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These are healthy children. With no prior significant medical history that would make them more prone…there wasn’t any known immunosuppression or anything like that. – Taryn Bragg	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If you have oily or acne-prone skin, look for a primer that minimizes shine, blurs the pores and prevents breakouts, salicylic acid is a go-to ingredient because it keeps the pores clear and removes excess oil from the skin. – Joshua Zeichner	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This acidity weakens enamel making it a lot more prone to staining, tooth decay and breakage. – Rhonda Kalasho	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The commonality that we're seeing across most fire-prone regions on Earth is an increase in the number of extreme fire weather days, and also an increase in the magnitude of the very worst severe fire weather days, and that is linked to human-caused climate change. – Daniel Swain	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Like many vegetable oils, soybean oil is highly refined. This means it goes through an extensive process involving numerous chemicals to extract it from corn and make it into oil, this production process makes soybean oil more prone to becoming oxidized — and when we have a lot of oxidized compounds in our body, we put ourselves at risk for multiple diseases. – Jay Cowin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Black men are always perceived as being taller, more aggressive, or violent, more prone to conflict, more athletic than they actually are, and it's those social perceptions that have been linked to forms of dehumanization -- likening them to apes, sorts of primal beasts and animals -- that fit into how we think of Black men, both as athletes and as kind of super predators, as superhuman. – Tommy Curry	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's defeating to put another person on the ventilator, it's defeating to put another person in prone positioning or paralyzing them or watching them get more test tubes. It's defeating to watch health care providers that I care about or Joelle Craft stand at the bedside when someone dies alone. It's also defeating to watch somebody else get put in a body bag. – Joelle Craft	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I wish we weren't going down this road right now, we're now prone to too many generalizations here that paint people here with a broad brush that is inaccurate. And I think if we want to get back to a time where we can actually find common ground, we all got to kind of cool it a little bit. – Jim McGovern	Found on CNN 3 years ago
All of the dresses have certain verifiable characteristics, including, for example, a' secret pocket' on the right side of the pinafore skirt for Dorothy's handkerchief,' Judy Garland' written by hand in a script specific to a single person who labeled all of the extant dresses in the same hand. Apparently, the thin material of the blouse was prone to tearing when Judy Garland as Dorothy took it off after filming, and a seamstress often repaired it before Judy Garland as Dorothy donned it for the next shoot. – Catholic University of America	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It became clear that there were two main factors, first that overall climates were becoming cooler, and this made life harder for the dinosaurs which likely relied on warm temperatures, then, the loss of herbivores made the ecosystems unstable and prone to [an] extinction cascade. We also found that the longer-lived dinosaur species were more liable to extinction, perhaps reflecting that they could not adapt to the new conditions on Earth. – Mike Benton	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The application of this doctrine to people in a prone position is an area where we could use more clarity from the court, but it's hard to get clear, bright-line rules in this area of the law. – Jay Schweikert	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Just like with Floyd, Chauvin used an unreasonable amount of force without regard for the need for that level of force or the victim's well-being, just like with Floyd, when the child was slow to comply with Chauvin and [the other officer's] instructions, Chauvin grabbed the child by the throat, forced him to the ground in the prone position, and placed his knee on the child's neck with so much force that the child began to cry out in pain and tell Chauvin he could not breathe. – Matthew Frank	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The speed at which [ these vaccines ] were developed is a concern for some people, and the fact that we don't have a history with this vaccine, people are going to be scared and uncertain about it, they might be more likely or prone to believing misinformation because of that. – Brooke McKeever	Found on CNN 4 years ago
While a medical solution is now in sight, the economic path ahead remains difficult and prone to setbacks. – Kristalina Georgieva	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
From a historical perspective, most animated sequels outside of top tier franchises have been prone to the law of diminishing returns. – Shawn Robbins	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The areas that are prone to forest fires are no longer only in the southern part of Europe, but also in central Europe and even in the northern part of Europe. – Janez Lenarcic	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We found two out of three patients can avoid a ventilator during the first 24 hours by putting them on oxygen and doing these positioning maneuvers, such as laying them prone on their stomach. – Richard Levitan	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We'll see if proning helps, and if so, how long should they be in the prone position. – David Vines	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think this is slightly different. There isn't anything, per se, to celebrate. People are locked up in their houses, you're probably going to get some incidents but with all the mental health resources in place, sports will generally know which athletes might be prone to' wigging out'. – Gearoid Towey	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
These individuals are more prone to act out of character, and as crimes move away from physical acts, it is the unknown cybercrime we should be watching out for, criminals are always looking for ways to exploit individuals and businesses, so it is expected to see new scamming initiatives or price-fixing on new products. This isnt the first major pandemic we have lived through, but the effect and scope of the spread are unprecedented. – Ken Mahoney	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Yes, children tend to be more prone to asthma, in the U.S, there are 25 million patients with asthma and of these 7 million are children (and remember, a lot of the adults in that group of 25 million patients are people who had it as a child). Asthma is one of the most common chronic disease processes in children. – Ujwala Kaza	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
But instead of being prone to being demoted, Google's comparison-shopping service is systematically promoted to the most visible spots in Google's search results. – Lawyer Thomas Vinje	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We are all prone to the formation of false memories, independent of cannabis use, the susceptibility for false memory, however, increases with cannabis. Under cannabis, users can easily accept fake truths for true memory. – Johannes Ramaekers	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai is right to back a temporary ban on face recognition -- and the United States should likewise halt law enforcement use of this technology without delay. As reports this weekend further confirmed, unethical surveillance companies will not wait for regulations before pushing their untested, error-prone and dystopian face tracking technologies on police departments across the country and the world. – Neema Guliani	Found on FOX News 5 years ago

These are healthy children. With no prior significant medical history that would make them more prone…there wasn’t any known immunosuppression or anything like that.

– Taryn Bragg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you have oily or acne-prone skin, look for a primer that minimizes shine, blurs the pores and prevents breakouts, salicylic acid is a go-to ingredient because it keeps the pores clear and removes excess oil from the skin.

– Joshua Zeichner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This acidity weakens enamel making it a lot more prone to staining, tooth decay and breakage.

– Rhonda Kalasho

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The commonality that we're seeing across most fire-prone regions on Earth is an increase in the number of extreme fire weather days, and also an increase in the magnitude of the very worst severe fire weather days, and that is linked to human-caused climate change.

– Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Like many vegetable oils, soybean oil is highly refined. This means it goes through an extensive process involving numerous chemicals to extract it from corn and make it into oil, this production process makes soybean oil more prone to becoming oxidized — and when we have a lot of oxidized compounds in our body, we put ourselves at risk for multiple diseases.

– Jay Cowin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Black men are always perceived as being taller, more aggressive, or violent, more prone to conflict, more athletic than they actually are, and it's those social perceptions that have been linked to forms of dehumanization -- likening them to apes, sorts of primal beasts and animals -- that fit into how we think of Black men, both as athletes and as kind of super predators, as superhuman.

– Tommy Curry

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's defeating to put another person on the ventilator, it's defeating to put another person in prone positioning or paralyzing them or watching them get more test tubes. It's defeating to watch health care providers that I care about or Joelle Craft stand at the bedside when someone dies alone. It's also defeating to watch somebody else get put in a body bag.

– Joelle Craft

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I wish we weren't going down this road right now, we're now prone to too many generalizations here that paint people here with a broad brush that is inaccurate. And I think if we want to get back to a time where we can actually find common ground, we all got to kind of cool it a little bit.

– Jim McGovern

Found on CNN
3 years ago

All of the dresses have certain verifiable characteristics, including, for example, a' secret pocket' on the right side of the pinafore skirt for Dorothy's handkerchief,' Judy Garland' written by hand in a script specific to a single person who labeled all of the extant dresses in the same hand. Apparently, the thin material of the blouse was prone to tearing when Judy Garland as Dorothy took it off after filming, and a seamstress often repaired it before Judy Garland as Dorothy donned it for the next shoot.

– Catholic University of America

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It became clear that there were two main factors, first that overall climates were becoming cooler, and this made life harder for the dinosaurs which likely relied on warm temperatures, then, the loss of herbivores made the ecosystems unstable and prone to [an] extinction cascade. We also found that the longer-lived dinosaur species were more liable to extinction, perhaps reflecting that they could not adapt to the new conditions on Earth.

– Mike Benton

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The application of this doctrine to people in a prone position is an area where we could use more clarity from the court, but it's hard to get clear, bright-line rules in this area of the law.

– Jay Schweikert

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Just like with Floyd, Chauvin used an unreasonable amount of force without regard for the need for that level of force or the victim's well-being, just like with Floyd, when the child was slow to comply with Chauvin and [the other officer's] instructions, Chauvin grabbed the child by the throat, forced him to the ground in the prone position, and placed his knee on the child's neck with so much force that the child began to cry out in pain and tell Chauvin he could not breathe.

– Matthew Frank

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The speed at which [ these vaccines ] were developed is a concern for some people, and the fact that we don't have a history with this vaccine, people are going to be scared and uncertain about it, they might be more likely or prone to believing misinformation because of that.

– Brooke McKeever

Found on CNN
4 years ago

While a medical solution is now in sight, the economic path ahead remains difficult and prone to setbacks.

– Kristalina Georgieva

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

From a historical perspective, most animated sequels outside of top tier franchises have been prone to the law of diminishing returns.

– Shawn Robbins

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The areas that are prone to forest fires are no longer only in the southern part of Europe, but also in central Europe and even in the northern part of Europe.

– Janez Lenarcic

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We found two out of three patients can avoid a ventilator during the first 24 hours by putting them on oxygen and doing these positioning maneuvers, such as laying them prone on their stomach.

– Richard Levitan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We'll see if proning helps, and if so, how long should they be in the prone position.

– David Vines

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I think this is slightly different. There isn't anything, per se, to celebrate. People are locked up in their houses, you're probably going to get some incidents but with all the mental health resources in place, sports will generally know which athletes might be prone to' wigging out'.

– Gearoid Towey

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

These individuals are more prone to act out of character, and as crimes move away from physical acts, it is the unknown cybercrime we should be watching out for, criminals are always looking for ways to exploit individuals and businesses, so it is expected to see new scamming initiatives or price-fixing on new products. This isnt the first major pandemic we have lived through, but the effect and scope of the spread are unprecedented.

– Ken Mahoney

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Yes, children tend to be more prone to asthma, in the U.S, there are 25 million patients with asthma and of these 7 million are children (and remember, a lot of the adults in that group of 25 million patients are people who had it as a child). Asthma is one of the most common chronic disease processes in children.

– Ujwala Kaza

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

But instead of being prone to being demoted, Google's comparison-shopping service is systematically promoted to the most visible spots in Google's search results.

– Lawyer Thomas Vinje

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We are all prone to the formation of false memories, independent of cannabis use, the susceptibility for false memory, however, increases with cannabis. Under cannabis, users can easily accept fake truths for true memory.

– Johannes Ramaekers

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai is right to back a temporary ban on face recognition -- and the United States should likewise halt law enforcement use of this technology without delay. As reports this weekend further confirmed, unethical surveillance companies will not wait for regulations before pushing their untested, error-prone and dystopian face tracking technologies on police departments across the country and the world.

– Neema Guliani

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

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