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I was physically assaulted by one person. I was struck twice, both times hitting my shoulder with the second strike grazing my face, the rest of the protestors just ambushed and cornered me before I was able to move out with the help of campus police. – Riley Gaines	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The video in this case speaks for itself : Jose Alba was simply doing Jose Alba job when Jose Alba was aggressively cornered by a much younger and bigger man. – Alice Fontier	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Vladimir Putin is cornered. Vladimir Putin's already lost this war, even if Vladimir Putin wins a short-term battle by taking of Kyiv, there is no way Vladimir Putin can hold Ukraine and absorb Ukraine into Russia because Vladimir Putin's created a hatred for Russia and himself that will last a generation. – Angus King	Found on CNN 2 years ago
He's attacking right now because he has a goal. And he's not going to let up on this goal. He's not [ at ] a point in time where he can show this kind of weakness, so he has to keep going, so, the question is does he feel confident enough -- despite his claims of everything being on track. Clearly, that's not the case -- does he feel comfortable enough that he is on the right track that he just sticks with that, or is he feeling more and more cornered ? – Beth Sanner	Found on CNN 2 years ago
But a cornered cat may behave differently from when the cat is free. And if they (Western states) push Iran in that direction, then it’s no longer Iran’s fault. – Mahmoud Alavi	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We are appalled at the state of negotiations. At this stage we are being cornered, we fear having to concede on too many issues that would damage the very integrity of the Paris Agreement. – Tyrone Hall	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
When I felt cornered in my life and wrought with crisis and turmoil, I wondered why friends stayed silent. – RJ Intindola	added by RJ Intindola 4 years ago
It appears that he might do the right thing, but only when supervised and cornered like a rat. – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy	added by anonymous 5 years ago
When dogs tend to bite, it's mostly because they're fearful or they're cornered. – Melissa Bain	Found on CNN 7 years ago
At one point, Bernie Madoff cornered the hot chocolate market, bernie Madoff bought up every package of Swiss Miss from the commissary and sold Swiss Miss for a profit in the prison yard. Bernie Madoff monopolized hot chocolate ! Bernie Madoff made Swiss Miss so that if you wanted any, you had to go through Bernie Madoff. Bernie Madoff, once the Nasdaq chairman, used Bernie Madoff reputation and savvy to dupe sophisticated investors, regulators and Wall Street banks. Bernie Madoff confessed in December 2008 that Bernie Madoff was running a multi decade Ponzi scheme and that more than $ 65 billion Bernie Madoff claimed to have on hand for investors had dwindled to a few hundred million dollars from an original investment of about $ 20 billion. Bernie Madoff pleaded guilty to fraud and is serving a 150-year prison sentence in Butner, N.C. Fishman reportedly hosts an Audible series called. – Steve Fishman	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We cornered one suspect and we tried to negotiate for several hours - negotiations broke down, we had an exchange of gunfire with the suspect, we saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate where the suspect was. – Chief David Brown	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I met this fellow a month or two ago and he’s a hero of mine and I knew that he was a hero of Chuck [Lorre] and Bill [Prady’s], so I just accosted him and cornered him and practically made him commit on the spot to play my father, i’m really excited about it. It’s going to be a lot of fun. – Johnny Galecki	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
There was good and bad like in any other relationship, if it was great, we would still be together. But we figured it out. We are friends now. It’s good. She has got the romantic comedy market cornered. I am happy for her. – Anthony Jeselnik	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We are only committed to oneworld provided the spirit in which we joined oneworld exists, if we are being cornered by an airline that invited us to be part of the alliance and is now acting against our interests... blocking inventory and blocking us gates at JFK, of course we have no purpose to be in an alliance. – Al Baker	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are continuing to pursue that lead down in Willsboro but it would be inaccurate to say they are cornered. – Beau Duffy	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Yes, we have conducted solidarity with other peoples that could be considered terrorism -- when we were cornered, when we were strongly harassed, we had no other choice but to give up or to fight back. – Raul Castro	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
He is cornered, if he resigns he is going to be blamed for bringing havoc to the financial markets. If he does not resign, he will be blamed (for stalling growth). – Selin Sayek Boke	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

I was physically assaulted by one person. I was struck twice, both times hitting my shoulder with the second strike grazing my face, the rest of the protestors just ambushed and cornered me before I was able to move out with the help of campus police.

– Riley Gaines

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The video in this case speaks for itself : Jose Alba was simply doing Jose Alba job when Jose Alba was aggressively cornered by a much younger and bigger man.

– Alice Fontier

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Vladimir Putin is cornered. Vladimir Putin's already lost this war, even if Vladimir Putin wins a short-term battle by taking of Kyiv, there is no way Vladimir Putin can hold Ukraine and absorb Ukraine into Russia because Vladimir Putin's created a hatred for Russia and himself that will last a generation.

– Angus King

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He's attacking right now because he has a goal. And he's not going to let up on this goal. He's not [ at ] a point in time where he can show this kind of weakness, so he has to keep going, so, the question is does he feel confident enough -- despite his claims of everything being on track. Clearly, that's not the case -- does he feel comfortable enough that he is on the right track that he just sticks with that, or is he feeling more and more cornered ?

– Beth Sanner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

But a cornered cat may behave differently from when the cat is free. And if they (Western states) push Iran in that direction, then it’s no longer Iran’s fault.

– Mahmoud Alavi

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We are appalled at the state of negotiations. At this stage we are being cornered, we fear having to concede on too many issues that would damage the very integrity of the Paris Agreement.

– Tyrone Hall

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

When I felt cornered in my life and wrought with crisis and turmoil, I wondered why friends stayed silent.

– RJ Intindola

added by RJ Intindola
4 years ago

It appears that he might do the right thing, but only when supervised and cornered like a rat.

– Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

added by anonymous
5 years ago

When dogs tend to bite, it's mostly because they're fearful or they're cornered.

– Melissa Bain

Found on CNN
7 years ago

At one point, Bernie Madoff cornered the hot chocolate market, bernie Madoff bought up every package of Swiss Miss from the commissary and sold Swiss Miss for a profit in the prison yard. Bernie Madoff monopolized hot chocolate ! Bernie Madoff made Swiss Miss so that if you wanted any, you had to go through Bernie Madoff. Bernie Madoff, once the Nasdaq chairman, used Bernie Madoff reputation and savvy to dupe sophisticated investors, regulators and Wall Street banks. Bernie Madoff confessed in December 2008 that Bernie Madoff was running a multi decade Ponzi scheme and that more than $ 65 billion Bernie Madoff claimed to have on hand for investors had dwindled to a few hundred million dollars from an original investment of about $ 20 billion. Bernie Madoff pleaded guilty to fraud and is serving a 150-year prison sentence in Butner, N.C. Fishman reportedly hosts an Audible series called.

– Steve Fishman

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We cornered one suspect and we tried to negotiate for several hours - negotiations broke down, we had an exchange of gunfire with the suspect, we saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate where the suspect was.

– Chief David Brown

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I met this fellow a month or two ago and he’s a hero of mine and I knew that he was a hero of Chuck [Lorre] and Bill [Prady’s], so I just accosted him and cornered him and practically made him commit on the spot to play my father, i’m really excited about it. It’s going to be a lot of fun.

– Johnny Galecki

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There was good and bad like in any other relationship, if it was great, we would still be together. But we figured it out. We are friends now. It’s good. She has got the romantic comedy market cornered. I am happy for her.

– Anthony Jeselnik

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We are only committed to oneworld provided the spirit in which we joined oneworld exists, if we are being cornered by an airline that invited us to be part of the alliance and is now acting against our interests... blocking inventory and blocking us gates at JFK, of course we have no purpose to be in an alliance.

– Al Baker

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are continuing to pursue that lead down in Willsboro but it would be inaccurate to say they are cornered.

– Beau Duffy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Yes, we have conducted solidarity with other peoples that could be considered terrorism -- when we were cornered, when we were strongly harassed, we had no other choice but to give up or to fight back.

– Raul Castro

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

He is cornered, if he resigns he is going to be blamed for bringing havoc to the financial markets. If he does not resign, he will be blamed (for stalling growth).

– Selin Sayek Boke

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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