This observer, twice told by Mr. Santos he wished to have an interview with me, was unable during six weeks to get a straight answer from any campaign staff member, a situation replicated many times with other journalists.
It's just very difficult to get a straight answer, and that's what we are probing for.
Well, we're not sure we're going to get a straight answer here, since this early reviewer didn't have any HD DVD discs, and ended up using the player to watch upscaled standard DVDs.
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It turns out that even if our hypothetical heart attack victim were able to run price checks on emergency room EKG offerings, he or she would be highly unlikely to get a straight answer.
It was in fact Mr Blair, and the prime minister's strangely powerful press spokesman, Alastair Campbell, who lopped off his head when they tired of trying to get a straight story out of him about Mr Hinduja.
Look, I'm proud of the fact that you're bringing this up because there are people who've made mistakes, particularly when they're young, and it is in all of our interests to help them redeem themselves and then get on a straight path.
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We've been trying for weeks to get a straight answer from Mr. Enzi's office to this question: Since Web merchants would supposedly have to deal with one bureaucracy per state, does this mean they would be free to ignore letters from other bureaucracies?
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"You may not get from A to B in a straight line, " he added.
This was a place where men could be men and get their beards trimmed with a straight razor.
Lets get things straight I'm a big light-heavyweight and he's a super-middleweight, I think he's seen sense.
Some debtholders did not get their money back straight away, a technical default.
But what we can do is get our priorities straight, and make a sustained, serious effort to tackle this problem.
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Trying to get things straight, the Americans issued a flurry of official denials, inserted messages of condolence in the press, and promised financial aid.
Then you get a weekly delivery of vegetables straight from the farm.
Given his past behaviour, there was a suspicion that he might fly into London, feel a bit funny and get straight back on the next plane home.
They were gifted a chance to get back in the match on 50 minutes when Skrela had a straight-forward 25-yard penalty, but it drifted wide of the post.
"They get to gallop on the grass in a straight line instead of getting chewed up on curving U.S. tracks, " says Stuart.
"I spoke to Steve on the phone for 20 minutes and I just felt like I wanted to jump on a plane and get over there straight away, " he said.
With the protection strategy, you may not get all the gains from a market going straight up, but you may end up keeping more of the gains after the next selloff.
Campaigners also want to see people given more education about how to manage money which might help flag up the pitfalls of what at first sight seems like a straight forward way to get yourself some fast cash.
"Let's honor the founding documents and get our priorities straight, " he concluded, to a standing ovation.
Usually if a player drops out of Super League, he would sign for a team they think can get them straight back up, but you don't have to think like that now.
To get his head straight again, Woodman lit out on a surf odyssey through Australia and Indonesia, one last big trip before what he figured would become a life of comfortable middle-class monotony.
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"When you get to the top of the wall there is a straight drop, a small flat bit and a slope bringing the ground back to the same level, " he said.
Diplomats describe the president as a friendly and open man who tends to get straight to the point.
At first glance, Bug Labs' latest creation actually seems like a bit of a downgrade from the version it replaces -- it loses the onboard LCD display and a handful of buttons, after all -- but we sat down with CEO Peter Semmelhack today on the hustling, bustling floor of MWC to get the straight dope on what makes the BUGbase 2.0 a superior product.
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