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These four ringleaders and organizers, although senior in years, brought with them a great deal of experience in planning and executing sophisticated and serious acquisitive crime not dissimilar to this, two of these men had also been involved in some of the biggest acquisitive crimes of the last century, and the other two had for many years in their earlier lives been involved in serious theft. – William Lincoln	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The findings ... point to the urgent need to improve understanding around antibiotic resistance, one of the biggest health challenges of the 21st century will require global behaviour change by individuals and societies. – Keiji Fukuda	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What Catalan society faces now is the concept of politics as a war by other means, we have a golden opportunity to design and construct a modern state which belongs to the 21st century, which is exemplary and able to defeat wrongdoing and corruption. – Raul Romeva	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have a golden opportunity to design and construct a modern state which belongs to the 21st century, which is exemplary and able to defeat wrongdoing and corruption. – Raul Romeva	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The TPP means that America will write the rules of the road in the 21st century, if we don't pass this agreement - if America doesn’t write those rules - then countries like China will. – Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's actually been around since the 1990s, and binge is an old Lincolnshire dialect word that made its way into common English in the 19th century, from a very slow start, it has really taken off exponentially as a term people are using every day. – Elaine Higgleton	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We have come to expect mortality rates in middle age to continue to decline, which they did throughout most of the 20th century...it was really a surprise to see a sustained period when mortality rates actually increased (among middle-aged white Americans). – Anne Case	Found on CNN 8 years ago
People talk about this, i don't know where she's getting her information, but she's out of touch ... not designed to deal with 21st century issues that face vets. – Florida Sen. Marco Rubio	Found on CNN 8 years ago
In many ways it's real genius and it's a 21st-century ability to take music and use it in a way that motivates people. Some of it is blended with other sounds that are sampled from recordings that others have had in the past, and Marco Rubio see traditional artists being brought in and their voices used in an electronic sound track. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Santee Cooper has offered Century everything...but in the end Century's leadership consistently required a deal that would unfairly increase costs to our other customers. – Santee Cooper	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Several lines of evidence further suggest that most of the significant earthquakes in Oklahoma during the 20th century may also have been induced by oil production activities, deep injection of waste water, now recognized to potentially induce earthquakes, in fact began in the state in the 1930s. – Susan Hough	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We on the Turkish side are sincere about finding a solution to the Cyprus problem that has been on the agenda of the international community and the U.N. for over half a century, a solution would not only have a positive impact on both sides of the island ... but would also bring peace, stability and cooperation to the eastern Mediterranean. – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
First we want a binding agreement, but we want a deal which is valid for the whole century, we do not want the Paris agreement with commitments ending in 2030 because the Paris agreement cannot be an agreement that starts in 2020 or 2021 and finishes in 2030, like the Kyoto Protocol, which finishes in 2020. – Arias Canete	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
According to our in-house studies, we will be at around 3 degrees (above levels before the Industrial Revolution) at the end of the century with these INDCs implemented, ...If we do not do something, if we do business as usual, the increase of temperatures will be between 3.8 and 4.7 degrees. – Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The same issue is being fought today and has been fought since 1948, and historians are carried back to the 19th century…when the original people, the Palestinians – and please remember, Jesus was a Palestinian – the Palestinian people had the Europeans come and take their country. – Jeremiah Wright	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This partnership levels the playing field for our farmers, ranchers, and manufacturers by eliminating more than 18,000 taxes that various countries put on our products, it includes the strongest commitments on labor and the environment of any trade agreement in history, and those commitments are enforceable, unlike in past agreements. It promotes a free and open Internet. It strengthens our strategic relationships with our partners and allies in a region that will be vital to the 21st century. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It includes the strongest commitments on labor and the environment of any trade agreement in history, and those commitments are enforceable, unlike in past agreements. It promotes a free and open Internet. It strengthens our strategic relationships with our partners and allies in a region that will be vital to the 21st century. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The current atmosphere is that not only we four but many others don't agree with the structure and the working method of the Security Council, we want to take others with us to reach a modern working structure of the Security Council which suits the 21st century. – German Chancellor Angela Merkel	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They are in many ways like conservative evangelicals, no same-sex marriage and no abortion, it's a 19th-century religion that comes out of a space where health and holiness was important. But they have this leader who is a woman, Ellen G. White, and they veer off of traditional mainline Christianity. – Anthea Butler	Found on CNN 8 years ago
This pledge is a tragedy, a catastrophe, with this 25-30 percent commitment they are basically saying: 'Guys, we're staying in the 20th century with our carbon-centered technology'. – Vladimir Chuprov	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We wanted to find the most talented entrepreneurs that we could, tackling the most hairy 21st-century social problems in the most courageous and innovative ways. – Kate Goodall	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I believe the policy in Budapest of raising walls is dangerous and cruel, wire in Europe in the 21st century isn't the answer but rather a threat. – Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't want anybody to be down right now about what's going on in the Republican Party, there's one guy absolutely denigrating an entire group of people, appealing to the baser side of human nature, working on this notion of xenophobia in a way that hasn't occurred in a long time, since the Know-Nothing Party back at the end of the 19th century. – Vice President Joe Biden	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There's one guy absolutely denigrating an entire group of people, appealing to the baser side of human nature, working on this notion of xenophobia in a way that hasn't occurred in a long time, since the Know-Nothing Party back at the end of the 19th century. – Vice President Joe Biden	Found on CNN 8 years ago

These four ringleaders and organizers, although senior in years, brought with them a great deal of experience in planning and executing sophisticated and serious acquisitive crime not dissimilar to this, two of these men had also been involved in some of the biggest acquisitive crimes of the last century, and the other two had for many years in their earlier lives been involved in serious theft.

– William Lincoln

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The findings ... point to the urgent need to improve understanding around antibiotic resistance, one of the biggest health challenges of the 21st century will require global behaviour change by individuals and societies.

– Keiji Fukuda

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What Catalan society faces now is the concept of politics as a war by other means, we have a golden opportunity to design and construct a modern state which belongs to the 21st century, which is exemplary and able to defeat wrongdoing and corruption.

– Raul Romeva

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have a golden opportunity to design and construct a modern state which belongs to the 21st century, which is exemplary and able to defeat wrongdoing and corruption.

– Raul Romeva

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The TPP means that America will write the rules of the road in the 21st century, if we don't pass this agreement - if America doesn’t write those rules - then countries like China will.

– Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's actually been around since the 1990s, and binge is an old Lincolnshire dialect word that made its way into common English in the 19th century, from a very slow start, it has really taken off exponentially as a term people are using every day.

– Elaine Higgleton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We have come to expect mortality rates in middle age to continue to decline, which they did throughout most of the 20th century...it was really a surprise to see a sustained period when mortality rates actually increased (among middle-aged white Americans).

– Anne Case

Found on CNN
8 years ago

People talk about this, i don't know where she's getting her information, but she's out of touch ... not designed to deal with 21st century issues that face vets.

– Florida Sen. Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In many ways it's real genius and it's a 21st-century ability to take music and use it in a way that motivates people. Some of it is blended with other sounds that are sampled from recordings that others have had in the past, and Marco Rubio see traditional artists being brought in and their voices used in an electronic sound track.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Santee Cooper has offered Century everything...but in the end Century's leadership consistently required a deal that would unfairly increase costs to our other customers.

– Santee Cooper

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Several lines of evidence further suggest that most of the significant earthquakes in Oklahoma during the 20th century may also have been induced by oil production activities, deep injection of waste water, now recognized to potentially induce earthquakes, in fact began in the state in the 1930s.

– Susan Hough

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We on the Turkish side are sincere about finding a solution to the Cyprus problem that has been on the agenda of the international community and the U.N. for over half a century, a solution would not only have a positive impact on both sides of the island ... but would also bring peace, stability and cooperation to the eastern Mediterranean.

– Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

First we want a binding agreement, but we want a deal which is valid for the whole century, we do not want the Paris agreement with commitments ending in 2030 because the Paris agreement cannot be an agreement that starts in 2020 or 2021 and finishes in 2030, like the Kyoto Protocol, which finishes in 2020.

– Arias Canete

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

According to our in-house studies, we will be at around 3 degrees (above levels before the Industrial Revolution) at the end of the century with these INDCs implemented, ...If we do not do something, if we do business as usual, the increase of temperatures will be between 3.8 and 4.7 degrees.

– Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The same issue is being fought today and has been fought since 1948, and historians are carried back to the 19th century…when the original people, the Palestinians – and please remember, Jesus was a Palestinian – the Palestinian people had the Europeans come and take their country.

– Jeremiah Wright

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This partnership levels the playing field for our farmers, ranchers, and manufacturers by eliminating more than 18,000 taxes that various countries put on our products, it includes the strongest commitments on labor and the environment of any trade agreement in history, and those commitments are enforceable, unlike in past agreements. It promotes a free and open Internet. It strengthens our strategic relationships with our partners and allies in a region that will be vital to the 21st century.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It includes the strongest commitments on labor and the environment of any trade agreement in history, and those commitments are enforceable, unlike in past agreements. It promotes a free and open Internet. It strengthens our strategic relationships with our partners and allies in a region that will be vital to the 21st century.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The current atmosphere is that not only we four but many others don't agree with the structure and the working method of the Security Council, we want to take others with us to reach a modern working structure of the Security Council which suits the 21st century.

– German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They are in many ways like conservative evangelicals, no same-sex marriage and no abortion, it's a 19th-century religion that comes out of a space where health and holiness was important. But they have this leader who is a woman, Ellen G. White, and they veer off of traditional mainline Christianity.

– Anthea Butler

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This pledge is a tragedy, a catastrophe, with this 25-30 percent commitment they are basically saying: 'Guys, we're staying in the 20th century with our carbon-centered technology'.

– Vladimir Chuprov

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We wanted to find the most talented entrepreneurs that we could, tackling the most hairy 21st-century social problems in the most courageous and innovative ways.

– Kate Goodall

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I believe the policy in Budapest of raising walls is dangerous and cruel, wire in Europe in the 21st century isn't the answer but rather a threat.

– Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I don't want anybody to be down right now about what's going on in the Republican Party, there's one guy absolutely denigrating an entire group of people, appealing to the baser side of human nature, working on this notion of xenophobia in a way that hasn't occurred in a long time, since the Know-Nothing Party back at the end of the 19th century.

– Vice President Joe Biden

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There's one guy absolutely denigrating an entire group of people, appealing to the baser side of human nature, working on this notion of xenophobia in a way that hasn't occurred in a long time, since the Know-Nothing Party back at the end of the 19th century.

– Vice President Joe Biden

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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