Michelle cracked a few-self deprecating marital jokes before launching into a serious call to action to the NGO community.
"The backdrop against which this meeting takes place should be a very serious wakeup call for all of us, " Steiner told some 2, 000 delegates assembled at a convention center in the Thai capital.
It might be too early to call a serious slowdown in the Chinese recovery as the latest data may have been affected by the Lunar New Year, a period that is often associated with a sharp increase in the price of food and other goods, which occurred in January in 2012 and February in 2013.
He started moving some serious weight, as they call it, four pounds at a time.
To call this situation serious, or even worrying, doesn't really give it the gravity it deserves.
In each case, we must make an initial assessment whether it is a serious tip or a crank call, as well as an assessment of jurisdictional issues.
The agency would start regulating space vehicles to ensure crew and passenger safety only if the operation of those vehicles resulted in death, serious injury or a dangerous close call.
So today we face an array of serious and growing economic challenges that call for a president willing to make responsible economic stewardship a key priority, willing to confront complex problems and devise comprehensive responses, a president who always puts the middle class first.
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Tensions at the flashpoint interface have run high throughout the summer and serious rioting in June led to a call from unionist politicians for the government to review all paramilitary ceasefires.
The call to Bild had been a serious mistake, he acknowledged, but he was only trying to protect his family.
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Now there are almost 200 who have played serious tournament squash, many of whom will email or call to lobby for one of three men's spots a year.
Take it, call your mother, and tell her there is serious doubt about you ever becoming a lawyer.
Anyone with information is asked to call Wiltshire Police on 101 and ask for the Serious Collision Investigation Team.
"Most of the places that call themselves the hottest on Earth are not even serious contenders, " co-author Steve Running said.
In another life, a merchant bank will throw serious money at you, start you off on utilities and call you "a trader".
With icy pavements and roads becoming a serious issue, Sheffield Wednesday decided to take the decision to call off their Championship game with Peterborough .
Finally, if the aforementioned steps have not proven successful, or your situation is on the more serious end of the spectrum, it might be time to call in the debt cavalry.
You know, then you have to start worrying about his front feet and he could develop laminitis in both front feet that is serious enough that that would probably be enough to make us call it quits.
In a conference call, Szulik said he is stepping down because of serious health issues in his family.
Ofcom fears that having to find a phone that can call the emergency services during a crisis might make a serious situation much worse.
"A call may come in as a category A (most serious), but it may change when the paramedics have arrived because of the treatment they give and then, when they get to the hospital, the condition of the patient may not necessitate a life-saving intervention, " he said.
Cardiff's lead was deserved for their endeavour and work-rate against a serious promotion contender but Burke's opener was a wake-up call for Albion as the Baggies began to crank up the pressure.
And its sales people monitor how these downloading companies are using the software and only call on the companies when it looks like they are getting serious about using it based on their online behavior.
Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ), the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security, told a gathering at Washington's Heritage Foundation that China's destruction of an aging satellite with a ground-based ballistic missile was a "wake-up call" that should make the U.S. get serious about threats in space.
It said it was receiving a high number of flood-related calls and, with more rain forecast, urged the public to call 999 only if there was a risk to life or risk of serious property or environmental damage.
Any serious investor with any amount of cash in AAPL needs to listen in on the quarterly call.
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Unless, of course, those demands are not serious in which case, the next American president may just be about to call Europe's bluff.
In recent years, the call for corporate social responsibility has grown louder, and many companies have committed to serious CSR programs.
The continuing upward trend of atmpospheric CO2 concentration has led many scientists to call for stablizing levels at or around 400 ppm, which will reduce the likelihood of serious climate change.
"There are a serious questions about what we can do to defend ourselves and how far we can go in what we call active defense, that are both legal and policy questions that have yet to be resolved, " said Mr. Chertoff in January.
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