And to be frank, I was pretty appalled by the statements that were used.
Be frank with your aging parent on your need for openness about her finances.
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"It's a change about which, to be frank, we have very little choice, " he said.
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"I'll be frank, " says John Shiver , executive director of viral vaccine research at Merck.
To be frank, there's a lot going on here, and not all of it is useful.
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"This will be full, it will be frank and it will be completely unvarnished, " he said.
Just as the Beatles might as well be Frank Sinatra, Facebook might as well be Microsoft or IBM.
You won't feel comfortable at Barclays and, to be frank, we won't feel comfortable with you as colleagues.
"Their message was, to be frank with you, they do not understand why we won't help them, " McCain said.
But neither candidate wants to be frank about why they think this way.
This is about cycling and to be frank it's about all endurance sports.
The Japanese side have decided that the best approach is to be frank.
To be frank, the final debate of this election year captured everything wrong and dejecting about American foreign policy thinking today.
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To be frank, pun intended, I was not particularly familiar with the Piraten party in Germany, so I did some digging.
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To be frank, we're not vacuum experts, but we're probably coming at this from the same angle as the general consumer.
"To be effective, a risk register requires all those involved to be frank and open about potential risk, " Mr Lansley told MPs.
And it's really going to become harmful, to be frank, if gas prices, you know, continue to stay at the level that they are, or even rise higher.
"To be frank, gum has been disappointing for quite some time and it is taking us longer to change the trajectory than we anticipated, " Chief Executive Irene Rosenfeld said.
To be frank, though, what he does has changed.
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The fact that such an admission appears in a formal FINRA Arbitration Decision and covers material statements on both the original and amended Form U5 (which are regulatory documents) is, to be frank, astounding.
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The Tories are in a coalition: much better to be frank about the (relatively few) compromises that position involves than to try to pretend that Lib Dem policies like Lords reform are somehow Tory ones.
To be frank, my favorite notification method implemented on any mobile OS is the status bar on Android, mainly because it's easily accessible and navigable the vast majority of the time (it gets hidden in certain apps).
Medical malpractice lawyers spare no effort trying to get the details of physician reviews, which in many states are protected from legal discovery under the theory that such discussions must be frank in order to improve medical care.
The fact is we have a relationship with China that ensures that we can act on -- in areas where we agree, and we can be frank and clear in areas where we disagree or we have differences.
If the initial arc of his career mimics that of anyone, it might be Frank Sinatra, whom he cites as a fashion influence: a teen-idol singer who moved into acting and produced a series of recordings that have endured.
They need to find extra money from somewhere, because Italy's financing requirements just next year could exhaust almost half of the EFSF's promised extra firepower - and, to be frank, there are still technical obstacles to the EFSF actually securing that firepower.
The calculation appears to be that frank words about what would be needed for peace was possible because he had worked hard to establish his credentials as Israel's friend.
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