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Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement.

Charles F. Kettering

Virtually all these errors can be eliminated by electronic filing.

Jesse Weller

Only a handful of Democrats know either one of the candidates. Both of them are starting virtually from scratch.

Garry South

The days when staff were taking two-hour lunches and going to the putting green have virtually ended.

Alan Turner

You have circumstances like the University of Houston and Texas Southern University, which are virtually across the street from each other. And they've got two separate law schools. Obviously, that's a legacy of a different time. So as we go into the future, does that kind of model make sense?

Raymund Paredes

They both played extremely solid, very consistent in all aspects of their games. If we can get a little run going for Derek or just a few more putts to fall for Ed, they are both on the verge of just busting out. I just love the consistency of how both are playing under par virtually every round. Both only had a couple of mistakes that kept them from scoring lower.

Brad Neher

He was seen seated behind a desk, immobile, with no close-ups allowed. Virtually his only movement occurred during a poignant moment when his wife swooped in to give him a Happy New Year kiss.

Tom Shales

We've had scouts virtually every single day who show up and watch practice. You sneeze wrong, and they're watching. Every move he makes, people are watching. But the second he gets on the field and starts playing, he's just locked in. He has that maturity level.

Mark Tyler

The supply of folklore remedies for hangover is virtually limitless. The best way to contend with hangover is not to get one, by practicing abstinence or moderation.

David L. Katz

They had virtually an unlimited budget, an open check book. We're not going to have that.

Michael Coats

And as we look at environmental problems around the world virtually all of them have to do with energy considerations.

Dennis Hayes

We think it's appalling that an animal like this, a social animal, should be kept alone in a dark barn for 10 months. That's virtually half of its life, and that's no way to treat an animal.

Peter Fricker

What we're talking about is improving customer service. Virtually any company can benefit from this.

John Tschohl

Twenty years ago, pneumatic cylinders controlled virtually every axis of a case packer. New case packers today are often all servo-controlled. We are taking old case packers and adding two-axis pushers and servo-controlled elevators to provide significantly more speed.

Peter Ratcliffe

While only 10 percent are considered 'financially troubled,' virtually every Internet company we have come across is tightening its belt. Clearly, the company has a lot of work in front of it.

Holly Becker

Basically they need everything. They lost virtually everything.

Bob Mckibben

What we did is important because we proved that virtually all of the wireless networks used by companies and hospitals are completely open and offer no protection for the data on them.

Avi Rubin

The Bible says not to forbid speaking in tongues, since the miracle of Acts 2, for example, was a miracle of God. However, Paul builds in so many restrictions in 1 Corinthians 14 as to make the practice of mere utterance, what is practiced mostly today, virtually of little value.

Paige Patterson

The result of Nkrumah's handling of the economy was calamitous, ... Ghana by 1965 had become virtually bankrupt.

Martin Meredith

Perhaps worst of all, the bill still does virtually nothing to limit the nation's growing demand for oil: the core cause of price spikes.

Sherwood Boehlert

A lot of the content deals we've closed and will be closing for our Web site -- and virtually all the pay content -- is protected by Windows DRM, so it made sense for us to license it.

Jeff Oscodar

Since the cells will adhere to the surface at locations where the complementary nucleotide sequences match, we can program cell adhesion events with a virtually unlimited number of possible coding options. The DNA effectively serves as a molecular barcode on the surface of living cells.

Ravi Chandra

There's virtually nothing to stop the cold air from off of Hudson Bay from flowing down across the midlands. So you get good contrast: the warm air coming up -- the cold air coming down -- and where they meet is your typical frontal location.

Joe Schaefer

I think computers have made it possible that virtually all of us could be observed.

Tom Hoffman

Virtually every major department store has multiple private label brands, so the creation of a private label division gives us access to an enormous and important customer base, with very substantial revenue growth opportunities.

John Hanna

Virtually anyone who gets one can't stop touching it -- it becomes a major item in your life. It's a dangerous thing.

John Peters

If demand should continue to plummet, a lot of retailers will find themselves with too much inventory on hand despite their course of caution. A lot of retailers are cutting back on inventories, canceling orders, in virtually every single area of retail.

Kurt Barnard

Virtually every bus headed Downtown was affected. Some routes were 45 or more minutes late because of the arena event.

Bob Grove

We removed the right engine from the crater and it's virtually intact. It's heavily damaged, of course, but not broken apart.

Bob Benzon

The document expresses great concern about our efforts to hand over sovereignty to the Iraqis. In fact, it explicitly says that once Iraqis are in control of their government, it will make it virtually impossible for the foreign terrorists to operate.

Dan Senor

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

Joseph Weizenbaum

Just to show you how perverse the markets can be, the No. 1 investment over the past 15 months was a product that is given away for free at virtually every restaurant in the world.

Jon Markman

When we added sulfate to the aquifer, we saw virtually immediate stimulation of benzene removal. The bacteria oxidized benzene and produced carbon dioxide, which is not harmful to the environment.

Derek Lovley

The fiber-collagen meshwork looked virtually identical to these so-called 'proto-feathers' found in the Chinese dinosaurs.

Alan Feduccia

You can see it, you can taste it. It hits you right in the face. You get behind an old school bus and you know it. We have more roads per square mile and more vehicles per square mile than any other state in the nation, so we feel a bigger impact from buses and diesel pollution than virtually anyone else because we're so densely populated.

Jeff Tittel

They come in and in a period of less than two days they can virtually wipe out all the menhaden that exist.

Rube Mcmullen

We believe that Wyndham Worldwide translates perfectly as the bold new identity for a company that provides consumers with the widest choice in global travel accommodations for virtually any occasion, price point and experience.

Stephen Holmes

Mike Pence has done a fabulous job leading the Republican Study Committee. They have put out a realistic and credible and specific budget proposal to get spending under control when virtually no one else is talking about it.

Brian M. Riedl

I'm really not in that good of shape yet. But I've got two wins already. We virtually had the whole team at the front, and I had super legs for the climb.

George Hincapie

It's an event that's a good deal for us because at the time of day it's played, the course, otherwise, would be virtually empty.

Rick Dytrych

[The communication was] virtually nil. But we did meet with him and he did express that he wanted a release out of his contract to go to Europe, but since then not really a lot of communication has taken place.

Mark Watkins

We lost nine seniors, virtually every starting player. Right now, our strength is our offense - we're a pretty good-hitting team. There's some depth in the pitching, although the staff is real inexperienced. Our nemesis is our defense. That's where we really need to improve.

Tom Hockenjos

Traveler's checks are nice to have if you have a habit of losing things or are traveling to a destination with a high crime threat, or to a very remote area. Otherwise, ATMs are virtually everywhere these days, with most accepting a variety of cards.

John Briley

Progress is running far behind Iraqi expectations in virtually every area. In their view, most Iraqis are not seeing 'amazing progress.' All too many of them live in constant danger, with less electricity in many areas than under Saddam Hussein.

Dewayne White

In Saturday's playoff game against (Washington) when he ran to his left and he did the whirlybird and threw it downfield? That's what he used to do. It hasn't happened this year since that first game in Jacksonville. Those things are virtually gone.

Gil Haskell

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.

Sheila Jackson Lee

It is a logical extension of what had gone on here virtually 100 years.

Marshall Bloom

Good Lord. ... It's virtually unheard of. Off the top of my head, I can't think of a white artist that's been nominated in this category before.

Robert Darden

Virtually everyone agreed that overall the act has been successful. There are plenty of problems with the act, but it's still young.

Frank Davis

Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Michael J. Gelb

One of our big kids got hurt, so we asked Troy to jump center. He virtually won all the tips. As far as jumping ability and quickness, he was blessed with that.

Roger Jury

What is going on in the political process is a transition from war to peace. After 22 years of war, we have won the war, virtually, and we have to win the peace.

Abdullah Abdullah

Italian labour costs are beyond the point of being compatible with EMU membership without painful reforms. The budget deficit is being widened to make up for loss of export market share. Public debt is heading up towards 150% of GDP. The political mess in Rome means exit from EMU is virtually inevitable.

Charles Dumas

It's virtually all steel and plastic and aluminum and glass. It could be dismantled and reassembled somewhere else.

Tom Holst

There's a time-share purchase opportunity for virtually any size wallet.

Scott Berman

I've virtually packed the game in now, so there's no chance I'll be coming to Bath City.

Gareth Davies

At least for your political supporters and your political junkies out there, you're getting to them at virtually no cost.

Bob Loevy

It's been virtually untouched since it was built and we'll have to tap into the water system.

Michael Chetcuti

He's dominated in virtually every appearance. He was the best [available] bullpen guy in the industry.

John Schuerholz

We continue to see strong order rates and extended lead times in virtually every product category and application served.

Pasquale Pistorio

We can't have hotels in every location; no hotel company can. To provide the ultimate flexibility to our members, we allow them to redeem their points at virtually any hotel in the world ? even our rivals' hotels.

Steve Sickel

Virtually all of the atoms in our bodies and in the Earth were in interstellar grains - stardust grains - before the solar system formed. We're using this comet as a library that picked up records of the formation of our solar system, and has been storing them far from the sun at very low temperatures for four and a half billion years.

Donald Brownlee

People don't have time to waste and certainly not on cleaning every nook and cranny of the shower. Scrubbing Bubbles® Automatic Shower Cleaner keeps the shower clean with the daily touch of a button, virtually eliminating the need to scrub the shower and tub -- it's hands-free.

Laura Dellutri

We are at a moment here in economic time that things are really going remarkably well on virtually all fronts and that's why you see the market at all-time highs.

Mary Farrell

This is inconsistent with virtually every shred of scientific evidence we have.

Jacob Smith

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

George F. Will

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

Bobby Scott

Hybrid Synergy Drive is a core technology that will play a key role in virtually all Toyota models in the years ahead.

Jim Farley

Florida is wide open, ... With Bob Graham being in the race, virtually every one of the movers and shakers were committed to him. Now that he's out of the race, the race is wide open and the convention will basically be the kickoff for anyone of them who wants to compete here.

Scott Maddox

We virtually split the baby. Whether we do that in the future I can't say, but it was important to get a good amount of money across the board.

Joann Campbell

We have intensified our focus on what we do best -- provide core communications services, ... Including today's announcement with EDS, over the past year we have shed virtually all of our non-communications services businesses.

Bernard J. Ebbers

Virtually no one starts smoking as an adult. Ninety percent of all the smokers began as teenagers or younger.

Matthew Myers

Even though we prevailed in virtually every research class action that's been adjudicated, we are settling these cases because we want to avoid the distraction and expense of further litigation.

Mark Herr

I guess you're lucky when you make it from 15 feet two holes in a row to go from 1 down to winning, especially after 18 holes of virtually nothing going in the hole for either one of us. There's no better feeling than making a putt when you have to.

Mark Bemowski

If we persist in that kind of a system of law virtually every business in America, big and small, is going to have to be run from Sing Sing, Leavenworth or Alcatraz.

Benjamin F. Fairless

Virtually anyone with wireless skills is getting attention in the market. The jobs might involve handheld devices, or working with global positioning systems (GPS), or wireless voice and data integration. This field in particular has intensified over the past six months.

Jeff Markham

The athletes and visitors will be taking up virtually every hotel room in the county. It will probably mean hundreds of thousands of dollars for the area. It is going to be a huge weekend for business and tourism.

Jeff Landin

I am pleased to announce the Vancouver expansion that occurs earlier than we had first anticipated. The speed and efficiency in which we completed virtually all of the integration matters with respect to merging the operations of the former Northwest Business Bank frees many of our people from an integration focus to now turn to the Vancouver expansion.

Hal Brown

We will be faced with a year and a half of virtually no growth in this economy. We should not have had interest rates ever getting to 7.25 percent. The monetary policy cycle is far too aggressive.

Brendan O'donovan

Though our employees are scattered across the country like many of clients, we have been operating virtually for about 10 days now. Our only limitation is access to paper files and a temporary inability to access servers housed at our Canal Street office.

Tom Daly

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

William Lyon Phelps

Virtually everything in that story was misleading and wrong. It was so full of errors that it's completely without merit.

Theodore Pappas

When the average American hears the word 'poverty,' they are thinking about someone who lacks a reasonable, warm, dry place to live, lacks adequate food for their children, perhaps lacks clothing, something like that. Virtually none of the people that we currently define as poor are poor in that sense.

Robert Rector

Reed-Custer did a good job of spreading the floor on us. We have seen virtually nothing but the spread offense for the last four games, but Reed-Custer did a good job of it.

Doug Evans

This suggests that approvals are bouncing along the bottom, with virtually no change over the last five months.

Andrew Hanlan

The voice bits will be virtually free, ... The carriers will make their money by offering enhanced services.

Thomas Fitzpatrick

Waikiki was unbelievable during the 1950s. There was virtually nobody there, only the rich people that came in from California. We had it all to ourselves.

David Nuuhiwa

[After changing virtually] everything but the wiring, ... The last two things we changed were the coil and the clutch switch.

Terry Adams

We felt that Bryan Robson set the tone for much of this from the first minute. He was insulting our players and our bench virtually from the start. After 57 seconds, he was out of the dug-out accusing Damien Duff of diving and shouting at the referee and that general tone continued.

Simon Greenberg

The fact that the federal government is looking into this matter is significant. However, I understand that the United States attorney for the District of Delaware was alerted to these problems a year ago and did virtually nothing, ... It is my hope that the real professionals from Washington direct the inquiry, because I am confident that they will do it in a fair manner.

Larry Sullivan

Only the dominant males are allowed to occupy the center of the lek [booming ground]. That's where the females will come. This is such a unique opportunity. Here is a public area where anyone can come and be virtually guaranteed of seeing wild prairie chickens on a spring booming ground. We're very fortunate to have this.

Micah Lee

Virtually every part of state government has had to find efficiencies.

Dan Mclagan

The trains are rolling and there's virtually nothing happening as far as cleanup. They're telling us there is, but we're not seeing it.

Don Goss

You can imagine what's going on in people's minds who lost virtually everything.

Howard Smith

This program calls on virtually eliminating those uses in those products and substituting with other materials that aren't displaying any levels of concern.

Susan Hazen

It's very difficult to track. They don't have one place for all their telecom inventory, so there are lots of Post-it notes and manual processes, and it's virtually impossible for them to audit the bills because they barely keep up with them, much less make sure they're accurate.

Vincent Brennan

Baseball is here to stay on Fox. We have it for the next three or four years. We've gone through trial and error in trying to figure out how to launch shows around baseball . . . We've decided to give it a whirl this year where we will launch virtually all our shows before any of our competitors launch theirs.

Peter Liguori

We get taught for our whole lives that you want to get body on the full-forward so he can't run at it, but now you are not allowed to do it. You virtually have to let the full-forward run at the ball, then are not allowed to hit his arms, so there is nothing you can really do.

Matthew Scarlett

We virtually can lose a school district, which will have a financial impact on a lot of neighboring school districts, which will be a burden on the state.

Terry Link

Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.

Dr. Smiley Blanton

Look at a bottle of say, children's aspirin or your aspirin. Virtually anything has more child protective devices than the firearms in the home.

Frank Walker

By chartering a whole ship we can create a community that simply doesn't exist on land. Our specialty is reinventing the cruise experience for our customers, editing it down until it's virtually unrecognizable.

Rich Campbell

The sales produce virtually all of our net.

Nick Nicholson

Top games now debut with the same hype and anticipation accorded top movies and music albums, and often outsell them. Tremendous amounts of time, money, and talent go into developing today's games. And whatever the platform, there is something challenging, interesting, and exciting for virtually everyone.

Douglas Lowenstein

This discovery sheds new light on the biological causes of the disease. Importantly, virtually all of this risk can be captured by looking at a single-letter change in DNA -- ideal for the development of a genetic test for assessing individual risk and developing more personalized and effective prevention strategies.

Kari Stefansson

Many hospital emergency departments in this country are operating at, or over current capacity. We as a nation, have poured millions of dollars into preparedness, but virtually none of that has gone to the one place that is the true first response to something like a flu epidemic, or a hurricane, or a terrorist attack -- the nation's emergency departments.

Dr. Frederick Blum

They are seeking to make it virtually impossible for shareholders to amend the bylaws or remove a majority of the board.

Charles Wang

We've taken into account the fact that three Tests are virtually back-to-back and we believe we've got adequate cover in this squad to manage that tight schedule.

Trevor Hohns

When you are running on a distributed environment that is loosely coupled, you can scale virtually on demand by throwing in more power.

Peter Lee

We all realize that virtually all of our teams go on vacation between June 15 and the first few weeks of July.

Bob Kraft

His conclusion is contrary to virtually everything I've seen in my 17 year history of commercial free/open source solutions. I believe that the effect of open source on the proprietary vendors is a force 1,000 times more powerful than the force of proprietary principles on the open source community.

Michael Tiemann

This record performance was the result of strength across virtually all of our businesses. While the second quarter was characterized by uncertainties that roiled the interest rate, credit, commodities and equities markets, the third quarter saw trends reassert themselves.

David Viniar

It's working on a big cat. The anatomy is virtually identical. By the time they brought him in they already had him tranquilized.

Frank Ogden

One of the first projects that we have is a $15 million room renovation. We are going to renovate virtually all our guest rooms. New everything - new bathrooms, new bedding, furniture and soft goods; just a complete redo. We've got a lot of capital projects lined up behind that.

Jon Lucas

As a conservative estimate, we believe this deal could have a total contract value in the $20 million range. The fact that this is a licensing agreement also entails that virtually all of the revenue will flow to the bottom line.

Peter Misek

Virtually every university in the country has an alcohol problem. I am concerned about the problems we have with alcohol, but they are less troublesome than some of the Eastern schools I'm familiar with. Students at UW are a lot more focused on their education, I've found, and they are more responsive to authority figures.

Richard Stegman

We've shown a person that's been virtually all over this country and in foreign countries with no residence, no real permanency any place .... just an unidentified person moving around, unnoticed.

Brandon Clark

Some of these people who are on this list I have voted against requests that they have made. And I think it's important that distinction is made that I do that. I virtually will not sell a vote. I'm not going to do that.

Larry Nelson

The Western blot test, which concentrates the brain sample, can detect mad cow disease in an animal at an earlier stage of infection. It is used in virtually all European countries and Japan.

Michael Hansen

The problem with VPNs and notebook computers is that firewalls are being bypassed by remote dial-in users, ... When we've put our software on a lot of people's machines, we see virtually everyone will undergo a hacker attack within just a few weeks.

Robert Graham

It's always been about the betterment of the department and through the course of this, we've learned the department is doing really well, that they've instituted virtually all the changes (Ashby) was bringing to their attention.

Bob Butler

We're going to hire five more people, two in Asia, two in Europe and one in the U.S.. This will take the total number globally to 36 from virtually nothing 18 months ago when we started up the (energy/commodities) business.

Wayne Harburn

We find socially responsible companies in every sector and virtually every industry, ... It seems such a natural way to invest ? Why buy into liabilities and hidden risks that are created by poor practices? It's a good way to assess companies.

Sophia Collier

With such a stunning result, passage of the postal reform bills is virtually assured. The next areas are medical reform, civil service reform, public sector outsourcing and government financial institution reform.

Robert Feldman

The board felt that with the two connections being virtually identical, they ought to have the same price. They approved the fee of $28,000 based on the similarity of the connection in Francis Creek. The authority is prepared to absorb the difference.

Dave Vaclavik

Virtually a living recording of the musical sounds heard hundreds of years ago.

Hans Davidsson

We're in a world where the model of the inefficiently run national oil company is virtually gone. It's a new model (for national oil companies) that brings change and with it resistance to change.

Alexandre Oliveira

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Mark Caine

(The) USDA convinced the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the United States was protected from the possibility of contaminated tissue entering the U.S. food supply because the U.S. had 'created a virtually impenetrable barrier to the introduction or spread of BSE,' and obviously, USDA was wrong.

Leo Mcdonnell

I know $250,000 sounds like a lot of money, but in a capital murder case, bail that low is virtually unprecedented.

Greg Moeller

Virtually every discipline and endeavor is presently under a naturalistic pall.

William Dembski

Without the early-termination clause, people would be gaming the system. People would walk away with a $500 phone for virtually nothing. An early-termination fee allows the wireless provider to recoup the costs of giving a phone to a consumer for a steep discount. Without it, you simply have an economic model that doesn't work.

Joe Farren

It is disappointing for Daniel and we certainly have nothing against him but it has been unfortunate that he has had injuries that have restricted him to virtually being a passenger. We wish him all the best for the future.

Alan Vest

We are very disappointed in Stevie's attitude. I'm stressed about it. Stevie was virtually given the keys to run the team this season ? and now he's gone.

Mark Watkins

[Virtually everyone who knows Daniel says the long putter saved her career.] I know it saved her mind, ... and that's 90 percent of your career.

Juli Inkster

Hence China's currency policy has taken virtually all of Asia out of the international adjustment process.

C. Fred Bergsten

In spite of their great number, tremendous work ethic and sheer presence, they remain virtually isolated from many of the activities of our town. They, together with the other ethnic groups that make up our dynamic population, make up over half of our society. This, my friends, is a true and real silent majority that can add positively to our way of life and our collective prosperity.

Jorge Rochac

We break it down in terms of value for money, product quality and service quality. For virtually all of these retailers, with the exception of Wal-Mart, it is really the service quality that seems to be driving the satisfaction.

Claes Fornell

The absence of bad news is one trigger for the rather good performance at the moment, but there is virtually no liquidity.

Juergen Lukasser

I really like Andy Kennedy. He's a great guy, but he's going to have the tag of 'interim coach,' which makes it virtually impossible to recruit. They need to move quickly and determine if he's going to be the coach or just an interim coach. You can't do recruiting on a permanent basis, because kids aren't going to make a commitment if they don't know who they are going to play for.

Bob Gibbons

Subliminal perception is a subject that virtually no one wants to believe exists, and -- if it does exist -- they much less believe that it has any practical application. . . . The techniques are in widespread use by media, advertising and public relations agencies, industrial and commercial corporations, and by the Federal government itself.

Wilson Bryan Key

The predictors of a good education are virtually impossible to measure.

Lloyd Thacker

With hundreds of breakthrough features, including Spotlight, a lightning fast way for users to find virtually anything stored on their Mac, Tiger will fundamentally change the way people use their computers. We're thrilled that Fujitsu has developed a solution that allows Tiger users to Spotlight search their collection of scanned documents, photographs, and other electronic files.

Ron Okamoto

Doubles today is virtually worthless.

Charlie Pasarell

The default zoning for virtually everything in town is housing. We need to examine whether we've gone too far.

Larry Klein

The ability to network-enable virtually any serial-based device both quickly and cost-effectively allows our customers to preserve their investment in legacy equipment. And, with the addition of the hardened device server models to our Industrial switch and media converter portfolio, we now offer customers even more flexibility for integrating fiber into their networks.

Bill Schultz

We have accomplished more in the last year than I've seen us accomplish in the last 22 years. Change is really difficult for people. And virtually everything has changed.

Valerie Robertson

What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decade.

Alfie Kohn

Harry Reid is the figurehead of a party that stood in steadfast obstruction to virtually all the tools that are being used to keep the American people safe and being used to help win the war on terror.

Tucker Bounds

Downloading is definitely on the rise, but not because it's free - that's probably third on the list - but because it's immediate and the selection is virtually unlimited.

Don Rose

This should be a great quarter for the investment banks across virtually all their business segments. High-margin merger advisory, sales and trading, and stock and bond underwriting all look really strong this quarter.

Robert Hansen

We've done what we set out to do and won all our dual meets and the Virginia Duals. But starting the Big Ten is a whole new season and a challenging one at that with virtually every team ranked.

Duane Goldman

I really felt last year through the middle quarters and virtually the entire fourth quarter we had the pace where we wanted it. It's a lot easier to slow a team down, though, than to speed them up.

Ray Staver

I had virtually given up on the case, but the aftermath has surprised me most of all. One can feel somewhat hopeful now that some good will come out of all this.

Sabrina Lall

Finding two virtually complete big cat skulls dating back to the 13th and 15th Centuries from the moat adjacent to the Middle and Lion Towers suggests they were kept in this area.

John Moores

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

Fernand Braudel

Remember, benchmark performance -- beta -- can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate.

Paul Mcculley

The sales produce virtually all of our net, ... we just try to break even on the races.

Nick Nicholson

Our clients require a high degree of certainty in trusting us with their sensitive data and an assurance that their provider meets the highest possible standards. US clients are virtually demanding SAS 70 certification or they are not willing to work with you.

Andrew Moore

Virtually ... 95 to 98 percent of the money that comes into the island is going to end up in the hands of the state. That ... means that money is going to feed a totalitarian state.

Michael Parmly

Chalk one up to common sense, to committed opposition by trade unions, and to virtually the whole industry uniting in rejection of the package. But even as we congratulate ourselves and thank our colleagues worldwide for their support, we must remain vigilant. You never know when the next attempt to turn the industry on its head may come.

Frank Leys

These types of retail businesses are not what most cities seek for their front door along the interstate. But as long as the federal courts provide them substantial protection to operate on First Amendment grounds, these businesses can locate in virtually any community.

Jay Stewart

In Brazil, the last four years have showed virtually no growth at all. Our expectations are for growth of between 5% and 7% compared with 2005, with that growth closer to 7%.

Carlo Panunzi

The ball can change hands a thousand-plus times, but it will never lose that DNA. The chance of replicating this exact DNA sequence is one in 33 trillion, so it's virtually impossible.

Joe Orlando

The people were not ready for that kind of impact -- not that anybody could be, ... It was far larger than they ever dreamed it would be. It wiped out virtually all their infrastructure.

James Johnston

They virtually all do that because they want people to know what they support. You don't have to hold a gun to their head. You give them an easy way to (report information) and they do.

R. Roth Rudd

As you can imagine, this (storage fees) adds up quickly. Obviously, when someone abandons a vehicle after stripping it, the probability of that person coming to claim it is virtually zero.

Gregory Adler

During the quarter, we announced acquisitions in virtually all operating areas of the company -- in television stations, the Internet, outdoor advertising and syndication, ... We believe these new investments will create significant value at both CBS and Infinity in the years ahead.

Mel Karmazin

Allison started doing pageants because she came from a single-parent home and virtually had no money. Her goal was just to get scholarships to help pay for schooling. She is a typical West Virginia average person. But she has been taken advantage of.

Lavinia Mann Cummings

He's virtually said he saw it and he was standing behind me and he couldn't have possibly seen it.

Matthew Scarlett

Virtually every portion of the community along the coast was impacted by a power outage because of the storm during the weekend.

Paul Moreno

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town.

Toby Keith

It actually would be virtually impossible to exaggerate the magnitude of the state's fiscal problem. And the governor-elect means what he's said about campaign-finance reform. And that intrinsically creates a very tough agenda.

Orin Kramer

We're pushing like crazy trying to get in there by Sept. 1. It's virtually around the corner.

Tom Wood

I am encouraged by the resumption of grain movement along the Mississippi River just one week after grain transportation was virtually halted by Hurricane Katrina, ... Clearly, there is much work to be done but I am confident that remaining obstacles will be overcome to resume all activity in a timely manner. We are assuring our international customers that we expect minimal disruptions.

Mike Johanns

The stronger data virtually assure significant changes in the Fed's directive this week. The new directive will probably include a grudging acknowledgement of the stronger labor market and inflation statistics.

Joe Abate

We're ready to ship in the morning, ... It should be on the shelves at some pharmacies on Friday or Saturday and available virtually nationwide by the first of next week.

Bruce L. Downey

The chances of catching something seven days after the crime is committed in the Northwest Atlantic - and it is a crime - are virtually nil.

Terry Harvey

I can virtually guarantee at today's value levels, no matter what, over multiple years they will rise. The world's greatest companies are trading at below- average multiples when they're wildly above-average companies.

Whitney Tilson

There's virtually no relationship between the number of children born with potentially elevated levels of mercury and U.S. power plants. It's only a very, very small number of people who are affected by local mercury depositions.

Jeff Holmstead

There was virtually no control at the border. They would go back for birthdays, for Christmas, for holidays, because they could always come back across the border easily.

Jeff Flake

A 'no change' outcome looks virtually certain.

James Knightley

Our laws and attitudes on immigration have been almost schizophrenic. At times we have thrown open our nation's doors virtually without limit; at other times we have tried vainly to build walls - legal and physical. Today our laws reflect that confusion.

Michael Greco

Virtually all of the Olympic facilities have been totally destroyed. That mimics what's happened for the country, too.

Bill Fauver

This is just one step in many. I think they look to be dominant in virtually everything they do.

Jeffrey Edelman

They look like porcelain dolls, but I wanted the dolls to feel like skin and be virtually indestructible. This is a hand-crafted doll. We have stay-at-home moms who sew for us.

Teri O'toole

The bottom line is that we have made progress in virtually every area of the collective agreement.

Bob Chernecki

The Democratic National Committee is virtually 100 percent anti-firearms ownership, and the Republican National Committee stands on the side of the freedom.

Wayne Lapierre

Virtually nothing is known about who is kept in the facilities, what interrogation methods are employed with them, or how decisions are made about whether they should be detained or for how long.

Washington Post

We then checked Kansas City. Same card. We looked nationwide and found that same card was the favorite virtually everywhere.

Rachel Bolton

I'm very relieved about the low cost in human terms with violence virtually stopping after our arrival, low cost in lives to INTERFET and our adversaries.

Peter Cosgrove

You have buildings standing in water for what could be up to 80 days, which is the time period they're thinking of before they can get the flood water out. What you're now talking about is constructive write-off for virtually all the buildings.

Dane Douetil

Those surpluses were virtually eliminated in about 18 months. So this is one of the reasons the governors are sort of concerned and really want to run surpluses of 5 to 6 percent.

Ray Scheppach

Now, we're seeing 9,000 to 10,000 people per day, so the economic impact has to be even greater. We know that virtually every motel room and camping spot in the area, including Sweet Home, Lebanon and Albany, is booked during the Jamboree.

Peter Laponte

Virtually any research that we do keeps coming back to the fact that Hallmark Hall of Fame is what has built our brand equity more than probably just about anything else.

Brad Moore

Virtually every Web server in the world runs on Linux, ... Now people are looking at, how do I get the same financial savings in other areas of my business?

Stuart Cohen

The whole house was virtually emptied and although the Johannesburg police's serious and violent crime unit is investigating, no one has been arrested so far.

Schalk Bornman

If [Hamilton] hadn't done that, they might have gone to the rats and fires. Virtually everything in here, there are not copies of anywhere else.

Tim West

We are definitely focused on small business. Our average client is 25 to 30 desktops. That's the market that we've been in all along and we intend to stay in. Virtually all of our clients are less than 100 employees, although we do have larger clients where we do some aspect of supporting their environment.

Kevin Laughlin

Virtually everyone has a negative opinion of a sleep sofa and points to flaws in its design. The company figured out 10 major complaints about sofa beds and addressed them.

Pete Bils