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They've set out a plan and we're seeing them execute on it, the biggest nut to crack is the debt burden, and they are whittling away at it. It is all a positive direction. – Joseph Foster	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It basically means you can dump a lot of heat into that fuel, when you crack the fuel, it actually makes it more combustible. It increases the amount of combustion you can create from the fuel. – Ryan Helbach	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I would have sold my mother for a rock of crack, i was a shameful suburban statistic. – Tom Hardy	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
What the hell, let's have a crack at it. – De Kock	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
(The hackers) discovered an old vulnerability in one of our legacy networks that hadn't been patched, while it's worrisome they achieved some unauthorized access to our unclassified network, we quickly identified the compromise, and had a crack team of incident responders hunting the intruders within 24 hours. – Defense Secretary Ashton Carter	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Everyone wants to have a crack at Saudi Arabia, it's the biggest market in the Middle East and a substantial country which offers exposure not just to energy but also to infrastructure, financials and other sectors. – Nick Smythie	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It’s cheap like crack cocaine, this is as close as we’ve come to a crack cocaine problem since 1995 in terms of the severe reactions, low prices, and that it’s available to young kids, and even homeless populations are now impacted. – Jim Hall	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
This connection with sports and masculinity is a very tough nut to crack. People have been trying to crack it for a long time. – Nancy Hogshead-Makar	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The Parliament was debating tougher anti-terrorism laws when the museum attack took place. The worry now is that Tunisia's security services will crack down hard on Islamists increasing tensions and making the problem far worse. – Andrew Lebovich	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Since Russia annexed Crimea, the de facto authorities are using a vast array of bully boy tactics to crack down on dissent. – Amnesty International Director	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We must fight it with all our might, we must strictly enforce environmental laws and regulations; crack down on those guilty of creating illegal emissions and ensure they pay a heavy price for such offences; and hold those who allow illegal emissions to account, punishing them accordingly. – Chinese Premier Li Keqiang	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are grateful to have had this opportunity to crack the door open in Texas. We hope it will swing open for everyone very soon. – Suzanne Bryant	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We would deliberately challenge superstitions, at 13:13, I would stand under a ladder. We'd have a fake black cat( I'm allergic to real ones.) , and break a mirror and spill salt while standing on a crack. We like to have control in our lives, and it's very discomforting that bad things happen that we can't control, so we try to find ways to control these bad things. Superstition gives us a sense of being in control. – Forest University professor	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Cutting and overly vigorous pushing will make them thick and crack and, worse, lift up. – Jessica Wu	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Some foreign countries see our nation as an enormous market, and we have investigated a series of cases, a fair number of neighbouring countries have casinos, and they have set up offices in China to attract and drum up interest from Chinese citizens to go abroad and gamble. This will also be an area that we will crack down on. – Hua Jingfeng	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
For us, the biggest obstacle was creating a shelf stable product that didn’t have a bunch of preservatives in it, it took us about a year and a half to crack the code. – Taylor Collins	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
As neighbors China and Nepal have common security needs ... we need to work together to crack down on illegal border crossings and transnational crimes. – Wang Yi	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Despite a difficult situation and a lot of losses, everyone has really stayed positive, believing in one another and believing in what we do, even though we've had losses at the rate we have, where we are used to winning at a much higher rate, it's easy (for the team) to separate and it's easy to crack but we haven't done that and that's most impressive. – Frank Vogel	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are in a crisis situation and we are here to ensure police let people voice their anger and frustration and don't crack down on protesters as hooligans. – Vince Warren	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. – Leonard Cohen	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. – Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any. – Mae West	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A Nobel horse Doesent feel the crack of his masters whip – The Dhammapada	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.""A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer." "Ask not the grass to give you green, and later walk all over it.”“Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss.” Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind.” "The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask."If you put a clock in a bottle, with time it will crack, as like money, as like love, as like a beautiful mind, with no soul." “If eyes are windows to the soul, then tears are heavens rain.”"It's not how many friends you can count, it's how many of those you can count on.” – Anthony Liccione	added by anonymous 11 years ago

They've set out a plan and we're seeing them execute on it, the biggest nut to crack is the debt burden, and they are whittling away at it. It is all a positive direction.

– Joseph Foster

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It basically means you can dump a lot of heat into that fuel, when you crack the fuel, it actually makes it more combustible. It increases the amount of combustion you can create from the fuel.

– Ryan Helbach

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I would have sold my mother for a rock of crack, i was a shameful suburban statistic.

– Tom Hardy

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

What the hell, let's have a crack at it.

– De Kock

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

(The hackers) discovered an old vulnerability in one of our legacy networks that hadn't been patched, while it's worrisome they achieved some unauthorized access to our unclassified network, we quickly identified the compromise, and had a crack team of incident responders hunting the intruders within 24 hours.

– Defense Secretary Ashton Carter

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Everyone wants to have a crack at Saudi Arabia, it's the biggest market in the Middle East and a substantial country which offers exposure not just to energy but also to infrastructure, financials and other sectors.

– Nick Smythie

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It’s cheap like crack cocaine, this is as close as we’ve come to a crack cocaine problem since 1995 in terms of the severe reactions, low prices, and that it’s available to young kids, and even homeless populations are now impacted.

– Jim Hall

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

This connection with sports and masculinity is a very tough nut to crack. People have been trying to crack it for a long time.

– Nancy Hogshead-Makar

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The Parliament was debating tougher anti-terrorism laws when the museum attack took place. The worry now is that Tunisia's security services will crack down hard on Islamists increasing tensions and making the problem far worse.

– Andrew Lebovich

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Since Russia annexed Crimea, the de facto authorities are using a vast array of bully boy tactics to crack down on dissent.

– Amnesty International Director

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We must fight it with all our might, we must strictly enforce environmental laws and regulations; crack down on those guilty of creating illegal emissions and ensure they pay a heavy price for such offences; and hold those who allow illegal emissions to account, punishing them accordingly.

– Chinese Premier Li Keqiang

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are grateful to have had this opportunity to crack the door open in Texas. We hope it will swing open for everyone very soon.

– Suzanne Bryant

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We would deliberately challenge superstitions, at 13:13, I would stand under a ladder. We'd have a fake black cat( I'm allergic to real ones.) , and break a mirror and spill salt while standing on a crack. We like to have control in our lives, and it's very discomforting that bad things happen that we can't control, so we try to find ways to control these bad things. Superstition gives us a sense of being in control.

– Forest University professor

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Cutting and overly vigorous pushing will make them thick and crack and, worse, lift up.

– Jessica Wu

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Some foreign countries see our nation as an enormous market, and we have investigated a series of cases, a fair number of neighbouring countries have casinos, and they have set up offices in China to attract and drum up interest from Chinese citizens to go abroad and gamble. This will also be an area that we will crack down on.

– Hua Jingfeng

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

For us, the biggest obstacle was creating a shelf stable product that didn’t have a bunch of preservatives in it, it took us about a year and a half to crack the code.

– Taylor Collins

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

As neighbors China and Nepal have common security needs ... we need to work together to crack down on illegal border crossings and transnational crimes.

– Wang Yi

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Despite a difficult situation and a lot of losses, everyone has really stayed positive, believing in one another and believing in what we do, even though we've had losses at the rate we have, where we are used to winning at a much higher rate, it's easy (for the team) to separate and it's easy to crack but we haven't done that and that's most impressive.

– Frank Vogel

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are in a crisis situation and we are here to ensure police let people voice their anger and frustration and don't crack down on protesters as hooligans.

– Vince Warren

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

– Leonard Cohen

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

– Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

– Mae West

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A Nobel horse Doesent feel the crack of his masters whip

– The Dhammapada

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.""A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer." "Ask not the grass to give you green, and later walk all over it.”“Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss.” Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind.” "The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask."If you put a clock in a bottle, with time it will crack, as like money, as like love, as like a beautiful mind, with no soul." “If eyes are windows to the soul, then tears are heavens rain.”"It's not how many friends you can count, it's how many of those you can count on.”

– Anthony Liccione

added by anonymous
11 years ago

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