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They [service members] come home many of the fittest and best-trained warriors in the world, never the same. Headaches, numbness, dizziness, a cancer that would put them in a flag-draped coffin, one of those soldiers was my son, Maj. Beau Biden. I don't know for sure if the burn pit that he lived near, that his hooch [barracks] was there in Iraq, and before that Kosovo, is the cause of his brain cancer and the disease of so many other troops. But I am committed to find out everything we can. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The Arab boycott has weakened over many years and the Israel-UAE FTA is a major nail in its coffin. – Paul Rivlin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When they came home, many of the world's fittest and best trained warriors were never the same. Headaches. Numbness. Dizziness. A cancer that would put them in a flag-draped coffin. I know. One of those soldiers was my son, Major Beau Biden, we don't know for sure if a burn pit was near where his hooch was near, in Iraq or earlier than that in Kosovo, was the cause of his brain cancer, or the diseases of so many of our troops. But I'm committed to finding out everything we can. – Beau Biden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
A successful Ukraine is a nail in the coffin of Putin’s regime. – Roman Sheremeta	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Ukraine has done really well. And, obviously, for Vladimir Putin, that has been a stumbling block, and Vladimir Putin needed to create a narrative that, ‘ If you want to go with the west, look what's what is going to happen to you, you are not going to have a successful country, and the west is not going to help you either. a successful Ukraine is a nail in the coffin of Putin’s regime. – Roman Sheremeta	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
These burn pits that incinerate waste, the waste of war, medical and hazardous material, jet fuel and so much more, and they come home, many of the fittest and best-trained warriors in the world, never the same, headaches, numbness, dizziness, a cancer that would put them in a flag-draped coffin. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
To hear the words ‘flag-draped coffin’ and not think about the 13 Marines who lost their lives under Joe Biden’s watch, I don’t see how that’s possible. – Associated Press	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
A cancer that would put them in a flag-draped coffin. – Joe Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's the last nail in the coffin, i do n’t know how we would move forward from this. It would just make teaching impossible. – Suzanne Holcomb	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Moise's assassination is the final nail in the coffin for them, this is a generation of change, anyone who had a nonprofit, a business, an idea for initiatives that support sustainability in the country, will now think twice on whether Haiti is worth it. – Vania Andre	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Today's ruling in Antrim County should be the nail in the coffin for any remaining conspiracy theories surrounding the outcome of the Nov. 3 general election. – Dana Nessel	Found on CNN 2 years ago
President Biden's approach to judicial nominations is going to put the nail in the coffin of the conventional wisdom that Democrats don't care enough about Supreme Court. – Chris Kang	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I really do hope that will put the final nail in the coffin. – Jo Swabe	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The Democrats were pushing gun control before the dirt was over my daughter's coffin, that's what they did... and they didn't look at the facts. I wasn't a hard-right conservative before this and so I looked into the facts and learned what got my daughter murdered. It wasn't gun control laws, it was policies and people that did nothing. – Fred Guttenberg	Found on CNN 3 years ago
At least they can be satisfied it is their loved one in the coffin. – Erkin Guney	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Originally I didn't think we'd be able to hang on this long, it's amazing how resilient the country is, but if we miss the coming spring -- that'll put a nail in the coffin. – James Galbraith	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The day before I had actually built myself a small kiln down the back — a coffin-sized kiln — just big enough for me to crawl inside, i could have (died) if I hadn't thought about plan B. In that little kiln enclosure I made, I had a fire extinguisher, a bucket of water, a drinking water bottle and a fire blanket. – Potter Steve Harrison	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's the final nail in the coffin of any semblance of independent decision making. – Ashley Tabaddor	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The coffin has suffered a lot of damage, including cracks in the golden layers of plaster and a general weakness in all golden layers, the restoration work will take about eight months. – Eissa Zidan	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Every time I close my eyes, I picture her suffering and then I picture her laying in this coffin, i still see her smiling and laughing in my head and I would assume that smile and laughter turned to pain and suffering in that instance. – Ryan Hyer	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
New York City is not about deleting history, new York City is about filling out the American story. These women have always been part of New York City, we just want to exhume their achievements from the coffin of history. – Deputy Mayor Glen	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think you're going to see a significant change in the politics of the country, and I think lot of it had to do with the way in which the administration has treated people, i think the nail that maybe have put in the coffin this time was the way in which the administration responded to John McCain death, and the way it came across as being so nakedly... almost un-American. It was just raw. It wasn't -- it's not who we are. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It’s not a nail in the coffin for these unions, they’ll still be big and they’ll still be powerful. Overnight the public unions in these states are not going anywhere. – Daniel DiSalvo	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The last nail in the coffin is going to be that report, i can tell you as a lawyer, the pardon power is complete and there is no limitation on it. – Comey Giuliani	Found on CNN 5 years ago

They [service members] come home many of the fittest and best-trained warriors in the world, never the same. Headaches, numbness, dizziness, a cancer that would put them in a flag-draped coffin, one of those soldiers was my son, Maj. Beau Biden. I don't know for sure if the burn pit that he lived near, that his hooch [barracks] was there in Iraq, and before that Kosovo, is the cause of his brain cancer and the disease of so many other troops. But I am committed to find out everything we can.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Arab boycott has weakened over many years and the Israel-UAE FTA is a major nail in its coffin.

– Paul Rivlin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When they came home, many of the world's fittest and best trained warriors were never the same. Headaches. Numbness. Dizziness. A cancer that would put them in a flag-draped coffin. I know. One of those soldiers was my son, Major Beau Biden, we don't know for sure if a burn pit was near where his hooch was near, in Iraq or earlier than that in Kosovo, was the cause of his brain cancer, or the diseases of so many of our troops. But I'm committed to finding out everything we can.

– Beau Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A successful Ukraine is a nail in the coffin of Putin’s regime.

– Roman Sheremeta

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Ukraine has done really well. And, obviously, for Vladimir Putin, that has been a stumbling block, and Vladimir Putin needed to create a narrative that, ‘ If you want to go with the west, look what's what is going to happen to you, you are not going to have a successful country, and the west is not going to help you either. a successful Ukraine is a nail in the coffin of Putin’s regime.

– Roman Sheremeta

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These burn pits that incinerate waste, the waste of war, medical and hazardous material, jet fuel and so much more, and they come home, many of the fittest and best-trained warriors in the world, never the same, headaches, numbness, dizziness, a cancer that would put them in a flag-draped coffin.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

To hear the words ‘flag-draped coffin’ and not think about the 13 Marines who lost their lives under Joe Biden’s watch, I don’t see how that’s possible.

– Associated Press

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A cancer that would put them in a flag-draped coffin.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's the last nail in the coffin, i do n’t know how we would move forward from this. It would just make teaching impossible.

– Suzanne Holcomb

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Moise's assassination is the final nail in the coffin for them, this is a generation of change, anyone who had a nonprofit, a business, an idea for initiatives that support sustainability in the country, will now think twice on whether Haiti is worth it.

– Vania Andre

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Today's ruling in Antrim County should be the nail in the coffin for any remaining conspiracy theories surrounding the outcome of the Nov. 3 general election.

– Dana Nessel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

President Biden's approach to judicial nominations is going to put the nail in the coffin of the conventional wisdom that Democrats don't care enough about Supreme Court.

– Chris Kang

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I really do hope that will put the final nail in the coffin.

– Jo Swabe

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The Democrats were pushing gun control before the dirt was over my daughter's coffin, that's what they did... and they didn't look at the facts. I wasn't a hard-right conservative before this and so I looked into the facts and learned what got my daughter murdered. It wasn't gun control laws, it was policies and people that did nothing.

– Fred Guttenberg

Found on CNN
3 years ago

At least they can be satisfied it is their loved one in the coffin.

– Erkin Guney

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Originally I didn't think we'd be able to hang on this long, it's amazing how resilient the country is, but if we miss the coming spring -- that'll put a nail in the coffin.

– James Galbraith

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The day before I had actually built myself a small kiln down the back — a coffin-sized kiln — just big enough for me to crawl inside, i could have (died) if I hadn't thought about plan B. In that little kiln enclosure I made, I had a fire extinguisher, a bucket of water, a drinking water bottle and a fire blanket.

– Potter Steve Harrison

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's the final nail in the coffin of any semblance of independent decision making.

– Ashley Tabaddor

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The coffin has suffered a lot of damage, including cracks in the golden layers of plaster and a general weakness in all golden layers, the restoration work will take about eight months.

– Eissa Zidan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Every time I close my eyes, I picture her suffering and then I picture her laying in this coffin, i still see her smiling and laughing in my head and I would assume that smile and laughter turned to pain and suffering in that instance.

– Ryan Hyer

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

New York City is not about deleting history, new York City is about filling out the American story. These women have always been part of New York City, we just want to exhume their achievements from the coffin of history.

– Deputy Mayor Glen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think you're going to see a significant change in the politics of the country, and I think lot of it had to do with the way in which the administration has treated people, i think the nail that maybe have put in the coffin this time was the way in which the administration responded to John McCain death, and the way it came across as being so nakedly... almost un-American. It was just raw. It wasn't -- it's not who we are.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It’s not a nail in the coffin for these unions, they’ll still be big and they’ll still be powerful. Overnight the public unions in these states are not going anywhere.

– Daniel DiSalvo

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The last nail in the coffin is going to be that report, i can tell you as a lawyer, the pardon power is complete and there is no limitation on it.

– Comey Giuliani

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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