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We’re right in the middle of rice country. The way the rice business goes is how the economy goes, three years of drought here has become the straw that broke the camel’s back. – Richard Richter Greg Ponciano	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Whoever has the longest straw gets the water. – Ash Dahlke	Found on CNN 1 year ago
>HONG KONG, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Living under Chinas stringent COVID-19 restrictions for the past three years had caused Zhang Qi enough stress and uncertainty to consider not having babies in the country.When China abruptly dismantled its zero COVID regime last month to let the virus spread freely, the balance tilted to a definite No, the Shanghai-based e-commerce executive said.Stories about mothers and babies not being able to see doctors as medical facilities were overwhelmed by COVID infections were the final straw for Zhang.I heard that giving birth at a public hospital is just horrific. I really wouldn’t consider having a baby, the 31-year-old said.A glimpse of the scars caused by the pandemic to Chinas already bleak demographic outlook may come to light when it reports its official 2022 population data on Jan. 17.Some demographers expect Chinas population in 2022 to post its first drop since the Great Famine in 1961, a profound shift with far-reaching implications for the global economy and world order.New births for 2022 are set to fall to record lows, dropping below 10 million from last years 10.6 million babies - which were already 11.5% lower than in 2020.With this historical turn, China has entered a long and irreversible process of population decline, the first time in China and the worlds history. – Wang Feng	Found on Reuters 1 year ago
Tesla clearly is starting to see demand cracks in China and in the US at a time that EV competition is increasing across the board, the price cuts that Tesla enacted was the straw that broke the camel’s back on the stock. – Dan Ives	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You know, what is the straw that is going to break the camel's back when it comes to the balance of the environment ? – Ron Magill	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Chris Rock has no real understanding of what happened to Will Smith in the 90 minutes or so leading up to the incident. But there’s obviously something going on for Will. Chris’ joke, and his wife being humiliated in public like that, would’ve been the final straw. – Mike Fisher	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They see what happened in San Francisco this week and know that the way they have been conducting business is no longer viable, they are grasping at straws, and this is the straw they have decided to grasp. They are painting all opposition as fascist and terrorizing. Americans over the course of the last two years have caught on like never before to this tactic. It is going to backfire in a big way. – Bethany Mandel	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We must pass legislation requiring background checks on all gun sales. We must pass legislation to make gun trafficking a federal crime. We must increase penalties for those directly involved in moving guns across state lines, and the organizers of gun trafficking rings. We must increase penalties for those making straw purchases, or buying firearms from someone legally prohibited from doing so. And we must also mobilize the DOJ against the proliferation of ghost guns. – Eric Adams	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Obviously, I wasn’t thrilled with that particular press conference, but I can’t say there was one specific act that was the last straw. It was just a culmination of things, we just got to a point where I thought we had dug ourselves a hole so deep that I didn’t see a clear path to getting out of it unless we completely blew it up and started all over again with a new general manager and a new head coach. I still think that there is a really good head coach inside of Joe Judge. I just felt like given where we are right now on the verge of bringing in a new general manager, we have to give that person the flexibility to bring in the head coach that he wants. I think that was a large part of the decision here in making a change. I just felt like we really needed to just start from the ground up again. – John Mara	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The final straw was seeing my wedding photographs, i cried for days after looking at them. I was the biggest I’d ever been and I couldn’t even bring myself to look at those pictures again for months after. – Verity Trueman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It traffics in all manner of innuendo and conspiracy theories that I think legitimately could lead to violence, that for me, and for Steve, was the last straw. – Jonah Goldberg	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think the attorney general’s memo is maybe the last straw. Americans have had it with this attack on our First Amendment rights and our overall freedom. When you start telling moms and dads that government knows more about what’s best for your children than you do, I don’t think moms and dads are going to stand for that. – Jim Jordan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We want to interdict how it gets into the wrong hands and that leads us right to straw purchasers. People who make blood money off of getting guns into the hands of felons, violent people, who couldn't otherwise get that gun in their hands. – Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We're not seeing truckloads of guns, we're not seeing 100, 200, 300 guns in a crate that are ending up in someone's hands. Typically, what we see from straw purchasing is you know, one or two guns at a time, the ones we're really interested in are, are they putting it to the hands of someone who they believe is going to commit a crime ? Somebody who they know is a gang member. Somebody who has a significant violent criminal history who is likely to use that gun to commit more acts of violence. – John Lausch	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I was like,' Wow, now I see how the most powerful person in the world uses their power.' They use it to continually shore up their position and disempower people around them, and that kind of broke my mind about all the stuff I've been communicating about space and humanity's better future... That was the last straw. – Alexandra Abrams	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are particularly interested in getting the manufacturers going forward to change the way they do business, to tighten up their distribution systems so that they don't continue to supply unlimited amounts of guns to gun dealers who are systematically selling them to straw purchasers and others who are engaged in trafficking into Mexico. – Steve Shadowen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Everything started building from, 'let's do something about El Paso' into this is huge 'the negligence of the gun industry is immense,' so let's do something that tried to solve the bigger picture. we are particularly interested in getting the manufacturers going forward to change the way they do business, to tighten up their distribution systems so that they don't continue to supply unlimited amounts of guns to gun dealers who are systematically selling them to straw purchasers and others who are engaged in trafficking into Mexico. – Steve Shadowen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This decision sets a dangerous precedent that straw purchasers like Jamel Danzy are not a danger to society, despite the fact that Jamel Danzy alleged actions directly led to the murder of a Chicago Police Officer and left another in critical condition. – Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When I heard this afternoon that a federal judge had released the man who illegally purchased and then supplied the gun used to murder Officer French, I could not believe it, this decision sets a dangerous precedent that straw purchasers like Jamel Danzy are not a danger to society, despite the fact that Jamel Danzy alleged actions directly led to the murder of a Chicago Police Officer and left another in critical condition. – Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We know a significant number of crooks and gangs get firearms through straw purchasing, this set of ordinances is really focused on narrowing the flow of guns to those which are clearly legal and, hopefully, doing something to deter the flow of guns that are unlawful to own. – Sam Liccardo	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's pretty much the same atmosphere today as it was then, there was dissatisfaction, to the highest level. ... And it’s the same with the momentum. Something that sets it off to a higher level, kind of the straw that breaks the camel’s back ... like an explosion. – Gavin Newsom	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
But the insurrection was the last straw for me, as a father of three kids, I would never have thought I would see a day like this. – Luis Vizcarrondo Jr.	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This was the final straw for me. – Ann Whitmire	Found on CNN 3 years ago
These floods are the last straw and will push millions of people further towards the brink of poverty. – Christopher Rassi	Found on CNN 3 years ago

We’re right in the middle of rice country. The way the rice business goes is how the economy goes, three years of drought here has become the straw that broke the camel’s back.

– Richard Richter Greg Ponciano

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Whoever has the longest straw gets the water.

– Ash Dahlke

Found on CNN
1 year ago

>HONG KONG, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Living under Chinas stringent COVID-19 restrictions for the past three years had caused Zhang Qi enough stress and uncertainty to consider not having babies in the country.When China abruptly dismantled its zero COVID regime last month to let the virus spread freely, the balance tilted to a definite No, the Shanghai-based e-commerce executive said.Stories about mothers and babies not being able to see doctors as medical facilities were overwhelmed by COVID infections were the final straw for Zhang.I heard that giving birth at a public hospital is just horrific. I really wouldn’t consider having a baby, the 31-year-old said.A glimpse of the scars caused by the pandemic to Chinas already bleak demographic outlook may come to light when it reports its official 2022 population data on Jan. 17.Some demographers expect Chinas population in 2022 to post its first drop since the Great Famine in 1961, a profound shift with far-reaching implications for the global economy and world order.New births for 2022 are set to fall to record lows, dropping below 10 million from last years 10.6 million babies - which were already 11.5% lower than in 2020.With this historical turn, China has entered a long and irreversible process of population decline, the first time in China and the worlds history.

– Wang Feng

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

Tesla clearly is starting to see demand cracks in China and in the US at a time that EV competition is increasing across the board, the price cuts that Tesla enacted was the straw that broke the camel’s back on the stock.

– Dan Ives

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You know, what is the straw that is going to break the camel's back when it comes to the balance of the environment ?

– Ron Magill

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Chris Rock has no real understanding of what happened to Will Smith in the 90 minutes or so leading up to the incident. But there’s obviously something going on for Will. Chris’ joke, and his wife being humiliated in public like that, would’ve been the final straw.

– Mike Fisher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They see what happened in San Francisco this week and know that the way they have been conducting business is no longer viable, they are grasping at straws, and this is the straw they have decided to grasp. They are painting all opposition as fascist and terrorizing. Americans over the course of the last two years have caught on like never before to this tactic. It is going to backfire in a big way.

– Bethany Mandel

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We must pass legislation requiring background checks on all gun sales. We must pass legislation to make gun trafficking a federal crime. We must increase penalties for those directly involved in moving guns across state lines, and the organizers of gun trafficking rings. We must increase penalties for those making straw purchases, or buying firearms from someone legally prohibited from doing so. And we must also mobilize the DOJ against the proliferation of ghost guns.

– Eric Adams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Obviously, I wasn’t thrilled with that particular press conference, but I can’t say there was one specific act that was the last straw. It was just a culmination of things, we just got to a point where I thought we had dug ourselves a hole so deep that I didn’t see a clear path to getting out of it unless we completely blew it up and started all over again with a new general manager and a new head coach. I still think that there is a really good head coach inside of Joe Judge. I just felt like given where we are right now on the verge of bringing in a new general manager, we have to give that person the flexibility to bring in the head coach that he wants. I think that was a large part of the decision here in making a change. I just felt like we really needed to just start from the ground up again.

– John Mara

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The final straw was seeing my wedding photographs, i cried for days after looking at them. I was the biggest I’d ever been and I couldn’t even bring myself to look at those pictures again for months after.

– Verity Trueman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It traffics in all manner of innuendo and conspiracy theories that I think legitimately could lead to violence, that for me, and for Steve, was the last straw.

– Jonah Goldberg

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think the attorney general’s memo is maybe the last straw. Americans have had it with this attack on our First Amendment rights and our overall freedom. When you start telling moms and dads that government knows more about what’s best for your children than you do, I don’t think moms and dads are going to stand for that.

– Jim Jordan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We want to interdict how it gets into the wrong hands and that leads us right to straw purchasers. People who make blood money off of getting guns into the hands of felons, violent people, who couldn't otherwise get that gun in their hands.

– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We're not seeing truckloads of guns, we're not seeing 100, 200, 300 guns in a crate that are ending up in someone's hands. Typically, what we see from straw purchasing is you know, one or two guns at a time, the ones we're really interested in are, are they putting it to the hands of someone who they believe is going to commit a crime ? Somebody who they know is a gang member. Somebody who has a significant violent criminal history who is likely to use that gun to commit more acts of violence.

– John Lausch

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I was like,' Wow, now I see how the most powerful person in the world uses their power.' They use it to continually shore up their position and disempower people around them, and that kind of broke my mind about all the stuff I've been communicating about space and humanity's better future... That was the last straw.

– Alexandra Abrams

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are particularly interested in getting the manufacturers going forward to change the way they do business, to tighten up their distribution systems so that they don't continue to supply unlimited amounts of guns to gun dealers who are systematically selling them to straw purchasers and others who are engaged in trafficking into Mexico.

– Steve Shadowen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Everything started building from, 'let's do something about El Paso' into this is huge 'the negligence of the gun industry is immense,' so let's do something that tried to solve the bigger picture. we are particularly interested in getting the manufacturers going forward to change the way they do business, to tighten up their distribution systems so that they don't continue to supply unlimited amounts of guns to gun dealers who are systematically selling them to straw purchasers and others who are engaged in trafficking into Mexico.

– Steve Shadowen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This decision sets a dangerous precedent that straw purchasers like Jamel Danzy are not a danger to society, despite the fact that Jamel Danzy alleged actions directly led to the murder of a Chicago Police Officer and left another in critical condition.

– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When I heard this afternoon that a federal judge had released the man who illegally purchased and then supplied the gun used to murder Officer French, I could not believe it, this decision sets a dangerous precedent that straw purchasers like Jamel Danzy are not a danger to society, despite the fact that Jamel Danzy alleged actions directly led to the murder of a Chicago Police Officer and left another in critical condition.

– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We know a significant number of crooks and gangs get firearms through straw purchasing, this set of ordinances is really focused on narrowing the flow of guns to those which are clearly legal and, hopefully, doing something to deter the flow of guns that are unlawful to own.

– Sam Liccardo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's pretty much the same atmosphere today as it was then, there was dissatisfaction, to the highest level. ... And it’s the same with the momentum. Something that sets it off to a higher level, kind of the straw that breaks the camel’s back ... like an explosion.

– Gavin Newsom

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

But the insurrection was the last straw for me, as a father of three kids, I would never have thought I would see a day like this.

– Luis Vizcarrondo Jr.

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This was the final straw for me.

– Ann Whitmire

Found on CNN
3 years ago

These floods are the last straw and will push millions of people further towards the brink of poverty.

– Christopher Rassi

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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