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Beware the ease of blaming Chauvin alone. While he is a blunt instrument of police brutality and racism, he could never flourish in a police agency that lived up to its mission statement. – Bob Bennett	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The end of the rate hiking cycle is in sight, the Fed is trying to navigate the very narrow path between defeating inflation and destroying the economy with blunt force rate hikes — even they now know the latter is a very real risk. – Jamie Cox	Found on CNN 1 year ago
> WASHINGTON, Jan 5( Reuters) - The United States will expand Trump-era restrictions to rapidly expel Cuban, Nicaraguan and Haitian migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, President Joe Biden said on Thursday in President Joe Biden first major speech on border security.At the same time, The United States will allow up to 30,000 people from those three countries plus Venezuela to enter the country by air each month, President Joe Biden said.The two-pronged approach is designed to blunt criticism from Republicans who have attacked President Joe Biden as record numbers of migrants cross the U.S.-Mexico border while also placating Democrats and immigration advocates who say Title 42 restrictions adopted under former President Donald Trump block migrants from exercising their right to apply for asylum.This new process is orderly, its safe and its humane, President Joe Biden said in a speech at the White House. He said his message to those would-be migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua or Haiti without a U.S. sponsor is : Do not just show up at the border.In November, U.S. border officials encountered 82,000 migrants from those countries and Venezuela who were attempting to enter without permission at the border with Mexico, according to U.S. government data.The plan is part of a broader effort to deter record numbers of border crossers and address the political and humanitarian challenge of mass migration that has dogged the Democratic president since he took office in 2021, as well as his predecessors from both parties.These actions alone are not going to fix our entire immigration system. – Joe Biden	Found on Reuters 1 year ago
I didn't smoke a blunt because I wanted to make it cool or popular. People are doing this every day. This is the reality of the world we live in. What I did it for is so we could take the stigma away, because there are people in Congress that are smoking weed, okay? They may never openly say that they're smoking weed, but there are people in Congress who are smoking weed. Why? Because in D.C., it's not illegal. – Gary Chambers	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I'm going to be very blunt and very honest with you. My focus is totally on this November. – Richard Blumenthal	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I played a long time ago, and I played for a long time. So things have changed a lot when I first got into the league, my rookie year, a Hall of Fame player on the team, he’s in the Hall of Fame now, invited me over to his house and he gave me the speech about how to take care of yourself in the NFL. And he pulled out some cannabis, crushed it up, split a blunt, opened it up, put the cannabis in there, took a Vicodin, crushed it up, sprinkled the Vico in there, rolled up the blunt and passed it to me. That was a vet, teaching me as a rookie, how to take care of Ricky Williams in the NFL. – Ricky Williams	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
In Mark Tritton blunt view, this was a cosmetic reinvention — copied from Target — with very little substance behind it, it is little wonder that it has quickly fallen apart. – Neil Saunders	Found on CNN 1 year ago
His cousins don’t have police protection and they travel with ease, so people do struggle to understand where the security threat sits. And to be blunt, why should Harry have police protection paid for by the British people when he’s going to be in places that are heavily protected by police anyway? – Royalty TV Nick Bullen	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
With hindering prosecution, you usually need to provide some criminal assistance to a person that has committed a felony, but for someone to tell an officer, ‘ Karen Charrington can't come in,' and they don't want to answer questions – Karen Charrington have that full right to remain silent to police officers. Karen Charrington’re not obligated to tell the officers what happened in a crime. Lauren Pazienza being led into a New York City courthouse on March 22, 2022. ( Curtis Means) Lauren Pazienza being led into a New York City courthouse on March 22, 2022( Curtis Means) After allegedly shoving Barbara Gustern to Barbara Gustern death, Pazienza stayed in the area for more than 20 minutes, according to The DA. NYC SOCIALITE ACCUSED IN ELDERLY SHOVE DEATH BULLIED CLASSMATES IN SCHOOL Surveillance footage reviewed by the DA captured Pazienza getting into a fight with a man believed to be her fiancé about seven minutes after the shove, then watching as an ambulance arrived at the location. About half an hour after the attack, Pazienza and her fiancé allegedly entered Penn Station and took the subway back to their shared condo in Astoria, Queens. Building where Lauren Pazienza and Lauren Pazienza fiancé reside in Queens, New York( Fox News Digital / Rebecca Rosenberg) It wasn't until six days later Lauren Pazienza fled New York City on March 16 after Barbara Gustern succumbed to Barbara Gustern injuries. Lauren Pazienza's parents' home in Port Jefferson, New York( Fox News Digital Digital/Rebecca Rosenberg) MARCH 10 : Barbara Gustern shoved to the ground in Manhattan MARCH 15 : Barbara Gustern dies. Lauren Pazienza cause of death ruled to blunt-force trauma to the head MARCH 16 : Pazienza reportedly flees to parents' home on Long Island as she apparently deleted her social media MARCH 17 : Pazienza allegedly stopped using her cellphone and hid it at her aunt's house MARCH 19 : NYPD received anonymous tip on Pazienza MARCH 21 : NYPD turned away from Pazienza family home MARCH 22 : Pazienza retains attorney and surrenders in Manhattan Lauren Pazienza's mug shot. – Karen Charrington	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
To be blunt, I’m not sure why a ‘four-figure ad buy’ is even making news, for context, political campaigns in Florida spend eight figures. I have never heard of a ‘four figure’ ad buy in Florida until today, actually. – Christina Pushaw	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We're executing a plan in coordination with major oil producing consumers and producers toward a collective investment to secure stability and global energy supply, this will be -- this will blunt gas prices. I want to limit the pain the American people are feeling at the gas pump. This is critical to me. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This will blunt gas prices, i want to limit the pain that the American people are feeling at the gas pump—this is critical to me. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
[What] we’re going to have to do is have a massive presidential year-like turnout. I think that’s going to give us our best chance and maybe the only chance if we have an off year turnout, if we get the same kind of turnout that we got when it was Roy Blunt was last on the ballot, Democrats could have a chance. – Emanuel Cleaver	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Finally, the Ukrainian president criticized the White House in terms that were so blunt that even the Times had to report them, saying they keep supporting this theme, [Volodymyr] Zelensky said of the repeated warnings by American officials, ‘they make it as acute and burning as possible, in my opinion. This is a mistake’. – Drew Angerer/Pool via AP	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The vulnerable people are the people who have not been vaccinated, and I hope that the possibility that we're seeing -- that we're going to be getting a surge of Omicron, which is almost inevitable given its characteristic of high degree of transmissibility, we have the tools to be able to blunt this. We just need to implement them. – Anthony Fauci	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We need clarification on the percentage of children who have debilitating effects from Covid, especially neurological effects in the developing brain, we need the pediatric neurological societies to really look into this more in depth. ... We tend to use very blunt instruments when talking about either adolescents' or children's deaths, and only hospitalizations. There are so many more dimensions to Covid than that. – Peter Hotez	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I need to be blunt : the world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure -- and the price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world's poorest countries. – Tedros Adhanom	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I need to be blunt, the world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure. And the price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world's poorest countries. – Jerome Kim	Found on CNN 3 years ago
TikTok has previously acknowledged that in our very early days, we took a blunt approach to moderating content that promoted conflict, but Elizabeth Kanter've also said we recognized this was the wrong approach and eliminated it, however, we want to be absolutely clear that even in those early policies, there was never a policy around the Uighur community, which is where I misspoke. – Elizabeth Kanter	Found on CNN 3 years ago
They have shown that they are happy and eager to use ICE as a blunt force instrument in their political toolbox, but this is taking things to a whole new level. – John Amaya	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I have asked the UK government not to deploy their' Stay Alert' advertising campaign in Scotland, because the message at this stage in Scotland is... except for the essential reasons you know about, stay at home, we must not squander our progress by easing up too soon, or by sending mixed messages that result in people thinking it's okay to ease up now. Let me be very blunt about the consequences if we were to do that : people will die unnecessarily. We must not take that risk. – Nicola Sturgeon	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The President has record support amongst Republicans, so I would remind candidates that they need the President supporters, they need The President voters to show up for them in the polls, and to be perfectly blunt, if The President is going to win, you have a good chance of winning. If you're going to try to break with The President and thread a needle, good luck with that. – Rick Gorka	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It is correct that the infections are going to go up. Our job is to make sure it doesn't do the maximum peak and actually blunts. Within that blunt there will be many new infections. We want to make sure we don't get to that really bad peak. – Anthony Fauci	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Let me blunt. Hope is not a strategy. – United President Scott Kirby	Found on Reuters 4 years ago

Beware the ease of blaming Chauvin alone. While he is a blunt instrument of police brutality and racism, he could never flourish in a police agency that lived up to its mission statement.

– Bob Bennett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The end of the rate hiking cycle is in sight, the Fed is trying to navigate the very narrow path between defeating inflation and destroying the economy with blunt force rate hikes — even they now know the latter is a very real risk.

– Jamie Cox

Found on CNN
1 year ago

> WASHINGTON, Jan 5( Reuters) - The United States will expand Trump-era restrictions to rapidly expel Cuban, Nicaraguan and Haitian migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, President Joe Biden said on Thursday in President Joe Biden first major speech on border security.At the same time, The United States will allow up to 30,000 people from those three countries plus Venezuela to enter the country by air each month, President Joe Biden said.The two-pronged approach is designed to blunt criticism from Republicans who have attacked President Joe Biden as record numbers of migrants cross the U.S.-Mexico border while also placating Democrats and immigration advocates who say Title 42 restrictions adopted under former President Donald Trump block migrants from exercising their right to apply for asylum.This new process is orderly, its safe and its humane, President Joe Biden said in a speech at the White House. He said his message to those would-be migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua or Haiti without a U.S. sponsor is : Do not just show up at the border.In November, U.S. border officials encountered 82,000 migrants from those countries and Venezuela who were attempting to enter without permission at the border with Mexico, according to U.S. government data.The plan is part of a broader effort to deter record numbers of border crossers and address the political and humanitarian challenge of mass migration that has dogged the Democratic president since he took office in 2021, as well as his predecessors from both parties.These actions alone are not going to fix our entire immigration system.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

I didn't smoke a blunt because I wanted to make it cool or popular. People are doing this every day. This is the reality of the world we live in. What I did it for is so we could take the stigma away, because there are people in Congress that are smoking weed, okay? They may never openly say that they're smoking weed, but there are people in Congress who are smoking weed. Why? Because in D.C., it's not illegal.

– Gary Chambers

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I'm going to be very blunt and very honest with you. My focus is totally on this November.

– Richard Blumenthal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I played a long time ago, and I played for a long time. So things have changed a lot when I first got into the league, my rookie year, a Hall of Fame player on the team, he’s in the Hall of Fame now, invited me over to his house and he gave me the speech about how to take care of yourself in the NFL. And he pulled out some cannabis, crushed it up, split a blunt, opened it up, put the cannabis in there, took a Vicodin, crushed it up, sprinkled the Vico in there, rolled up the blunt and passed it to me. That was a vet, teaching me as a rookie, how to take care of Ricky Williams in the NFL.

– Ricky Williams

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In Mark Tritton blunt view, this was a cosmetic reinvention — copied from Target — with very little substance behind it, it is little wonder that it has quickly fallen apart.

– Neil Saunders

Found on CNN
1 year ago

His cousins don’t have police protection and they travel with ease, so people do struggle to understand where the security threat sits. And to be blunt, why should Harry have police protection paid for by the British people when he’s going to be in places that are heavily protected by police anyway?

– Royalty TV Nick Bullen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

With hindering prosecution, you usually need to provide some criminal assistance to a person that has committed a felony, but for someone to tell an officer, ‘ Karen Charrington can't come in,' and they don't want to answer questions – Karen Charrington have that full right to remain silent to police officers. Karen Charrington’re not obligated to tell the officers what happened in a crime. Lauren Pazienza being led into a New York City courthouse on March 22, 2022. ( Curtis Means) Lauren Pazienza being led into a New York City courthouse on March 22, 2022( Curtis Means) After allegedly shoving Barbara Gustern to Barbara Gustern death, Pazienza stayed in the area for more than 20 minutes, according to The DA. NYC SOCIALITE ACCUSED IN ELDERLY SHOVE DEATH BULLIED CLASSMATES IN SCHOOL Surveillance footage reviewed by the DA captured Pazienza getting into a fight with a man believed to be her fiancé about seven minutes after the shove, then watching as an ambulance arrived at the location. About half an hour after the attack, Pazienza and her fiancé allegedly entered Penn Station and took the subway back to their shared condo in Astoria, Queens. Building where Lauren Pazienza and Lauren Pazienza fiancé reside in Queens, New York( Fox News Digital / Rebecca Rosenberg) It wasn't until six days later Lauren Pazienza fled New York City on March 16 after Barbara Gustern succumbed to Barbara Gustern injuries. Lauren Pazienza's parents' home in Port Jefferson, New York( Fox News Digital Digital/Rebecca Rosenberg) MARCH 10 : Barbara Gustern shoved to the ground in Manhattan MARCH 15 : Barbara Gustern dies. Lauren Pazienza cause of death ruled to blunt-force trauma to the head MARCH 16 : Pazienza reportedly flees to parents' home on Long Island as she apparently deleted her social media MARCH 17 : Pazienza allegedly stopped using her cellphone and hid it at her aunt's house MARCH 19 : NYPD received anonymous tip on Pazienza MARCH 21 : NYPD turned away from Pazienza family home MARCH 22 : Pazienza retains attorney and surrenders in Manhattan Lauren Pazienza's mug shot.

– Karen Charrington

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

To be blunt, I’m not sure why a ‘four-figure ad buy’ is even making news, for context, political campaigns in Florida spend eight figures. I have never heard of a ‘four figure’ ad buy in Florida until today, actually.

– Christina Pushaw

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're executing a plan in coordination with major oil producing consumers and producers toward a collective investment to secure stability and global energy supply, this will be -- this will blunt gas prices. I want to limit the pain the American people are feeling at the gas pump. This is critical to me.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This will blunt gas prices, i want to limit the pain that the American people are feeling at the gas pump—this is critical to me.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

[What] we’re going to have to do is have a massive presidential year-like turnout. I think that’s going to give us our best chance and maybe the only chance if we have an off year turnout, if we get the same kind of turnout that we got when it was Roy Blunt was last on the ballot, Democrats could have a chance.

– Emanuel Cleaver

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Finally, the Ukrainian president criticized the White House in terms that were so blunt that even the Times had to report them, saying they keep supporting this theme, [Volodymyr] Zelensky said of the repeated warnings by American officials, ‘they make it as acute and burning as possible, in my opinion. This is a mistake’.

– Drew Angerer/Pool via AP

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The vulnerable people are the people who have not been vaccinated, and I hope that the possibility that we're seeing -- that we're going to be getting a surge of Omicron, which is almost inevitable given its characteristic of high degree of transmissibility, we have the tools to be able to blunt this. We just need to implement them.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We need clarification on the percentage of children who have debilitating effects from Covid, especially neurological effects in the developing brain, we need the pediatric neurological societies to really look into this more in depth. ... We tend to use very blunt instruments when talking about either adolescents' or children's deaths, and only hospitalizations. There are so many more dimensions to Covid than that.

– Peter Hotez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I need to be blunt : the world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure -- and the price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world's poorest countries.

– Tedros Adhanom

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I need to be blunt, the world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure. And the price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world's poorest countries.

– Jerome Kim

Found on CNN
3 years ago

TikTok has previously acknowledged that in our very early days, we took a blunt approach to moderating content that promoted conflict, but Elizabeth Kanter've also said we recognized this was the wrong approach and eliminated it, however, we want to be absolutely clear that even in those early policies, there was never a policy around the Uighur community, which is where I misspoke.

– Elizabeth Kanter

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They have shown that they are happy and eager to use ICE as a blunt force instrument in their political toolbox, but this is taking things to a whole new level.

– John Amaya

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I have asked the UK government not to deploy their' Stay Alert' advertising campaign in Scotland, because the message at this stage in Scotland is... except for the essential reasons you know about, stay at home, we must not squander our progress by easing up too soon, or by sending mixed messages that result in people thinking it's okay to ease up now. Let me be very blunt about the consequences if we were to do that : people will die unnecessarily. We must not take that risk.

– Nicola Sturgeon

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The President has record support amongst Republicans, so I would remind candidates that they need the President supporters, they need The President voters to show up for them in the polls, and to be perfectly blunt, if The President is going to win, you have a good chance of winning. If you're going to try to break with The President and thread a needle, good luck with that.

– Rick Gorka

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It is correct that the infections are going to go up. Our job is to make sure it doesn't do the maximum peak and actually blunts. Within that blunt there will be many new infections. We want to make sure we don't get to that really bad peak.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Let me blunt. Hope is not a strategy.

– United President Scott Kirby

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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