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After an exhaustive investigation, there is only one person who had the motive, who had the means, who had the opportunity to commit these crimes, and also whose guilty conduct after these crimes betrays him, this defendant is the one person who was living a lie, the defendant is the person on which a storm was descending, and the defendant was a person where his own storm would actually mean consequences for Maggie and Paul and consequences for those who trusted him. – Prosecutor Creighton Waters	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Could Mars still be inhabited today by micro-organisms descending from this primitive biosphere? if so, where? – Boris Sauterey	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
At the beginning of the passage we see John the Baptist baptizing Jesus, as soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, ‘This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased’ (Matthew 3:16–17). – Shannon Bream	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It was a stressful period where people were worried and staff members were concerned about this pandemic that was descending on our country, the way he would run meetings and to both chart out a path forward, reassure people, his calmness in the face of serious adversity and uncertainty -- those are invaluable qualities that he brought to the operation. – Vivek Murthy	Found on CNN 2 years ago
[ The government ] is scared to make people angry, scared to leave people without bread, which will make them even angrier, people have seen a constant decline in income since 2014, support for the president has been descending since 2018. It is risky to push people even further. – Ekaterina Schulmann	Found on CNN 2 years ago
My fellow Haitians in Haiti and in the diaspora, it is an honor for me to address you as your prime minister. I am calling for all of us to unite and to work together to stop the nation from descending into the abyss, today, it is our responsibility as leaders to work together to faces our challenges. I know some people are scared and have questions about who is leading the country. We weren't ready for recent events, but I can assure you that in a very short period of time I will unveil a new coalition government. This government will lead the country for a short period of time until we can hold better elections. – Ariel Henry	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It seemed like we were descending into this third-world mentality, i never expected that out of this country. – Fulton County	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
To live in a country that is descending into an abyss of absurdity and fear is much more frightening than what happened to me or could happen there (on Sunday). – Artyom Nazarov	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Our behavior affects the number of cases, they are not descending on us from heaven. – Governor Andrew Cuomo	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
These gatherings could be seen as the first united cultural events of our island, with people from all corners of Britain descending on the areas around Stonehenge to feast on food that had been specially reared and transported from their homes. – Richard Madgwick	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The woman who gave me the wet paper towel as we descended the stairs and which I later used to breathe through; the firefighters who were ascending the stairs as we were descending; the Catholic priest who put his hand on my shoulder and prayed for us as we lay on the street being covered by dust and debris, then there was the bus driver who took us uptown… those people all come to my mind. – Edward Fine	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Randy Wolfe did not create the descending chromatic scale. – Peter Anderson	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We landed very, very close to where we were supposed to be, and there’s nothing more comforting to be descending down, and pretty soon the pressure on the outside is more than the pressure on the inside and we began to smell salt air, then we knew we were home. – Buzz Aldrin	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Oil prices may soften if there is an increase in stocks in the U.S. - we can expect a continued increase of inventories, brent and WTI continue to trend sideways, with WTI facing more volatility. Brent has been descending for the past few days and we believe that it is hovering near a support level. – Ken Hasegawa	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them? – Benjamin Franklin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them. – Philo Judaeus	added by anonymous 14 years ago

After an exhaustive investigation, there is only one person who had the motive, who had the means, who had the opportunity to commit these crimes, and also whose guilty conduct after these crimes betrays him, this defendant is the one person who was living a lie, the defendant is the person on which a storm was descending, and the defendant was a person where his own storm would actually mean consequences for Maggie and Paul and consequences for those who trusted him.

– Prosecutor Creighton Waters

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Could Mars still be inhabited today by micro-organisms descending from this primitive biosphere? if so, where?

– Boris Sauterey

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

At the beginning of the passage we see John the Baptist baptizing Jesus, as soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, ‘This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased’ (Matthew 3:16–17).

– Shannon Bream

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was a stressful period where people were worried and staff members were concerned about this pandemic that was descending on our country, the way he would run meetings and to both chart out a path forward, reassure people, his calmness in the face of serious adversity and uncertainty -- those are invaluable qualities that he brought to the operation.

– Vivek Murthy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

[ The government ] is scared to make people angry, scared to leave people without bread, which will make them even angrier, people have seen a constant decline in income since 2014, support for the president has been descending since 2018. It is risky to push people even further.

– Ekaterina Schulmann

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My fellow Haitians in Haiti and in the diaspora, it is an honor for me to address you as your prime minister. I am calling for all of us to unite and to work together to stop the nation from descending into the abyss, today, it is our responsibility as leaders to work together to faces our challenges. I know some people are scared and have questions about who is leading the country. We weren't ready for recent events, but I can assure you that in a very short period of time I will unveil a new coalition government. This government will lead the country for a short period of time until we can hold better elections.

– Ariel Henry

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It seemed like we were descending into this third-world mentality, i never expected that out of this country.

– Fulton County

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

To live in a country that is descending into an abyss of absurdity and fear is much more frightening than what happened to me or could happen there (on Sunday).

– Artyom Nazarov

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Our behavior affects the number of cases, they are not descending on us from heaven.

– Governor Andrew Cuomo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

These gatherings could be seen as the first united cultural events of our island, with people from all corners of Britain descending on the areas around Stonehenge to feast on food that had been specially reared and transported from their homes.

– Richard Madgwick

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The woman who gave me the wet paper towel as we descended the stairs and which I later used to breathe through; the firefighters who were ascending the stairs as we were descending; the Catholic priest who put his hand on my shoulder and prayed for us as we lay on the street being covered by dust and debris, then there was the bus driver who took us uptown… those people all come to my mind.

– Edward Fine

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Randy Wolfe did not create the descending chromatic scale.

– Peter Anderson

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We landed very, very close to where we were supposed to be, and there’s nothing more comforting to be descending down, and pretty soon the pressure on the outside is more than the pressure on the inside and we began to smell salt air, then we knew we were home.

– Buzz Aldrin

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Oil prices may soften if there is an increase in stocks in the U.S. - we can expect a continued increase of inventories, brent and WTI continue to trend sideways, with WTI facing more volatility. Brent has been descending for the past few days and we believe that it is hovering near a support level.

– Ken Hasegawa

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?

– Benjamin Franklin

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.

– Philo Judaeus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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