"I don't have very much patience with people who don't step up to the plate in terms of addressing problems that are under their responsibility, " Gates said.
But if you look back, you'll see a lot of statements, say, from the special envoy to Sudan, Andrew Natsios, who gave a January 1st deadline, saying that punitive action will be taken if Sudan didn't step up to the plate.
"If I didn't think could step up, then I wouldn't be here and I'll be working hard in training to break into what is already a very good football team, " he said.
But failing that, as Arsenal learned the hard way last weekend, a team can't continue to step up when Bale is operating freely.
But Ford says 10, 000 Focus owners defect to other brands each year because it doesn't offer an attractive step-up model.
And if you see a piece of rubbish lying on the footpath, don't step over it -- pick it up.
"I don't know if I am good enough to make the step up as there are so many really good players around, " McArthur said.
It didn't take Bernstein long to figure out the FTC needed to step up its monitoring of the Internet.
Economists don't think the latest economic data will lead the Fed to step up the size of its bond purchases.
"This is a good step forward, but I don't think it can clean up the problem alone, " he says.
I've been meeting with parents and I've been asking parents to do their parts, because it doesn't matter what we feed you at school, but if you get home and it's hard for parents to make healthy choices, then you guys still aren't leading healthy lives, so we've asked parents to step up and do more.
If the bond isn't redeemed, the investor usually receives a higher rate, or "step up, " giving the issuer incentive to redeem.
But what I've heard is he doesn't usually have to say too much because the leaders of this team step up and say what needs to be said.
After getting through to the final in 2009 and only just being beaten by Leicester, I thought the Exiles would really step up to the plate last season but they didn't.
In terms of build quality ZTE didn't disappoint, either (at least the casing is certainly a big step up from the Skate), and their 4.3-inch qHD LCDs looked good as well.
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But the right technologist -- I didn't say exec, I said technologist -- sure as hell needs to step up, because if Brown plans on installing another out of touch, overpaid, clueless executive in the revolving door, they might as well sell the company off now while they can still fetch a reasonable price.
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"I don't know if you've seen a Syracuse team recently that has one player step up and score six or seven goals, and that's how we win the game, " Desko said.
" While we're most definitely writing anything these folks say in regard to promptness off, we're admittedly glad the gurus behind the scenes feel this next step up should happen rather smoothly, but the IEEE still doesn't think a "finalized standard" will go live "until 2009 or 2010.
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The Bahamian government has promised to step up efforts to bring paved roads to the cay, where cars aren't allowed, only golf carts.
What do I got to do to get you to step up after appropriate warnings and appropriate warnings, to get you to issue a 'T' (technical)?
It doesn't begin to pay for everything, but who on watch today can deny that we need to step up and try to deal with this problem?
But this is -- this isn't a step for us to take, this is a step for the North Koreans to take in living up to -- living up to those obligations.
Witt's team clearly was also successful with the sixth step, Produce Short-Term Wins, and at least to some extent the seventh, Don't Let Up--as evidenced by FEMA's successful response to hundreds of disasters, including the most costly flood and earthquake in the nation's history to that time as well as multiple serious hurricanes.
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