They often respond by giving the most meritorious bid (sometimes American, sometimes not) all or part of the contract.
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And I just want to repeat -- because I think sometimes the American people, understandably, aren't following all the debates here in Washington -- raising the debt ceiling does not authorize us to spend more.
In other words, courts have previously cited other countries, or sometimes pre-American traditions, in making their case.
U.S. tax experts note that while this exit tax sometimes dissuades older American millionaires from giving up their citizenship with few years left to make huge capital gains, tax-free the move often makes more financial sense for younger people like Mr. Saverin.
Sometimes it makes American religious belief look unsophisticated and jejune - in fact it merely represents, it seems to me, a truth about the nation: the search for God is not just a search in the lazy passive European way: it is a search with an end in sight.
And even when you've got a police officer who has a fine track record on racial sensitivity, interactions between police officers and the African-American community can sometimes be fraught with misunderstanding.
He loved the jazz he heard on the radio, and sometimes bought jazz records from black American GIs.
The government of Panama was sometimes obstreperous but ultimately bent to American muscle.
Indeed, one of the arguments for constructing a common foreign and security policy in the European Union is precisely that the European view of world affairs is likely, sometimes, to diverge from the American one.
"We're in an era now where flamboyant commentators, particularly on the right, have a great deal of leverage in American politics, and sometimes you wonder whether they're in politics or they're just selling themselves, " Skocpol said.
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Hemingway's fiction is sometimes said to express the anxiety of American men about their masculinity.
Clinton said she had sought initially simply to restore international confidence in American leadership, "sometimes against pretty tough odds, " which included a crisis in the world's economy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Sometimes there is a little gap between what the American people think and what Congress thinks.
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There is some evidence that American voters, at least, are sometimes overwhelmed by the volume of information coming their way, and cast their vote in ignorance, as critics contend.
Kerry also has made education a priority in the Senate, sometimes -- as described by The Almanac of American Politics -- parting company with fellow Democrats on issues such as teacher tenure.
"Sometimes it seems that we -- Israelis and American Jews -- not only inhabit different countries but different universes, different realities, " Oren told an American Jewish Committee gathering in Washington of young supporters from around the world.
" And "we sometimes forget the larger bonds we share, as one American family.
American Idol contestants (and pop singers) sometimes abuse and overuse the technique in songs.
Like so many ethnic groups, Jews faced prejudice, and sometimes violence, as they sought their piece of the American Dream.
They had once been benign fraternities, but they had evolved, and now eighteen-year-olds who had mastered the swagger of American rap videos were undergoing secret initiations that sometimes left one or two of them dead on Odim Hill.
Some American employers are offering an implicit (and sometimes explicit) deal to their employees: accept that we may have to sack you and, in exchange, we will make sure that you have the marketable skills needed to find another job.
James Cottrell, the president of the American Society of Anaesthesiologists, says that although thiopental sometimes makes people talk more, it does nothing to ensure that what they say is truthful.
Mr Spilhaus, a naturalised American, was born in Cape Town and would sometimes remark that the only thing wrong with America was that it did not have the weather of South Africa.
American and Iraqi officials have followed suit, but sometimes find that if they pay one tribe, a rival blows up the line and then claims to be more deserving of the protection money.
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According to a recent survey, 54% of American smartphone owners check their phones in bed -- sometimes in the middle of the night.
Thousands of those American farmers set up small windmill generators to run their radios and sometimes lights.
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"I got a little lucky tonight - and sometimes it's better to be lucky than good, " admitted the American.
"To date, there has been no scientifically adequate research to show that therapy aimed at changing sexual orientation (sometimes called reparative or conversion therapy) is safe or effective, " the American Psychological Association writes on its website.
But sometimes the IRS runs amok and the agency deserves to be held in contempt by the American people.
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And sometimes, we fail to do that, " he said on CNN's "American Morning.
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