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We need to make it clear that we will withdraw from Iraq within 6 to 9 months - so that the Iraqis will know that they must stand up and defend the opportunity given to them.
This was released I think in February and so it is a great deal of fuss being made, it hasn't in fact been given public release, it was released in February.
United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.
It is the considered opinion of most members of our rational élites that, in any given difference of opinion with reality, reality is wrong.
In my view it is better for the Labour Party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility.
Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.
... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)
Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.
I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.
Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?
So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced a single astronomer.
I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.
Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.
In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.
I don't really ask of myself a given word or page count or number of hours. To work every day, that's my only fetish. And there is a physical quality to it when a novel is thriving.
No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that.
Kind words not only lift our spirits in the moment they are given, but they can linger with us over the years.
The answer to most questions can be given in one or two words, and no one will challenge you to go deeper.
When you're a producer or director, there's so much sweat that goes into any given project.
If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.
Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.
The President and first lady did hold a private party at the White House over the weekend, but given the private nature of that event, I don't have a lot of details to discuss from here.
I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.
People are out there looking for jobs and realizing that they have to look within to do and create what the new and next thing will be. They can't rely anymore on what was usually given to them.
There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time.
To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them.
Before I undertake a lengthy project, I have usually given much thought to it over a period of years. My files are filled with likely subjects - which perhaps, one day, I will develop.
Everyone knows how to smile. Its one of the greatest gifts God has given us. A smile makes people feel good, and people look so beautiful when they smile.
You have so many capabilities & potential. Start celebrating the life God has given you!
Within the United States, there is a real division between the PhDs given in science and math to the Asian community, to the traditional white community, and then to African-Americans and Hispanics.
Given the facts, our existence seems quite improbable—more miraculous, perhaps, than the seven-day wonder of Genesis.
Self is a construct, a feeling, an identity that is internal and can neither be given nor taken away by others. We develop and nurture that identity by embracing inter-dependence.
Miss Manners herself, while never rude, is given to pulling a fast pinch in the way of a handshake on those who believe in kissing on, not even the first date, but the first sighting.
Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being a surrendered person does not mean one is beaten down and so hopeless he or she has "given up." It's quite the contrary.
I also think he is given to disguises...Sometimes he wears spectacles and sometimes he does not. And twice he has worn an extremely peculiar hat. Inside.
I'm thinking of when the Qatari representative was given five minutes with Bill Clinton for a million dollar cheque.
Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?
But she would never forget Brodick... or the spontaneous kiss he'd given her that had meant nothing to him and everything to her.
It's nice when you work with someone who has an eye for clothes and will show what you've given them.
The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.
Once an individual is given a taste of the gratification that comes from triumph, and the tools to bring it about, they will spend a lifetime in its ongoing pursuit.