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  • She's kind, beautiful and athletic, but her quick mind is her rarest asset.
    asset = positive trait
  • Those were all the things he had, but he also had himself. Perpich used to drum that into them, "You are your most valuable asset. Don't forget that. You are the best thing you have."   (source)
    asset = thing of value
  • Anyone could see that Musharraf was double-dealing, taking American money while still helping the jihadis—"strategic assets," as the ISI calls them.   (source)
    assets = things of value
  • My ability to kill at a distance is my greatest asset, but I know I'll have to go right into the thick of things to get that backpack, the one with the number 12 on it that Claudius Templesmith mentioned.   (source)
    asset = positive trait or thing of value
  • Having left USC a few credits short, he had no college degree, a critical asset in a job market glutted with veterans and former war production workers.   (source)
    asset = thing of value
  • When Walt and Billie suggested that he needed a college degree to attain a fulfilling career, Chris answered that careers were demeaning "twentieth-century inventions," more of a liability than an asset, and that he would do fine without one, thank you.   (source)
  • ...and get editorials in the paper for being a public disgrace one day and an asset to society the next.   (source)
    asset = something of value
  • I need to polish you up a bit, but your aversion to all things fake might just be your greatest asset here.   (source)
    asset = positive trait or thing of value
  • Her greatest asset was her determination.   (source)
    asset = a positive trait or thing of value
  • Because he left no will, all of your uncle's assets go to you.   (source)
    assets = things of value
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  • But that name turned out to be a detriment rather than an asset to me.   (source)
    asset = positive trait or thing of value
  • Although Chicago was rapidly achieving recognition as an industrial and mercantile dynamo, its leading men felt keenly the slander from New York that their city had few cultural assets.   (source)
    assets = things of value
  • Angeline was destined to be another farmer or village peddler, another squandered African asset.   (source)
    asset = something of value
  • I'd be an asset.   (source)
  • If you can bear to watch, the containment vessel is opened twice each week to allow the handlers to clean their asset.   (source)
    asset = thing of value
  • At a moment like this, she thought, her looks were an asset.   (source)
    asset = a positive trait
  • Unless, unless … It suddenly occurred to Bernard that her very revoltingness might prove an enormous asset.   (source)
    asset = positive trait or thing of value
  • Nor could any of Alpha Group's assets identify the two perpetrators.   (source)
    assets = spies
  • What if she's not the only operational asset?   (source)
    asset = spy
  • It was time to put their asset into play.   (source)
  • But the asset was Gabriel's, and therefore the decision was his, too.   (source)
  • In San Francisco a twenty-one-year-old entrepreneur named Sol Bloom realized that the Chicago fair would let him at last take advantage of an asset he had acquired in Paris two years earlier.   (source)
    asset = thing of value
  • Thanks to auxiliary fuel tanks and slender, ultraefficient Davis wings, it could fly literally all day, a decisive asset in the sprawling World War II theaters.   (source)
  • The developer of a large Englewood parcel touted this asset in a catalog promoting the auction of two hundred residential lots called the Bates Subdivision: "To the business men of the Union Stock Yards it is particularly convenient and accessible, and free from the odors that are wafted by the prevailing winds to the most fashionable localities of the City."   (source)
  • She will become a productive economic asset for Africa, all because of a little push and helping hand from Heifer International.   (source)
    asset = something of value
  • He is considered an espionage asset of incalculable value—until, fortunately by degrees, he discovers that he is able to step into a human mind as easily as he steps into distant rooms.   (source)
    asset = someone of value to an organization
  • Easier to halt an avalanche with a feather than to resist their combined might, and they will shortly begin to use every asset in their arsenal to locate Rose and the girl.   (source)
    asset = thing of value
  • A variety of drugs are available to precipitate painful and terrifying physiological symptoms—such as violent muscle spasms and inflamed nerve sheaths—which pose no danger to the life of this valuable asset.   (source)
    asset = someone of value to an organization
  • Gabriel knew this because, in preparation for taking over as chief, he had been devouring briefing books on all current operations and assets.   (source)
    assets = spies
  • But unfortunately the beast is largely immune to our dominance in cyberspace, and we have no human assets in ISIS to speak of.   (source)
  • Instead, I have to deal with the loss of our best contract employee in Beirut and an asset we spent a great deal of time and effort recruiting.   (source)
    asset = spy
  • He was no bit player; he was a major operational asset, a planner who had patiently moved the pieces into place and provided cover for the attack cells.   (source)
  • Fear was his calling card, and at a time like this, with an agent in the hands of the most violent terrorist group the world had ever known, fear was his only asset.   (source)
    asset = thing of value
  • Several Israeli citizens had died in the Paris attack, along with Hannah Weinberg, a woman who was a personal friend of Allon's and an asset of Israeli intelligence.   (source)
    asset = spy
  • Her eyes, she had decided, were her most alluring asset, wide, dark, intelligent, beguiling, with a trace of treachery and perhaps some hidden reservoir of pain.   (source)
    asset = positive trait
  • His unthreatening appearance, like his flair for languages, had been a valuable asset, both in the field, where he had served with distinction in several postings, and at headquarters.   (source)
    asset = positive trait or thing of value
  • But Rwanda is flourishing precisely because it has figured out how to turn people like Claudine into economic assets.   (source)
    assets = things of value
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  • The company is worth much more than its reported net assets.
    assets = cash value of things owned
  • He promised he would make his own assets and tax return public.   (source)
    assets = things of financial value
  • In the coming months, he would declare an oil embargo, freeze Japanese assets in America, and finally declare a total trade embargo.   (source)
  • Minnie was an asset now, an acquisition to be warehoused until needed, like cocooned prey.   (source)
    asset = something of financial value
  • On an overlooking hill was the turreted mansion occupied by the company general superintendent, a man sent down by our owners in Ohio to keep an eye on their assets.   (source)
    assets = things of financial value
  • Three assets kept showing up in the hierarchy.   (source)
  • Half a world away, in Indonesia, a woman continues to control economic assets that she brought into a marriage.   (source)
  • Hubbard, in his will, directed his executor to sell all of his assets for fair value and reduce everything to cash.   (source)
  • The drunk driver had no assets, and they received no compensation from any insurance company for the loss of the limb.   (source)
  • Lavon also happened to be a skilled financial investigator who singlehandedly had managed to track down millions of dollars' worth of looted Holocaust assets.   (source)
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  • The state-owned railroad had once been an asset to the state but now it was a liability and its debts had piled up to the million mark.   (source)
    asset = thing of financial value
  • His finances were in good order; Bjurman was well-to-do, with at least 10 million kronor in assets.   (source)
    assets = cash value of things owned
  • The money would come from Vanger's personal assets.   (source)
    assets = things of cash value
  • But if companies own each other's assets—what then would be their value?   (source)
    assets = things of financial value
  • When we needed to tighten the budget, it was one of the first assets that we sold.   (source)
  • He has one other asset—some property in Sandhamn out in the archipelago.   (source)
    asset = thing of financial value
  • If you wrote a new will today, who might get your assets?   (source)
    assets = things of financial value
  • Plus, he accumulated other assets that he kept out of the holding company.   (source)
  • He had good reason to be curious since most of his own assets were so heavily mortgaged.   (source)
  • There's a cabin in the mountains of North Carolina, and quite a few other assets.   (source)
  • Plus there are a few other assets, maybe some real estate here and there.   (source)
  • Stillman Rush calmly replied, "The assets are substantial."   (source)
    assets = cash value of things owned
  • In his will he writes that you have a good knowledge of his assets and liabilities.   (source)
    assets = things of financial value
  • Fortunately, your father had significant assets.   (source)
  • If a person dies with no will, then all money and assets go to blood kin and no one else.   (source)
  • To do so, we'll be required to hire a CPA firm, and we know several, to track down the assets.   (source)
  • As long as the assets are protected, I can keep them bottled up as tightly as I wish.   (source)
  • He had unloaded most of his assets less than a year ago.   (source)
  • Fritz and his sister sold the house and property and split the assets evenly without a cross word.   (source)
    assets = things of cash value
  • Because in that will Seth Hubbard named me as the attorney to handle his assets and property.   (source)
    assets = things of financial value
  • Well, Mr. Amburgh, you as his executor and I as his lawyer have the job of tracking down all assets.   (source)
  • His job was to gather Mr. Hubbard's assets, appraise them, protect them, and report to the court.   (source)
  • The biggest asset was a sawmill and a lumber yard on Highway 21, near Palmyra.   (source)
    asset = thing of financial value
  • Yes, he's a big shot now, and he has to protect his asset—my momma.   (source)
    asset = things of financial value
  • The guardians of Minnie Williams had dispatched an attorney, William Capp, to look for Minnie and to protect the assets of her estate.   (source)
  • The company made nothing and sold nothing: It existed to hold assets and provide a reference for anyone who became skeptical of Holmes's promissory notes.   (source)
  • For every business that now refused to sell him goods, there were a dozen more that fawned over him and accepted his notes endorsed by H. S. Campbell or secured by the assets of the Warner Glass Bending Company.   (source)
  • By the time she was thirteen, it was also decided that a trustee should be assigned to take care of her interests and assets until she came of age.   (source)
  • She calculated the real assets to be worth between 90 and 100 billion kronor, which was nothing to sneeze at.   (source)
    assets = cash value of things owned
  • The fixed Swedish assets were unassailable and genuine, available to public scrutiny, balance sheets, and audits.   (source)
    assets = things of financial value
  • An incredibly large proportion of the assets was deposited in post-office-box companies that owned one another.   (source)
    assets = cash value of things owned
  • Trusteeship is a mild form of guardianship, in which the client—the person declared incompetent—still has control over his or her assets and decisions are made in consultation with the trustee.   (source)
    assets = things of financial value
  • But unlike the first Wennerström affair, this time Millennium could present a convincing burden of proof: Wennerström's own emails and copies of the contents of his computer, which contained balance sheets from secret bank assets in the Cayman Islands and two dozen other countries, secret agreements, and other blunders that a more cautious racketeer would never in his life have left on his hard drive.   (source)
    assets = things of cash value
  • After two excruciating years of watching their daughter suffer, her parents sold their livestock--all of their assets--to try to help Simeesh.   (source)
    assets = things of financial value
  • One early pair of studies found that when women hold assets or gain incomes, family money is more likely to be spent on nutrition, medicine, and housing, and consequently children are healthier.   (source)
  • Working Assets, a phone company that donates 1 percent of its sales to charity, had chosen Zainab to receive the gift, and it rescued the organization.   (source)
    assets = things of cash value
  • That doesn't happen often in red-light districts, any more than farmers kill producing assets such as good milk cows, but from time to time a prostitute becomes so nettlesome that the owners kill her as a warning to the other girls.   (source)
    assets = things of financial value
  • A study found that if the wife has brought more resources into the marriage--and thus has more spending money afterward--then her children are healthier than those of families of equal wealth where the assets belong to the man.   (source)
  • The binder consisted of Lonny's worldly assets, discounting of course the cocaine, which had a street value of roughly $1.5 million.   (source)
  • These occasions were a bonanza to the local bar as the lawyers raged in and out of court and the assets evaporated in legal fees.   (source)
  • He had reviewed the inventory of assets filed by Quince Lundy, and he had reviewed the handwritten will signed by Seth Hubbard.   (source)
  • He could put his finger on most of the man's assets, certainly not all, but he had learned early on that his boss loved secrets.   (source)
  • In a few months we'll submit to the court an accounting and inventory of all your father's assets and liabilities.   (source)
  • Once the executor is in place, you and he will begin the task of locating assets and identifying liabilities.   (source)
  • Along with almost nothing in the way of assets, they found thirty kilos of cocaine wrapped neatly in foil and seemingly untouched.   (source)
  • If he wanted to pester Quince Lundy with questions about Seth Hubbard's assets, then who could stop him?   (source)
  • Mr. Amburgh was vice president of my holding company and has a working knowledge of my assets and liabilities.   (source)
  • In the scheme of things, and in the normal transition of assets and estates, she just doesn't figure in.   (source)
  • On the one hand, it was what you would expect from a country boy who had managed to put together some assets in his later years.   (source)
  • Even if the estate gets bogged down in a will contest, Mr. Hubbard's assets will be protected by the court.   (source)
  • The house, like most of Lucien's assets and burdens, was a hand-me-down from ancestors he deemed wretched, but who, with hindsight, had done an admirable job of securing for him a comfortable life.   (source)
  • You have some assets, no wife, no kids, some distant relatives, and you have a lovely black housekeeper who gives appearances of being something a little more than just a housekeeper.   (source)
  • Between her emotional meltdowns, Jake laid out the basics of estate administration—time, the people involved, court appearances, taxes, and lastly, the transfer of assets.   (source)
  • There was nothing liquid about his balance sheet, but when his liabilities were subtracted from his assets, there was an impressive figure for his equity.   (source)
  • To kill time, he looked through the Index of Wills to see if any Hubbard of note had handed down land or assets to Seth, but found nothing in the past twenty years.   (source)
  • Yes, but he loves their assets.   (source)
  • There were no hidden assets.   (source)
  • He might've had some assets.   (source)
  • If Mr. Hubbard died with no will, and left behind a couple of ex-wives, maybe some adult children, maybe some grandchildren, who knows, then they'd probably spend the next five years fighting over his property, assuming of course he does have assets.   (source)
  • He was particularly curious about Mr. Russell Amburgh, described in the handwritten will as once the vice president of Seth's holding company and the man with the knowledge of the assets and liabilities.   (source)
  • I have to work with the executor, and we're assuming it will be Mr. Amburgh, to do certain things the law requires, such as notifying potential creditors, protecting assets, preparing an inventory of everything he owned, and so forth.   (source)
  • What about his assets?   (source)
  • Only assets, and plenty.   (source)
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  • She said he could liquidate his assets.†   (source)
  • Freeze my assets.†   (source)
  • Not including fixed assets, do you know how much money I have at my disposal?†   (source)
  • They take twenty-five percent of your assets!†   (source)
  • In my struggle to reconcile my two worlds, it was an essential asset.†   (source)
  • To protect my client's assets.†   (source)
  • Tonks here, for one — she's too young to have been in the Order of the Phoenix last time, and having Aurors on our side is a huge advantage — Kingsley Shacklebolt's been a real asset, too; he's in charge of the hunt for Sirius, so he's been feeding the Ministry information that Sirius is in Tibet.'†   (source)
  • She is an asset to the community, and if anybody deserves to meet Prince Charles, she does.†   (source)
  • The arguments are fairly clear, and the plaintiffs have failed to establish either abuse of the property in question or mismanagement of its assets.†   (source)
  • In short, Celaena Sardothien was blessed with a handful of attractive features that compensated for the majority of average ones; and, by early adolescence, she'd discovered that with the help of cosmetics, these average features could easily match the extraordinary assets.†   (source)
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  • He's attacked the Republic's military assets on his own, slowed down shipments to the warfront, and destroyed our warfront-bound airships and fighter jets.†   (source)
  • Still, it's an asset, and maybe I can use it to stop the airlock leak.†   (source)
  • Which meant his only assets were one whiny imprisoned goddess, one sort-of girlfriend with a dagger, and Leo, who apparently thought he could defeat the armies of darkness with breath mints.†   (source)
  • Well, then you just became our most valuable asset.†   (source)
  • 50-cal for a weapon, but its real asset was its size.†   (source)
  • A radio can only be an asset to us.†   (source)
  • King Billy's wealth came not from the assets of the kingdom but from major investments in the Web economy.†   (source)
  • He's an asset to the community, and all of those kids are well behaved and polite.†   (source)
  • From his seat beside his wife, high in the stands, Sean Tuohy watched the loss take shape with the calm of an asset manager who long ago banked his annual returns.†   (source)
  • In fact, my natural-born assets are very average.†   (source)
  • He's been filming, recording, every moment of his life now for five years, and it's been an invaluable asset to the Circle, and soon, I bet, to all of humankind.†   (source)
  • She's your greatest asset right now."†   (source)
  • The recent takeover of prominent American corporations — such as Chrysler, Random House, and RCA Records — by German companies provoked none of the public anger that was unleashed when Japanese firms bought much less significant American assets in the 1980s.†   (source)
  • And the gift of eye and hand coordination has been an invaluable asset in surgery.†   (source)
  • For the first time Pauline felt that her bad foot was an asset.†   (source)
  • And there's something worse: if we can't convince them of our case, Iwamura Electric will be seized, and its assets sold to pay war reparations!†   (source)
  • I'm a lump of flesh, a commercial asset, her rambling thoughts tell her.†   (source)
  • And our assets?†   (source)
  • All of our assets were in America.†   (source)
  • This summer she went to the mall, bought new clothes so she could expand her wardrobe, and spent her daddy's money on plastic surgery to enhance her, ahem, assets.†   (source)
  • These included Mac Maharaj, a member of the SACP and one of the sharpest minds in the struggle; Laloo Chiba, also a member of the MK High Command, and a stalwart colleague who proved a great asset in prison; and Wilton Mkwayi, the Treason Trialist who had been mistakenly let go during a moment of confusion when the State of Emergency was declared in 1960.†   (source)
  • Blackcliff may have started out as a place to prepare the future Emperor, but now it's just a training ground for the Empire's deadliest asset.†   (source)
  • My friend, I don't recall anything about psychopaths being able to move mountains in addition to their other noteworthy assets.†   (source)
  • The two does were the only gain that anyone had made—the warren's only asset.†   (source)
  • This is because the intelligent and focused fencer can successfully compensate for any perceived deficiencies he or she may have, and may even be able to turn those deficiencies—such as strength or reach—into assets.†   (source)
  • You are a valuable asset to the resistance.†   (source)
  • To him, I was a commitment that had become more of a burden than an asset, and his time was just too precious to waste.†   (source)
  • Blue Team's commanders were also given a tool called Effects-Based Operations, which directed them to think beyond the conventional military method of targeting and destroying an adversary's military assets.†   (source)
  • "I think," I said stiffly, "that I am more of an asset than a liability."†   (source)
  • Our assets are slim.†   (source)
  • To protect our assets.†   (source)
  • We asked an asset to follow him.†   (source)
  • Asset or liability?†   (source)
  • " But without being able to positively identify whether they were women, children, or armed males, "our air assets could not engage them," says Matt Mason.†   (source)
  • Economic and technological competitiveness is essential, and America's economy and technology have flourished because of the rule of law and the "assets" of a free and open society.†   (source)
  • Everyone felt the pinch, but everyone took strength from the town's resilient economic assets and its harmony of place.†   (source)
  • He believed that her destiny was marriage and a brilliant life in society, where the ability to converse with the dead, if kept on a frivolous level, could be an asset.†   (source)
  • That he still relies on her for that affirmation is among her most valuable assets, something she's won, she feels, by mixing her affection with real firmness, by not giving approval or praise unless it's warranted.†   (source)
  • We met at the Sacrum Asset Management press conference.†   (source)
  • The newly arriving expats would quickly learn their roles; they'd find that their foreignness trumped their training or talent—it was their most important asset.†   (source)
  • "Tuck's assets weren't insubstantial.†   (source)
  • We're shifting some assets to lend a hand.†   (source)
  • Everything, assets and contracts, everything absorbed by Geir!†   (source)
  • He'll do your bidding, and for that his blindness is his chief asset.†   (source)
  • It would be an asset in her line of work.†   (source)
  • They keep their assets in U.S. banks," I wrote, "and they can wait out the crisis in Miami or Santo Domingo.†   (source)
  • Appearances can be a liability as well as an asset.†   (source)
  • He might lack field experience, but he stood out as a sharp-witted intellectual asset.†   (source)
  • By writing only to himself, for himself, by dutifully reckoning day by day his moral assets and liabilities, and particularly the liabilities, he could thus improve himself.†   (source)
  • There are those in Project 99 who believe that 21-21 is their greatest asset—although others find 89-58, in spite of the considerable control problems that he poses, to be the most interesting and valuable property in the long run.†   (source)
  • Be an asset to your family, community, and country.†   (source)
  • "It's a great deal of money, Mrs. Michael, and you don't have the ready assets for something like that."†   (source)
  • Ratings on Strategy Execution continue to be high, and McDaniels's aggressiveness should prove to be an asset if it can be applied more selectively.†   (source)
  • He was a hard worker, team leader, and a true asset.†   (source)
  • The success of her television special confirmed what her husband has known for years: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy is John Fitzgerald Kennedy's number one political asset.†   (source)
  • The only thing that counts in life is solid, material assets.†   (source)
  • We repeat the steps of the quadrille until I could perform them in my sleep; we practice our sums so that we might manage the household books someday and be assets to our husbands.†   (source)
  • That's a valuable asset in our work.†   (source)
  • And Brianna worked part-time at Bare Assets Cocktail Lounge.†   (source)
  • Outside these cities, most assets escape the eye and hand of the tax collector.†   (source)
  • He wasn't overly fond of his peer from Targos, but he knew that the battle-seasoned spokesman would prove a valuable asset to Ten-Towns' cause before all was through.†   (source)
  • Although the Thirty normally used their own gang of thugs for such duties, the oligarchy asked Socrates to arrest Leon of Salamis so that he might be executed and his assets appropriated.†   (source)
  • He is an invaluable asset with all of his business knowledge and experience.†   (source)
  • Family can be an asset.†   (source)
  • We'll naturally have to seize all your assets--those suspicious-looking kegs my boys've been hauling into the stockade all day--and sell them to make good the debt.†   (source)
  • I only said it because I know my legs are my only real asset.†   (source)
  • She drove back to San Narciso to have another look at the list of Inverarity's assets.†   (source)
  • The building will stand, now and always, free from all debt, as a most valuable asset to policy-holders.†   (source)
  • Do you seriously believe that every asset will be registered?†   (source)
  • Dancing was an asset for a girl.†   (source)
  • I saw it as his only asset.†   (source)
  • A temporary third lieutenant is not considered an asset; Captain Blackstone could place me under Lieutenant Bayonne and put a sergeant in charge of his own first platoon, or even "put on a third hat" and take the platoon himself.†   (source)
  • The youth, inexperience, and taciturnity of Alice Trask all turned out to be assets for Cyrus.†   (source)
  • What were this last year's total assets for the Dansville First National?†   (source)
  • To do this she does not have the necessary ruthlessnessKomarovsky's chief asset in dealing with subordinates and weaklings.†   (source)
  • We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage.†   (source)
  • Against these assets society can have no defense.†   (source)
  • The ability to see into the past often proved the most valuable asset of all.†   (source)
  • Still …. perhaps human persistence was an asset.†   (source)
  • You are my most valuable asset, not her.†   (source)
  • "Paperwork of all Vatican assets," the guard said.†   (source)
  • A vow of celibacy and the relinquishment of all personal assets hardly seemed a sacrifice.†   (source)
  • Leonardo Vetra was one of CERN's greatest assets.†   (source)
  • I have a duty to protect your grandfather's assets," Vernet replied.†   (source)
  • Langdon quickly located the section of assets containing the ledgers cataloging Belle Arti.†   (source)
  • Or how four of your most precious assets could have disappeared this afternoon.†   (source)
  • The battalion's greatest asset, however, was Bob.†   (source)
  • Of all the assets in her father's estate, this was the only surprising entry.†   (source)
  • But a car is a consumable item, not an asset.†   (source)
  • Play all the angles, use your assets to take all you can from life.†   (source)
  • It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart?†   (source)
  • My client's reputation is a valuable asset.†   (source)
  • But the rain would have been an asset, washing it from the murderer's hands.†   (source)
  • He told me a thief's greatest asset, like a queen's, was his mind."†   (source)
  • Since the early nineties SMP has eaten into a great many old consolidated assets.†   (source)
  • I think you'd be a real asset to the conversation.†   (source)
  • Her ability to concentrate seems to be one of her most important personal assets.†   (source)
  • "Well why didn't you list that among our assets in the first place?"†   (source)
  • All of the bank's assets had been sold piecemeal to various financial institutions.†   (source)
  • Most of Roger's assets have disappeared."†   (source)
  • The basic features were there, also the tall frame and the muscular body; they were assets.†   (source)
  • Somehow I had the presence of mind that very first night to inventory my assets.†   (source)
  • The biggest question is the availability of our own assets.†   (source)
  • It was the one asset he had little of at the moment.†   (source)
  • Far too many extremely guilty criminals had such assets.†   (source)
  • For the last three months, I had trained hard and tried to be an asset.†   (source)
  • A man with your type of high-pressure job, your …. assets, must need some sort of release.†   (source)
  • Behind her is a lit-up screen, with the words Sacrum Asset Management against a sunset.†   (source)
  • "To get somewhere," said Grover, "a man has to understand his assets and his liabilities.†   (source)
  • In the morning, one of our assets was shot stepping out of his vehicle.†   (source)
  • He was listing the assets of his bank and working on a plan of projected investments.†   (source)
  • As I was fleeing for my life my assets were not extensive but neither were they pathetic.†   (source)
  • Half these surface platforms are antiair and antisurface, not primary ASW assets.†   (source)
  • With his assets maybe I'll take an ad out in the Wall Street Journal.†   (source)
  • Aidid's men had figured out that assets had been going to the trailer.†   (source)
  • My wife — Helen, you remember — is asset.†   (source)
  • We still had assets, accumulated during the lucrative years of Moody's practice.†   (source)
  • I heard a rumor that Sacrum Asset Management wasn't doing too well."†   (source)
  • This asset will be damaged if this data goes beyond the parameters of this investigation.†   (source)
  • I wish I could send you some assets, but the brass here thinks that might tip our hand.†   (source)
  • But he didn't ask for additional assets.†   (source)
  • Why do all this work, spend all this money, put ourselves at risk, put our assets at risk ….†   (source)
  • His own ASW assets were barely adequate for local defense, much less active sub hunting.†   (source)
  • Each day that passed simply produced further erosion of our assets.†   (source)
  • And while you are the only one currently visible, there are other assets deployed on this.†   (source)
  • I can see how to get the assets in place, but that hurdle remains, gentlemen.†   (source)
  • His maturity was an asset, imbuing him with an air of authority.†   (source)
  • Everything we had done at Pasha—running the assets, SIGINT, everything—had led to this moment.†   (source)
  • "That's a billion-dollar asset, General," Pelt said diffidently.†   (source)
  • Discipline is a pretty good asset for life.†   (source)
  • One of our assets put a beacon on the journalist's car, so we could track him.†   (source)
  • "It's the only asset we can see in the area worth their while."†   (source)
  • Condor briefed us on the actions of the assets, who would visit Pasha every day.†   (source)
  • One of his assets reported that Atto would be at his house for a meeting.†   (source)
  • That same day, an asset told us that Aidid's people knew about Pasha.†   (source)
  • Then later that evening an asset told us that Aidid was at his aunt's house.†   (source)
  • Before long, a second asset, our maid's brother, was killed—shot in the head.†   (source)
  • Our asset Abe reported sighting Osman Atto in Lido near our old safe house, Pasha.†   (source)
  • Likewise, the base could transmit to the asset using the repeater.†   (source)
  • Around 0815 our "asset"—our informer—gave the predetermined signal that Atto was there.†   (source)
  • While I fixed tea downstairs, an asset arrived with some information.†   (source)
  • As the night grew old, the asset couldn't pinpoint Aidid's position.†   (source)
  • As if things weren't bad enough for us, a third asset was beaten almost to death.†   (source)
  • We had an asset take him some crutches, and I requested a wheelchair.†   (source)
  • Condor called in a helo to fly Stingray and the asset to the army base and brief General Garrison.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, we had an asset on the ground verifying the location.†   (source)
  • An asset seemed confident he could get close to Aidid, so we put Delta on alert.†   (source)
  • An asset called Condor to let him know that Atto was in the car.†   (source)
  • The asset found out the old man hid mortars in the stack of bricks.†   (source)
  • The asset even had a diagram for the house—ideal for special operators doing room entries.†   (source)
  • Vatican assets?†   (source)
  • Ramona the lab tech from OrganInc made the move with him; she was part of the deal because she was an invaluable asset, said Jimmy's father; she was his right-hand man.†   (source)
  • An asset, not a liability.†   (source)
  • Then he was being told what a pleasure it had been to have him with AnooYoo, and what an asset he'd proved to be, and how many warm wishes would accompany him where he was going, and by the way, many, many congratulations!†   (source)
  • Seizing your assets at Interbank, recovering the gold coins you've got hidden on Homefree, and selling that gaudy farcaster house would about do it.†   (source)
  • I'd already become the okiya's principal asset, but even I took some time to weed out all the peculiar habits that had taken root because of Hatsumomo.†   (source)
  • After all the anguish and grief Danny had caused her, after she'd thrown him out of the house and gotten police protection from him, Danny was suddenly her beloved dead son, miraculously transformed from a dangerous liability into an asset worth ten million dollars.†   (source)
  • The surveillance network overhead had been greatly improved over the past several years, and the U.S. was able to make pretty good use of it when it came to targeting Predators and other assets.†   (source)
  • Could you please ask him to transfer our assets in separate small amounts, from different accounts, to this one?†   (source)
  • Nothing about the death of my mother stopped time for my father, prevented him from reckoning his assets and liabilities and spreading himself more widely over the landscape.†   (source)
  • Peter Solomon's attention to detail was one of his most potent assets, allowing him to manage his substantial power with apparent ease.†   (source)
  • Sean and Leigh Anne both loved Hugh like a brother; on the other hand, Leigh Anne had watched the game and thought: Hugh doesn't know how to use his most precious football asset.†   (source)
  • She liquidated all available assets some weeks before that phrase became a literal reality, deposited a quarter of a million marks in long-term accounts in the fleeing Ring Bank, and dispatched me on a trip to the Rifkin Atmospheric Protectorate on Heaven's Gate, a minor world circling the star Vega.†   (source)
  • The smell of ethanol on his sleeves had proven a liability, and so he had transformed it into an asset, stripping off his shirt and jacket and using them to help corner his prey.†   (source)
  • The price of protecting quarterbacks was driven by the same forces that drove the price of other kinds of insurance: it rose with the value of the asset insured, with the risk posed to that asset.†   (source)
  • Beneath it, centered on the parquet floor, an immense octagonal viewing divan served as a welcome respite for thousands of visitors to rest their legs while they admired the Louvre's most valuable asset.†   (source)
  • The point the NCAA lady was driving toward was now never very far from his mind: maybe these rich white folks had been so helpful to him the past two and a half years only because they had identified him as this precious asset.†   (source)
  • Langdon now realized, appropriate to a vault called "Vatican Assets," the ledgers were arranged by the overall monetary value of each artist's collection.†   (source)
  • Liquidated assets as it were.†   (source)
  • What are my assets?†   (source)
  • Our assets?†   (source)
  • Robert Langdon has been quite an asset.†   (source)
  • My commander said that whatever Bernini created while under Vatican patronage would be listed here as an asset.†   (source)
  • Asset secondary.†   (source)
  • Asset secondary.†   (source)
  • Shared assets, as it were.'†   (source)
  • They wanted to know everything and Milkman found himself rattling off assets like an accountant, describing deals, total rents income, bank loans, and this new thing his father was looking into—the stock market.†   (source)
  • What soon became known as "Seward's Folly" would later be seen as a huge asset when silver and gold and oil were discovered in the new territory.†   (source)
  • We've temporarily suspended all other cases, over nine thousand, and directed all of our assets at locating these people.†   (source)
  • I thought that it would be an immediate invitation to be pummeled by a bunch of jealous meatheads, but it turns out, most of them see me as an asset.†   (source)
  • You're somehow involved with a great deal of money, but I don't think you know a debit from an asset.†   (source)
  • Frozen assets.†   (source)
  • Now, there's an asset.†   (source)
  • Crisp little men aswagger with assets.†   (source)
  • As a unit they fed and bled intelligence data from satellite surveillance, human intel assets, electronic taps, and military intelligence.†   (source)
  • No one wants to talk about what happened—they just tiptoe around it or concoct euphemisms like 'unfortunate outcomes' and 'compromised assets.'†   (source)
  • Eventually, after hisbrother Peter married and moved to his wife's house, John would purchase all of the old homestead, with its barn and fifty-three acres, which included Fresh Brook, to Adams a prime asset.†   (source)
  • He saw the smaller headline then, halfway down and on the left, the business-page headline: FRENCH ASSETS: RAISON PHARMACEUTICAL TO ANNOUNCE NEW VACCINE, SELLS U.S. INTERESTS Tom took the paper, flipped to the business page, and found the article.†   (source)
  • Personal property is such an invisible asset, it can be taxed only through the imperceptible agency of taxes on consumption.†   (source)
  • Somehow, he got close enough to the forges of Serra to draw, in detail, the creation process of the Empire's most precious asset: the unbreakable, curved scims that can cut through three men at once.†   (source)
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