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The suspect continued to threaten officers with the butcher knife, resulting in an officer-involved shooting. – Huntington Park Police Department	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It took three people to drag him out, he was big. We estimated he weighed around 240-250 pounds before being field dressed. At the scale at the butcher, he weighed 210 pounds. – Phillip Pless	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We reject the logic of first come, first served, that may work at the neighborhood butcher's but not in contracts and not in our advanced purchase agreements. – Stella Kyriakides	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Certainly the idea of ??the butcher shop is to give people a shade of Don Julio. – Pablo Rivero	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Qassem Soleimani said. That was under Irans Shiite shah, toppled in the 1979 revolution. But even after, Iran fought off other outbreaks, and its hospitals, doctors and nurses are known as some of the best in the wider Middle East, with a network of clinics from villages to big cities. However, the system appears to be stretching at the seams, with online videos purporting to show field hospitals going up. Meanwhile, Irans Shiite 80 million people, whose sense of high risk has been dulled by years of international isolation, crowd into grocery stores and butcher shops, suspicious of anything in the state media. Nowruz, the Persian New Year, looms on Friday, a holiday when millions travel. The government repeatedly has stopped short of ordering any major travel restrictions. It hasnt explained why, but there could be worry about further angering its people or slowing down its anemic, sanctions-hurt economy. Online videos show Iranians ignoring government demands to stay home and moving instead toward the coast of the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. Residents of hard-hit Rasht, on Irans Shiite coast, have threatened to attack out-of-towners. We expect that, God willing, we can contain the rising trend of the disease, not the disease itself, by March 26, but I say this very frankly : if the great people dont cooperate, the disease will continue to be there until late May or even in June, and turn into a huge crisis. CLICK HERE FOR MORE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE And the man who once called quarantines a thing of the past added :. – Iraj Harirchi	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The student who immediately reported this to school officials saved lives, she had written down how she wanted to do it, the best way to do it. She had procured some butcher knives, kitchen knives to do the attack with. – Gainesville Police Chief Jay Parrish	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. – Robert Heinlein	added by Normando 4 years ago
What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician—these are the people who make money out of prostitution. – Polly Adler	added by Normando 5 years ago
That's a butcher. That's a butcher, so I felt we had to do something about it. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 7 years ago
While bills are being brought into the House of Commons to regulate every thing, from the sweeps crying "sweep," to "emancipation, vote by ballot, and free trade," is there no county member whose "time and talents'' are devoted to "domestic policy," who will bring in a bill "for the better regulation of the marriage ceremony," and put the canonical hours later in the day ? at all events, could there not be a special clause in favour of London ? A spring morning there is the very reverse of Thomson's description ; for "delicious mildness" read "a cutting east wind;" and for "veiled in roses" substitute "smoke and fog." The streets are given up to the necessities of life — to the milkman with his cans, the butcher with his tray, the baker with his basket ; all belong to the material portion of existence. Now, marriage is (or ought to be) an affair of affections, sentiments, &c. The legislature ought to give it the full benefit of moonlight and wax-candles. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon	added by Madeleine Quinn 7 years ago
At the moment there's a risk that someone standing in front of a greengrocer and a butcher's shop will only go into the former, but they should be shopping in both, because our meat is good. – Nicola Levoni	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Not only did he (Van) butcher him, but then he threw his reputation and his good name out the window by alleging him to be a rapist. – Prosecutor Mike Murray	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It was constructed on a shop floor and designed on a sheet of butcher paper, right at the end of an era when something could be built so simply and win on an international level. – Mark Gessler	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I honestly believe Phnom Penh residents did not do enough. There was something better that could have come out other than a genocide of 1.7 million people, now you must understand, I was born in Germany and suffered under Nazi oppression, so how could I turn over a people to the butcher ? – Ambassador Dean	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
In order to be able to use animal resources, they needed to have tools in order to cut and butcher. – Ran Barkai	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
'Butcher' seemed a very appropriate way to get that into the minds of people. – Lindsay Zanno	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Not only do they kill and butcher and rape Christians and burn churches and crucify Christians, but they turn on each other and kill each other, this is something our country is going to have to come to grips with. – Franklin Graham	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, cone a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. – Robert A. Heinlein	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages. – Adam Smith	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Tommy You can take a good look at a T-bone by sticking your head up a bull's ass, but wouldn't you rather take the butcher's word for it – Tommy Boy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. – E. M. Cioran	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look. – Margaret Hilda Thatcher	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The suspect continued to threaten officers with the butcher knife, resulting in an officer-involved shooting.

– Huntington Park Police Department

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It took three people to drag him out, he was big. We estimated he weighed around 240-250 pounds before being field dressed. At the scale at the butcher, he weighed 210 pounds.

– Phillip Pless

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We reject the logic of first come, first served, that may work at the neighborhood butcher's but not in contracts and not in our advanced purchase agreements.

– Stella Kyriakides

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Certainly the idea of ??the butcher shop is to give people a shade of Don Julio.

– Pablo Rivero

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Qassem Soleimani said. That was under Irans Shiite shah, toppled in the 1979 revolution. But even after, Iran fought off other outbreaks, and its hospitals, doctors and nurses are known as some of the best in the wider Middle East, with a network of clinics from villages to big cities. However, the system appears to be stretching at the seams, with online videos purporting to show field hospitals going up. Meanwhile, Irans Shiite 80 million people, whose sense of high risk has been dulled by years of international isolation, crowd into grocery stores and butcher shops, suspicious of anything in the state media. Nowruz, the Persian New Year, looms on Friday, a holiday when millions travel. The government repeatedly has stopped short of ordering any major travel restrictions. It hasnt explained why, but there could be worry about further angering its people or slowing down its anemic, sanctions-hurt economy. Online videos show Iranians ignoring government demands to stay home and moving instead toward the coast of the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. Residents of hard-hit Rasht, on Irans Shiite coast, have threatened to attack out-of-towners. We expect that, God willing, we can contain the rising trend of the disease, not the disease itself, by March 26, but I say this very frankly : if the great people dont cooperate, the disease will continue to be there until late May or even in June, and turn into a huge crisis. CLICK HERE FOR MORE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE And the man who once called quarantines a thing of the past added :.

– Iraj Harirchi

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The student who immediately reported this to school officials saved lives, she had written down how she wanted to do it, the best way to do it. She had procured some butcher knives, kitchen knives to do the attack with.

– Gainesville Police Chief Jay Parrish

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

– Robert Heinlein

added by Normando
4 years ago

What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician—these are the people who make money out of prostitution.

– Polly Adler

added by Normando
5 years ago

That's a butcher. That's a butcher, so I felt we had to do something about it.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

While bills are being brought into the House of Commons to regulate every thing, from the sweeps crying "sweep," to "emancipation, vote by ballot, and free trade," is there no county member whose "time and talents'' are devoted to "domestic policy," who will bring in a bill "for the better regulation of the marriage ceremony," and put the canonical hours later in the day ? at all events, could there not be a special clause in favour of London ? A spring morning there is the very reverse of Thomson's description ; for "delicious mildness" read "a cutting east wind;" and for "veiled in roses" substitute "smoke and fog." The streets are given up to the necessities of life — to the milkman with his cans, the butcher with his tray, the baker with his basket ; all belong to the material portion of existence. Now, marriage is (or ought to be) an affair of affections, sentiments, &c. The legislature ought to give it the full benefit of moonlight and wax-candles.

– Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

At the moment there's a risk that someone standing in front of a greengrocer and a butcher's shop will only go into the former, but they should be shopping in both, because our meat is good.

– Nicola Levoni

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Not only did he (Van) butcher him, but then he threw his reputation and his good name out the window by alleging him to be a rapist.

– Prosecutor Mike Murray

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It was constructed on a shop floor and designed on a sheet of butcher paper, right at the end of an era when something could be built so simply and win on an international level.

– Mark Gessler

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I honestly believe Phnom Penh residents did not do enough. There was something better that could have come out other than a genocide of 1.7 million people, now you must understand, I was born in Germany and suffered under Nazi oppression, so how could I turn over a people to the butcher ?

– Ambassador Dean

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

In order to be able to use animal resources, they needed to have tools in order to cut and butcher.

– Ran Barkai

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

'Butcher' seemed a very appropriate way to get that into the minds of people.

– Lindsay Zanno

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Not only do they kill and butcher and rape Christians and burn churches and crucify Christians, but they turn on each other and kill each other, this is something our country is going to have to come to grips with.

– Franklin Graham

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, cone a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

– Robert A. Heinlein

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.

– Adam Smith

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Tommy You can take a good look at a T-bone by sticking your head up a bull's ass, but wouldn't you rather take the butcher's word for it

– Tommy Boy

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

– E. M. Cioran

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

– Margaret Hilda Thatcher

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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