And Tom agreed it was a bad idea if he couldn't break the glass.
In 1999 the chief executive of Nissan Motor promised to resign if he couldn't fix the company.
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In the meantime, however, Shafter had another plan: If he couldn't beat them, he was going to join them.
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Conservative leaders had said they would call on Mr. Gingrich to withdraw if he couldn't win one of the contests Tuesday.
In 1999 the chief executive of Nissan (nasdaq: NSANY - news - people ) Motor promised to resign if he couldn't fix the company.
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If he couldn't play offensive line on his high school football team, for example, it was only because he was too busy helping out on the family farm.
When he got up, he slumped his shoulders, as if to suggest he couldn't justify taking the ball inside anymore.
"I think the senator, if he could just say it over again, might want to say that we would encourage Musharraf to allow us to do it if we thought he couldn't accomplish it, " Giuliani said.
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He didn't know if it was bones or a tear, but he couldn't straighten it, couldn't walk.
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"I had just watched him cross where that bomb was, so I didn't know if he made it through and I couldn't find him, " she said.
If he's such a champion, why couldn't he at least push up to second?
Right up to the US-British invasion of Iraq in March 2003, ElBaradei consistently maintained that he either couldn't tell if Iraq was or was not pursuing nuclear weapons, or that he could see no evidence that Saddam Hussein was pursuing nuclear weapons.
He added that the four men were being closely watched after Mr. Singh's death, but he couldn't confirm if additional guards had been deployed outside their ward.
Walcher said he did not know, and couldn't reveal that information to the media even if he did.
It couldn't be determined if he had a lawyer and there is no phone listed in his name.
No-one knows if his name was really Peter - he couldn't talk.
Afghan mining minister Wahidullah Shahrani said in an interview that he couldn't be sure if the mine filmed by Mr. Barakzai is still operating.
He targeted junk mail for destruction - opening some letters to see if they were important enough to deliver - because he couldn't deliver his rounds on time.
He couldn't quite understand how, if he had survived, others hadn't, that he--I mean, I was actually in the hospital alone with him the morning that he woke up, and he had been sort of semiconscious for a few days, but he hadn't asked about what had happened.
The toffs at the corporation figured that an old boy couldn't be all that bad, even if he played music no one else on the station knew.
"At first, because he had the bandana on I couldn't tell if it was a male or a female, " Forney told a Pima County Sheriff's detective and an FBI agent.
Mr. McNeely says he couldn't provide details and it's unclear if people crossing the border by land would notice the heightened security.
But in any other place, a person would be granted a presumption of sincerity if a dear friend and indispensable colleague had finally met a mountain he couldn't move.
David Axelrod couldn't work here if that were the case -- he's a donor.
By the way, with a flat tax, Geithner couldn't have gotten into the trouble he did even if he'd wanted to.
Years of pain and cuts are ahead, and he couldn't make any guarantees about the club's future if it loses the larger of two tax disputes.
According to Levin, Reid is "generally supportive of our effort, " but he couldn't say whether Democratic leadership plans to champion the deal if Congress returns next month.
Mr. Shvo said he decided to scale back even earlier, at the end of 2007, when he realized the market "couldn't sustain" the excess of if real-estate investment.
"After he woke up I was crying, I couldn't control myself, and he said, 'If you love me don't cry, '" Omar recalls, eyes slightly widening, acknowledging our amazement at his brother's strength.
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