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This is really a huge opportunity, but that actually raises the stakes for getting the short-term policies, there’s a possibility that we have all of this water and very little of it gets to the lake. We could instead just hold it in reservoirs, divert it and use it for kind of business-as-usual in the coming year — and that would be a huge missed opportunity. – Benjamin Abbott	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's so important because this election is not about people. This is about ideas. We're talking common sense versus ideology. We're talking about a country that is of, by and for the people, and a country that is of, by and for the government, we need to make sure that people really understand that distinction because there's an attempt to divert attention away from the real issues. – Justin Sullivan/Getty Images	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize the truth, either in himself or anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and others. When he had no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - to others and to yourself. – Fyodor Dostoevsky	added by Normando 1 year ago
I cannot confirm that. I can’t, if you can do it at the source and divert to sanctuary jurisdictions, the chance they end up in Florida is much less. – Ron DeSantis	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The uniqueness of this project is that it gives us almost infinite flexibility, we can basically take the water where it is available... and just divert it and transport it to wherever it is needed. In the population centers, for agricultural or industrial uses as well. – Noam Ben Shoa	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As long as it manages to divert most of its oil exports from Europe to Asia, the impact could be — relatively speaking — not massive. Otherwise, it would completely cripple the Russian economy, as it's heavily dependent on oil exports. – Claudio Galimberti	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If there's weather at the destination airport or the forecast of weather, then the dispatch isn't going to release that flight, in the instance that aircraft are enroute and are inbound to an airport, and fog rolls in... then you're going to have to circle, and then eventually divert to a reliever airport. – Faye Malarkey Black	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Anything to slow or divert a bullet or shrapnel. – Jeffrey Cohen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into treatment program, who's going to go out and kill somebody ? you bet. Guaranteed. It's guaranteed to happen. It does not invalidate the overall approach. – District Attorney John Chisholm	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The taxi driver, in his heroic efforts, has managed to divert what could have been an absolutely awful disaster at the hospital. – Joanne Anderson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Situations like these are rare and regrettable for the vast majority of our customers and Delta has zero tolerance for unruly behavior at our airports and aboard our aircraft, we applaud our flight crew's quick decision to divert and address the situation as expeditiously as possible so the remainder of our customers can resume their travels. – Delta Air Lines	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We basically play chicken with them : they go on a collision course only to divert at the last moment. – Alex Harvey	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We saw yesterday how [ the West ] seized on the news about Navalny's return to the Russian Federation. You can clearly feel the joy with which the carbon-copy comments are incoming, with joy, because it seems to allow Western politicians to think that they will be able to divert attention from the deepest crisis in which the liberal model of development finds itself. – Sergey Lavrov	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Whenever theres a discrepancy between official rates and black market rates, corruption thrives. By manipulating foreign exchange, the Iranian central bank can divert the difference in rates to fund other projects, put another way, if foreign companies and correspondent banks pay the official exchange rate in their business with Iran, they will be paying six times as much in dollars. Literally, that means more than 83 percent could go to the Revolutionary Guards, while only 17 percent goes to legitimate purposes. – Michael Rubin	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Whenever an opportunity knocks the door, a far sighted and an insightful man always try to follow a correct path with patience and with full consciousness to grab it, that enables and enhances the chance for him to win. On the other hand, ignorant and silly individuals see opportunities as a source for someone else benefits, thus instead of following a path to seek opportunities for themselves, they divert from the course of path and thus fall. – Prashant Agarwal	added by prashantagarwal 3 years ago
It must be stopped and we just divert its funds to supporting the NHS. – James Brown	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
They have only one objective : to try to shirk responsibility for their own epidemic and prevention and control measures and divert public attention. – Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This happens...people coming in from South Auckland get to Mount Albert right?...and the thing it's like, hopefully, we could divert some of that traffic and criminals away from Mount Albert... – Melissa Lea	added by anonymous 4 years ago
A MLF colleague of mine lost his wife and family this week to a needless, irresponsible series of events in Iran. U.S. government leaders unconstrained by checks/balances, concocted an ill-conceived plan to divert focus from political woes, the world knows Iran is a dangerous state, but the world found a path to contain it; not perfect but by most accounts it was the right direction. – Chief Executive Officer Michael McCain	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The drug supply is insufficient for the Canadian market, let alone trying to divert it to a much larger market like the U.S.. – Daniel Chiasson	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
No, Im not going to let them take their eye off the ball, the president is the one who has committed impeachable crimes, and Im not going to let him divert from that and Im not going to let anyone divert from that. – Hunter Biden	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We thought could divert our resources away from alliances, and our militaries. We were wrong, today, Russia – led by a former KGB officer once stationed in Dresden ? invades its neighbors and slays political opponents. – Mike Pompeo	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It is essential that lobbying be used as a constructive force and not one designed to delay, divert and disrupt the long-term interests of the company and its shareholders. – Adam Matthews	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think the President knows the argument that can be made against him and he's scared, and so he's trying to divert attention from that to where( he's) standing in the way of legislation. – Nancy Pelosi	Found on CNN 4 years ago

This is really a huge opportunity, but that actually raises the stakes for getting the short-term policies, there’s a possibility that we have all of this water and very little of it gets to the lake. We could instead just hold it in reservoirs, divert it and use it for kind of business-as-usual in the coming year — and that would be a huge missed opportunity.

– Benjamin Abbott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's so important because this election is not about people. This is about ideas. We're talking common sense versus ideology. We're talking about a country that is of, by and for the people, and a country that is of, by and for the government, we need to make sure that people really understand that distinction because there's an attempt to divert attention away from the real issues.

– Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize the truth, either in himself or anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and others. When he had no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - to others and to yourself.

– Fyodor Dostoevsky

added by Normando
1 year ago

I cannot confirm that. I can’t, if you can do it at the source and divert to sanctuary jurisdictions, the chance they end up in Florida is much less.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The uniqueness of this project is that it gives us almost infinite flexibility, we can basically take the water where it is available... and just divert it and transport it to wherever it is needed. In the population centers, for agricultural or industrial uses as well.

– Noam Ben Shoa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As long as it manages to divert most of its oil exports from Europe to Asia, the impact could be — relatively speaking — not massive. Otherwise, it would completely cripple the Russian economy, as it's heavily dependent on oil exports.

– Claudio Galimberti

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If there's weather at the destination airport or the forecast of weather, then the dispatch isn't going to release that flight, in the instance that aircraft are enroute and are inbound to an airport, and fog rolls in... then you're going to have to circle, and then eventually divert to a reliever airport.

– Faye Malarkey Black

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Anything to slow or divert a bullet or shrapnel.

– Jeffrey Cohen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into treatment program, who's going to go out and kill somebody ? you bet. Guaranteed. It's guaranteed to happen. It does not invalidate the overall approach.

– District Attorney John Chisholm

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The taxi driver, in his heroic efforts, has managed to divert what could have been an absolutely awful disaster at the hospital.

– Joanne Anderson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Situations like these are rare and regrettable for the vast majority of our customers and Delta has zero tolerance for unruly behavior at our airports and aboard our aircraft, we applaud our flight crew's quick decision to divert and address the situation as expeditiously as possible so the remainder of our customers can resume their travels.

– Delta Air Lines

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We basically play chicken with them : they go on a collision course only to divert at the last moment.

– Alex Harvey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We saw yesterday how [ the West ] seized on the news about Navalny's return to the Russian Federation. You can clearly feel the joy with which the carbon-copy comments are incoming, with joy, because it seems to allow Western politicians to think that they will be able to divert attention from the deepest crisis in which the liberal model of development finds itself.

– Sergey Lavrov

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Whenever theres a discrepancy between official rates and black market rates, corruption thrives. By manipulating foreign exchange, the Iranian central bank can divert the difference in rates to fund other projects, put another way, if foreign companies and correspondent banks pay the official exchange rate in their business with Iran, they will be paying six times as much in dollars. Literally, that means more than 83 percent could go to the Revolutionary Guards, while only 17 percent goes to legitimate purposes.

– Michael Rubin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Whenever an opportunity knocks the door, a far sighted and an insightful man always try to follow a correct path with patience and with full consciousness to grab it, that enables and enhances the chance for him to win. On the other hand, ignorant and silly individuals see opportunities as a source for someone else benefits, thus instead of following a path to seek opportunities for themselves, they divert from the course of path and thus fall.

– Prashant Agarwal

added by prashantagarwal
3 years ago

It must be stopped and we just divert its funds to supporting the NHS.

– James Brown

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

They have only one objective : to try to shirk responsibility for their own epidemic and prevention and control measures and divert public attention.

– Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This happens...people coming in from South Auckland get to Mount Albert right?...and the thing it's like, hopefully, we could divert some of that traffic and criminals away from Mount Albert...

– Melissa Lea

added by anonymous
4 years ago

A MLF colleague of mine lost his wife and family this week to a needless, irresponsible series of events in Iran. U.S. government leaders unconstrained by checks/balances, concocted an ill-conceived plan to divert focus from political woes, the world knows Iran is a dangerous state, but the world found a path to contain it; not perfect but by most accounts it was the right direction.

– Chief Executive Officer Michael McCain

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The drug supply is insufficient for the Canadian market, let alone trying to divert it to a much larger market like the U.S..

– Daniel Chiasson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

No, Im not going to let them take their eye off the ball, the president is the one who has committed impeachable crimes, and Im not going to let him divert from that and Im not going to let anyone divert from that.

– Hunter Biden

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We thought could divert our resources away from alliances, and our militaries. We were wrong, today, Russia – led by a former KGB officer once stationed in Dresden ? invades its neighbors and slays political opponents.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is essential that lobbying be used as a constructive force and not one designed to delay, divert and disrupt the long-term interests of the company and its shareholders.

– Adam Matthews

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I think the President knows the argument that can be made against him and he's scared, and so he's trying to divert attention from that to where( he's) standing in the way of legislation.

– Nancy Pelosi

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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