Mr. JOHN NALAND (President, American Foreign Service Association): The Foreign Service has stepped up to the plate to staff Iraq, and the view is that our senior leadership has not stepped up to the plate to get the Foreign Service the resources we need.
Davis was batting .152 when he stepped to the plate with the bases loaded.
And, although Lennard failed with the kick, Tonga'uiha stepped up the plate in stoppage time to add the drop-goal that stretched his side's lead to 11-0.
When the project ran out of money, Freudenberg stepped up to the plate, increasing its budget.
Mark stepped up to the plate and did all the cooking, the laundry, everything.
The U.S. real estate market stepped up to the plate this week and struck out, again.
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Babe Ruth stepped up to the plate and southpaw Jackie threw her special pitch.
"New Mexicans have stepped up to the plate by making this investment, " Richardson said.
The rain had lightened just a tad when Gonzalez stepped up to the plate on the sixth.
But so far, she says the biggest sellers of the bulbs haven't stepped up to the plate.
Can you explain generally how women have stepped up to the plate, in perhaps different ways than men?
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Cintas stepped up to the plate and made sure everyone was able to get their paychecks as soon as possible.
After all, the government's offer was open to everyone, but only Ripplewood stepped up to the plate and took the risk.
Although there were murmurings that multiple Asian manufacturers would debut an Android-ready phone, only one stepped up to the plate: Wistron NeWeb.
Mrs Barnaby said her husband had "stepped up to the plate" for the birth of the 7lb 8.5oz baby in their Vauxhall Zafira.
Following the Galaxy S4 launch, it looks like Apple has stepped up to the plate and decided to meet them on the PR battlefield.
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In his absence last Sunday, Andrea Dovizioso stepped up to the plate to secure the Repsol Honda Team's 250th MotoGP podium with an excellent second place.
And we have to applaud the states that stepped up to the plate and said our people will not go without the medications that they need.
The for-profit sector recognized that an entire segment of the higher education market was largely untapped, and it stepped up to the plate to meet that demand.
Pilloried in the press and picked on by politicians, Goldman Sachs stepped up to the plate this morning to report first quarter results and belted one over the fence.
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Once more Henry stepped up to the plate but this time he was gift-wrapped a present by Thompson's woeful backpass and made no mistake, rounding Pollitt and tapping in.
Ms. COHEN: No one--no country has stepped up to the plate, but what the UN secretary-general seems to be suggesting is that there could be an international peacekeeping force.
"Now that Starbucks has stepped up to the plate and announced they are going to be making this payment I think rather than everybody sneering at them, people should welcome that, " he said.
This effort is supportive of all families, and affirms the central role of mothers in the lives of our children, especially those who have stepped up to the plate when dads haven't been around.
"We'd have liked to see more activity in the first crucial hours, but we do feel they stepped up to the plate to do all they could and in the end, they did a proper investigation, " the Jolkowskis said in a prepared statement.
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