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It was a very different world, and there is room for us to do an awful lot with a new executive order. That is an effort that is underway, our goal remains that we are at, we're focused on promoting accountability for those individuals and entities who are responsible for, or are complicit in the regime's of violent repression of civil society and for those human rights abuses. So we will continue to bring new authorities and new tools of pressure to bear. – Julie Fisher	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It was a great time, a great time, people ask me,' Wasn't the media awful to you ?' No, I'm friends with a lot of them. I respect the media. They have a job to do. I'll tell you what, I was with( five) different franchises( including Baltimore, where he served as an assistant post-Giants), but the Giants is how I learned to coach in the NFL, mainly from( the late general manager and Pro Football Hall of Famer) George Young. They run it right. They put the marbles in a row to win. – Jim Fassel	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I just didn't get the regular John Hughes senior high school stuff, it's been awful... with everything else going on in the world it's compounded our trauma. – Lauren Hogg	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I went downstairs to look at the TV and you see what happened to Jon and it's awful, he deserved to go out and play really well, and he was 18 under. The rules are rules and you have to follow guidelines. – Collin Morikawa	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I think people have an awful fear, but a kind of a fascination, how could this happen ? Who could do this kind of thing ? It was just awful, there were lots of missing girls and gradually, one by one, people's remains were coming out -- it was just unbelievable, really. – Carter Woodrow	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's a pretty awful year, last year wasn't so bad as far as the snowpack went, but with the higher temperatures and drier soils that we're still experiencing this year, we're seeing even less runoff that actually makes it into the waterways and in the reservoirs. – Ted Cooke	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Society is asking farmers to do an awful lot, i don't think we look at our plate three times a day and think of all the challenges farmers have faced to put that food on the table. – David Rose	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is something that is happening to Asian people in our community specifically, this is a pattern, it's hard to imagine anything more disgusting and awful. These folks were waiting for the bus, they were targeted. – Matt Haney	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I looked at Alexey Navalny. I'm just an awful skeleton. Last time I weighed 72kg I was probably in the 7th grade. – Alexey Navalny	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Major League Baseball, unfortunately, has set an awful precedent by moving the All Stargame out of the state of Georgia -- out of Atlanta -- and costing the state hundreds of millions of dollarsand more importantlyimpacting small businesses and minority small businesses. – Buddy Carter	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There was this whole awful storm, then this rainbow. – Sydney Boggs	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I thought that I might get a good reaction locally for my post, since New Orleanians are used to the awful road conditions here. I didn’t think it would spread across the country and even world! i guess construction delays are universal. I’m glad that I could make some people laugh after all of the frustrations of the last year. – Natalie Harvey	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
These are the people who in the past year, in the past 10 months, have given their all. And then you give them the opportunity to stay behind, and they kind of thrive, and it's giving something back, some control or agency, over this awful thing we've been through. – Ben Moor	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Many of these families because of Covid don't have money for a proper funeral and a proper burial. And that is just awful and inhumane. – Chuck Schumer	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I can not think of anything that's more awful, unspeakable and wrong for a government to do than to use its power to execute somebody who didn't commit the crime they're accused of, the problem with capital punishment is that once it's inflicted you can't take it back -- can't be corrected. – Scott Surovell	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The Lincoln Project's terrible and awful and appalling and unfathomable, I, I didn't know John very well. I frankly only spoke to him a couple of times on the phone early on in The Lincoln Project. It's almost, I don't even know what to say. It's just terrible, it leaves me speechless, frankly. – George Conway	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It's terrible. It's awful, it puts you in a tough position because you are younger, yes, but you work with someone who needs to be protected. – Stephaney Hyman-McDonald	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The Lincoln Project's terrible and awful and appalling and unfathomable, I, I didn't know John Kasich very well. I frankly only spoke to John Kasich a couple of times on the phone early on in The Lincoln Project. It's almost, I don't even know what to say. It's just terrible, it leaves me speechless, frankly. – George Conway	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
As somebody who's recently retired, I've spent an awful lot of time at home, so the opportunity to first of all get out and have some human contact was attractive, as well as finally feeling like I could do something, this virus has been rampaging all over the world and hitting close to home as well as far away, and the opportunity to step in and actually make a difference was very appealing. – Robert Riley	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Crushing news, sekou has been part of the NBA family for a long time...Just another awful day and we're all so saddened. – Steve Kerr	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The memory of pain falls drop by drop upon our heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. – Aeschylus	added by Greying_Geezer 3 years ago
Some of the penalties are just awful decisions. You know, different situations that are completely preventable, is it because we haven’t played for a while? Possibly but I think that would be using it as an excuse. I didn’t think we were ready to play tonight. That’s not a good sign for us at all, especially early in the season. – Eriksson Ek	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Cuomo does get kid-glove treatment from some in the media (especially when he does quick-hit appearances on national TV) but not from the Capitol press corps reporters who cover him on a daily basis. He and his P.R. staff are generally awful to deal with, so there is little love lost. If they dont ask about the nursing home issue more often, its probably because they know they wont get straight answers and they have dozens of other issues to cover. They might be pushing behind the scenes, and many reporters have filed FOIL requests similar to mine. – Bill Hammond	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
What I saw were several houses that had collapsed, and some cars down there, it was absolutely awful to watch. Everything was on top of each other, it was difficult to see what was what. Everything had just collapsed into a huge mass. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Ask, which has a population of about 5,000, is 12 miles southeast of Norways capital, Oslo. – Jenny Mikkelsen	Found on FOX News 3 years ago

It was a very different world, and there is room for us to do an awful lot with a new executive order. That is an effort that is underway, our goal remains that we are at, we're focused on promoting accountability for those individuals and entities who are responsible for, or are complicit in the regime's of violent repression of civil society and for those human rights abuses. So we will continue to bring new authorities and new tools of pressure to bear.

– Julie Fisher

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It was a great time, a great time, people ask me,' Wasn't the media awful to you ?' No, I'm friends with a lot of them. I respect the media. They have a job to do. I'll tell you what, I was with( five) different franchises( including Baltimore, where he served as an assistant post-Giants), but the Giants is how I learned to coach in the NFL, mainly from( the late general manager and Pro Football Hall of Famer) George Young. They run it right. They put the marbles in a row to win.

– Jim Fassel

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I just didn't get the regular John Hughes senior high school stuff, it's been awful... with everything else going on in the world it's compounded our trauma.

– Lauren Hogg

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I went downstairs to look at the TV and you see what happened to Jon and it's awful, he deserved to go out and play really well, and he was 18 under. The rules are rules and you have to follow guidelines.

– Collin Morikawa

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I think people have an awful fear, but a kind of a fascination, how could this happen ? Who could do this kind of thing ? It was just awful, there were lots of missing girls and gradually, one by one, people's remains were coming out -- it was just unbelievable, really.

– Carter Woodrow

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's a pretty awful year, last year wasn't so bad as far as the snowpack went, but with the higher temperatures and drier soils that we're still experiencing this year, we're seeing even less runoff that actually makes it into the waterways and in the reservoirs.

– Ted Cooke

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Society is asking farmers to do an awful lot, i don't think we look at our plate three times a day and think of all the challenges farmers have faced to put that food on the table.

– David Rose

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This is something that is happening to Asian people in our community specifically, this is a pattern, it's hard to imagine anything more disgusting and awful. These folks were waiting for the bus, they were targeted.

– Matt Haney

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I looked at Alexey Navalny. I'm just an awful skeleton. Last time I weighed 72kg I was probably in the 7th grade.

– Alexey Navalny

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Major League Baseball, unfortunately, has set an awful precedent by moving the All Stargame out of the state of Georgia -- out of Atlanta -- and costing the state hundreds of millions of dollarsand more importantlyimpacting small businesses and minority small businesses.

– Buddy Carter

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

There was this whole awful storm, then this rainbow.

– Sydney Boggs

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I thought that I might get a good reaction locally for my post, since New Orleanians are used to the awful road conditions here. I didn’t think it would spread across the country and even world! i guess construction delays are universal. I’m glad that I could make some people laugh after all of the frustrations of the last year.

– Natalie Harvey

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

These are the people who in the past year, in the past 10 months, have given their all. And then you give them the opportunity to stay behind, and they kind of thrive, and it's giving something back, some control or agency, over this awful thing we've been through.

– Ben Moor

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Many of these families because of Covid don't have money for a proper funeral and a proper burial. And that is just awful and inhumane.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I can not think of anything that's more awful, unspeakable and wrong for a government to do than to use its power to execute somebody who didn't commit the crime they're accused of, the problem with capital punishment is that once it's inflicted you can't take it back -- can't be corrected.

– Scott Surovell

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The Lincoln Project's terrible and awful and appalling and unfathomable, I, I didn't know John very well. I frankly only spoke to him a couple of times on the phone early on in The Lincoln Project. It's almost, I don't even know what to say. It's just terrible, it leaves me speechless, frankly.

– George Conway

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It's terrible. It's awful, it puts you in a tough position because you are younger, yes, but you work with someone who needs to be protected.

– Stephaney Hyman-McDonald

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The Lincoln Project's terrible and awful and appalling and unfathomable, I, I didn't know John Kasich very well. I frankly only spoke to John Kasich a couple of times on the phone early on in The Lincoln Project. It's almost, I don't even know what to say. It's just terrible, it leaves me speechless, frankly.

– George Conway

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

As somebody who's recently retired, I've spent an awful lot of time at home, so the opportunity to first of all get out and have some human contact was attractive, as well as finally feeling like I could do something, this virus has been rampaging all over the world and hitting close to home as well as far away, and the opportunity to step in and actually make a difference was very appealing.

– Robert Riley

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Crushing news, sekou has been part of the NBA family for a long time...Just another awful day and we're all so saddened.

– Steve Kerr

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The memory of pain falls drop by drop upon our heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

– Aeschylus

added by Greying_Geezer
3 years ago

Some of the penalties are just awful decisions. You know, different situations that are completely preventable, is it because we haven’t played for a while? Possibly but I think that would be using it as an excuse. I didn’t think we were ready to play tonight. That’s not a good sign for us at all, especially early in the season.

– Eriksson Ek

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Cuomo does get kid-glove treatment from some in the media (especially when he does quick-hit appearances on national TV) but not from the Capitol press corps reporters who cover him on a daily basis. He and his P.R. staff are generally awful to deal with, so there is little love lost. If they dont ask about the nursing home issue more often, its probably because they know they wont get straight answers and they have dozens of other issues to cover. They might be pushing behind the scenes, and many reporters have filed FOIL requests similar to mine.

– Bill Hammond

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

What I saw were several houses that had collapsed, and some cars down there, it was absolutely awful to watch. Everything was on top of each other, it was difficult to see what was what. Everything had just collapsed into a huge mass. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Ask, which has a population of about 5,000, is 12 miles southeast of Norways capital, Oslo.

– Jenny Mikkelsen

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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