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In the short to medium-term this is a completely unrealistic option, and statements coming out of the likes of England are Germany are simply shots across the bows of FIFA, longer term, it is a possibility... but it's a big call for the dissenting nations as it would create a multitude of political and organizational problems for domestic and continental associations.

Simon Chadwick

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9 years ago

We have very little hope... but we have no option except to keep pressing, without justice there cannot be stability.

Khaled Dawoud

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9 years ago

This crowd was composed of good, well-meaning people who understood that peace was the only option and were adamant that things remain calm over Eric's death.

Joel Graham

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9 years ago

There is a tectonic shift in the cash management landscape, one option is to take on more risk.

Alastair Sewell

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9 years ago

The risk is in not convoking a special session. I have to do the responsible thing. It's simple, if there were another option, I would not be doing this.

Alejandro Garcia Padilla

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The two contraindications help to clarify the narrow population of patients in which laparoscopic power morcellation may be an appropriate therapeutic option, for example, some younger women who are interested in maintaining their ability to have children or wish to keep their uterus intact after being informed of the risks may be candidates for this procedure.

The FDA

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Case handlers had no option but to call more than 10 military trucks before all the confiscated property piled up like mountains from this former Central Military Commission vice chairman's house could be taken away.

Phoenix Weekly

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It appears that asking is not always a pleasant thing. Could be an aspect of human nature to feel awkward when asking others. To say "Please" we give others the option of assisting us or not. The manner in which we feel about what we ask relates to our feelings about asking. Passion is an element of our saying..."Please...so is the motive. We all ask of others. Why we ask depends mostly on present conditions...those change. I ask others to think a bit before going on some tangent. Doing so could be beneficial to all of us...Please? KnowyerLoved CWD

Carl DeHaven

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9 years ago

I love French films, and European films. They're not any bigger, but there's just a sort of definition, and a confidence, and strength to them. I'd always, given the option, go and see a French drama. Obviously, we probably get the better ones. But they're just sophisticated on many levels, and grown up, and quite profound - and we don't make films like that.

Jim Broadbent

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10 years ago

I have said publicly no option should be off the table, but I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table.

Hillary Clinton

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10 years ago

I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.

Elie Wiesel, O Magazine, November 2000

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13 years ago

Peter Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option.

Spider-Man

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14 years ago

You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film-you give over your life In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.

Daniel Day Lewis

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14 years ago

There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.

Oliver L. North

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14 years ago

One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers. (On Soviet and Allied missiles in Europe)

Margaret Hilda Thatcher

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14 years ago

You can always tell youre in trouble when the good option involves a prosthetic leg.

Hugh Elliott

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14 years ago

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