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Wars are the outcomes of battles and wars are the function of many, many variables, and in this case, you would have to make sure that your tanks are used in combined arms with mechanized infantry, artillery, all of that is synchronized with dismounted forces, etc. So there is no silver bullet in this case, but I do think the M1 tank when it’s delivered and it reaches its operational capability that it will be very effective on the battlefield. – Mark Milley	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Donbass Devushka Telegram, Twitter, YouTube, and Spotify accounts more-or-less function as disinformation aggregators and amplifiers, donbass Devushka’s success has even been noticed by Russian diplomats and overt propagandists, who have retweeted the account dozens of times this year. – Joe Bodnar	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In many parts of the country, they don’t have enough citizens to make those municipalities function. – Arina Yatsiuk	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What this research means is that having children in different or new ways does n’t actually interfere with how families function. Really wanting children seems to trump everything — that’s what really matters. – Susan Golombok	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For me, hiking Sahara Convertible Pants primarily function to protect my legs, whether from an overgrown trail, poison oak, ticks or coarse boulders I may have to climb over. – Cris Hazzard	Found on CNN 1 year ago
But this legislation does not address the fundamental production and supply shortage in California markets, the high energy prices this bill purports to address are a function of an under-supplied, isolated market for specialized gasoline blends. The state’s own regulators have found time and again that California’s high gas prices are caused by regulation, policy and geography. – Ross Allen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire. – Oliver Sacks	added by JokerGem 1 year ago
Entomology can function as a leading indicator for ecology, the fact that this insect was spotted in a region that it hasn’t been seen in over half a century tells us something more broadly about the environment. – Michael Skvarla	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There are many potential mechanisms including the improvement and maintenance of body composition, insulin resistance and physical function because of a wide variety of favorable influences of aerobic activity. – Haruki Momma	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What we are seeing here is definitely telling us something is wrong in those buildings, and it can be that they were n’t designed in line with the code in the first place, or the implementation was n’t designed properly, we are also seeing in Turkey quite commonly that post-occupancy modifications on buildings compromise their structural safety. ! function() {. – Didem Aktas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You need to think about what needs to live in the mudroom — for each person in your household, what do they actually need to get in and out of the door in the morning, or at the end of the day, that’s going to make the space function for you all? and then you can work backwards and figure out, ‘Okay, how do I want to contain this in the smartest way?’. – Joanna Teplin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Those are some of the most challenging patients, i don’t know if running on an osteoarthritic knee will lead to an earlier knee replacement, but their pain will keep getting worse, and it will limit their function so they can’t walk as well the next day. – Elexander Atkinson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s a seismogenic area. It’s a very large fault zone, but this is a larger earthquake than they’ve experienced any time in recent memory, the magnitude of shaking that is felt on the surface is both a function of the amount of energy released, the size of the earthquake, but also how far that energy is released below the surface. So if it is very close to the surface, if it is a shallow earthquake, then it can be very dangerous. – Karl Lang	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There are people outside of the labor market who aren’t working, and they just simply don’t know how needed they are right now, and I think that’s a function of being a little removed. The world has changed pretty dramatically over the last two to three years, and it’s going to be difficult to show people that the skills they possess are needed right now. – John Leer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Boundaries allow you to protect yourself, boundaries are like a set of rules that you have in order to function, and to have healthier experiences with people, places and things. – Paul Bashea Williams	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Play The Fool I've always played the fool but I don't mind if I'm a fool for you, I'll run and run although there is no end, for you are my world and a marathon does not nearly extend. I could stare at those glowing orbs for hours, for they shine like planets in the telescopes that are my eyes. Love, you are lovely and lethargic to my mind, It's as if I need you to function. But I know that I am just growing lonely, may the day of your return excite my soul. And warm my heart of the ice it has accumulated, for my days have become quite dull. – Anonymous	added by samanthal.26354 1 year ago
It’s not junk, it’s not damage that causes us to get old, we believe it’s a loss of information — a loss in the cell’s ability to read its original DNA so it forgets how to function — in much the same way an old computer may develop corrupted software. I call it the information theory of aging. – David Sinclair	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It’s embarrassing for the country, i’m not making a partisan (point), that’s the reality – that to be able to have a Congress that can’t function is just embarrassing. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
While it's more centrist than the nation at large, increasingly there is a working-class Black vote, a Black male vote (reflecting a growing gender-gap) and a Black evangelical vote.These subsets are increasingly acting and voting the way that their white counterparts do, when combined with the centrism of Blacks, the monolith of 90% of Blacks voting the same way that we saw in 2008 is over. In fact, every year since then the vote has split more and more. This change is largely a function of the disdain that Blacks have for the progressive agenda. – Horace Cooper	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This research is not gain-of-function research, meaning it did not amplifythe Washington state SARS-COV-2 virus strainor make it more dangerous. In fact, this research made the virus replicate less dangerous. – Boston University	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If the court doesn’t retain its legitimate function, I’m not sure who would take up that mantle. You don’t want the political branches telling you what the law is, and you don’t want public opinion to be the guide of what the appropriate decision is, simply because people disagree with an opinion is not a basis for questioning the legitimacy of the court. – John Roberts	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
So the Governor of California sent a letter to the Department of Justice saying, ‘You need to prosecute Texas and Florida Governors.’ And all I can say is, I think his hair gel is interfering with his brain function. – Ron DeSantis	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If Joshua Tal're practicing some of these activities, what we do see is( an) increase in the amplitude of theta and delta( brain) waves, which indicate one is in the parasympathetic state, slow breathing like the 4-7-8 technique reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes and improves pulmonary function. – Rebecca Robbins	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If Supreme Court doesn't retain Supreme Court legitimate function of interpreting the Constitution, i'm not sure who would take up that mantle. You don't want the political branches telling you what the law is, and you don't want public opinion to be the guide of what the appropriate decision is. – John Roberts	Found on CNN 2 years ago

Wars are the outcomes of battles and wars are the function of many, many variables, and in this case, you would have to make sure that your tanks are used in combined arms with mechanized infantry, artillery, all of that is synchronized with dismounted forces, etc. So there is no silver bullet in this case, but I do think the M1 tank when it’s delivered and it reaches its operational capability that it will be very effective on the battlefield.

– Mark Milley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Donbass Devushka Telegram, Twitter, YouTube, and Spotify accounts more-or-less function as disinformation aggregators and amplifiers, donbass Devushka’s success has even been noticed by Russian diplomats and overt propagandists, who have retweeted the account dozens of times this year.

– Joe Bodnar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In many parts of the country, they don’t have enough citizens to make those municipalities function.

– Arina Yatsiuk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What this research means is that having children in different or new ways does n’t actually interfere with how families function. Really wanting children seems to trump everything — that’s what really matters.

– Susan Golombok

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For me, hiking Sahara Convertible Pants primarily function to protect my legs, whether from an overgrown trail, poison oak, ticks or coarse boulders I may have to climb over.

– Cris Hazzard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But this legislation does not address the fundamental production and supply shortage in California markets, the high energy prices this bill purports to address are a function of an under-supplied, isolated market for specialized gasoline blends. The state’s own regulators have found time and again that California’s high gas prices are caused by regulation, policy and geography.

– Ross Allen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire.

– Oliver Sacks

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

Entomology can function as a leading indicator for ecology, the fact that this insect was spotted in a region that it hasn’t been seen in over half a century tells us something more broadly about the environment.

– Michael Skvarla

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are many potential mechanisms including the improvement and maintenance of body composition, insulin resistance and physical function because of a wide variety of favorable influences of aerobic activity.

– Haruki Momma

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What we are seeing here is definitely telling us something is wrong in those buildings, and it can be that they were n’t designed in line with the code in the first place, or the implementation was n’t designed properly, we are also seeing in Turkey quite commonly that post-occupancy modifications on buildings compromise their structural safety. ! function() {.

– Didem Aktas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You need to think about what needs to live in the mudroom — for each person in your household, what do they actually need to get in and out of the door in the morning, or at the end of the day, that’s going to make the space function for you all? and then you can work backwards and figure out, ‘Okay, how do I want to contain this in the smartest way?’.

– Joanna Teplin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Those are some of the most challenging patients, i don’t know if running on an osteoarthritic knee will lead to an earlier knee replacement, but their pain will keep getting worse, and it will limit their function so they can’t walk as well the next day.

– Elexander Atkinson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s a seismogenic area. It’s a very large fault zone, but this is a larger earthquake than they’ve experienced any time in recent memory, the magnitude of shaking that is felt on the surface is both a function of the amount of energy released, the size of the earthquake, but also how far that energy is released below the surface. So if it is very close to the surface, if it is a shallow earthquake, then it can be very dangerous.

– Karl Lang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are people outside of the labor market who aren’t working, and they just simply don’t know how needed they are right now, and I think that’s a function of being a little removed. The world has changed pretty dramatically over the last two to three years, and it’s going to be difficult to show people that the skills they possess are needed right now.

– John Leer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Boundaries allow you to protect yourself, boundaries are like a set of rules that you have in order to function, and to have healthier experiences with people, places and things.

– Paul Bashea Williams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Play The Fool I've always played the fool but I don't mind if I'm a fool for you, I'll run and run although there is no end, for you are my world and a marathon does not nearly extend. I could stare at those glowing orbs for hours, for they shine like planets in the telescopes that are my eyes. Love, you are lovely and lethargic to my mind, It's as if I need you to function. But I know that I am just growing lonely, may the day of your return excite my soul. And warm my heart of the ice it has accumulated, for my days have become quite dull.

– Anonymous

added by samanthal.26354
1 year ago

It’s not junk, it’s not damage that causes us to get old, we believe it’s a loss of information — a loss in the cell’s ability to read its original DNA so it forgets how to function — in much the same way an old computer may develop corrupted software. I call it the information theory of aging.

– David Sinclair

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s embarrassing for the country, i’m not making a partisan (point), that’s the reality – that to be able to have a Congress that can’t function is just embarrassing.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

While it's more centrist than the nation at large, increasingly there is a working-class Black vote, a Black male vote (reflecting a growing gender-gap) and a Black evangelical vote.These subsets are increasingly acting and voting the way that their white counterparts do, when combined with the centrism of Blacks, the monolith of 90% of Blacks voting the same way that we saw in 2008 is over. In fact, every year since then the vote has split more and more. This change is largely a function of the disdain that Blacks have for the progressive agenda.

– Horace Cooper

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This research is not gain-of-function research, meaning it did not amplifythe Washington state SARS-COV-2 virus strainor make it more dangerous. In fact, this research made the virus replicate less dangerous.

– Boston University

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If the court doesn’t retain its legitimate function, I’m not sure who would take up that mantle. You don’t want the political branches telling you what the law is, and you don’t want public opinion to be the guide of what the appropriate decision is, simply because people disagree with an opinion is not a basis for questioning the legitimacy of the court.

– John Roberts

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

So the Governor of California sent a letter to the Department of Justice saying, ‘You need to prosecute Texas and Florida Governors.’ And all I can say is, I think his hair gel is interfering with his brain function.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If Joshua Tal're practicing some of these activities, what we do see is( an) increase in the amplitude of theta and delta( brain) waves, which indicate one is in the parasympathetic state, slow breathing like the 4-7-8 technique reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes and improves pulmonary function.

– Rebecca Robbins

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If Supreme Court doesn't retain Supreme Court legitimate function of interpreting the Constitution, i'm not sure who would take up that mantle. You don't want the political branches telling you what the law is, and you don't want public opinion to be the guide of what the appropriate decision is.

– John Roberts

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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