your plant somewhat, then you haven't done enough pruning.

Tommy Futral

He had a lot of places to go. The fact [is] he chose Nashville, and I think in some regards that's got to be somewhat of a stunner that he chose here instead of going to some other bigger market where he could get more fanfare.

David Poile

The swings are going to be very rapid, and they could be somewhat sizeable.

Charles Di Bona

In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities.

John Carpenter

In the past, [product placements] were negotiated in a somewhat informal way; what Maven Strategies has done is to really codify the relationship and create a structure for how much people get paid. That's one of the holy grails for product placement: to really work out what it is worth.

Lucian James

This is somewhat concerning. Any student who does not pick-up their card now will need to get it before the fall semester begins and this would likely translate into long lines and other problems.

Keith Wassum

This is a company that is clearly in rebuild mode. It's still somewhat of a 'show me' situation but it's a great start.

Andrew Roskill

You write from a personal point of view. I think the best cards have that feeling of being personal, but also somewhat universal.

Jim Howard

I was somewhat surprised by some of the things that I was doing on the field last year, ... I would be turning a corner and was like, 'Wow, I made that play, all right. I can do these things, I can have longer runs and I'm doing it on the big stage now.'

John Mccoy

The mathematics clearly demonstrate that we are still capable of winning both world championships, but of course it's going to be somewhat challenging.

Ron Dennis

Profit margins improved dramatically, very quickly, so everyone started moving at the same time, and that's somewhat unfortunate.

Marcel Coutu

Many of the victims direct all their anger at Cardinal Mahony. It's unfair and somewhat misdirected, although understandable.

Tod Tamberg

A good many brats are brought up, in the straight and narrow, somewhat deviously.

Charles Fort

I expected no jail time, so I was somewhat surprised that there was 100 days given to him. I think that's a just sentence. I think it's probably a little excessive, given his background. ... I think that he could do more good doing some community service to our young people just learning how to drive.

Terry Johnson

Bell Atlantic has been somewhat of a leader as far as being a service provider for this.

Mike Wolf

The attorney general's offer is suitable to our industry. We would go along with it. We think it would be an opportunity to at least somewhat mitigate our damages.

Craig Cohoon

It is somewhat ironic. Jessica Williams, we know she was not impaired because a jury said so, yet she is in jail. With Veronica Schmidt, we don't know if she's impaired, and she's free.

John Watkins

It was a well-played game on both sides. It was a somewhat frustrating game for us because we hit a lot of balls hard, but right at the defense.

Randy Barton

It's been an interesting year. We all said this is a business, but at the same time we are going to have fun doing it. It's been somewhat of an education.

Darren Cioffi

At this point, he's tired and hungry. He's probably somewhat gaunt, and he's certainly in a diminished mental and physical state.

Jim Cavanaugh

Right now, our nation is in somewhat of a crisis. We don't have now and are not producing now enough engineers to keep the United States competitive in a global market.

John Lomax

He had this never-flagging satirical wit that was always entertaining -- except when you were in the path of one of his acerbic bullets. But that evening, he was sweet-tempered and somewhat subdued, ... I asked him if he was feeling well. He said he regretted to report that age appeared to be mellowing him and that people would have to stop referring to him as a curmudgeon.

Arthur Gelb

[Cyclones manager Mookie Wilson was pleased with the offensive outburst.] The offense has been somewhat suspect all year, ... But we showed flashes of what we are capable of doing.

Mookie Wilson

It is somewhat of a rare genetic disease.

Dorothy Moore

As difficult as it is to move on from a successful company, my decision has been made somewhat easier by the fact that growth opportunities as well as our current performance and product roll-out are all pointing strongly in the right direction.

Tracey Newman

It's definitely going to be competitive. Lane was somewhat of an icon, and even he had to campaign pretty hard in his last race. It's been trending Republican as small and medium-sized towns lose their industrial base and lose the labor union vote.

Wayne Steger

While these findings may be somewhat discouraging news for those wishing to reverse obesity through dietary interventions, they also highlight the importance of exercise.

Deborah Muoio

One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful, even if it is only falling ash.

Norman Maclean

It's reality. If you don't shoot it at least somewhat better than that you're not gonna have a chance to get a W.

Bo Ryan

I think it's great for her and for promoting women in motor sports. She's done a lot of good things to draw attention to women, which is somewhat necessary when you're looking for the funding to run these teams.

Melanie Troxel

Writing is a very lonely business and when you come to a book fair and you sit at a table and people come up to you with books that they've had in their library for many years and they think it's been somewhat enhanced by a signature, it's always a pleasure.

George Plimpton

Portions of this are somewhat vague. We would need to update daily what businesses had business with the city.

Kathy Vogt

It was loud, hostile and somewhat threatening. There were burning tires, loud firecrackers and obscene chants. They weren't about to move and the police weren't about to move them, so we were stuck.

Brian Penn

If we moderate prices, it's not the research and development budgets that would be the first to go down. The profit margins, which are three to four times the profit margins of other Fortune 500 companies, they might go down somewhat -- not research and development.

Ron Pollack

This is essentially Microsoft self-serving, ... The Microsoft names helps and it provides some much-needed cash for Nextel, but the price paid was somewhat below what it should have been.

Kevin Roe

There are a lot of CAST algorithms. Some have been beaten up somewhat; some haven't. I don't buy the design process. And I DON'T like CAST-256.

Bruce Scheneier

People associate inflation targeting somewhat wrongly with rigidity.

Raghuram Rajan

[Patterson] has restored a level of spirituality and biblical focus that the denomination had somewhat lost over the last several decades.

Charles Blake

It's somewhat better. We're in a process of improving. This tournament is an eye opener.

Mike Burchett

I'm not against conspiracy theories as a whole, but they have to be at least somewhat credible. I guess that now that the 'X Files' is off the air you need to have this stuff to fill the void.

Mike Cloherty

Even though retail sales may have spurred somewhat higher long-term rates, they're still not much different from where they were a few weeks ago.

Gordon Fowler

I'm somewhat in shock that I am standing here after a missed field goal. I'm not sure what happened.

Mike Vanderjagt

Before we had the new jail we were paying rent (for prisoner housing) and we hoped after building the new jail we could be on the receiving end of that. And we have, somewhat, but we had hoped we would have more interest.

Allen Stockberger

What people are feeling is that Iran is a longer-term issue. The risk to supply is lying much further out, and is still somewhat unclear.

Justin Smirk

Due to population growth, it is reasonable that construction would account for 8.8 percent of all jobs in Western states, somewhat higher than the national average of 5.4 percent.

Lee Mcpheters

In the mobile market the operational cost of running the network is going to be much higher and it's a very mature market so I think the ability for them to come in from day one and cut prices is somewhat limited.

Nathan Ramler

I think it's an adjustment from junior college to four-year college. It's just getting used to the new climate, new teammates, a new school. Jacki is somewhat more quiet and reserved. She is really a great kid, a lot of fun to be around. I've seen that change in her, from quiet to not so quiet. They become more comfortable and just show that to you.

Gwen Lewis

If there's such a thing as somebody having nine lives, I guess I'm somewhat in that category.

Ron Rice

What we are not seeing is a clear indication for the 2002 revenue numbers and that will continue to be somewhat of a question mark.

Youssef Squali

They're going to come at us. We know it. Everybody else knows it. They're going to come at us, they're going to play hard, they're going to play physical. Just like the two games they did here. We've got to weather the storm somewhat, and hopefully our power play unit can get one or two goals and hold on as long as we can and try and squeak out a win.

Terry Ruskowski

People are telling you they are still somewhat optimistic about the future, but the current environment is lousy.

Joseph Lavorgna

It's somewhat of a contradiction, ... I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not going to leap out at you and scream. I also can't control how a book is marketed. To say the book marketing is aggressive, fine, I'm happy with that. Push the book. That doesn't mean that my personality or writing style changes.

David Bergen

The Bank has offered somewhat of a compromise to the commercial banks by offering them interest on the money in the aggregate deposits. This move is some financial juggling on the part of the Bank as they have removed the interest paid on special deposits and have added it to the interest bearing deposit account.

Dr Dhanayshar Mahabir

Looking ahead, we anticipate a somewhat softer third quarter and, again, a more dynamic fourth quarter resulting in mid-single-digit sales growth... and solid operating growth for the full year.

Daniel Vasella

One of the hallmarks of Montessori is grace and courtesy. That makes this situation somewhat more heartbreaking. Our children do live by this grace and courtesy; I wish the adults could also.

Wendy Fisher

Amazon looked pretty strong on sales although gross margins and operating expense were somewhat lower than expected.

Dan Geiman

I've been somewhat surprised by the weakness of investment levels in the U.K., particularly given the strong position the U.K. corporate sector has been in.

Chris Iggo

Everything is somewhat dependent on whether there is a CBA agreement. If there is, Gus' contract issue could easily be revisited after the Dolphins look at other quarterbacks. But the issue still needs to be dealt with one way or the other.

Marvin Demoff

Venus has become somewhat of a 'forgotten planet' with the emphasis on Mars exploration in the U.S.. But Venus can tell us about Earth's future and about planets around other stars -- I expect we will discover a number of surprises from this most capable new mission.

Larry Esposito

We're somewhat surprised by how similar [the analyses] are.

Jay Lawrimore

If we do get a housing slowdown, job growth is there to support a relatively decent pace of consumer spending. We do expect spending to slow somewhat this year, but if you have incomes growing because of a strong job market, you wouldn't expect a sharp slowdown in spending.

Jay Feldman

Because it's the way that you feel and the stories that you are listening to that usually happen to people... like... the things I sing about are basically, somewhat, what goes on in my life. They're stories and I enjoy telling the stories.

Bobby Bland

The kids were really fired up about playing that game because we had played really poorly in that loss to Mt. Miguel. They loved having the opportunity to play them and they definitely got somewhat of a payback.

Marcelo Enriquez

But it is somewhat true because, as a society, we have short memories and there are always new tragedies to capture our collective imagination.

Roberta Urbani

The market is being affected somewhat by the volatility and expectations surrounding the exchange rate.

Carlos Samano

Is it a down year in the Big Ten region? No, ... But I think it's somewhat down in the particular areas Iowa seems to go to most often.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

They're coming in with a bunch of new guys on offense at tailback and quarterback, so we expected it somewhat. I think the offense will eventually come around and start making some big-time plays.

Paul Duren

Gibbons is at somewhat of an advantage because he represents such a huge chunk of the state. He starts with some name ID that other candidates don't start with, so they may have to start (advertising) earlier.

Nathan Gonzales

It would resolve a sticking point of who owns the copyright of pictures going forward, and that might still be somewhat of a sticky issue.

Peter Jankovskis

That addresses, I think, sort of the diversity of Prince Edward Island, ... To show there is support somewhat across P.E.I.

Pat Binns

At least we know the scouting report. Jim Foster does a nice job, but at least we're somewhat familiar with them. Now, we got to go back to work and prepare to play another tall center.

Beckie Francis

[Will cybertherapy become the wave of the future? There is not much danger of that happening today, although the landscape is changing somewhat with the use of videoconferencing software that enables cybertherapists to pick up on the nonverbal cues that are essential to therapy.] Without these cues, ... it is very difficult to do anything more than provide an informational resource to patients.

Larry Rosen

Our city has become a rubber stamp for development, ... We bend over backwards to welcome developers. I think if we did have someone on the City Council who is somewhat of an environmental activist, that would be a beautiful thing.

Kevin King

Yes, you should be somewhat advanced.

Debi Haehl

It's a great celebration. It's our 15th anniversary and we are joining the rest of the world in celebrating Mozart's 250th anniversary. It is also a somewhat bittersweet celebration as it represents my 15th season as director and conductor and my last season with the festival.

Paul Perry

Here at least we have a tent, so the children are somewhat safe.

Ata Mohammad

I wouldn't say mid caps are a screaming buy, but they are somewhat attractive on a relative basis.

Gus Sauter

I have colleges in programs that are somewhat similar to the GEAR UP program. But they are astounded when they look at the success that this program has had.

Joseph Kretovics

You have such a high level of insecurity that morale starts to drop dramatically. Employees are somewhat insecure and concerned.

Larraine Segil

It was a little bit of revenge, I guess. (State) will be a totally new experience. It somewhat boosts my confidence knowing Pyle was high ranked in state.

Jayson Swanson

Being a family child care provider, we are somewhat tied down in our profession, both economically and time-wise, because we cannot take the time to go back to school.

Shirley Brown

He slowed down somewhat after that, but I think that was due to the problem with his ankle.

Tim Loomis

The defendant's style in this case is to be passive-aggressive. She flouts this court's authority at every opportunity so that it makes this trial somewhat of a farce.

Paul Sequeira

My sense is that the discussion around erectile dysfunction and physicians may be somewhat more enthusiastic or easier as new products enter the market, ... The barriers between ... patient and physician will be much easier with newer entrants [to the market].

Tony Butler

Especially if we look at the Mexicans, these are people with fairly low levels of formal education. They're not able to get licensing or credentials in the United States because of their status, so the kinds of jobs available to them in the United States are somewhat limited.

Jeffrey Passel

Demand is off somewhat in the third quarter, but not nearly to the degree that it has been portrayed in the press. Europe has been a slow quarter for everybody, but I don't think there is a reason for panic that the industry is slowing down.

Kevin Knox

Nobody was moving along. We're lucky we have Mace because it is a somewhat easy way to move a crowd along. As much as nobody wants to hear it, it's a part of police work.

Frank Pasquarello

It's very lush and romantic and amusing in many aspects, even though it deals with a somewhat serious subject.

Peter Stone

This is what friends are all about, what friends often do, and that is come to the aid of, and support, and sorry to be so mushy, but give love, to people who are ... in somewhat difficult times.

Stuart Backerman

It provides a look at clouds somewhat analogous to a CAT Scan. It provides a kind of in-depth profile through the clouds and we can see the processes in clouds - where fresh water is created and the rain processes occur.

Graeme Stephens

It's not like meeting in a bar. It's somewhat of an intimate location. People on the train have pretty much the same interests. You see people every day, and you kind of get to know them.

Dan Zimmerman

It is not a massive savings, not like putting in 10 percent energy and getting out 100 percent. We find it is somewhat better than gasoline, but it's not a home run.

Dan Kammen

When you deal with recent immigrants that come from countries that have somewhat of a corrupt police concept , they bring those same ideas with them and they view police the same way they did back home.

Richard Spruiell

Sprint is somewhat enlightened in supporting management over multiple carrier networks. The management support does not include the same [service-level agreements that Sprint offers], but the management arm is closer to what users would do if managing their WAN in-house.

David Willis

We've got reasonably good earnings momentum. While confidence has been shaken somewhat by some of these earnings releases and revenue shortfalls, my belief is we're in pretty good shape.

Philip Dow

I think people's faith in government is somewhat wishful thinking.

Phil Trounstine

Right now we're sitting well in the league, but nationally, we're not sitting so well. Wherever we play, we have to establish it as our place. Right now, we can't afford any losses and we can't afford any mistakes because we're in desperation mode somewhat now.

Gabe Gauthier

The political tension is somewhat priced in by recent declines. The public is also expecting the coming rally to be peaceful, like the one last Saturday.

Sukhbir Khanijoh

I think we probably get somewhat better prices.

Gary Goddard

The fact that there is no inflation is not as much of a surprise to people although it is somewhat of a surprise.

Rosanne Cahn

In the last three election cycles, this [national] component has been somewhat less important. What we're doing this time represents a significant shift back to having an aggressive ground game.

Terry Holt

People are clearly feeling somewhat frustrated that the Iranians have been given lots of opportunities they don't seem to want to take advantage of.

Richard Whitman

California could become the global center for stem cell research with that kind of investment and the talent that's there. But within Harvard alone, we have as many outstanding scientists as arguably all of California. I think many of us are envious of the resources in California, but we're doing our best to organize and effort around somewhat more modest funding.

Dr George Daley

. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically. . . . As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness . . .

M. F. K. Fisher

Germany has somewhat been pushed into the lead in Europe. This implies great opportunities for Merkel, something that hasn't escaped Bush.

Constanze Stelzenmueller

Bode has skied his heart out. Am I disappointed he didn't bring home something? Somewhat, but he did his best and that's all you can ask.

Mike Valcourt

Hopefully, things will die down in a few months and be somewhat normal.

Michael Terpstra

Ultimately, this could mean more jobs and more investments in Clarksville. There are no specific projects in the works right now that are driving this, but we hope to find one after this passes to somewhat use as a 'guinea pig' to help work out the process.

Joe Pitts

I'm somewhat in shock standing here after a missed field goal. I never thought in a million years I would've missed it.

Mike Vanderjagt

We are somewhat consoled by the fact that Marla died doing what she really wanted to do: help people less fortunate than herself. Many of us believe that character trait to be the most beautiful quality a human being can possess. And Marla had an abundance of it.

Medea Benjamin

It's somewhat new, something that's just getting out and about, hopefully it catches on, it would be really good.

Tom Felton

I'm somewhat of a control freak. I told (Jason) it was such a good compliment that I wasn't over there all the time.

Linda Bassett

Although he has been regarded as a marginal and somewhat obscure 'border' figure, Bean was anything but. He was on the cutting edge of events as they unfolded in the march of Anglo-Americans toward coveted Spanish possessions in the Southwest.

Jack Jackson

It's basically the right thing to do. We don't see a need to go back to pursue them and said, 'OK, We gave you $2,500 and you only spent $2,200. Where is our $300?' That seems somewhat ridiculous.

Dick Luedke

It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

William Ruckelshaus

We've seen where young guys are somewhat already damaged goods when they come out of high school. They've had some problems before, but it really doesn't come to the forefront until they get to college.

Jim Sherman

We have done extremely well in the past decade with our capital and will take a somewhat more cautious approach targeting a minimum annual return of 15 percent.

Bill Evans

In general in the state we're seeing the number of children being tested to be somewhat less than we would expect.

Forrest Staley

I know personally my gung-ho support for this war is pretty much gone. We are nowhere near being able to hand the keys over to the Iraqis and saying, 'Here, you drive.' ... I didn't think we would be here three years later with no end in sight. I'm somewhat disappointed in that.

Pete Witte

I helped deliver the baby and everything. That was probably the most exciting moment of my life, ... This is a somewhat close second.

Bryan Clay

Cal has done a magnificent job, and he was the perfect hire for us. I believe he was the perfect hire for N.C. State, too. Cal would have rejuvenated that program. It was a very appealing option. In fact, he was somewhat blown away by it.

Rick Spell

It is also somewhat sexist to think that she has to stop her career so Jim can be governor. What if (Democratic candidate) Dina Titus is elected governor? Will her husband give up his career as a college professor to become the first man?

Eric Herzik

If he is not distorting the truth, the vice president is scaring the seniors. The vice president is developing a reckless disregard for the truth and that is becoming somewhat alarming.

Eric Hauser

Frankly, we believe that this analysis is flawed and somewhat facile. We believe the risks remain acutely material at Bebe and for investors of Bebe.

Eric M. Beder

It's a matter of appropriate disclosing. The federal law is somewhat convoluted in their ways of getting around different things, but in Virginia, it's a matter of anything in value greater than $50 is to be reported.

Emmett Hanger

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.

Emile Durkheim

Most people will have a double take. It raises the novelty level and makes it somewhat more fun.

Edward Morrison

The people who need it most often don't know it exists -- and somewhat incredibly, neither do many of the Jobcentre staff who are there to help them.

Edward Leigh

I just think he's got the best chance to win. I like the fact that he's somewhat of an outsider. … He's new blood.

Fred Mitchell

From what I've witnessed, we still have a lot of new homes being constructed but it's somewhat less than what it's been the last two prior years.

Eddie Thornton

While consumers are clearly concerned that housing activity will slow this year, it is somewhat reassuring that they are much less pessimistic when talking about the conditions where they live as opposed to the nation as a whole.

Ed Ojdana

If he's going there to grandstand, then I think it's somewhat embarrassing.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

It's definitely not your father's Los Angeles of 1955. It's one of those ironies that LAPD, in a city that's pretty hip and sophisticated, is still somewhat trapped in a time capsule.

Eugene O'donnell

The consumer is already somewhat vulnerable in the year ahead as the tax-cut effects fade. If we continue to see pressure from energy prices, consumer spending is almost sure to slow down some.

Ethan Harris

While the Fed is more than one person, Mr. Greenspan's retirement means less confidence in the Fed, with somewhat greater risk of both financial market instability and inflation.

Ethan Harris

We're seeing more and more very shocking price increases, and that is somewhat of a disturbing trend. Time will tell how right analysts are.

Eric Melloul