Mr Rogge said that like the messengers in ancient times who shared news of the Olympic truce - the laying down of arms for the Games - "the torchbearers who carry this flame to London will spread the message of sport's capacity to promote peace and to make our world a better place".
Some judges, when elevated to the Supreme Court, have taken it as licence to act as philosopher-kings, laying down the kind of enlightened laws that the oafs in Congress ought to have passed but did not.
Begin by laying the fish, skin-side down, into a hot pan.
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In effect, Skype has created a worldwide voice network, capable of reaching as many consumers as the biggest phone companies, but it has done it without laying down a single fiber-optic wire.
Now a score of water-related startups are laying down roots here, too, spun off from local universities or encouraged by new state financing initiatives, the proximity of skilled labor and, above all, a booming business opportunity.
He got up in the morning and he had his breakfast and he went outside and he's laying down in his air-conditioned grotto outside taking it very easy, completely unaware of the hard work that Mei Xiang has done all night.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is laying down the law with dark pools--or at least starting to.
Although it had no legal standing, the event was the symbolic equivalent of laying down the gauntlet to the president-elect, Felipe Calderon, who won the July 2nd vote by less than 1 percent.
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Tissue cells, instead of performing the normal self-repair of damaged tissue, begin laying down excessive layers of collagen to help build a scar.
These will probably involve upgrading the existing rocket with a more powerful upper-stage whilst at the same time laying down a firm development programme for a next generation rocket that benefits from substantially reduced production costs.
The important contingencies -- or rather, the conditions of reconciliation -- not contingencies but conditions -- are renouncing violence, renouncing terrorism, laying down your arms, and abiding by the Afghan constitution.
The job involves laying down the infrastructure for your city to flourish - power, water, roads and rail - and then watching as businesses and virtual people, called Sims, flock in.
Some time about 440BC, the Athenians decided to make all these people get rid of their own currency, with their own national emblems, and use Athenian "owls" instead - in fact some of the public notices laying this down, still survive, inscribed on stone around what was the Athenian empire.
America's biggest airline, American Airlines has prepared a glide path down to Chapter 11 by laying out a cost-cutting strategy and a financing plan before it asked its workers to agree to wage cuts.
They should be rebuilding our roads and our bridges, laying down faster railroads and broadband, modernizing our schools -- all the things other countries are already doing to attract good jobs and businesses to their shores.
They should be rebuilding our roads and our bridges, laying down faster railroads and broadband, modernizing our schools -- (applause) -- all the things other countries are already doing to attract good jobs and businesses to their shores.
This powerful architectural pattern of laying down a framework that encourages and rewards customers to co-create new value is a powerful way to drive developments that are more than the sum of their parts.
In laying down the guidelines, the department is trying to balance free-speech rights and the educational benefits of online learning with the dangers it sees in teachers and students getting too comfortable in less-traditional settings.
There were also "actions" to plan and carry out - acts of non-violent protest against the cruise missiles, which ranged from laying down in front of vehicles to linking arms around the base, to cutting down sections of the perimeter fence.
They were divided into two equal sub-sections, referred to as Charlie and Delta, with one laying down suppression fire while the other moved toward a target.
In the past, for me, that has meant Republicans laying down and rolling over, to facilitate the advance of my by big-government juggernaut.
Hairy-vetch mulch does all of those things, too, but using it is not as convenient as laying down a few sheets of plastic, and is more expensive.
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