I want to be where the rubber meets the road.

Now we're getting down to where the rubber meets the road.

Now this is where the rubber meets the road, the real stuff.

And now for the spot where the rubber meets the road!

So this is where the rubber meets the road, for Obama and the country.

It's a pretty good book on how the intelligence business works down where the rubber meets the road.

"My interest has always been what the cops do on the street, how to help them where the rubber meets the road."

In terms of moral values, this is where the rubber meets the road.

"I think where the rubber meets the road is the fourth quarter."

Because where the rubber meets the road, on the front line, you need your best and brightest.

This stage is essentially where the rubber meets the road.

Not another symbolic vote, which we've had far too many of, but this is where the rubber meets the road.

"You get in big games like this, and that's where the rubber meets the road.

The four points where the rubber meets the road are the only things that stand between teens and a crash.

That's really where the rubber meets the road, getting a great product out there."

"This is where the rubber meets the road when it comes to improving people's health through nutrition."

They literally are where the rubber meets the road.

His friend chimed in: "Where the rubber meets the road."

In recent years, however, he and other legislators have pushed to monitor student learning at the course level, "where the rubber meets the road."

Someone once told me this is where the rubber meets the road when it comes to studying climate change."

We're out here where the rubber meets the road, talking to the people and talking about the future of America."

"The attorneys general are actually out here where the rubber meets the road when it comes to consumer protection.

Here is where the rubber meets the road: can we ever predict a volcanic eruption.

Local government debt is where the rubber meets the road for the Chinese government's big economic-policy dilemma.

Where the rubber meets the road in the foreclosure process looks like paper work and about $40,000 to $50,000 in costs at a bank.

They need to step up, get out where the rubber hits the road.

When we talk to people this is where the rubber hits the road.

This is one example of where the rubber hits the road.

Those are the issues where the rubber hits the road on free speech.

That's where the rubber hits the road for developing countries.

Finally, a research topic where the rubber hits the road!

"Where the rubber hits the road is the use of force," said one senior Administration official.

Quite literally, cities are where the rubber hits the road.

Where the rubber hits the road is when a product either makes the grade or fails.

"This week," he said, "is where the rubber hits the road for our party."

"That's really where the rubber hits the road because there are all kinds of state rules about when you can have and carry a gun."

That's where the rubber hits the road and some of the codes are already embracing this issue themselves.

"But where the rubber hits the road is when he gets in there and we find out whether he can get any of it done."

"I think where the rubber hits the road here is with Channel One especially," he said.

Ingenious sensors are located right where the rubber hits the road.

I think voting is where democracy comes together and that's where the rubber hits the road.

"Naturally there's a period where the rubber hits the road and there's not that much left to cut."

And that's where the rubber hits the road.

He started off in homicide and moved on to "where the rubber hits the road in terms of the drugs war".

That means "moving beyond rhetorical declarations and focusing on where the rubber hits the road."

Where the rubber hits the road is that this could cost more than $6 billion annually and could drive the country back into deficit.

Its one thing having head knowledge yet its another thing putting it into practice and that is where the rubber hits the road.

Because, even to the data geeks at Tembo, it's still ultimately about the classroom, where the rubber hits the road.

"I've got to win in-store - that's where the rubber hits the road for brands like ours," he said.

With crime-fighting partnerships with local law enforcement and citizen groups, where the rubber hits the road.

Howard's film is at its best when the rubber meets the road.

But when the rubber meets the road, he may very well have to choose between satisfying his base and keeping the government running.

When the rubber meets the road on two crucial issues, science isn't driving these decisions."

"Everyone wonders if they have what it takes when the rubber meets the road," Akers said.

Application time is when the rubber meets the road;

It continues to raise questions about how thorough this process is and how much is there when the rubber meets the road.

When the rubber meets the road, it's hard to see why it gets to be lumped in with the Good GM brands.

DIAMOND - I always thought what's unbelievable is that when the rubber meets the road, you're not fooling around.

It also helps if you're driven and aggressive so you can sell your ideas, get funding, and then, when the rubber meets the road, actually get the job done.

"We need to make sure that those efforts to spur job creation are equally and fairly distributed so that, when the rubber meets the road, we're all in the car."

The mis-alignment may be occurring in the planning process, but is only evident "when the rubber meets the road" (i.e., when the money has to be spent for implementation).

So when the rubber meets the road, emotions are running high, fear is in the air, and critical decisions need to be made, they'll still behave the way they're wired to behave.

"Certainly, green has been popular with consumers for several years, but when the rubber meets the road in the policy arena, we must be sensible, especially in a very weak economy," said HBA President and local home builder Tim Jackson.

"David Bell has done a good job setting the stage for the next round of building up the business, but it's baby steps in a long, long process," Mr. Mastin said, adding that "2004 is going to have to be when the rubber meets the road."

When the rubber hits the road what does that really mean.

You know in simple terms it's when the rubber hits the road.

As with crime, we'll see what happens when the rubber hits the road.

Local knowledge can be of immense use to staff and when the rubber hits the road it is they who actually get things done.

Men - and women for that matter - are not very good judges of what they will buy when the rubber hits the road.

But for all the goodwill and innovation on offer, when the rubber hits the road it will still be a race.

“But when the rubber hits the road in ’14-’15-’16, you’re going to have to pay your own players.

The test is when the rubber hits the road."

"What he's really saying is when the rubber hits the road, we're wimps and won't do it ourselves."

Quieter traffic: When the rubber hits the road

"Whose preferences govern - that's when the rubber hits the road," Ms. Katz said.

Program 4 -- When the Rubber Hits the Road

[T]hey’re going to make the effort to put out a bipartisan proposal in this way, but when the rubber hits the road it’s not there.”

“It's only when the rubber hits the road that you understand some of things that you need [to] address,” he said.

"That's when the rubber hits the road," said Dan Hess, chief executive of Merchant Forecast, which provides retail financial research.

"I favor the goals," Mr. Livingston said recently, but added, "When the rubber hits the road, it doesn't match.

Every candidate in this race will tell you that they are "conservative" but when the rubber hits the road, I am the only one with a proven voting record.

"If that happens," he said, "then people will say, even on race, where he is supposed to have some genuine feeling, when the rubber hits the road, Bill Clinton wasn't serious."

"When the rubber hits the road, here's another example of them shortchanging charter schools," said Gary Larson, spokesman for the California Charter Schools Assn.

"When the rubber hits the road," MOOC promoters "don't have any idea what education means," said Adam Sitze, an assistant professor of law and social thought at Amherst.

I realise that for many people that when the rubber hits the road then it is actually the money that makes people decide to go out to work and are not able to stay home.

“The reality of security is that it is one of those areas that only becomes clear when the rubber hits the road and you begin to lock down venues," said Lord Coe.

Hartford's Harrison believes administrators should be proactive in setting standards for coaches to follow, but as Delany points out, "When the rubber hits the road, there's no place for athletic directors and presidents to act."