You keep going, you keep improving, and you keep ticking off the wins and the series.
"We've settled a lot, " says Mr. Dudley, ticking off agreements with federal agencies, prosecutors and private litigants.
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Below them, a list extends down ticking off a number of local projects the politicians claimed to initiate.
But before you start ticking off what channels you are willing to pay for in the new world, reconsider.
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Trying to "nip round ticking off the sites will drive you crazy" as there are hardly any fast roads, the guide said.
Aside from ticking off your colleagues and possibly tarnishing certain relationships, talking about the election in the office could affect your work.
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But the rulers of Bahrain and Yemen get a stern ticking off when their security forces kill demonstrators, not bombs aimed at their homes.
"Our work is in front of people's eyes, " the president added, ticking off a lengthy list of accomplishments he says were made during his administration.
Luke Dorn was close to breaking the line, only to be downed by a cynical Tomkins tackle which earned a severe ticking off from referee Steve Ganson.
Yesterday, Russian President Boris Yeltsin dazzled those listening to his joint press conference with President Clinton by rapidly ticking off the array of topics addressed during their summit meeting.
But before sending the note I showed it to my immediate editor, and he made an extremely helpful suggestion: After ticking off my accomplishments, I should conclude with a note of humility.
It's clear that our elected officials are afraid of ticking off voters, with their particular needs, so they kick the can down the road, hoping someone else takes on the tough stuff.
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The man stood up and imitated a firing squad with his two chimpanzee arms, ticking off a volley of bullets and displaying, as he did so, sharp but not entirely white front teeth.
"Now they're ticking off Congress, " seethes Gerard Del Colliano, a radio industry newsletter publisher whose legal scrapes with Clear Channel haven't inhibited him from shooting off his mouth about the company at any chance.
Ticking off a laundry list of stars, from Walter Cronkite to Jane Pauley, who few thought could be replaced, he points out that there have been plenty of shows that have replaced casts with great chemistry to great success.
In reviewing the memo I banged out the other day, I see I did a good job of ticking off four specific stories I'd recently written, but I was too vague when I referred to "all kinds of projects" I'd done.
The Wikipad gaming tablet has been ticking off boxes on its way to becoming a real product, and after bedding down with Gaikai game streaming and settling in to a 10.1-inch form factor, the rest of the hardware is now set.
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When the moderator needles him into answering a question about why America is the greatest country on earth, he goes volcanic, ticking off the ways in which America is no such thing, then closing with a statement of hope, about the way things used to be.
Ticking off some recent failings mis-selling, Libor-rigging and money laundering Fried also noted some signs of hope: Lloyds CEO recently called for an end to the sales culture (which was just getting started in a lot of retail banks) and Barclays had appointed Anthony Salz from Rothschold to lead a review of values and principles.
In nine cases out of ten, the police complain, the result is that juvenile delinquents get released by the courts after a mere ticking-off.
Not always, however, are such overtures welcome, and one has to be wary of getting that great picture at the expense of ticking somebody off.
His government has had a very public ticking-off from Brussels with a recommendation by the European Commission that Germany should be given a warning about its budget deficit.
Now, you have the chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility giving him what can only be described as a ticking-off, for suggesting that the OBR didn't think spending cuts and tax rises had had any effect on the pace of the recovery - "quite the opposite".
It would be 10 more years before this ticking time bomb went off, bringing with it the full force of a decade's worth of alleged underpayments and penalties.
How many scandal time bombs are sitting there ticking, ready to go off when these companies go down?
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The excessively low interest rates, unsustainable growth and massive leveraging over the last 30 years created a ticking time bomb that was set off in 2008 by the bundling and 30-1 leveraging of subprime mortgages.
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The Chiefs stand-off added a further two penalties before the interval, but Reihana kept the scoreboard ticking over for the Saints with a third penalty of his own.
That said, the pair kept the scoreboard ticking over at a healthy rate and, although Gambhir was dropped at backward point by Raqibul Hasan off Shahadat Hossain, they were rarely troubled.
One of those may involve off-spinner Graeme Swann working hard to frustrate Ponting, who likes to keep the scoreboard ticking over.
With the minutes ticking down and the hosts increasingly desperate to put the game to bed, substitute Peter Crouch saw a header cleared off the line and then his shot saved after a fine solo run, while former Bolton player Eidur Gudjohnsen slid wide with the goal gaping in injury time.
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