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It’s like you’re swimming and trying to catch up and get your head above water, and you just keep getting hit by something else, but we have no choice, because if we don’t keep paying it, it’s going to accrue more interest. – Lisa Klein	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Lebanon's main political parties, including Hezbollah, the Free Patriotic Movement, the Future Movement, the Lebanese Forces, the Amal Movement, and others, have benefited from the port's ambiguous status and poor governance and accountability structures, political parties have installed loyalists in prominent positions in the port, often positioning them to accrue wealth, siphon off state revenues, smuggle goods, and evade taxes in ways that benefit them or people connected to them. – The HRW report	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We're going to keep going until we get there. We may just need to accrue more volunteers than [ 30,000 ]. – Anthony Fauci	Found on CNN 3 years ago
You can hit the pause button on the U.S. economy, but if you try to keep it on pause for too long, too many other problems will start to accrue and you'll start to get lots of bankruptcies and lots of business failures. – James Bullard	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Those candidates on that waiting list then, while that program is inactive, are not eligible to receive any organ offers ... but those patients continue to accrue waiting time, they do not lose their place in line. – Roger Brown	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order. – Marie Antoinette	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
I think people would read it for what it is - wanting to make sure that whatever access is given to foreign companies, the benefits still accrue to domestic companies. – Scott Kennedy	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The punitive effect of oil prices on the energy industry are the beneficial effects that accrue to the consumer. – Craig Fehr	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Based on (Hanen's) language, it stands to reason that if you stay this order then those harms would start to accrue and that's the whole point of him enjoining the order in the first place. – Pratheepan Gulasekaram	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It will accrue to their positive development in terms of financing, reputation and all that, and there'll probably be a brigade named in the brothers' memory. – Steve Emerson	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Maybe I couldn't make it. Maybe I don't have a pretty smile, good teeth, nice tits, long legs, a cheeky ass, a sexy voice. Maybe I don't know how to handle men and increase my market value, so that the rewards due to the feminine will accrue to me. Then again, maybe I'm sick of the masquerade. I'm sick of pretending eternal youth. I'm sick of belying my own intelligence, my own will, my own sex. I'm sick of peering at the world through false eyelashes, so everything I see is mixed with a shadow of bought hairs; I'm sick of weighting my head with a dead mane, unable to move my neck freely, terrified of rain, of wind, of dancing too vigorously in case I sweat into my lacquered curls. I'm sick of the Powder Room. I'm sick of pretending that some fatuous male's self-important pronouncements are the objects of my undivided attention, I'm sick of going to films and plays when someone else wants to, and sick of having no opinions of my own about either. I'm sick of being a transvestite. I refuse to be a female impersonator. I am a woman, not a castrate. – Germaine Greer	added by anonymous 10 years ago

It’s like you’re swimming and trying to catch up and get your head above water, and you just keep getting hit by something else, but we have no choice, because if we don’t keep paying it, it’s going to accrue more interest.

– Lisa Klein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Lebanon's main political parties, including Hezbollah, the Free Patriotic Movement, the Future Movement, the Lebanese Forces, the Amal Movement, and others, have benefited from the port's ambiguous status and poor governance and accountability structures, political parties have installed loyalists in prominent positions in the port, often positioning them to accrue wealth, siphon off state revenues, smuggle goods, and evade taxes in ways that benefit them or people connected to them.

– The HRW report

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We're going to keep going until we get there. We may just need to accrue more volunteers than [ 30,000 ].

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
3 years ago

You can hit the pause button on the U.S. economy, but if you try to keep it on pause for too long, too many other problems will start to accrue and you'll start to get lots of bankruptcies and lots of business failures.

– James Bullard

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Those candidates on that waiting list then, while that program is inactive, are not eligible to receive any organ offers ... but those patients continue to accrue waiting time, they do not lose their place in line.

– Roger Brown

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.

– Marie Antoinette

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

I think people would read it for what it is - wanting to make sure that whatever access is given to foreign companies, the benefits still accrue to domestic companies.

– Scott Kennedy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The punitive effect of oil prices on the energy industry are the beneficial effects that accrue to the consumer.

– Craig Fehr

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Based on (Hanen's) language, it stands to reason that if you stay this order then those harms would start to accrue and that's the whole point of him enjoining the order in the first place.

– Pratheepan Gulasekaram

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It will accrue to their positive development in terms of financing, reputation and all that, and there'll probably be a brigade named in the brothers' memory.

– Steve Emerson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Maybe I couldn't make it. Maybe I don't have a pretty smile, good teeth, nice tits, long legs, a cheeky ass, a sexy voice. Maybe I don't know how to handle men and increase my market value, so that the rewards due to the feminine will accrue to me. Then again, maybe I'm sick of the masquerade. I'm sick of pretending eternal youth. I'm sick of belying my own intelligence, my own will, my own sex. I'm sick of peering at the world through false eyelashes, so everything I see is mixed with a shadow of bought hairs; I'm sick of weighting my head with a dead mane, unable to move my neck freely, terrified of rain, of wind, of dancing too vigorously in case I sweat into my lacquered curls. I'm sick of the Powder Room. I'm sick of pretending that some fatuous male's self-important pronouncements are the objects of my undivided attention, I'm sick of going to films and plays when someone else wants to, and sick of having no opinions of my own about either. I'm sick of being a transvestite. I refuse to be a female impersonator. I am a woman, not a castrate.

– Germaine Greer

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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