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For almost two days, we were a rocking and rolling and a slipping and sliding through the Drake Passage and we were holding on for dear life, it was just wild. – Ellie Hamby	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For a lot of students, this isn’t what they saw their life looking like. This isn’t the timeline that they had for themselves, they see their friends continuing on and becoming juniors and seniors, graduating and getting their first job. But they feel stuck and like they’re watching their life plan slipping away. – Julie Wolfson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Weaker-than-expected PMI numbers in January underscore the risk of the UK slipping into recession, industrial disputes, staff shortages, export losses, the rising cost of living and higher interest rates all meant the rate of economic decline gathered pace again at the start of the year. – Chris Williamson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Democrats are panicked Betsy Johnson multi-decade grip on the governor’s office is slipping away as Christine Drazan connects with a majority of Oregon voters who yearn for change, the Democrat regime of Joe Biden, Kate Brown, Tina Kotek, and Betsy Johnson have done nothing to make Oregon safer or more prosperous. – Jesse Hunt	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I can just remember my breath catching in my throat because what I saw was just a war scene. It was something like I had seen out of the movies, i couldn't believe my eyes : There were officers on the ground. They were bleeding. They were throwing up. I saw friends with blood all over their faces. I was slipping in people's blood. I was catching people as they fell. It was carnage. It was chaos. I can't even describe what I saw. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that as a police officer, as a law enforcement officer, I would find myself in the middle of a battle. – Officer Edwards	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think a lot of people are worried about the impact of inflation on customer spending. Will we be slipping into a recession ? – James Conroy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It just seemed so outrageous. Here I am, talking to somebody who I think is flipped out. I said, ‘What train am I on?’ OK. Humor the guy. And he wanted me to do Michael. I thought, ‘OK, I’ll go along with this.’ I said, ‘Yes, Francis, good.’ You know how they talk to you when you’re slipping? They say, ‘Yes! Of course! Yes!’ But he wasn’t. It was the truth. And then I was given the part, the Godfather. – Al Pacino	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Unfortunately, you know, even before all of this, you have seen those things sort of slipping away in California, more than any other state in the country. – Assemblyman Kevin Kiley	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It just seemed so outrageous. Here I am, talking to somebody who I think is flipped out. I said, what train am I on ? OK. Humor the guy. And he wanted me to do Michael Corleone. I thought, OK, I ’ll go along with this. I said, yes, Francis, good. You know how they talk to you when you’re slipping ? They say, ‘ Yes ! Of course ! Yes ! ’ But he was n’t. It was the truth. And then I was given the part. – Al Pacino	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We tend to overreact in any direction after the results like this. Candidates and campaigns matter. What is happening on the ground in a race matters. To claim Trump’s popularity and/or his hold is slipping based on last night’s results would be a miscalculation on the part of the pundits and operatives pushing such a narrative. – Mike Biundo	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I ask the Tunisian people to pay attention to the fact that they imagine this to be the beginning of the solution. It is the beginning of slipping into an even worse situation. – Moncef Marzouki	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The fresh bone... it didn't really work out. The bone was really hard. We were constantly slipping with the tools. – Dirk Leder	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When you’re on the road and you haven’t faced the crowd in a year and all of a sudden the game starts slipping out of your hands and you’re trying to get it back, things can happen at 1,000 mph, for a player, if you haven’t been in that environment for a while, it takes some getting used to again. – Brian Boucher	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Simply put, this is a collapse of the medical system, the highly infectious British variant and slipping alertness have led to this explosive growth in the number of patients. – Yuji Tohda	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
What we see is that young people have been slipping away. Many of them are not showing up at school, online. – Keren Taylor	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's teens that are at risk of slipping through the cracks, we bring them in and get them inspired... show them poetry, journaling, songwriting. – Keren Taylor	Found on CNN 2 years ago
You feel so powerless when you see your relative slipping away, when you have no way to do anything for them, to save them, it hurt me not to see her again. – Lesly Garcia	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
This was not a heated passion crime. This didn't happen spontaneouslywith words just slipping out Donald Trump's mouth at that rally. For months he had propagated this big lie to radicalize these terrorists [and] to call ... thecalvary to Washington, and he called it 'stop the steal,' and if you're not an elected representative, the only way that you can stop the stealis by taking a physical act. He told them, don't show weakness, you will lose your country if you don't fight. – Eric Swalwell	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Its a quality program, and I think I do a good job hosting it, and when I start slipping, Ill stop hosting. – Alex Trebek	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Thank you for saving my life, because I know how I felt, I felt my life slipping away. – Lisa Hardin	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The fact that were seeing something as old as Ramnit show up in WHOs network is a really bad sign. This trojans activity that weve been tracking as it beacons back to the attackers network is just the smoke of what is probably a much bigger fire going on inside their network, it could be a raging inferno on the inside. If something as ancient as Ramnit can get through their defenses, they have much bigger problems. It means newer malware probably doesnt have much trouble slipping in too. – Karim Hijazi	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We stood like two trees beside, intertwined into one. And when the winds blew against us, we would laugh at it, as leaves clapping hands to our strength. Always day. We had all the stars, but no sky to hang them onto. We were brave, but not strong. Bare, but not skeleton. We had song, but no dance. Time slipped as a blessed curse. We knew the pennies were slipping from our pockets, and we left them there on the ground as worthless cents. In wordless sense, we finally found our darkness, but the stars had all faded by then. – Anthony Liccione	added by anonymous 4 years ago
If someone's is work performance is slipping, it gives Ben Fanning the opportunity as manager to have a conversation and point to resources to help support. – David Ballard	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're in a waiting game, neither side wants this to continue much longer. The Chinese economy is slipping and the president wants a victory. Both sides are motivated to resolve this. – Art Hogan	Found on Reuters 5 years ago

For almost two days, we were a rocking and rolling and a slipping and sliding through the Drake Passage and we were holding on for dear life, it was just wild.

– Ellie Hamby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For a lot of students, this isn’t what they saw their life looking like. This isn’t the timeline that they had for themselves, they see their friends continuing on and becoming juniors and seniors, graduating and getting their first job. But they feel stuck and like they’re watching their life plan slipping away.

– Julie Wolfson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Weaker-than-expected PMI numbers in January underscore the risk of the UK slipping into recession, industrial disputes, staff shortages, export losses, the rising cost of living and higher interest rates all meant the rate of economic decline gathered pace again at the start of the year.

– Chris Williamson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Democrats are panicked Betsy Johnson multi-decade grip on the governor’s office is slipping away as Christine Drazan connects with a majority of Oregon voters who yearn for change, the Democrat regime of Joe Biden, Kate Brown, Tina Kotek, and Betsy Johnson have done nothing to make Oregon safer or more prosperous.

– Jesse Hunt

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I can just remember my breath catching in my throat because what I saw was just a war scene. It was something like I had seen out of the movies, i couldn't believe my eyes : There were officers on the ground. They were bleeding. They were throwing up. I saw friends with blood all over their faces. I was slipping in people's blood. I was catching people as they fell. It was carnage. It was chaos. I can't even describe what I saw. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that as a police officer, as a law enforcement officer, I would find myself in the middle of a battle.

– Officer Edwards

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think a lot of people are worried about the impact of inflation on customer spending. Will we be slipping into a recession ?

– James Conroy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It just seemed so outrageous. Here I am, talking to somebody who I think is flipped out. I said, ‘What train am I on?’ OK. Humor the guy. And he wanted me to do Michael. I thought, ‘OK, I’ll go along with this.’ I said, ‘Yes, Francis, good.’ You know how they talk to you when you’re slipping? They say, ‘Yes! Of course! Yes!’ But he wasn’t. It was the truth. And then I was given the part, the Godfather.

– Al Pacino

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Unfortunately, you know, even before all of this, you have seen those things sort of slipping away in California, more than any other state in the country.

– Assemblyman Kevin Kiley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It just seemed so outrageous. Here I am, talking to somebody who I think is flipped out. I said, what train am I on ? OK. Humor the guy. And he wanted me to do Michael Corleone. I thought, OK, I ’ll go along with this. I said, yes, Francis, good. You know how they talk to you when you’re slipping ? They say, ‘ Yes ! Of course ! Yes ! ’ But he was n’t. It was the truth. And then I was given the part.

– Al Pacino

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We tend to overreact in any direction after the results like this. Candidates and campaigns matter. What is happening on the ground in a race matters. To claim Trump’s popularity and/or his hold is slipping based on last night’s results would be a miscalculation on the part of the pundits and operatives pushing such a narrative.

– Mike Biundo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I ask the Tunisian people to pay attention to the fact that they imagine this to be the beginning of the solution. It is the beginning of slipping into an even worse situation.

– Moncef Marzouki

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The fresh bone... it didn't really work out. The bone was really hard. We were constantly slipping with the tools.

– Dirk Leder

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When you’re on the road and you haven’t faced the crowd in a year and all of a sudden the game starts slipping out of your hands and you’re trying to get it back, things can happen at 1,000 mph, for a player, if you haven’t been in that environment for a while, it takes some getting used to again.

– Brian Boucher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Simply put, this is a collapse of the medical system, the highly infectious British variant and slipping alertness have led to this explosive growth in the number of patients.

– Yuji Tohda

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

What we see is that young people have been slipping away. Many of them are not showing up at school, online.

– Keren Taylor

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's teens that are at risk of slipping through the cracks, we bring them in and get them inspired... show them poetry, journaling, songwriting.

– Keren Taylor

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You feel so powerless when you see your relative slipping away, when you have no way to do anything for them, to save them, it hurt me not to see her again.

– Lesly Garcia

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

This was not a heated passion crime. This didn't happen spontaneouslywith words just slipping out Donald Trump's mouth at that rally. For months he had propagated this big lie to radicalize these terrorists [and] to call ... thecalvary to Washington, and he called it 'stop the steal,' and if you're not an elected representative, the only way that you can stop the stealis by taking a physical act. He told them, don't show weakness, you will lose your country if you don't fight.

– Eric Swalwell

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Its a quality program, and I think I do a good job hosting it, and when I start slipping, Ill stop hosting.

– Alex Trebek

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Thank you for saving my life, because I know how I felt, I felt my life slipping away.

– Lisa Hardin

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The fact that were seeing something as old as Ramnit show up in WHOs network is a really bad sign. This trojans activity that weve been tracking as it beacons back to the attackers network is just the smoke of what is probably a much bigger fire going on inside their network, it could be a raging inferno on the inside. If something as ancient as Ramnit can get through their defenses, they have much bigger problems. It means newer malware probably doesnt have much trouble slipping in too.

– Karim Hijazi

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We stood like two trees beside, intertwined into one. And when the winds blew against us, we would laugh at it, as leaves clapping hands to our strength. Always day. We had all the stars, but no sky to hang them onto. We were brave, but not strong. Bare, but not skeleton. We had song, but no dance. Time slipped as a blessed curse. We knew the pennies were slipping from our pockets, and we left them there on the ground as worthless cents. In wordless sense, we finally found our darkness, but the stars had all faded by then.

– Anthony Liccione

added by anonymous
4 years ago

If someone's is work performance is slipping, it gives Ben Fanning the opportunity as manager to have a conversation and point to resources to help support.

– David Ballard

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We're in a waiting game, neither side wants this to continue much longer. The Chinese economy is slipping and the president wants a victory. Both sides are motivated to resolve this.

– Art Hogan

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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