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I've asked for the deployment of National Guard as long as we need National Guard to deal with the crisis that we expect to escalate, the number of people crossing the border seeking asylum we expect to only go up. And we need to make sure that there is a national response, not an ad-hoc, city by city, state by state response. – Muriel Bowser	Found on CNN 1 year ago
At the very least, we believe the dichotomy will usher in a period of more ad hoc decision-making in The Russians, both with respect to the domestic adjustments required to sustain this push, as well as the military conflict with Ukraine and the west. – Avril Haines	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Ad Hoc Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled earlier today on an application filed by the US figure skaters Evan Bates, Karen Chen, Nathan Chen, Madison Chock, Zachary Donohue, Brandon Frazier, Madison Hubbell, Alexa Knierim and Vincent Zhou against the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The USOPC was not a party to the CAS proceedings, the athletes were seeking a ruling from the CAS Ad Hoc Division that the IOC be ordered to present to them the silver medals earned in the Figure Skating Team Event in a public medal ceremony to be held prior to the close of the XXIV Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022. – The CAS	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It is abundantly clear that the government intended to conduct an end-run around the administrative injunction by producing alternate copies of documents that, even under the government’s incorrect interpretation of the administrative injunction, would violate its unambiguous terms, under no circumstances should the government’s misconduct and attempt to create an ad hoc record be sanctioned by this Court. – Jesse Binnall	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It should not be an ad hoc reactionary response that creates inequities that are predictable among social and economic lines, instead, it feels as if the district’s approach was more focused on eroding the trust we’ve worked so hard to develop by pitting schools, principals, parents, and staff against each other than on actually providing safety and support for students and communities. – Chicago Principals Administrators Association	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They're [state legislature] sort of guilty of serial over-criminalization. They continue to pass ad hoc bills that could criminalize behavior that could already be charged under the current statute, yes it's responding to a tragedy … a tragedy does not mean that there are no tools available to hold people accountable in those cases. – Elizabeth Randol	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It is a good news story. But unfortunately, nothing that is replicable, it was truly ad hoc. – Ashley Sogge	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Before, cooperation at the operation level has been pretty ad hoc but now we hope it will be more organized, systematic, and efficient, we have to be on top of the situation. That means good intelligence and good information are necessary. – Jeremy Douglas	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It is more of a short-term ad hoc rather than a long-term exposure. – Maria Neira	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc, these are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war. – Ronald Reagan	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is highly probable that by 2020 and beyond, energy prices will not go down and other solutions than ad hoc cuts need to be sought because the spectrum of available instruments is limited, this is why we prepared a program for the development of prosumer energy. – Technology Minister Jadwiga Emilewicz	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The Secretary-General is totally committed to reforming the The United Nations and ensuring that The United Nations is fit for purpose and delivers results in the most efficient and cost-effective manner, however, abrupt funding cuts can force the adoption of ad hoc measures that will undermine the impact of longer-term reform efforts. The cuts to the U.N. come as no surprise. President Trump has several times criticized the value of the organization. In December, President Trump tweeted :. – Stphane Dujarric	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
All over Sri Lanka we are facing a situation where we just cannot distribute land ad-hoc. – Minister Yapa	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Longer-term China needs to work out a market-based approach to tackle pollution rather than an ad-hoc order. Apart from social responsibilities, business has its profit and loss to take care. – Jing Chunmei	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
This is such an ad hoc manner to deal with a problematic entity, without any sense of the big picture, you can't have major economic decision-making coloured by political considerations like this. – Khurram Husain	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are looking at the opportunities to extend our network reach. There are markets that Ryanair serves that we don't, so we are having those discussions about what is currently happening on an ad hoc basis, if we get the right price in terms of the capacity from Ryanair, then we would be very interested in doing business. If the commercial agreements are reached in time, then summer 2016 is a possibility. – Chief Executive Stephen Kavanagh	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think some form of ad hoc creditor committee should be formed in the next few days..(we expect to) start discssions by Monday and Tuesday next week. Time is of essence. – Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are very concerned, not just about the three cases but about public health, we are concerned about the deterioration in the water and sanitation situation, we are not able to deliver regularly in the area, only on an ad hoc basis. – Elisabeth Hoff	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. – Philip Greenspun	added by anonymous 10 years ago

I've asked for the deployment of National Guard as long as we need National Guard to deal with the crisis that we expect to escalate, the number of people crossing the border seeking asylum we expect to only go up. And we need to make sure that there is a national response, not an ad-hoc, city by city, state by state response.

– Muriel Bowser

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At the very least, we believe the dichotomy will usher in a period of more ad hoc decision-making in The Russians, both with respect to the domestic adjustments required to sustain this push, as well as the military conflict with Ukraine and the west.

– Avril Haines

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Ad Hoc Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled earlier today on an application filed by the US figure skaters Evan Bates, Karen Chen, Nathan Chen, Madison Chock, Zachary Donohue, Brandon Frazier, Madison Hubbell, Alexa Knierim and Vincent Zhou against the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The USOPC was not a party to the CAS proceedings, the athletes were seeking a ruling from the CAS Ad Hoc Division that the IOC be ordered to present to them the silver medals earned in the Figure Skating Team Event in a public medal ceremony to be held prior to the close of the XXIV Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022.

– The CAS

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is abundantly clear that the government intended to conduct an end-run around the administrative injunction by producing alternate copies of documents that, even under the government’s incorrect interpretation of the administrative injunction, would violate its unambiguous terms, under no circumstances should the government’s misconduct and attempt to create an ad hoc record be sanctioned by this Court.

– Jesse Binnall

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It should not be an ad hoc reactionary response that creates inequities that are predictable among social and economic lines, instead, it feels as if the district’s approach was more focused on eroding the trust we’ve worked so hard to develop by pitting schools, principals, parents, and staff against each other than on actually providing safety and support for students and communities.

– Chicago Principals Administrators Association

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They're [state legislature] sort of guilty of serial over-criminalization. They continue to pass ad hoc bills that could criminalize behavior that could already be charged under the current statute, yes it's responding to a tragedy … a tragedy does not mean that there are no tools available to hold people accountable in those cases.

– Elizabeth Randol

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is a good news story. But unfortunately, nothing that is replicable, it was truly ad hoc.

– Ashley Sogge

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Before, cooperation at the operation level has been pretty ad hoc but now we hope it will be more organized, systematic, and efficient, we have to be on top of the situation. That means good intelligence and good information are necessary.

– Jeremy Douglas

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is more of a short-term ad hoc rather than a long-term exposure.

– Maria Neira

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc, these are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

– Ronald Reagan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It is highly probable that by 2020 and beyond, energy prices will not go down and other solutions than ad hoc cuts need to be sought because the spectrum of available instruments is limited, this is why we prepared a program for the development of prosumer energy.

– Technology Minister Jadwiga Emilewicz

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The Secretary-General is totally committed to reforming the The United Nations and ensuring that The United Nations is fit for purpose and delivers results in the most efficient and cost-effective manner, however, abrupt funding cuts can force the adoption of ad hoc measures that will undermine the impact of longer-term reform efforts. The cuts to the U.N. come as no surprise. President Trump has several times criticized the value of the organization. In December, President Trump tweeted :.

– Stphane Dujarric

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

All over Sri Lanka we are facing a situation where we just cannot distribute land ad-hoc.

– Minister Yapa

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Longer-term China needs to work out a market-based approach to tackle pollution rather than an ad-hoc order. Apart from social responsibilities, business has its profit and loss to take care.

– Jing Chunmei

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This is such an ad hoc manner to deal with a problematic entity, without any sense of the big picture, you can't have major economic decision-making coloured by political considerations like this.

– Khurram Husain

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are looking at the opportunities to extend our network reach. There are markets that Ryanair serves that we don't, so we are having those discussions about what is currently happening on an ad hoc basis, if we get the right price in terms of the capacity from Ryanair, then we would be very interested in doing business. If the commercial agreements are reached in time, then summer 2016 is a possibility.

– Chief Executive Stephen Kavanagh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think some form of ad hoc creditor committee should be formed in the next few days..(we expect to) start discssions by Monday and Tuesday next week. Time is of essence.

– Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are very concerned, not just about the three cases but about public health, we are concerned about the deterioration in the water and sanitation situation, we are not able to deliver regularly in the area, only on an ad hoc basis.

– Elisabeth Hoff

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

– Philip Greenspun

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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