Increasingly, however, this defence is ringing hollow as more attention is paid to the way Texas treats those on trial for their lives.
If your door is open, if your phone is ringing, if your website is working, customers must know how important they are to you.
Thanks to the Securities and Exchange Commission, your phone is ringing off the hook.
You lie there sobbing in despair and slowly you begin to realize the phone is ringing beside you.
"The phone is ringing off the hook, " said Mr. Wizner as he skinned a 250-pound black bear in his driveway.
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"The phone is ringing all the time, " said Czarnek's mother, Victoria, who signed up for the university's mobile alert system.
Now the doorbell is ringing a lot more often and the racks are full of special clothes for gas workers.
This is great news for Montgomery, considering that his phone is ringing off the hook with potential endorsement and marketing opportunities for his client.
"If space itself is ringing and squeezing and stretching, your eardrums can resonate in response ... you could hear the sound of very dramatic events in the universe, " Levin said.
The International Monetary Fund, though, is ringing alarm bells.
As more people with disabilities start being placed and the secret of what a great business decision this is, my phone is ringing off the hook with people outside of Florida wanting us there.
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The question now is ringing in my ears.
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Rupert Murdoch, your phone is ringing.
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Furthermore a lack of clarity in understanding the criticisms of evolution is b ringing great confusion.
Mr Hassemer's boast that Berlin has attracted 19 Russian banks is hardly a ringing endorsement.
But by moving to Bayern, the world's most sought-after manager is offering a ringing endorsement of the German Bundesliga.
One of the other designs is the Singing Ringing Tree to be built in Burnley, a musical sculpture which incorporates pipes which sound with the wind.
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Those opposed to METI argue that broadcasting signals into space announcing the location of Earth is tantamount to ringing a dinner gong for any carnivorous, colonising or anti-social aliens who might be listening.
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If the village guys start ringing up and saying - there is no way we can hold it - Mr Papandreou is politician enough to hear this.
But my bank is very worried on my behalf and is very solicitous and keeps ringing me and would I go in and make an appointment to discuss buying some of their lovely financial products.
It begins with church bells ringing in mournful disapproval of the filth that is about to be set before us.
"Rugla" begins with a quiet clicking, which is immediately fleshed out by guitar and ringing vibraphone.
How can you quickly move your operations from one infrastructure to the next when the pressure is on and the alarm bells are ringing?
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For fringe players in the smartphone industry, which is dominated by Apple and Samsung, ringing up 10 million sales of a new model would be a welcome achievement.
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This Nobel Prize is thrilling and exciting, as a ringing endorsement to the courage and the fearlessness of three women champions from Africa and the Mid-East, and an acknowledgment of their nonviolent role in promoting peace, democracy and gender equality.
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"It starts ringing and it becomes an instant reminder that this person is human, that they have friends and family who care, " he said.
Tinnitus is a medical term used to describe a ringing or buzzing noise that people can hear permanently in one ear, both ears or in the head.
With the the public's resounding 'no' to AV still ringing in their ears, and the coalition entering what is likely to be its final days as the 2015 election approaches, it would be a brave person who bet against it.
If you did, it should be comforting to know that the campus is as beautiful as you remember, that the ringing of the Campanile sounds the same.
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