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People feel crushed by the work. We have to produce a lot of quality decisions in a short amount of time, those decisions are involving people’s significant trauma. Our officers absorb secondary trauma. – Michael Knowles	Found on CNN 1 year ago
At some point, [their offensives] are likely to culminate, they will need to decide whether they assume a more defensive posture in the coming weeks in order to absorb or respond to any Ukrainian offensives. – Mick Ryan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The uncertainty lies in how much rainfall will be absorbed by the snowpack before there is significant release of that water into the rivers, it’s likely some of the( precipitation) will simply be absorbed into the many feet of snow at the highest elevations, but lower elevations, generally below 5,000 ft, appear most likely to not have the snowpack necessary to absorb the multiple inches of rainfall expected. – Weather Prediction Center	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s another paradigm shift, those two events — huge events — in spaceflight happening during our increment, on top of all the other work we get to do, I don’t think we’re going to fully be able to absorb it until after the fact. – Stephen Bowen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There’s no way to end it without causing harm because starting it reduced harm, fortunately, we have come out of this pandemic with a pretty strong economy, a very strong economy, so hopefully we’ll be able to absorb the increased hardship. – Whitmore Schanzenbach	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s another paradigm shift, those two events — huge events — in spaceflight happening during our increment, on top of all the other work we get to do, I don’t think we’re going to fully be able to absorb it until after the fact. – Stephen Bowen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As they eat, they will process that food and essentially fertilize the oceans … which is proven to be important to the health of the oceans, the oceans produce a tremendous amount of oxygen that we breathe. They moderate climate, they absorb a tremendous amount of heat that’s being produced by humans, and they provide food for billions of people. – Gib Brogan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The first need is my Stand. My Stand, The World, and what lies beyond it are the path for men to advance further. My second need is a trustworthy friend. He must be someone who can control his desires. The desire for power, fame, money, sex... He must be free of those things. It must be someone who chooses God's laws over the laws of men. Will I, Dio, ever meet someone with this character trait? I also need at least 36 souls of the worst convicts. Souls of sinners have tremendous energy. I need 14 words. To prevent ever forgetting these words, I will etch them onto my Stand itself. I also need courage. I must have the courage to let go of my Stand just once. My decaying Stand will gather and absorb the souls of 36 convicts. It will then give birth to something new. The spawned creature will awaken. It will be curious about the 14 words spoken by the trusted friend. My friend will find me trustworthy, and he will consider me his friend. Finally, I need the location. It will be north latitude, 28 degrees 24 minutes, west longitude, 80 degrees 36 minutes. Wait for the new next moon. Heaven will appear then. – Dio Brando	added by papyrus_t 1 year ago
Beijing appears willing to absorb the economic and social costs that stem from its zero-Covid policy because the alternative — widespread infections along with corresponding hospitalizations and deaths — represents an even greater threat to the government's legitimacy. – Craig Singleton	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The market continues to absorb the cumulative impact of the large price and rate increases that led to a plunge in affordability, as a result, over the rest of the year purchase demand likely will continue to drag, supply will modestly increase, and home price growth will decelerate. – Sam Khater	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There are large portions of the watershed you can see that are completely burned. It looks like burnt toothpicks sticking out of the ground for acres and acres, with the soil instability, during a heavy rain event it would be like putting water on a bunch of baby powder where it doesn't absorb at all ; it just falls. – Las Vegas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
While that will certainly curtail demand, I wouldn't expect to see heavy easing in terms of prices, just because there's very little excess capacity in the marketplace to absorb any additional demand, people cry wolf on oil prices. – Bill Fitzpatrick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There are large portions of the watershed you can see that are completely burned. It looks like burnt toothpicks sticking out of the ground for acres and acres, with the soil instability, during a heavy rain event it would be like putting water on a bunch of baby powder where it doesn't absorb at all ; it just falls. We hope to beat the monsoon season, doing some of the interventions we're going to have to do along the watershed. – Mayor Louie Trujillo	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Vladimir Putin is cornered. Vladimir Putin's already lost this war, even if Vladimir Putin wins a short-term battle by taking of Kyiv, there is no way Vladimir Putin can hold Ukraine and absorb Ukraine into Russia because Vladimir Putin's created a hatred for Russia and himself that will last a generation. – Angus King	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Many of these contracts are done ahead of time for many hundreds of thousands of vehicles, it will absorb manufacturing and fixed costs. – Tyson Jominy	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's been a lot of information to absorb so suddenly after all this time. – Molly Livaudais	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Xi's message of' stability' is aimed at the political establishment in China, which must absorb the brunt of an historic power play, in addition to the business sector. – Alex Capri	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Retailers may want to absorb some of the price increase to remain competitive. – Neil Saunders	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The type of tree most certainly matters in this regard. But more so, our climate models are using data from seedlings and young trees to diagnose how old forests will absorb future increases in CO2 in the air. – David Ellsworth	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Lemon juice can slow down how quickly you absorb the carbohydrates from food so your blood sugar does not rise as fast. However, this does not mean that you will directly lose weight. – Meg Mill	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We're absolutely trying to absorb some of the tremendous freight cost increases ourselves. – Laurie Kane	Found on CNN 2 years ago
None of it has hit quite yet. I haven't had time to absorb how huge this is. I'm learning to find balance and appreciate these successes but staying humble and grounded through it all. – Abubakr Ali	Found on CNN 2 years ago
They would probably absorb those in the short run, as long as there was light at the end of the tunnel. – Steve Meyer	Found on CNN 2 years ago
People are in ideological camps and sort of the information, the narratives that you absorb are dictated by the ideology that you adhere to.Traditionally publishers, but also bookstores and libraries, have been places for all comers that offer a wide variety of ideas to choose from. – Suzanne Nossel	Found on FOX News 3 years ago

People feel crushed by the work. We have to produce a lot of quality decisions in a short amount of time, those decisions are involving people’s significant trauma. Our officers absorb secondary trauma.

– Michael Knowles

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At some point, [their offensives] are likely to culminate, they will need to decide whether they assume a more defensive posture in the coming weeks in order to absorb or respond to any Ukrainian offensives.

– Mick Ryan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The uncertainty lies in how much rainfall will be absorbed by the snowpack before there is significant release of that water into the rivers, it’s likely some of the( precipitation) will simply be absorbed into the many feet of snow at the highest elevations, but lower elevations, generally below 5,000 ft, appear most likely to not have the snowpack necessary to absorb the multiple inches of rainfall expected.

– Weather Prediction Center

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s another paradigm shift, those two events — huge events — in spaceflight happening during our increment, on top of all the other work we get to do, I don’t think we’re going to fully be able to absorb it until after the fact.

– Stephen Bowen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s no way to end it without causing harm because starting it reduced harm, fortunately, we have come out of this pandemic with a pretty strong economy, a very strong economy, so hopefully we’ll be able to absorb the increased hardship.

– Whitmore Schanzenbach

Found on CNN
1 year ago

– Stephen Bowen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As they eat, they will process that food and essentially fertilize the oceans … which is proven to be important to the health of the oceans, the oceans produce a tremendous amount of oxygen that we breathe. They moderate climate, they absorb a tremendous amount of heat that’s being produced by humans, and they provide food for billions of people.

– Gib Brogan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The first need is my Stand. My Stand, The World, and what lies beyond it are the path for men to advance further. My second need is a trustworthy friend. He must be someone who can control his desires. The desire for power, fame, money, sex... He must be free of those things. It must be someone who chooses God's laws over the laws of men. Will I, Dio, ever meet someone with this character trait? I also need at least 36 souls of the worst convicts. Souls of sinners have tremendous energy. I need 14 words. To prevent ever forgetting these words, I will etch them onto my Stand itself. I also need courage. I must have the courage to let go of my Stand just once. My decaying Stand will gather and absorb the souls of 36 convicts. It will then give birth to something new. The spawned creature will awaken. It will be curious about the 14 words spoken by the trusted friend. My friend will find me trustworthy, and he will consider me his friend. Finally, I need the location. It will be north latitude, 28 degrees 24 minutes, west longitude, 80 degrees 36 minutes. Wait for the new next moon. Heaven will appear then.

– Dio Brando

added by papyrus_t
1 year ago

Beijing appears willing to absorb the economic and social costs that stem from its zero-Covid policy because the alternative — widespread infections along with corresponding hospitalizations and deaths — represents an even greater threat to the government's legitimacy.

– Craig Singleton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The market continues to absorb the cumulative impact of the large price and rate increases that led to a plunge in affordability, as a result, over the rest of the year purchase demand likely will continue to drag, supply will modestly increase, and home price growth will decelerate.

– Sam Khater

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are large portions of the watershed you can see that are completely burned. It looks like burnt toothpicks sticking out of the ground for acres and acres, with the soil instability, during a heavy rain event it would be like putting water on a bunch of baby powder where it doesn't absorb at all ; it just falls.

– Las Vegas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While that will certainly curtail demand, I wouldn't expect to see heavy easing in terms of prices, just because there's very little excess capacity in the marketplace to absorb any additional demand, people cry wolf on oil prices.

– Bill Fitzpatrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

– Mayor Louie Trujillo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Vladimir Putin is cornered. Vladimir Putin's already lost this war, even if Vladimir Putin wins a short-term battle by taking of Kyiv, there is no way Vladimir Putin can hold Ukraine and absorb Ukraine into Russia because Vladimir Putin's created a hatred for Russia and himself that will last a generation.

– Angus King

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Many of these contracts are done ahead of time for many hundreds of thousands of vehicles, it will absorb manufacturing and fixed costs.

– Tyson Jominy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's been a lot of information to absorb so suddenly after all this time.

– Molly Livaudais

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Xi's message of' stability' is aimed at the political establishment in China, which must absorb the brunt of an historic power play, in addition to the business sector.

– Alex Capri

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Retailers may want to absorb some of the price increase to remain competitive.

– Neil Saunders

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The type of tree most certainly matters in this regard. But more so, our climate models are using data from seedlings and young trees to diagnose how old forests will absorb future increases in CO2 in the air.

– David Ellsworth

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Lemon juice can slow down how quickly you absorb the carbohydrates from food so your blood sugar does not rise as fast. However, this does not mean that you will directly lose weight.

– Meg Mill

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're absolutely trying to absorb some of the tremendous freight cost increases ourselves.

– Laurie Kane

Found on CNN
2 years ago

None of it has hit quite yet. I haven't had time to absorb how huge this is. I'm learning to find balance and appreciate these successes but staying humble and grounded through it all.

– Abubakr Ali

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They would probably absorb those in the short run, as long as there was light at the end of the tunnel.

– Steve Meyer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People are in ideological camps and sort of the information, the narratives that you absorb are dictated by the ideology that you adhere to.Traditionally publishers, but also bookstores and libraries, have been places for all comers that offer a wide variety of ideas to choose from.

– Suzanne Nossel

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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