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Regulators don't typically get all that concerned about a company becoming number three, but we're not in the world of 2018 or 2019, it's 2022. And we recognize there will be more scrutiny of any large acquisition that is being made by a large tech company. So I think that it really behooves us to step forward quickly and proactively and be very transparent about how we will manage this business, with a clear eye toward the competition law issues and responsibilities that we have. – President Brad Smith	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Previous rounds of sanctions have been imposed symbolically, and given the very serious concerns we have over Russia dismembering one of its neighbors... it behooves the government to go and put some teeth behind these measures. – Tyler Kustra	Found on CNN 2 years ago
So it behooves the United States and it behooves the United States Congress to support a capital increase for the bank. – Mauricio Claver-Carone	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
It is deeply disturbing to see a group of students engaged in this kind of conduct, this symbolic gesture aimed not just to reject or refute ideas but to obliterate the very paper on which they were written... It behooves the university to educate its students about why book burning is so inimical to open discourse and free expression. – Jonathan Friedman	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It behooves the rest of the world to come together to support Japan, as well as the other Asian countries, to move beyond coal, we need to make an extraordinary effort that will favor the new fuels that we all need to move in to. – Christiana Figueres	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Everybody suffers, only because two nations are playing with their dangerous toys. It behooves a certain America, because it is the more responsible country. I'm sure President Trump by now must also be cautioning his military to just maybe hang on and not to start something they cannot control. – Rodrigo Duterte	Found on CNN 6 years ago
It behooves us to take our time and get it right. – Antonio Gioia	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love. – Vince Lombardi	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things. – Theodore Roosevelt	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us. – Edward Wallis Hoch	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us not to talk about the rest of us. – Robert Louis Stephenson	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Regulators don't typically get all that concerned about a company becoming number three, but we're not in the world of 2018 or 2019, it's 2022. And we recognize there will be more scrutiny of any large acquisition that is being made by a large tech company. So I think that it really behooves us to step forward quickly and proactively and be very transparent about how we will manage this business, with a clear eye toward the competition law issues and responsibilities that we have.

– President Brad Smith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Previous rounds of sanctions have been imposed symbolically, and given the very serious concerns we have over Russia dismembering one of its neighbors... it behooves the government to go and put some teeth behind these measures.

– Tyler Kustra

Found on CNN
2 years ago

So it behooves the United States and it behooves the United States Congress to support a capital increase for the bank.

– Mauricio Claver-Carone

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It is deeply disturbing to see a group of students engaged in this kind of conduct, this symbolic gesture aimed not just to reject or refute ideas but to obliterate the very paper on which they were written... It behooves the university to educate its students about why book burning is so inimical to open discourse and free expression.

– Jonathan Friedman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It behooves the rest of the world to come together to support Japan, as well as the other Asian countries, to move beyond coal, we need to make an extraordinary effort that will favor the new fuels that we all need to move in to.

– Christiana Figueres

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Everybody suffers, only because two nations are playing with their dangerous toys. It behooves a certain America, because it is the more responsible country. I'm sure President Trump by now must also be cautioning his military to just maybe hang on and not to start something they cannot control.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It behooves us to take our time and get it right.

– Antonio Gioia

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

– Vince Lombardi

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

– Theodore Roosevelt

added by anonymous
13 years ago

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us.

– Edward Wallis Hoch

added by anonymous
14 years ago

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us not to talk about the rest of us.

– Robert Louis Stephenson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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