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They're claiming The White House's The White House, i got The White House. But The White House's also a pretext to try to up the ante in tensions and to actually try to set a new status quo to get to a new normal where they think they can keep things at. – John Kirby	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Negotiations need to begin in the next two months before it creates upheavals and tensions that will not be easily overcome, ideally, the dividing line should be a return to the status quo ante. – United States	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Now Russia has decided it's going to up the ante, it is a real-world problem that has global implications. – James Nixey	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We’re upping the ante. We’re saying in California we will not accept that our reproductive health care providers and patients be subject to threats both online and in person. – Rebecca Bauer-Kahan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There's still that general sentiment that this type of rapper, a gay, male rapper, isn't representative of masculinity, what Lil Nas X is doing by upping the ante is no different than what we see a stereotypical, heterosexual rapper do by upping the ante in Lil Nas X lyrics. – Matthew Oware	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The competitive ante is being raised. – Andrew Charles	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The ante has increased dramatically after Georgia. – Jaime Harrison	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The leaflets are an excuse or justification to raise the ante, manufacture a crisis, and bully Seoul to get what it wants. – Duyeon Kim	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
100,000 drives the ante up. It goes beyond open letters being exchanged, the engagement has to evolve. – Michael Price	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This ups the ante for the last one in every way and shape you can imagine, it’s funnier, it moves faster, it’s richer, it has more dynamic stories, deeper emotional pull … we get to spend more time storytelling and less time giving expository backstory and origin story. It’s emotionally driven, character driven, relationship driven, epic space supernova that explodes and it’s bigger brighter faster than any movie you have ever seen. – Chris Pratt	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I remember sitting in the ante room with President Reagan and we were dealing with a few things that had to be dealt with and there was this pounding, and President Reagan said :' They're pounding on his back.' And it was really shocking -- bam, bam -- just to get everything moving... – Sheila Tate	Found on CNN 8 years ago
This is not just Mr. Trump. Look at the statements that are being made by other candidates. There is not a single candidate in the Republican primary that thinks we should do anything about climate change, he may up the ante in anti-Muslim sentiment, but if you look at what the other Republican candidates have said, that's pretty troubling, too. – President Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He may up the ante in anti-Muslim sentiment, but if you look at what the other Republican candidates have said, that's pretty troubling, too. – President Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are going to introduce this ex-ante check of the intergovernmental agreements, we should develop the mechanism where we would have the possibility to look into the intergovernmental agreements in a way that we would make sure that once concluded, they are compatible with EU law. – European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The San Bernardino event sort of upped the ante. – Mark Selby	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I don't see that stopping when Barack Obama is no longer president, i can imagine a white president like Hillary [ Clinton ] upping the ante because she doesn't have the benefit of being black. – Steve Sailer	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I can imagine a white president like Hillary [ Clinton ] upping the ante because she doesn't have the benefit of being black. – Steve Sailer	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There’s still time for serious contenders to ‘ante up,’ our current campaign finance laws are making this one of the most interesting primary campaigns ever for Republicans, but also confusing. Two of our top-three contenders are running without officially declaring their candidacy as of yet: Bush and Walker. – David Payne	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This will further exacerbate contradictions and up the ante on the Internet arms race. We are concerned and worried about this. – Defence Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are upping the ante. We're going after them wherever they are, with everything that we have. – Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh	Found on CNN 9 years ago
There are obvious risks with upping the ante, there's a very real prospect that more Jordanians will come into harm’s way and more additional troops will be taken captive or killed. – David Schenker	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas. (No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.) – Marcus Tullius Cicero	added by anonymous 13 years ago

They're claiming The White House's The White House, i got The White House. But The White House's also a pretext to try to up the ante in tensions and to actually try to set a new status quo to get to a new normal where they think they can keep things at.

– John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Negotiations need to begin in the next two months before it creates upheavals and tensions that will not be easily overcome, ideally, the dividing line should be a return to the status quo ante.

– United States

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Now Russia has decided it's going to up the ante, it is a real-world problem that has global implications.

– James Nixey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We’re upping the ante. We’re saying in California we will not accept that our reproductive health care providers and patients be subject to threats both online and in person.

– Rebecca Bauer-Kahan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's still that general sentiment that this type of rapper, a gay, male rapper, isn't representative of masculinity, what Lil Nas X is doing by upping the ante is no different than what we see a stereotypical, heterosexual rapper do by upping the ante in Lil Nas X lyrics.

– Matthew Oware

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The competitive ante is being raised.

– Andrew Charles

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The ante has increased dramatically after Georgia.

– Jaime Harrison

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The leaflets are an excuse or justification to raise the ante, manufacture a crisis, and bully Seoul to get what it wants.

– Duyeon Kim

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

100,000 drives the ante up. It goes beyond open letters being exchanged, the engagement has to evolve.

– Michael Price

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This ups the ante for the last one in every way and shape you can imagine, it’s funnier, it moves faster, it’s richer, it has more dynamic stories, deeper emotional pull … we get to spend more time storytelling and less time giving expository backstory and origin story. It’s emotionally driven, character driven, relationship driven, epic space supernova that explodes and it’s bigger brighter faster than any movie you have ever seen.

– Chris Pratt

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I remember sitting in the ante room with President Reagan and we were dealing with a few things that had to be dealt with and there was this pounding, and President Reagan said :' They're pounding on his back.' And it was really shocking -- bam, bam -- just to get everything moving...

– Sheila Tate

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This is not just Mr. Trump. Look at the statements that are being made by other candidates. There is not a single candidate in the Republican primary that thinks we should do anything about climate change, he may up the ante in anti-Muslim sentiment, but if you look at what the other Republican candidates have said, that's pretty troubling, too.

– President Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He may up the ante in anti-Muslim sentiment, but if you look at what the other Republican candidates have said, that's pretty troubling, too.

– President Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are going to introduce this ex-ante check of the intergovernmental agreements, we should develop the mechanism where we would have the possibility to look into the intergovernmental agreements in a way that we would make sure that once concluded, they are compatible with EU law.

– European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The San Bernardino event sort of upped the ante.

– Mark Selby

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I don't see that stopping when Barack Obama is no longer president, i can imagine a white president like Hillary [ Clinton ] upping the ante because she doesn't have the benefit of being black.

– Steve Sailer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I can imagine a white president like Hillary [ Clinton ] upping the ante because she doesn't have the benefit of being black.

– Steve Sailer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There’s still time for serious contenders to ‘ante up,’ our current campaign finance laws are making this one of the most interesting primary campaigns ever for Republicans, but also confusing. Two of our top-three contenders are running without officially declaring their candidacy as of yet: Bush and Walker.

– David Payne

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This will further exacerbate contradictions and up the ante on the Internet arms race. We are concerned and worried about this.

– Defence Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are upping the ante. We're going after them wherever they are, with everything that we have.

– Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh

Found on CNN
9 years ago

There are obvious risks with upping the ante, there's a very real prospect that more Jordanians will come into harm’s way and more additional troops will be taken captive or killed.

– David Schenker

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas. (No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.)

– Marcus Tullius Cicero

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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