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Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life. – Joan Didion	added by JokerGem 1 year ago
So, if you weaken the Supreme Court. – Jonathan Valfer	Found on New York Times 1 year ago
A potentially good outcome is to weaken American alliances … so that’s why we’re seeing quite strenuous efforts made by Beijing to try to stabilize and improve relations with European countries, and also to try to improve and strengthen cooperation with emerging economies. – Li Mingjiang	Found on CNN 1 year ago
(Chinese leaders) believe it’s time now for China to make its strategic plans, a potentially good outcome is to weaken American alliances … so that’s why we’re seeing quite strenuous efforts made by Beijing to try to stabilize and improve relations with European countries, and also to try to improve and strengthen cooperation with emerging economies. – Li Mingjiang	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I opposed Chair Powell for his initial nomination, but his re-nomination. I opposed him because of his views on regulation and what he was doing to weaken regulation, but I think he’s failing in both jobs, both as oversight manager of these big banks which is his job and also what he’s doing with inflation. – Elizabeth Warren	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For peace to be just, it must uphold the principles at the heart of the UN Charter: sovereignty, territorial integrity, independence. For peace to be durable, it must ensure Russia can’t simply rest, rearm, and relaunch its war in a few months or a few years, any peace that legitimizes Russia’s seizure of land by force will weaken the Charter and send a message to would-be aggressors everywhere that they can invade countries and get away with it. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
China’s main objective is to weaken those alliance systems. the overwhelming priority for China is economic recovery, and economic recovery requires … not having a destabilizing relationship with the United States. – Yun Sun	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Putin expected Europe and the United States to weaken our resolve, he expected our support for Ukraine to crumble with time. He was wrong … and he was wrong from the beginning and he continues to be wrong. We are united. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Mortgage application activity sunk to a quarter-century low this week as high mortgage rates continue to weaken the housing market, while mortgage market activity has significantly shrunk over the last year, inflationary pressures are easing and should lead to lower mortgage rates in 2023. – Freddie Mac	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The authors tried to control for other dietary factors, but tea drinkers typically differ from non-tea drinkers in other ways that would likely weaken these findings. We really need more randomized clinical trials testing tea intake. – Howard Sesso	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If the court said that diversity is not a compelling interest, the first thing to bear in mind is that because they likely said academic freedom is not a constitutionally protected interest under the First Amendment, at least in so far as it relates to institutional autonomy to select the student body, that means that you will greatly weaken the autonomy of colleges and universities, not only with respect to admissions, but with respect to other things like curriculum. – Rachel Moran	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Antarctica is crumbling at its edges, and when ice shelves dwindle and weaken, the continent's massive glaciers tend to speed up and increase the rate of global sea level rise. – Chad Greene	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think that the discomfort that households feel, it's not because of the labor market, some may worry that the... labor market will weaken, but I think the biggest burden that's weighing on household sentiment is inflation. – Janet Yellen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's sometimes difficult to even discuss mitigation activities because of the political environment in Washington, there are foreign nations like Russia who are seeking to destabilize and weaken the United States, and they do that by pushing out information meant to exacerbate the social fractures of our society. – John Cohen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The prospect of Russia funneling money to U.S. environmental groups to do Russia’s bidding and actively oppose U.S. energy is a dangerous form of interference in our politics, it is time to shine a light on how and why green energy groups undermine American energy dominance, destroy American jobs, and weaken America on the world stage. – Ted Budd	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Vladimir Putin has one overriding objective : To break NATO, to weaken the Western alliance and to further diminish our ability to compete in the Pacific by working out something with China, and it's not going to happen on my watch. – President Biden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
He hoped to dominate Ukraine without a fight – he failed, he hoped to fracture European resolve – he failed. He hoped to weaken the transatlantic alliance – he failed. He hoped to split apart American democracies in terms of our positions – he failed. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Should [Biden] go through with this deal, a new Axis will likely form, consisting of Russia, China, and Iran, sadly, if the last few weeks has not proved Biden’s multilateralist fantasy to be exactly that, then he will continue to weaken the United States’ international standing and destabilize volatile regions around the world. – Jason Killmeyer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We’re choking Russia’s access to technology that will sap its economic strength and weaken its military for years to come. – Joe Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Sadly, deterrence after the fact is not deterrence at all. The President should have exercised The President extensive authorities to impose certain tough sanctions early enough to actually deter invasion and weaken Russia, we should have ensured that the pipeline of lethal aid to Ukraine was flowing far sooner. And we should have sent more reinforcements to support NATO's eastern flank allies earlier. – Mitch McConnell	Found on CNN 2 years ago
These are adversaries, their whole intent is to basically weaken the United States, weaken the alliance and undermine our democracy, and I think it's very important for the United States and our allies to be very strong about the kind of response that will take place if The US and Europe invade. – United States	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The most important thing to do : Big nations ca n’t bluff, number one, and number two, the idea that we would do anything to split NATO, which would be a — have a profound impact on one of — I think prominent impact — on one of Putin’s objectives is to weaken NATO — would be a big mistake. – The Ukrainian president	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As such, and as I have said many times before, I will not vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster. – Joe Manchin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I don’t know how many Americans, when you say that you’re fighting for voting rights, think that means that we should be directing taxpayer dollars to politicians’ campaigns, but that’s what some of these bills do, and a whole bunch of other stuff, which all is really designed to weaken voting safeguards and, I would argue, change the machinery of democracy to favor one party over the other. – Jason Snead	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.

– Joan Didion

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

So, if you weaken the Supreme Court.

– Jonathan Valfer

Found on New York Times
1 year ago

A potentially good outcome is to weaken American alliances … so that’s why we’re seeing quite strenuous efforts made by Beijing to try to stabilize and improve relations with European countries, and also to try to improve and strengthen cooperation with emerging economies.

– Li Mingjiang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

(Chinese leaders) believe it’s time now for China to make its strategic plans, a potentially good outcome is to weaken American alliances … so that’s why we’re seeing quite strenuous efforts made by Beijing to try to stabilize and improve relations with European countries, and also to try to improve and strengthen cooperation with emerging economies.

– Li Mingjiang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I opposed Chair Powell for his initial nomination, but his re-nomination. I opposed him because of his views on regulation and what he was doing to weaken regulation, but I think he’s failing in both jobs, both as oversight manager of these big banks which is his job and also what he’s doing with inflation.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For peace to be just, it must uphold the principles at the heart of the UN Charter: sovereignty, territorial integrity, independence. For peace to be durable, it must ensure Russia can’t simply rest, rearm, and relaunch its war in a few months or a few years, any peace that legitimizes Russia’s seizure of land by force will weaken the Charter and send a message to would-be aggressors everywhere that they can invade countries and get away with it.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

China’s main objective is to weaken those alliance systems. the overwhelming priority for China is economic recovery, and economic recovery requires … not having a destabilizing relationship with the United States.

– Yun Sun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Putin expected Europe and the United States to weaken our resolve, he expected our support for Ukraine to crumble with time. He was wrong … and he was wrong from the beginning and he continues to be wrong. We are united.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mortgage application activity sunk to a quarter-century low this week as high mortgage rates continue to weaken the housing market, while mortgage market activity has significantly shrunk over the last year, inflationary pressures are easing and should lead to lower mortgage rates in 2023.

– Freddie Mac

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The authors tried to control for other dietary factors, but tea drinkers typically differ from non-tea drinkers in other ways that would likely weaken these findings. We really need more randomized clinical trials testing tea intake.

– Howard Sesso

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If the court said that diversity is not a compelling interest, the first thing to bear in mind is that because they likely said academic freedom is not a constitutionally protected interest under the First Amendment, at least in so far as it relates to institutional autonomy to select the student body, that means that you will greatly weaken the autonomy of colleges and universities, not only with respect to admissions, but with respect to other things like curriculum.

– Rachel Moran

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Antarctica is crumbling at its edges, and when ice shelves dwindle and weaken, the continent's massive glaciers tend to speed up and increase the rate of global sea level rise.

– Chad Greene

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think that the discomfort that households feel, it's not because of the labor market, some may worry that the... labor market will weaken, but I think the biggest burden that's weighing on household sentiment is inflation.

– Janet Yellen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's sometimes difficult to even discuss mitigation activities because of the political environment in Washington, there are foreign nations like Russia who are seeking to destabilize and weaken the United States, and they do that by pushing out information meant to exacerbate the social fractures of our society.

– John Cohen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The prospect of Russia funneling money to U.S. environmental groups to do Russia’s bidding and actively oppose U.S. energy is a dangerous form of interference in our politics, it is time to shine a light on how and why green energy groups undermine American energy dominance, destroy American jobs, and weaken America on the world stage.

– Ted Budd

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Vladimir Putin has one overriding objective : To break NATO, to weaken the Western alliance and to further diminish our ability to compete in the Pacific by working out something with China, and it's not going to happen on my watch.

– President Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He hoped to dominate Ukraine without a fight – he failed, he hoped to fracture European resolve – he failed. He hoped to weaken the transatlantic alliance – he failed. He hoped to split apart American democracies in terms of our positions – he failed.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Should [Biden] go through with this deal, a new Axis will likely form, consisting of Russia, China, and Iran, sadly, if the last few weeks has not proved Biden’s multilateralist fantasy to be exactly that, then he will continue to weaken the United States’ international standing and destabilize volatile regions around the world.

– Jason Killmeyer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We’re choking Russia’s access to technology that will sap its economic strength and weaken its military for years to come.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Sadly, deterrence after the fact is not deterrence at all. The President should have exercised The President extensive authorities to impose certain tough sanctions early enough to actually deter invasion and weaken Russia, we should have ensured that the pipeline of lethal aid to Ukraine was flowing far sooner. And we should have sent more reinforcements to support NATO's eastern flank allies earlier.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These are adversaries, their whole intent is to basically weaken the United States, weaken the alliance and undermine our democracy, and I think it's very important for the United States and our allies to be very strong about the kind of response that will take place if The US and Europe invade.

– United States

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The most important thing to do : Big nations ca n’t bluff, number one, and number two, the idea that we would do anything to split NATO, which would be a — have a profound impact on one of — I think prominent impact — on one of Putin’s objectives is to weaken NATO — would be a big mistake.

– The Ukrainian president

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As such, and as I have said many times before, I will not vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster.

– Joe Manchin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don’t know how many Americans, when you say that you’re fighting for voting rights, think that means that we should be directing taxpayer dollars to politicians’ campaigns, but that’s what some of these bills do, and a whole bunch of other stuff, which all is really designed to weaken voting safeguards and, I would argue, change the machinery of democracy to favor one party over the other.

– Jason Snead

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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