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They came out swinging and they came out attacking early, and then coupled with my command not being there and not being great tonight, that was the result tonight, hat’s off to them. It was just an off night.

Josiah Gray

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Before the game, my mindset was being aggressive, attacking the zone, that was before I was on the mound. But after I was on the mound, I gave up a walk and it just didn't happen the way I wanted to. I wanted to pitch five innings. ... I know I have to be better next time as an inning-eater.

Kwang Hyun Kim

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our study shows that keeping calm is the key. The snake is not attacking you, he just thinks that you may be a female snake. And once he works out that's not the case, he'll wander off to look for love elsewhere.

Rick Shine

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It wasn't simply the irritating Beijing cough that was attacking residents daily — it was something much worse.

Daniel Gardner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s pretty encouraging to go six-plus and not be five and done, i just kept attacking. If I’m throwing strikes, they’re going to hit balls hard and they’re going to miss them. You can throw the ball in the same spot 10 times and get 10 different results.

Touki Toussaint

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The fact of the matter is had The President decided to keep forces in Afghanistan beyond May 1 attacks would have resumed on our forces. The Taliban had not been attacking our forces or NATO during the period from which the agreement was reached to May 1, the offensive Antony Blinken are seeing across the country now to take the provincial capitals would have commenced. We would have been back at war with The Taliban.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Donald Trump gave a cue to leaders around the world that attacking the media was now fair game, when Donald Trump launched attacks on the media( over their coverage) of Donald Trump shambolic handling of the pandemic, the very moment the public needs as accurate information as possible, leaders in India, Brazil, the Philippines and Western Europe followed suit, denying the severity of the virus to cover their own failures.

Rob Mahoney

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This hornet is exhibiting the same behavior we saw last year —attacking paper wasp nests.

Sven Spichiger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I heard him repeatedly bring up the fact that he thought this was political, and he thought this was people coming after him, but the victims aren't political in this situation, so it’s really sad for him to try to use this as somebody attacking him politically when I do n’t think any of the victims were politically motivated.

Elias Farah

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

From the beginning, I simply asked that the Governor stop his abusive behavior, it became abundantly clear he was unable to do that, instead attacking and blaming victims until the end. It is a tragedy that so many stood by and watched these abuses happen.

Lindsey Boylan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Three dead bodies were rotting outside our home for three days, but it was too dangerous to get them. The Taliban is attacking on one side. The government is attacking the other side. In the middle we are just losing, we just want peace. We need peace. We don't care who's the ruler... People said that when America withdraws there would be peace in Afghanistan but then they withdrew and the war got worse.

Mahmad Ismael

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Although they [Democrats] kept attacking us for leaving the state and we argued for minority rights, today all of the sudden, they’re on the other side of the wave trying to argue that it’s perfectly appropriate to support minority rights and they have the right to flee.

Dennis Linthicum

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We wanted to be better at attacking set plays, we hadn’t scored from one at this tournament and we’ve got two tonight.

Harry Maguire

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm simply saying, can't you just wait awhile and leave Washington Heights alone ? it would be so nice if they hadn't come up with that and left it alone, just for now. I mean, they're really attacking the wrong person.

Rita Moreno

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Well, I’m simply saying, can’t you just wait a while and leave it alone? there’s a lot of people who are Puerto Rican who are also from Guatemala who are dark and who are also fair. We are all colors in Puerto Rico. This is how it is. It would be so nice if they hadn’t come up with that and left it alone, just for now. They’re really attacking the wrong person.

Rita Moreno

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At that point they started cussing at me, they were just attacking us for no reason pretty much, for not having a mask. He was complying with them when they said if you’re not wearing a mask you gotta get out.

Bobby Dixon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Instead of attacking me and, more importantly, the voters of our movement, top establishment Republicans in Washington should be spending their energy in opposing Biden, Pelosi, Schumer and the Democrats, get rid of them all.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They play physical, so we definitely have to be more physical next game, get to our spots, get to the basket, keep attacking the paint, they’re making us work.

Luke Kennard

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There has been some discussion that perhaps this actor tries to refrain from attacking hospitals, schools and the like. But certainly, they're seen as a pernicious ransomware group that has caused significant harm to its victims, both in the Cybersecurity Eric Goldstein and elsewhere.

Cybersecurity Eric Goldstein

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Liz Cheney is saying exactly what House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said the day of the insurrection. Liz Cheney has just consistently been saying it. A few weeks later House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy changed to attacking other people. I think what the reality is, as a party, we need to have an internal look and a full accounting as to what led to January 6, right now it is basically the Titanic. We're in the middle of this slow sink.

Adam Kinzinger

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Attacking innocent people praying is clearly terror, we see that these attacks on Palestinians are against the most fundamental human rights.

Fahrettin Altun

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The second inning I kind of let it get away from me, i had to get back down to what’s been good lately, and that’s just attacking the zone, and attacking the hitters and challenging them. I was able to do that the third inning on.

Nathan Eovaldi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is illegal, immoral, and wrong, there's not a sewer too deep that some politicians won't plumb. Imagine it : someone is attacking my late husband, the love of my life, a man who gave me such joy in life.

Susan Wright

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I thought we needed to be more aggressive attacking the basket, i thought we settled in the first half and we had zero free-throw attempts. ... In the second half, we got aggressive and started attacking the basket.

Nate McMillan

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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