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They return home to lay on straw and die. We often slaughter them and we have to burn animals we find dead in the water .... We have lost a large number of our animals. – Ahmed Sabah	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Water became scarce and boats stopped coming to the area and after that our animals started to lose weight and then die. We gave them medicine, but in vain, they return home to lay on straw and die. We often slaughter them and we have to burn animals we find dead in the water .... We have lost a large number of our animals. – Ahmed Sabah	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Either he can double down in his resolve to fight it or it's the last straw and it breaks his will and he decides to work out a plea bargain, i would think that going to jail is going to put enormous pressure on him from his family. – Michael Zeldin	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Well, I think North Korea almost dared Trump to cancel the summit, and he did North Korea, the North Korean statement yesterday was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. – Srinivasan Sitaraman	Found on CNN 5 years ago
She can’t chew, and she’s eating mashed up foods and drinking through a straw. But we’re getting there. they are absolutely amazing and we can’t manage without them, she said. It saved an awful lot of time for us that day in getting her to hospital. We’ve got a lot of fundraising going on for the air ambulance as a result of this. The guy who drove Georgia from the track to meet the air ambulance, he has had a long beard for 20 years and at the Royal Cornwall Show he is shaving it off to raise funds. – Georgia Hull	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The food was thrown down on the feces for the dog to eat. The water bucket had old straw and feces on it and the water inside was full of algae. – Kathy Bailey	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
There was a dog that was kept in a kennel that was filled with feces and urine, the food was thrown down on the feces for the dog to eat. The water bucket had old straw and feces on it and the water inside was full of algae. – Kathy Bailey	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It is a nice feeling not having to keep going out there, we were out there for a long time and both of us battled incredibly hard and whoever was going to draw the (short) straw was going to be hurting and obviously I feel very fortunate to have got through that. – The Australia-born Konta	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I saw Hillary on TV making that statement about how women who have been raped and sexually assaulted should be believed. That was the last straw. – Dolly Kyle	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Working without pay is the straw that breaks the camel’s back, teachers have mortgage payments, utility bills, grocery bills. Being paid for their work is n’t a luxury, it’s a necessity. – Teachers Interim President Ivy Bailey	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The rule isn't the sole reason people are ready to move, but in every conversation we have, it is discussed because advisers will be impacted, for advisers who are already unhappy, the rule could be the straw that breaks the camel's back. – Louis Diamond	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
His speech was well-received, but he didn't do that well in the straw poll. – Matt Schlapp	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
When you have a straw poll, it forces you to turn out people to an event. They make a bigger commitment of giving up their day in the summer to go vote for you at an event. Even though it doesn't matter, it's not binding, it forces you to organize early, it would have forced everyone to organize because the risk of not organizing is that you might get ejected from the race. Not having a straw poll hurt. – Craig Robinson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The president will have five or six straw men in the speech, I’m sure, and he’ll present a very glossy rendition of the last seven years.He’ll try to set some verbal traps along the way and it will be a very political and pointed speech, I would guess. – Speaker Ryan	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor. – Nikola Tesla	added by anonymous 8 years ago
Most people are disaffected from the church already, and this was the final straw. – Attorney Mark Naugle	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The fact that it affects children really upset people, most people are disaffected from the church already, and this was the final straw. – Attorney Mark Naugle	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Most people are disaffected from the church already and this was the final straw. – Mark Naugle	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Emergency situations are often the last straw for many families who are already living on the brink, they tip the balance and make it impossible for desperate parents to make ends meet and to protect their children. Marrying off their daughters can seem like the only option. – Lakshmi Sundaram	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The VAT increase was the last straw for many businesses, from one moment to the next we were without clients. – Antonio Costa	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The trash is the straw that broke the camel's back, but the story is much bigger than this straw. It is the story of the political garbage in the country. – Prime Minister Tammam Salam	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The trash is the straw that broke the camel's back, but the story is much bigger than this straw. It is the story of the political garbage in the country and the political trash in the country. – Prime Minister Tammam Salam	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Fighting, critical fuel shortages and restrictions on importing relief supplies have already helped to create one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, the bombing of Hodeida port is the final straw ... The impact of these latest air strikes will be felt most strongly by innocent children and families. – Edward Santiago of aid group	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's a matter of who has the longest straw at the bottom of the bucket. – Cam Berlogar	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

They return home to lay on straw and die. We often slaughter them and we have to burn animals we find dead in the water .... We have lost a large number of our animals.

– Ahmed Sabah

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Water became scarce and boats stopped coming to the area and after that our animals started to lose weight and then die. We gave them medicine, but in vain, they return home to lay on straw and die. We often slaughter them and we have to burn animals we find dead in the water .... We have lost a large number of our animals.

– Ahmed Sabah

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Either he can double down in his resolve to fight it or it's the last straw and it breaks his will and he decides to work out a plea bargain, i would think that going to jail is going to put enormous pressure on him from his family.

– Michael Zeldin

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Well, I think North Korea almost dared Trump to cancel the summit, and he did North Korea, the North Korean statement yesterday was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.

– Srinivasan Sitaraman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

She can’t chew, and she’s eating mashed up foods and drinking through a straw. But we’re getting there. they are absolutely amazing and we can’t manage without them, she said. It saved an awful lot of time for us that day in getting her to hospital. We’ve got a lot of fundraising going on for the air ambulance as a result of this. The guy who drove Georgia from the track to meet the air ambulance, he has had a long beard for 20 years and at the Royal Cornwall Show he is shaving it off to raise funds.

– Georgia Hull

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The food was thrown down on the feces for the dog to eat. The water bucket had old straw and feces on it and the water inside was full of algae.

– Kathy Bailey

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

There was a dog that was kept in a kennel that was filled with feces and urine, the food was thrown down on the feces for the dog to eat. The water bucket had old straw and feces on it and the water inside was full of algae.

– Kathy Bailey

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It is a nice feeling not having to keep going out there, we were out there for a long time and both of us battled incredibly hard and whoever was going to draw the (short) straw was going to be hurting and obviously I feel very fortunate to have got through that.

– The Australia-born Konta

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I saw Hillary on TV making that statement about how women who have been raped and sexually assaulted should be believed. That was the last straw.

– Dolly Kyle

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Working without pay is the straw that breaks the camel’s back, teachers have mortgage payments, utility bills, grocery bills. Being paid for their work is n’t a luxury, it’s a necessity.

– Teachers Interim President Ivy Bailey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The rule isn't the sole reason people are ready to move, but in every conversation we have, it is discussed because advisers will be impacted, for advisers who are already unhappy, the rule could be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

– Louis Diamond

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

His speech was well-received, but he didn't do that well in the straw poll.

– Matt Schlapp

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When you have a straw poll, it forces you to turn out people to an event. They make a bigger commitment of giving up their day in the summer to go vote for you at an event. Even though it doesn't matter, it's not binding, it forces you to organize early, it would have forced everyone to organize because the risk of not organizing is that you might get ejected from the race. Not having a straw poll hurt.

– Craig Robinson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The president will have five or six straw men in the speech, I’m sure, and he’ll present a very glossy rendition of the last seven years.He’ll try to set some verbal traps along the way and it will be a very political and pointed speech, I would guess.

– Speaker Ryan

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

– Nikola Tesla

added by anonymous
8 years ago

Most people are disaffected from the church already, and this was the final straw.

– Attorney Mark Naugle

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The fact that it affects children really upset people, most people are disaffected from the church already, and this was the final straw.

– Attorney Mark Naugle

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Most people are disaffected from the church already and this was the final straw.

– Mark Naugle

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Emergency situations are often the last straw for many families who are already living on the brink, they tip the balance and make it impossible for desperate parents to make ends meet and to protect their children. Marrying off their daughters can seem like the only option.

– Lakshmi Sundaram

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The VAT increase was the last straw for many businesses, from one moment to the next we were without clients.

– Antonio Costa

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The trash is the straw that broke the camel's back, but the story is much bigger than this straw. It is the story of the political garbage in the country.

– Prime Minister Tammam Salam

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The trash is the straw that broke the camel's back, but the story is much bigger than this straw. It is the story of the political garbage in the country and the political trash in the country.

– Prime Minister Tammam Salam

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Fighting, critical fuel shortages and restrictions on importing relief supplies have already helped to create one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, the bombing of Hodeida port is the final straw ... The impact of these latest air strikes will be felt most strongly by innocent children and families.

– Edward Santiago of aid group

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's a matter of who has the longest straw at the bottom of the bucket.

– Cam Berlogar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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