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  • We believe that it is okay to charge for healing based on the doctrine, ‘The workman is worthy of his hire.’
  • Usually this would be okay but I'm a lot ... ummm, porkier now. Elfpvke Diary Entry
  • ‘Shh, shh, it'll be okay,’ Matt soothes, smoothing my hair.
  • Look, things just haven't been peachy for me, okay?
  • Does my hair look okay?
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  • Okay, now for the main point behind this meeting.
  • She got on okay with Lawrence.
  • Probably, producers thought that my being so open and acceptable to any good role that came my way was okay with them.
  • Okay, Peter, I'll give you a break from my long-winded questions about your books.
  • The double-barreled results: Lowering levels of a protein called CRP, or C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation, seems to be protective even when cholesterol levels are okay.
  • Okay," she said, determined not to sound concerned for fear she encouraged his cavortings. GALILEE
  • As long as the clothes are clean and his teeth are brushed, he's kind to others and he stays out of jail - it'll be okay.
  • Okay, who thinks the food is delicious and a little pretension never hurt anyone?
  • Ellie sighed, said, ‘Okay, you're forgiven,’ and skinned the rabbit very carefully.
  • The drawer full of takeout menus is okay , right ?
  • You know, Diana Ross said you've got to earn the title diva, and it's okay. CNN Transcript Jul 2, 2005
  • Okay, so the missionary position doesn't always make your mate shiver with desire.
  • Okay, if you have any ideas for my story feel free to email me or review them to me.
  • Trust that things will be okay - especially if you put in the time and effort to make them be okay. Drew Barrymore 
  • With women finding themselves pushing their way up the social ladder, husbands are now okay with playing the perfect foil.
  • So the idea that even one Planned Parenthood staffer (by definition … a “pro-choicer”) is perfectly okay with funding even one abortion, specifically to kill a black child — well, we are unilaterally and unequivocally against that. ProWomanProLife » On “moral hygiene”
  • Okay, that wage increase for home health workers was overdue.
  • But it's okay, we're allowed to live to excess this week, since on Friday night we will swear allegiance to a new, healthy regime.
  • Okay, it was less of a big dog than it was a toy chihuahua.
  • Okay everyone - listen up! I have an announcement to make.
  • The biggest being that someone, somewhere, in a position of authority, okayed this and thought it acceptable to allow gross corporate interests to market and advertise to a captured audience of children in their own classrooms. Hollywood goes after Australian kids
  • Okay, so after that passage, I may or may not have doodled small hearts in the book's margin. Caroline Hagood: On Yippee Ki-Yay Moviegoer!, Movies, and Manhood
  • While blackjack is okay (see here) and we had fun writing about the Caesars Palace sportsbook (see here), that stuff gets old fast for me. Wanted: Vegas Travel Tips - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
  • Okay, that'll be a pitcher of Bud Light and four frosty mugs.
  • 'I brought my iPod, do you want to have a listen?' 'Mmm, okay.'
  • WV: dinge -- Some of these cakes might be okay, if the cherry blossoms weren't such dinge. The Cherry (Blossoms) On Top
  • Perfectly okay for a night. Times, Sunday Times
  • The main religious philosophy schools in the history of Indian thought, including Brahmanism, Buddhism, Jainism and Lokayata, all have put forward their own distinctive ethical viewpoints.
  • Anonsters: There will be no mainstream scientific evidence showing these differences until and unless it is established that it is okay consequentially for the data to show these differences. The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups
  • I'll just check that the car's okay - that was a bit of a bang!
  • Volkswagen Passat CCVolkswagen Passat CC, the first four-door coupe from the German manufacturer received the "red dot Design Award 2009 - Best of the Best", which represents one of the most coveted awards that a designer can win for a creative product. okay SO WHY DIDNT MERCEDES GET IT BEING THAT THIS IS A CARBON COPY CLS WITH A VW ENGINE IN IT. AutoSpies.com News
  • Okay, it would have been much preferred to avoid using the term constitutional convention and, instead, use Article V convention, because the language in Article V clearly limits a convention to amendments and prevents a wholesale rewriting of the constitution. Dissident Voice
  • Okay, we lost grandma to cancer because the Blue Cross was more of a double-cross when they told us she'd cost them enough and they weren't paying more, but at least Barack Husein Obama didn't make her shovel-ready. Brian Ross: The Do-It-Yourself Deprogrammers Guide to Fox News Zombies
  • They don't have a button on the waistband but since I rarely wear short tops that's okay.
  • When I get upset, people humor me and tell me it's okay - that I'll get over it.
  • Get some rest and get better, okay?
  • OKAY, I am astounded that a waiter would divulge the full recipe and the key to one of their top dishes, namely the secret ingredient of "corks". Osteria Mozza, Los Angeles - A Spontaneous Hundred-Dollar Snack
  • Some people accidentally dropped their praline square into the melted chocolate, and tempting as it may be, it is not okay to fish for it with your hand.
  • I'm slowly losing the slight hyper buzz I had going on this afternoon, but that's okay.
  • Okay, it's not exactly sugar-free, since some of the dried fruits are candied with sugar.
  • Yet he was still leading our students and by all appearances seemed perfectly okay. Christianity Today
  • Yah, okay, I understand what you're saying.
  • What we need to decide is whether it's okay to ambush people in the workplace.
  • `It's okay with the re- "Manny began and lowered his voice to a whisper. FINAL RESORT
  • “Okay, girls, but put on sunhats,” said Samantha Pattison, who was wearing a pink Florida Marlins cap and these huge actressy sunglasses. THIS IS ME FROM NOW ON
  • So, okay, he must have left sometime after 1100 hours G.M.T. but before 1145 hours G.M.T., at almost exactly which time I returned to the cabin and brushed as well as I could all the particles of snow still clinging to my wool jacket and gloves and knitted ski cap, sea-green, and my blue jeans and rugged, well-worn work boots. Self-Destruction, Vol. 1
  • No. To me the idea that words or taunts can enrage somebody to kill and act out of anger, and our judicial system says that's okay, is barbaric.
  • The first bottleful is removed/ replaced okay. Times, Sunday Times
  • Okay, I grant you that Ms. Musgrave is a moonbat of the first order -- she's the one behind the Marriage Protection Amendment and other lunacies -- but come on. June 2006
  • Okay everyone, simmer down. Time to start our lesson.
  • Is seven okay for you?
  • I do miss him, and I'm a little angry that all my friends (okay, so my friend) refused to come because she was too weirded out.
  • The patient was okay - it was a false alarm.
  • ‘Okay, now you,’ she said as the woman boxed up her dress.
  • Okay, maybe they should be called ladybug eyes, but they are definitely huge and heart-melting. Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • Everybody says, "When you have kids, you really get away from yourself." But really, it's the most selfish thing I've ever done. It's like, Okay, I'm going to create unconditional love for myself, and I'm going to need it and want it and ask for it every day, and I'm going to get it. Brooke Shields 
  • So I asked his housefather if it was okay for Theo to come.
  • He like really found out it was okay to warn the world about blacks taking over the country.
  • Is it ever okay for the narrator to behave this way – where the antagonist is the protagonist? Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Voice Q&A: Evil Narrators and Guy Talk
  • While living here I have spotted many, including small shiny skinned skinks, geckos (jing-jocks and tokays), and large monitor lizards.
  • He is annoying and a bit immature for his age, but that's okay.
  • Some terms are 'okayed' others aren't okayed, in addition to this there is the real world political correctness. Nit-pickers of the world, unite
  • JD (S) leader M C Nanaiah said Palemar†™ s SO P B Belagavi was raided by the Lokayukta in 2002 for possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income and was later suspended. The Times of India
  • Mr. CHALFIE: So, okay, who's the schnook that got the prize this time? You've Won The Nobel Prize -- Wait, Don't Hang Up!
  • How deep does his Peter Pan-syndrome run when he thinks inviting pre-pubescent boys over to scrump is okay? Paranoid Pedestrian Ponderings
  • Is it okay if I pay you what I owe you next week?
  • Okay,' he said, as he took off his glasses and peered through the eyepiece. RESCUING ROSE
  • Avoid using words, but an occasional one-word exclamatory e.g., Victory! is okay. The Elegant Solution
  • I had to explain that as a mentor of young adult fiction, I see a lot of genre fiction that fits the genre okay but isn't worth developing further, which is more denigratory than I like to be in an introductory session.
  • Okay, we'll go back to my house and I'll change and we'll go blading.
  • Okay, I was just putzing around on the net waiting for R. to wake up and stumbled on to Crazy eBay mom.
  • Okay, so she was sort of uptight and standoffish, but I didn't think much about it.
  • SKINNER: It's okay, I've got him. Gibson.
  • March 11, 2008 at 3:40 am weelll. okay. you cudda had a core du balay doing SwanLake, but here goze: Flying: - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • Okay, guys, slow down. No more roughhousing.
  • Nippostrongylus kendo kyu nisei kesa-gatame kyudo No keyaki linked verse nogaku kiaki mai noh kibei maiko nori kiku makimono norimon Kikuchi mama-san norito kikumon mamushi noshi kikyo mana notan ki-mon matsu nunchakus kimono matsuri oban kimono sleeve matsuyama, adj. obang kin mebos obe kiri medaka obi kirigami Meiji odori kirimon menuki ofuro kirin metake o-goshi koan miai oiran mikado ojime sub mikan Okayama, adj. kobang Mikimoto Okazaki kobe, adj. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1
  • January 6th, 2009 at 1: 05 pm okay, awesome. this makes sense. the pin is the type that is supposed to be removed, but apparently I have really dense bone and the first attempt broke off and will be permanent. Mri | clusterflock
  • Just bend and take It'slut, okay Ma?
  • Okay, so passionately kissing the dearly deceased is creepy as all get out, but what about Bill Hader swapping spit with a dog? Watch: Zach Galifianakis “Pageant Talk” SNL Sketch (Video)
  • And quite frankly, I enjoy ignoring my own untended messes in order to help others clean theirs, leaving my own life in occasional (okay, steady) disarray.
  • He like really found out it was okay to warn the world about blacks taking over the country.
  • Okay, sure, maybe there's a hint of sour grapes here, but really, please, just stop it already.
  • At lunch time I stand by myself in the playground cos none of the children will play with me and if I ask to play with them they say okay and then they ignore me.
  • Coma Guy: Uh, a little woozy, but basically okay.
  • I think it's okay, which just goes to show that I'm not exactly a world-class gourmand; but I like the idea that there's a better one out there, not too far away.
  • The captain yelled to the dockworkers to secure the lines and gave the engineer the okay to shut down the propulsion. FALLOUT
  • And it's clear that this whole notion that the left hemisphere is the language hemisphere and the right hemisphere is a visual hemisphere cannot be applied to a rat, okay?
  • If you have trained, you are in good condition and you acclimatise, then you should be okay.
  • Okay, to give you an idea of what I mean when I say I'm fussing prose, and the kind of fiddly revision that eats up so much time, here's how it works. The morning light is hell at the camelot motel
  • Okay. And would you prefer mashed potatoes or macaroni and cheese with that?
  • Although the theme of enlightenment vs. occult is ... okay, there I go, being too close to the material again. Traitor to the Crown
  • It was okay, but didn't seem worthy of the attendant hoo-ha.
  • Okay, I was on the brink of suffocating, and here they were fighting over who was going to give me mouth-to-mouth.
  • I was aware of my body at that time in terms of what it did for me (I could shinny up trees) and how I felt (whether I had an upset stomach or was feeling okay).
  • A : Okay, what if I want to change the typeface?
  • Okay, now I understand the different heel lifts, but how do I rotate it?
  • so I know I am basically health except high bp, which is being treated, other than that my cholesterol and other parameters are okay. A few fat-related links
  • So they were just pistachio snowball cookies, which was okay, but I'd have loved to taste the combination of pistachio AND lemon together… maybe next time.
  • I had to get the secretary to okay the scheme.
  • It was okay for boxers of 50 years ago to be taciturn, but today the champion is expected to be an entertainer.
  • Okay, finally time to knock off work, go home, and relax ... toby says: Matthew Yglesias » In Praise of Grant
  • Okay, I am going to caffeinate myself now and get down to this. TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
  • Though Buckley is hardly a logician, he is – at his level – a kind of syllogist, and this is what I think, he is trying to say: If liberals think faggotry okay and I call one of them a faggot, why is that wrong in their eyes since there is nothing wrong in being one? R_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism"
  • Okay, so they had a bit of a snog at the end of the last series, but that was just to keep the smelly waster on his toes.
  • Smith's report was not officially okayed by the War Department for Release until July 9.
  • Okay, it has stirred a fresh debate, and that is both healthy and desirable.
  • We had an okay time till we went to bed.
  • But as long as you spot the early signs you should be okay - just keep the red bits covered for a few days.
  • Don't get me started on your Prince Charming crush, okay?
  • Okay, but then how would an airline figure out that he's a peaceable fellow except by, well, identifying him?
  • Everything's plugged in okay, but nope, it's definitely not working.
  • You’re kind of plopped into a situation, you’re like “okay, get some chemistry” and that’s not always there. TV Addict Interview: NEW AMSTERDAM Star Alexie Gilmore | the TV addict
  • Then it's okay to do it in a more public setting, innit?
  • The umpires asked McCullum to hang around while they checked for the no-ball, but Tait was okay and so the dangerous McCullum is on his way, swishing his bat in frustration.3rd over: New Zealand 10-0 Guptill 0, B McCullum 8 Lee, 34 years young as David Brent would say, has started wonderfully here. Australia v New Zealand - live! | Rob Smyth
  • Sometimes you have to smile and act like everything is okay.hold back the tears and walk away.
  • Well, okay, I'm still a plebby nobody, but a girl can dream.
  • Okay, that’s one way to put it but their list won’t hold true to all of their choices though the great three, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Robert Heinlein, whose fiction did inspire inventions and many of them are named after the artifacts in the books (a waldo is one example). Writing: How to Ignore Women « Colleen Anderson
  • When I get upset, people humor me and tell me it's okay - that I'll get over it.
  • The security guard addressed her repeatedly with an annoying ‘You okay, Miss?’
  • Okay, let's go back to square one and try again.
  • During the meal, however, he drank 12 bottles of wine followed by a Tokay, a Paphos, a Madeira, and a Falernian with the fruit.
  • I'm sorry to trouble you. --That's okay.
  • There are no psychoanalytical shortcuts into my pants , okay?
  • Okay, gang, take five . Be back here in five minutes on time.
  • If breaking the laws of physics is necessary to get the plot of the movie to work, then okay.
  • I do hope she's okay and not parked at the top of Beachy Head trying to find the right words for her note.
  • In many cases the program will automatically update the config.sys, generally after asking if this is okay.
  • He became very stiff and squared his shoulders when I raised the subject, as if to say: here we go again, okay, okay.
  • ‘Next time you want to drag me along on one of your nature walks, take ten seconds to tell me where we're going, okay,’ Dawn said with an acidic tone.
  • But since he's a conservative, that kind of activism is okay with the right because it's their kind of activism, proving again the axiom, IOKIYAR (It's Okay If You're A Republican). November 2005
  • Okay, it's after nine o'clock, and snow means that if I am going to be in Glastonbury at eleven, I need to start now with hot water and preparations. Could you be squeaky clean?
  • Okay… so the owner likes to surf AND slaughter pigs for luaus.
  • He was okay about that. Times, Sunday Times
  • The only thing you can really do is what we call supportive care, make sure someone's breathing okay, their heart is functioning OK, and obviously get them away from the radiation source if at all possible. CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2006
  • He saw that one fire engine got through okay but the second a slight problem in two places.
  • They didn't say anything about shoulders and backs, so I figured that spaghetti straps, halters, and strapless tops were okay, but I took an overshirt just in case.
  • Accepting gayness is okay if nothing can be done, but helping them overcome it much better. Sound Politics: Separated at Birth?
  • The patient was okay - it was a false alarm.
  • Okay, maybe it's just me, but David Copperfield and I have just visited Steerforth's family home, and between Steerforth calling the lad "Daisy," and the Queer Eye-view of the decor and inhabitants of the house, I feel like the book is just about to burst into little flamy flames. Archive 2006-04-01
  • Okay, am I the only person to think that having to visually check your body for cuts and bruises is actually dis-engaging you from your body? The peaks and perils of First Person Camera
  • If everything went through okay, I'd be able to sleep with Selina every night for the rest of my life.
  • Okay, so anyway, before I was so rudely interrupted, he came and sat with me.
  • My flat-mate and I rub along okay together.
  • Shut up about your stupid dog, okay!
  • She buried her face into the curve of my neck and hugged me tightly, her soft voice murmuring that everything would be okay.
  • It's not that they're filled with reactionary, backward-looking people (okay, there may be a few exceptions).
  • Okay, first the bar - which has only been open a couple of months and is FABULOUS - wall-to-wall burlesque beauties, pinups, vintage striptease on the teevee.
  • Sound is early stereo - okay, but nothing to write home about.
  • They are lacto-ovo-vegetarian, meaning they can also eat dairy and eggs, i think. i think they said fish is okay too. Cream cheese noodle kugel | smitten kitchen
  • For dessert, they picked at little beignets spiked with amaretto (okay), wheels of vanilla-yogurt semifreddo (good), and honey-tinged mascarpone tarts capped with twirls of candied orange peel (very good).
  • Mexican farmers had it okay, but now they work in sweat shops making our junk. Matthew Yglesias » American Manufacturing is Very Productive
  • Okay, here we are for the Final Jeopardy round.
  • I had a quick scout around the house to check everything was okay.
  • He tried to reassure me that my mother would be okay.
  • It's so unprofessional to have a sloppy list, so write another one, okay?
  • I think there's more to this gross-out dream than-"'Just drop it, okay? I.O.U. - SOMEONE HAS TO PAY
  • Okay, cheap shot, but Dickson carries such an air of efficiency that you can't believe she would let these details elude her.
  • CHRISTIAN BALE IS AWESOME, BALEHEAD 4 LIFE BABYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!! okayflint well loosing weigh doesn't really make you an english major either bale is a great actor, poor guy always took chances and picked roles that challenged him, he does a few roles to collect checks, gets a bit angry at work (who doesn't occasionally) and now he's got to suffer the backlash of people who actually believe he isn't a good actor. Behind the Scenes Clips from David O. Russell’s The Fighter | /Film
  • There is some unspoken protocol against intruding on a stranger's grief, but I could not help myself from gently tapping on her shoulder and asking if she was okay.
  • Okay everyone - listen up! I have an announcement to make.
  • She seemed okay with the direction of the conversation, but it looked as if something physically pained her.
  • Okay, so she's only on it for twenty or thirty seconds every other episode or so, but still: gorgeous.
  • Totally apprehensively are unconcealed that ultrasound one forgetfully gravitative, but pardonably wind chintzily be at incompatibly hispanic to incandescent apomict of threefold skateboard okay curtilage. Rational Review
  • He repeated these back to me, then said, "Okay, talk to you. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  • Coma Guy: Uh, a little woozy, but basically okay.
  • It would be not okay if one did it either, your Honour, because that would be the tortfeasor, and those who went to assist, in a complicitous way, the tortfeasor in the tortious conduct, would also be liable.
  • Okay, so standing there with the glare of the lights in your face and with the cameras rolling can be a bit off-putting. Times, Sunday Times
  • Don't rock the boat until the negotiations are finished, okay!
  • Okay, yeah, so you all don't need the details of my shower - I basically just shampooed my hair, conditioned it, then hopped on out.
  • Trollish behaviour and back-stabbing are never okay. “Who, If I Cried Out, Would Hear Me?” On Twitter, Tales And Tragedy | Her Bad Mother
  • And when it isn't someone like a friend saying, "That's a cool pic, can I borrow it" like if a pic of me showed up on another site about something - I woudld be okay about that - unless it was devo, that is one thing, when it is 300 guys in 6 hours ransacking the place, it feels a little different, more violation. Devotees and me (closing Screw Bronze); the cage of stereotype plus a suicide!
  • ‘It's okay, I always thought Winnie was cute’ Ben said gently patting her on the head.
  • ‘Oh, that's okay,’ Wendy said, mussing Erin's hair affectionately.
  • Its strange how Britain tightened its laws and they had literally no gun kills. yah its okay to have the little pistol with the safety but you should just rent a rugger at the range and get your action there Palin gives 'stirring' gun rights speech at NRA dinner, says group
  • Yes, of course protectionism is anti-liberty, but so is tax collection so that roads to cities you're never going to visit, but we are okay with that. Economic Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Jess, remind me to never ever let you volunteer us for anything ever again, okay?
  • It's okay, sweetie-pie, calm down for mommy, please.
  • Italics are also okay: Mind your ps and qs, dot your is and cross your ts – but this presentation can be too subtle for some eyes, fonts, and publishing houses. Plurals of acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms and single letters
  • I guess inbreeding is okay in that part of Canada? Hillbilly Wars – For the Record @ Attack of the Redneck Mommy
  • Okay, that's the broad plan-let's get down to the specifics.
  • Okay, so maybe charity auctions have not entirely lost their thirst for frivolity. Times, Sunday Times
  • It'll be okay after a lick of paint.
  • I'll drop you at the corner, okay?
  • I hope the children are okay.
  • Then, the other day I was driving back to the office after taping my radio show, feeling a little tired and spacey but generally okay.
  • The book is okay but honestly, it's really just kind of slogging along issue to issue and I think it's going to be better in trades anyway, John Cassaday's covers be damned. IFanboy
  • Okay, why did my brain shrivel to the size and consistency of a pea after two kids and you just had a baby and show no signs of “baby brain” at all. Community Is Hard. Deal With It. | Her Bad Mother
  • Okay, any questions so far?
  • Okay, let me see. How do you like this toy dog?
  • While living here I have spotted many, including small shiny skinned skinks, geckos (jing-jocks and tokays), and large monitor lizards.
  • Okay, I don't call the inclusion of four incorrect lines of type a "misprint," I call it an "editorial mistake," but I was disappointed - because, for once, I had a question. Archive 2009-04-01
  • Okay, so it generally gives us the setting for the story.
  • It's okay to have flaws, which makes you real.
  • Okay, now that Julius is Anarch, what use is he?
  • You're okay for now, but I'll see if I can snitch a few things for you later.

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