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He sees an explicit medium-term inflation target as an anchor for financial markets and a mechanism for Fed accountability.

Robert Diclemente

The district attorney was not interested in this. There has to be some mechanism for the district attorney to be second-guessed.

Wayne Tartline

There is no mechanism in this proposal for our having any input in this whatsoever.

Gerald E. Connolly

The mechanism that was introduced to insulate the governor from political interference is now protecting the governor in a case where he has lost completely credibility.

Roberto D'alimonte

I think we clearly have a mechanism to control drunk driving.

Robert Flaherty

Not all surfactants work. We had to understand the mechanism of crust formation, which explained why only some of the surfactants work.

Matteo Pasquali

This is the mechanism by which we withhold money.

Charles Blixt

There's no shame in it. Not one bit. This is a new mechanism for selling things. I think it's very upbeat what we're doing.

Phyllis Landrieu

It took me almost 11 months before, well, before I let (Joey) in. I didn't want to let him too close because it's just a defense mechanism.

Brian Domenici

... there is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Raymond Chandler

That means, ... that dietary cholesterol may increase the risk of heart disease by a mechanism that we do not yet understand.

Robert Eckel

We will further improve the yuan exchange rate formation mechanism and constantly make the exchange rate more responsive to market supply and demand.

Hu Xiaolian

Some go limp as a defense mechanism. People think if they go limp, than they are content, but really they are playing dead. They are not happy about being held.

Jenni Beard

It is also able to make prostate cancer cells undergo apoptosis -- programmed cell death -- and the mechanism for that, we don't know.

Hasan Mukhtar

And that the president is committed to establishing the truth, and this is the mechanism through which we are all going to find out the veracity of the allegations.

Mukoni Ratshitanga

The exact mechanism by which peanut allergy may recur is not known, but we know that the children in our study who ate concentrated forms of peanut frequently had a considerably lower chance of having a recurrence of their allergy.

Dr. Robert Wood

It's not a true Vickrey mechanism.

Michael Ostrovsky

It's better if you can have control centrally using one mechanism.

Peter Pawlak

I'm providing a new mechanism that may or may not be true, but it's very suggestive and deserves further scrutiny.

Adam Burrows

We have no idea what the mechanism is that makes this happen. If we ever do understand, it will bring a new understanding to the universe.

Charles Tart

The city has an enforcement mechanism in place to deal with each and every case, which are all unique.

Forrest Cotten

But one of the things to note is in the FBI, we not only need to have that capability, we have to have a secured mechanism to communicate to talk about the flow of information and things like that. It is an important aspect of our jobs. We have that capability here.

Carl Whitehead

A mechanism is in place to identify and treat individuals who have TB. It is a very important public health issue.

Rob Kenny

The most obvious funding mechanism would be the submission of a line item in the Court's yearly budget request.

David Weinstein

It's known that older adults are more easily distracted. We think we've found a mechanism in the brain to explain this and generated new insight into when in the lifespan these brain changes begin to occur.

Dr Cheryl Grady

The proposed mechanism of action of ginseng is unclear.

Ronald Turner

What is clear is we can achieve both resiliency and scalability by using the same mechanism.

Krithi Ramamritham

Manassas made an earnest effort to come up with some sort of enforcement mechanism to limit overcrowding. We're facing the same types of challenges in the county [because] the problem has arisen very quickly. ... For all of us in local government this has been a very difficult issue to get our arms around.

Sean T. Connaughton

The key thing is that there's a mechanism to spot negative trends and to enable that problem to be brought forward quickly.

Clyde Prestowitz

Firing squads are used in extremely serious cases ... Given the gravity of this case, it's possible that this is the mechanism that will be used.

Raul Reyes

Until the LTTE fits into the criteria of good governance we will not agree to the Joint Mechanism.

Somawansa Amerasinghe

We think that it's unwise to put into the constitution a mechanism that enshrines for all time a particular way of measuring the budget.

Franklin Raines

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

Ronald Fisher

A number of courts decided there should be some mechanism set up to make sure the police didn't overstep the boundary. It was complicated finding that boundary.

Jeremy Travis

Some snakes, as a defensive mechanism, will approach you as a bluff, but if you move away they'll lose interest – they won't chase you for any substantial distance.

Craig Rudolph

This move doesn't mean fundamental change in the RMB exchange rate formation mechanism.

Hu Xiaolian

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

Frank Herbert

This flexible mechanism, this managed floating regime, will allow us to adjust the yuan exchange rate flexibly in the future.

Yi Gang

The whole department doesn't have an enforcement mechanism.

Minsun Ji

The mechanism of relying on builders and landowners -- this isn't working anymore.

Peter Reinhart

A lot people are in denial about it. They look at it as a real negative. It's a coping mechanism and not a positive one.

Dr. Michael Harris

It is ironic that the Internet, an industry I participated in and contributed to the development of, is now potentially being blackballed as a mechanism of the delivery of the very product I'm now producing.

Michael Ballard

There has to be a mechanism so coaches are aware of the disciplinary problems their players are having. They should have dealt more severely with the problem.

James Coleman

We need to have some kind of mechanism in place to assure our customer base that they are not going to be a target of an outfit like the CIW.

Jay Taylor

If you want to be serious about it, there has to be some enforcement mechanism.

Roberta Baskin

An eating disorder is a coping mechanism keeping you from more pain, but you have to ask yourself - is this in my best interest? And it's not. It only causes more pain and suffering.

Cindy Gross

We have to develop a market mechanism and to try to diversify our energy sources.

Joaquin Almunia

You have inserted a separatist mechanism that will lead to the further institutional fragmentation of the state.

Piero Fassino

The symptom was executive pay being non-aligned with shareholder interests and our response was to create an accountability mechanism for directors.

Richard Ferlauto

[Coping will also, in some cases, likely involve substance abuse counseling.] Substance abuse can go up, ... For many, substances are a mechanism to cope. And stress may increase the desire to utilize substances.

Richard Hatch

He does not know about making the bomb, he does not know about the trigger mechanism, he does not know about the delivery system.

Gen Musharraf

I don't think it's a sad commentary on society. We're just inundated with tragedies. I guess it's a defense mechanism to compartmentalize these things and set them aside.

Larry Greene

Last week we identified the major areas where foam came off the tank. We are starting to make some sense of the data ... what the mechanism for the foam loss was.

Bill Gerstenmaier

We see there is a lot more layering on Mars than was previously thought and whatever the mechanism was that caused it has gone on for a long time.

Rich Zurek

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

These spaces are so attractive -- you try to stay there as long as you can. We're now a very successful company, and essentially, they provided us with a mechanism to get to the launch.

Barry Morris

We believe that the Kyoto Protocol is the mechanism for fighting climate change, but we welcome steps by any countries that reduce emissions.

Nick Nuttall

The mindset of the key players has been more focused on the difficulties and the initial competitive disadvantages their own jurisdictions could encounter, as against the mechanism to overcome those difficulties.

Roy Johnson

We confirm to you this income will be used to pay the salaries of [government] employees and fund daily running costs and infrastructure. You [donors] can confirm this through a mechanism that can be agreed upon.

Ismail Haniyeh

The way of the future? Absolutely. It's another bona fide communication mechanism and you can actually track its results and effectiveness and it can deliver tangible benefits.

Paul Crisp

Inter-group contact and positive relationships across the generations seem to be an important mechanism for combating ageist stereotypes.

Dominic Abrams

(We'll) ensure that we do put in place a mechanism for monitoring gas and home heating fuel prices in the months ahead.

David Emerson

This is a legitimate right that China is entitled to, and we will resort to this mechanism when it is time to do so.

Bo Xilai

At this time, we believe our better delivery mechanism will be checks or electronic funds transfer.

David Passey

What it means is that the state must come up with a mechanism.

Thoko Didiza

Therefore, the previous mechanism can hardly mirror the true situation.

Wang Yuanhong

They know there are sex offenders hanging around the community center with kids and at the swimming pool, but they've lacked any legal mechanism to exclude them.

Attorney General Rob Mckenna

To us, that is a more commercially reasonable approach to the mechanism of reciprocal licensing.

Jason Matusow

We knew there were certain kidney cancer patients who responded to this drug, but we didn't know the mechanism behind the response. We had to determine the mechanism of response so we could identify the responders.

George Thomas

The sap flow mechanism is driven almost entirely by the daily fluctuation in temperature. Any kind of change that does occur is going to impact the season.

Tim Perkins

Government officials are still learning to trust the market mechanism. They are containing inflation, but you're building up more and more distortions in the economy.

Andy Xie

The adoption program is critical to us for the management of the wild horses. It's our mechanism to place our excess horses that are removed from the range.

Alan Shepherd

The Univac introduced the use of the magnetic tape drive to be -- for its time -- a high-volume I/O mechanism.

George Gray

All the other thin-film approaches have inherent instabilities, but CIS, like silicon, has no inherent degradation mechanism that has been identified.

Billy Stanbery

[The significance of Darwin's ideas] has grown, ... For example, at this moment we're looking at Asian bird flu and where it's going. If not for Darwinism, we would be ignorant of the mechanism of that flu and how it changes over time.

Robert Bloomfield

Anything that is high-mass and low tech, we're going to make there on Mars. Anything that is really high tech--like sensors, motors and complex mechanism--most of those things are relatively low mass and can be imported from Earth.

Joseph Palaia

We wanted to reveal the mechanism behind central sleep apnea, which most commonly affects people after age 65.

Jack Feldman

We will set up a mechanism that exchanges (nationwide) can use. (Through) this, we would like to increase Japan's international competitiveness.

Taizo Nishimuro

There exists no mechanism for us to grant a waiver or permit or exemption or anything of the sort.

Brad Deen

You have all these offenders in that area who could be anywhere. There is no mechanism in place for them to be registering as they should be.

Laura Ahearn

I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy guy.

Tim Hawkins

We have a mechanism in place to do what a union claims it can do for us.

Kyle Dippery

Their wishful thinking that they're going to get better is harnessing the body's own mechanism for relieving pain.

Stephen Straus

The weight gain is an adaptive mechanism. These males that are gaining weight are picking up some type of signaling from the female.

Toni Ziegler

Mechanism is always important, because without understanding it, it's difficult to predict how animal data would translate to people.

Aileen Anderson

The mechanism is still the same in 2006 but in 2007 we will replace (cash subsidy) with a conditional subsidy and we will allocate some Rp4 trillion.

Paskah Suzetta

Our findings lead back to humans because they tell us about a very important mechanism for controlling autoimmunity. At the same time, they may help us understand why people develop autoimmune diseases.

Diane Mathis

But the major mechanism is really arranging constructive social contacts.

Ross Stolzenberg

It seems that everyone finds a mechanism that suits their community.

Patricia Anderson

The tax mechanism in the last basic agreement would not be acceptable to us this time around.

Rob Manfred

Our news release mechanism has improved a lot since the SARS crisis and the outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza. We will try to do better in the future.

Mao Qun'an

What Ma should do now is not get involved. He should take the chance to establish a nomination mechanism and allow the primaries to decide the final candidate.

Emile Sheng

I think it's very clear that China is introducing a new exchange rate mechanism. It is not a one-time adjustment.

Zhou Xiaochuan