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We call on the legislature to let each half of the state go their separate ways in peace. If western Oregon doesn’t like the risk of being forced to accept the gubernatorial candidate it voted against, then it should simply stop holding our counties captive in this unhappy marriage. Actually, it’s not even as dramatic as a divorce, because we’re not breaking up a family. Moving a state border issimilar to redistrictinga utility provider. – Mike McCarter	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Three-quarters of the country thinks we’re on the wrong track – and that includes majorities of Democrats, independents and Republicans, most Americans don’t have favorable views of either party or the top leaders in them, and they think both sides are too captive to the extremes. – Ryan Clancy	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Guns should not be available to individuals who shouldn’t have them, chicago’s communities cannot and will not be held captive by senseless gun violence. – Chicago Pplice Superintendent David Brown	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
You have to do two things at the same time, and you should be able to. You have to ban Russian oil, and you have to increase domestic production. And that is where Joe Biden is going to have the problem because he's held captive by the environmental left. – Chris Christie	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Can I say, firstly, that Mr. Djokovic is not being held captive in Australia. He is free to leave at any time that he chooses to do so, and Border Force will actually facilitate that. – Karen Andrews	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Given the pattern of judicial nominees he's put forward so far, he keeps being captive to the radical left in his party. If he nominated a radical leftist justice who would ignore the rule of law and undermine our constitutional rights, I can't imagine a Republican Senate would confirm an extreme justice. – Ted Cruz	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The families of Americans who are held captive abroad, we know that they also face incredible hardship, we remain in regular contact with these families, we are grateful for their partnership, we are grateful for their feedback – we continue to work to ensure we are communicating and sharing information with them in a way that is useful. – Antony Blinken	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Abusive conservatorships can be an unending nightmare, and tragically we don’t know how many people are being held captive against their will under the broken guardianship system, under the FREE Act, we would Free Britney along with the countless number of seniors and persons with disabilities being abused and exploited by the broken system. – Charlie Crist	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Because they're a captive audience. They know they need The Exxon lobbyist and I need them. – Keith McCoy	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This election proves that rural Oregon wants out of Oregon, if Oregon really believes in liberal values such as self-determination, the Legislature wo n’t hold our counties captive against our will. If we’re allowed to vote for which government officials we want, we should be allowed to vote for which government we want as well. – Mike McCarter	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
But at the end of the day, there are two things. One is my conscience is captive to God, and my oath is to the Constitution of the United States. – Kevin Cramer	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This will drive traffic to Best Buy stores, if the repair is something that will take an hour, the consumer will be captive in the Best Buy store and likely to purchase something. – Michael Pachter	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Theyre there to cause people to reflect and honor those who were held captive and remember those who were missing, for someone like Mikey Weinstein or any other group to try to desecrate or remove any display, its a slap in the face to veterans whove served. – Mike Berry	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
When you are held captive, you've got a blindfold on, you've got a guy sticking a gun in your head, it is very real. It was inferred that we would meet our God, were we ready to meet God, that we had sown the seeds of our own destruction, the imagination can run riot. – John Cantlie	Found on CNN 5 years ago
And one of the things I love the most about this show while I have you captive for another two seconds, it’s about a woman who is finding her voice anew, it’s something that’s happening all over the country right now. One of the most important ways that we can find and use our voices is to vote. So if you haven’t already registered, do it on your cell phone right now. Vote, show up, and bring a friend to the polls. Thank you so much. – Rachel Brosnahan	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Although this could be very bad news for the Tasmanian devil, we are in a better position than we were when the first contagious cancer emerged. We are further ahead with research and with developing captive management strategies, however, this is a warning to how we manage not just the Tasmanian devil but all vulnerable species, particularly those confined to islands, where disease is a real threat and can do a lot of damage quickly. – Hannah Siddle	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The fact that they've gone to such trouble to ensure that it's a captive audience raises some questions about how generalizable the results are. – Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Germany is a captive of Russia, it's very inappropriate. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We should have a national motto that we can put up in the school without imposing religion on a captive audience of school kids, it miseducates students. We live under a godless and secular Constitution. – Annie Laurie	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Elizabeth Smart was held captive by Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, for nine months, and the case captivated the nation just months after the 2002 Winter Olympics took place in Salt Lake City. Elizabeth Smart was raped, tethered to trees by steel cables and left without food and water for days at a time. Elizabeth Smart recalled what Elizabeth Smart said to Brian David Mitchell on the night Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped. There finally came a point where I remember stopping Brian David Mitchell and just saying, ‘ If you're just going to rape and kill me, please do it here,' because in my mind I was thinking I want my parents to know what happened to me, I wanted them to find me even if it was just my body, brian David Mitchell had this smile and it was just, it was bone chilling … Brian David Mitchell said, ‘ I'm not going to rape and murder you. Yet,' Elizabeth Smart added. Wanda Barzee was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2010, and Brian David Mitchell is serving two life terms. Elizabeth Smart will talk about how Elizabeth Smart moved past the harrowing incident 15 years later, according to E ! News. The special will air on Nov. 12 and 13 before the Lifetime original movie. – Elizabeth Smart	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It's a shame because the flamingos can grow very old, they live 30 to 40 years normally. Flamingos in captive breeding can live 70 or 80 years. – Martin Malac	Found on CNN 7 years ago
She’s using her power as a teacher who gives grades, with a captive audience, to basically scare and shame students. – Shawn Steel	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
A key part of the tool is that it's based on replicating the mechanical challenges that chimpanzees experience in the wild in their daily lives, so when they're moving around forest canopy they have to deal with branches flexing under their weight, they have to deal with planning routes in advance so they know where to go to get to the next food source and we're trying to emulate these mechanical challenges into the lives of captive chimpanzees. – Susannah Thorpe	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
This is significant, as 42 percent of the coal produced in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin was sold through such captive transactions, depriving taxpayers, local schools and other beneficiaries of royalties. – Tyson Slocum	Found on Reuters 7 years ago

We call on the legislature to let each half of the state go their separate ways in peace. If western Oregon doesn’t like the risk of being forced to accept the gubernatorial candidate it voted against, then it should simply stop holding our counties captive in this unhappy marriage. Actually, it’s not even as dramatic as a divorce, because we’re not breaking up a family. Moving a state border issimilar to redistrictinga utility provider.

– Mike McCarter

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Three-quarters of the country thinks we’re on the wrong track – and that includes majorities of Democrats, independents and Republicans, most Americans don’t have favorable views of either party or the top leaders in them, and they think both sides are too captive to the extremes.

– Ryan Clancy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Guns should not be available to individuals who shouldn’t have them, chicago’s communities cannot and will not be held captive by senseless gun violence.

– Chicago Pplice Superintendent David Brown

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

You have to do two things at the same time, and you should be able to. You have to ban Russian oil, and you have to increase domestic production. And that is where Joe Biden is going to have the problem because he's held captive by the environmental left.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Can I say, firstly, that Mr. Djokovic is not being held captive in Australia. He is free to leave at any time that he chooses to do so, and Border Force will actually facilitate that.

– Karen Andrews

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Given the pattern of judicial nominees he's put forward so far, he keeps being captive to the radical left in his party. If he nominated a radical leftist justice who would ignore the rule of law and undermine our constitutional rights, I can't imagine a Republican Senate would confirm an extreme justice.

– Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The families of Americans who are held captive abroad, we know that they also face incredible hardship, we remain in regular contact with these families, we are grateful for their partnership, we are grateful for their feedback – we continue to work to ensure we are communicating and sharing information with them in a way that is useful.

– Antony Blinken

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Abusive conservatorships can be an unending nightmare, and tragically we don’t know how many people are being held captive against their will under the broken guardianship system, under the FREE Act, we would Free Britney along with the countless number of seniors and persons with disabilities being abused and exploited by the broken system.

– Charlie Crist

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Because they're a captive audience. They know they need The Exxon lobbyist and I need them.

– Keith McCoy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This election proves that rural Oregon wants out of Oregon, if Oregon really believes in liberal values such as self-determination, the Legislature wo n’t hold our counties captive against our will. If we’re allowed to vote for which government officials we want, we should be allowed to vote for which government we want as well.

– Mike McCarter

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

But at the end of the day, there are two things. One is my conscience is captive to God, and my oath is to the Constitution of the United States.

– Kevin Cramer

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

This will drive traffic to Best Buy stores, if the repair is something that will take an hour, the consumer will be captive in the Best Buy store and likely to purchase something.

– Michael Pachter

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Theyre there to cause people to reflect and honor those who were held captive and remember those who were missing, for someone like Mikey Weinstein or any other group to try to desecrate or remove any display, its a slap in the face to veterans whove served.

– Mike Berry

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

When you are held captive, you've got a blindfold on, you've got a guy sticking a gun in your head, it is very real. It was inferred that we would meet our God, were we ready to meet God, that we had sown the seeds of our own destruction, the imagination can run riot.

– John Cantlie

Found on CNN
5 years ago

And one of the things I love the most about this show while I have you captive for another two seconds, it’s about a woman who is finding her voice anew, it’s something that’s happening all over the country right now. One of the most important ways that we can find and use our voices is to vote. So if you haven’t already registered, do it on your cell phone right now. Vote, show up, and bring a friend to the polls. Thank you so much.

– Rachel Brosnahan

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Although this could be very bad news for the Tasmanian devil, we are in a better position than we were when the first contagious cancer emerged. We are further ahead with research and with developing captive management strategies, however, this is a warning to how we manage not just the Tasmanian devil but all vulnerable species, particularly those confined to islands, where disease is a real threat and can do a lot of damage quickly.

– Hannah Siddle

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The fact that they've gone to such trouble to ensure that it's a captive audience raises some questions about how generalizable the results are.

– Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Germany is a captive of Russia, it's very inappropriate.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We should have a national motto that we can put up in the school without imposing religion on a captive audience of school kids, it miseducates students. We live under a godless and secular Constitution.

– Annie Laurie

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Elizabeth Smart was held captive by Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, for nine months, and the case captivated the nation just months after the 2002 Winter Olympics took place in Salt Lake City. Elizabeth Smart was raped, tethered to trees by steel cables and left without food and water for days at a time. Elizabeth Smart recalled what Elizabeth Smart said to Brian David Mitchell on the night Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped. There finally came a point where I remember stopping Brian David Mitchell and just saying, ‘ If you're just going to rape and kill me, please do it here,' because in my mind I was thinking I want my parents to know what happened to me, I wanted them to find me even if it was just my body, brian David Mitchell had this smile and it was just, it was bone chilling … Brian David Mitchell said, ‘ I'm not going to rape and murder you. Yet,' Elizabeth Smart added. Wanda Barzee was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2010, and Brian David Mitchell is serving two life terms. Elizabeth Smart will talk about how Elizabeth Smart moved past the harrowing incident 15 years later, according to E ! News. The special will air on Nov. 12 and 13 before the Lifetime original movie.

– Elizabeth Smart

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It's a shame because the flamingos can grow very old, they live 30 to 40 years normally. Flamingos in captive breeding can live 70 or 80 years.

– Martin Malac

Found on CNN
7 years ago

She’s using her power as a teacher who gives grades, with a captive audience, to basically scare and shame students.

– Shawn Steel

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

A key part of the tool is that it's based on replicating the mechanical challenges that chimpanzees experience in the wild in their daily lives, so when they're moving around forest canopy they have to deal with branches flexing under their weight, they have to deal with planning routes in advance so they know where to go to get to the next food source and we're trying to emulate these mechanical challenges into the lives of captive chimpanzees.

– Susannah Thorpe

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This is significant, as 42 percent of the coal produced in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin was sold through such captive transactions, depriving taxpayers, local schools and other beneficiaries of royalties.

– Tyson Slocum

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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