For a while, at least, the national anthem will be something other than a song to score on a 1-to-10 scale of creative interpretation, or to time with a stopwatch, or to chalk up to each singer's won-lost record.
22.
This was beginning to look like a game the Cowboys could chalk up to the illogical misfortune of losing two quarterbacks to the lowly and seemingly non-threatening Redskins, to the usual midseason blahs and bruises, and, of course, to the cost of having to play the No . 3 guy in place of Aikman.
23.
The UFO center made national headlines last year with the news that residents in Washington state, home of the first modern " flying saucer " report in 1947, called in more UFO sightings on its hot line than any other state in the country _ sightings skeptics generally chalk up to an active night sky and an overactive human imagination.
24.
The steady stream of criticism of Eisner that marked the first half of this year, when the company also battled a takeover offer from Comcast, has quieted, too, a notion that analysts chalk up to the company's improving fortunes, investor fatigue and Wall Street's preoccupation with the growth of the economy and the possibility of terrorist attacks.
25.
The highway lengths we've been able to re-source to GIS data or MDOT Control Section / Physical Reference Atlas maps or even Google Maps which have shown that his stated lengths are accurate normally to the tenth of a mile over what the State of Michigan gives currently, a difference we chalk up to rounding and changes in accuracy of GIS data over time.
26.
I recently ran in the Arbcom election where, with a ~ 65 % positive vote, I felt I did rather well, considering that I don't think I'm a well-known name in the community, simply because I usually avoid controversial topics ( I had one of the lower vote totals in the > 50 % bracket, which I chalk up to people unfamiliar with me ), preferring just to do my editing . ( wow, that's a lot of commas ) Note " usually " . : ) But anyway.
