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The record evidence demonstrates that Harvard's race-based admissions process significantly disadvantages Asian-American applicants compared to applicants of other racial groups -- including both white applicants and applicants from other racial minority groups, the evidence, moreover, shows that Harvard provides no meaningful criteria to cabin its use of race ; uses a vague' personal rating' that harms Asian-American applicants' chances for admission and may be infected with racial bias ; engages in unlawful racial balancing ; and has never seriously considered race-neutral alternatives in its more than 45 years of using race to make admissions decisions. – Justice Department	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It doesn’t matter if they’ve been staying in a five-star hotel or a dingy BB, the chances of encountering bedbugs are equal. – Tony Lewis	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We should be allowed to fail, how many chances do white people get ? How many [ crappy ] movies do they get to make over and over again ? – Crazy Rich Asians	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I won’t let him down, there is no way. This country is a country of second chances. – Alice Marie Johnson	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Another thing the media is ignoring that's the return of race riots in America, in Chicago, in Philadelphia, and all across the fruited plain, there is a racial war going on, remember when we interviewed Colin Flaherty, author of a White Girl Bleed A Lot, where Colin Flaherty documents, from Minneapolis to Portland to Miami to Philadelphia, the violent racial crime that's going on, and most of it black on white, but the media choose to ignore that as well. Now, no one can discount the horrible legacy of slavery. No one can discount the sin of America's past -- but the chances today, and I want to be clear about this, I know it's provocative, but I want to be clear -- the chances today of a gang of KKK members beating up a black kid are remote compared to the opposite. A gang of black on white crime. – Republican Rep. Jason Lewis	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We have made massive changes, we have had a fantastic camp and I think we have got something to build from for their next four years, finishing Gareth Southgate side with a loss there( today) didn't go down well for us. We played a very good team today who were able to take their chances. – Fabian Delph	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think it was a really tough match, i was just trying to move good and take my chances. It's such a great feeling to be back in the final. I'm really excited. It doesn't matter (who I play). – Grand Slam champion Kerber	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
At that stage there was no way they could get anywhere near the boys. Conditions were really quite bad, the water flow was very strong and the suspended sediment made visibility very low. To be fair, the chances of getting far were not high. – Bill Whitehouse	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We created some good chances when we were 1-0 up, maybe we dropped a little too deep and we didn't get enough pressure on the ball, there's a lot we could have done better. – Harry Kane	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Defensively I did my job, did what I needed to do, but I felt like in possession, obviously you want to be on the ball creating chances and being a threat. I felt like my movement was good, but on the ball I wasn't sharp enough, I didn't keep it as much as I should have, so to score, it gives you a lift. But I'm my own biggest critic. I know I can play better than that. – Dele Alli	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I have always believed even though I understand our chances are small. – Alexei Lomonosov	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I ’m sure every nominee before you would have personal beliefs about that precedent and many others. But all nominees are united in their belief that what they think about a precedent should not bear on how they will decide cases. She was more pragmatic two years ago – just days before the presidential election – about the chances that Roe v. Wade would be overturned in coming years : I don't think the core case -- Roe's holding that women have a right to abortion -- I don't think that will change, but I think the question of whether people can get late-term abortions -- how many restrictions can be put on clinics -- I don't think that will change. Brett Kavanaugh, steady insider The federal appeals court here in Washington is seen as a professional stepping-stone to Supreme Court. Three current justices( John Roberts, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas) served on that bench before joining the high court, as did Scalia. Now Brett Kavanaugh is poised to make the leap, though if history is any guide, Brett Kavanaugh could face an especially tough Senate confirmation. It is the image that may cement – or sink – the Supreme Court aspirations of Brett Kavanaugh. Brett Kavanaugh elevation to the federal appeals court was celebrated with a Rose Garden swearing-in by a fellow Catholic who's now retiring from the bench, Justice Anthony Kennedy, for whom Brett Kavanaugh served as a law clerk in 1993. Front and center : Brett Kavanaugh former boss, President George W. Bush, the man who nominated Brett Kavanaugh. I chose Brett Kavanaugh because of the force of Brett Kavanaugh mind, the breadth of Brett Kavanaugh experience and the strength of Brett Kavanaugh character. – President George W. Bush	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Love commitment requires no last chances, but the resilience to forgive and forget. – Sipho P Nkosi	added by SIPHO P NKOSI 5 years ago
This decision increases greatly the chances of a false accusation not being discovered and increases the risk of an innocent person being convicted and sent to prison. – Scott Wallace	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
If we are not helping to fix the problems that are related to their drug use — such as housing, employment, or stigmatization — chances are the person will go back and use drugs. – Claudia Rafful	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We're going to be playing a very robust opponent, even if we have all the chances to win, they have a lot of strength, they are versatile, most of their players can play in different positions and in different systems. They have three possible formations. – Juan Carlos Osorio	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We had a good first half then we had 10-15 really bad minutes and that's why we lost, whether I should stay or not does not depend on me and we still have another match. In a World Cup you have to wait till the very last minute although our chances are minute. – Hector Cuper	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We want to attack this tournament, we want to create chances, we want to score goals. – Harry Kane	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We are now under pressure. We have to get six points from the next games, we did not do well. We had our chances but didn't score. – Toni Kroos	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The chances are low, but we're still pushing. – Omar Bennis	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The chances of you coming down with something are slim. – Philip Tierno	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
While I unequivocally believe in second chances, I also believe in the rule of law, desperate to ward off a challenge from Cynthia Nixon, Andrew Cuomo’s unilateral action is an insult to the legislature, the courts, crime victims and the voters of the State of New York. – Marcus Molinaro	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We all came here with the right mindset, our coaching staff is great. They gave us a chance to play, and gave us chances to do things we haven't in the past. – James Neal	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The chances now are 50-50, at times it's been higher, at times lower. I don't know what they're going to give us in the way of ground rules that make us comfortable. – Rudy Giuliani	Found on CNN 5 years ago

The record evidence demonstrates that Harvard's race-based admissions process significantly disadvantages Asian-American applicants compared to applicants of other racial groups -- including both white applicants and applicants from other racial minority groups, the evidence, moreover, shows that Harvard provides no meaningful criteria to cabin its use of race ; uses a vague' personal rating' that harms Asian-American applicants' chances for admission and may be infected with racial bias ; engages in unlawful racial balancing ; and has never seriously considered race-neutral alternatives in its more than 45 years of using race to make admissions decisions.

– Justice Department

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It doesn’t matter if they’ve been staying in a five-star hotel or a dingy BB, the chances of encountering bedbugs are equal.

– Tony Lewis

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We should be allowed to fail, how many chances do white people get ? How many [ crappy ] movies do they get to make over and over again ?

– Crazy Rich Asians

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I won’t let him down, there is no way. This country is a country of second chances.

– Alice Marie Johnson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Another thing the media is ignoring that's the return of race riots in America, in Chicago, in Philadelphia, and all across the fruited plain, there is a racial war going on, remember when we interviewed Colin Flaherty, author of a White Girl Bleed A Lot, where Colin Flaherty documents, from Minneapolis to Portland to Miami to Philadelphia, the violent racial crime that's going on, and most of it black on white, but the media choose to ignore that as well. Now, no one can discount the horrible legacy of slavery. No one can discount the sin of America's past -- but the chances today, and I want to be clear about this, I know it's provocative, but I want to be clear -- the chances today of a gang of KKK members beating up a black kid are remote compared to the opposite. A gang of black on white crime.

– Republican Rep. Jason Lewis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We have made massive changes, we have had a fantastic camp and I think we have got something to build from for their next four years, finishing Gareth Southgate side with a loss there( today) didn't go down well for us. We played a very good team today who were able to take their chances.

– Fabian Delph

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I think it was a really tough match, i was just trying to move good and take my chances. It's such a great feeling to be back in the final. I'm really excited. It doesn't matter (who I play).

– Grand Slam champion Kerber

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

At that stage there was no way they could get anywhere near the boys. Conditions were really quite bad, the water flow was very strong and the suspended sediment made visibility very low. To be fair, the chances of getting far were not high.

– Bill Whitehouse

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We created some good chances when we were 1-0 up, maybe we dropped a little too deep and we didn't get enough pressure on the ball, there's a lot we could have done better.

– Harry Kane

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Defensively I did my job, did what I needed to do, but I felt like in possession, obviously you want to be on the ball creating chances and being a threat. I felt like my movement was good, but on the ball I wasn't sharp enough, I didn't keep it as much as I should have, so to score, it gives you a lift. But I'm my own biggest critic. I know I can play better than that.

– Dele Alli

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I have always believed even though I understand our chances are small.

– Alexei Lomonosov

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I ’m sure every nominee before you would have personal beliefs about that precedent and many others. But all nominees are united in their belief that what they think about a precedent should not bear on how they will decide cases. She was more pragmatic two years ago – just days before the presidential election – about the chances that Roe v. Wade would be overturned in coming years : I don't think the core case -- Roe's holding that women have a right to abortion -- I don't think that will change, but I think the question of whether people can get late-term abortions -- how many restrictions can be put on clinics -- I don't think that will change. Brett Kavanaugh, steady insider The federal appeals court here in Washington is seen as a professional stepping-stone to Supreme Court. Three current justices( John Roberts, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas) served on that bench before joining the high court, as did Scalia. Now Brett Kavanaugh is poised to make the leap, though if history is any guide, Brett Kavanaugh could face an especially tough Senate confirmation. It is the image that may cement – or sink – the Supreme Court aspirations of Brett Kavanaugh. Brett Kavanaugh elevation to the federal appeals court was celebrated with a Rose Garden swearing-in by a fellow Catholic who's now retiring from the bench, Justice Anthony Kennedy, for whom Brett Kavanaugh served as a law clerk in 1993. Front and center : Brett Kavanaugh former boss, President George W. Bush, the man who nominated Brett Kavanaugh. I chose Brett Kavanaugh because of the force of Brett Kavanaugh mind, the breadth of Brett Kavanaugh experience and the strength of Brett Kavanaugh character.

– President George W. Bush

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Love commitment requires no last chances, but the resilience to forgive and forget.

– Sipho P Nkosi

added by SIPHO P NKOSI
5 years ago

This decision increases greatly the chances of a false accusation not being discovered and increases the risk of an innocent person being convicted and sent to prison.

– Scott Wallace

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

If we are not helping to fix the problems that are related to their drug use — such as housing, employment, or stigmatization — chances are the person will go back and use drugs.

– Claudia Rafful

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We're going to be playing a very robust opponent, even if we have all the chances to win, they have a lot of strength, they are versatile, most of their players can play in different positions and in different systems. They have three possible formations.

– Juan Carlos Osorio

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We had a good first half then we had 10-15 really bad minutes and that's why we lost, whether I should stay or not does not depend on me and we still have another match. In a World Cup you have to wait till the very last minute although our chances are minute.

– Hector Cuper

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We want to attack this tournament, we want to create chances, we want to score goals.

– Harry Kane

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We are now under pressure. We have to get six points from the next games, we did not do well. We had our chances but didn't score.

– Toni Kroos

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The chances are low, but we're still pushing.

– Omar Bennis

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The chances of you coming down with something are slim.

– Philip Tierno

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

While I unequivocally believe in second chances, I also believe in the rule of law, desperate to ward off a challenge from Cynthia Nixon, Andrew Cuomo’s unilateral action is an insult to the legislature, the courts, crime victims and the voters of the State of New York.

– Marcus Molinaro

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We all came here with the right mindset, our coaching staff is great. They gave us a chance to play, and gave us chances to do things we haven't in the past.

– James Neal

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The chances now are 50-50, at times it's been higher, at times lower. I don't know what they're going to give us in the way of ground rules that make us comfortable.

– Rudy Giuliani

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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