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We know that exposure through the media – which can happen across many different outlets, with the swipe of a finger or a ding on your phone – to some type of traumatic event can result in someone experiencing an acute stress reaction and can trigger underlying post-traumatic stress they may have from something else, so certainly, that constant exposure can be escalating and activating people even when they don’t experience something directly. – Leah Brogan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For too many private sector actors it’s always going to be easier to point the finger at the Fed rather than taking a good long, hard look in the mirror, too many opt for short-term gains at the expense of long-term stability despite the clear risks associated with a borrow short, lend long strategy. – Joe Brusuelas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our mind is capable of detecting even the smallest hand and finger movements, and if gestures and motions are employed successfully during an utterance or discussion, they can enhance the transmission of information.” – Josh King Madrid	added by JoshKingMadrid 1 year ago
Be careful before you believe someone in this world because we are living in such a world where there is artificial lemon juice use for welcome drink and real lemons use for finger bowls. – Danielcherry	added by danielc.59492 1 year ago
My brother was the most peaceful person you ever met. He’s never lifted a finger to nobody. Never raised his voice to nobody, if my brother was here today and he had to say something, he would tell us to do this peacefully. – Jamal Dupree	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re pointing the finger … at our national government, this is a national problem. We must have real immigration reform, and we must immediately have a short-term fix of making sure that the cost of this does not fall on our local cities. – Eric Adams	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Employers have the upper hand, it's very hard to prove that's the reason they closed. And the penalties are not even a slap on the wrist, it's the wagging of a finger. – Todd Vachon	Found on CNN 1 year ago
His fingers were like two finger holes in the blade and lunged at the congressman. And Congressman Zeldin blocked the first lunge. And then as he tried to lunge again, I grabbed him from behind and tackled him down to the ground and held him on the ground. – Joe Chenelly	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
His right hand came up, I assume out of his pocket, and he had a blade on his hand, his fingers were like two finger holes in the blade and lunged at the congressman. And Congressman Zeldin blocked the first lunge. And then as he tried to lunge again, I grabbed him from behind and tackled him down to the ground and held him on the ground. – Joe Chenelly	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Soon as I hit the ground, I looked down, the finger is gone, it sucks. – Chris Sale	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
July 4th always tends to be pretty bloody, not just in New York but also elsewhere, the only thing I can put my finger on is that people who use illegal guns or fire them off try to mask it through the fireworks that go on. – Joseph Giacalone	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
New appliances are being seen with touch controls that activate by the simple touch of a finger. An animal’s paw can also activate these types of controls, please use built in safety’s if available on appliances when not in use and accessible by children and/or animals. – Protection District -RRB- Denney	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
David Valadao has one vote in the distant past to point to and every other time David Valadao had a chance( to suspend the gas tax) David Valadao did not have the courage to do it on the floor in Sacramento, the reason voters have supported David( David Valadao) throughout the years -- and what they're looking for in a representative -- is somebody who's willing to stand up to their party and take the tough voters. Rudy Salas has no history of that. When tough votes come around, Rudy sticks Rudy Salas finger in the air and changes Rudy Salas vote in the dead of night. That's not leadership. – Robert Jones	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I came here after I finished with events at Damascus Gate, after the march passed through... There were clashes here, and I came to film the young Jews. After they saw that I was filming, they came and told me' don't film.' Then they attacked me. Someone came and sprayed me with pepper spray or tear gas, I don't know exactly, i fell onto the ground, I couldn't see anything. And, after I fell, they came with sticks, they hit me in the head, the back, the leg. They knocked me down, and continued to beat me once I was on the ground. I want to emphasize that Israeli Police, I yelled and screamed, and Israeli Police were on site and didn't do anything. Israeli Police didn't move a finger. – Iyad Harab	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Baseball games are getting longer and slower, but our attention spans are shorter, we live in a TikTok world. People can get unbelievable entertainment with a flick of their finger. How do you create something that matches that ? – Jesse Cole	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There isn’t a sense of panic with this team … a lot of it is looking at yourself and what you can do to help the team, that takes out the finger-pointing if you hold yourself accountable. – Jordan Clarkson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I was attacked, out of nowhere, for no reason, and there is one person fighting, one person who did the violence, not the board. It wasn't the board, it was one individual and that one individual grabbed my throat, slammed my head down on the table, punched me repeatedly in the head and the only one who was pointing a finger was that person, was Danielle Green. – Flint School	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The veneration that this country has for the Constitution is simply weird. It's crazy. It's not what other countries do for their written documents, we act like this thing was etched in stone by the finger of God, when actually it was hotly contested and debated, scrawled out over a couple of weeks in the summer in Philadelphia in 1787, with a bunch of rich, white politicians making deals with each other. – Elie Mystal	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Ultimately they owe everything they have to the boss. And with the click of a finger, as he has shown in the past, Vladimir Putin can take everything, however influential they may seem, they are ultimately dependent on him. – Tom Burgis	Found on CNN 2 years ago
On gas prices, the American people are looking for solutions, not finger pointing. – Frank Macchiarola	Found on CNN 2 years ago
My hope is that we haven't as an intelligence community put our finger on the scale of a policy decision that's been made. – Richard Burr	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He couldn't put his finger on it, but there was something about the staircase that bothered him. – Saugerties Police Chief Joseph Sinagra	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It’s blown out of proportion, me and the wife got into an argument on the plane. That was pretty much the gist of it. I ended up grabbing her hand and taking her ring off her finger. She did n’t press any charges. The state of California pressed charges because there was a scratch on her hand. – Adrian Peterson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I was literally mind-blown that Tennessee Titans took me to jail, tennessee Titans were like, ‘ I ’m sorry, Mr. Peterson, but because she had a scratch on her finger,( in) the state of California, we have to take you in. ’ I sit there and watch the plane pull back and take off and I ’m just like, ‘ Wow ! I can not believe this is happening right now. I ’m going to jail, and I literally did n’t do anything. ’ Adrian Peterson in December 2015. ( Hannah Foslien/Getty Images) RAMS' ODELL BECKHAM SUFFERED TORN ACL DURING SUPER BOWL : REPORT. – Adrian Peterson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

We know that exposure through the media – which can happen across many different outlets, with the swipe of a finger or a ding on your phone – to some type of traumatic event can result in someone experiencing an acute stress reaction and can trigger underlying post-traumatic stress they may have from something else, so certainly, that constant exposure can be escalating and activating people even when they don’t experience something directly.

– Leah Brogan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For too many private sector actors it’s always going to be easier to point the finger at the Fed rather than taking a good long, hard look in the mirror, too many opt for short-term gains at the expense of long-term stability despite the clear risks associated with a borrow short, lend long strategy.

– Joe Brusuelas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our mind is capable of detecting even the smallest hand and finger movements, and if gestures and motions are employed successfully during an utterance or discussion, they can enhance the transmission of information.”

– Josh King Madrid

added by JoshKingMadrid
1 year ago

Be careful before you believe someone in this world because we are living in such a world where there is artificial lemon juice use for welcome drink and real lemons use for finger bowls.

– Danielcherry

added by danielc.59492
1 year ago

My brother was the most peaceful person you ever met. He’s never lifted a finger to nobody. Never raised his voice to nobody, if my brother was here today and he had to say something, he would tell us to do this peacefully.

– Jamal Dupree

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re pointing the finger … at our national government, this is a national problem. We must have real immigration reform, and we must immediately have a short-term fix of making sure that the cost of this does not fall on our local cities.

– Eric Adams

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Employers have the upper hand, it's very hard to prove that's the reason they closed. And the penalties are not even a slap on the wrist, it's the wagging of a finger.

– Todd Vachon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

His fingers were like two finger holes in the blade and lunged at the congressman. And Congressman Zeldin blocked the first lunge. And then as he tried to lunge again, I grabbed him from behind and tackled him down to the ground and held him on the ground.

– Joe Chenelly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

His right hand came up, I assume out of his pocket, and he had a blade on his hand, his fingers were like two finger holes in the blade and lunged at the congressman. And Congressman Zeldin blocked the first lunge. And then as he tried to lunge again, I grabbed him from behind and tackled him down to the ground and held him on the ground.

– Joe Chenelly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Soon as I hit the ground, I looked down, the finger is gone, it sucks.

– Chris Sale

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

July 4th always tends to be pretty bloody, not just in New York but also elsewhere, the only thing I can put my finger on is that people who use illegal guns or fire them off try to mask it through the fireworks that go on.

– Joseph Giacalone

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

New appliances are being seen with touch controls that activate by the simple touch of a finger. An animal’s paw can also activate these types of controls, please use built in safety’s if available on appliances when not in use and accessible by children and/or animals.

– Protection District -RRB- Denney

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

David Valadao has one vote in the distant past to point to and every other time David Valadao had a chance( to suspend the gas tax) David Valadao did not have the courage to do it on the floor in Sacramento, the reason voters have supported David( David Valadao) throughout the years -- and what they're looking for in a representative -- is somebody who's willing to stand up to their party and take the tough voters. Rudy Salas has no history of that. When tough votes come around, Rudy sticks Rudy Salas finger in the air and changes Rudy Salas vote in the dead of night. That's not leadership.

– Robert Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I came here after I finished with events at Damascus Gate, after the march passed through... There were clashes here, and I came to film the young Jews. After they saw that I was filming, they came and told me' don't film.' Then they attacked me. Someone came and sprayed me with pepper spray or tear gas, I don't know exactly, i fell onto the ground, I couldn't see anything. And, after I fell, they came with sticks, they hit me in the head, the back, the leg. They knocked me down, and continued to beat me once I was on the ground. I want to emphasize that Israeli Police, I yelled and screamed, and Israeli Police were on site and didn't do anything. Israeli Police didn't move a finger.

– Iyad Harab

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Baseball games are getting longer and slower, but our attention spans are shorter, we live in a TikTok world. People can get unbelievable entertainment with a flick of their finger. How do you create something that matches that ?

– Jesse Cole

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There isn’t a sense of panic with this team … a lot of it is looking at yourself and what you can do to help the team, that takes out the finger-pointing if you hold yourself accountable.

– Jordan Clarkson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was attacked, out of nowhere, for no reason, and there is one person fighting, one person who did the violence, not the board. It wasn't the board, it was one individual and that one individual grabbed my throat, slammed my head down on the table, punched me repeatedly in the head and the only one who was pointing a finger was that person, was Danielle Green.

– Flint School

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The veneration that this country has for the Constitution is simply weird. It's crazy. It's not what other countries do for their written documents, we act like this thing was etched in stone by the finger of God, when actually it was hotly contested and debated, scrawled out over a couple of weeks in the summer in Philadelphia in 1787, with a bunch of rich, white politicians making deals with each other.

– Elie Mystal

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Ultimately they owe everything they have to the boss. And with the click of a finger, as he has shown in the past, Vladimir Putin can take everything, however influential they may seem, they are ultimately dependent on him.

– Tom Burgis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

On gas prices, the American people are looking for solutions, not finger pointing.

– Frank Macchiarola

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My hope is that we haven't as an intelligence community put our finger on the scale of a policy decision that's been made.

– Richard Burr

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He couldn't put his finger on it, but there was something about the staircase that bothered him.

– Saugerties Police Chief Joseph Sinagra

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s blown out of proportion, me and the wife got into an argument on the plane. That was pretty much the gist of it. I ended up grabbing her hand and taking her ring off her finger. She did n’t press any charges. The state of California pressed charges because there was a scratch on her hand.

– Adrian Peterson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was literally mind-blown that Tennessee Titans took me to jail, tennessee Titans were like, ‘ I ’m sorry, Mr. Peterson, but because she had a scratch on her finger,( in) the state of California, we have to take you in. ’ I sit there and watch the plane pull back and take off and I ’m just like, ‘ Wow ! I can not believe this is happening right now. I ’m going to jail, and I literally did n’t do anything. ’ Adrian Peterson in December 2015. ( Hannah Foslien/Getty Images) RAMS' ODELL BECKHAM SUFFERED TORN ACL DURING SUPER BOWL : REPORT.

– Adrian Peterson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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