It's something I feel strongly about - these things should be written in stone, as they are with players.

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After the opposition voiced their outrage and started to protest, Ortega declared that the ruling is "written in stone" and is unchallengeable.

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Govan insists Zumthor's design isn't written in stone, and that there's room for a public voice in a proposal that would give new vision to public art.

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"In Mindy's mind, a proposed order might as well be written in stone because every proposed order that had been presented in the past down in Florida courts, the judge would just rubber-stamp it, " he said.

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Conservative cabinet member Geoff Gollop said the proposals were "not written in tablets of stone" and that they were open to any suggested amendments.

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Like what needs to be sort of written out or in stone to allow that to happen, to allow Copenhagen to be a success, springing from this bilateral meeting?

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One outfit also uses written sales pitches that make drilling in Alaska seem as though it is a stone's throw away from a leaseholder's property.

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At once a confessional and a manifesto, Mr. Fischl's book, written with Michael Stone, will move readers with its tales of a fraught life in art, engage them with its fluent exploration of art-making and likely annoy quite a few with its self-absorption and bombastic pronouncements.

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Picasso obsessively dated his work, so each piece has a date written in his own hand in a mirror image, since he inscribed it directly onto the lithography stone.

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