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Virtually all federal actions – from prosecuting crime to imposing taxes to managing property – have some incidental effects on state finances. – Elizabeth Prelogar	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think that’s an important distinction to make when you have a variant like omicron which is much more widespread, you are going to have people who get into a car accident and go into the emergency room. They’re swabbing everybody, and you’re going to have people that have incidental positives. – Ron DeSantis	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It has made a tremendous impact on the world's oceans, for each kilogram of shrimp, you could get up to 25 kilograms of incidental catch... There's no such thing as a selective bottom trawl. – Juan Mayorga	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When you sign up for a social media platform, you agree to that site's terms and conditions... essentially a contract governing -- among other things -- what the site can and can not do with the stuff you post, it is industry standard for part of that agreement to say,' whatever you upload, you give us permission to show to the world, as well as make incidental copies on our servers to allow for things like retweeting/sharing functions/etc. ,'. – Meredith Rose	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is industry standard for part of that agreement to say,' whatever you upload, you give us permission to show to the world, as well as make incidental copies on our servers to allow for things like retweeting/sharing functions/etc. ,'. – Meredith Rose	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There are incidental accidents on film sets from time to time, but nothing like this, this is a one in a trillion episode. It's a one in a trillion event. – Fox News	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Because it was incidental and I was always making sure that the work got forwarded to the government account to either my own account or [ FBI chief of staff James Rybicki ], so I wasn't worried from a record-keeping perspective and it was, because there will always be a copy of it in the FBI system and I wasn't doing classified work there, so I wasn't concerned about that. – James Comey	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I know nothing about this, i was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today … So today, I really don’t know to what Chairman Nunes on that count was referring. But Chairman Nunes on that count said that whatever Chairman Nunes on that count was referring to was a legal, lawful surveillance and that it was potentially incidental collection on American citizens. – Susan Rice	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today … So today, I really don’t know to what Chairman Nunes on that count was referring. But Chairman Nunes on that count said that whatever Chairman Nunes on that count was referring to was a legal, lawful surveillance and that it was potentially incidental collection on American citizens. – Fox News	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
After much consideration, and in light of the Chairman's admission that he met with his source of information at the White House, I believe that the Chairman should recuse himself from any further involvement in the Russia investigation, as well as any involvement in oversight of matters pertaining to any incidental collection of the Trump transition, as he was also a key member of the transition team. – Adam Schiff	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Just today I heard, just a little while ago, that Devin Nunes had a news conference, did you hear about this, where they have a lot of information on tapping. Did you hear about that? house intelligence chairman Devin Nunes told reporters, wow. Nunes said, so that means I'm right, Nunes said the surveillance appears to have been ... incidental collection, that does not appear to have been related to concerns over Russia. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 7 years ago
If we are listening to two foreign spies, for example, talking to each other on foreign soil or two representatives of a foreign government, and they mention a US person -- that is incidental collection. – Adam Schiff	Found on CNN 7 years ago
This is a normal, incidental collection, based on what I could collect, this appears to be all legally collected foreign intelligence under. – Devin Nunes	Found on CNN 7 years ago
The state is awkwardly trying to reassert its primacy, but generations now of Pakistanis have been raised with the belief that their version of religion trumps everything else, the blasphemy law is almost incidental to the larger trend of a radicalized society that has slipped out of the control of a weak state. – Cyril Almeida	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The blasphemy law is almost incidental to the larger trend of a radicalized society that has slipped out of the control of a weak state. – Cyril Almeida	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The main concern about this condition is we want to warn patients that they shouldn’t go for surgery just because they have a report from the radiologist that states Chiari because it doesn’t always require treatment, very often Chiari is an incidental finding and if they don’t need immediate surgery we caution against it. – Sorel Vorster	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Very often Chiari is an incidental finding and if they don’t need immediate surgery we caution against it. – Sorel Vorster	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We have gotten fewer calls of concern about the Oakland Police Department, we used to get more calls about shootings and just incidental use of force. – Michael Haddad	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is implausible to the extreme that an automatic, incidental, mechanical activity that largely saw no human contact could rise to the level of genocidal violation. – Kevin Walsh	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food. – Peace Pilgrim	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Justice is incidental to law and order. – J. Edgar Hoover	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders. – Oscar W. Firkins	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Virtually all federal actions – from prosecuting crime to imposing taxes to managing property – have some incidental effects on state finances.

– Elizabeth Prelogar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that’s an important distinction to make when you have a variant like omicron which is much more widespread, you are going to have people who get into a car accident and go into the emergency room. They’re swabbing everybody, and you’re going to have people that have incidental positives.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It has made a tremendous impact on the world's oceans, for each kilogram of shrimp, you could get up to 25 kilograms of incidental catch... There's no such thing as a selective bottom trawl.

– Juan Mayorga

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When you sign up for a social media platform, you agree to that site's terms and conditions... essentially a contract governing -- among other things -- what the site can and can not do with the stuff you post, it is industry standard for part of that agreement to say,' whatever you upload, you give us permission to show to the world, as well as make incidental copies on our servers to allow for things like retweeting/sharing functions/etc. ,'.

– Meredith Rose

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is industry standard for part of that agreement to say,' whatever you upload, you give us permission to show to the world, as well as make incidental copies on our servers to allow for things like retweeting/sharing functions/etc. ,'.

– Meredith Rose

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There are incidental accidents on film sets from time to time, but nothing like this, this is a one in a trillion episode. It's a one in a trillion event.

– Fox News

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Because it was incidental and I was always making sure that the work got forwarded to the government account to either my own account or [ FBI chief of staff James Rybicki ], so I wasn't worried from a record-keeping perspective and it was, because there will always be a copy of it in the FBI system and I wasn't doing classified work there, so I wasn't concerned about that.

– James Comey

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I know nothing about this, i was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today … So today, I really don’t know to what Chairman Nunes on that count was referring. But Chairman Nunes on that count said that whatever Chairman Nunes on that count was referring to was a legal, lawful surveillance and that it was potentially incidental collection on American citizens.

– Susan Rice

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today … So today, I really don’t know to what Chairman Nunes on that count was referring. But Chairman Nunes on that count said that whatever Chairman Nunes on that count was referring to was a legal, lawful surveillance and that it was potentially incidental collection on American citizens.

– Fox News

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

After much consideration, and in light of the Chairman's admission that he met with his source of information at the White House, I believe that the Chairman should recuse himself from any further involvement in the Russia investigation, as well as any involvement in oversight of matters pertaining to any incidental collection of the Trump transition, as he was also a key member of the transition team.

– Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Just today I heard, just a little while ago, that Devin Nunes had a news conference, did you hear about this, where they have a lot of information on tapping. Did you hear about that? house intelligence chairman Devin Nunes told reporters, wow. Nunes said, so that means I'm right, Nunes said the surveillance appears to have been ... incidental collection, that does not appear to have been related to concerns over Russia.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

If we are listening to two foreign spies, for example, talking to each other on foreign soil or two representatives of a foreign government, and they mention a US person -- that is incidental collection.

– Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
7 years ago

This is a normal, incidental collection, based on what I could collect, this appears to be all legally collected foreign intelligence under.

– Devin Nunes

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The state is awkwardly trying to reassert its primacy, but generations now of Pakistanis have been raised with the belief that their version of religion trumps everything else, the blasphemy law is almost incidental to the larger trend of a radicalized society that has slipped out of the control of a weak state.

– Cyril Almeida

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The blasphemy law is almost incidental to the larger trend of a radicalized society that has slipped out of the control of a weak state.

– Cyril Almeida

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The main concern about this condition is we want to warn patients that they shouldn’t go for surgery just because they have a report from the radiologist that states Chiari because it doesn’t always require treatment, very often Chiari is an incidental finding and if they don’t need immediate surgery we caution against it.

– Sorel Vorster

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Very often Chiari is an incidental finding and if they don’t need immediate surgery we caution against it.

– Sorel Vorster

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We have gotten fewer calls of concern about the Oakland Police Department, we used to get more calls about shootings and just incidental use of force.

– Michael Haddad

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is implausible to the extreme that an automatic, incidental, mechanical activity that largely saw no human contact could rise to the level of genocidal violation.

– Kevin Walsh

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

– Peace Pilgrim

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Justice is incidental to law and order.

– J. Edgar Hoover

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.

– Oscar W. Firkins

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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