The few really great - the major novelists... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

F. R. Leavis

The attraction of higher-skilled jobs and better-paying jobs have played a significant role in growing our economy.

Matt Kisber

There is significant value to both citizens and the public sector in greater sharing of contact details--name, address, date of birth, reference numbers--in a secure way across the public sector.

Des Browne

He's really going back to his Democratic roots - which is very significant, because it shows where the Republican Party is and where it has moved. And maybe where tens of millions of Reagan Democrats are at. If James Webb is representative to any extent of these Reagan Democrats, which I think he is, I think this can be very significant for the Democratic Party.

Lowell Feld

A significant part of the left argues that liberalism and social policy are antagonistic, that we have to choose one or the other.

André Glucksmann

While we do not believe that the probability of a strike is as high as 50 percent, we do believe that it could be significant.

Lloyd O'carroll

This affiliation is very important for us. The campus would not agree to have just another school of management. We either had to aspire to be significant and have an impact or they wouldn't do it at all.

Robert Sullivan

Our decision to divest our non-Internet assets was not easy, as these businesses have achieved tremendous success and continue to have significant growth potential.

Michael Rubin

It's uncharted territory for us. The history portion is one that you'd like to think would be significant. I don't know about ... why it has taken so long, but I'm just happy that we're getting a shot.

Buddy Pough

We're kind of setting up various Petri dishes full of experiments and then we'll be measuring and correcting. I think incremental improvement in your market always hits your bottom line pretty nicely - so if we can improve acquisition efforts by a half of a percent or a percent, or improve retention by one or two percent, that's very significant.

Janet Farness

[Other industries will likely feel the pinch. Hotels may be left with more empty rooms, and destinations may have fewer paying visitors.] The fact is, in the short term, there's going to be a pretty significant impact on travel generally, ... We have seen a severe drop-off in reservations over the next few days.

Marc Grossman

Housing prices are becoming a very significant factor in being able to attract people from other parts of the country.

Carol Schatz

Under normal circumstances with this kind of figure, you would expect to see significant dollar weakening. The fact that you're not seeing that seems to indicate that people have quite a bit of appetite to take on long dollar positions.

Jens Nordvig

There has been significant media focus on the sale of our toy business, ... While that is a possibility, our focus remains on running the business. Our U.S. business is profitable and is generating cash.

John Eyler

This would be significant if we were to lose even half our export sales. This would be a very debilitating development in the United States.

Philip Seng

E85 is going to be a much more significant market for us down the road. But you have to get more vehicles on the road that can use E85, and you need more outlets.

Bob Dinneen

We are very glad to have a resolution of this final issue, which removes significant uncertainty that has harmed ABB over the years.

Fred Kindle

A significant part of demand right now is based on speculation that something is going to happen in the future or near future to make supplies much more scarce.

Michael Darda

The possibility of a US dollar collapse or sharp decline may be small at this point but it would generate very significant turmoil so East Asian economies... ought to be ready for that.

Masahiro Kawai

Realistically, in terms of any significant quantity we are probably looking at some time past 2010.

Ian Macfarlane

That's adult money. That's a really significant impact that this population is having. They have a major, major impact on this state and its businesses and its revenues.

John Kasarda

We've had a pretty significant rally over the last few months. The fundamentals have been better, but perhaps the stocks got a little bit ahead of the fundamentals as a number of companies have met or exceeded second-quarter expectations but haven't necessarily raised the bar for future quarters.

Brian Alexander

And that has significant implications for the unfolding of all this.

Wendy Cukier

Many studies, especially some of the older ones, have significant methodological flaws, which render the conclusions questionable.

Richard Sloan

Those things are a lot of work, but at least the financial rewards which get plowed right back into the league and the community are significant. That makes them worth doing.

Bo Batts

We believe that a significant majority of them will stay open as Boston Markets. But some will close and some will be converted to McDonald's and to a couple of other brands.

Jack Greenberg

We have heard tremendous positive feedback from the university athletic directors, conference commissioners and the baseball coaches. There is a great deal of momentum surrounding college baseball, and this project is another significant step forward.

Pat Battle

That was the beginning of a pretty significant trend in Texas that moved away from the state being a good place for class actions.

Jerry Clements

Governor Schwarzenegger made the right decision to sign into law significant improvements to a significant civil rights law, the Unruh Act, making clear for businesses and customers that discrimination in any form is unacceptable.

John Laird

The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund should ease the burden on insurers, assuming Wilma causes significant damage in Florida, ... The Fund should make Wilma a far less dramatic event than Katrina, assuming it makes landfall as a strong storm.

Jay Cohen

We continue to expect significant operating growth in fiscal year 2000.

Thomas Ryder

This approval takes some risk out of the equation for them. If they can get the production capacity, it has the potential to be a significant drug. The big issue for Bristol is patent expirations and whether the pipeline can offset them.

Henry Scott

His departure is likely related to Gateway's inability to reinvigorate its professional and direct businesses despite significant headway in retail.

Joel Wagonfeld

There are still some significant headwinds out there, but I have to say, the market has held up pretty well. But ... we're still stuck in the same trading range we've seen for months, and it'll take better news to break out of it.

Russ Koesterich

It's fall, it's pre-holiday craziness and it's a great way for you to go out with your girlfriends or your significant other and get some fun shopping done, to really kind of enjoy yourselves and reconnect before the holidays.

Kari Swartz

We have quantitative data on several species and each example shows that a species can make significant progress. But that progress is measured in decades. All of the species (in the report) are still on the list and are likely to remain on the list for many decades to come.

Michael Bean

If he fails to deliver on this issue, he'll have to deliver on some significant other issue.

Derek Rogusky

The most significant change today is the two-wave start.

Dave Mcgillivray

We see attacks on a regular basis. Since the end of major military operations in April of 2003, there have been close to 250 attacks against oil pipelines, refineries and oil facilities and that has been pretty significant in reducing... up to a million barrels a day of potential production.

Gal Luft

I would say for Disney and ABC, Monday Night Football is the only thing that hasn't gone down significant in ratings and profitability. It's one of the things holding the network up.

Paul Kim

It is certainly more of an incentive to bundle. It makes sense to keep the price the same. To say that you are under $100 (for cable, telephone and Internet) is pretty significant.

Mark Goldstein

Our ongoing efforts with Intel on the dual core processors have allowed us to provide users with a superior gaming experience. Reaching out to the gaming community by making the best PCs on the market has always been one of our primary goals. Our partnership with Intel enables us to make significant progress in achieving that goal.

Randy Copeland

Needless to say, a victory of the most left-leaning factions of the party would be a significant defeat for Lula.

Vitali Meschoulam

AT&T is simply pointing out the challenges related to an ever-evolving Internet with proliferating applications that require significant network bandwidth. At this stage, we are exploring different product models, but feel strongly that this is an issue that has to be solved in the marketplace.

Michael Balmoris

There is a real risk of devaluation in Venezuela. We've seen significant outflows from Brazil. ... So I think, from the Latin America side, it's still a month of caution and concern.

Dan Mcgovern

Once they have their console a lot of customers will go straight home and start playing games. We did poll of 1000 of them and a significant number have already planned their sick day.

David Mclean

That is a real possibility, a very strong, real and significant possibility. We cannot continue the operations of the zoo.

Ceeon Quiett

I have just come back from Europe and talking to European bank analysts and some of the banks there that are significant lenders to the TMT sector, there is no sense that this is going to cause them any distress.

John Kellett

There's a significant amount of uncertainty about what's going to happen with the various tax provisions that are scheduled to expire and what's going to happen with the alternative minimum tax. Depending on how those issues turn out, our projections would obviously have to change.

Donald Marron

We'd have to see some pretty significant increases, because of the high cost of operation.

Robin Taylor

It would be a negative for Cathay Pacific because it would cut into the traffic between Taiwan and Hong Kong, ... But it would be a positive for the other carriers, who would see a significant increase in traffic on the cross-strait route.

Andy Rothman

Revenues turned the corner and were up slightly from last year, driven by significant year-to-year growth in the Intel architecture business.

Andy Bryant

It would seem that a significant proportion of the population has become extremely frustrated with the political process and with the system of multi-party democracy that Sao Tome has. And they no longer have any confidence in the major parties, but are faced with little other choice about who to vote for. And this is of serious concern for the country.

Chris Melville

Significant impacts on the county's infrastructure and ability to plan growth into the future.

Richard Rosenthal

Our financial results continue to be seriously impacted by the adverse effects of the strong dollar, reduced earnings in our core business driven by an intensifying competitive environment, and losses in digital. We are making significant changes in the company's operations to compete effectively in this environment.

George Fisher

It has not been proven that monk parakeets cause a significant health or safety hazard, and there are feasible and prudent alternatives to the capture and destruction of them.

Priscilla Feral

Admission Day is significant in California history, ... and it seemed like a good weekend to have a grand opening. And since we were opening the Stanford Mansion, a historic building, we wanted to create a sense of history for that.

Ruth Coleman

It means that each of the 58 counties in California would see a significant reduction in the funds available for mass transit and in rural areas for streets and roads.

Brian Taylor

There's been significant progress, but that progress is not quite enough.

Masahiro Kawai

This is a basic rewrite of the client file system, and a significant improvement.

Ted Schadler

How prayerful these residence hall Masses are, how well the students participate and what a significant role they play in the lives of our undergrads.

Richard Warner

In Charlotte County, they are dealing with this every day. If we don't get some significant rainfall in the next few week we're going to be in a serious situation as we get into the height of fire season.

Chuck Johnston

What we're watching for here carefully are signs of a significant downturn, especially for price declines ... There are hiccups here and there but as a whole the market does not seem to be showing any signs of an impending decline.

John Karevoll

It will have significant growth.

Paul Mcentire

They're going to face some significant issues in terms of the capacity of their Web site, but they seem to be addressing those scalability issues.

Ray Everett church

So many people are really needle shy. People are looking forward to being freed of insulin injections. This will be of great benefit to a significant number of diabetics, but not all diabetics.

Dr. Leroy Strom

Finally, in both of our segments we remain committed to providing 'World Class Sales Support' to agents. Over the past two years we have made significant enhancements to our marketing platform, which we believe will fuel future growth in our selected niche markets.

Tom Kilian

As we are increasingly shifting to a post-industrial society, the kinds of environmental changes [in business] are as profound or even more profound as those in the 1960s, ... There will be significant shifts again Joel has a great opportunity to really elevate the visibility of SOM that hadn't been there before.

Rakesh Khurana

That's better than chance. But it's not clinically significant.

Nicholas Broffman

The goal is to substantially expand federal efforts to save America's natural treasures and provide significant new resources to states and communities, to protect and restore farmland, city parks and open spaces.

Barry Toiv

Alcoholic beverages contain significant amounts of calories. A 12-ounce can of beer for example contains about 150 calories. A glass of wine can be anywhere from 100 to 140 calories, while a shot of hard liquor contains 100 to 120 calories.

Julie Raeder Schumacher

Those were significant strides forward. But that was just laying the groundwork.

Janette Fennell

It also reinforces the fact that GM will have to make even more significant cuts in their own cost structure going forward.

Mark Oline

This is not going to be one of the larger areas where money can be saved, but we think it can be significant.

Joe Ramallo

While formidable, Isabel will fall generally within the range of catastrophic risk that insurers anticipated and built into insurance premiums for homeowners and businesses along the East Coast. I would not expect the storm by itself to have a significant effect on insurance rates.

Bob Hartwig

The risk to crops and farms won't be as significant if it loses force, ... When you look at the lessons from Katrina, the eventual damage to agriculture was less than feared. The department of agriculture actually revised up its estimates of production in the state after Katrina passed.

Brian Bethune

[The Kravis, which was in the middle of a roof repair, escaped serious damage.] There was just a little water here and there, nothing significant, ... Nothing too exciting, which is fine with me.

Jim Mitchell

This is a significant improvement but it's still a drop in the bucket.

Matthew Maguire

IBM Lotus Notes and Domino represent a significant part of the corporate email landscape.

Dave Grannan

Sibley was a representative of rural Pennsylvania with roots deep in the local soil. His innovative techniques on his farm along the Allegheny River gained worldwide attention. This is a man who had a significant amount of influence from our area.

Jack Baker

This is a significant milestone for General Motors and its Information Systems and Services Group. Of critical importance is the focus we have had on driving innovation and supporting future globalization and digitization of the company.

Ralph Szygenda

We're talking about a significant and potentially vulnerable population in IDP [internally displaced persons] settings.

Maha Muna

In terms of the outlook, there is no significant precipitation in sight.

Mike Palmerino

We'll participate for the first time this year. We see significant growth in high-oleic sunflower. That's an opportunity.

Steve Kent

It is quite clear from our conversation with a significant number of portfolio money managers in the past three to four weeks that Asian and European moneys are lightening up on TIP [Thailand Indonesia and the Philippines] markets and venturing into Malaysia aggressively.

Daniel Lian

They expect significant freezing rain on Wednesday, with the potential for some snow and sleet mixed into it.

Wes Junker

The university has seen significant success outside of basketball in recent years, and no one has argued that basketball hasn't had an impact on that, ... It makes the decision to reward someone -- like Mark -- who has brought tremendous success to the university a no-brainer.

Mike Roth

The Asian markets will have pivotal global significance in the coming decades and will offer significant investment opportunities for both KKR and our existing portfolio companies.

Henry Kravis

This is a significant step in the coffee arena as there is a traditional image of coffee going hand in hand with a cigarette.

Mark Phillips

I'd say we did pretty good. The fear was it would call for a significant reduction in the amount that we could pump, which could result in a reduction of supply, and I don't think that's going to occur.

Stuart Somach

In that context, Interpol is an essential element and has a significant role to play in the campaign against counterfeits and we hope it will be able to take the lead in this area.

Howard Zucker

There's a significant lack of equivalents in relation to civil partnership and partnership rights for gay people.

Niall Crowley

A lot of the feedback we received from athletes said their significant others desperately wanted to participate in the weekend, but weren't ready to compete in the long-distance event. The sprint distance race addresses this request.

Dave Blank

Not only does music have a strong cultural impact, but it has a significant economic impact. The map is another way to really celebrate that we have a really rich musical heritage.

Marty Mcomber

We've had no reports of any significant customer impacts.

Byron Miller

You take a big risk by holding a significant portion of your net worth in one stock.

Christopher Cordaro

This won't be another digital repeats channel -- More4 aims to make a significant public service contribution in its own right.

Andy Duncan

That certainly doesn't mean it's not significant. How much jazz gets played on the radio?

Anthony Decurtis

With few new drugs coming through the pipeline, significant investment is required to build a pipeline sufficient to support future growth, especially in light of patent expiries in 2007-9. Nevertheless, we see significant share price downside as unlikely.

Graham Parry

We are an improved team when you add those three pieces into our lineup. All three should fit very well. It certainly gives us much more depth up front. They're older and more experienced guys that are significant pieces to put in right now.

Rob Sumner

You hear about the military wanting letters, wanting mail. I thought here's an easy, easy, easy way to get a significant amount of correspondence.

Peggy Eserkaln

With winning a significant award, it speaks volumes about the team. There's a lot more to accomplish.

Anita Lundy

When this project moves forward to a real hearing, there's going to be a significant outcry.

Carolyn Anderson

The first focus is going to be continuing the growth of the business ... focus number two is getting the cost structure aligned with the new demand. I imagine we're going to see another round of downsizing ... I think it's going to be significant.

Gabriel Lowy

They were the three people who got nearly everybody's vote. All were active superintendents, and I think Burlington is in a fortunate position. Any one of the candidates would be a significant asset to the district.

Fred Lane

It is significant that the countries have agreed on a broad set of principles. But they postponed addressing the hot-potato issues to prevent the talks from collapsing.

Koh Yu Hwan

The San Antonio area has a significant uninsured rate of 20 percent. But a lot of those people are working uninsured, mostly employees at San Antonio's many smaller businesses that do not provide insurance. Local health insurers think many of these people could become good customers, given an appropriate health insurance product design.

Patrick Powers

That's still a significant amount of money.

Courtney Hill

It raises further questions about whether we yet know the full scope of the problem. It's not a large percentage, but if they were your scores or your kid's scores, it could mean something very significant.

Robert Schaeffer

For TREO to succeed, the private sector needs to play a significant supporting role.

Steve Lynn

This combination of pressures means that the cost of not having the necessary skills to make sound financial decisions is becoming increasingly significant.

John Tiner

This was probably the most significant win that we've had maybe even since we've been D-1. We showed a lot of poise.

Jackie Turpin

There is a significant need for this sort of work in our county. A major portion of this community is living at or below the poverty line. We have a number of homeless in the city, too, although you may not see them.

George Lewis

It's significant when you have an employer like GM making this kind of move. It could trigger more of the same from other employers.

Paul Fronstin

GBL is a substance that was never intended for human consumption because it can cause significant health problems including seizures and possibly even death. It continues to be sold to unsuspecting individuals who believe the drug will build muscles and improve physical performance. Hopefully this arrest will continue to shed light on how potentially damaging this controlled substance can be.

Sherri Strange

We're prepared for significant growth.

Jeff Bell

We have done significant research and analysis into the use of instant replay for our conference football games for the coming season. We are pursuing what we think will be the best possible system for the coming season.

Mike Tranghese

I think the most significant turning point was when the militia was brought in. A few armed men and women couldn't take on the Pennsylvania militia.

Rory Kennedy

This is just another brick in the wall, and there will be others. I don't see this as being significant except that we're trying to improve our basketball team.

Jim Cleamons

This is an attractive opportunity for Talisman and is a logical continuation of Talisman's successful business model. These assets materially enhance Talisman's production growth profile and offer significant cash generation potential.

Jim Buckee

We ... are pleased by our client growing interest in business transformation outsourcing -- the combination of outsourcing, consulting and other capabilities to improve key business functions and achieve a significant and sustainable improvement in enterprise-level performance.

Joe Forehand

In any event, we continue to believe that a voluntary near-term bankruptcy for GM/GMAC is of very low probability. We continue to believe that the biggest risk arguably would be a UAW strike at Delphi...our sense currently is that a significant labor disruption at Delphi remains a remote likelihood.

Peter Nesvold

We expect to reveal some significant information at the press briefing.

Lieve Pellens

The news is not good. The soil health of the African continent is in decline and there is significant mining of nutrients.

Amit Roy

We believe this acquisition of producing properties will generate significant cash flow for the Company. All of the leases are fully equipped so that we can bring them on line immediately. We can also add other wells and conduct in field drilling. Upon completion of this acquisition, the Company could produce 8,000 barrels for the month of February.

Patrick Michaels

The city will be putting in a traffic light at 8th and Mill. This is hugely significant. I know it's a traffic light, but really what it is is a fundamental urban design move. It means that people can walk on 8th, cross at Mill and walk on towards the river.

Nan Laurence

Through these propositions, we intend to gain market share in key businesses, such as digital cellular telephones, where significant new products are planned for introduction before the end of the third quarter, and embedded semiconductors.

Christopher B. Galvin

This research is significant because it suggests that it will be possible to create mouse 'models' of human brain tissue, enabling scientists to try out both stem cell interventions and other potential cures on living human brain cells without having to use humans in the process.

Glenn Mcgee

Any time you find a nearly complete skeleton, it's significant. How significant will depend on what the bones say.

Mark Renz

I think the price caps need to be given a chance to provide the fullest benefits we envisioned when we passed the bill into law. I'm hopeful, over a period of time, that consumers will benefit and realize significant savings.

Ron Menor

We have advised them of the incremental projects, and that we have been evaluating a significant major expansion.

Tom Bannigan

We don't think it represents a significant change in the sense that we'll continue to grow organically.

Jess Blackburn

We have not seen any significant changes.

Leon Laporte

We have a lot of cross currents right now and so it's very difficult for investors to pick out the proper path. People like myself think that things are in fact slowing down some, that inflation is not a significant problem, and that while the Fed may tighten policy once in the next couple of months, they really probably don't need to.

Alfred Kugel

The most significant in Canadian baseball history, the finishing touch to Stern's inside-the-park homer. It was a drive which brought the Dream Team to its knees.

Stubby Clapp

Compliance with regulations ... that's not a big stick, ... When companies start losing customers, that can have a very significant economic effect.

Larry Ponemon

Whenever you get to the desert, an inch is a significant amount of rain and that is not normal.

Brad Doyle

Visually significant cataract appears to be high among U.S. Hispanic individuals of Mexican descent, as evidenced by rate of cataract and rate of surgery.

Johns Hopkins

This is such a significant year for us. It's the first time we've concentrated on expanding our business on a statewide level. This will bump us up to the next level.

Tracey Conner

That's a significant difference from the nation's ethnic makeup. By 2050, only 50% of the U.S. population will be white. Swimming needs to reflect that. But there are cultural walls to break through.

Pat Hogan

When you look at somebody to come in here and be an educator and a football coach, I think that's a piece of it. I think personality and professional quality someone brings to the position and their ability to relate well with those that they are working with here are most significant.

Jerry Arganbright

We wanted to make sure the businesses and people who also have made significant investments on Dickson were the first to see the changes. One hundred percent of the people there seemed to support it. They all seemed to be excited to see what it could do for their businesses.

Brandon Barber

What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.

William Albert Allard

We believe interactive media holds significant growth potential as marketing budgets and consumer acceptance continues to shift to interactive.

Bill Kerr

This organization continues to make major decisions without significant, broad public input or debate.

Lauren Weinstein

Matthew has a broad understanding of Pratt & Whitney's services growth strategies. His experience at Pratt and his focus on emerging markets uniquely qualify him to lead this significant new business. Matthew will continue to report directly to me in this important position.

Louis R. Chenevert

Significant milestone in that process.

Brian Roehrkasse

Under those circumstances a further cut in supply is going to lead to a significant price escalation.

Henry Lee

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Sharon Doering

The Tampa Bay region's great baseball legacy is deeply rooted in the area's Hispanic community. This partnership is another significant step towards the Devil Rays ongoing efforts to serve all of our fans.

Mark Fernandez

I suspect that there will be a significant interest in getting better tests into the mainstream.

Len Lichtenfeld

Wow, it's hard to picture at this point. It would have to be a very significant player who can automatically make a difference.

Roger Griffith

The club has achieved budget for the past two years, the strategy plans developed in 2004 remain on track and board and management stability have made a significant difference.

Paul Gardner

I don't see anything slowing the drive of issuance. There's still significant growth left in Asia's REIT market.

Chris Reilly

This business had its fair share of challenges in 2005 including significant expenses from legal and regulatory matters and higher than average (financial adviser) turnover. The very competitive market for brokers and the focus on our talent has been our biggest challenge this year.

David Sidwell

We have yet to see a significant change in the personnel. It's nice to be fan-friendly, but that only takes you so far.

Dan Russell

The judge is looking at the evidence. That is the significant thing that happened today.

David Leopold

By combining the Optimum GAT trait with our industry leading soybean products, farmers will enjoy even more significant yield advantages, along with improved weed control options.

Dean Oestreich

The 8.5 percentage-point gap in cost increases between a best-performing and a poor-performing company is very significant. Through focused initiatives such as building data warehouses and using hard-dollar ROI calculations, best-performing companies lower cost trends, minimize employee absence and earn higher rates of employee satisfaction with their programs.

Ted Nussbaum

The company is beating expectations despite weakness in some key markets, and if those markets stabilize, there could be more significant upside.

John Faucher

Economic data have been reasonably good, so the bonds continue to sell off. Strong economic growth means the central bank is likely to tighten further. You see significant back-up in yields across the board.

James Dutkiewicz

What we are saying -- whether it was 'Martha Stewart' or any other publication -- when you have a 22 percent drop, that's significant, and we will watch it very closely.

Jerry Buckley

In Tennessee, duck numbers are good, but dry conditions are proving to be a major problem. No significant rainfall has occurred in several weeks, and ducks are beginning to deplete food sources on refuges.

Tim White

The country's better growth prospects are largely a result of significant and sustained improvement in domestic security that has, in turn, led to renewed domestic confidence and double-digit growth in private investment.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

I suspect that there is a significant buyer out there, probably a central bank.

Paul Merrick

This rush to push through legislation of dubious virtue without any significant review is both unnecessary and unwise.

John Dingell

We've run into some pretty significant resistance.

Doug Sandler

We had no choice. Our federal appropriation this year from Congress has a requirement for a 'significant' improvement in the costs of our food service.

Marc Magliari

The expansion we have now is a resilient one. At this point in the business cycle, even if you have significant shocks from oil, terrorism or [a] big drop in dollar, they are not going to derail the expansion.

Anirvan Banerji

In every area where there is a significant Hispanic population, we have a priest there to say mass in Spanish.

Marianna Thompson

For investors in Pfizer, this is a meaningful event. This risk has been a significant overhang for some time.

Robert Hazlett

We have 18 more total events, five more significant events and 13 more nonsignificant events than originally reported. These new figures are accompanied by a dramatic increase in the numbers of casualties originally calculated.

Cofer Black

Given the sophistication of this tunnel, it's clear that the people responsible have significant resources at their disposal.

Miguel Unzueta

It is a very significant spring conference, especially squeezing it in right before the Final Four.

Bob Schultz

The president of the IBU generally has not attended events in the U.S. aside from the Olympics. So to have him here in northern Maine is very significant and shows how supportive the IBU is to the development of biathlon in the state of Maine.

Tim Doak

We are very disappointed with our software sales results. In spite of our best efforts to work closely with the investment community to set reasonable and attainable expectations for the quarter, the softness of the market had a significant impact on our results. Once again, we had several large deals that did not come in at the end of the quarter.

Beth Chappell

This finding, though not definitive, suggests that new approaches will allow the cure of HIV in the future, ... It's a significant conceptual move forward.

David Margolis

As part of this agreement we will sell significant volumes of this new product in the financial year to 30 June 2007.

Alan Sugar

It's one significant step, but there are still a lot of hurdles to overcome.

Benn Steil

Furthermore, it justifies the significant investment in the event by title sponsors Dunlop and hosting partner Manchester City Council .

Paul Walters

Our residents will have a significant increase in their quality of life.

Keith Goldhardt

If the hurricane activity continues at this pace, it will have a significant impact on where people choose to live or if they will rebuild in the same location.

Bert Sperling

I couldn't even imagine a time frame. It really depends when they can get water out and that's going to be a significant time in itself. It's not going to be days — more like weeks and months.

Leslie Brunell

We believe the acquisition will become rather expensive. We assume Deutsche Post has to pay a significant premium.

Robert Heberger

Today's actions are significant steps in moving the company toward best practices in corporate governance and compensation matters.

Gail Wilensky

This is a significant step in the development of the Seahawk athletic program. It's also an intermediate step toward moving to Division I in the future, which is our ultimate goal.

Bill Worsham

This case could go some way in determining what type of person ... I think it's important to find out exactly where Gary Ridgway started. The first one is always supposed to be significant.

Tom Jensen

If there's significant damage done in the Gulf, there's going to be a supply impact on gasoline, diesel and natural gas.

Bob Slaughter

We have some significant issues that we need to solve. There is plenty of challenge for any professional.

Curtis Weeks

Many are reacting negatively to it. Real ID ... will have significant fiscal implications for the states.

Matt Sundeen

The most significant threats are posed by live fire because of its potential to cause wildfires ... As long as they are not going to fire any rounds, there's no conflict with the settlement agreement.

David Henkin

These models are millions of lines of computer codes and they've been tweaking these models for the past ten years or so. With each tweak they like to try to get a half percent or one percent reduction in error. So the ingestion of this new data has made a very significant improvement in reduction of error.

Taumi Daniels

The Kings are very pleased to make a long-term commitment to Alex. He is a very gifted offensive player who, at just 23 years of age, has already made significant contributions to our organization. He has a lot of great years ahead of him and he loves playing in Los Angeles. Our fans will certainly be very happy to see him in a Kings uniform for not only next year but beyond as well.

Dave Taylor

In general, you have to have a pretty serious market power concern before you go down this road [of price controls], because the chances of causing shortages and causing gas lines are quite significant. Hawaii seems to have designed this so it's much less likely to happen, and Hawaii has a credible argument to be made that they face a significant market power problem.

Severin Borenstein

Workers' compensation costs are increasing at an alarming rate. As a result, Gov. Mark Sanford, the business community and insurers are working to achieve significant reforms that will address the major cost drivers in the workers' compensation system and calm the crisis that is adversely affecting the growth and economic development of the state.

Robert Herlong

We're glad that the percentage is lower than the prior year. But our main feeling is that when you have one out of every 10 workers having these significant declines in cholinesterase, you've got a serious problem that needs to be addressed.

Carol Dansereau

They need to know that there is a significant amount of money there before they can plan in earnest.

John Winn

Really, those are the only hopes that Edwards has of pulling anything out is if those two guys pull significant votes away from Kerry, ... I don't expect that to happen, but those are the 'Hail Marys.'

Carlos Watson

They could line up significant ad campaigns which would be based on the presumption that the kind of weather the company wants will happen somewhere.

Tim Sloan

This is significant because these people that invested $100 million are now being faced with bills by Legislature that say these machines are to go away.

Mike Triplett