In the 1980s, Americans preferred milk chocolate and sweeter centers. Today, we have seen a shift in consumer preferences, towards darker chocolate and more exotic flavors.

David Bolton

We have reduced our equity portion in the balanced portfolio back to neutral. We will be thinking about reducing our cyclical exposure a little bit and moving towards defensive stocks.

Gerhard Schwarz

I don't. Not in public. Not at home. I have no ill will towards peaceful people who happen to cover their heads for their faith.

Michelle Malkin

We were running on empty towards the end so to get a win here at Eden Park was great. With 20 minutes to go we were up against it but just when we needed it we dug deep.

Gordon Bulloch

It is fundamental to try to re-orient US-Egyptian relations towards increased commercial exchanges and economic cooperation.

Hosni Mubarak

We will be having a silent auction and a sale of goods for all the things people have donated. All the proceeds will go towards helping someone get out of the poverty trap.

Janet Heap

Violence against minorities has increasingly become a problem in Serbia today. Serbia cannot hope to move closer towards the European Union unless it starts taking these attacks a lot more seriously.

Holly Cartner

I kind of felt that people weren't really leaning towards us because of our opponents, but we came in, stepped up and played big and beat Texas. I think that we are going to catch a lot of people's attention.

Kaylee Brown

His comments gave the impression that (the BOJ) is taking another step towards the end of quantitative easing.

Izuru Kato

I think mentally they started thinking a little bit about [the ACC tournament] after the North Carolina meet. I think that now it's a primary focus. A lot of what we do now is going to be dedicated towards what we want to do two weeks or three weeks from now.

Mark Bernardino

It is more towards the Kenyatta aloofness. It is delegation without taking responsibility. Ministers are contradicting each other. They are issuing statements that endanger the nation. But the President is quiet. It is not a good trend.

Joseph Kamotho

We will continue to brandish our weapons in the face of the occupation (Israel) as Gaza is only the first step towards the liberation of all of the land of Palestine.

Al Aqsa

Only a fearless person can work towards self development and can also help in social and political development. Therefore one should fearlessly perform all his duties.

Yajur Veda

It was great to make him look like a fool. His attitude towards animals is despicable.

Yvonne Taylor

So we're well on our way towards achieving the same volume as we did last year.

Rob Laird

We urge the Supreme People's Court to conduct an immediate review of this decision with a view to overturning it. Extending the death penalty to cover more crimes goes against the international trend towards abolition.

Mark Allison

Coalition members are increasingly aware of the need for fiscal consolidation. However, key measures to bring the budget deficit back towards a more sustainable path have not yet been implemented so far.

Thorsten Polleit

The e-business infrastructure is built upon a variety of applications running on different platforms across different networking protocols -- and they all need to share data, ... Universal access to data is a quantum leap towards the industry's goal of interoperability.

Linda Sanford

This event should remind us all of the distance we, as a people and country, have come towards realizing a major element in our post-conflict transformation.

Gyude Bryant

The important thing is whether or not the overall movement towards stability and security is falling more and more in the hands of the Iraqis.

Genjohn Abizaid

The slight earnings disappointment is compensated by the positive outlook on dividends, where management guidance is moving towards our more aggressive dividend payment assumptions.

Gilbert Lopez

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

John Stossel

There must be a tidal change in the attitude towards club funding in the next few years because there is simply no getting away from the fact that ticket prices cannot continue to rise at the rate they have.

Charles Barnett

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals...

Ben Stein

The one lesson we can learn from Europe wireless is having one GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) standard. Can we as an industry compete -- but also work towards -- a standards solution will be a major question.

Paul Chellgren

We still stand here today having great concern about the lack of commitment, dedication, and focus towards this case. Justice delayed is justice denied.

Ramon Alexander

This is a day that we have been working towards for a while. It has been nice to be able to play in the city for our home games up until this point, but we are excited about representing our university at our home facility.

Tom Walter

As we step into the new fiscal year, we believe that the demand environment will continue to remain buoyant and there is an increasing acceptance in the market towards the global delivery model.

Ramalinga Raju

Today's releases represent the initial step towards some of our larger prize competitions. We want to know what adjustments we should make to draft rules and what collaborations we should use to ensure these competitions are challenging, achievable, and valuable to both NASA and the competing teams.

Brant Sponberg

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Walter H. Pater

The Lady Cubs remembered they were a team and that they needed to work towards that common goal. These players never cease to amaze me. They are a hard working bunch, on and off the bench.

Joyce Bickers

We withstood that first spurt and then we got our bearings together and we were in the game towards the end of the first half there. And then they just went on that run and that was just an effort run. They just gave greater effort than we did, and that was the difference in the game right there.

Mike Burns

IMS services collaboration is an integral part of the Nortel and IBM relationship. The work we are doing together in the lab, demonstrating a truly integrated IMS solution, is an important step towards removing cost and complexity barriers for service providers.

Sandy Aitken

I want you to understand instead that World Cup 2007 will be a staging point for us; the opportunity for us to demonstrate that what we believe in, what we are working towards can happen, is happening and will continue to happen long after World Cup is over.

Sir Roy Trotman

Our results reflect the impact of the shift in Baan's business models towards more subscription-based licensing agreements.

Jim Mooney

We certainly look forward to putting this past us and moving forward concretely and in very positive steps towards rebuilding our credibility with the community.

Richard Henning

The results reflect an excellent performance from all of the business operations of the club. Football business has moved much closer towards a sustainable cost base for the long term.

David Murray

The market expects the Fed to be hawkish towards inflation. If they highlight there is a greater inflation risk further out, then there is room for the dollar to push higher against the euro.

Paul Mackel

Our interest today is to ensure that this energy and concern will be harnessed towards convincing negotiators and leaders of Afghan factions alike of the benefits of including Afghan women as full partners in the decision-making process around the peace table, in humanitarian efforts and in reconstruction of the country.

Angela King

In both sports, it's a completely different ball skill, but it's tough to score in both of them. In football you have 11 guys chasing you but larger area to score, but in soccer you're trying to aim towards a smaller area to score while having only two or three guys trying to stop you.

Julio Mora

If plaintiffs were able to flesh out this argument in an amended complaint, it may establish that the dangers of McDonald's products were not commonly well known and thus that McDonald's had a duty towards its customers.

Robert Sweet

We call on you to understand the priorities of our Palestinian people at this stage and continue the spiritual and financial support in order to push the region towards stability rather than pressure and tension.

Ismail Haniyeh

I can certainly understand (the council's) position in wanting to do what's best for the city. I disagree that this (countersuit) is what's in the best interest, but I have no hard feelings towards them.

Bill Hagemann

What we have agreed is that hostilities should cease and we should work towards a solution.

Chenjerai Hunzvi

I did three and a half years in the architecture school with no real love or feel for it. After quite a while I realized I don't like to pick up a pen and freely sketch and let my imagination run towards structures. And if I don't have that natural desire, what am I doing here? How did I let this illusion go on so long?

Art Garfunkel

We've taken a first step towards helping Portugal to move forward not only in soccer but also to achieve things in other areas of life.

Luiz Felipe Scolari

The government acknowledges his great talent which is why it continually exempts him from his obligation to serve with the National Guard. He has proved worthy of the understanding shown towards him.

Tassos Papadopoulos

Because the date is connected with Turkish progress towards the European Union.

Tassos Papadopoulos

The Millions More Movement represents so much of what ALC and other organizations on campus are about - working towards racial justice.

Omolara Bewaji

It is also a testament to the role that Ireland and its citizens have played towards combating world hunger, poverty and under-development in agriculture and rural development.

Ronan Keating

Towards this goal, we are currently dissecting the molecular mechanism by which the aborted function of this repair enzyme attenuates its normal repair pathway. This is crucial information for understanding how to design new drugs or other interventions that help patients.

Cynthia Mcmurray

We try to put three scholarships towards special teams -- one kicker, one punter and one combo guy, ... That should show how important we think it is.

Scarlet Knights

Sharman has thumbed its nose at the court. They were given a chance to do the right thing and they've ruined it. They cannot be trusted to even take the simplest steps towards complying with the court's orders and again have shown they intend to do nothing about the illegal activities occurring on a massive scale on their system.

Stephen Peach

I'm really proud of the record and I think we've come together really well on it. Sometimes it was a bit of a long process and I wasn't quite sure where it was going -- but you know, towards the end it was starting to take shape and it was really exciting.

David Gahan

Congresswoman Lee is a long-time advocate for both working people and patients. Her intervention at Eden Medical Center will help hospital management and SEIU members take one step closer towards a fair contract that puts quality patient care first. Our members look forward to negotiating with management to settle an industry standard contract and getting back to taking care of patients.

Sal Rosselli

The show is geared towards people with a sense of humor.

Danny Liberto

Vacations are getting longer and the trend towards short trips is over.

Horst Opaschowski

We respect the owners' emotional attachment towards their pets. Under this service any dog owner can file a complaint about their missing dog and we would help in retracing the pet through our own network.

Viren Sharma

This is definitely going to help me because now I'll be able to go into the shops where the merchants are bilingual, and show them and share with them what knowledge I have of the Spanish language. I think it will give us a chance to share opportunities, to be on the same playing field and work towards a common goal.

Jeanne Struck

Not only do we want to reduce the fragmentation of Linux, but we also want to reduce the fragmentation of the standardization groups around Linux. So we're all trying to talk and find a way that we can all cooperate together and work towards one platform and one solution -- that's an ongoing effort.

John Ostrem

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Barbara De Angelis

He's never shown any aggression that I have ever seen towards anybody.

Kristen Butler

We're glad that our President has shown some interest towards the public. We should thank him for this. But this is not the final step.

Roman Vazhenkov

To score two goals when we were down to 10 men is really exceptional and we have taken a big step towards the final. It's a great result and we can be confident for the second leg. There was a lot of hard tackling but we stood up to the challenge and can look forward to the return.

Didier Deschamps

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.

Steven Biko

If we did that we'll go a long way towards poverty alleviation, promoting development and allowing a better life for all, for the people of both countries.

Jakaya Kikwete

Both the central government and this administration are actively leading this community towards universal suffrage in an orderly fashion. I am 60 years of age. I certainly want to see universal suffrage taking place in Hong Kong in my time.

Donald Tsang

Despair, feeding, as it always does, on phantasmagoria, is imperturbably leading literature to the rejection, en masse, of all divine and social laws, towards practical and theoretical evil.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

When we started getting the video airplay is when we saw the album sales start to climb towards the 100,000 mark. Before that, selling 10,000 in bluegrass was considered to be a huge success.

Rhonda Vincent

As we move towards the 2006 World Cup in Germany, we all need to ensure that our pronouncements are based on fact, help constructively to deal with any problems that may arise, and assist in engendering confidence in our country and the continent.

Joel Netshitenzhe

It was a very, very busy clinic. When they first started out it was really geared towards lower-income people who couldn't afford to go to the doctor. And then young women started to use the clinic a lot. And I don't think things have changed much since then.

Janet Sacavage

There's always a chance the yellow would have come out towards the end and I would have had a shot to go after him. As it turned out, I didn't.

Sam Hornish

People are looking towards their remarks about how the economy is doing, and I think they will be more specific on that. The Fed will probably tailor its remarks to build the expectation that it will be a while before they raise rates.

Rajeev Dhawan

Towards the end of the campaign we've found that winning people over has not been as easy as we'd thought. We've started to look closely at who will vote for us but no one will tell us. If they did, we'd be more confident.

Martin Johnson

Going into 2006, we maintain our positive view towards gold and note that prices have the potential to top $600/ounce in the course of this year, strongly influenced by the still massive funds floating around globally.

Macquarie Research

ARC International continues to benefit from the industry's increasing adoption of configurability and our leadership position within this market. The environment for intellectual property licensing is improving, and despite the revenue shortfall, ARC continues to make good progress towards achieving its strategic goals.

Carl Schlachte

This refinancing is an important first step towards maximizing the full potential of our unique distribution platform. We have lowered our cost of debt, eliminated near term liquidity constraints, extended all repayment maturities until after 2012, and now have debt covenants with flexibility to manage the business strategically.

Brandon Burgess

I have exhausted the administrative process with this property and I have been met with refusal towards any compliance efforts.

Barbara Taylor

The reason for this tremendous shift towards greater transparency is because of the growth and dominance of the capital markets. The monetary policy impulse is now driven by how the bond market, stock market, currency market react, so now it is more important that those markets understand what the Fed intends.

Bill Dudley

The value set by her people on the freedom and sanctity of the individual, on justice and fair play, on mercy and tenderness towards the weak, and their dislike of lawless violence and their capacity to tolerate, forget and forgive have been, for all England's past mistakes and faults, a very real factor in human evolution.

Arthur Bryant

We've made significant progress in our cost savings initiatives, with reductions in all operating expense categories, ... Hasbro's management team remains focused and the expense reduction initiatives we began last year are a major step towards our most important objective of returning as quickly as possible to the profitability levels we have had historically.

Alfred Verrecchia

I think it's a great time to find buying opportunities in names that you can revisit, ... It's a lot easier to buy stocks as they're coming towards you rather than running away from you. It's a good time to sharpen your pencil and go after some of these names that have kind of run away on valuation.

Brian Clifford

The international community should make clear that its support - which has bolstered Musharraf's claim to legitimacy - will quickly evaporate unless he shows he is serious about taking steps towards democratic reforms.

Robert Templer

We've lost a giant, we've lost a legend, we've lost a man who created his own charisma and made it work around the world. It's just hard for me to really grasp that Wilson is already travelling towards the greater place.

Solomon Burke

Our vision is to make our products indispensable to all physicians, from independent practitioners to the largest physician practice groups, academic medical centers and specialty groups, and today we are taking two significant strategic steps towards that goal.

Glen Tullman

If there is going to be a sector that should be naturally inclined towards online resilience, you would expect it to be the retail sector.

John Earley

The company reported continued strength across the product line, highlighting the trend towards higher speed interfaces, further acceptance of the M160 core router and OC-192c cards, and initial revenue recognition on the M5 and M10 aggregation routers.

Lissa Bogaty

$26 a share is a fair value for PeopleSoft. If this deal doesn't go through, PeopleSoft's stock will start going back towards the levels before the original merger was announced.

Trip Chowdhry

The Committee has proposed a review of the fiscal rules, looking particularly at how the rules may need to be supplemented towards the end of one cycle and at the start of another.

John Mcfall

We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth - our common and only shelter.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

If anything, this confirms the Fed's bias towards inflation rather than worrying about a slow down in growth. The Fed seems to have no worries about growth, as least as far as manufacturing is measured by ISM.

Gina Martin

These institutions, the wider Innovation Zone, and the foundation of an International University, are very significant steps towards establishing the Thessaloniki region as a pole of attracting scientists from Southeastern Europe and at the same time establishing the region as the base of new enterprises in the new technology sectors.

Costas Karamanlis

While last weekend got a bit tight towards the end, we got across the line and that was the important thing.

Pat Lam

In terms of public reaction over here in Ireland at the moment (towards the Henson comments), I don't detect anything 'stinging' - if I can put it that way.

Tony Ward

There has been a shift this week towards expectations of another U.S. interest rate rise in March -- the interest rate differential is there and it is helping the dollar.

Derek Halpenny

The observance does not only recognize (the passage of the 19th Amendment) but also commemorates the ongoing effort towards full equality for women in our society today.

William Davis

The referee was spot on and I've got no complaints. You can't react the way Darren reacted towards the referee. If it's for foul and abusive language, then I support the referee's decision 100 per cent. There's an internal disciplinary situation that will be put in place.

Nigel Worthington

I thought Rodney Carney stepped up really big when he had to. The 3 he hit towards the end of the first half, and the 3 when it was a two-point game late in the second half, hurt us.

Doug Wojcik

I got to like the English. They feel the same animosity towards us that we feel towards them, but they don't speak of it.

Dimitri Yachvili

[The attack] indicates that unless there is decisive and sustained effort taken to dismantle the terrorist organization, it will be impossible to move towards normalizations and towards political negotiations. That's the message of today's attack, ... And I think the responsibility on that lies with the Palestinian Authority.

Raanan Gissin

I hadn't seen him. It must have been seven or eight years ago and he was very abusive towards her and he hit her in the head with a hammer.

Mary Haynes

Some people may feel that we are stating the obvious and some people may not. We want to encourage people to move away from the coast rather than towards it.

Brad Davis

This win was important; it puts us towards our goal of 10 wins. The purpose was to improve from last season and finish at least .500 to help turn the program back to the winning side.

John Blackburn

We do have a good view out the window towards it.

Chuck Wood

So I went to the Doctor's yesterday. He said, "What appears to be the problem?" I said, "I keep having this dream, night after night, beautiful girls rushing towards me and I keep pushing them away." He said, "How can I help?" I said: "break my arms."

Tommy Cooper

I am really glad that we had such a good turnout for this. We're trying to determine the correct — if there is — location for the pool. With the bond money, we've got $972,000 to be put towards a swimming pool. Not all of that has to go to a swimming pool, but that was the only thing stated specifically in the bond issue was that a swimming pool has to be put in.

Chuck Freemyer

He loves it here. And someone like Bryan will talk to his buddies -- word-of-mouth helps predispose artists towards playing here.

Attie Van Wyk

Undoubtedly it's historic ... The feeling that the Vatican itself is leading the way to all of the believers all over the world in changing the attitude towards Judaism and Jewish people.

Isaac Herzog

We are expecting a gradual turn towards the west/northwest sometime Sunday, but it could still continue to move north.

Todd Kimberlain

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious and gracious Friend expressing his mind to us by his word, that we may know it.

Jonathan Edwards

There's definitely been more of a swing towards those type of shows this year.

Dawn Ostroff

Proceeds from this event will go towards our new downtown Christmas decorations. We have picked out the decorations, this event will help pay for them.

Jane Jones

Unemployment at 6 percent means the Fed has just lost six full years of progress towards lower unemployment in just six quarters. With its preferred measure of core inflation at the lowest level since the 1960s, the Fed probably requires a run of monthly payroll gains of 150,000 to 200,000 before it will feel any real need to tighten.

Rory Robertson

December's trade data supported the message from yesterday's industrial production figures that the economy is unlikely to rebalance away from the consumer and towards the external sector any time soon.

Paul Dales

One change has been the number of countries we track, which is a reflection of the pace of reform and progress on the continent. Another change has been the continuing progression towards peaceful transitions in power, which has resulted in a new generation of leadership coming into its own.

Charles Stith

Today we are signing a letter formalizing the intent of NASA Centennial Challenges and the X Prize Foundation to work towards a future agreement for two X Prize Competitions.

Brant Sponberg

We are excited about this discovery because it provides a genetic test that will lead to improved patient diagnoses, and gives us new insight into the causes of ataxia and other neurodegenerative diseases, an important step towards developing an effective treatment.

Laura Ranum

The strength of Laurier is that they're coming on strong towards the end of the season and the strength of Western is that they are very young and talented so it doesn't really matter to me who we play.

Chris Critelli

Greenspan's shift to a 'don't criticize what you don't understand mode' signals that the low level of long-term interest rates will, by themselves, not be a factor pushing the Fed towards more tightening.

Bruce Kasman

Mr Watson lurched forward towards the knife. He walked into it.

David Aubrey

While this (SERB board) ruling makes them a public employer, they (Denison students) have to count only towards their population, but not towards their status as a village or city in other government definitions.

Shawn Wilson

I said I wouldn't complain about it until I lost and I haven't lost yet. We haven't won a world title but every event is a step towards Beijing.

Gail Emms

When I came to Denver, ... I wasn't much of a student and really didn't think I could finish with a degree. Then I look at Ted who has a 3.94 GPA and working for a biology degree towards medical school. The guy is up until 5 a.m. doing homework, then goes to class and practice, even helps me with school stuff. He makes all of us better students and players.

Gabe Gauthier

As part of our commitment towards BEE, we will also provide work to some of our SMME partners countrywide in a continuous effort of skills transfer.

Brian Sell

Our pitchers did a very nice job. I think we only had two walks, so they did a good job of throwing strikes. We didn't play defense very well. We got some nerves out. We started hitting the ball a little better towards the end. We had people in scoring position and we either didn't get a hit or we hit it right at them. When they got in that position we either made an error or they got a hit.

Brian Morrison

My road is towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I decipher in a new way the world unknown to you.

Dziga Vertov

As one who fought in all of Israel's wars, and learned from personal experience that without proper force, we do not have a chance of surviving in this region, which does not show mercy towards the weak, I have also learned from experience that the sword alone cannot decide this bitter dispute in this land.

Ariel Sharon

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Travel agents are usually familiar with a variety of policies and can steer you towards the one that's right for you.

Beth Godlin

The Arafat-Clinton summit is critical because it will show whether we are moving towards a summit which might yield an agreement or whether we are moving towards deadlock, which will lead to confrontation.

Chemi Shalev

Glover had a great run. They lost him on the second level and he shuffled around towards the end zone. It showed the heart and determination of a senior. A senior does that for a team. We needed something to happen. We got the ball and we made something happen.

Greg Mcanally

A separate website is being opened to record all contribution made towards the J and K relief effort so that funds donated to this cause are earmarked for the purpose.

Sanjaya Baru

You might expect little girls to love their Barbie and expect an imaginary love in return. Instead girls feel violence and hatred towards their Barbie.

Agnes Nairn

By carefully avoiding the first step towards intemperance... and by cherishing the wish to deserve and the hope of receiving the approbation of your country, you can alone render yourself able to occupy with honor the high standing in the Navy to which many of you are destined.

Franklin Buchanan

Towards the end they were being double and tripled teamed all the time. They're pretty good at getting out of the traps but you can't shoot when you're being trapped. Newtown played great defense.

Nikki Tartaglia

I feel like we got in a rhythm towards the end there.

Richard Kovalcheck

Exploration of the anti-world's mysteries is a crucial step towards our understanding of the early universe, and how we came to be.

Raymond Orbach

The president is encouraged and believes this is a step in the right direction. It will go a long way towards the regeneration of the continent.

Bheki Khumalo

He said to me, ''We are now going towards your friends, and if you attempt to run, or we are insulted, we will blow your brains out.'' When we had got into the road they formed a circle, and ordered the prisoners in the center, and to lead me in the front.

Paul Revere

This is a momentous case. The UK is at an important crossroads. It can reaffirm its stand against torture, which is absolutely banned, or slide towards illegality by its tacit acceptance that torture is sometimes OK.

Kate Allen

This is in line with our expectation that demand for new housing would 'cool off' towards the end of 2005 and in early 2006 as higher short-term interest rates, driven by the Fed, would ultimately translate into higher long-term borrowing rates.

Brian Bethune

It has always been our aim to increase the spread of medals. We have directed our funding towards sports where we felt we could improve our performances leading into Beijing (the 2008 Olympics). We are also encouraged by the way sailing and equestrian have bounced back after disappointing results in Athens.

John Coates

I watched some of the original series when I was a kid, and watched some of the NEXT GENERATION shows and I've seen some of the movies, not all of them, but I wasn't any great aficionado. In all candour, I suspect my own aesthetic and what interests me about the medium of television -- does not lean towards STAR TREK.

Star Trek

I don't really have a secret to it. I'm just really aggressive towards the board and read the ball and get in front of the girl. My height doesn't help me, but I love getting inside and being physical.

Nicole Strasko

He was facing away from the Bolton goal to the left of the penalty area when a cross from the right came looping in. And he somehow jumped backwards, turned and headed the ball towards goal so that it arced over the keeper into the far top corner. He blatantly didn't mean to do it and we still lost on aggregate.

Andrew Day

We have been blessed over the years. For some reason our momentum really builds towards the end of the season. They toughen up, and … they relax.

Dale Mabrey

Companies are working towards a rationalization of the software industry because the growth rate is permanently declining.

John Difucci

Understanding the needs of people is the first step towards victory. People need to see we have the right vision, values and policies. But the bottom line is that to stay in power we have to release power. We know that the new enemy is a sense of powerlessness.

David Miliband

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

David Hare

Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold.

Dannii Minogue

There is no true de-regulation or open-skies policy in Asia. Even if they are not government owned there is high degree of protectionism and favoritism towards home-based carriers.

David Pettigrew

We told our European partners that their policy towards Belarus is groundless and useless.

Andrei Popov

It is a good development psychologically. We've seen the high water mark relative to losses. It means the model has shifted, that they are in fact working towards profitability.

Scott Reamer

We believe that this quarter's results will be the final straw for some of those investors that were taking a leap of faith on Amazon. While we believe now is the wrong time to throw in the towel, the market will likely take a 'prove it' attitude towards the company's future.

Heath Terry

Considering the huge increase in the stock prices towards the end of last year, the price decline is due to unmatched demand and supply, rather than because of fundamentals.

Masayoshi Yano

I know why God gave him only one arm -- because he made up for it with his heart ... He gave him a big heart. People gravitated towards Emory.

Connie Hunt

The trend is towards the bourgeois-smug.

Gunter Grass

He's got an out-clause to go overseas, but I'm probably 90 per cent sure that Motts would be staying. We'll sit down with him after the Commonwealth Games to talk to him, but we'd be swaying him towards not going.

Seamus Mcpeake

China needs to promote domestic demand to gradually change its development strategy that is [currently] orientated towards exports.

Chen Xingdong

Sanyo is in a weak financial position and has a dwindling amount of money and resources to put towards developing new handsets. Joining hands with a strong player like Nokia would be a positive move.

Fumio Osanai

If this storm does start to track towards [the Houston] area ... we would certainly see a lengthy recovery process in the nation's refinery industry.

John Person

As the party goes towards two separate congresses, the infusion of a new leadership untainted by the current disagreements is imperative to facilitate a reunification process.

Arthur Mutambara

Glen has been making big shots for us. Any time a team commits to the double team on Yao (Ming), we have been doing a great job of making them pay, especially towards the end of a game.

Rudy Tomjanovich

It's time now to redirect resources towards supporting studies that try to understand how religious faith influences people's health and well-being through understandable mechanisms.

Harold Koenig

Towards the end, we just couldn't execute.

Brett Bucktooth

The market would have been down if it had not been for one big buying program towards the end of the day, which most people suspect was the government.

Robert Sasaki

They need to be taught a lesson. They'll learn that politics are shifting towards mass transit.

Joseph Mcgee

Clearly there is a momentum towards gold at work. It is flirting with $500 and the indications are it should go through it. That will be a worldwide headline and will attract more buyers.

David Kotok

We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

Ricardo Lagos

We are in a weak El Nio that started a few months back and is gradually building. Typically what ends up happening is we get more 'cyclogenesis' --the formation of storms -- taking place in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico off of the Texas coast. Once these things form they tend to track towards the Northwest. It puts (Lufkin) in proximity for some rainfall.

Barry Keim

If all of our energies could be focused towards all the exciting things going on in Benton City, it would blow us out of the water.

Sandy Johnson

Towards the end, he put his head down and wouldn't look at me. I felt betrayed. All of us did.

Johnnie Nelson

She told him to get out, to get out. He started walking towards her and she closed her eyes.

Glenda Davis

Towards the end of 2006 and the beginning of 2007 we will see greater deployment of wireless technology in businesses. At that time you will see the numbers changing with regard to security awareness as well.

Michelle Warren

There is no reason for Italy not to look towards the future with enthusiasm. We have our problems, but we will solve them, believing that we have all that we need to be able to do so; talent, capital and the attention of the international community.

Mario Draghi

We did a lot better towards the end of the season when we won seven of eight. We know where each other is on the court. We have better ball movement. We're moving off the ball. We're seeing each other better. That's a big improvement. The defense has picked up a lot. We're getting back on defense.

Amanda Gonsalves

Two close persons departed and they both kept me going towards the end.

Richard Virenque

I particularly like the fact that there is no set list of books. Whatever books children choose counts towards their tally for rewards. It's all about reading for pleasure.

Jacqueline Wilson

Each week has been one step in preparation for Big Ten Championships, and this is our opportunity to run on a large track with a bigger field of competition. Everyone has performed well and has improved. We hope to make more steps towards accomplishing team and individual goals this weekend.

Angela Goodman

Understanding how to better develop software that is free from security defects is fundamental. Only by collaboration between top thinkers representing all stakeholders can we solve this problem. The Secure Software Forum is a tremendous step towards that solution and ISSA is excited to be supporting these efforts.

Dave Cullinane

I mixed pitches well. I was 'effectively wild,' and then towards the end of the game I was able to throw it where I wanted consistently.

Ike Davis

It surprises me as to why students choose the subjects they do. I can only guess they are not being adequately coached or steered during their education towards skills employers actually want.

Robert Chapman

This has the makings of classic conflict, ... The American view is to lean towards independence; the European Union will say, 'Let's figure out a way not to make that decision'; and the Russians on the opposite side saying, 'Over my dead body.' .

Ivo Daalder

Hey, the other night your tanks came right up towards the house, is this not a violation of what you promised us, yes or no?

David Koresh

We really try to do perimeter searches around the shelter to make sure some folks who had started and headed towards Oxford Street actually make it inside the shelter.

Doug Gardner

I am quite confident that the policy environment is quite conducive for taking our economy towards a six to eight percent growth path with significant reduction in poverty over the next three to five years.

Sarath Amunugama

We have been tracking the increasing trend towards technical casino crime for some years now and are pleased that our internal procedures proved successful once again.

David Mills

I looked at other places like Pasadena, but it's more conservative, more old style, European style over there, and there is more competition. I feel that the people who live in Santa Monica gravitate towards my style.

Yen Nguyen

We obviously hope that truce is not simply for the time of our visit, but that the truce could be entrenched as the first step towards getting people back to the negotiating table.

Phil Goff

I think we worked towards that [performance]. A lot of the offense is returning. The chemistry is up, we gel, we know how each other plays, so moving the ball was something kind of simple for us.

Darius Walker

This society believed that it was looking towards a new future, and we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.

David Ervine

The picture is vastly improved from that of two or three years ago due to the fine work done by EAC, NIST, and state and local governments, ... The states are working as fast as they can against deadlines coming up in early 2006 and most are making solid progress towards those deadlines.

Bob Cohen

Merkel has a certain coolness towards Russia, after all she grew up in what she would view as an occupied East Germany. But German business interests make good relations essential and she can't ignore that reality.

Alexander Rahr

October first is just another step towards collecting more taxes. It's voluntary. A lot of retailers won't start until after the holiday shopping season. It'll be a gradual effect.

Charles Collins

Without an African internal market, it is an illusion to believe that we can strive towards overseas markets.

Alpha Oumar Konare

We now have to look towards the future. Our leagues are providing exciting competition with the promotion and relegation issues going to the final days of the season before being decided.

Peter Donald

The margins of our groups continue to move towards their target ranges specified in Operation 2003.

Heinrich Von Pierer

I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look.

Buck Owens

We were very pleased with how the team fared this week, it was a first big step towards the Beijing Olympics. We have some solid depth and we are seeing a lot of improvements in the men's kayak crews.

Graham Barton

The objective of these observations is to contribute towards the safety, regularity and efficiency of aircraft operations during take-off and landing.

Solomon Makgale