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We are already beginning to stop work precisely because of the lack of fuel. – Federico Garcia	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We don't exactly know why we see high temperatures or increasing temperatures produce mental health problems, for example, is poor sleep due to hot temperatures the thing that produces mental health problems ? We have a lot of work to do to figure out precisely what is causing what. – Nick Obradovich	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Trust in global governance is also fragile, multilateralism is under fire precisely when we need it most. – Antonio Guterres	Found on CNN 5 years ago
They expect this to be treated seriously and addressed promptly. That is precisely -- precisely what Chairman [ Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ] Grassley has done and is doing. ... But the American people also insist that vague, unsubstantiated and uncorroborated allegations of 30-plus-year-old misconduct, where all the supposed witnesses either totally deny it or can't confirm it, is nowhere near grounds to nullify someone's career or destroy their good name. – Christine Blasey Ford	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The attorney general is entrusted with prosecuting individual citizens and making decisions that affect the life and liberty of all Americans, so in carrying out that portion of the job, the attorney general has to be independent of narrow partisan politics. But I think it's a mistake to say that the attorney general is independent to the president in the sense that he's not, he's not there to help the president enforce the president's policy agenda. That's precisely what he's there to do. – Noel Francisco	Found on CNN 5 years ago
If somebody comes along and wants to pay an attractive price for anything, you have to put your commercial hat on and think about it commercially, not emotionally, and that's precisely where I am. – Vijay Mallya	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We go for a swim, we take a few dives and I hit my head on the bottom of the pool, the amazing thing is there was not even a cut on my head. It just hit at precisely the angle where all the force was transmitted to one spot … the cervical vertebrae which severed the spinal cord. – Fox News	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
They are among the best Singapore can offer, and I am sure they will be involved( in the summit), they remain very much a substantial and frontline force, and the demands of this kind of event are precisely the sort of special operation that the Gurkhas are trained to handle. – Tim Huxley	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Gary accomplished precisely what Valeant expected him to. – Brendan McGuire	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The story that we can read from the tracks is that the humans were stalking; following in the footsteps, precisely in the footsteps of the sloth, while it was being distracted and turning, somebody else would come across and try and deliver the killer blow. It's an interesting story and it's all written in the footprints. – Matthew Bennett	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The midterm elections are foremost in Trump's mind, this is precisely the time when allies must join together on security matters to face North Korea. – Katsuyuki Kawai	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I don't recall what Mike Pompeo asked me that day precisely. – Mike Pompeo	Found on CNN 6 years ago
When Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke chose to address me in Japanese( when no one else was greeted in their ancestral language), I understood ‘ this is precisely why Japanese Americans were treated as they were more than 75 years ago. – Colleen Hanabusa	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
That will help tell the story more precisely of where the troops were, where they were firing from, what positions they were defending. – Archaeologist Tom Gresham	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The problem with turning to the government to regulate more aggressively is that it could easily, and probably would, result in an overreaction by the companies to avoid whatever punishment was put in place, that would interfere with the free expression that is one of the benefits of social media… If the platforms do this work themselves, they can do it more precisely and do it without government overreach. – Paul Barrett	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to be talking about [the funders] right now, there are legal defense funds that exist for precisely this reason. – White House	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
There are legal defense funds that exist for precisely this reason. – White House	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
When he’s executed, he leaves enormous debt and all his personal property is recorded quite precisely. – Alan Wintermute	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The printing gives you scalability, because you can scale a technology up instead of making them by hand, it gives you reproducibility, because you can print them in the same manner every time, and it gives you precision, because it can precisely place the cells where you need them, it will eventually decrease the cost of the production of these technologies, because you're automating the process. – Anthony Atala	Found on CNN 6 years ago
However accurate they may be at rest, the Fitbits are wildly inaccurate as heart rate monitors when worn during moderate- and high-intensity exercise, which is precisely the purpose for which Fitbit (in particular) markets them to consumers. – Jonathan Selbin	Found on CNN 7 years ago
In Japan we have some volcanoes, earthquakes and such kind of natural hazards. People (want to create) some monitoring or analysis equipment but we don't know ... what kind of factor to use, so we need to know the natural system more clearly or precisely ... we have to observe the earth more precisely. – Natsue Abe	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Very true words, words that were spoken from the heart ... words that are going to be controversial precisely because they are true and they are powerful, steve King is getting at a root nationalism, a nationalism in a real sense of the word, and I am very proud of him for doing that. If this is a signal that conservatives are moving in the right direction under Trump, that they're getting at something real, then I am very happy. – David Duke	Found on CNN 7 years ago
We passed that law precisely because of this type of discrimination against people of faith, this is an attack on religious liberty and a violation of the First Amendment and state law. – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The reason we focused our attention on height is precisely because height is a strong predictor of income-- and many social scientists, including economists and anthropologists, believe that this relationship is at least partly causal, so we do think there is a causal relationship between height and voting which operates through income. – Sara Watson	Found on FOX News 7 years ago

We are already beginning to stop work precisely because of the lack of fuel.

– Federico Garcia

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We don't exactly know why we see high temperatures or increasing temperatures produce mental health problems, for example, is poor sleep due to hot temperatures the thing that produces mental health problems ? We have a lot of work to do to figure out precisely what is causing what.

– Nick Obradovich

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Trust in global governance is also fragile, multilateralism is under fire precisely when we need it most.

– Antonio Guterres

Found on CNN
5 years ago

They expect this to be treated seriously and addressed promptly. That is precisely -- precisely what Chairman [ Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ] Grassley has done and is doing. ... But the American people also insist that vague, unsubstantiated and uncorroborated allegations of 30-plus-year-old misconduct, where all the supposed witnesses either totally deny it or can't confirm it, is nowhere near grounds to nullify someone's career or destroy their good name.

– Christine Blasey Ford

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The attorney general is entrusted with prosecuting individual citizens and making decisions that affect the life and liberty of all Americans, so in carrying out that portion of the job, the attorney general has to be independent of narrow partisan politics. But I think it's a mistake to say that the attorney general is independent to the president in the sense that he's not, he's not there to help the president enforce the president's policy agenda. That's precisely what he's there to do.

– Noel Francisco

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If somebody comes along and wants to pay an attractive price for anything, you have to put your commercial hat on and think about it commercially, not emotionally, and that's precisely where I am.

– Vijay Mallya

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We go for a swim, we take a few dives and I hit my head on the bottom of the pool, the amazing thing is there was not even a cut on my head. It just hit at precisely the angle where all the force was transmitted to one spot … the cervical vertebrae which severed the spinal cord.

– Fox News

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

They are among the best Singapore can offer, and I am sure they will be involved( in the summit), they remain very much a substantial and frontline force, and the demands of this kind of event are precisely the sort of special operation that the Gurkhas are trained to handle.

– Tim Huxley

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Gary accomplished precisely what Valeant expected him to.

– Brendan McGuire

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

The story that we can read from the tracks is that the humans were stalking; following in the footsteps, precisely in the footsteps of the sloth, while it was being distracted and turning, somebody else would come across and try and deliver the killer blow. It's an interesting story and it's all written in the footprints.

– Matthew Bennett

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

The midterm elections are foremost in Trump's mind, this is precisely the time when allies must join together on security matters to face North Korea.

– Katsuyuki Kawai

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I don't recall what Mike Pompeo asked me that day precisely.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN
6 years ago

When Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke chose to address me in Japanese( when no one else was greeted in their ancestral language), I understood ‘ this is precisely why Japanese Americans were treated as they were more than 75 years ago.

– Colleen Hanabusa

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

That will help tell the story more precisely of where the troops were, where they were firing from, what positions they were defending.

– Archaeologist Tom Gresham

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The problem with turning to the government to regulate more aggressively is that it could easily, and probably would, result in an overreaction by the companies to avoid whatever punishment was put in place, that would interfere with the free expression that is one of the benefits of social media… If the platforms do this work themselves, they can do it more precisely and do it without government overreach.

– Paul Barrett

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to be talking about [the funders] right now, there are legal defense funds that exist for precisely this reason.

– White House

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

There are legal defense funds that exist for precisely this reason.

– White House

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

When he’s executed, he leaves enormous debt and all his personal property is recorded quite precisely.

– Alan Wintermute

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The printing gives you scalability, because you can scale a technology up instead of making them by hand, it gives you reproducibility, because you can print them in the same manner every time, and it gives you precision, because it can precisely place the cells where you need them, it will eventually decrease the cost of the production of these technologies, because you're automating the process.

– Anthony Atala

Found on CNN
6 years ago

However accurate they may be at rest, the Fitbits are wildly inaccurate as heart rate monitors when worn during moderate- and high-intensity exercise, which is precisely the purpose for which Fitbit (in particular) markets them to consumers.

– Jonathan Selbin

Found on CNN
7 years ago

In Japan we have some volcanoes, earthquakes and such kind of natural hazards. People (want to create) some monitoring or analysis equipment but we don't know ... what kind of factor to use, so we need to know the natural system more clearly or precisely ... we have to observe the earth more precisely.

– Natsue Abe

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Very true words, words that were spoken from the heart ... words that are going to be controversial precisely because they are true and they are powerful, steve King is getting at a root nationalism, a nationalism in a real sense of the word, and I am very proud of him for doing that. If this is a signal that conservatives are moving in the right direction under Trump, that they're getting at something real, then I am very happy.

– David Duke

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We passed that law precisely because of this type of discrimination against people of faith, this is an attack on religious liberty and a violation of the First Amendment and state law.

– Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The reason we focused our attention on height is precisely because height is a strong predictor of income-- and many social scientists, including economists and anthropologists, believe that this relationship is at least partly causal, so we do think there is a causal relationship between height and voting which operates through income.

– Sara Watson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

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