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They tapped into the critical race theory debates long before it became popular in the regular media. – Bob Smietana	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's so effective because they have tapped into something that's so fundamental and basic -- that is parenting, you have a group of dads that decided to do something to protect their children without being prompted by the government, without getting paid, and turned the trajectory of this school. – Adrian Perkins	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Students can see these connections that you don't see when you're kind of steeped in specific scientific training, so it's like a continual source of inspiration to see that we have not tapped out the pool of ideas -- there are still new ideas, even though we get hundreds each year, we see all kinds of awesome, undiscovered ideas that we never would have come up with ourselves. – Katy Martin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
After a year of mostly connecting in a virtual space, people are ready for in-person encounters, clearly,' Adrian's kickback' tapped into that need. – Nick Brody	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I was just tapped on the shoulder from above and told to write these songs, as opposed to wanting to be a success in the music business. – Townes Van Zandt	added by RobertHaigh 2 years ago
For the first score, New Yorks Anders Lee skated into an opening on the right side of the net and tapped New Yorks Anders Lee stick to get the puck. Adam Pelech perfectly placed a diagonal pass on New Yorks Anders Lee stick and Adam Pelech pushed it in to put New York ahead 1-0 with 5:10 left in the opening period. Adam Pelech put Adam Pelech in a great spot just had to get it to Adam Pelech. – Adam Pelech	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
From afar it looks like Charlize Theron have nothing in common -- obviously, I'm a liberal and a lot of these women have said things that have been deeply upsetting to me, but at the same time, as a woman, understanding what each of them went through and understanding what Megyn Kelly was facing, especially in those two weeks where she didn't step forward and she didn't support Gretchen [ Carlson ], that's when I emotionally tapped into her because I started to see similarities between Charlize Theron, dare I say that. – Charlize Theron	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It spreads so fast. The trees are all bare and cannot be tapped at all, farmers in the affected districts are losing their income. – Uthai Sonlucksub	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There's a whole language to the internet that people haven't tapped into. – Jonathan Suhr	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour. – Sir Winston Churchill	added by Normando 4 years ago
Alt-right extremist networks are very good at circumventing existing legislation( policies and practices on platforms). New Zealand telecom executives use irony and sarcasm to spread hateful ideas and hide New Zealand telecom executives behind memes, the alt-right has tapped into this in a way that no jihadist movement has. – United States	Found on CNN 5 years ago
This is an America that can be deeply unfair, where hard work doesnt necessarily pay off, where if you have money, you can buy anything because just about everything is for sale, including integrity for sale, a whole lot of people have real good reason to believe the system is rigged against them. Listen, this is what Donald Trump tapped into. And in a lot of ways, guess what? He was right. – Don Lemon	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I am proud of it now, but at the time I certainly didn’t know it was going to be that big of a deal, we just saw it as an opportunity to promote the current show. The result was very positive, so I did it again. I honestly can’t offer a comment on any others who have participated since then… I never had time to watch. [But] those who are tapped to do the halftime show are very lucky and part of a very exclusive club… which I suppose makes me the matriarch. – Carol Channing	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Merkel’s ‘ Open Door ’ policy to immigrants was roundly criticized by voters, the AfD have tapped into this anger and the popular perception( whether accurate or not) that immigrants are the cause of violent crime. – Michael Geary	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The suspect was passed out behind the wheel, and so the officer tapped on the glass, the guy woke up and he threw the car into drive and went into [ a ] fence. – Fred Jonestold Fox	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I don't believe Trump Tower was tapped. – Devin Nunes	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism! – Paul Ryan	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory, is it legal for a sitting President to be 'wire tapping' a race for president? – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I was taking it slow but apparently not slow enough and after I went to that corner I started slipping and did everything I thought I was supposed to, i tapped on the brakes, tried to steer into the skid but we started to slide off. – Kimberlee Robinson	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
You can still do security and you can be nice. But when they start throwing stones and rolling propane bombs at you, it is not being nice anymore, we are outnumbered thousands to one. The law enforcement is outnumbered hundreds to one. It is a small law enforcement [presence] here and they are tapped out, these protesters are taking away other officers from their community. The locals are tired, their livestock is missing. This has been going on for months. – James Reese	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
There is a critical mass of inventors in the country which must be tapped, transformed into a commodity which will foster growth. – Ioannis Kaplanis	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
She can reflect some of the same sentiment that Trump and the Brexit forces tapped into but use it to her advantage. She can say,‘We need to have a smart immigration policy but we don’t have to be ugly or divisive.' She is not going to, and doesn’t want to, out-Trump Trump, but the idea is to say, ‘I understand these concerns,'. – Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Trump has tapped into that frustration and layered it with a racist appeal. – De Blasio	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There's definitely an evolution going on with Beyoncé. It shows you how smart she is. She's tapping into the same consumer culture that shes always tapped into but shes doing it with some political overtones. – Bakari Kitwana	Found on CNN 8 years ago

They tapped into the critical race theory debates long before it became popular in the regular media.

– Bob Smietana

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's so effective because they have tapped into something that's so fundamental and basic -- that is parenting, you have a group of dads that decided to do something to protect their children without being prompted by the government, without getting paid, and turned the trajectory of this school.

– Adrian Perkins

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Students can see these connections that you don't see when you're kind of steeped in specific scientific training, so it's like a continual source of inspiration to see that we have not tapped out the pool of ideas -- there are still new ideas, even though we get hundreds each year, we see all kinds of awesome, undiscovered ideas that we never would have come up with ourselves.

– Katy Martin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

After a year of mostly connecting in a virtual space, people are ready for in-person encounters, clearly,' Adrian's kickback' tapped into that need.

– Nick Brody

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I was just tapped on the shoulder from above and told to write these songs, as opposed to wanting to be a success in the music business.

– Townes Van Zandt

added by RobertHaigh
2 years ago

For the first score, New Yorks Anders Lee skated into an opening on the right side of the net and tapped New Yorks Anders Lee stick to get the puck. Adam Pelech perfectly placed a diagonal pass on New Yorks Anders Lee stick and Adam Pelech pushed it in to put New York ahead 1-0 with 5:10 left in the opening period. Adam Pelech put Adam Pelech in a great spot just had to get it to Adam Pelech.

– Adam Pelech

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

From afar it looks like Charlize Theron have nothing in common -- obviously, I'm a liberal and a lot of these women have said things that have been deeply upsetting to me, but at the same time, as a woman, understanding what each of them went through and understanding what Megyn Kelly was facing, especially in those two weeks where she didn't step forward and she didn't support Gretchen [ Carlson ], that's when I emotionally tapped into her because I started to see similarities between Charlize Theron, dare I say that.

– Charlize Theron

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It spreads so fast. The trees are all bare and cannot be tapped at all, farmers in the affected districts are losing their income.

– Uthai Sonlucksub

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There's a whole language to the internet that people haven't tapped into.

– Jonathan Suhr

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

– Sir Winston Churchill

added by Normando
4 years ago

Alt-right extremist networks are very good at circumventing existing legislation( policies and practices on platforms). New Zealand telecom executives use irony and sarcasm to spread hateful ideas and hide New Zealand telecom executives behind memes, the alt-right has tapped into this in a way that no jihadist movement has.

– United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is an America that can be deeply unfair, where hard work doesnt necessarily pay off, where if you have money, you can buy anything because just about everything is for sale, including integrity for sale, a whole lot of people have real good reason to believe the system is rigged against them. Listen, this is what Donald Trump tapped into. And in a lot of ways, guess what? He was right.

– Don Lemon

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I am proud of it now, but at the time I certainly didn’t know it was going to be that big of a deal, we just saw it as an opportunity to promote the current show. The result was very positive, so I did it again. I honestly can’t offer a comment on any others who have participated since then… I never had time to watch. [But] those who are tapped to do the halftime show are very lucky and part of a very exclusive club… which I suppose makes me the matriarch.

– Carol Channing

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Merkel’s ‘ Open Door ’ policy to immigrants was roundly criticized by voters, the AfD have tapped into this anger and the popular perception( whether accurate or not) that immigrants are the cause of violent crime.

– Michael Geary

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The suspect was passed out behind the wheel, and so the officer tapped on the glass, the guy woke up and he threw the car into drive and went into [ a ] fence.

– Fred Jonestold Fox

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I don't believe Trump Tower was tapped.

– Devin Nunes

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!

– Paul Ryan

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory, is it legal for a sitting President to be 'wire tapping' a race for president?

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I was taking it slow but apparently not slow enough and after I went to that corner I started slipping and did everything I thought I was supposed to, i tapped on the brakes, tried to steer into the skid but we started to slide off.

– Kimberlee Robinson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

You can still do security and you can be nice. But when they start throwing stones and rolling propane bombs at you, it is not being nice anymore, we are outnumbered thousands to one. The law enforcement is outnumbered hundreds to one. It is a small law enforcement [presence] here and they are tapped out, these protesters are taking away other officers from their community. The locals are tired, their livestock is missing. This has been going on for months.

– James Reese

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

There is a critical mass of inventors in the country which must be tapped, transformed into a commodity which will foster growth.

– Ioannis Kaplanis

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

She can reflect some of the same sentiment that Trump and the Brexit forces tapped into but use it to her advantage. She can say,‘We need to have a smart immigration policy but we don’t have to be ugly or divisive.' She is not going to, and doesn’t want to, out-Trump Trump, but the idea is to say, ‘I understand these concerns,'.

– Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Trump has tapped into that frustration and layered it with a racist appeal.

– De Blasio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There's definitely an evolution going on with Beyoncé. It shows you how smart she is. She's tapping into the same consumer culture that shes always tapped into but shes doing it with some political overtones.

– Bakari Kitwana

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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