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The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings. – Robert Bork	added by Normando 5 months ago
The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable. Higher taxes left individuals with less money to give; government’s assumption of responsibility for providing welfare shriveled the perceived duty of individuals to respond to their neighbors’ needs; and the availability of public programs gave recipients an alternative to private assistance, one which did not challenge recipients to reform their destructive behavior. – Doug Bandow	added by Normando 11 months ago
If you give individuals an alternative activity that they enjoy, then by default, substance use will decrease. They have something else to do with their time, now, this doesn’t necessarily have to be, you know, running for hours on a treadmill. You know, it could be going outside and playing basketball or tennis or pickleball, or whatever your favorite sport is. – Mark Smith	Found on CNN 11 months ago
Work requirements provide the deadline and incentives that we all need, the alternative is that people are trapped in poverty for the long term. – Tarren Bragdon	Found on CNN 11 months ago
The alternative to Trump would be someone to say, ‘We can’t be having this, this isn’t what the election should be about,’. – Craig Robinson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I am very much supportive of transitioning away from fossil fuels and to alternative energies; that process is not going to happen in a snap, and this project is a key piece of transitioning, at least for Alaska. – Mary Peltola	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Because Nixit is such a personal product, we like to offer personal support, we have a dedicated team of real people to offer guidance and alternative tips and tricks to help people feel comfortable and confident. – Rachael Newton	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Larry Hogan is a star. He’s governed well in Maryland, elected in a blue state. I think the fact that he indicates that he’s going to continue to fight in the Republican Party for alternatives to Donald Trump and a new direction is a good sign, i actually think more voices right now in opposition or providing an alternative to Donald Trump is the best thing in the right direction. So, hats off to Larry for what he’s done, what he’s contributed. And I’m glad that he will continue to do so. – Asa Hutchinson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In the early stages, multiple candidates that have an alternative vision to what the president has is good for our party, good for the debate, good for the upcoming debate that will be in August, so, sure, that will narrow, and it will probably narrow fairly quickly. We need to have a lot of self-evaluation as you go along, but I think more voices now that provide alternative messages and problem-solving and ideas is good for our party. – Asa Hutchinson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Statins are the gold standard. They are the cornerstone. The purpose of this study was not to replace statins, but to allow an alternative therapy for people who simply cannot take them. – Steven Nissen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The way truth or a topic is presented affects how we respond to it. Consider two milk containers as an illustration. One reads 20% cholesterol, while another says 80% cholesterol free. We will choose the second alternative as a result of the framing effect...” – Josh King Madrid	added by JoshKingMadrid 1 year ago
People have been referring to us when they do as a Twitter alternative, which I think is an important distinction from a Twitter replacement. – Jae Kaplan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It helps boost a soldier’s courage and aggressiveness, if soldiers engage in a mission that is not suitable for firing weapons, they may also use bayonet as an alternative option. – Su Tzu-yun	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Echidnas can’t pant, sweat or lick to lose heat, so they could be impacted by increasing temperature and our work shows alternative ways that echidnas can lose heat, explaining how they can be active under hotter conditions than previously thought, understanding the thermal biology of echidnas is also important to predict how they might respond to a warming climate. – Christine Cooper	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have jumped to hormones and surgery bypassing the most obvious alternative — therapy, we need to take a step back and study these various interventions before we can determine the best way forward. This is just what Sweden, Finland and England have done, and we hope the U.S. will follow suit. – William Malone	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Just like many may choose to have a glass of water in between cocktails, some non-alcoholic beverages provide an alternative for drinkers when they want to moderate or feel like enjoying a drink without the alcohol by volume, ultimately non-alcoholic drinks are mostly formulated to taste like familiar adult beverages, giving many consumers an occasional substitute, not necessarily an outright replacement. – Taylor Berry	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There are problems, but none of the traders are talking about any suspension of shipments. Ports use alternative energy sources. – Agriculture Minister Mykola Solsky	Found on Reuters 1 year ago
I will not be voting for Kevin McCarthy. I'll be voting for an alternative candidate on January 3, i said when I ran that I would evaluate him based on what he did in his first two years… there wasn't anything during my first two years that gave me the confidence. – Bob Good	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I’ve seen two competing narratives as I campaigned over this last year: there’s rampant fraud and rampant cheating or the alternative, that there’s no fraud and no cheating, and the problem is, neither of those is true. – Phil McGrane	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Imagine it’s 2024, and tens of millions of Americans are clamoring for an alternative to the two major party nominees, if no one has done the work to create the infrastructure to make such a run possible, it’s too late because you can’t flip a switch and get ballot access. – Ryan Clancy	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It is time for the White House and governments all over the world to think hard as to who they want at the helm of the World Bank, you don't need to be a scientist to understand climate science -- the facts are clear, and there's no alternative but to act. – Sonia Dunlop	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I see this as a responsible alternative to the very radical position by Democratic senators, i can assure that a vast majority of Americans do not support abortion on demand up to delivery. – Lindsey Graham	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We know that appetite control is important to achieve weight loss, and our study suggests that those consuming the most calories in the morning felt less hungry, in contrast to when they consumed more calories in the evening period, while disputing the claims for' metabolic' advantages of early-in-the-day-calories, this paper does establish a plausible alternative : a potential weight loss advantage... via enhanced satiety and less hunger. – Alexandra Johnstone	Found on CNN 1 year ago
While disputing the claims for' metabolic' advantages of early-in-the-day-calories, this paper does establish a plausible alternative : a potential weight loss advantage... via enhanced satiety and less hunger. – David Katz	Found on CNN 1 year ago

The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings.

– Robert Bork

added by Normando
5 months ago

The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable. Higher taxes left individuals with less money to give; government’s assumption of responsibility for providing welfare shriveled the perceived duty of individuals to respond to their neighbors’ needs; and the availability of public programs gave recipients an alternative to private assistance, one which did not challenge recipients to reform their destructive behavior.

– Doug Bandow

added by Normando
11 months ago

If you give individuals an alternative activity that they enjoy, then by default, substance use will decrease. They have something else to do with their time, now, this doesn’t necessarily have to be, you know, running for hours on a treadmill. You know, it could be going outside and playing basketball or tennis or pickleball, or whatever your favorite sport is.

– Mark Smith

Found on CNN
11 months ago

Work requirements provide the deadline and incentives that we all need, the alternative is that people are trapped in poverty for the long term.

– Tarren Bragdon

Found on CNN
11 months ago

The alternative to Trump would be someone to say, ‘We can’t be having this, this isn’t what the election should be about,’.

– Craig Robinson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am very much supportive of transitioning away from fossil fuels and to alternative energies; that process is not going to happen in a snap, and this project is a key piece of transitioning, at least for Alaska.

– Mary Peltola

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Because Nixit is such a personal product, we like to offer personal support, we have a dedicated team of real people to offer guidance and alternative tips and tricks to help people feel comfortable and confident.

– Rachael Newton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Larry Hogan is a star. He’s governed well in Maryland, elected in a blue state. I think the fact that he indicates that he’s going to continue to fight in the Republican Party for alternatives to Donald Trump and a new direction is a good sign, i actually think more voices right now in opposition or providing an alternative to Donald Trump is the best thing in the right direction. So, hats off to Larry for what he’s done, what he’s contributed. And I’m glad that he will continue to do so.

– Asa Hutchinson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the early stages, multiple candidates that have an alternative vision to what the president has is good for our party, good for the debate, good for the upcoming debate that will be in August, so, sure, that will narrow, and it will probably narrow fairly quickly. We need to have a lot of self-evaluation as you go along, but I think more voices now that provide alternative messages and problem-solving and ideas is good for our party.

– Asa Hutchinson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Statins are the gold standard. They are the cornerstone. The purpose of this study was not to replace statins, but to allow an alternative therapy for people who simply cannot take them.

– Steven Nissen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The way truth or a topic is presented affects how we respond to it. Consider two milk containers as an illustration. One reads 20% cholesterol, while another says 80% cholesterol free. We will choose the second alternative as a result of the framing effect...”

– Josh King Madrid

added by JoshKingMadrid
1 year ago

People have been referring to us when they do as a Twitter alternative, which I think is an important distinction from a Twitter replacement.

– Jae Kaplan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It helps boost a soldier’s courage and aggressiveness, if soldiers engage in a mission that is not suitable for firing weapons, they may also use bayonet as an alternative option.

– Su Tzu-yun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Echidnas can’t pant, sweat or lick to lose heat, so they could be impacted by increasing temperature and our work shows alternative ways that echidnas can lose heat, explaining how they can be active under hotter conditions than previously thought, understanding the thermal biology of echidnas is also important to predict how they might respond to a warming climate.

– Christine Cooper

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have jumped to hormones and surgery bypassing the most obvious alternative — therapy, we need to take a step back and study these various interventions before we can determine the best way forward. This is just what Sweden, Finland and England have done, and we hope the U.S. will follow suit.

– William Malone

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Just like many may choose to have a glass of water in between cocktails, some non-alcoholic beverages provide an alternative for drinkers when they want to moderate or feel like enjoying a drink without the alcohol by volume, ultimately non-alcoholic drinks are mostly formulated to taste like familiar adult beverages, giving many consumers an occasional substitute, not necessarily an outright replacement.

– Taylor Berry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are problems, but none of the traders are talking about any suspension of shipments. Ports use alternative energy sources.

– Agriculture Minister Mykola Solsky

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

I will not be voting for Kevin McCarthy. I'll be voting for an alternative candidate on January 3, i said when I ran that I would evaluate him based on what he did in his first two years… there wasn't anything during my first two years that gave me the confidence.

– Bob Good

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I’ve seen two competing narratives as I campaigned over this last year: there’s rampant fraud and rampant cheating or the alternative, that there’s no fraud and no cheating, and the problem is, neither of those is true.

– Phil McGrane

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Imagine it’s 2024, and tens of millions of Americans are clamoring for an alternative to the two major party nominees, if no one has done the work to create the infrastructure to make such a run possible, it’s too late because you can’t flip a switch and get ballot access.

– Ryan Clancy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It is time for the White House and governments all over the world to think hard as to who they want at the helm of the World Bank, you don't need to be a scientist to understand climate science -- the facts are clear, and there's no alternative but to act.

– Sonia Dunlop

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I see this as a responsible alternative to the very radical position by Democratic senators, i can assure that a vast majority of Americans do not support abortion on demand up to delivery.

– Lindsey Graham

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We know that appetite control is important to achieve weight loss, and our study suggests that those consuming the most calories in the morning felt less hungry, in contrast to when they consumed more calories in the evening period, while disputing the claims for' metabolic' advantages of early-in-the-day-calories, this paper does establish a plausible alternative : a potential weight loss advantage... via enhanced satiety and less hunger.

– Alexandra Johnstone

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While disputing the claims for' metabolic' advantages of early-in-the-day-calories, this paper does establish a plausible alternative : a potential weight loss advantage... via enhanced satiety and less hunger.

– David Katz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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