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It pains me a little bit to acknowledge that there are disabled veterans … who are experiencing homelessness who don’t currently qualify to come into this building, it’s a little incongruent that our veterans who are the most disabled and will most benefit by being on this land close to the hospital, can’t get into these buildings and we’re gonna change that. – Steven Braverman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This legislation is part of our work to bring down the number of fatal overdoses and tackle the challenges driven by fentanyl head on, we will continue to work with our non-profits partners who are trying to open overdose prevention sites, fully implement our health strategies to help those struggling with addiction in our streets, and work with law enforcement to close the open-air drug markets. – London Breed	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I owe everything that I have in my entire life to my sobriety, i wouldn’t be doing this for a living anymore. I probably wouldn’t have the family that I have currently anymore. I came really close to losing everything that I cared about. – Chris Kirk	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You know, we were there two hours after the train went down – two hours, i’ve spoken with every single major figure in both Pennsylvania and in Ohio, and so the idea that we’re not engaged is just simply not there. And initially, there was not a request for me to go out even before I was heading over to Kyiv, so I’m keeping very close tabs on it. We’re doing all we can. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There was a belief Russian production would be crimped. But its production is close to what it was a year ago. – Tom Kloza	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You could not be around him and not have a good time, were you close to Paul? – Joshua Boucher/The	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The situation in the Pyrenees is close to the lowest record of snow quantity for that time of year. – Simon Mittelberger	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You could not be around Paul-Paul( Paul Murdaugh) – you could not be around him and not have a good time, were you close to Paul ? – Alex Murdaugh	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Russians are continuing to take a very close look at both the Soyuz and the Progress coolant leaks, they formed a state commission that is assessing the anomalies. – Dana Weigel	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The fear of Russia going into NATO countries and all that, and steamrolling, that has not even come close to happening, i think they have shown themselves to be a third-rate military power. – Ron DeSantis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Service in the zone of the special military operation – everyone understands this very well – is associated with colossal physical and psychological stress, with everyday risks to health and life, therefore, I consider it necessary to establish for the mobilized, in general for all military personnel, for all participants of the special military operation, including volunteers, regular leave lasting at least 14 days and at least once every six months, excluding travel time, so that each soldier has the opportunity to visit families, to be close to relatives and friends. – Getty Images	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It doesn’t help that most of my friends have passed away. I plan on traveling domestically, maybe somewhere close by, if someone invites me. – Yuma Kase	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I frequently went (abroad) until about 15 or 20 years ago, it doesn’t help that most of my friends have passed away. I plan on traveling domestically, maybe somewhere close by, if someone invites me. – Aki Fukuyama	Found on CNN 1 year ago
These communications show a close personal relationship and ‘profound’ friendship between the two men and even suggest that Staley may have been involved in Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. – Virgin Islands	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The whole area is usually very dry and very close to drought this time of year. Now it’s soaking wet, but that risk of drought hasn’t gone away, (and) in our predictions of how climate change is going to affect New Zealand, that’s a feature that seems to be fairly robust – that Northland (north of Auckland) will get drier. – Daithi Stone	Found on CNN 1 year ago
New Zealand is very good at building communities on floodplains – there’s a large fraction of the population that live close to rivers that tend to flood, there tends to be the attitude that we can build stop banks and that will protect the community, and it does most of the time, until you get a really big event. – James Renwick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They need to close this place down. – Nneka Campbell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The likelihood that this person transmitted the illness is low, but this is a very serious illness so we can’t take any chances, and need to get the close contacts in for testing, tB is a very serious illness and the XDRTB version is difficult to treat. – Tom Skinner	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’m not stupid, I know the risk. And yes, it was a close call, and I could have lost my life and everything. But there is still so much work and help needed in Ukraine. – Simon Johnsen Johnsen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In recent years, the Chinese military has also been challenging foreign military aerial activities over the Spratlys, including those run by the Filipinos when they flew close to the Chinese-occupied outposts. – Collin Koh	Found on CNN 1 year ago
One possible interpretation of what China has said is that the United States has launched surveillance balloons over and within South China Sea – close to one of those artificial or disputed islands claimed by China, and China has identified those as examples of breaches of Chinese airspace, but of course, the United States would come back and say : ‘ Well, we actually do n’t recognize Chinese sovereignty over these features. ’. – Donald Rothwell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They called it, and that’s the way this goes. I’ve said this before, I’m never going to be somebody who puts blame or anything on officials. That’s a hard job. They make a call. It is what it is, there were multiple other moments in that game to take care of business and I think that, you know, we were close. We could have won that game without the officials making… without that call being the determining factor. – Jason Kelce	Found on CNN 1 year ago
All of a sudden, it hit too close to home. – Wilson Webb/Netflix Ratner	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The close association of Oldowan tools, with butchered carcasses and Paranthropus might mean that tool use was more widespread in the hominin family than we ever thought. – John McNabb	Found on CNN 1 year ago

It pains me a little bit to acknowledge that there are disabled veterans … who are experiencing homelessness who don’t currently qualify to come into this building, it’s a little incongruent that our veterans who are the most disabled and will most benefit by being on this land close to the hospital, can’t get into these buildings and we’re gonna change that.

– Steven Braverman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This legislation is part of our work to bring down the number of fatal overdoses and tackle the challenges driven by fentanyl head on, we will continue to work with our non-profits partners who are trying to open overdose prevention sites, fully implement our health strategies to help those struggling with addiction in our streets, and work with law enforcement to close the open-air drug markets.

– London Breed

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I owe everything that I have in my entire life to my sobriety, i wouldn’t be doing this for a living anymore. I probably wouldn’t have the family that I have currently anymore. I came really close to losing everything that I cared about.

– Chris Kirk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You know, we were there two hours after the train went down – two hours, i’ve spoken with every single major figure in both Pennsylvania and in Ohio, and so the idea that we’re not engaged is just simply not there. And initially, there was not a request for me to go out even before I was heading over to Kyiv, so I’m keeping very close tabs on it. We’re doing all we can.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There was a belief Russian production would be crimped. But its production is close to what it was a year ago.

– Tom Kloza

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You could not be around him and not have a good time, were you close to Paul?

– Joshua Boucher/The

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The situation in the Pyrenees is close to the lowest record of snow quantity for that time of year.

– Simon Mittelberger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You could not be around Paul-Paul( Paul Murdaugh) – you could not be around him and not have a good time, were you close to Paul ?

– Alex Murdaugh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Russians are continuing to take a very close look at both the Soyuz and the Progress coolant leaks, they formed a state commission that is assessing the anomalies.

– Dana Weigel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The fear of Russia going into NATO countries and all that, and steamrolling, that has not even come close to happening, i think they have shown themselves to be a third-rate military power.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Service in the zone of the special military operation – everyone understands this very well – is associated with colossal physical and psychological stress, with everyday risks to health and life, therefore, I consider it necessary to establish for the mobilized, in general for all military personnel, for all participants of the special military operation, including volunteers, regular leave lasting at least 14 days and at least once every six months, excluding travel time, so that each soldier has the opportunity to visit families, to be close to relatives and friends.

– Getty Images

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It doesn’t help that most of my friends have passed away. I plan on traveling domestically, maybe somewhere close by, if someone invites me.

– Yuma Kase

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I frequently went (abroad) until about 15 or 20 years ago, it doesn’t help that most of my friends have passed away. I plan on traveling domestically, maybe somewhere close by, if someone invites me.

– Aki Fukuyama

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These communications show a close personal relationship and ‘profound’ friendship between the two men and even suggest that Staley may have been involved in Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation.

– Virgin Islands

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The whole area is usually very dry and very close to drought this time of year. Now it’s soaking wet, but that risk of drought hasn’t gone away, (and) in our predictions of how climate change is going to affect New Zealand, that’s a feature that seems to be fairly robust – that Northland (north of Auckland) will get drier.

– Daithi Stone

Found on CNN
1 year ago

New Zealand is very good at building communities on floodplains – there’s a large fraction of the population that live close to rivers that tend to flood, there tends to be the attitude that we can build stop banks and that will protect the community, and it does most of the time, until you get a really big event.

– James Renwick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They need to close this place down.

– Nneka Campbell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The likelihood that this person transmitted the illness is low, but this is a very serious illness so we can’t take any chances, and need to get the close contacts in for testing, tB is a very serious illness and the XDRTB version is difficult to treat.

– Tom Skinner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m not stupid, I know the risk. And yes, it was a close call, and I could have lost my life and everything. But there is still so much work and help needed in Ukraine.

– Simon Johnsen Johnsen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In recent years, the Chinese military has also been challenging foreign military aerial activities over the Spratlys, including those run by the Filipinos when they flew close to the Chinese-occupied outposts.

– Collin Koh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One possible interpretation of what China has said is that the United States has launched surveillance balloons over and within South China Sea – close to one of those artificial or disputed islands claimed by China, and China has identified those as examples of breaches of Chinese airspace, but of course, the United States would come back and say : ‘ Well, we actually do n’t recognize Chinese sovereignty over these features. ’.

– Donald Rothwell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They called it, and that’s the way this goes. I’ve said this before, I’m never going to be somebody who puts blame or anything on officials. That’s a hard job. They make a call. It is what it is, there were multiple other moments in that game to take care of business and I think that, you know, we were close. We could have won that game without the officials making… without that call being the determining factor.

– Jason Kelce

Found on CNN
1 year ago

All of a sudden, it hit too close to home.

– Wilson Webb/Netflix Ratner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The close association of Oldowan tools, with butchered carcasses and Paranthropus might mean that tool use was more widespread in the hominin family than we ever thought.

– John McNabb

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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