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For lingerie and sleepwear, La Perla is a long-standing favorite for bras, underwear, and slips, as a family, I also love Petite Plume's super cozy pajama sets for me, my husband, and the kids. – Rachel Zoe	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re expecting 100 to 300 mm [of rainfall] for many parts of the North Island’s north and eastern sides, with even greater totals if Gabrielle stalls or slows down, this rain will cause more slips/landslides, road closures, flight cancellations and possibly damage more homes as we saw in January. – Philip Duncan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
And that could push it into 2022. Previously we had talked about trying to have that data available before the end of this year, which could have prompted an authorization perhaps by the end of the year, at least in kids ages 2-4. I think that it's more likely that it slips into the first quarter of next year at the very least, but not too far into next year. – Scott Gottlieb	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The data came a little earlier than some were expecting, and depending on how long The FDA takes to review the application, whether it's a four-week review or a six-week review, you could have a vaccine available to children as early as probably by the end of October, perhaps The FDA slips a little bit into November. – Scott Gottlieb	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I have to live every day as it comes, it is heartbreaking to believe that police got so near to finding my sons murderer but as each day, each week, and each month slips by it is getting harder to believe his killer will be found and brought to justice. – Ruth Neave	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It was terrifying, twelve men, chanting and carrying it up the ramp. I said: if one slips, it will slide and will kill somebody. They said: 'Don't worry'. – Neville Agnew	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
My policy is that unreturned or negative blue slips will not necessarily preclude a hearing for a circuit-court nominee, unless the White House failed to consult with home-state senators. – Chuck Grassley	Found on CNN 6 years ago
While Chuck Grassley has moved forward several circuit court nominees without their home state senator's blue slips, doing so to the ranking member of the committee would be a dramatic escalation and slap in the face. – Christopher Kang	Found on CNN 6 years ago
The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them. – Louis XIV of France	added by regnumveritatis 7 years ago
I cannot imagine what additional information the administrator might want from scientists for him to understand that, giving pink slips to scientists across the federal government, including 43% of EPA scientists, and proposing to eliminate the US Climate Global Research Program in its entirety makes one question who this administration will rely on for scientific research and facts. – Gina McCarthy	Found on CNN 7 years ago
So we want to put the robot down on the ground and see how it gets back up on its feet. So this can happen in reality when the robot, for example, slips or is somehow falling down for whatever reason; the robot needs to be able to get up again. – Claudio Semini	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Donald Trump soars; Ben Carson rises; Jeb Bush slips and some GOP hopefuls seem to disappear, trump proves you don't have to be loved by everyone, just by enough Republicans to lead the GOP pack. – Tim Malloy	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Common sense tells us that lifting heavy loads, awkward posture, vigorous activity and slips/trips/falls could cause back pain, these scenarios are commonly encountered in everyday experience, making it easier to tie the two together as cause and effect. – Scott Forseen	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
With each day we delay we lose more innocent lives and Europe slips further into an immoral abyss, right now, people desperately seeking a better life are drowning in politics. – Justin Forsyth	Found on CNN 9 years ago
What we needed from EU foreign ministers today was life-saving action, but they dithered, with each day we delay we lose more innocent lives and Europe slips further into an immoral abyss. – Justin Forsyth	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The House is about to vote on a budget deal -- a deal negotiated behind closed doors that slips in a provision that would let derivatives traders on Wall Street gamble with taxpayer money and get bailed out by the government when their risky bets threaten to blow up our financial system, these are the same banks that nearly broke the economy in 2008 and destroyed millions of jobs. – Elizabeth Warren	Found on CNN 10 years ago
I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it. – Georges Bernanos	added by anonymous 10 years ago
No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour. – Randolph Silliman Bourne	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it. – Jean-Paul Sartre	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost. – Kaleel Jamison	added by anonymous 14 years ago

For lingerie and sleepwear, La Perla is a long-standing favorite for bras, underwear, and slips, as a family, I also love Petite Plume's super cozy pajama sets for me, my husband, and the kids.

– Rachel Zoe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re expecting 100 to 300 mm [of rainfall] for many parts of the North Island’s north and eastern sides, with even greater totals if Gabrielle stalls or slows down, this rain will cause more slips/landslides, road closures, flight cancellations and possibly damage more homes as we saw in January.

– Philip Duncan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And that could push it into 2022. Previously we had talked about trying to have that data available before the end of this year, which could have prompted an authorization perhaps by the end of the year, at least in kids ages 2-4. I think that it's more likely that it slips into the first quarter of next year at the very least, but not too far into next year.

– Scott Gottlieb

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The data came a little earlier than some were expecting, and depending on how long The FDA takes to review the application, whether it's a four-week review or a six-week review, you could have a vaccine available to children as early as probably by the end of October, perhaps The FDA slips a little bit into November.

– Scott Gottlieb

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I have to live every day as it comes, it is heartbreaking to believe that police got so near to finding my sons murderer but as each day, each week, and each month slips by it is getting harder to believe his killer will be found and brought to justice.

– Ruth Neave

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It was terrifying, twelve men, chanting and carrying it up the ramp. I said: if one slips, it will slide and will kill somebody. They said: 'Don't worry'.

– Neville Agnew

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

My policy is that unreturned or negative blue slips will not necessarily preclude a hearing for a circuit-court nominee, unless the White House failed to consult with home-state senators.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN
6 years ago

While Chuck Grassley has moved forward several circuit court nominees without their home state senator's blue slips, doing so to the ranking member of the committee would be a dramatic escalation and slap in the face.

– Christopher Kang

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.

– Louis XIV of France

added by regnumveritatis
7 years ago

I cannot imagine what additional information the administrator might want from scientists for him to understand that, giving pink slips to scientists across the federal government, including 43% of EPA scientists, and proposing to eliminate the US Climate Global Research Program in its entirety makes one question who this administration will rely on for scientific research and facts.

– Gina McCarthy

Found on CNN
7 years ago

So we want to put the robot down on the ground and see how it gets back up on its feet. So this can happen in reality when the robot, for example, slips or is somehow falling down for whatever reason; the robot needs to be able to get up again.

– Claudio Semini

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Donald Trump soars; Ben Carson rises; Jeb Bush slips and some GOP hopefuls seem to disappear, trump proves you don't have to be loved by everyone, just by enough Republicans to lead the GOP pack.

– Tim Malloy

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Common sense tells us that lifting heavy loads, awkward posture, vigorous activity and slips/trips/falls could cause back pain, these scenarios are commonly encountered in everyday experience, making it easier to tie the two together as cause and effect.

– Scott Forseen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

With each day we delay we lose more innocent lives and Europe slips further into an immoral abyss, right now, people desperately seeking a better life are drowning in politics.

– Justin Forsyth

Found on CNN
9 years ago

What we needed from EU foreign ministers today was life-saving action, but they dithered, with each day we delay we lose more innocent lives and Europe slips further into an immoral abyss.

– Justin Forsyth

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The House is about to vote on a budget deal -- a deal negotiated behind closed doors that slips in a provision that would let derivatives traders on Wall Street gamble with taxpayer money and get bailed out by the government when their risky bets threaten to blow up our financial system, these are the same banks that nearly broke the economy in 2008 and destroyed millions of jobs.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN
10 years ago

I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

– Georges Bernanos

added by anonymous
10 years ago

No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.

– Randolph Silliman Bourne

added by anonymous
14 years ago

One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.

– Jean-Paul Sartre

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.

– Kaleel Jamison

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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