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a tall or·der

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of a tall order in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of a tall order in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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  1. Scott Miller:

    When I leave Afghanistan this time, and I tell this to the Afghan people, it will be my last time as a soldier and what I would like to leave is a country that is peaceful and unified. Now that's a tall order, but that would be my hope.

  2. Jennifer Gommerman:

    Whether they'll be able to confer complete sterilizing immunity, that's a very tall order, but we should be now working on ways to slow down person-to-person transmission, because this virus continues to mutate and then fools our immune system and gets past that mucosal layer.Get CNN Healths weekly newsletter Sign up here to get The Results Are In with Dr. Sanjay Gupta every Tuesday from the CNN Health team.

  3. John Fredericks:

    What he needs to do is hold the very motivated Donald Trump base in Virginia together and inspire that enthusiasm while also attempting to distance himself from some of the Donald Trump personality idiosyncrasies that turned off some of the Virginia big-market suburbanite women, that's a tall order.

  4. Bharat Pankhania:

    If one were to draw a graph of vaccine coverage versus danger, it would be a linear progression, the greater the vaccine coverage, the less the dangers and the other way around, of course, we want to get to 90 % coverage, it is a tall order globally. If we get to 70 % and stay there, there will be many sporadic outbreaks which may overwhelm health services. Worse, it will create more chances for the virus to mutate and variants of concern to emerge.

  5. Scott Miller:

    This is ultimately about national interests not just for the Afghanistan John Bass, but it is vital national interest -- 9/11 terrorists groups came from here, and today there are other terrorist groups that could affect external to Afghanistan and the homeland, when I leave Afghanistan this time, and I tell this to the Afghan people, it will be my last time as a soldier and what I would like to leave is a country that is peaceful and unified. Now that's a tall order, but that would be my hope.

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