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  • You probably know that the American government just refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol....The entire human race is the same.†   (source)
  • But if every man has his strengths, one of the Bishop's was that he was never more than a step away from petty protocol and an inherent sense of superiority.†   (source)
  • But I don't know: Model audition protocol has never been my area of expertise.†   (source)
  • I was so accustomed to the rules and protocol on campus that it took me a second to realize I might be responding to the orders of some random drunk kids from town.†   (source)
  • Well, I don't know and don't care what other people do, but this is the protocol I use.†   (source)
  • She realized this was protocol, their way of being nice while being helpless, and when one of them suggested "getting your affairs in order," she asked to be released from the hospital.†   (source)
  • It was part of the protocol.†   (source)
  • A dark-haired Gefreiter explains the protocol.†   (source)
  • But the safety protocols turned out to be in ROMs.†   (source)
  • Sensing a crisis of protocol, the manager demurred and said he would have to confer with the board.†   (source)
  • I wondered if they could become confidantes of some kind, or if training and protocol would render them completely unable to even share a cup of tea with me.†   (source)
  • He was not profusely thankful and there was that silence about him, that bearded, gruff, and giant silence, that unwillingness to engage the protocols of island life.†   (source)
  • That's not protocol.'†   (source)
  • He worked at WICKED until he had a disagreement with the higher-ups about the protocols surrounding the brain implants.†   (source)
  • If Captain Westfall insisted on protocol, then she'd give it to him in abundance.†   (source)
  • She drilled the rules of court into my head, filling me with names, protocols, and etiquette.†   (source)
  • The meat was always coaxial cable, T-1 multiplexers, protocol converters, and the like.†   (source)
  • Maybe he's just forgotten the protocol, but maybe it's deliberate.†   (source)
  • This isn't protocol for handling an unruly mob.†   (source)
  • The first few years were frustrating, as legislators and planners bickered over money and protocols.†   (source)
  • if that's protocol, I understand.†   (source)
  • Even in times of supposed crisis, the commander couldn't abandon his precious protocol.†   (source)
  • It seemed to be registry protocol that the groom should be allowed to select the casual china (I guess for all those Super Bowl parties I would be hosting with the guys, ha ha) while the "formal ware" should be left to the experts: the ladies.†   (source)
  • In the classroom, they are taught to turn and address anyone talking to them in a protocol known as "SSLANT": smile, sit up, listen, ask questions, nod when being spoken to, and track with your eyes.†   (source)
  • That's protocol," one guard says.†   (source)
  • "It's just smart protocol," Gilpin continued.†   (source)
  • Dodge, when present at these meetings, usually kept silent and listened to the exchange of strategies, disagreements over protocol, and interpretations of intel reports with stifled exasperation and anger: They were the self-proclaimed saviors of the queendom; they should have been engaging Redd in battle, not talking about it.†   (source)
  • Dalton was already way beyond protocol with him anyway.†   (source)
  • "Your Excellency," began Sol, "I apologize in advance for any breach in church protocol which I have committed...or may commit.†   (source)
  • We must follow protocol.†   (source)
  • Following Dog Beach protocol, I parked several blocks away, where I wouldn't get a ticket, and began the long hike in through a sleepy neighborhood of sixties-vintage bungalows, Marley leading the charge.†   (source)
  • "I know this isn't standard protocol, but it's an emergency," I say.†   (source)
  • But there are certain protocols involved....†   (source)
  • How can I ever reel him back to the world of rules and regulations, of protocol and privies?†   (source)
  • Macon, there are protocols.†   (source)
  • If they call it a fleet exercise they admit to violating the notification protocol.†   (source)
  • inch samurai sword was not on their Weapons Protocol.†   (source)
  • When Vic and Roger decided to go their own way, they had observed strict protocol and had not gone to any of their previous clients until their connections with the Ellison Agency were formally — and amicably — severed.†   (source)
  • The same protocol held sway as at the great performances in Europe, and the ladies used the occasion to show off their long dresses and their fur coats in the dog days of the Caribbean summer, but it was also necessary to authorize the admission of servants to carry the chairs and lamps and all the things to eat that were deemed necessary to survive the interminable programs, one of which did not end until it was time for early Mass.†   (source)
  • I would add various items from each of these books or from research I was doing on a regular basis on the Internet, but the core exercise protocol remained the one that Robby provided early on, one that he also used, from Carson-Newman College and Mr. Albers's physical-training manual and additional Navy SEAL techniques.†   (source)
  • I break protocol a bit to give Xander a tiny wave, and his smile widens.†   (source)
  • There are protocols.†   (source)
  • Buddhist protocol dictates that travelers always pass mani walls on the left.†   (source)
  • Some of the new and more curious watchers, not knowing the protocol that had been developed by our steadier customers, came out on the slack to get a better view.†   (source)
  • That was probably the extent of their emergency protocol.†   (source)
  • "That was my protocol," he says.†   (source)
  • It seemed with so much protocol, I would never get to draw the brilliant and lush and wild world brimming over inside me.†   (source)
  • With help from Anne and her friends, Edna completed her hospital, after upsetting all the protocols of the construction industry in Somaliland.†   (source)
  • I'd only been at the House of Night for a month, and I still wasn't sure about the protocol for being excused from class.†   (source)
  • I've never been in a hot tub before, and am not sure about hot-tub protocol.†   (source)
  • When he was told no, the prisoner seemed disappointed, as though he thought the protocol surrounding this ritual of vengeance was not being properly observed.†   (source)
  • No need to follow protocol.†   (source)
  • The grim protocol demands he guard the pile as it grows, so items aren't simply picked off as they hit the pavement, since Barbara and Cedric are still officially tenants.†   (source)
  • So what was the fairy-tale protocol for other kisses?†   (source)
  • Perhaps, Doctor, you should advise Mr. McMurry on the protocol of these Group Meetings.†   (source)
  • His dad was a stickler for protocol and responsibility.†   (source)
  • They waited for her to rejoice in kind, on cue, with due observance of the protocols.†   (source)
  • But the intern was clearly too upset to care about protocol.†   (source)
  • WITHIN THL stifling women's unit, Crystal "the mayor" made an effort to maintain a faint semblance of prison protocol.†   (source)
  • They spent half an hour going over the rules: phone use, lunch breaks, office protocol, overtime, et cetera.†   (source)
  • Confiscation protocol for Björneborgsvägen 8B.†   (source)
  • We do not have time for the ordinary protocols, and thus I propose that the Founder's Ring be taken by whatever means necessary and that she be confined to the Hollows forthwith.†   (source)
  • It is protocol with all internal security investigations to have two agents present, so that all statements can be corroborated.†   (source)
  • Hey, señor, guest rights and host rights are important magic protocols.†   (source)
  • Concerned about protocol in London, worried how he might be received, dreading the thought of people staring at him, he turned for advice to the British ambassador to France, the Duke of Dorset, whom he liked and trusted.†   (source)
  • Zeebo, unsure of protocol, opened the door and stood back to let her enter.†   (source)
  • According to protocol, I'm obliged to ask you if you want to be relieved from this case.†   (source)
  • No regulation or protocol even suggests testing vaccines at such a high temperature.†   (source)
  • PROTOCOL VLAD SANK DOWN IN HIS CHAIR in the belfry, shivering.†   (source)
  • Protocol says that as a suitor you are supposed to ask Attolia to lead the first set with you.†   (source)
  • But the judge was an adherent of proper protocol and wanted that to show in the record.†   (source)
  • Culver Parnell, hotel magnate from Atlanta whose twenty-year reign in the hostelry business had led to his appointment as chief of protocol for the White House, angrily hung up his office phone as he scribbled a sixth obscenity on a legal pad.†   (source)
  • He loved being kissed by her, but at twelve, squirming away was protocol.†   (source)
  • Once riders were down on the course, tracks had virtually no protocol for coping with their injuries.†   (source)
  • A lifetime of protocol.†   (source)
  • Daddy Isn't Running This time round, but he has before and is intimately aware of campaign protocol.†   (source)
  • One is seated according to protocol.†   (source)
  • Breaking all rules of protocol, I blurted, "But ...that's what I signed up for.†   (source)
  • In the hospital, where my encounters with patients are ever more distanced by sterile gloves, computer protocols, and the pressures of time, one way I can still be present is during their moments of grief.†   (source)
  • It wasn't standard protocol, but this was a strange and unprecedented situation.†   (source)
  • There are protocols for dealing with rogue Downworlders.†   (source)
  • He broke all crime scene protocols by doing a quick search of the dead man and retrieving his cell phone and wallet, which he pocketed.†   (source)
  • The local television stations never would have followed any candidate as much as they did John Kwang, out of fairness and protocol, but the election was more than two years off, and Kwang was denying at every instance his interest in running for mayor.†   (source)
  • Anti-infection protocols?†   (source)
  • But soon Gabriel would be the chief of his service, which meant that, for protocol's sake, he would outrank Carter.†   (source)
  • Forget protocol at a time like this.†   (source)
  • Hers was a life of order, of cocktails served promptly before dinner, of napkins and candlesticks, of military protocol, and attention to form.†   (source)
  • This Laboratory Conforms to USG P4/EK3 Genetic Protocols†   (source)
  • Everything he has done tonight was done in perfect accordance with ancient protocols.†   (source)
  • A piece of white paper, coated in clear plastic, reads BUNKER PROTOCOL.†   (source)
  • The protocols for this event are holy-not subject to modification.†   (source)
  • The treatment protocol was long and elaborate and—worst of all—maddeningly inconclusive.†   (source)
  • For not organizing her things according to protocol.†   (source)
  • There was protocol to follow, but Ahren and Camille bypassed it, running into each other's arms.†   (source)
  • More Training, more Protocol, more brainless lunches that almost leave me in tears.†   (source)
  • "We have to follow protocol," the younger man says.†   (source)
  • Don't worry, Nick, it's all protocol, my friend.†   (source)
  • The commander was a man of rigid protocol.†   (source)
  • All lifers have to be moved with higher security protocols.†   (source)
  • I learned about the Jewish diaspora and the strange history of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.†   (source)
  • Assuming it could only be a criminal, they followed protocol and called in the Judicial Police.†   (source)
  • As was the protocol, the lamb was pure, having not yet reached sexual maturity.†   (source)
  • "Is that the standard protocol here?" asks the Head Peacekeeper.†   (source)
  • Though they were in the same room, radio protocol was observed at all times.†   (source)
  • The Street protocol states that your avatar can't be any taller than you are.†   (source)
  • Lessons, Protocol, this place where I can't trust anyone, where I'm not even myself.†   (source)
  • Their security protocol involved not discussing with anyone what Katherine was working on.†   (source)
  • I mouthed "Later" and did my best not to be irritated by him neglecting protocol again.†   (source)
  • There is still a chance to preserve protocol and decorum.†   (source)
  • I am breaching protocol by escorting you this far.†   (source)
  • It's written in a protocol that isn't even publicly available yet.†   (source)
  • It seems my Protocol lessons might be sinking in after all.†   (source)
  • Lady Blonos scolds me for being distracted in Protocol.†   (source)
  • Well, if it gets me out of Protocol, I won't say no.†   (source)
  • My mind flies back to Protocol, to the house lessons.†   (source)
  • No wonder she laughed at me for Protocol.†   (source)
  • But Lucas is nowhere to be found, and I head off to Protocol, expecting him to cross my path.†   (source)
  • He wanted badly to aim one, to shoot one, but wasn't sure of the protocol.†   (source)
  • There was no protocol I could pattern myself by.†   (source)
  • If La Fayette wanted to be treated like a marquis, he should insist on protocol.†   (source)
  • You know the protocol; you know what to do.†   (source)
  • The document was stamped TOP SECRET and filed in the special protocol of SIS.†   (source)
  • So by such subtle points of protocol a crisis can be contained?†   (source)
  • The other was more directed by protocol.†   (source)
  • To me, ultimately, the simple fact of the matter is that Tushman didn't follow protocol.†   (source)
  • Strictly corpo diplomatico on the protocol level.†   (source)
  • My inability to discern the obvious was exacerbated to some degree by the guide-client protocol.†   (source)
  • "That's not protocol," said the surgeon, "but I'm not going to stop you."†   (source)
  • In your case, since you didn't have it as a kid: Immune system protocols.†   (source)
  • "I went to see the chief of protocol for the Supreme Court," Rafi said, soaking in sweat.†   (source)
  • "And the queen?" asked the minister of protocol, seated on Eugenides's other side.†   (source)
  • Of course, children can often derail the best laid protocol.†   (source)
  • Back at her desk, the first thing she did was check the report's protocol number.†   (source)
  • It was a simple test, not part of the regular Wildfire Protocol.†   (source)
  • She called the registrar and was informed that no report with that protocol number existed.†   (source)
  • "It was way out of protocol," says Christian, "but we felt in our hearts that he deserved it."†   (source)
  • Most Ngongot protocols will work perfectly well.†   (source)
  • It was a formal speech, stuffed with protocol, and called for a formal answer.†   (source)
  • Better a delay than a mistake in protocol.†   (source)
  • In all but a few cases, the victim observes the same procedure, as if there were a strict, unwritten protocol about the correct way to take one's own life.†   (source)
  • Security protocol.†   (source)
  • Protocol was black-andwhite.†   (source)
  • I'm sure none of them actually know because, in the Hob, the standard protocol for someone showing up with a wild turkey is for everybody to bid on the drumsticks.†   (source)
  • Security sweeps, proper announcements, and protocol reviews were all necessary before I could even consider it.†   (source)
  • Today I will begin to instruct you on conduct and protocol, a process that will continue for the duration of your stay.†   (source)
  • The president all but accused us of sending the submarine deliberately to their shore in violation of our secret 1979 protocol.†   (source)
  • The protocol among gill-netters in such conditions was to lay on one's foghorn at one-minute intervals and to keep a sharp ear turned toward the fog on the chance of receiving a reply.†   (source)
  • They ran it through their own market research protocol, called the Program Analyzer, which required audiences to push red and green buttons, recording their impressions of the shows they were watching.†   (source)
  • Though his features were a mask of protocol, she could have sworn she glimpsed a glimmer of amusement in his eyes.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure if this is exactly medical protocol, but I'm terrified that if he drifts off he'll never wake again.†   (source)
  • He had kept quiet about Officer Dalton overstepping his protocol, and Dalton returned the favor by keeping him inside the information loop.†   (source)
  • Later today, there would be a ceremony to honor the memories of those who'd died here a year ago, but because Patrick had been involved in the new security protocols for the school, he'd been able to sneak Alex in for an advance viewing.†   (source)
  • You know, protocol.†   (source)
  • But the rule/protocol/nicety—our anniversary—is being broken for a good reason, I understand, I do.†   (source)
  • The State of Alabama had argued that procedural rules barred Mr. Nelson from challenging the constitutionality of the protocol.†   (source)
  • But like anything else in the Metaverse, this rule is nothing but a protocol, a convention that different computers agree to follow.†   (source)
  • Usually, the airfield had advance warning of his schedule and was able to follow a strict protocol for his arrival.†   (source)
  • So Reilly worked with his staff to develop specific protocols for efficiently treating asthma patients, and another set of programs for treating the homeless.†   (source)
  • Over the years the CIA had developed a protocol for dealing with this problem, and a graph in an appendix showed that the severe maladjustment cases were trending dramatically down.†   (source)
  • We are just following protocol.†   (source)
  • They've been sending me all kinds of stuff about my itinerary and what protocol will be observed in each district.†   (source)
  • Adolf Hitler had written about the Protocols in Mein Kampf, claiming they were authentic, that they revealed the true nature of the Jewish people.†   (source)
  • Part of the protocol.†   (source)
  • I know, now, that I am supposed to wash out the containers and drop each of them back by their proper homes—a Ziploc carpool—but when I first came here, I was unaware of the protocol.†   (source)
  • Keys are often passed on as inheritance, and our first-time users are invariably uncertain of the protocol.†   (source)
  • These ideas were familiar to me, but it took me a moment to remember where I'd heard them: in a lecture Dr. Kerry had given on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.†   (source)
  • After going through my usual protocol about the milkshake, I tried to get him to understand what would happen in court.†   (source)
  • Of these billion potential computer owners, maybe a quarter of them actually bother to own computers, and a quarter of these have machines that are powerful enough to handle the Street protocol.†   (source)
  • The protocol at Angola was to release prisoners at midnight and give them bus fare to New Orleans or a city of their choice in Louisiana.†   (source)
  • Strangely, the file's location was not displaying as a traditional Web address but rather as a numeric Internet Protocol address.†   (source)
  • Breaching protocol?†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, the Teacher's protocols for caution included a refusal to give Aringarosa any kind of contact number.†   (source)
  • Protocol?†   (source)
  • The only difference is that since the Street does not really exist-it's just a computer-graphics protocol written down on a piece of paper somewhere-none of these things is being physically built.†   (source)
  • As you know, most of the lower levels are private offices or storage, and security protocol regarding private—†   (source)
  • The dimensions of the Street are fixed by a protocol, hammered out by the computer-graphics ninja overlords of the Association for Computing Machinery's Global Multimedia Protocol Group.†   (source)
  • The U.S. Supreme Court, in Baze v. Rees, later held that the execution protocols and drug combinations weren't inherently unconstitutional.†   (source)
  • Da5id Meier, supreme hacker overlord, founding father of the Metaverse protocol, creator and proprietor of the world-famous Black Sun, has just suffered a system crash.†   (source)
  • In the case I argued before the Court, we challenged the constitutionality of Alabama's protocols for lethal injection.†   (source)
  • "Good evening, sir," Nuñez said, following the security protocol of verbally engaging any male visitor who entered alone.†   (source)
  • Professor, surely you appreciate the reverence with which I have adhered to the ancient protocols tonight.†   (source)
  • In order to place these things on the Street, they have had to get approval from the Global Multimedia Protocol Group, have had to buy frontage on the Street, get zoning approval, obtain permits, bribe inspectors, the whole bit.†   (source)
  • Look, I don't know who you think you are, but you're not coming into my prison without complying with our security protocols.†   (source)
  • Aggressive and violent treatment protocols at some facilities generated horror stories that fueled a new campaign, this time to get people out of institutional mental health settings.†   (source)
  • About ten years ago, when the Street protocol was first written, Hiro and some of his buddies pooled their money and bought one of the first development licenses, created a little neighborhood of hackers.†   (source)
  • Most backup protocols advocated a secondary backup system off-site in case of earthquake, fire, or theft, but Katherine and her brother agreed that secrecy was paramount; once this data left the building to an off-site server, they could no longer be certain it would stay private.†   (source)
  • Strict protocols governed the interrogation of U.S. civilians, and questioning Bellamy was highly illegal unless it was done at Langley on video with witnesses, attorneys, blah, blah, blah ...."Not Langley," she said, trying to think of somewhere closer.†   (source)
  • Protocol's not exactly easy right now.†   (source)
  • Continued litigation about lethal injection protocols and other questions about the reliability of the death penalty slowed the execution rate in Alabama dramatically.†   (source)
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