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In order to prepare a counteroffensive or offensive operation you need to destroy many installations, not only on the front line, but also deep behind, 100-150 kilometers behind the enemy lines, especially now, to form strong strike groupings we require tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, heavy weapons that would enable quick counteroffensive operations against the enemy. – Vadym Skibitsky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We had been receiving a number of reports from women who were victims of police officers, usually victims of domestic abuse who did n’t have the confidence to report or if they did report felt that they were massively let down or victimized and sometimes subject to criminal action against them themselves for reporting. – Even Wistrich	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Over the years Metropolitan Police Service’ve had a series of blows to policing, around the policing of violence against women, metropolitan Police Service’ve had the kind of collapse in rape prosecutions which has been an ongoing issue for a while and then Metropolitan Police Service have had the emergence of this phenomenon of police perpetrated abuse. – Sarah Everard	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I am pleased that Donald Trump has withdrawn both of his pending actions against my office. As we have shown all along, we have a legitimate legal case against him and his organization, and we cannot be bullied or dissuaded from pursuing it. – Letitia James	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You feel awful, but there’s nothing you can do. You’re fighting against a system that’s collapsing. – Jatinder Hayre	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When you walk into the hospital in the morning, you’re met with this cacophony of grief and dismay and dissatisfaction from patients, who are lined up in the corridor, you feel awful, but there’s nothing you can do. You’re fighting against a system that’s collapsing. – Jatinder Hayre	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They said he had a gun. If he had one, it was for protecting himself against the animals in the forest. That’s what I understand. – Belkis Terán	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When the president speaks and the president makes a statement about something, it typically galvanizes a national conversation, and if Biden were to come out against the death penalty and explain as I believe he should, the extent to which the death penalty damages American values … that provides a kind of example. – Austin Sarat	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's unfortunate and truly hurtful to hear that a fellow RNC member would misuse a private conversation and completely twist it against me for personal or political gain, as chair of the RNC Faith Advisory Board, I am proud to have led the charge, alongside fellow RNC members, to engage with voters from all faiths and religions. – Tamara Scott	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
As far as the delivery of the Leopard is concerned, there is no unanimous opinion, there are good reasons for the delivery and there are good reasons against it. And given the overall situation of a war that has been going on for almost one year now, all the pros and cons have to be weighed very carefully, and that assessment is explicitly shared by many allies. – Boris Pistorius	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There’s a strong interest in thinking about respiratory diseases in a more holistic way, transmission is the same. And there are certain types of measures that are good protection against all respiratory diseases. So that could really help people understand that when we are in high circulation for respiratory diseases, there are steps that you can take – just in general. – Janet Hamilton	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Mr. Peña is presumed innocent of the charges against him, mr. Peña and I look forward to a full and fair investigation of these claims. I plan to fully defend Mr. Peña and fiercely safeguard his rights throughout this process. – Roberta Yurcic	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I don’t know if I’m going to finally wake up or something. It just doesn’t seem real, the past 48 hours has been a complete whirlwind from going from being ready to go back home, booking a flight, packing my bags. I was supposed to leave yesterday. Andy Murray of Great Britain reacts during the change over in their round two singles match against Thanasi Kokkinakis of Australia during day four of the 2023 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 19, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Andy Murray left fuming as hes not allowed to use toilet during five-set marathon at Australian Open. – Michael Mmoh	Found on CNN 1 year ago
She has always been an unbelievable ball striker but she’s improved her consistency and movement so much over the last year, she is hitting the ball better than ever and the win against Swiatek at the United Cup will give her a huge amount of confidence to believe that she can finally have that big breakthrough at the slams. – Laura Robson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There have been people who have made some pretty vile threats against her, i think that something that’s put pressure on, but I think she was quite clear that she just ran out of ran out of juice in the tank. – Neale Jones	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Marvel’s reentry into China after a de facto ban of [more than] three years by Chinese authorities is especially significant given the backdrop against which it is happening, not only is China facing increasing economic headwinds at home, but also a more challenging external environment, driven by growing communication and trust gaps with the West. – Alfredo Montufar-Helu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s impossible not to think about our past and our path. We’re blocks away from the Annapolis docks, where so many enslaved people arrived in this country against their will, and we are standing in front of a capitol that was built by their hands. We have made uneven and unimaginable progress since then. – Wes Moore	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He [ Nadal ] is an incredible champion, he’s never going to give up, regardless of the situation, so even closing it out against a top guy like that is always tough. – Getty Images	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Why do you, from Wagner, call anyone from Serbia when you know that it is against our regulations ? – Aleksandar Vucic	Found on Reuters 1 year ago
Metropolitan Police Service is committed to tackling violence against women and girls in all its forms, i hope the victims and the public more widely are reassured that no one is above the law and Metropolitan Police Service will relentlessly pursue those offenders who target women in this way. – Iain Moor	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The new year is off to a rough start for President Biden, whatever bounce he may have had from the GOP’s lackluster midterms and the drawn-out speaker election may be dissipating. The timing of the classified documents controversy is especially bad for him in light of his rumored 2024 announcement since it neutralizes what was going to be one of his primary lines of attack against former President Trump. – Giancarlo Sopo	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
At this stage, I don’t think this scandal alone will prevent President Biden from pursuing a second term, but it weakens one of his primary lines of attack against former President Trump if he is the GOP nominee, the biggest risk for Democrats is that it could demoralize their voters, especially if the DOJ’s investigation escalates. – Giancarlo Sopo	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The pictures from Lützerath are of course painful, as we have always fought against the continued burning of coal, we know the importance of Lützerath as a symbol in the climate movement. However, this should not obscure what has been achieved. – Martin Lechtape	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Discrimination of any sort is not welcome in the state of Florida, and we do not abide by the woke notion that discrimination should be overlooked if applied in a politically popular manner or against a politically unpopular demographic. We are fighting all discrimination in our schools and our workplaces, and we will fight it in publicly accessible places of meeting or activity. – Bryan Griffin	Found on FOX News 1 year ago

In order to prepare a counteroffensive or offensive operation you need to destroy many installations, not only on the front line, but also deep behind, 100-150 kilometers behind the enemy lines, especially now, to form strong strike groupings we require tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, heavy weapons that would enable quick counteroffensive operations against the enemy.

– Vadym Skibitsky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We had been receiving a number of reports from women who were victims of police officers, usually victims of domestic abuse who did n’t have the confidence to report or if they did report felt that they were massively let down or victimized and sometimes subject to criminal action against them themselves for reporting.

– Even Wistrich

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Over the years Metropolitan Police Service’ve had a series of blows to policing, around the policing of violence against women, metropolitan Police Service’ve had the kind of collapse in rape prosecutions which has been an ongoing issue for a while and then Metropolitan Police Service have had the emergence of this phenomenon of police perpetrated abuse.

– Sarah Everard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am pleased that Donald Trump has withdrawn both of his pending actions against my office. As we have shown all along, we have a legitimate legal case against him and his organization, and we cannot be bullied or dissuaded from pursuing it.

– Letitia James

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You feel awful, but there’s nothing you can do. You’re fighting against a system that’s collapsing.

– Jatinder Hayre

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you walk into the hospital in the morning, you’re met with this cacophony of grief and dismay and dissatisfaction from patients, who are lined up in the corridor, you feel awful, but there’s nothing you can do. You’re fighting against a system that’s collapsing.

– Jatinder Hayre

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They said he had a gun. If he had one, it was for protecting himself against the animals in the forest. That’s what I understand.

– Belkis Terán

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When the president speaks and the president makes a statement about something, it typically galvanizes a national conversation, and if Biden were to come out against the death penalty and explain as I believe he should, the extent to which the death penalty damages American values … that provides a kind of example.

– Austin Sarat

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's unfortunate and truly hurtful to hear that a fellow RNC member would misuse a private conversation and completely twist it against me for personal or political gain, as chair of the RNC Faith Advisory Board, I am proud to have led the charge, alongside fellow RNC members, to engage with voters from all faiths and religions.

– Tamara Scott

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

As far as the delivery of the Leopard is concerned, there is no unanimous opinion, there are good reasons for the delivery and there are good reasons against it. And given the overall situation of a war that has been going on for almost one year now, all the pros and cons have to be weighed very carefully, and that assessment is explicitly shared by many allies.

– Boris Pistorius

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s a strong interest in thinking about respiratory diseases in a more holistic way, transmission is the same. And there are certain types of measures that are good protection against all respiratory diseases. So that could really help people understand that when we are in high circulation for respiratory diseases, there are steps that you can take – just in general.

– Janet Hamilton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mr. Peña is presumed innocent of the charges against him, mr. Peña and I look forward to a full and fair investigation of these claims. I plan to fully defend Mr. Peña and fiercely safeguard his rights throughout this process.

– Roberta Yurcic

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don’t know if I’m going to finally wake up or something. It just doesn’t seem real, the past 48 hours has been a complete whirlwind from going from being ready to go back home, booking a flight, packing my bags. I was supposed to leave yesterday. Andy Murray of Great Britain reacts during the change over in their round two singles match against Thanasi Kokkinakis of Australia during day four of the 2023 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 19, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Andy Murray left fuming as hes not allowed to use toilet during five-set marathon at Australian Open.

– Michael Mmoh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She has always been an unbelievable ball striker but she’s improved her consistency and movement so much over the last year, she is hitting the ball better than ever and the win against Swiatek at the United Cup will give her a huge amount of confidence to believe that she can finally have that big breakthrough at the slams.

– Laura Robson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There have been people who have made some pretty vile threats against her, i think that something that’s put pressure on, but I think she was quite clear that she just ran out of ran out of juice in the tank.

– Neale Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Marvel’s reentry into China after a de facto ban of [more than] three years by Chinese authorities is especially significant given the backdrop against which it is happening, not only is China facing increasing economic headwinds at home, but also a more challenging external environment, driven by growing communication and trust gaps with the West.

– Alfredo Montufar-Helu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s impossible not to think about our past and our path. We’re blocks away from the Annapolis docks, where so many enslaved people arrived in this country against their will, and we are standing in front of a capitol that was built by their hands. We have made uneven and unimaginable progress since then.

– Wes Moore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He [ Nadal ] is an incredible champion, he’s never going to give up, regardless of the situation, so even closing it out against a top guy like that is always tough.

– Getty Images

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Why do you, from Wagner, call anyone from Serbia when you know that it is against our regulations ?

– Aleksandar Vucic

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

Metropolitan Police Service is committed to tackling violence against women and girls in all its forms, i hope the victims and the public more widely are reassured that no one is above the law and Metropolitan Police Service will relentlessly pursue those offenders who target women in this way.

– Iain Moor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The new year is off to a rough start for President Biden, whatever bounce he may have had from the GOP’s lackluster midterms and the drawn-out speaker election may be dissipating. The timing of the classified documents controversy is especially bad for him in light of his rumored 2024 announcement since it neutralizes what was going to be one of his primary lines of attack against former President Trump.

– Giancarlo Sopo

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

At this stage, I don’t think this scandal alone will prevent President Biden from pursuing a second term, but it weakens one of his primary lines of attack against former President Trump if he is the GOP nominee, the biggest risk for Democrats is that it could demoralize their voters, especially if the DOJ’s investigation escalates.

– Giancarlo Sopo

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The pictures from Lützerath are of course painful, as we have always fought against the continued burning of coal, we know the importance of Lützerath as a symbol in the climate movement. However, this should not obscure what has been achieved.

– Martin Lechtape

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Discrimination of any sort is not welcome in the state of Florida, and we do not abide by the woke notion that discrimination should be overlooked if applied in a politically popular manner or against a politically unpopular demographic. We are fighting all discrimination in our schools and our workplaces, and we will fight it in publicly accessible places of meeting or activity.

– Bryan Griffin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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