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assets as in:  it's one of her best assets

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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
    asset = 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)
  • ...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
  • But that name turned out to be a detriment rather than an asset to me.   (source)
    asset = positive trait or thing of value
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  • Because he left no will, all of your uncle's assets go to you.   (source)
    assets = things 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • Angeline was destined to be another farmer or village peddler, another squandered African asset.   (source)
    asset = something 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)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • But unfortunately the beast is largely immune to our dominance in cyberspace, and we have no human assets in ISIS to speak of.   (source)
    assets = spies
  • Gabriel knew this because, in preparation for taking over as chief, he had been devouring briefing books on all current operations and assets.   (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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
    asset = spy
  • 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
  • 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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assets as in:  the company's assets & liabilities

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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)
  • The guardians of Minnie Williams had dispatched an attorney, William Capp, to look for Minnie and to protect the assets of her estate.   (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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Minnie was an asset now, an acquisition to be warehoused until needed, like cocooned prey.   (source)
    asset = something of financial value
  • The money would come from Vanger's personal assets.   (source)
    assets = things of cash value
  • Three assets kept showing up in the hierarchy.   (source)
    assets = things of financial value
  • But if companies own each other's assets—what then would be their value?   (source)
  • 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 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)
  • The fixed Swedish assets were unassailable and genuine, available to public scrutiny, balance sheets, and audits.   (source)
  • 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)
  • Could you please ask him to transfer our assets in separate small amounts, from different accounts, to this one?†   (source)
  • In my struggle to reconcile my two worlds, it was an essential 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)
  • Still, it's an asset, and maybe I can use it to stop the airlock leak.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
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  • 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)
  • A radio can only be an asset to us.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • King Billy's wealth came not from the assets of the kingdom but from major investments in the Web economy.†   (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)
  • He's an asset to the community, and all of those kids are well behaved and polite.†   (source)
  • Everything, assets and contracts, everything absorbed by Geir!†   (source)
  • We radioed it in, but we were required to have the asset's confirmation before launching the package.†   (source)
  • She's your greatest asset right now.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • As Jeff said, this is a highly valuable asset, legally their property, and they will know we have her.†   (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)
  • In fact, my natural-born assets are very average.†   (source)
  • And the gift of eye and hand coordination has been an invaluable asset in surgery.†   (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)
  • He was a hard worker, team leader, and a true asset.†   (source)
  • You are a valuable asset to the resistance.†   (source)
  • I'm a lump of flesh, a commercial asset, her rambling thoughts tell her.†   (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)
  • " 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "I think," I said stiffly, "that I am more of an asset than a liability."†   (source)
  • My name is Maria Freeman, and I'm delighted to welcome you all to the launch of the Sacrum Asset Management Pension Series.†   (source)
  • It's a great deal of money, Mrs. Michael, and you don't have the ready assets for something like that.†   (source)
  • Well why didn't you list that among our assets in the first place?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • For the first time Pauline felt that her bad foot was an asset.†   (source)
  • My friend, I don't recall anything about psychopaths being able to move mountains in addition to their other noteworthy assets.†   (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)
  • Crisp little men aswagger with assets.†   (source)
  • They keep their assets in U.S. banks," I wrote, "and they can wait out the crisis in Miami or Santo Domingo.†   (source)
  • And Brianna worked part-time at Bare Assets Cocktail Lounge.†   (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)
  • We had tens of thousands of dollars tied up in our assets and Moody was determined to transfer the funds to Iran.†   (source)
  • He had an annual income of $60,000, which was considered a decent salary, but he himself had no assets.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The two does were the only gain that anyone had made—the warren's only asset.†   (source)
  • Tuck's assets weren't insubstantial.†   (source)
  • It would be an asset in her line of work.†   (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)
  • Everyone felt the pinch, but everyone took strength from the town's resilient economic assets and its harmony of place.†   (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)
  • He'll do your bidding, and for that his blindness is his chief 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Be an asset to your family, community, and country.†   (source)
  • But he was a placid, amicable fellow, who made a good fireman with no hope of ever rising to engineer; his husky muscles were his only asset.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • No, I think the term was in reference to the fact that we were going light on assets with this investigation.†   (source)
  • That's a valuable asset in our work.†   (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)
  • My wife — Helen, you remember — is asset.†   (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)
  • Personal property is such an invisible asset, it can be taxed only through the imperceptible agency of taxes on consumption.†   (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)
  • Here in San Francisco, away from all tangible assets of that estate, there might still be a chance of getting the whole thing to go away and disintegrate quietly.†   (source)
  • The youth, inexperience, and taciturnity of Alice Trask all turned out to be assets for Cyrus.†   (source)
  • Do you seriously believe that every asset will be registered?†   (source)
  • The building will stand, now and always, free from all debt, as a most valuable asset to policy-holders.†   (source)
  • What were this last year's total assets for the Dansville First National?†   (source)
  • He had thought it prudent to keep the shop on, while he was transferring his assets out of the country, to prevent people looking at his affairs too closely.†   (source)
  • Their next reaction was to race to the bank and attempt to convert their suddenly suspect paper assets into currency.†   (source)
  • To do this she does not have the necessary ruthlessnessKomarovsky's chief asset in dealing with subordinates and weaklings.†   (source)
  • Against these assets society can have no defense.†   (source)
  • We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage.†   (source)
  • Still ...perhaps human persistence was an asset.†   (source)
  • They take twenty-five percent of your assets!†   (source)
  • "Paperwork of all Vatican assets," the guard said.†   (source)
  • It only had a .50-cal for a weapon, but its real asset was its size.†   (source)
  • The biggest question is the availability of our own assets.†   (source)
  • A vow of celibacy and the relinquishment of all personal assets hardly seemed a sacrifice.†   (source)
  • The ability to see into the past often proved the most valuable asset of all.†   (source)
  • You are my most valuable asset, not her.†   (source)
  • She is an asset to the community, and if anybody deserves to meet Prince Charles, she does.†   (source)
  • Half these surface platforms are antiair and antisurface, not primary ASW assets.†   (source)
  • Leonardo Vetra was one of CERN's greatest assets.†   (source)
  • I have a duty to protect your grandfather's assets," Vernet replied.†   (source)
  • Aidid's men had figured out that assets had been going to the trailer.†   (source)
  • Langdon quickly located the section of assets containing the ledgers cataloging Belle Arti.†   (source)
  • His own ASW assets were barely adequate for local defense, much less active sub hunting.†   (source)
  • Condor briefed us on the actions of the assets, who would visit Pasha every day.†   (source)
  • I can see how to get the assets in place, but that hurdle remains, gentlemen.†   (source)
  • Or how four of your most precious assets could have disappeared this afternoon.†   (source)
  • That same day, an asset told us that Aidid's people knew about Pasha.†   (source)
  • "That's a billion-dollar asset, General," Pelt said diffidently.†   (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)
  • It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart?†   (source)
  • But the rain would have been an asset, washing it from the murderer's hands.†   (source)
  • Since the early nineties SMP has eaten into a great many old consolidated assets.†   (source)
  • But a car is a consumable item, not an asset.†   (source)
  • The basic features were there, also the tall frame and the muscular body; they were assets.†   (source)
  • Play all the angles, use your assets to take all you can from life.†   (source)
  • Her ability to concentrate seems to be one of her most important personal assets.†   (source)
  • The only thing that counts in life is solid, material assets.†   (source)
  • The battalion's greatest asset, however, was Bob.†   (source)
  • We're shifting some assets to lend a hand.†   (source)
  • Somehow I had the presence of mind that very first night to inventory my assets.†   (source)
  • Outside these cities, most assets escape the eye and hand of the tax collector.†   (source)
  • He might lack field experience, but he stood out as a sharp-witted intellectual asset.†   (source)
  • It was the one asset he had little of at the moment.†   (source)
  • With his assets maybe I'll take an ad out in the Wall Street Journal.†   (source)
  • He told me a thief's greatest asset, like a queen's, was his mind.†   (source)
  • A man with your type of high-pressure job, your ....assets, must need some sort of release.†   (source)
  • We met at the Sacrum Asset Management press conference.†   (source)
  • "To get somewhere," said Grover, "a man has to understand his assets and his liabilities.†   (source)
  • Most of Roger's assets have disappeared.†   (source)
  • For the last three months, I had trained hard and tried to be an asset.†   (source)
  • All of the bank's assets had been sold piecemeal to various financial institutions.†   (source)
  • I think you'd be a real asset to the conversation.†   (source)
  • Far too many extremely guilty criminals had such assets.†   (source)
  • Of all the assets in her father's estate, this was the only surprising entry.†   (source)
  • As I was fleeing for my life my assets were not extensive but neither were they pathetic.†   (source)
  • We still had assets, accumulated during the lucrative years of Moody's practice.†   (source)
  • Behind her is a lit-up screen, with the words Sacrum Asset Management against a sunset.†   (source)
  • My client's reputation is a valuable asset.†   (source)
  • I wish I could send you some assets, but the brass here thinks that might tip our hand.†   (source)
  • He was listing the assets of his bank and working on a plan of projected investments.†   (source)
  • But he didn't ask for additional assets.†   (source)
  • I heard a rumor that Sacrum Asset Management wasn't doing too well.†   (source)
  • Appearances can be a liability as well as an asset.†   (source)
  • This asset will be damaged if this data goes beyond the parameters of this investigation.†   (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)
  • His maturity was an asset, imbuing him with an air of authority.†   (source)
  • Discipline is a pretty good asset for life.†   (source)
  • It's the only asset we can see in the area worth their while.†   (source)
  • She drove back to San Narciso to have another look at the list of Inverarity's assets.†   (source)
  • I only said it because I know my legs are my only real asset.†   (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)
  • My commander said that whatever Bernini created while under Vatican patronage would be listed here as an asset.†   (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)
  • An asset, not a liability.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • To protect my client's assets.†   (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)
  • They can do that by staking out the areas we're likely to be with their surface assets and watching what we're doing.†   (source)
  • He said years ago that for submarines to operate effectively they have to have outside help, air or surface assets in direct or proximate support.†   (source)
  • Vatican assets?†   (source)
  • What are my assets?†   (source)
  • I mean, we're still enemies, but having the various intelligence services in conflict uses up too many assets, and it's dangerous to both sides.†   (source)
  • The senior duty officer had the frequently exercised authority to prosecute a contact with a wide range of assets, from surface ships to antisubmarine aircraft.†   (source)
  • Our assets?†   (source)
  • If they continue to come this way, we will redeploy some tactical air assets to the East Coast, and, subject to your approval, we can activate some national guard and reserve squadrons quietly.†   (source)
  • Robert Langdon has been quite an asset.†   (source)
  • AREAS CITED ABOVE XX ORIGIN AND TRAFFIC ANALYSIS TO FOLLOW XX NOT COMPLETED AT THIS TIME XX BEGINNING AT 100000Z NSA MONITOR STATIONS [DELETED] [DELETED] AND [DELETED] RECORDED INCREASED HF AND VHF TRAFFIC AT REDFLEET BASES POLYARNYY SEVEROMORSK PECHENGA TALLINN KRONSTADT AND EASTERN MED AREA XX ADDITIONAL HF AND VHF TRAFFIC FROM REDFLEET ASSETS AT SEA XX AMPLIFICATION TO FOLLOW XX EVALUATION: A MAJOR UNPLANNED REDFLEET OPERATION HAS BEEN ORDERED WITH FLEET ASSETS REPORTING AVAILABILITY AND STATUS XX END BULLETIN NSA SENDS 102215Z BREAKBREAK Ryan looked at his watch.†   (source)
  • Asset secondary.†   (source)
  • Our assets are slim.†   (source)
  • Asset secondary.†   (source)
  • To help the boy, Condor told the CIA that the boy was related to one of our assets even though he wasn't.†   (source)
  • Our assets informed us of a trail to be used to supply Aidid with Stinger missiles: Afghanistan to Sudan to Ethiopia to Somalia.†   (source)
  • Later, one of our assets informed us that the old man didn't want to carry the mortars, but Aidid's people threatened to kill his family if he didn't.†   (source)
  • That same day, we found out that one of our primary assets had been made, so we had to fly him out of the country.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, assets informed us that the Italians continued to allow Aidid's armed militia to cross UN military checkpoints responsible for safeguarding the city.†   (source)
  • Our procedures were covert enough that an enemy wouldn't know a signal was being given, and although we kept the procedures simple enough for our assets to remember, we spent hours reviewing the procedures with them.†   (source)
  • Usually, when an asset arrived in the dark, he wore an infrared chemlight or a firefly (an infrared strobe light).†   (source)
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