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We’re racing with Michael Jordan type of spirit, when we just missed out on pole position at Loudon [ New Hampshire ], Jeff Robinson texted me with the [ shrug ] emoji of ‘ Why ’d you choke ? What ’d you do wrong ? I thought you had it.'. – Kurt Busch	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There is no doubt that the UAE has detained people on behalf of foreign governments with whom they are allied, i don’t think they would at all shrug their shoulders to a request from such a powerful ally. – Radha Stirling	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Markets in general are still trying to find their feet, equities, of course, continue to shrug off or ignore anything that might be considered remotely negative as they continue their merry and complacent dance towards an inevitable reckoning. – James Athey	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
If Republicans had introduced a bill to add four Supreme Court seats for the last president to full, there would have been weeks of wall-to-wall outrage on every newspaper and cable TV channel, now it seems the main strategies are to either shrug off and look the other way ot to actively pay along and somehow lend credence. – Mitch McConnell	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It's not as if people in Hawaii have a clear idea of what Tulsi Gabbard wants, everyone greets it with the same shoulder shrug. We don't know. – Colin Moore	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I kind of shrug and sometimes smile and laugh about it and then I have a secondary reaction, which is to be horrified at my own numb reaction, right ? we have to remind ourselves the President of the United States of America is publicly announcing that people are committing crimes, that they should be in jail. – James Comey	Found on CNN 6 years ago
My reaction to it is actually disturbing to me, which is kind of,' Eh, there he goes again.' I thought I was' Lyin' James Comey' now I'm' Leakin' James Comey'. But I kind of shrug and sometimes smile and laugh about it and then I have a secondary reaction, which is to be horrified at my own numb reaction, we have to remind ourselves the President of the United States of America is publicly announcing that people are committing crimes, that they should be in jail. – James Comey	Found on CNN 6 years ago
I don't care how much money it is, there isn't enough money in the world to purchase back our credibility on human rights. ... Just because a country we're working with did it doesn't mean the US can just shrug its shoulders and say nothing happened here. – Marco Rubio	Found on CNN 6 years ago
You walk up and down this street and ask every person whether they cared or worried about Russia and connections to Dana Rohrabacher, they'd shrug their shoulders. – The Democrats	Found on CNN 6 years ago
I am going to keep saying loud and clear that I am a feminist until it is met with a shrug. – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
For the last few years I have said clearly if we didn't get reform we should be prepared to walk away. I think we now have a golden opportunity to shrug off a regulatory legislative burden that is profoundly undemocratic, we have got a once in a lifetime opportunity, which will not come again, to strike a new series of relationships, free trade deals with the growth economies around the world, whilst maintaining ... our free trade advantages with the European Union. – Boris Johnson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
For even those folks that have been doubters about it, this has to pull them to the other side in terms of that conversation, one number in and of itself will not dictate if a hike happens or not, but a number like this is hard to shrug off. – Tom Porcelli	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is a shrug of the shoulders. – Larry Sabato	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If someone's maltreated, we tend to validate them, to tell them that it's not their fault, with bullying, it's sometimes the case that the response is a lot less supportive, more of a shrug. – William Copeland	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
As for these eternal squabbles that students from Crimea are taking university places from Russians, I can say only that it's completely absurd, and let me say that they have only allocated budgeted places for Crimean students to some universities and in some specialisms, which are often not the best. In some universities, questions about quotas are met with a shrug and a puzzled look. – Alexandra Kartokhina	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down. – Jonathan Swift	added by anonymous 11 years ago
How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper! – Sterne	added by anonymous 14 years ago

We’re racing with Michael Jordan type of spirit, when we just missed out on pole position at Loudon [ New Hampshire ], Jeff Robinson texted me with the [ shrug ] emoji of ‘ Why ’d you choke ? What ’d you do wrong ? I thought you had it.'.

– Kurt Busch

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There is no doubt that the UAE has detained people on behalf of foreign governments with whom they are allied, i don’t think they would at all shrug their shoulders to a request from such a powerful ally.

– Radha Stirling

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Markets in general are still trying to find their feet, equities, of course, continue to shrug off or ignore anything that might be considered remotely negative as they continue their merry and complacent dance towards an inevitable reckoning.

– James Athey

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

If Republicans had introduced a bill to add four Supreme Court seats for the last president to full, there would have been weeks of wall-to-wall outrage on every newspaper and cable TV channel, now it seems the main strategies are to either shrug off and look the other way ot to actively pay along and somehow lend credence.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It's not as if people in Hawaii have a clear idea of what Tulsi Gabbard wants, everyone greets it with the same shoulder shrug. We don't know.

– Colin Moore

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I kind of shrug and sometimes smile and laugh about it and then I have a secondary reaction, which is to be horrified at my own numb reaction, right ? we have to remind ourselves the President of the United States of America is publicly announcing that people are committing crimes, that they should be in jail.

– James Comey

Found on CNN
6 years ago

My reaction to it is actually disturbing to me, which is kind of,' Eh, there he goes again.' I thought I was' Lyin' James Comey' now I'm' Leakin' James Comey'. But I kind of shrug and sometimes smile and laugh about it and then I have a secondary reaction, which is to be horrified at my own numb reaction, we have to remind ourselves the President of the United States of America is publicly announcing that people are committing crimes, that they should be in jail.

– James Comey

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I don't care how much money it is, there isn't enough money in the world to purchase back our credibility on human rights. ... Just because a country we're working with did it doesn't mean the US can just shrug its shoulders and say nothing happened here.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
6 years ago

You walk up and down this street and ask every person whether they cared or worried about Russia and connections to Dana Rohrabacher, they'd shrug their shoulders.

– The Democrats

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I am going to keep saying loud and clear that I am a feminist until it is met with a shrug.

– Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For the last few years I have said clearly if we didn't get reform we should be prepared to walk away. I think we now have a golden opportunity to shrug off a regulatory legislative burden that is profoundly undemocratic, we have got a once in a lifetime opportunity, which will not come again, to strike a new series of relationships, free trade deals with the growth economies around the world, whilst maintaining ... our free trade advantages with the European Union.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For even those folks that have been doubters about it, this has to pull them to the other side in terms of that conversation, one number in and of itself will not dictate if a hike happens or not, but a number like this is hard to shrug off.

– Tom Porcelli

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This is a shrug of the shoulders.

– Larry Sabato

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If someone's maltreated, we tend to validate them, to tell them that it's not their fault, with bullying, it's sometimes the case that the response is a lot less supportive, more of a shrug.

– William Copeland

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

As for these eternal squabbles that students from Crimea are taking university places from Russians, I can say only that it's completely absurd, and let me say that they have only allocated budgeted places for Crimean students to some universities and in some specialisms, which are often not the best. In some universities, questions about quotas are met with a shrug and a puzzled look.

– Alexandra Kartokhina

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

– Jonathan Swift

added by anonymous
11 years ago

How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!

– Sterne

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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