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People around our country are concerned, afraid, confused, desperate, in many ways feeling alone. – Kamala Harris	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Every day across the country, Myanmar’s military and police are committing brutal acts that constitute crimes against humanity. Massacring civilians in a hail of bullets at a Buddhist monastery shows the desperate savagery of a regime wholly divorced from the Burmese people, governments around the world should recognize that Myanmar’s military junta government does not care about words. – Human Rights Watch	Found on CNN 1 year ago
People are getting desperate. They need medication. They need food for their children. – Derek Hayes	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Within a matter of minutes, penguins were running into them, that tells you how desperate they are for any opportunity to find a safe place to nest. – Kevin Graham	Found on CNN 1 year ago
MENS REA”: On January 16, 1944, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and one of his deputies, Randolph Paul, personally visited the President Franklin D. Roosevelt in order to coerce him to finally act and do something to help refugees escaping The Holocaust. More diplomatic efforts had failed, so Morgenthau's approach strengthened. The report brought to the President reveals a desperate and necessary act to coerce a response from an administration that was systematically and overtly preventing both private and official help for the victims escaping Hitler. The report documents a pattern of attempts by the State Department to obstruct rescue opportunities and block the flow of Holocaust information to the United States. Morgenthau warned that the refugee issue had become “a boiling pot on [Capitol] Hill,” and Congress was likely to pass the rescue resolution if faced with a White House unwilling to act. Roosevelt understood the deep implications and pre-empted Congress by establishing the War Refugee Board. The result was “Executive Order 9417” creating the War Refugee Board, issued on January 22, 1944. – A.E. Samaan	added by AlvaroSiman 1 year ago
Companies want you to want them — not just for you to take the job because you have to, it’s okay to say you’d like a job sooner rather than later. But be careful not to appear desperate. – Marlo Lyons	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The The Taliban regime is a pariah around the globe and desperate for any kind of positive media or positive portrayal of what is a brutal and disastrous reign. – Arash Azizzada	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There’s so many things that desperately need our help. And money. Why would you even bother trying to save something long gone, when there’s so many things that are desperate right now? – Julian Hume	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Mr. Safi came across the Rio Grande with a group of migrants after being beaten in another country and desperate to find a way to reach America to see freedom, unfortunately, his entry was at a non-port of entry and Mr. Safi has been held ever since in detention facilities. What happened over the last couple of weeks was a strategic and forceful effort to bring all agencies together to make the right decision for Mr. Safi. – Jackson Lee	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I denied myself food for an entire week so that maybe President Biden will recognize just how desperate the situation of the U.S. hostages here has become. So that he may realize that we have suffered far too much for far too long, and that it is time to match claims that freeing us is a U.S. government priority with the tough decisions needed to bring us home. All of us. – Siamak Namazi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
While layoffs from high-profile firms make the headlines, plenty of firms are desperate for more workers, especially tech workers. Those workers are in high demand from the auto industry to the Department of Veterans Affairs to not-for-profits, the labor market is still so tight that many tech workers, and workers with other skills, are snapped up well before they need to collect an unemployment check. And they are more likely to be snapped up by smaller firms, which have a much greater demand for workers than major corporations. – Robert Frick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think everyone will agree as human beings that we have the responsibility you want to save one life in distress, let alone hundreds of people dying, (Nearby states) have to act to save these desperate people. It has to be an action which is in coordination done collectively by all the states in the region. – Babar Baloch	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Forty-seven years ago, I was in a desperate situation, in despair, and uh, probably not long to live, and I just had to realize there was something really wrong with me. But I didn’t realize it was a kind of condition – a mental, physical, emotional condition called alcoholism or addiction. – Anthony Hopkins	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are deeply disappointed for all the desperate asylum seekers who will continue to suffer because of Title 42, but we will continue fighting to eventually end the policy. – Lee Gelernt	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our experience is that this chemical abortion pill did not and will not receive appropriate review from the politicized FDA, it is outrageous that Judicial Watch has had to sue in federal court for basic safety information about the abortion pill, which is being pushed on women by a desperate pro-abortion movement. – Judicial Watch	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
At a time when my campaign is gaining momentum, my pathetic opponent who has hardly campaigned has resorted to a desperate attempt to deprive the voters of this district a choice in the November election. – Susan Tyler Witten	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Today’s subpoena of President Donald J. Trump less than one month from the midterm elections is a desperate political ploy by Democrats and their mainstream media stenographer allies. – The House	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I’m not concerned with the insidious lies of desperate men. I have a job to do, a nation to save, and 760K constituents of South Louisiana to serve. – Clay Higgins	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
They are desperate to make this race about my family – because they don’t want to talk about what Joe Biden and Raphael Warnock have done to Georgia families. They are desperate to hold onto power and they are willing to say and do anything. – Christian Walker	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We're receiving reports of young people being intentionally shot with metal pellets and other munitions, causing death or horrific injuries. This is the authorities' desperate attempt to brutalize Iranians into submission. – Amnesty International.Mansoureh Mills	Found on CNN 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
I was desperate. I thought my end was coming. But thanks My God , the boat, God gave me one more chance, i saw it( freezer) wasn't sinking. I jumped( inside it), it fell to one side and kept normal. – Romualdo Macedo Rodrigues	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Because we're uncertain, we're desperate for some kind of signal from the The Fed, but they don't have clarity themselves on it. – David Bianco	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The refusal by the New York State Democratic Party to tackle the issues of crime and the economy is exactly why our state is leading the country in population loss, hochul and her pathetic henchmen are desperate to distract away from all of the ways they are destroying New York. – Katie Vincentz	Found on FOX News 1 year ago

People around our country are concerned, afraid, confused, desperate, in many ways feeling alone.

– Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every day across the country, Myanmar’s military and police are committing brutal acts that constitute crimes against humanity. Massacring civilians in a hail of bullets at a Buddhist monastery shows the desperate savagery of a regime wholly divorced from the Burmese people, governments around the world should recognize that Myanmar’s military junta government does not care about words.

– Human Rights Watch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People are getting desperate. They need medication. They need food for their children.

– Derek Hayes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Within a matter of minutes, penguins were running into them, that tells you how desperate they are for any opportunity to find a safe place to nest.

– Kevin Graham

Found on CNN
1 year ago

MENS REA”: On January 16, 1944, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and one of his deputies, Randolph Paul, personally visited the President Franklin D. Roosevelt in order to coerce him to finally act and do something to help refugees escaping The Holocaust. More diplomatic efforts had failed, so Morgenthau's approach strengthened. The report brought to the President reveals a desperate and necessary act to coerce a response from an administration that was systematically and overtly preventing both private and official help for the victims escaping Hitler. The report documents a pattern of attempts by the State Department to obstruct rescue opportunities and block the flow of Holocaust information to the United States. Morgenthau warned that the refugee issue had become “a boiling pot on [Capitol] Hill,” and Congress was likely to pass the rescue resolution if faced with a White House unwilling to act. Roosevelt understood the deep implications and pre-empted Congress by establishing the War Refugee Board. The result was “Executive Order 9417” creating the War Refugee Board, issued on January 22, 1944.

– A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

Companies want you to want them — not just for you to take the job because you have to, it’s okay to say you’d like a job sooner rather than later. But be careful not to appear desperate.

– Marlo Lyons

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The The Taliban regime is a pariah around the globe and desperate for any kind of positive media or positive portrayal of what is a brutal and disastrous reign.

– Arash Azizzada

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s so many things that desperately need our help. And money. Why would you even bother trying to save something long gone, when there’s so many things that are desperate right now?

– Julian Hume

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mr. Safi came across the Rio Grande with a group of migrants after being beaten in another country and desperate to find a way to reach America to see freedom, unfortunately, his entry was at a non-port of entry and Mr. Safi has been held ever since in detention facilities. What happened over the last couple of weeks was a strategic and forceful effort to bring all agencies together to make the right decision for Mr. Safi.

– Jackson Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I denied myself food for an entire week so that maybe President Biden will recognize just how desperate the situation of the U.S. hostages here has become. So that he may realize that we have suffered far too much for far too long, and that it is time to match claims that freeing us is a U.S. government priority with the tough decisions needed to bring us home. All of us.

– Siamak Namazi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While layoffs from high-profile firms make the headlines, plenty of firms are desperate for more workers, especially tech workers. Those workers are in high demand from the auto industry to the Department of Veterans Affairs to not-for-profits, the labor market is still so tight that many tech workers, and workers with other skills, are snapped up well before they need to collect an unemployment check. And they are more likely to be snapped up by smaller firms, which have a much greater demand for workers than major corporations.

– Robert Frick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think everyone will agree as human beings that we have the responsibility you want to save one life in distress, let alone hundreds of people dying, (Nearby states) have to act to save these desperate people. It has to be an action which is in coordination done collectively by all the states in the region.

– Babar Baloch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Forty-seven years ago, I was in a desperate situation, in despair, and uh, probably not long to live, and I just had to realize there was something really wrong with me. But I didn’t realize it was a kind of condition – a mental, physical, emotional condition called alcoholism or addiction.

– Anthony Hopkins

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are deeply disappointed for all the desperate asylum seekers who will continue to suffer because of Title 42, but we will continue fighting to eventually end the policy.

– Lee Gelernt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our experience is that this chemical abortion pill did not and will not receive appropriate review from the politicized FDA, it is outrageous that Judicial Watch has had to sue in federal court for basic safety information about the abortion pill, which is being pushed on women by a desperate pro-abortion movement.

– Judicial Watch

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

At a time when my campaign is gaining momentum, my pathetic opponent who has hardly campaigned has resorted to a desperate attempt to deprive the voters of this district a choice in the November election.

– Susan Tyler Witten

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Today’s subpoena of President Donald J. Trump less than one month from the midterm elections is a desperate political ploy by Democrats and their mainstream media stenographer allies.

– The House

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I’m not concerned with the insidious lies of desperate men. I have a job to do, a nation to save, and 760K constituents of South Louisiana to serve.

– Clay Higgins

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They are desperate to make this race about my family – because they don’t want to talk about what Joe Biden and Raphael Warnock have done to Georgia families. They are desperate to hold onto power and they are willing to say and do anything.

– Christian Walker

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We're receiving reports of young people being intentionally shot with metal pellets and other munitions, causing death or horrific injuries. This is the authorities' desperate attempt to brutalize Iranians into submission.

– Amnesty International.Mansoureh Mills

Found on CNN
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

I was desperate. I thought my end was coming. But thanks My God , the boat, God gave me one more chance, i saw it( freezer) wasn't sinking. I jumped( inside it), it fell to one side and kept normal.

– Romualdo Macedo Rodrigues

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Because we're uncertain, we're desperate for some kind of signal from the The Fed, but they don't have clarity themselves on it.

– David Bianco

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The refusal by the New York State Democratic Party to tackle the issues of crime and the economy is exactly why our state is leading the country in population loss, hochul and her pathetic henchmen are desperate to distract away from all of the ways they are destroying New York.

– Katie Vincentz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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