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I think it could be laziness or the belief that rules don't apply, but if you look at when The SEC enforces late filing, The SEC's relatively rare. From a cost-benefit basis, it makes sense not to file. Even if the cost for reporting late is a $ 100,000 fine or a multi-million-dollar fine, why wouldn't he [ delay filing ] ?

Daniel Taylor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While I agree with most of the positions held by the NRA, I have come to believe that, while background checks would not stop every madman with a gun, it is at the very least a step in the right direction toward trying to prevent the kind of tragedy we saw this week in Uvalde — in my beloved, weeping TEXAS, i'm Larry Gatlin, but the 2nd Amendment should not apply to everyone. It's that simple.

Larry Gatlin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Prime Minister Marin hope that the parliament will confirm the decision to apply for NATO membership, during the coming days. It will be based on a strong mandate, with the President of the Republic. We have been in close contact with governments of NATO member states and NATO itself.

Sanna Marin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We don’t know what Turkey really means but from (the) Norwegian perspective, we are 100% behind Finland and Sweden if they decide to apply for membership in NATO, this will also strengthen the Nordic cooperation because we chose differently after World War 2, so I think that this is a historic moment right now.

Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeld

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The fossil record gives us a window into the details of a global-scale hazard and the reaction of Earth's biota to that hazard, it gives us... a crystal ball looking back in time and enables us to apply that to today's ecological and environmental crisis.

Robert DePalma

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The critiques he levels at Roe -- Supreme Court's not in the constitutional text ; there aren't early state constitutional provisions or early state or federal court decisions recognizing the right -- apply to those other rights, and he'd happily overrule them if he could.

Samuel Alito

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Judges are like umpires, umpires don't make the rules, they apply them... They make sure everybody plays by the rules, but Supreme Court is Supreme Court. Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire.

John Roberts

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's this perception that you can pack up your Many Sikhs faith in a suitcase and then pull it out after basic training and quite frankly, that's just not the way it works, that's not the way the Many Sikhs faith works. It's not the way that the laws that apply to the The Marine Corps work.

Amandeep Sidhu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When you apply to 10 jobs and you get rejected from all of them, you feel as though it's your own failing and it's a reflection on you, it can harm people's confidence and self-esteem much worse than failures in other markets because what you are pitching is your labor and time and care.

Julia Pollak

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Timing is everything, if you apply in the first week that a job is posted, you have a much higher chance of getting that job. Many hiring managers and companies only look at applications that come in during the first week.

Julia Pollak

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The minimum tax would apply only to the wealthiest 0.01% of households – those with more than $100 million – and over half the revenue would come from billionaires alone.

White House

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don't think we have hit our sweet spot for how we're helping communicate that to people, it's hard, because I think it's not only important to look at a metric which says,' Yes, there's virus out there.' It's also important to apply that to your own individual risk level.

Janet Hamilton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’ve had access as a staff member to some of the greatest minds in baseball that have allowed me to take from certain values and principles from them and apply them to how to lead and how to hold the clubhouse, how to communicate with players … staff and management, so I’ve been able to take so much from different people that have already achieved what I’m trying to achieve, and that has allowed me to expedite that development process.

Oliver Marmol

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I decide cases from a neutral posture, i evaluate the facts, and I interpret and apply the law to the facts of the case before me, without fear or favor, consistent with my judicial oath.

Ketanji Brown Jacksons hearing

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These data centers get extraordinary tax breaks, tax breaks that aren’t available for other types of businesses, tax breaks that don’t apply to existing businesses that are already in business and paying their taxes.

Iowa State University

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When Stacey Rice apply for a job, and Stacey Rice very publicly don't get it, it can be a little hard, through no fault of Stacey Abrams own, it was stolen.

Stacey Abrams

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If Putin continues to get boxed in through sanctions, trading and banking stoppages -- and he starts losing the war, that may be reason enough for him to employ tactical nuclear weapons, the West needs to continue to apply pressure, attempt to broker a settlement/cease-fire while continuing to offer off-ramps that deescalate the potential.

Defense Policy John Venable

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If you wanted to try to design sanctions that would have maximum impact on Putin today and Russia today and over the long term, while trying to minimize the boomerang effect on the U.S. economy or on our allies in other parts of the planet, you could apply the same model to Russia.

Rich Goldberg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While I was playing, I interned in the offseason. I made sure on my off days I did community service to build up that resume for when after I retired, being undrafted, I knew it could come at any day. Thankfully, I ended up at Visa, Silicon Valley, where we’re able to use my skills from on the field and bring them to the boardroom and also getting my MBA, getting that terminology down, going from one team to the other. The playbook is different going from the Rams to the Buccaneers. So going from the field to the boardroom, the playbook is different. So I got my MBA to get knowledge, to get educated and to apply those skills at Visa.

Cameron Lynch

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There is an initial reasonableness in trying to just get George Floyd under control in the first few seconds, but once there was no longer any resistance and clearly when George Floyd was no longer responsive and even motionless, to continue to apply that level of force to a person proned out, handcuffed behind their back -- that in no way shape or form is anything that is by policy. It is not part of our training, and it is certainly not part of our ethics or our values.

Medaria Arradondo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When the dust settles, despite the very real bravery on display by the Ukrainian people, deterrence in this case failed. The Biden Administration thought that sanctions and tweets would be enough to deter, but they failed to apply the kind of hard power that would have deterred Putin from launching this war in the first place. By the way, a war that could still escalate and involve us at any moment.

Mike Gallagher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My hope for ‘M’ is that we can get her released with her group to travel across the border into Poland, then, to get her settled at one of the churches we have lined up [in Poland] and apply for a visa to get her here temporarily until she’s able to return to Ukraine when it’s safe.

Said Thompson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our [Ukraine’s] army is fighting in such a way that NATO should apply for entry into Ukraine.

Pete Marovich/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Everyone who crosses the Ukrainian border with the intent to invade will be killed! our [Ukraine’s] army is fighting in such a way that NATO should apply for entry into Ukraine.

Pete Marovich/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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