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It’s a terrible crime, their lives could have ended at this crossroads, but luckily they managed to survive. – Serhii Bolvinov	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are at a moment, at a crossroads, where either the extremists are going to continue to assert themselves into the body politic of the United States of America, or we stop them. That’s what tomorrow is all about. – Tim Ryan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Kansas saw the second-highest increase in overdose deaths last year in the entire country. Just emphasizing that we're at this crossroads of the drug trafficking – that we do look like we're a border state. – Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
'A seismic shift' for secretary of state racesThe 2020 election represented a high-water mark for prominence of the secretary of state position. The sitting President was calling out secretaries by name, including some Republicans, and urging his supporters to put pressure on these offices to refuse to certify elections in states he had lost.Its absolutely getting worse: Secretaries of state targeted by Trump election lies live in fear for their safety and are desperate for protectionIn several states, the secretary of state is appointed by the governor, but the position is an elected office in a majority of states, albeit one that voters haven't usually prioritized. Both Republican and Democratic campaigns raised tiny sums compared with other statewide counterparts, and few aired ads on television.That has shifted since the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol, reflected in fundraising by top secretary of state candidates and the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State.An insurrection makes a difference. The aftermath of the 2020 election forced more Americans to recognize that our country is at a crossroads and our democracy is in peril, i think across the board, all of those factors culminated in people recognizing that secretaries of state are one of our last lines of defense. And people are paying attention now. – Kim Rogers	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The conditions have changed, and we have to step into that and tell this story as clearly as we can, we need voters to see the midterm as a crossroads, not a referendum. – Jenifer Fernandez Ancona	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Following this summer’s break, Shawn Hopkins will be working at Oxford High School. Nicholas Ejak will be working at Oxford Crossroads Day School. – Tim Mullins	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Where you were raised has such a big influence on who you become and for me it's no different... especially from a music standpoint, my little hometown of Macon was heavily instrumental in my musical background. Growing up in an environment that was a crossroads between Country music, Southern rock, blues and RB, it was just natural to blend different sounds in my own way. – Jason Aldean	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Middle Egypt, from quite early on, was Middle Egypt because Middle Egypt is at the crossroads of two continents. – Salima Ikram	Found on CNN 2 years ago
OK, so this may be a crossroads that your, um, at your evaluation, because I don't – that's not – there's not going to be any exception to that. The science is pretty clear on the vaccine, and we have seen so many people die from COVID that we are requiring it. – Shamgar Connors	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's not surprising that Rashaun Weaver adjustment at Crossroads wasn't as exemplary as we'd all hoped for. – Jeffrey Lichtman	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Vijaya is at the crossroads of some of the most important policy decisions the company is making and how it interacts with governments around the world... and how Twitter is thinking through the trust and safety of its platform, it's an extremely important job at the company. – Adam Bain	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Right now Marty Walsh are at a crossroads, if he rises to the challenge, Marty Walsh can have one of the biggest impacts on labor in this country since Frances Perkins. – Shannon Liss-Riordan	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If stupidity were a crime, half the human race would be hanged at every crossroads. – Proverb	added by anonymous 4 years ago
Collins is everything Georgians hate about Washington, he is a swamp creature that claims to be conservative. ... Now, having made an emotional, ill-informed and selfish decision, he finds himself at a crossroads. Republicans who are working to reelect President Trump and retain the Senate majority hope he has a moment of clarity, does the right thing and walks away from this poor decision. Otherwise, voters will make it for him. – Kevin McLaughlin	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I knew that being a woman at this sort of crossroads in history with MeToo and Times Up, I knew that my role in it would be different than that of a male lawyer, people say well wait, you're going against your gender or how dare you. But to me, there's something bigger than our gender and that's our rights. – Donna Rotunno	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We're currently at a sort of crossroads in global malaria control, we've had decades of progress in reducing the number of deaths from the turn of the millennium. But we've kind of reached this point where we sort of stalled in our progress and there are some worrying signs of emerging drug resistance, just like you have antibiotic resistance to bacteria. – Jake Baum	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Vijay was at an interesting crossroads. He was the majority shareholder in One97... the company was growing well and very profitable, he could have easily sold the company and retired, or he could invest 100 % of his net worth into creating a new company. – Ravi Adusumalli	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We are at a crossroads in the health sector in which we see declining marginal returns on investment with new technologies that are expensive but don't necessarily always get a lot of health benefits. – Agnes Soucat	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's the old guard versus the new guard, we're at a crossroads on how people are enjoying their entertainment. – Jeff Bock	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We are at a crossroads. If we don't take urgent steps to contain this, the outbreak might last another six months, if not the whole year, it is paramount to convince communities that Ebola is an urgent and real concern. People have disrupted funerals because they didn't believe the deceased had succumbed to the virus. Aid workers were threatened because it was believed they spread Ebola. – Heather Kerr	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We are standing at a crossroads and we have decided to go down a well-paved street called the European Union. – Olaf Scholz	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I can think of no person better suited to transition the culture of an institution in crisis, and lead its turnaround, uSC is at a crossroads, and Rick will know how to find the way forward. – William Bratton	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
This is where you were meant to be, right here, today, at this crossroads in history. – President Trump	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
He was at the crossroads of the pressure he was receiving for his wife, his security and his children regarding the assets of his estate, they had started a couple of little businesses, none of which had really worked out… It was uncomfortable. Because I was the monkey in the middle… It started to make sense 2-3 years down the line. – Eliot Weisman	Found on FOX News 6 years ago

It’s a terrible crime, their lives could have ended at this crossroads, but luckily they managed to survive.

– Serhii Bolvinov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are at a moment, at a crossroads, where either the extremists are going to continue to assert themselves into the body politic of the United States of America, or we stop them. That’s what tomorrow is all about.

– Tim Ryan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Kansas saw the second-highest increase in overdose deaths last year in the entire country. Just emphasizing that we're at this crossroads of the drug trafficking – that we do look like we're a border state.

– Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

'A seismic shift' for secretary of state racesThe 2020 election represented a high-water mark for prominence of the secretary of state position. The sitting President was calling out secretaries by name, including some Republicans, and urging his supporters to put pressure on these offices to refuse to certify elections in states he had lost.Its absolutely getting worse: Secretaries of state targeted by Trump election lies live in fear for their safety and are desperate for protectionIn several states, the secretary of state is appointed by the governor, but the position is an elected office in a majority of states, albeit one that voters haven't usually prioritized. Both Republican and Democratic campaigns raised tiny sums compared with other statewide counterparts, and few aired ads on television.That has shifted since the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol, reflected in fundraising by top secretary of state candidates and the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State.An insurrection makes a difference. The aftermath of the 2020 election forced more Americans to recognize that our country is at a crossroads and our democracy is in peril, i think across the board, all of those factors culminated in people recognizing that secretaries of state are one of our last lines of defense. And people are paying attention now.

– Kim Rogers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The conditions have changed, and we have to step into that and tell this story as clearly as we can, we need voters to see the midterm as a crossroads, not a referendum.

– Jenifer Fernandez Ancona

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Following this summer’s break, Shawn Hopkins will be working at Oxford High School. Nicholas Ejak will be working at Oxford Crossroads Day School.

– Tim Mullins

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Where you were raised has such a big influence on who you become and for me it's no different... especially from a music standpoint, my little hometown of Macon was heavily instrumental in my musical background. Growing up in an environment that was a crossroads between Country music, Southern rock, blues and RB, it was just natural to blend different sounds in my own way.

– Jason Aldean

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Middle Egypt, from quite early on, was Middle Egypt because Middle Egypt is at the crossroads of two continents.

– Salima Ikram

Found on CNN
2 years ago

OK, so this may be a crossroads that your, um, at your evaluation, because I don't – that's not – there's not going to be any exception to that. The science is pretty clear on the vaccine, and we have seen so many people die from COVID that we are requiring it.

– Shamgar Connors

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's not surprising that Rashaun Weaver adjustment at Crossroads wasn't as exemplary as we'd all hoped for.

– Jeffrey Lichtman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Vijaya is at the crossroads of some of the most important policy decisions the company is making and how it interacts with governments around the world... and how Twitter is thinking through the trust and safety of its platform, it's an extremely important job at the company.

– Adam Bain

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Right now Marty Walsh are at a crossroads, if he rises to the challenge, Marty Walsh can have one of the biggest impacts on labor in this country since Frances Perkins.

– Shannon Liss-Riordan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If stupidity were a crime, half the human race would be hanged at every crossroads.

– Proverb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Collins is everything Georgians hate about Washington, he is a swamp creature that claims to be conservative. ... Now, having made an emotional, ill-informed and selfish decision, he finds himself at a crossroads. Republicans who are working to reelect President Trump and retain the Senate majority hope he has a moment of clarity, does the right thing and walks away from this poor decision. Otherwise, voters will make it for him.

– Kevin McLaughlin

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I knew that being a woman at this sort of crossroads in history with MeToo and Times Up, I knew that my role in it would be different than that of a male lawyer, people say well wait, you're going against your gender or how dare you. But to me, there's something bigger than our gender and that's our rights.

– Donna Rotunno

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We're currently at a sort of crossroads in global malaria control, we've had decades of progress in reducing the number of deaths from the turn of the millennium. But we've kind of reached this point where we sort of stalled in our progress and there are some worrying signs of emerging drug resistance, just like you have antibiotic resistance to bacteria.

– Jake Baum

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Vijay was at an interesting crossroads. He was the majority shareholder in One97... the company was growing well and very profitable, he could have easily sold the company and retired, or he could invest 100 % of his net worth into creating a new company.

– Ravi Adusumalli

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are at a crossroads in the health sector in which we see declining marginal returns on investment with new technologies that are expensive but don't necessarily always get a lot of health benefits.

– Agnes Soucat

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's the old guard versus the new guard, we're at a crossroads on how people are enjoying their entertainment.

– Jeff Bock

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are at a crossroads. If we don't take urgent steps to contain this, the outbreak might last another six months, if not the whole year, it is paramount to convince communities that Ebola is an urgent and real concern. People have disrupted funerals because they didn't believe the deceased had succumbed to the virus. Aid workers were threatened because it was believed they spread Ebola.

– Heather Kerr

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are standing at a crossroads and we have decided to go down a well-paved street called the European Union.

– Olaf Scholz

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I can think of no person better suited to transition the culture of an institution in crisis, and lead its turnaround, uSC is at a crossroads, and Rick will know how to find the way forward.

– William Bratton

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

This is where you were meant to be, right here, today, at this crossroads in history.

– President Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

He was at the crossroads of the pressure he was receiving for his wife, his security and his children regarding the assets of his estate, they had started a couple of little businesses, none of which had really worked out… It was uncomfortable. Because I was the monkey in the middle… It started to make sense 2-3 years down the line.

– Eliot Weisman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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