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The simple fact is that if your community is not visible in the statistics, you are functionally invisible when it comes to political representation. – Thomas Wolf	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
Is there a mechanism bailing Egypt out without Gulf money? Not a realistic one, they (Egypt) are really stuck, and functionally, this regime under Sisi could be responsible for severely weakening Egypt in a geopolitical sense because of its financial weakness. – Timothy Kaldas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The pandemic really made it clear that people who are renting their housing are insecure by definition. Their housing could be taken away from them in some cities for no cause and a massive rent increase is functionally an eviction, there’s just more and more stories. – Ryan Bell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I don't mean to nitpick, but I wouldn't categorize John Fetterman as progressive, i consider John Fetterman a Democrat that's running on the same platform of ideas that every other Democrat in this race is running on. And I can't think of a Democrat running nationally that's running on anything functionally different in that regard. – John Fetterman	Found on CNN 2 years ago
My heart's been shaking for days, my phone has been going off with all kinds of friends who are going through something similar, my friend who was the transport coordinator had to stay until 11 o'clock at night arranging shuttle rides home because nobody could functionally drive. – Rebecca Stair	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Amazingly the NSA has issued a statement that is so couched it is functionally an admission. And it's not like the NSA has never lied to us. We were told that there was no collection of American data: Turns out, there were collection of America data. – Matt Gaetz	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Make no mistake, Australia is still functionally in a recession, both fiscal and monetary support measures will need to remain in place throughout 2021 and beyond to ensure that the recovery remains on track. – Callam Pickering	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
With any attempted restructuring, the issue is one of credibility, cFIUS would assess whether it actually believed that the operations were functionally independent and insulated from potentially hostile influence. – Paul Marquardt	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We've got a lot of need throughout the county, a lot of functionally obsolete bridges. – William Berndt	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Systematically discriminating against religious institutions and preventing student access and choice to Christian higher education is bad policy and will have a negative effect on the state of California. biola University functionally eliminates the religious liberty of all California faith-based universities. – Lee Wilhite	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Biola University functionally eliminates the religious liberty of all California faith-based universities, biola University really does infringe on how we carry out our mission. – Lee Wilhite	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The absence of voting for the Republican nominee is functionally a vote for Hillary, it's a crossroads for the Republican Party and it's a crossroads for America. – Newt Gingrich	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Most of the planetary surface would be functionally uninhabitable, agriculture would cease to exist everywhere, apart for the polar and sub-polar regions, and perhaps the mid-latitudes for extremely heat-tolerant crops. It's difficult to see how crops could be grown elsewhere. There's a certain level above which plants just can't survive. – Mark Lynas	Found on CNN 9 years ago
When we performed endoscopy of [Kaiba’s] airway, we see normal physiologic motion of the bronchus and that means that the splint is longer holding the bronchus open in a stiff-type manner, that it’s functionally degraded at this point. – Glenn Green	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
[It's] a 45-year-old reference in a primate and there is no evidence that the spinal cord was anastomosed functionally. – Hunt Batjer	Found on CNN 9 years ago
From the outside, the lifting of martial law is good news for business and tourism, but from the inside, we're functionally in the same boat. – Thitinan Pongsudhirak	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
But from the inside, we're functionally in the same boat, similar restrictions are still in place. And where there are pockets of dissent and political expression it is likely to be more draconian. – Thitinan Pongsudhirak	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

The simple fact is that if your community is not visible in the statistics, you are functionally invisible when it comes to political representation.

– Thomas Wolf

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

Is there a mechanism bailing Egypt out without Gulf money? Not a realistic one, they (Egypt) are really stuck, and functionally, this regime under Sisi could be responsible for severely weakening Egypt in a geopolitical sense because of its financial weakness.

– Timothy Kaldas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The pandemic really made it clear that people who are renting their housing are insecure by definition. Their housing could be taken away from them in some cities for no cause and a massive rent increase is functionally an eviction, there’s just more and more stories.

– Ryan Bell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don't mean to nitpick, but I wouldn't categorize John Fetterman as progressive, i consider John Fetterman a Democrat that's running on the same platform of ideas that every other Democrat in this race is running on. And I can't think of a Democrat running nationally that's running on anything functionally different in that regard.

– John Fetterman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My heart's been shaking for days, my phone has been going off with all kinds of friends who are going through something similar, my friend who was the transport coordinator had to stay until 11 o'clock at night arranging shuttle rides home because nobody could functionally drive.

– Rebecca Stair

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Amazingly the NSA has issued a statement that is so couched it is functionally an admission. And it's not like the NSA has never lied to us. We were told that there was no collection of American data: Turns out, there were collection of America data.

– Matt Gaetz

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Make no mistake, Australia is still functionally in a recession, both fiscal and monetary support measures will need to remain in place throughout 2021 and beyond to ensure that the recovery remains on track.

– Callam Pickering

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

With any attempted restructuring, the issue is one of credibility, cFIUS would assess whether it actually believed that the operations were functionally independent and insulated from potentially hostile influence.

– Paul Marquardt

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We've got a lot of need throughout the county, a lot of functionally obsolete bridges.

– William Berndt

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Systematically discriminating against religious institutions and preventing student access and choice to Christian higher education is bad policy and will have a negative effect on the state of California. biola University functionally eliminates the religious liberty of all California faith-based universities.

– Lee Wilhite

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Biola University functionally eliminates the religious liberty of all California faith-based universities, biola University really does infringe on how we carry out our mission.

– Lee Wilhite

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The absence of voting for the Republican nominee is functionally a vote for Hillary, it's a crossroads for the Republican Party and it's a crossroads for America.

– Newt Gingrich

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Most of the planetary surface would be functionally uninhabitable, agriculture would cease to exist everywhere, apart for the polar and sub-polar regions, and perhaps the mid-latitudes for extremely heat-tolerant crops. It's difficult to see how crops could be grown elsewhere. There's a certain level above which plants just can't survive.

– Mark Lynas

Found on CNN
9 years ago

When we performed endoscopy of [Kaiba’s] airway, we see normal physiologic motion of the bronchus and that means that the splint is longer holding the bronchus open in a stiff-type manner, that it’s functionally degraded at this point.

– Glenn Green

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

[It's] a 45-year-old reference in a primate and there is no evidence that the spinal cord was anastomosed functionally.

– Hunt Batjer

Found on CNN
9 years ago

From the outside, the lifting of martial law is good news for business and tourism, but from the inside, we're functionally in the same boat.

– Thitinan Pongsudhirak

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

But from the inside, we're functionally in the same boat, similar restrictions are still in place. And where there are pockets of dissent and political expression it is likely to be more draconian.

– Thitinan Pongsudhirak

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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