• That mat meant every bit as much to them as that pool did to Ryan Lochte, as that gym apparatus did to Gabby Douglas, as that hardwood floor did to Kobe Bryant.

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  • But it would be as wrong to conclude that giving codeine to somebody from Malta would be bound to work, as it would to assume that giving it to a Swede would be a waste of time.

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  • His hotels were designed so as to make that promise clear to as many people across the world as possible.

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  • Opposition spokesman Lord Hunt of Kings Heath challenged the government to show that it is "as concerned to ensure that the industry is strong as they are to ensure holding down prices".

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  • That is as much due to the fact that I like to stretch my legs and have easy access to the restrooms, as it is that I like to be the first person out of my seat when the captain turns off the seatbelt sign.

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  • Can you shed any light on that as to why that happened?

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  • "I think that to suggest that God might intervene to protect us from the corporate folly of our practices is as unchristian and unbiblical as to suggest that he protects us from the results of our individual folly or sin, " he said.

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  • It's as true to say that our experience of controlling our impulses make the prefrontal cortex develop as it is to say that prefrontal development makes us better at controlling our impulses.

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  • At the same time, comedy is often about getting as close to that line as possible.

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  • We're as committed to that now as we were on that day.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • If you subscribe to the importance of the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution, it becomes difficult to take a position that the existence of affirmative action was ill conceived from the outset as to deny that certain defined segments of American society were disadvantaged by who they are would be to deny reality.

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  • The Conservative Party has to do more to its structure to bring more in, to make sure that we have more opportunity to get them through as member of parliament, I want to do that as much if not more than anybody else but this idea that members of the party want to stigmatise the party.

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  • Indeed, more than that I would go so far as to say that suggesting that short-term profit should be the motive of these companies would be exceptionally harmful to the cause of integrating the public and private sectors.

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  • Republicans and Democrats pledged to retroactively undo the cuts but signaled no hints as to how that process would start to take shape.

    NPR: Spending Cuts Seem Here To Stay

  • The first attack came from The New York Times, whose editorial position on climate change is about as opposite to that in the WSJ as could be.

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  • "It's not just having a piece of paper with the right words on it, but it's a matter of having all the 'administrivia' right, getting the paper out the door at the right time to the right person and developing procedures as to how that information gets back to the right person at the company, " he says.

    FORBES: COBRA's Bite

  • As if to dismiss that as too simple a challenge, according to press reports of the day, he then flew under at least three other, much lower, bridges - London Bridge, Blackfriars and Waterloo - before stepping ashore at Westminster to be greeted by a cheering crowd who had gathered to meet a dignitary expected by boat from Paris.

    BBC: Frank McClean: Forgotten pioneer of the sky

  • "We have asked an independent panel to decide which charities will participate as we want to ensure that as many worthy causes as possible are able to take part, " spokesperson Melanie Knight said.

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  • And it inspired me to stay as connected as I possibly can to that core curiosity, as open to possibilities, as intent on figuring things out.

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  • Obviously there are other agencies in the government that will deal with accountability as to what that investigation shows.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The Senate of the United States would be as irrelevant to that sort of world order as national parliaments in Europe have already become, thanks to the transfer of virtually all rulemaking authority to European Union bureaucrats in Brussels.

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  • According to the account, the board claimed it was being put in an "inviduous position by the continued refusal to set a budget - with one member going so far as to add that he would be obliged to consider his position were the state of affairs to continue".

    BBC: Welsh Ambulance Service fears at lack of budget

  • If that sounds to you, as it does to me, that the Chairman of the Fed wants to move in the same direction as Brown-Vitter on capital requirements for megabanks, keep in mind that there are only seven members of the Fed Board.

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  • To what extent will that serve as a counterweight to that?

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  • The government said it would give loans to graduates to help them start businesses as well as to companies that employ them.

    ECONOMIST: Global recession is hitting China��s workers hard

  • In answers to questions after his speech, he went so far as to argue that the company should not be allowed to enter new territory: service providers should be kept separate from providers of operating systems.

    ECONOMIST: Software

  • After a while, it wasn't even that it was funny as much as that we needed to straighten up before that door opened.

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  • Nintendo's also devised a pricing scheme to offer users who've amassed a retro gaming library a more affordable way to re-download past VC purchases (as opposed to that clunky transfer system).

    ENGADGET

  • And we are going to work together as assiduously as we can to make sure that those civilian casualties are reduced, even as we try to accomplish a mission, and even as we are reminding ourselves constantly that the overwhelming majority of civilian casualties in Afghanistan are as a consequence of terrorist acts by the Taliban.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and President Karzai Press Availability

  • With all the changes happening in society and in the economy, as well as major changes to the NHS in England, we must use public health expertise to improve and protect our health, as well as to ensure that NHS services provide quality and value for money.

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