Consequently, some critics have blamed Giants ownership and Peter Magowan for the Giants ' losing seasons instead of Sabean

Najran seems to have been under Minaean or Sabean rule at different times during the next centuries and after that it was part of Yemen till 1937.

In 2006, new Padres CEO Sandy Alderson preferred to have a younger manager, so he allowed Giants General Manager Brian Sabean to interview Bochy for his job opening.

The variation " Sabean " has been employed in English to distinguish the ancient Harranian group, but the usage is not universal.

Sabean has been unwilling to invest in high draft picks.

In previous years, Sabean had been under some pressure to put a team that could " win now " around Barry Bonds instead of rebuilding.

Having been betrayed, the Sabean male rulership chase after them, leading to a stand-off on the island.

Prior to his appointment to GM in 1996, Sabean served one season as the Giants ' senior vice president, player personnel in 1995 after a three-year stint as an assistant to the general manager and vice president of scouting / player personnel.

In prior years, Sabean signing of veteran players before the arbitration deadline cost the team several draft picks.

Sabean was proven right, as the players he acquired in the Williams trade — Jeff Kent, Jose Vizcaino, Julian Tavarez, and Joe Roa ( plus the $ 1 million in cash that enabled them to sign Darryl Hamilton )— and a subsequent trade for J. T.

Brian Sabean, in his first year as general manager of the Giants, was so widely criticized for the move that he famously defended himself to the media by saying, " I am not an idiot.

Giants general manager Brian Sabean acknowledged that Benítez was not liked by the Giants fanbase, saying he had become a " whipping boy ", adding " the fans, the press and maybe some people in the clubhouse felt he needed to go ".

When Sabean replaced Quinn in 1996, the team was in disarray.

Brian Sabean was highly ridiculed in San Francisco at the time of the trade, so much so that Sabean had to defend himself in the media, famously declaring " I am not an idiot.

After the Giants narrowly lost the 2002 World Series, Sabean was forced to dramatically retool.

Sabean was named Executive of the Year by the Sporting News in, the first time a member of the Giants organization had received that award since Al Rosen in 1987.

The trade of Moss and Kurt Ainsworth for Sidney Ponson, which Sabean arranged late in the 2003 season, was criticized by some Giants fans and columnists.

Sabean continued to build a team of veterans around Barry Bonds but some of the veterans Sabean was acquiring began to achieve below expectations.

Sabean was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle as saying, " Quite frankly, we're very reluctant to overspend in the draft.

In late 2007 and early 2008, Sabean and Giants owner Peter Magowan drew some criticism in the Mitchell Report when it was revealed Giants trainer Stan Conte came to Sabean and told him he suspected Bonds trainer Greg Anderson was distributing steroids and Giants management didn't investigate or tell Major League Baseball.

Some sports insiders argued that Magowan and Sabean actions on steroids was not any different from other clubs at the time.

In June 2011, Sabean was the subject of controversy over comments he made regarding Scott Cousins after Cousins ' collision with Giants catcher Buster Posey, which resulted in season-ending injuries for Posey.

In late 2007 and early 2008, Peter Magowan and Giants general manager Brian Sabean drew some criticism in the Mitchell Report when it was revealed Giants athletic trainer Stan Conte came to Sabean and told him he suspected Bonds trainer Greg Anderson was distributing steroids and Giants management didn't investigate or tell Major League Baseball.

Giants general manager Brian Sabean lauded Durham for making an impressive transition from a lead off hitter to a middle of the order run producer.

`` You may have seen me on TV '', she said.

The body may have been two or three weeks' dead.

Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;

-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.

The American liberal may, in the world of to-day, have a strong case ; ;

Accounts have been published of Northern liberals in the South up against segregationist prejudice, especially in state-supported universities where pressure may be strong to uphold the majority view.

Among Bourbons the racial issue may have less to do with their remaining unreconstructed than other factors.

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

Jean Bodin, writing in the sixteenth century, may have been the seminal thinker, but it was the vastly influential John Austin who set out the main lines of the concept as now understood.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

Looking back, Miss Marsicano feels that her ideas may have been influenced by those of Jackson Pollock.

The conversation that ensued may have been engrossing but it could hardly be called world-shattering.

The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America, but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not-strictly-practical ends of culture.

The part of the mind that preserves dates and events may remonstrate, `` It could have been like that for only a little while '' ; ;

It may, however, be noted that his gift for color and imagery must have been greatly stimulated by his stay in Paris.

Does our society have a runaway, uncontrollable growth of technology which may end our civilization, or a normal, healthy growth??

In any event, whether society may have cancer, or merely a virus infection, the `` disease '', we shall find, is political, economical, social, and even medical.

Any abilities I may have were achieved in their present shape from experience in sharing in the growth and control of my business, coupled with raising my family.

The best gifts of the novelist will be wasted on the reader who is insulated against any surprises the novelist may have in store for him.

He and also Mr. Cowley and Mr. Warren have fallen to the temptation which besets many of us to read into our authors -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example, and Herman Melville -- protests against modernism, material progress, and science which are genuine protests of our own but may not have been theirs.

Such activity may or may not have irritated the Kremlin, but it has frequently condemned America to an unnatural defensiveness that has undermined our effort to give leadership to the free world.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.