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We are so excited to welcome Lisa to the Bucks family and to bring such a talented play-by-play announcer to our broadcast team, lisa's extensive television broadcasting background, including her play-by-play work for high-level NCAA basketball on several national networks, makes her the perfect choice to take on this major role. While we appreciate the significance of selecting Lisa, and we celebrate this historic moment, Lisa earned this position based on her extraordinary skills and experience. We look forward to Lisa becoming the voice of Milwaukee Bucks.

Peter Feigin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Erik Robinson was very energetic, very active, very smart, very perceptive, erik Robinson earned Erik Robinson privileges … Erik Robinson had responsibilities and understood them.

Judy Rogg

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Erik Robinson earned Erik Robinson privileges … Erik Robinson had responsibilities and understood them.

Judy Rogg

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Those are the one's you don't lose sleep over, honestly, that's not a home-run pitch. He's not suppose to hit that ball out. That was me verus him and he won. Not too many guys can get to that. It's not like I hung a breaking ball or threw right it now the middle, he earned it. Vázquez tied it at 2 on his seventh-inning homer off Collin McHugh, who has allowed just two earned runs in his last 38 2/3 innings, Alex Verdugos tripled when the ball got past a diving Manuel Margot in center in the second and scored on Vázquez’s single. Vázquez made a nice scoop on Devers' thrown and tagged out Joey Wendle as he tried to score on Randy Arozarena's seventh-inning grounder. Cash called it a.

Chris Sale

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We believe user trust in App Store purchases will decrease as a result of this proposal - leading to fewer opportunities for the over 482,000 registered developers in Korea who have earned more than KRW8.55 trillion to date with Apple.

Apple Inc

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

He spoke truth to power. … We will miss him, there’s very few people who hold his level of integrity. he earned the trust and respect of those he was covering but never lost his ear for false notes, as shown by his contributions to Knight Ridder’s skeptical reporting on the run up to the Iraq war.

Clark Hoyt

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

He earned the trust and respect of those he was covering but never lost his ear for false notes, as shown by his contributions to Knight Ridder’s skeptical reporting on the run up to the Iraq war.

Clark Hoyt

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

China has earned much of its leverage in the region, especially on the African side of the Red Sea/Gulf of Aden, by becoming the leading financier and builder of infrastructure projects such as dams, roads, railways, and IT networks.

Middle East

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Our sincerest condolences are with the family of the officer who was killed, we can confirm Austin W. Lanz enlisted in Marine Corps on October 9, 2012 but was administratively separated on November 2, 2012 and never earned the title Marine.

Marine Corps spokesperson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

While facing anti-police sentiment under intense scrutiny, our officers time and time again conduct themselves with the utmost professionalism, which has earned them the respect of every community in Nassau County.

Nassau County

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Go and have yourself a well-earned rest, Mr. President, go and lie in the shadow of a tall tree.

Constant Viljoen

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Jill Ellis played extremely well in the league in the last year and a half or so, and earned Jill Ellis an opportunity, then after the opportunity was given to Jill Ellis, Jill Ellis took full advantage of it. Every game that Jill Ellis came in, whether it was five minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, Jill Ellis maximized that opportunity and continue growing and developing in the league and performing in the league. So overall, we’re excited to have Jill Ellis on the team.

Vlatko Andonovski

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

When using a credit card, you may be trying to track how much you spent in your head, which often results in the bill being higher than you expected. This doesn't happen when using cash or debit cards because you're parting ways with your hard-earned dollars.

Vadim Verdyan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I’d like to see him kind of move around a little bit, he came into camp, made the team, earned it. Obviously didn’t perform as well as he’d like, went back down. ... He’s earned the right to be back here with this opportunity.

Chris Woodward

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

If those people who are saying, ‘get rid of the police,’ would say, ‘you know what, we’re going to come in and we’re going to become a part of this community. We’re going to give our hard-earned income to shop in this community. We’re going to mentor kids in this community,’ now you’re talking, but you can’t just say, let’s get rid of the police and then live these other social deficiencies or problems in place.

Don Samuels

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I have heard from members, concerned about her ability to carry out the job as conference chair, to carry out the message, we all need to be working as one, if we're able to win the majority. Remember, majorities are not given, they are earned, and that's about the message about going forward.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This is why, for example, why many people are more supportive of the earned income tax credit despite the issues that exist there, because it ends up not being sort of tied in quite the same way to individual buckets of spending.

Jonathan Bydlak

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid currently holds a valid racing license in the state of Kentucky. There have been no horse racing violations and nor are we aware of any other U.S. regulatory or governmental investigations, we are focused on the three-year-old thoroughbreds who have earned their way into this year’s Kentucky Derby and our responsibility is to the integrity of the race and the safety of those horses.

Churchill Downs

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Whether they thought it was good or not, I earned my chance to have a second shot, and they put some other pretty crappy shows on [instead].

Doug Ellin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Taxpayers in Iowa, and across the nation, have a right to know exactly how their hard-earned dollars are being spent, and that's exactly why I've asked the HHS Inspector General to investigate these transparency violations, by Stanford and many others, and why I've put forward the COST Act to guarantee that hardworking Americans have easy access to see how the federal government is spending their money.

Joni Ernst

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I went to Morehouse College on a' full faith' scholarship. I didn't know how I would pay for Morehouse College but I graduated college, earned a Ph.D. degree.

Raphael Warnock

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If you are respected, it is because you earned it.

Clifford Villalon

added by Brewster1999
3 years ago

Unfortunately, the leadership of the school district and the educators' union can't seem to get their act together. The Board of Education and the school district have had more than 10 months to roll out a concrete plan to get these kids back in school. So far they have earned an F.

Dennis Herrera

Found on CNN
4 years ago

He has earned the right to be able to enjoy the rest of life without constantly being torpedoed by his previous employer.

Blatter Andenmatten

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

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