What's at stake, what's being said that's at stake really does not pass the straight-face test.
"It's very human - when you look at it, the full face is in front of you, you look straight into the eyes and face, " he said.
Back in 1999, he told the public with a straight face that a demand he made to the Toronto Blue Jays to trade him to the Yankees was about winning.
When the council campaign got under way, the Sinn Fein candidate Conor Maskey confessed to blasting a football straight into the face of the young son of a potential voter.
"You think the public is angry about this now, they're going to be truly outraged when the House, with a straight face, tries to argue that somehow the Senate bill cleared the House and no one ever voted for it, " McConnell said.
Mr. Difazio recently told the court, with a straight face, that his client, Delphi, had deceived him back in the year 2000.
Staring an advanced civilization straight in the face, the Roman dismissed it as either barbarism or decadence.
This great state rolled up its sleeves, looked terrorism straight in the face and spat in its eye.
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Can they with a straight face defend the reality that troops in 175 countries watched Notre Dame vs.
Basham, 22, joins from Bolton, where he made 19 appearances, and goes straight into the squad to face Wigan.
This technicality allows senior officials to say with a straight face that the matter of choosing the next chief hasn't been settled.
However, it is patently unreasonable for the U.S. government with a straight face to produce 200 TB of data, or 25 times the amount deemed relevant to the proceedings, thereby requiring a continuance of trial up to six weeks simply to return the relevant files to their native format.
The last time I saw him, he said with a perfectly straight face that as long as he owned the place the first Enos Grahame could come back whenever he liked and find the whole house just as he remembered it!
No doubt that's true, but for those of with no pretensions about making billions or even millions in the future, can any of us say with a straight face that what we learned in college applies to the jobs we do as adults?
Carayol will go straight into the Poppies team to face Crawley Town this weekend in the Blue Square Premier.
The EPA is saying with a straight face that natural gas combined cycle is an emission reduction system that has been adequately demonstrated for coal power plants.
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Going back to Greece, it as we know is in trouble at the moment, but if Apple were to move its headquarters there, can anyone say with a straight face that it would suffer financing difficulties in the way that its government is?
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"It's the Paris-Dakar rally of birding, " says spokesman John Bianchi, of the National Audubon Society, with a straight face.
Simmonds connected with three straight rights to the side of the face and easily won that fight as the crowd roared in appreciation.
Today, someone will argue to the Third Circuit, presumably with a straight face, that a citizen treated this way has no cause for complaint.
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This supposed graduate of Harvard B-School, Yale Law, and Oxford with a straight face has consistently claimed the fund can only return one to two percent per year.
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There isn't anybody with a straight face that can question the resolve of this Commander-In-Chief to put the appropriate resources on what he believes was an urgent threat to our national security.
You can do a straight-up punch to the face, an upper-cut, a downward jab, and various super power moves to cut your way through skeletons, zombies, bats, and gads of other baddies.
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This is a double loser: a black eye for the brand, and a difficult argument to make in court with a straight face (although such arguments often come across as surprisingly reasonable when they are made in the right legal context).
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In Lay's World, the man who oversaw perhaps the most dramatic corporate failure ever with a straight face offered a discourse on good government.
Neatly, she does not so we get all the benefit of anticipation and then the pay off is when Johnny later goes with the other woman to the same clinic, for the same check-up and meets the same doctor who keeps as near a straight face as she can.
In 2013, he'll again face the decision of whether to go straight or succumb to temptation.
His straight-face turns to a smirk as the two are picked off the train by a hook that catches the chains that tie them together.
He will face Federer in the final for the third straight year, having lost in four sets in 2006 and a five-set classic 12 months ago.
Bringing Bezos back into the discussion, can the class warriors in our midst really say with a straight face that government investment in companies makes us better off than does direct investment by Bezos himself?
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