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It's a very distinctive and characteristic bug, and it is establishing in more places, it's possible that if your plants are around longer, lanternflies in warmer areas could persist longer and maybe lay an additional clutch. – Julie Urban	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Nobody defines Josh Mandel but Josh Mandel and that's a really strong leader characteristic. – Michael Flynn	Found on CNN 2 years ago
A predilection for wrong is not characteristic of our nature, it is a characteristic of the nature of life itself. – Goa Kerle	added by Goa_ 2 years ago
If you don't have parts manufacturing authority, then you shouldn't be making it yourself, you don't know what standards were used. Have you gotten the internal characteristic right ? When you put it into a turbine section of an engine, will it perform like it was designed ? – Robert Mann	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We believed the impressions we saw at Penarth were consistently spaced to suggest an animal walking. We also saw displacement rims where mud had been pushed up. These structures are characteristic of active movement through the soft ground. – Paul Barrett	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The vulnerable people are the people who have not been vaccinated, and I hope that the possibility that we're seeing -- that we're going to be getting a surge of Omicron, which is almost inevitable given its characteristic of high degree of transmissibility, we have the tools to be able to blunt this. We just need to implement them. – Anthony Fauci	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If Paul Gosar was telling the truth, Paul Gosar would have apologized by now, and it's been well over a week, paul Gosar not only has not apologized, Paul Gosar not only has not made any sort of contact or outreach, neither Paul Gosar nor the Republican leader of the party. But Paul Gosar's also doubled down by saying that I am somehow, I'm somehow a representative of undocumented people and that somehow is deserving a characteristic of violence. – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I do feel very, very good about our guys’ ability to fight, and it’s a great characteristic to have. – Said DeRozan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This organic skeleton is very characteristic and there are not known comparable structures. – Joachim Reitner	Found on CNN 2 years ago
As a spa located in Los Angeles, Wi Spa complies with California law prohibiting discrimination by a business, including the Civil Code provision set forth above, like many other metropolitan areas, Los Angeles contains a transgender population, some of whom enjoy visiting a spa. Wi Spa strives to meet the needs and safety of all of its customers, and does not tolerate harassment or lewd conduct by any customer, regardless of their sex, gender, or other characteristic. – Wi Spa	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
A lot of the EITC expansion is a lot of states saying : Hey, we know this one group of workers has been particularly hard hit, because the defining characteristic of this last year is that if you were a lower-income worker, you probably lost your job and got hammered. – Richard Auxier	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. – Ludwig Von Mises	added by Normando 2 years ago
I have been in the room with Vladimir Putin many times when I was working for President Obama. And whataboutism is always a characteristic of these summit meetings, that whataboutism is meant to engender cynicism, that nothing really matters, it's not worth even challenging this, that everybody's just as corrupt as everybody else. – Ben Rhodes	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I have been in the room with Vladimir Putin many times when I was working for President Obama. And whataboutism is always a characteristic of these summit meetings, that whataboutism is meant to engender cynicism, that nothing really matters, it's not worth even challenging this, that everybody's just as corrupt as everybody else. And I think it's incumbent on President Joe Biden to draw the clear distinctions between what America stands for in the world and what Vladimir Putin has been up to for the better part of over two decades now. – Ben Rhodes	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is unacceptable for any employer to try to silence a worker because he or she was a victim of any type of harassment or discrimination -- whether due to race, sexual orientation, religion, age or any other characteristic, sB 331 will empower survivors to speak out -- if they so wish -- so they can hold perpetrators accountable and hopefully prevent abusers from continuing to torment and abuse other workers. – Connie Leyva	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's a small gesture, no doubt, but a very characteristic one for a skillful politician like( President Lyndon Johnson) to lose no chance to cultivate loyalty and support. – Mark Lawrence	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I am considering it because despite it being presented in the form of fiction there are elements characteristic of public insult. – Justice Christine Taubira in 2013	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The tombs with non-Egyptian burial customs were especially intriguing typically males buried with bronze weaponry in constructed tombs, without scarabs or other protective amulets like Egyptians would have been buried with, the most elite had equids of some sort (potentially donkeys) buried outside the tombs, often in pairs as though ready to pull a chariot. This is both a foreign characteristic of burial style, but also suggestive of someone [with] very high status. – Chris Stantis	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The most elite had equids of some sort (potentially donkeys) buried outside the tombs, often in pairs as though ready to pull a chariot. This is both a foreign characteristic of burial style, but also suggestive of someone [with] very high status. – Chris Stantis	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Cuteness can not be measured and is therefore only based on opinion. If someone calls you cute, then that means they find a cute characteristic in you that you may not necessarily see in yourself. (Unless they say it as an insult). – Alexis Loera	added by alexis_l 3 years ago
I think they've [Labour Government] made the biggest financial mess that any government's ever made in this country for a very long time, and Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them. They then start to nationalise everything, and people just do not like more and more nationalisation, and they're now trying to control everything by other means. They're progressively reducing the choice available to ordinary people. – Margaret Thatcher	added by Normando 3 years ago
This has been characteristic of Donald Trump and Putin the times they've met. We still don't know what they discussed in Finland. – Fiona Hill	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Obviously as we've seen, Donald Trump and Putin have met and discussed things together where the rest of the people were not in the picture, this has been characteristic of Donald Trump and Putin the times they've met. We still don't know what they discussed in Finland. – United States	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Bargaining for health benefits is a distinguishing characteristic that labor unions hold out as an important variable as to why Former Vice President Joe Biden would want to be a union member. – David Brenner	Found on CNN 4 years ago

It's a very distinctive and characteristic bug, and it is establishing in more places, it's possible that if your plants are around longer, lanternflies in warmer areas could persist longer and maybe lay an additional clutch.

– Julie Urban

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nobody defines Josh Mandel but Josh Mandel and that's a really strong leader characteristic.

– Michael Flynn

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A predilection for wrong is not characteristic of our nature, it is a characteristic of the nature of life itself.

– Goa Kerle

added by Goa_
2 years ago

If you don't have parts manufacturing authority, then you shouldn't be making it yourself, you don't know what standards were used. Have you gotten the internal characteristic right ? When you put it into a turbine section of an engine, will it perform like it was designed ?

– Robert Mann

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We believed the impressions we saw at Penarth were consistently spaced to suggest an animal walking. We also saw displacement rims where mud had been pushed up. These structures are characteristic of active movement through the soft ground.

– Paul Barrett

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The vulnerable people are the people who have not been vaccinated, and I hope that the possibility that we're seeing -- that we're going to be getting a surge of Omicron, which is almost inevitable given its characteristic of high degree of transmissibility, we have the tools to be able to blunt this. We just need to implement them.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If Paul Gosar was telling the truth, Paul Gosar would have apologized by now, and it's been well over a week, paul Gosar not only has not apologized, Paul Gosar not only has not made any sort of contact or outreach, neither Paul Gosar nor the Republican leader of the party. But Paul Gosar's also doubled down by saying that I am somehow, I'm somehow a representative of undocumented people and that somehow is deserving a characteristic of violence.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I do feel very, very good about our guys’ ability to fight, and it’s a great characteristic to have.

– Said DeRozan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This organic skeleton is very characteristic and there are not known comparable structures.

– Joachim Reitner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As a spa located in Los Angeles, Wi Spa complies with California law prohibiting discrimination by a business, including the Civil Code provision set forth above, like many other metropolitan areas, Los Angeles contains a transgender population, some of whom enjoy visiting a spa. Wi Spa strives to meet the needs and safety of all of its customers, and does not tolerate harassment or lewd conduct by any customer, regardless of their sex, gender, or other characteristic.

– Wi Spa

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A lot of the EITC expansion is a lot of states saying : Hey, we know this one group of workers has been particularly hard hit, because the defining characteristic of this last year is that if you were a lower-income worker, you probably lost your job and got hammered.

– Richard Auxier

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.

– Ludwig Von Mises

added by Normando
2 years ago

– Ben Rhodes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I have been in the room with Vladimir Putin many times when I was working for President Obama. And whataboutism is always a characteristic of these summit meetings, that whataboutism is meant to engender cynicism, that nothing really matters, it's not worth even challenging this, that everybody's just as corrupt as everybody else. And I think it's incumbent on President Joe Biden to draw the clear distinctions between what America stands for in the world and what Vladimir Putin has been up to for the better part of over two decades now.

– Ben Rhodes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is unacceptable for any employer to try to silence a worker because he or she was a victim of any type of harassment or discrimination -- whether due to race, sexual orientation, religion, age or any other characteristic, sB 331 will empower survivors to speak out -- if they so wish -- so they can hold perpetrators accountable and hopefully prevent abusers from continuing to torment and abuse other workers.

– Connie Leyva

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's a small gesture, no doubt, but a very characteristic one for a skillful politician like( President Lyndon Johnson) to lose no chance to cultivate loyalty and support.

– Mark Lawrence

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I am considering it because despite it being presented in the form of fiction there are elements characteristic of public insult.

– Justice Christine Taubira in 2013

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The tombs with non-Egyptian burial customs were especially intriguing typically males buried with bronze weaponry in constructed tombs, without scarabs or other protective amulets like Egyptians would have been buried with, the most elite had equids of some sort (potentially donkeys) buried outside the tombs, often in pairs as though ready to pull a chariot. This is both a foreign characteristic of burial style, but also suggestive of someone [with] very high status.

– Chris Stantis

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The most elite had equids of some sort (potentially donkeys) buried outside the tombs, often in pairs as though ready to pull a chariot. This is both a foreign characteristic of burial style, but also suggestive of someone [with] very high status.

– Chris Stantis

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Cuteness can not be measured and is therefore only based on opinion. If someone calls you cute, then that means they find a cute characteristic in you that you may not necessarily see in yourself. (Unless they say it as an insult).

– Alexis Loera

added by alexis_l
3 years ago

I think they've [Labour Government] made the biggest financial mess that any government's ever made in this country for a very long time, and Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them. They then start to nationalise everything, and people just do not like more and more nationalisation, and they're now trying to control everything by other means. They're progressively reducing the choice available to ordinary people.

– Margaret Thatcher

added by Normando
3 years ago

This has been characteristic of Donald Trump and Putin the times they've met. We still don't know what they discussed in Finland.

– Fiona Hill

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Obviously as we've seen, Donald Trump and Putin have met and discussed things together where the rest of the people were not in the picture, this has been characteristic of Donald Trump and Putin the times they've met. We still don't know what they discussed in Finland.

– United States

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Bargaining for health benefits is a distinguishing characteristic that labor unions hold out as an important variable as to why Former Vice President Joe Biden would want to be a union member.

– David Brenner

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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