Mr. SIMMONS: I'm like this, your purpose there, you know, actually is to play ball.
Now, business just has to play ball and get its act together by better organizing itself.
Wachovia was willing to play ball but only after charging several points up front.
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Thus, there is further incentive, though widely unspoken, for raters to play ball.
It was naive of Mr Obama to expect the Republicans to play ball.
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They were desperate to play ball -- even if they could barely play.
Monday night's non-committal statement by the Newspaper Society suggests that many powerful players are still calculating whether to play ball.
Given its testy relationship with the other Gulf states, Iran has a hard time persuading them to play ball over smuggling.
In a different environment, they wouldn't have been willing to play ball.
Switzerland agreed to play ball with FATCA, the once controversial U.S. law that obligates foreign banks to report on American account holders.
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Vendors are likely to have little choice but to play ball with Target because of its clout as the second-largest discount chain.
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But if we are to have an employer based system, we ought to compel employers to play ball to a greater degree.
They now have the upper-hand, and they want to play ball.
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But Merriman Capital analyst Eric Wold thinks that if the studios establish an eight week window for theaters, the chains might be willing to play ball.
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Heorhi Kazulka, a forestry official who lost his job because he refused to play ball, is waging an online battle to publicise the park's destruction.
So while it might be possible to push through a couple of additional short-term spending bills, there will come a point when Democrats refuse to play ball.
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You'd never know that party leaders had done everything they could to block Blackwell's nomination because they considered him too independent, a man who refused to play ball with the boys.
In 1979 Watkins established his own practice, making headlines in 1991 representing Auburn University football player Eric Ramsey, who had accused the school's coaches and alumni of paying him to play ball.
Collusive class settlements allow corporations (when they can find class action lawyers who are willing to play ball with them) to cut off the claims of large numbers of people for a fraction of their real value.
It now appears clear that Congressional Republicans are prepared to throw in the towel on revenue increases so long as the Democrats, led by President Obama, are willing to play ball on some entitlement reforms most specifically, Medicare.
Those moderates, several of whom flirted with ObamaCare in the Senate Finance Committee, are still sensitive to the "party of no" charge and, if Obama handles the summit well, would be feeling even more pressure to play ball.
Kimberly advises her class to take a copy of the store's terms and conditions with them and, if the store manager still refuses to play ball when you arrive at the check-out armed with your coupons, phone corporate headquarters.
To reverse the vote, the Conservatives would have to rope in almost every non-Labour or Lib Dem MP, and I don't think the Scottish or Welsh nationalists, or many of the Northern Ireland parties are going to play ball.
So that could get a few more votes because, again, in the Senate, unlike the House, you have more moderate Republicans who are willing - who have that sense of fear and are willing to play ball with President Obama.
On the other hand, if Israel refuses to play ball and doesn't provide Obama with a concession which he will be "forced" to pay for with a harder line on Iran, then he will still have to adopt a harder line.
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