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What fork or knife to use was tricky at first, i never used to have more than one fork or one knife on the table, and suddenly I had three of each. It was like, what do I do ? – Hamza Taouzzale	Found on New York Times 10 months ago
You can’t not have farmers because you need food, but we have to have water in order to survive, there’s a very tricky balance to establish. Right now, if they don’t irrigate, we have water, but also a year from now we have no food. – Linda Gutierrez	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You basically are causing some pain and suffering in the name of trying to fight inflation, and that's a really tricky calculus. – Elise Gould	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Attribution in peacetime is tricky enough... I would say there's a real danger of unintentionally attributing something to United States that the United States or its allies simply did not do. – United States	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's a really tricky game to figure out what can I do, what can I not do and how can I squeeze a little more money here and there ? . – Elisabeth Mendes Saigg	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Then it meant that it was tricky to tow the tanks back to Russia for repairs, because they were far away, and so a lot of them were abandoned. Lots of their equipment started breaking because the tanks can only take so much moving around, and, of course, you have the very well-documented resistance from local Ukrainians, who didn't take too well to being occupied. – Emily Ferris	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The ways how SBICAP broker makes clients to loss money 1) Trading platform is clamp down during market fall 2) No command is accepted by trading platform when market swings and at closing session 3) Whole screen or transaction page of trading platform gets whitewashed especially during sudden surge or downfall 4) Accounting system is ambiguous and tricky 5) Automated reply to each complaints and not resolving. No real customer service – Laksheish M Patel	added by laksheispatel 2 years ago
That’s this tricky area that we’re landing in doing comedy as conservatives whose views simply differ from the popular narrative. – Seth Dillon	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They’re making judgement calls based on your motives and who you’re joking about, whether or not your jokes really count as jokes or if they count as hate speech, that’s this tricky area that we’re landing in doing comedy as conservatives whose views simply differ from the popular narrative. – Seth Dillon	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I don’t think the queen would be paying the settlement money, however, she could possibly be paying some of the funds to the charity. It just wouldn’t sit well with people if the queen contributed financially to the settlement itself. But the situation does put her in a tricky spot as a queen and as a mother. Every parent wants to help their children, but in her case, she has all of the public’s eyes on her. – Kerene Barefield	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
While it is tricky to predict what a jury might do at some trial down the road, if Hollywood or the public were convinced that the shooting was anything other than a tragic accident, or if it felt that the public had decided that Baldwin is such a bad guy that he needed to be ‘canceled’ a la Kevin Spacey, there would be no fresh gigs for him to show up to. – Howard Breuer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I said I would keep a little diary while I was traveling and working, we had our first day today, which is always tricky. I don't work as much as I used to, and I've said this before maybe, but you go to work, and you forget what you're supposed to do. I just was like, oh, God what do you do? What is acting or any of this nonsense that I've ended up doing? – Alec Baldwin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I know a lot of people think daycare is expensive, and it is for parents, [ but ] then we're also not making a ton of money, so to hire somebody, you have to have more kids, so you can pay them, and it gets tricky that way -- making sure you can find the kids so you can afford the help, but needing the help because you can have only so many kids. It's a balancing act. – Lisa Keller	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Short of getting a test, I would say it's really tricky to distinguish right now, we need to just treat cold-ish symptoms in pretty much the same bucket. – Sarah Ash Combs	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I didn’t think a win was going to be very possible, but I know this course is tricky. You can make birdies, but it’s easy to make bogeys and doubles. If I put a good score up there, you never know what’s going to happen. – Viktor Hovland	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's just hard to be funny, everybody kind of thinks they're funny or wants to be funny, but even the people that are great at being funny aren't funny a lot of the time because it's just a tricky, subtle thing that evokes that response of laughter [from an audience]. – Jerry Seinfeld	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Without more evidence…it could be tricky. – Brian Laundrie	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We never know what we're going to find, yet we always have to be thinking two or three steps ahead. So that really makes us need to think about the meteorology [ in each particular storm ], is it a closed low or an open wave ? Maybe it's closed but just elongated ? Is it battling shear ? Are there several smaller swirls competing to be the main circulation center ? Weak storms and invests can be very tricky and require a lot of thinking on our toes. – Jeremy DeHart	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I’m curious to see his match with Djokovic, i think he can give Djokovic a lot of fits because he’s just tricky. – Reilly Opelka	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I tell my students that all pre-Cambrian fossils are disputed by somebody because it's very early in evolution, these animals commonly don't have all the features that they evolve later on so it can be a little tricky. I look forward to seeing what the response is, but it's I think it's a very strong case. – David Bottjer	Found on CNN 2 years ago
To me, that was one of the most impressive things — watching what he was doing in the EuroLeague playoffs against Efes — switching out on those guards, it’s tricky, he not only held his own, but was making plays. To see those flashes at that age, at that level, is pretty impressive. He can guard 1 through 5. – Will Voigt	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I had to kind of step back, i was in Orlando and took some time and really wanted to heal fully, because an ab is a tricky spot. I had some good preparation on the clay there and when I came here I was really excited. – Ann Li	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I'm not holding my breath, similar tricky cases that have been solved in America have taken anywhere between a few months to a couple of years. So, you know, I'm prepared for a two-year haul, if that's what it takes. – Derek Abbott	Found on CNN 2 years ago
A spacewalk is probably the most dangerous thing that we do, i think it's more dangerous than launching and landing, even though those are really tricky things. If we become separated from the International Space Station, it's super dangerous. Now we have ways to prevent that because it is dangerous, but going outside is an extremely dangerous thing to do. – Astronaut Mike Fincke	Found on CNN 2 years ago

What fork or knife to use was tricky at first, i never used to have more than one fork or one knife on the table, and suddenly I had three of each. It was like, what do I do ?

– Hamza Taouzzale

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

You can’t not have farmers because you need food, but we have to have water in order to survive, there’s a very tricky balance to establish. Right now, if they don’t irrigate, we have water, but also a year from now we have no food.

– Linda Gutierrez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You basically are causing some pain and suffering in the name of trying to fight inflation, and that's a really tricky calculus.

– Elise Gould

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Attribution in peacetime is tricky enough... I would say there's a real danger of unintentionally attributing something to United States that the United States or its allies simply did not do.

– United States

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's a really tricky game to figure out what can I do, what can I not do and how can I squeeze a little more money here and there ? .

– Elisabeth Mendes Saigg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Then it meant that it was tricky to tow the tanks back to Russia for repairs, because they were far away, and so a lot of them were abandoned. Lots of their equipment started breaking because the tanks can only take so much moving around, and, of course, you have the very well-documented resistance from local Ukrainians, who didn't take too well to being occupied.

– Emily Ferris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The ways how SBICAP broker makes clients to loss money 1) Trading platform is clamp down during market fall 2) No command is accepted by trading platform when market swings and at closing session 3) Whole screen or transaction page of trading platform gets whitewashed especially during sudden surge or downfall 4) Accounting system is ambiguous and tricky 5) Automated reply to each complaints and not resolving. No real customer service

– Laksheish M Patel

added by laksheispatel
2 years ago

That’s this tricky area that we’re landing in doing comedy as conservatives whose views simply differ from the popular narrative.

– Seth Dillon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They’re making judgement calls based on your motives and who you’re joking about, whether or not your jokes really count as jokes or if they count as hate speech, that’s this tricky area that we’re landing in doing comedy as conservatives whose views simply differ from the popular narrative.

– Seth Dillon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don’t think the queen would be paying the settlement money, however, she could possibly be paying some of the funds to the charity. It just wouldn’t sit well with people if the queen contributed financially to the settlement itself. But the situation does put her in a tricky spot as a queen and as a mother. Every parent wants to help their children, but in her case, she has all of the public’s eyes on her.

– Kerene Barefield

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While it is tricky to predict what a jury might do at some trial down the road, if Hollywood or the public were convinced that the shooting was anything other than a tragic accident, or if it felt that the public had decided that Baldwin is such a bad guy that he needed to be ‘canceled’ a la Kevin Spacey, there would be no fresh gigs for him to show up to.

– Howard Breuer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I said I would keep a little diary while I was traveling and working, we had our first day today, which is always tricky. I don't work as much as I used to, and I've said this before maybe, but you go to work, and you forget what you're supposed to do. I just was like, oh, God what do you do? What is acting or any of this nonsense that I've ended up doing?

– Alec Baldwin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I know a lot of people think daycare is expensive, and it is for parents, [ but ] then we're also not making a ton of money, so to hire somebody, you have to have more kids, so you can pay them, and it gets tricky that way -- making sure you can find the kids so you can afford the help, but needing the help because you can have only so many kids. It's a balancing act.

– Lisa Keller

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Short of getting a test, I would say it's really tricky to distinguish right now, we need to just treat cold-ish symptoms in pretty much the same bucket.

– Sarah Ash Combs

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I didn’t think a win was going to be very possible, but I know this course is tricky. You can make birdies, but it’s easy to make bogeys and doubles. If I put a good score up there, you never know what’s going to happen.

– Viktor Hovland

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's just hard to be funny, everybody kind of thinks they're funny or wants to be funny, but even the people that are great at being funny aren't funny a lot of the time because it's just a tricky, subtle thing that evokes that response of laughter [from an audience].

– Jerry Seinfeld

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Without more evidence…it could be tricky.

– Brian Laundrie

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We never know what we're going to find, yet we always have to be thinking two or three steps ahead. So that really makes us need to think about the meteorology [ in each particular storm ], is it a closed low or an open wave ? Maybe it's closed but just elongated ? Is it battling shear ? Are there several smaller swirls competing to be the main circulation center ? Weak storms and invests can be very tricky and require a lot of thinking on our toes.

– Jeremy DeHart

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’m curious to see his match with Djokovic, i think he can give Djokovic a lot of fits because he’s just tricky.

– Reilly Opelka

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I tell my students that all pre-Cambrian fossils are disputed by somebody because it's very early in evolution, these animals commonly don't have all the features that they evolve later on so it can be a little tricky. I look forward to seeing what the response is, but it's I think it's a very strong case.

– David Bottjer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

To me, that was one of the most impressive things — watching what he was doing in the EuroLeague playoffs against Efes — switching out on those guards, it’s tricky, he not only held his own, but was making plays. To see those flashes at that age, at that level, is pretty impressive. He can guard 1 through 5.

– Will Voigt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I had to kind of step back, i was in Orlando and took some time and really wanted to heal fully, because an ab is a tricky spot. I had some good preparation on the clay there and when I came here I was really excited.

– Ann Li

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm not holding my breath, similar tricky cases that have been solved in America have taken anywhere between a few months to a couple of years. So, you know, I'm prepared for a two-year haul, if that's what it takes.

– Derek Abbott

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A spacewalk is probably the most dangerous thing that we do, i think it's more dangerous than launching and landing, even though those are really tricky things. If we become separated from the International Space Station, it's super dangerous. Now we have ways to prevent that because it is dangerous, but going outside is an extremely dangerous thing to do.

– Astronaut Mike Fincke

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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