One solution is simply to record what is said, using quotation marks to indicate that it's speech.
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My apologies to Frank for such a lengthy (fair use) quotation, but to reduce his writing to pith would be to excise the Borgesian absurdity that is so relevant to the landscape he describes.
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There is a quotation variously attributed to Winston Churchill or George Orwell.
But the group's reputation would benefit if it were to seek a quotation abroad and follow the rules of those countries whose investment it is hoping to attract.
In addition to selective outrage, Mr. Krugman is given to selective quotation.
Now, there's a very simple reason why prosecutors identify the specific quotation that is alleged to be perjury and why it is included in a perjury inditement.
Novak also contacted Wilson for the column and was told, "I will not answer any question about my wife, " according to a quotation Novak used in the column.
But sometimes literal quotation is not up to the task.
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Bizarrely, one of Dr Lomborg's critics in Scientific American criticises as an affectation the book's insistence on documenting every statistic and every quotation with a reference to a published source.
Not to worry: Once Ambrose stops sulking and comes up with a credible mea culpa, he too will be restored to good standing within the punditocracy, and once again will see his words appear frequently in national magazines--within quotation marks and attributed to him in the text.
The label in question was one he disliked so much that he preferred to put it between quotation marks (as if handling it with a pair of tweezers) and to insert a hyphen (as if to deny it the dignity of being a real word).
When Grant Thornton is asked to submit a request for quotation, they now do a company-company relationship analysis to see who they know at the prospect and how well they know them.
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But the other two references -- to Franklin Roosevelt by name and to Abraham Lincoln by quotation -- started me thinking, and worrying, about how our president sees himself in relation to the other 42 men that have held his job. (Grover Cleveland was president twice in nonconsecutive terms).
Krasinski is winning as the straight, clean-cut young athlete -- he's the only one who doesn't seem to be acting in quotation marks, and he's got a talent for physical comedy -- but when it comes to the crunch, when he should be wrestling with his conscience or fighting for his woman, the Bullet's simply not there.
My "collection" really deserves to be captured in quotation marks, as I own just under 500 bottles of wine.
Stephen Halbrook, an attorney and author of the book "The Founders' Second Amendment, " said he doesn't understand why someone would want to use a fake quotation.
Though this case was ostensibly based on "stubborn facts"--from John Adams' frequently cited quotation--it turned out to be long on innuendo and very short on actual facts.
He told the Washington Post in September 2011 that the decision to paraphrase the full quotation had been made by the design team in the interest of brevity.
The survival of the quotation helps insure the survival of the person to whom it is misattributed.
They look nicer but cause a problem if the quotation is in a command that is meant to be copied and pasted to software.
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Shares in the 35 suspended firms - which are not traded on stock exchanges - are listed instead on the so-called Pink Sheets electronic quotation service, which does not require brokers to investigate the background of the companies.
Situation C: likewise, but with a citation to that third article, but no quotation marks.
Which means this "corrected" version of her book--a steady seller off the backlist--had only been brought up to Ambrose code: footnotes, but no quotation marks around the borrowed passages.
However, his editor, believing the phrase to be a direct quote from Lincoln, inserted quotation marks without consulting the author.
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Roth was confused, and so he did what any giant of the American literary scene can do in these circumstances, and wrote a lengthy open letter to Wikipedia in the New Yorker (from which the above quotation is taken).
The SEC is considering whether these IOIs should be subject to order-handling rules and made part of the public centralized quotation system.
The quotation must be there, or the definition should be so close that there can be no doubt as to what is intended.
In a letter to the editor published yesterday in The New York Times, McGovern conceded that Ambrose should have used quotation marks for the disputed passages.
An opera score to William Shield's "Rosina, " first performed at Covent Garden in 1782, contains a quotation of the melody over a bagpipe-like drone of bassoons and clarinets.
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