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.
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.
Basham, 22, joins from Bolton, where he made 19 appearances, and goes straight into the squad to face Wigan.
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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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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Republicans could not, with a straight face, lobby to extend tax breaks at the top while letting tax cuts aimed at the middle class expire.
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And before Stoke could even restart, they were reduced to 10 men as Fuller was shown a straight red card for slapping his captain Griffin in the face.
Although Christ's face comes closest to looking straight out at the viewer (he's dead at this point, his eyes are closed, and his head is back and facing upward), he's but one of many figures, and not, by far, the largest.
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Ferguson was particularly angered by Rooney's straight red card for catching Porto's Pepe in the face while challenging for the ball.
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"You can't hurt us Canadians, " Whitt said with a straight face, even as his remark spurred laughter in the press room.
The visitors' poor night was complete late on, when Mehdi Carcela-Gonzalez pushed his forehead into the face of Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas and was shown a straight red card.
The California native and San Francisco 49ers fan, who had just tied a franchise record with his third straight 20-rebound game, was forced to face the media wearing a Ravens Super Bowl champion hat, payment of a lost bet with Baltimore fan Carmelo Anthony.
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