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You’re finishing off the animals, no. – Bernard Mutondo	Found on New York Times 1 year ago
That’s where we’ve been raising our kids, finishing college, buying a business, and that’s been our place, in the future, are we going to have to sell the house? Is it worth any money at this point? – Wilson Webb/Netflix Ratner	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s a matter of immobilizing these animals or driving them into muddy shores so that their weight works against them, if you can immobilize one with a few people and corner them into an area where they get stuck. It’s a matter of finishing them off. – Wil Roebroeks	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s so rare in life to find people that see and hear you for who you are and want to help you be able to tell that story, no matter who I bring her into the writing room with, even if it’s somebody new, I’m always confident with her and I know she’s gonna just totally capture it in the song. It’s just a gift when I’m mumbling lyrics, and she is finishing my sentences. – Brett Eldredge	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We came out with the right mindset offensively, obviously, the second half was a little bit different. But we talked about going 4-0, finishing the (road) trip on the right foot and did that ultimately. – Ime Udoka	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We did a good job today in sharing the ball and finishing, scoring-wise, we ran very well in transition. It’s always nice to have 30-plus assists (as a team). – Nikola Jokic	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I’m concentrating on finishing my term well as governor, i do want to be a voice that talks about conservative, common sense ideas, and we’ll see where that leads. – Asa Hutchinson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Finishing something is nearly always a herculean effort; bringing a job to completion requires resolve. People would be surprised to learn that most of the stuff out in the world is only a small percentage of what could have been accomplished. – Link Starbureiy	added by anonymous 2 years ago
We realize it and it’s just not OK. Their reaction is OK, the product isn’t OK right now. I take that to heart as a leader on this team, I haven’t felt like the preparation and the work has always generated to the results on the field and I understand that, and I take my share of ownership on that, i just try to symbolize the way to play and how I play and control what I can control. I can’t control the positions I’m put in on the field. I can’t control the score all the time, but I just try to play every snap hard, especially last game finishing that game off and stuff like that. – Logan Ryan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
A group of migrants just walked across the Rio Grande and crossed into Eagle Pass illegally right in front of us, a Border Patrol boat pulled up right as they were finishing the crossing. Most of them said they were from Haiti. They’re now being processed by BP. – Fox News	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We've been at this longer than I think anyone anticipated, but we're glad that we'll soon complete the mission and get back to normal operations, our focus now is on finishing strong, bidding our guests farewell, and completing the mission. – Josh Olson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I made a pretty good pitch to Smith I thought, i’m just not finishing pitches. I haven’t figured it out yet. It’s not good. Guys know what I’m going to do. It’s no secret. I have to get the ball where I need it to be. – Wade Miley	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We are more safe and more secure today than we were on 9/11, we are much better at counterterrorism than we were before. Our military is much better at finding and fixing and finishing bad guys on the battlefield. – Sirajuddin Haqqani	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Twenty years at war was essentially for nothing, it's very disheartening, at a minimum, to know that we were this close to finishing things the right way. – Colin Wayne	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
These are really about finishing a primary series. Think about childhood immunizations. We have vaccines for which we need three of four doses. What we found here is that the immune-compromised often didn't mount an adequate response at all. So we're still trying to build that. That is different than a booster dose where someone did respond and in fact over time that wanes, i think it was a great decision. – Michael Osterholm	Found on CNN 3 years ago
But in practice, there are also foreigners who were deported before finishing their main sentence. – Sandy Phan-Gillis	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Today we have made 1.3 billion Indians proud by finishing on the podium. – Manpreet Singh.Harmanpreet Singh	Found on CNN 3 years ago
With Sage’s extensive experience in road racing and open-wheel racing, along with finishing 7th in this year’s Indianapolis 500, we knew that the road course at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway would be a special place for him to make his NASCAR debut with support from Montage Mountain Resorts and so many other great partners. – Jordan Anderson	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Teenagers are graduating and finishing their school year, looking for any excuse to meet up with friends in-person after a year of disconnection, in this way, what goes viral on TikTok and elsewhere often reflects other, offline needs and trends. – Nick Brody	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Easy to make doubles out here, it was maybe a little anxious out there maybe, trying to get myself in a good spot. The finishing stretch is hard. I don’t care if it’s windy or not or downwind, it’s just going to be hard out there. – Joel Dahmen	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It felt good when Kyrie passed me the ball. I guess I've got to get used to that. I’m used to him shooting, finishing is easy. My name was called tonight and I was ready to go. – Nicolas Claxton	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Our team is really good at getting to the paint and finishing. – Brandon Clarke	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
If we increase the number of female board members, we have to make sure their speaking time is restricted somewhat, they have difficulty finishing, which is annoying, we have about seven women at the organising committee but everyone understands their place. – Asahi Shimbun.Yoshiro Mori	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
You don’t start what you can’t finish, and finishing the job involves two doses. – Scott Morrison	Found on Reuters 3 years ago

You’re finishing off the animals, no.

– Bernard Mutondo

Found on New York Times
1 year ago

That’s where we’ve been raising our kids, finishing college, buying a business, and that’s been our place, in the future, are we going to have to sell the house? Is it worth any money at this point?

– Wilson Webb/Netflix Ratner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s a matter of immobilizing these animals or driving them into muddy shores so that their weight works against them, if you can immobilize one with a few people and corner them into an area where they get stuck. It’s a matter of finishing them off.

– Wil Roebroeks

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s so rare in life to find people that see and hear you for who you are and want to help you be able to tell that story, no matter who I bring her into the writing room with, even if it’s somebody new, I’m always confident with her and I know she’s gonna just totally capture it in the song. It’s just a gift when I’m mumbling lyrics, and she is finishing my sentences.

– Brett Eldredge

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We came out with the right mindset offensively, obviously, the second half was a little bit different. But we talked about going 4-0, finishing the (road) trip on the right foot and did that ultimately.

– Ime Udoka

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We did a good job today in sharing the ball and finishing, scoring-wise, we ran very well in transition. It’s always nice to have 30-plus assists (as a team).

– Nikola Jokic

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’m concentrating on finishing my term well as governor, i do want to be a voice that talks about conservative, common sense ideas, and we’ll see where that leads.

– Asa Hutchinson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Finishing something is nearly always a herculean effort; bringing a job to completion requires resolve. People would be surprised to learn that most of the stuff out in the world is only a small percentage of what could have been accomplished.

– Link Starbureiy

added by anonymous
2 years ago

We realize it and it’s just not OK. Their reaction is OK, the product isn’t OK right now. I take that to heart as a leader on this team, I haven’t felt like the preparation and the work has always generated to the results on the field and I understand that, and I take my share of ownership on that, i just try to symbolize the way to play and how I play and control what I can control. I can’t control the positions I’m put in on the field. I can’t control the score all the time, but I just try to play every snap hard, especially last game finishing that game off and stuff like that.

– Logan Ryan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A group of migrants just walked across the Rio Grande and crossed into Eagle Pass illegally right in front of us, a Border Patrol boat pulled up right as they were finishing the crossing. Most of them said they were from Haiti. They’re now being processed by BP.

– Fox News

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We've been at this longer than I think anyone anticipated, but we're glad that we'll soon complete the mission and get back to normal operations, our focus now is on finishing strong, bidding our guests farewell, and completing the mission.

– Josh Olson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I made a pretty good pitch to Smith I thought, i’m just not finishing pitches. I haven’t figured it out yet. It’s not good. Guys know what I’m going to do. It’s no secret. I have to get the ball where I need it to be.

– Wade Miley

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We are more safe and more secure today than we were on 9/11, we are much better at counterterrorism than we were before. Our military is much better at finding and fixing and finishing bad guys on the battlefield.

– Sirajuddin Haqqani

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Twenty years at war was essentially for nothing, it's very disheartening, at a minimum, to know that we were this close to finishing things the right way.

– Colin Wayne

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

These are really about finishing a primary series. Think about childhood immunizations. We have vaccines for which we need three of four doses. What we found here is that the immune-compromised often didn't mount an adequate response at all. So we're still trying to build that. That is different than a booster dose where someone did respond and in fact over time that wanes, i think it was a great decision.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN
3 years ago

But in practice, there are also foreigners who were deported before finishing their main sentence.

– Sandy Phan-Gillis

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Today we have made 1.3 billion Indians proud by finishing on the podium.

– Manpreet Singh.Harmanpreet Singh

Found on CNN
3 years ago

With Sage’s extensive experience in road racing and open-wheel racing, along with finishing 7th in this year’s Indianapolis 500, we knew that the road course at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway would be a special place for him to make his NASCAR debut with support from Montage Mountain Resorts and so many other great partners.

– Jordan Anderson

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Teenagers are graduating and finishing their school year, looking for any excuse to meet up with friends in-person after a year of disconnection, in this way, what goes viral on TikTok and elsewhere often reflects other, offline needs and trends.

– Nick Brody

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Easy to make doubles out here, it was maybe a little anxious out there maybe, trying to get myself in a good spot. The finishing stretch is hard. I don’t care if it’s windy or not or downwind, it’s just going to be hard out there.

– Joel Dahmen

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It felt good when Kyrie passed me the ball. I guess I've got to get used to that. I’m used to him shooting, finishing is easy. My name was called tonight and I was ready to go.

– Nicolas Claxton

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Our team is really good at getting to the paint and finishing.

– Brandon Clarke

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

If we increase the number of female board members, we have to make sure their speaking time is restricted somewhat, they have difficulty finishing, which is annoying, we have about seven women at the organising committee but everyone understands their place.

– Asahi Shimbun.Yoshiro Mori

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

You don’t start what you can’t finish, and finishing the job involves two doses.

– Scott Morrison

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

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