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The Saudi shift ... was predicated on the notion that people would freeze in place, but what happened was the Houthi began to take advantage of the absence of air campaign, moving not only additionally on Aden, but moving in other parts of the country. – State John Kerry	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This will shift the focus to how they will right size the ship and keep leverage within a reasonable level. – Jack Deino	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is a ridiculous attempt to shift the focus away from what is actually happening in eastern Ukraine, russia continues to supply lethal weapons, training and command and control support for armed separatists in eastern Ukraine, in blatant violation of Moscow's Minsk commitments and Ukraine's sovereignty. – Eileen Lainez	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The entire international community is looking for this type of policy shift in Pyongyang, and that policy shift would be positively responded to. – Sydney Seiler	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
(The NFL has) a bit of an issue with their collective bargaining agreement, which has not lent itself to the same, let's say, progressive anti-doping program that the Major League Baseball people have, and similarly at the NHL, i think there needs to be an attitudinal shift from the players. They should be making sure that they're delivering clean sport. They should be making sure that they're not protecting the bad guys, the one or two who may try to cheat or actually cheat. – David Howman	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
One is a recognition that it does not matter who the perpetrator is or what the circumstances are. A teacher has absolutely no business engaging in sexual contact with a student, the second is a shift in the culture where boys and their parents are feeling empowered to come forward to say that something has been done. – Christopher Anderson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Leaving aside whether Japan is fully satisfied, as a result of vigorous discussions, we recognize that we have made a certain amount of progress, we've decided we must shift to cabinet-level discussions and make efforts to further narrow our differences. – Japanese Economy Minister Akira Amari	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I can already see the shift with mountaineers I speak to, more people are going to go to Tibet than Nepal. Nepal needs the tourism far more than China does. China has incredible wealth of resources and Nepal does not. – Dawa Steven Sherpa	Found on CNN 9 years ago
There definitely is a shift towards the Castor clones that we get to explore them a little bit more. – Tatiana Maslany	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We also see great opportunities: Among them, to shift the great weight of the Department of Defense, both intellectual and physical, that has been devoted to Iraq and Afghanistan, to the Asia-Pacific region, where America will continue to play its seven-decade-old pivotal stabilizing role into the future. – Defense Secretary Ash Carter	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Value can be finely balanced between markets. It's no surprise with the volume of natural US dollar funders that the basis swap has become more expensive; the greater surprise is that the shift has not been more dramatic. – Mark Lynagh	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's in line with global trends as major petrochemical producers shift from commodity-grade products to specialty grade, and that's why they need to spend more on research, but given the weak economic outlook and poor domestic consumption, I'm worried about demand because everyone needs to control costs. Prices of premium grade products are much higher than normal. – Songklod Wongchai	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The execution process was not done particularly well, starting with an unattractive loan transaction and then attempting to shift to the bond market. – Steven Oh	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The gradual shift towards a more Islamic, more Ottoman perception of the real identity of the Turkish nation ... is why Gallipoli becomes part of the political agenda, as it has now. – Edhem Eldem	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There was this bar that everyone hung out at after set and I remember coming down the stairs and seeing the two of them shooting pool together, i could just tell by the body language thateverythinghad changed. She's shooting pool, shooting tequila, in a tight tank, tight jeans, over the knee boots and she's standing across from him, playing with the pool cue...All of a sudden, there was a huge shift. My stomach dropped. I literally felt like I got hit. – Dean Sheremet	Found on FOX News 10 years ago
There's been somewhat of a mood shift among our consumers, a lot of people aren't comfortable with us touring with our elephants. – Kenneth Feld	Found on FOX News 10 years ago
They know, they scout us when our shift changes. They know everything that's coming along. And when they see stuff like this, when it hits the media, they start mobilizing. – Chris Cabrera	Found on CNN 10 years ago
We've seen a shift in boards directing independent cyber assessments, especially in the critical infrastructure areas. – Chandra McMahon	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
It's a paradigm shift and I'd like to be part of the evolution of the market that IEX is building. – Claudia Crowley	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
The comments don't signal a broad shift in the Fed's strategy, we still expect them to raise rates in the second half of this year. – Shailesh Kshatriya	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
The comments don't signal a broad shift in the Fed's strategy, i don't think it really changes the scope of what the Fed will be doing. We still expect them to raise rates in the second half of this year. – Shailesh Kshatriya	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
We've recognized there's been a cultural shift in how museums conduct themselves, there's much more scrutiny in how museums obtain their objects and transparency now. – Brian Kennedy	Found on FOX News 10 years ago
The secular shift in the balance of power between limited partners and general partners has begun to make the industry more transparent about how firms make money, which is a good thing in itself. – Warburg Pincus '	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
Even before you factor in military questions, the expansion of Chinese fishing and coastguard fleets is going to be a strategic shift that is going to be very hard for anyone to counter, and then you will have the navy just over the horizon. – Carl Thayer	Found on Reuters 10 years ago

The Saudi shift ... was predicated on the notion that people would freeze in place, but what happened was the Houthi began to take advantage of the absence of air campaign, moving not only additionally on Aden, but moving in other parts of the country.

– State John Kerry

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This will shift the focus to how they will right size the ship and keep leverage within a reasonable level.

– Jack Deino

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This is a ridiculous attempt to shift the focus away from what is actually happening in eastern Ukraine, russia continues to supply lethal weapons, training and command and control support for armed separatists in eastern Ukraine, in blatant violation of Moscow's Minsk commitments and Ukraine's sovereignty.

– Eileen Lainez

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The entire international community is looking for this type of policy shift in Pyongyang, and that policy shift would be positively responded to.

– Sydney Seiler

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

(The NFL has) a bit of an issue with their collective bargaining agreement, which has not lent itself to the same, let's say, progressive anti-doping program that the Major League Baseball people have, and similarly at the NHL, i think there needs to be an attitudinal shift from the players. They should be making sure that they're delivering clean sport. They should be making sure that they're not protecting the bad guys, the one or two who may try to cheat or actually cheat.

– David Howman

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

One is a recognition that it does not matter who the perpetrator is or what the circumstances are. A teacher has absolutely no business engaging in sexual contact with a student, the second is a shift in the culture where boys and their parents are feeling empowered to come forward to say that something has been done.

– Christopher Anderson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Leaving aside whether Japan is fully satisfied, as a result of vigorous discussions, we recognize that we have made a certain amount of progress, we've decided we must shift to cabinet-level discussions and make efforts to further narrow our differences.

– Japanese Economy Minister Akira Amari

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I can already see the shift with mountaineers I speak to, more people are going to go to Tibet than Nepal. Nepal needs the tourism far more than China does. China has incredible wealth of resources and Nepal does not.

– Dawa Steven Sherpa

Found on CNN
9 years ago

There definitely is a shift towards the Castor clones that we get to explore them a little bit more.

– Tatiana Maslany

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We also see great opportunities: Among them, to shift the great weight of the Department of Defense, both intellectual and physical, that has been devoted to Iraq and Afghanistan, to the Asia-Pacific region, where America will continue to play its seven-decade-old pivotal stabilizing role into the future.

– Defense Secretary Ash Carter

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Value can be finely balanced between markets. It's no surprise with the volume of natural US dollar funders that the basis swap has become more expensive; the greater surprise is that the shift has not been more dramatic.

– Mark Lynagh

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's in line with global trends as major petrochemical producers shift from commodity-grade products to specialty grade, and that's why they need to spend more on research, but given the weak economic outlook and poor domestic consumption, I'm worried about demand because everyone needs to control costs. Prices of premium grade products are much higher than normal.

– Songklod Wongchai

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The execution process was not done particularly well, starting with an unattractive loan transaction and then attempting to shift to the bond market.

– Steven Oh

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The gradual shift towards a more Islamic, more Ottoman perception of the real identity of the Turkish nation ... is why Gallipoli becomes part of the political agenda, as it has now.

– Edhem Eldem

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There was this bar that everyone hung out at after set and I remember coming down the stairs and seeing the two of them shooting pool together, i could just tell by the body language thateverythinghad changed. She's shooting pool, shooting tequila, in a tight tank, tight jeans, over the knee boots and she's standing across from him, playing with the pool cue...All of a sudden, there was a huge shift. My stomach dropped. I literally felt like I got hit.

– Dean Sheremet

Found on FOX News
10 years ago

There's been somewhat of a mood shift among our consumers, a lot of people aren't comfortable with us touring with our elephants.

– Kenneth Feld

Found on FOX News
10 years ago

They know, they scout us when our shift changes. They know everything that's coming along. And when they see stuff like this, when it hits the media, they start mobilizing.

– Chris Cabrera

Found on CNN
10 years ago

We've seen a shift in boards directing independent cyber assessments, especially in the critical infrastructure areas.

– Chandra McMahon

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

It's a paradigm shift and I'd like to be part of the evolution of the market that IEX is building.

– Claudia Crowley

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

The comments don't signal a broad shift in the Fed's strategy, we still expect them to raise rates in the second half of this year.

– Shailesh Kshatriya

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

The comments don't signal a broad shift in the Fed's strategy, i don't think it really changes the scope of what the Fed will be doing. We still expect them to raise rates in the second half of this year.

– Shailesh Kshatriya

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

We've recognized there's been a cultural shift in how museums conduct themselves, there's much more scrutiny in how museums obtain their objects and transparency now.

– Brian Kennedy

Found on FOX News
10 years ago

The secular shift in the balance of power between limited partners and general partners has begun to make the industry more transparent about how firms make money, which is a good thing in itself.

– Warburg Pincus '

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

Even before you factor in military questions, the expansion of Chinese fishing and coastguard fleets is going to be a strategic shift that is going to be very hard for anyone to counter, and then you will have the navy just over the horizon.

– Carl Thayer

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

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