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The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

George Bernard Shaw

We're in the process of interviewing right now. We take their statements, then go back to the site to verify what they said they saw.

Phil Frame

People were housed in various places. Everyone went to the high school gymnasium so the Red Cross could verify that everyone was accounted for. ... Any time you don't lose your house it's a happier story.

Pat Dell

You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references sir.

Martin Routh

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

Bertrand Russell

I hope it's only a sprain. We're just verifying there are no broken bones. In any case, we won't be looking for him to play for a while.

Al Scates

Our mission was to verify that the voting centers the electoral council had selected physically existed. It had never been our job to determine the location of voting centers.

David Wimhurst

We caught her in a trap and were able to verify that she was not chipped and was a young of the year.

Pam Schnurr

The census is very accurate. If someone doesn't answer the door on the first visit, our workers will go back as many as six times on a different date and time. We'll leave them a note just letting them know who we are and why we're in the area. We also tell them that we'll be coming back. We leave them our name and number so they can call to verify.

Sue Bolfik

Anyone with a GIA Diamond Grading Report or Diamond Dossier can verify the accuracy of their report information quickly and effortlessly through this new service.

Tom Moses

It was the biggest king I've ever seen or sampled in Puget Sound, and I waited until 11 p.m. just to verify the big catch. The largest king I've seen prior to this one was a 39-pounder, and I heard about a 50-pounder that was caught off Point Robinson, but nobody could verify that.

Tom Matthews

No matter how small it is, they should still call their insurance agent and verify what happened. That way it's a matter of record so we can more easily defend them in the future in case anything bad comes up.

John Pisula

We are now in the process of having the signatures verified with the municipal, city and provincial election registrars. We are verifying signatures as we gather them.

Raul Lambino

Everything that the company is saying says that things are continuing to progress. (But) it is hard to verify that independently. You are taking it with a lot of faith.

Jamelah Leddy

The computer is doing a lot of stuff to check for math errors. It's asking about deductions and credits. It's verifying that you put in the right stuff and used the correct tables. It's a much more accurate process.

Kevin Mckeon

We're getting a lot of calls. Our folks are staying late and will be here (today) for those who want to verify the information they received.

Brian Niceswanger

Allowing individuals anonymous access to UK banking facilities, without adequately verifying their identity or source of funds, demonstrates significant failings.

Philip Robinson

If a kid says that he's being picked on in this location at this time, we can pull up the video and verify what's going on.

Jim Daly

Unfortunately, that's above and beyond our control. Every attempt is made, but until we can verify information, we can't clear it.

Bill Carter

The difference is a small price to pay for making sure that we can go back and verify ballots in the voting process. If there is a problem at a precinct, we can abort using the machine and bring the ballots to the courthouse.

Rod Ruddock

After you've been through that [O'Leary incident], everyone approaches it with an entirely different mind-set. The good thing about athletics is most of the stuff is easily verified. But there are an awful lot of facts and figures in their bio, some of which is almost impossible to verify yourself without spending weeks. ... Given the level of scrutiny, we've got to be crazy not to get this right.

John Heisler

If any customer wishes to verify the grade of their diamond.

David Sternblitz

This standard seeks to ease the burden of verifying complex hardware designs, which can account for more than 60 percent of a design cycle.

Harry Foster

The picture is important because it tends to verify what he was saying about what happened.

Gene Scott

We will contact her. We'll verify the information about the hookup and we certainly want to go ahead and move that unit so it can be used for another.

Gene Romano

We have no problem with increased border enforcement in a reasonable way, or with reasonable requirements that employers verify the work status of who they hire, but we strongly oppose the House bill, as does much of the business community, because it is simply unworkable, unreasonable and fundamentally unfair.

Tom Donohue

The least an over-romantic India can do ... is heed to the (former U.S. President Ronald) Reagan dictum: trust but verify.

Brahma Chellaney

They have the training to verify this stuff.

Alan Deboer

That's our theory. We've asked the Coast Guard to verify it.

Bob Dickinson

Obviously, we want to get more information to verify these things.

John Whitaker

We haven't gotten enough documentation from the district to back up the things they've been saying about conditions. Before any heroic or extraordinary means come into play, we want to verify what the current status is.

Richard Vespucci

So much of our roster is from Texas and Oklahoma that it's harder for some of our families to get out this far. We hold our regular number until they verify they're not coming.

Kenny Mossman

The tricky thing about it is it's an area where we're not quite sure how much water there is, ... We have to verify the amount of water available.

Jim Daniels

After much work, we were able to come across a phone number and a phone call that was made to a family member. That phone call led us to a phone number and an address that led us to Fuentes' location. We had local law enforcement respond to that location and verify for us by seeing, speaking with, and even touching Naomi Fuentes to make sure she was alive and well.

Ram Hernandez

It could have been used as a concealment facility the way it changes course. These things are hard to verify because the Underground Railroad was a clandestine operation to begin with.

Nicholas Bellantoni

I have a witness, ... I call a witness to bolster my part of this summation. The witness is the American people. Do they believe that the president committed falsehoods under oath? Eighty percent of the American people -- I call them to my side here at the podium to verify to you that the president committed falsehoods under oath.

George Gekas

They didn't know they had done it, and they could have found out if they'd called before publishing it to verify.

Peter Donnelly

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

George Gurdjieff

The label error was detected during a routine label verification process. As part of our commitment to food safety, we routinely verify that our store product labels match our computer records for allergen declarations.

Maria Brous

This may seem like common sense to most folks, but there's really been no literature or science where researchers tried to quantify and verify the effect.

Len Lichtenfeld

We would like to have at least 600 people to kick for a minute to set a record. We'll have to videotape it and have a lawyer on hand to verify it broke the world's record.

Tracy Bennett

I really believe this possibly could be Mary Lands. My hope is that if the state police have a dog to verify the findings they will get this case solved.

Jim Carlin

There are claims of responsibility. They're really, quite frankly, hard to verify. I wouldn't be able to tell you that we know who's responsible at this point.

Adam Ereli

There were some assumptions made and some trust?extended that should not have been. We had a coach who was committing all of these violations and obviously he was concealing that from the University?we're going to be more vigilant than ever before in overseeing and verifying what people are doing so we can detect these problems so they don't go any further.

Robert Thomas

At the moment, we have more opportunities than engineers. The right staff have ample chance not only to exploit their core skill of digital or analogue circuit design, but also to get involved with the wider mixed-signal IC team to integrate the various circuit elements, to verify and test the design, and bring the complete solution to market.

Nick Horne

We've got to try and verify every one of those registrations. There's no way someone can get on the statewide voter file without it.

Mikel Haas

We would not have opened without an NIGC advisory opinion . . . verifying that they are Class 2.

Larry Stidham

To the best of my knowledge and all the reports I have received this morning, it was a hoax, ... I called the zoo to verify, and the gator is not there. I called the rangers, the city council office and my staff at the lake. There was no capture.

Ron Berkowitz

We will run these signals and verify that they were in fact working properly. We will run the timing of the sensors that were 3,400 feet up the track. We will make sure that the lights worked, that the cross bucks came down, and so on.

John Goglia

Folks have been here from all over the world making test drills and checking on the actual creator itself to verify it was an asteroid that hit here.

Jack Devenney

We have some leads. We know some of them. We are verifying these. But (coup) intentions are different from capabilities.

Gengeneroso Senga

We are trying to verify the reliability of the claims. It's being conducted in an in-depth fashion. ... We remain cautious.

Franco Frattini

Because these losses had been verified during the federal relief process, we were able to start sending out checks, ... This is just the beginning. We are still working to verify damages to crops, structures and farm equipment, and we will issue checks for those losses in the coming months.

Steve Troxler

The first generation of equipment to verify the contents of containers can only detect one thing at a time. After 9/11, they disconnected drugs and connected explosives.

Xavier Raufer

We received a report from a volunteer storm spotter of a tornado in (northern Toronto). But we haven't been able to verify if there was any damage or if anyone else saw this.

Geoff Coulson

They will verify reports of alleged human rights violations and compile information on the causes and perpetrators.

Jose Diaz

I had been to Europe that summer, and they said, 'Can anybody verify that?'

Alice M. Rivlin

We will verify that, because it is strange.

Ciro Santoriello

We would not be concerned if your government accepted the demand of the FARC to restart the process and permitted international observers to not only verify the fight against the AUC, but also to strictly monitor the behavior of the FARC in the generous negotiations conducted by your government.

Carlos Castano

You do want to verify that you're not being shortchanged in any way. Most services are not going to shortchange you, but it's always good to check.

Nathan Lump

[In passing the Real ID Act, Congress did not intend to create a series of hard-to-comply-with rules but to encourage minimum standards for states to verify the identities of drivers license holders, said U.S. Representative Tom Davis, a Virginia Republican.] We weren't trying to carve out artificially high standards, ... This is not an unfunded mandate [to states].

Tom Davis

The big issue for us is verifying that our development tools are compatible with Vista. Since most of our tools are Microsoft applications, that shouldn't be much of an issue. We are, however, using a lot of key third-party applications from smaller companies that might not provide Vista compatibility right out of the gate. This could be problematic.

Joshua Kerr

Eighty percent of the ladies from our database have attended our tour socials and met with our Russian-American staff. We have not received these ladies' photos through the mail. The ladies have actually brought us their photos. We've seen these ladies in person, and we were able to verify that all of them are single, available and seriously interested in finding a partner.

Dan Sykes

The study seems to verify what was suspected, ... The idea of testing longevity is something that needs to be looked at.

Joseph Estey

If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

David Halberstam

We attempted to get (Williams) to come and verify the condition of the deceased.

Chris Sullivan

There's not a whole lot we can do if we cannot verify eligibility, if we do not have eligibility information.

David Belew

Right now, I'm relying on the fire chiefs to verify their membership. I'm leaving it up to the chiefs to decide who they consider a fireman. Then if they're calling the person who stops by once every five years to sweep the floor a fireman, we'll reconsider it next year.

Keith Pitman

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'

Sir Winston Churchill

I think the hearing should have been extended. Why can?t we just wait and verify that all the numbers have been corrected before accepting bids?

Ammon Morgan

[The beams and planks come with a certificate verifying their origin,] a big part of our marketing, ... A lot of people like to know where their material comes from.

Bob Cannon

We notify the credit bureaus to put an alert on your credit file and keep it there over the course of your membership. This requires lenders to verify your identity before they do anything which could negatively affect your good standing.

Scott Mitic

We have no credible or reliable information that it's valid, ... We contacted our county gang unit, the State Police gang unit, and they have no information to verify this.

William Bailey

Over the weekend, they did steam blows to verify the cleanliness of the boiler.

Mark Hanson

The only way his grade changes is if we go back and watch him on tape and decide: Maybe we graded him too low. The numbers -- they're little pieces of the puzzle. We're not in the track business. If they're not football players, we don't want them. (Numbers) either verify what you think or make you re-think your choices.

Buddy Nix

One important thing in the application process for sellers will be to verify that their items are produced locally and are from those counties. The Farmer's Market is for the nature and well being of the local community and for those producers trying to boost their business.

Jenny Taylor

Never take [subcontractors] on their word. Get a good, full contract and make sure they are licensed and insured. Always verify their references. That's very important.

Deborah Verniest

The failure of the Associated Baptist Press to verify false information before publishing its article is inexcusable. This is a premium example of shoddy, tabloid journalism. I certainly hope that it is not indicative of the Christian press as a whole.

Steve Sanford

For the most part, verifying eligibility has greatly improved.

Tiffani Bruce

I just would like to know that we can verify the position was not violating the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Norma Givens

We can't verify the accuracy of the numbers. All of our internal surveys show high customer satisfaction. And after a review of the complaints involving Prudential, it seems clear that since 1997, the number of complaints has consistently gone down.

Bob Defillippo

If (an individual) doesn't have one, we'll establish one in that name. If they have an existing one, then we verify it and add it to the record.

Alice Erickson

Biometric based authentication, which use unique body measurements to verify identity instead of - or in addition to - passwords, are a big business that is growing every year. An industry trade group pegs annual sales at $2.2 billion, and predicts they will hit $6 billion by 2010, as companies add biometric security to everything from ATMs to cell phones.

Shlomi Yanai

Their schools are closed or destroyed, and there is no way at this time to obtain a transcript to verify their eligibility according to our rules.

John Stewart

To the best of my knowledge and all the reports I have received this morning, it was a hoax. I called the zoo to verify and the gator is not there.

Ron Berkowitz

Anyone receiving tax advice should verify the motives and qualifications of those giving it, even those claiming to be charitable organizations.

Eileen J. O'connor

It takes time, it takes manpower, it takes aircraft, ships, to verify this. That's why we are calling on all citizens to help the government, to help the military, to help the police in providing information.

Edilberto Adan