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Though he and his wife may be good friends, he’s in the midst of a sexual self-esteem crisis and believes sex with you is a key piece to happiness. He has sexual fantasies that he cannot share with his spouse because she is not open to it or may put him down. – Paul DePompo	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
"Our Governor Sir, hardly does any day pass in Nigeria, without a report of a massacre of Nigerians by Nigerians or at least, coordinated by Nigerians. Hardly does a day pass, without the report of a major violent crime committed against Nigerians by Nigerians. Hardly does a day pass, without the story of how large sums of money are stolen by Nigerians who are in positions of trust. The revelations at the various probes by the National Assembly are heart breaking as billions of Naira meant for the improvement in the welfare and condition of living of ordinary Nigerians are brazenly stolen by those who they are entrusted in their care. All these are examples of violence against the people of Nigeria. The killings and maiming of Nigerians, whether by Boko Haram, Militants, cult groups, kidnappers, armed robbers, misguided youths, political thugs and other forms of societal vices by deviant groups under whatever guise, are all examples of direct violence. There is also structural violence, which is the violence that does not hurt or kill through fists or guns or bombs, but through social structures that produce poverty, death and enormous suffering such as: corruption, injustice and bad governance. The truth is that, no one will be able to properly address the problems of direct violence especially, those with ideological inclination without understanding the relationship between direct violence and structural violence. For instance, take a hypothetical example of a man who loses his land or fishing port to oil /gas exploitation because of unjust laws. His son loses her mother because of poverty and crumbling social infrastructure in the Niger Delta, his daughter cannot further her education because the surviving parent is poor. Yet, they live closer oil pipelines When she manages to go to school through community effort. She is told that there is no job for her. She becomes unemployed and frustrated. The community also becomes frustrated, and unable to sponsor others like her. They become abandoned and trapped in the heinous poverty circle while their God-given resources are carted away and used to fund a system of fiscal federalism that is a misnomer and unbecoming of any true federation. The fund is used to pay for the construction of the expensive city of Abuja, fund the huge corruption that we read daily in the newspapers, finance expatriate workers in the Oil and Gas Industry who enjoy highest condition of service, incomparable to any of their equivalent in the world, fund one of the most expensive National Assemblies in the world and provide for the lavish and hedonistic lifestyle of the privileged few Nigerians . Our Governor Sir, you will agree with us that hunger, neglect, frustration and deprivation of this magnitude IN THE MIDST OF PLENTY is a serious form of violence, capable of pushing ( indeed has pushed) the man and his community into direct violence. The story is also not different in Northern Nigeria, where years of deprivation, neglect, corruption and misrule by the ruling elites have led to the emergence and establishment of dynasties of poverty in the form of ‘Almajiris’, and now we all cry over the terror in the land, occasioned by the ‘Boko Haram’ insurgence. Let me quickly add that I am not by any chance providing any justification for criminal activities, I am only showing how one crime, for example corruption, leads to another. For example, the killings by ‘Boko Haram’ or militant/cult groups in the Niger Delta. This analysis in my view, is important if we must address the unacceptable violence, insecurity and wanton killings in Nigeria that is fast becoming a way of life in our beloved country." Exerpt from AN ADDRESS PRESENTED BY COMRADE HYGINUS CHIKA ONUEGBU (JP, FCA) STATE CHAIRMAN TRADE UNION CONGRESS OF NIGERIA (TUC) RIVERS STATE COUNCIL ON THE OCCASION OF 2012 MAY DAY CELEBRATION IN RIVERS STATE NIGERIA. – Chika Onuegbu	added by anonymous 7 years ago
"Courage is not just about bravery. It is also about integrity and persistence to do the right thing against all odds and in the midst of danger. It is not the bravery of a criminal to execute heinous crimes such as suicide bombing, or daredevil armed robbery etc. It is therefore important to point out that the courage we are talking about here is moral courage, which has been described as the essence of leadership." Chika Onuegbu in his 2016 paper titled "The Courage to Stand For Students Union" presented to the Students Union Government of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology. – Chika Onuegbu	added by anonymous 7 years ago
We are in the midst of what is an embryonic resource sector recovery, it's still early days, of course. – Gavin Wendt	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
When polling data starts to come out after the conventions and through the summer weeks, that will potentially diminish risk taking in the market place - likely as we move into later September, that's why we will see robust issuance in the next two to three weeks, as many issuers want to avoid being in the midst of a potentially volatile September or October. – Jonny Fine	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Yet, in the midst of these horrific failings the VA managed to spend $20 million on high-end art over the last ten years—with $16 million spent during the Obama years. – Adam Andrzejewski	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Easing (by BOE) will be a sign that there is a willingness from major central banks to support growth in the midst of growing uncertainties and that will translate into positive performance for emerging markets, it's liquidity that's being generated elsewhere, part of which will be moving to emerging markets. – Cristian Maggio	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Kenya is known worldwide for her athletics prowess and this is why we recalled Parliament from recess to pass the anti-doping legislation because we want to run clean sports, anybody caught in any future doping scandal will be jailed for three years or fined 3 million Kenyan shilling ($29,721) because we want to get rid of crooked people misleading our athletes from our midst. – William Ruto	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Anybody caught in any future doping scandal will be jailed for three years or fined 3 million Kenyan shilling ($29,721) because we want to get rid of crooked people misleading our athletes from our midst. – William Ruto	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The FTSE 100 is still in the midst of sideways consolidation, but with a welcome test of last week's 6,280 ceiling and a close venture to 6,300. – Augustin Eden	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Self-motivation without gratitude is impossible. Our energy is "sapped" when our entire focus is on what's wrong instead of what is right with our lives. One of our greatest challenges is to live and love in spite of pain and disappointment...to find gratitude in the midst of it all. -Jayadeva De Silva – Jayadeva de Silva	added by anonymous 8 years ago
In my view waiting for the election, we are in the midst of a presidential nomination process, to have the people weigh in the election in November is important considering we have a 4-4 court. – New Hampshire Kelly Ayotte	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We wanted, somehow, to recover our shareholders' equity, in the midst of this, there was this wonderful proposal from Canon. – Toshiba CEO Masashi Muromachi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I don't think we're in the midst of a forced march to higher inflation anytime soon. – Bill Shackelford	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is encouraging that China's forests have been recovering in the midst of its daunting environmental challenges. – Jianguo Liu	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
That's bigger than the economies of some Southeast Asian countries, it's like having an undeclared sovereign state in your midst with no borders and lots of money. – Jeremy Douglas	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, Russian spies still seek to operate in our midst under the cover of secrecy. – Preet Bharara	Found on CNN 8 years ago
You're in the midst of negotiating and talking to the IRS ... Your lawyers would never allow you to do that. – Donald Trump on Saturday	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The negative aspect is overall crude builds, which counter industry figures from yesterday that showed a drop, in the midst of refinery utilization rising. – Tony Headrick	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We're in the midst of a consequential presidential election year. – Kelly Ayotte	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We're in the midst of a consequential presidential election year, and Americans deserve an opportunity to weigh in given the significant implications this nomination could have for the Supreme Court and our country for decades to come, i believe the Senate should not move forward with the confirmation process until the American people have spoken by electing a new president. – Kelly Ayotte	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The worst that would happen is we get another competitor in our midst, but I'm not concerned, we've been in the business since 1815. – Andreas Krueger	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The last thing any company needs in the midst of the current biotech meltdown is a clinical trial setback. – Piper Jaffray	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is historically the worst ever start for markets, you've got major indices down 8 or 9 percent, for the TSX to recover in the midst of that carnage is going to be very difficult. – Elvis Picardo	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

Though he and his wife may be good friends, he’s in the midst of a sexual self-esteem crisis and believes sex with you is a key piece to happiness. He has sexual fantasies that he cannot share with his spouse because she is not open to it or may put him down.

– Paul DePompo

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

"Our Governor Sir, hardly does any day pass in Nigeria, without a report of a massacre of Nigerians by Nigerians or at least, coordinated by Nigerians. Hardly does a day pass, without the report of a major violent crime committed against Nigerians by Nigerians. Hardly does a day pass, without the story of how large sums of money are stolen by Nigerians who are in positions of trust. The revelations at the various probes by the National Assembly are heart breaking as billions of Naira meant for the improvement in the welfare and condition of living of ordinary Nigerians are brazenly stolen by those who they are entrusted in their care. All these are examples of violence against the people of Nigeria. The killings and maiming of Nigerians, whether by Boko Haram, Militants, cult groups, kidnappers, armed robbers, misguided youths, political thugs and other forms of societal vices by deviant groups under whatever guise, are all examples of direct violence. There is also structural violence, which is the violence that does not hurt or kill through fists or guns or bombs, but through social structures that produce poverty, death and enormous suffering such as: corruption, injustice and bad governance. The truth is that, no one will be able to properly address the problems of direct violence especially, those with ideological inclination without understanding the relationship between direct violence and structural violence. For instance, take a hypothetical example of a man who loses his land or fishing port to oil /gas exploitation because of unjust laws. His son loses her mother because of poverty and crumbling social infrastructure in the Niger Delta, his daughter cannot further her education because the surviving parent is poor. Yet, they live closer oil pipelines When she manages to go to school through community effort. She is told that there is no job for her. She becomes unemployed and frustrated. The community also becomes frustrated, and unable to sponsor others like her. They become abandoned and trapped in the heinous poverty circle while their God-given resources are carted away and used to fund a system of fiscal federalism that is a misnomer and unbecoming of any true federation. The fund is used to pay for the construction of the expensive city of Abuja, fund the huge corruption that we read daily in the newspapers, finance expatriate workers in the Oil and Gas Industry who enjoy highest condition of service, incomparable to any of their equivalent in the world, fund one of the most expensive National Assemblies in the world and provide for the lavish and hedonistic lifestyle of the privileged few Nigerians . Our Governor Sir, you will agree with us that hunger, neglect, frustration and deprivation of this magnitude IN THE MIDST OF PLENTY is a serious form of violence, capable of pushing ( indeed has pushed) the man and his community into direct violence. The story is also not different in Northern Nigeria, where years of deprivation, neglect, corruption and misrule by the ruling elites have led to the emergence and establishment of dynasties of poverty in the form of ‘Almajiris’, and now we all cry over the terror in the land, occasioned by the ‘Boko Haram’ insurgence. Let me quickly add that I am not by any chance providing any justification for criminal activities, I am only showing how one crime, for example corruption, leads to another. For example, the killings by ‘Boko Haram’ or militant/cult groups in the Niger Delta. This analysis in my view, is important if we must address the unacceptable violence, insecurity and wanton killings in Nigeria that is fast becoming a way of life in our beloved country." Exerpt from AN ADDRESS PRESENTED BY COMRADE HYGINUS CHIKA ONUEGBU (JP, FCA) STATE CHAIRMAN TRADE UNION CONGRESS OF NIGERIA (TUC) RIVERS STATE COUNCIL ON THE OCCASION OF 2012 MAY DAY CELEBRATION IN RIVERS STATE NIGERIA.

– Chika Onuegbu

added by anonymous
7 years ago

"Courage is not just about bravery. It is also about integrity and persistence to do the right thing against all odds and in the midst of danger. It is not the bravery of a criminal to execute heinous crimes such as suicide bombing, or daredevil armed robbery etc. It is therefore important to point out that the courage we are talking about here is moral courage, which has been described as the essence of leadership." Chika Onuegbu in his 2016 paper titled "The Courage to Stand For Students Union" presented to the Students Union Government of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology.

– Chika Onuegbu

added by anonymous
7 years ago

We are in the midst of what is an embryonic resource sector recovery, it's still early days, of course.

– Gavin Wendt

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

When polling data starts to come out after the conventions and through the summer weeks, that will potentially diminish risk taking in the market place - likely as we move into later September, that's why we will see robust issuance in the next two to three weeks, as many issuers want to avoid being in the midst of a potentially volatile September or October.

– Jonny Fine

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Yet, in the midst of these horrific failings the VA managed to spend $20 million on high-end art over the last ten years—with $16 million spent during the Obama years.

– Adam Andrzejewski

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Easing (by BOE) will be a sign that there is a willingness from major central banks to support growth in the midst of growing uncertainties and that will translate into positive performance for emerging markets, it's liquidity that's being generated elsewhere, part of which will be moving to emerging markets.

– Cristian Maggio

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Kenya is known worldwide for her athletics prowess and this is why we recalled Parliament from recess to pass the anti-doping legislation because we want to run clean sports, anybody caught in any future doping scandal will be jailed for three years or fined 3 million Kenyan shilling ($29,721) because we want to get rid of crooked people misleading our athletes from our midst.

– William Ruto

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Anybody caught in any future doping scandal will be jailed for three years or fined 3 million Kenyan shilling ($29,721) because we want to get rid of crooked people misleading our athletes from our midst.

– William Ruto

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The FTSE 100 is still in the midst of sideways consolidation, but with a welcome test of last week's 6,280 ceiling and a close venture to 6,300.

– Augustin Eden

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Self-motivation without gratitude is impossible. Our energy is "sapped" when our entire focus is on what's wrong instead of what is right with our lives. One of our greatest challenges is to live and love in spite of pain and disappointment...to find gratitude in the midst of it all. -Jayadeva De Silva

– Jayadeva de Silva

added by anonymous
8 years ago

In my view waiting for the election, we are in the midst of a presidential nomination process, to have the people weigh in the election in November is important considering we have a 4-4 court.

– New Hampshire Kelly Ayotte

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We wanted, somehow, to recover our shareholders' equity, in the midst of this, there was this wonderful proposal from Canon.

– Toshiba CEO Masashi Muromachi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I don't think we're in the midst of a forced march to higher inflation anytime soon.

– Bill Shackelford

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is encouraging that China's forests have been recovering in the midst of its daunting environmental challenges.

– Jianguo Liu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That's bigger than the economies of some Southeast Asian countries, it's like having an undeclared sovereign state in your midst with no borders and lots of money.

– Jeremy Douglas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, Russian spies still seek to operate in our midst under the cover of secrecy.

– Preet Bharara

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You're in the midst of negotiating and talking to the IRS ... Your lawyers would never allow you to do that.

– Donald Trump on Saturday

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The negative aspect is overall crude builds, which counter industry figures from yesterday that showed a drop, in the midst of refinery utilization rising.

– Tony Headrick

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We're in the midst of a consequential presidential election year.

– Kelly Ayotte

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We're in the midst of a consequential presidential election year, and Americans deserve an opportunity to weigh in given the significant implications this nomination could have for the Supreme Court and our country for decades to come, i believe the Senate should not move forward with the confirmation process until the American people have spoken by electing a new president.

– Kelly Ayotte

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The worst that would happen is we get another competitor in our midst, but I'm not concerned, we've been in the business since 1815.

– Andreas Krueger

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The last thing any company needs in the midst of the current biotech meltdown is a clinical trial setback.

– Piper Jaffray

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is historically the worst ever start for markets, you've got major indices down 8 or 9 percent, for the TSX to recover in the midst of that carnage is going to be very difficult.

– Elvis Picardo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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