#league

I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#ago #am #colleagues #envious #ever

I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield. ↗

— Skeet Ulrich

#because #fast #flying #i #league

When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had. ↗

— Jim Evans

#chief #coming #had #i #league

Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#been #bipartisan #bird #colleagues #continue

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#being #certain #colleagues #community #did

Boston is a very proud franchise. The NBA misses them when they are not in the mix. They, along with teams like the Knicks and 76ers are a big part of the heart, soul and history of the league. ↗

— Doug Collins

#big #boston #franchise #heart #history

Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#clarified #clause #duty #further #initiative

All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#appendage #bound #competing #degenerate #first

As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#attitudes #blocs #center #even #form

There is no reason why agreement on particular points should not be both possible and advantageous to the so-called neutrals and to one or more of the blocs, either existing or in the process of formation, within the League of Nations. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#agreement #blocs #both #either #existing