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This is not a zero-defect industry, this is an industry that tries to minimize losses of mistakes, just like any other industry…The reality is that there are going to be mistakes. – Mike Mayo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If you put an accelerometer on a bearing and you’re monitoring the vibration levels, the minute a defect happens in the bearing, the accelerometer will sense an increase in vibration, and that could be, in many cases, up to 100,000 miles before the bearing actually fails. – Constantine Tarawneh	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You need good reasons to defect, it’s not all of a sudden, [that] ‘it dawned upon me that democracy is better than tyranny, and therefore here I am.’. – Michel Yakovleff	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Competency is different than insanity, or a mental health defect. So, we're not talking about what he did on March 22nd. We're talking about whether he is competent to stand trial right now. – Michael Dougherty	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We aresitting there going over thisone spot on the sonogram, he drops the wand andsays 'I have to get the doctor, the doctor comes in and helooks at me, and this is as cold asI can ever remember, he says, 'yourson has a fatal defect and he’sgoing to die.’. – Rick Santorum	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That means if your child's in a car wreck, if your child has a congenital heart defect or something and needs an ICU bed, or more likely if they have Covid and need an ICU bed, we don't have one. Your child will wait for another child to die, your child will just not get on the ventilator, your child will be CareFlighted to Temple or Oklahoma City or wherever we can find them a bed, but they won't be getting one here unless one clears. – Dallas County judge	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I saw a tiger in one facility in about 2014 that had severely deformed rear leg hind legs. It couldn't even walk normally, i talked to one of the managers, who said it's probably a genetic defect. So that project has not really gone forward. – Chris Coggins	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Paying reparations for slavery will not fix everything, but America will not have the future that we want if we're not willing to clean up the past, to clean up this original character defect of racism. – Marianne Williamson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
But as the number of incidents build, you'll find someone who will entertain a class action [lawsuit] dealing with a product defect. – Jennifer Dukarski	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I am deeply concerned that these vintage aircraft, decades old, some of them having been involved in crashes before, are still flying, until we know exactly what caused this crash, a major tragedy, whether it was a defect in the machine or some problem with maintenance or flying. There should be very serious scrutiny over these planes before theyre allowed back in the air. – Richard Blumenthal	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The United States has a long history of limiting or outright excluding people based on what the government deemed undesirable, this undesirability was based on race, nationality or any number of reasons the government classified as a' defect.' These were the people who could not enter The United States legally. – Michael Innis-Jiménez	Found on CNN 4 years ago
As a quality manager at Boeing, you're the last line of defense before a defect makes it out to the flying public, and I haven't seen a plane out of North Charleston yet that I'd put my name on saying it's safe and airworthy. – John Barnett	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The better-late-than-never recall of Kia Souls hopefully will remedy this fire-causing defect, yet one has to wonder why Kias initial reaction was to deny the validity of our petition, particularly as there were dozens of reports of fires involving these vehicles all the way back to last summer. – Jason Levine	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The principal defect of our national defense is not the training nor the lack of finances, but the great and dangerous defect of democracy which has been implanted into the minds of the Filipino people. We have a nationally wrong conception of democracy. Our democracy in the Philippines is unilateral. It is only for the benefit, for the freedom, for the rights, comfort and happiness of each individual member of the nation. That is the common belief, and I venture to say that 99.9% of our people believe in that kind of democracy. They do not know their obligations, their duties and the sacrifices that they should give to the state which is the relative counterpart of the amount of personal democracy he should indulge. The two should balance. – Vicente Lim	added by anonymous 5 years ago
These reactors are over 40 years old. This is a generic defect which cannot be fixed so it would not surprise me if the older plants would all need to close within the next few years. – John Large	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The requirement to launch recalls and inform consumers in a timely fashion when a safety defect or noncompliance is discovered is fundamental to our system for protecting the traveling public. This is a must-do. – The NHTSA	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The severe defect in his brain made him incapable of distinguishing right from wrong by societal standards. – Raquel Gur	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Despite having a mental disability or defect ... Mr. Holmes had the capacity to tell the difference between right and wrong. – Psychiatrist Jeffrey Metzner	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
American soldiers have forever made the best use of the equipment we’ve been given and the 113 is a great example of that, i skillfully rolled one at Hohenfels 34 years ago and lived to tell about it — which proves were not a zero-defect Army. – Anthony Ierardi	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The two key objectives of the reshuffle were to show that loyalty pays and also to offer opportunity to those who might defect to Mbabazi. – Charles Rwomushana	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Not only was he suffering from a severe mental disease or defect, not only did he not know his conduct was wrong, he thought he had to take their lives because he was in danger. so we're shooting pistols here, huh? – Eddie Ray Routh	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It is my opinion that he was suffering from a severe mental disease or defect that caused him not to know his conduct was wrong. – Eddie Ray Routh	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I thought it was a result of a genetic defect and assumed I had been born like that, so I didn’t think any more of it. – Xu Xiuying	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Am I afraid ? You know that I have a defect, a nice of dose of being careless. If anything should happen to me, I have told the Lord, I ask you only to give me the grace that it doesn't hurt because I am not courageous when confronted with pain. I am very timid. – Pope Francis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

This is not a zero-defect industry, this is an industry that tries to minimize losses of mistakes, just like any other industry…The reality is that there are going to be mistakes.

– Mike Mayo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you put an accelerometer on a bearing and you’re monitoring the vibration levels, the minute a defect happens in the bearing, the accelerometer will sense an increase in vibration, and that could be, in many cases, up to 100,000 miles before the bearing actually fails.

– Constantine Tarawneh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You need good reasons to defect, it’s not all of a sudden, [that] ‘it dawned upon me that democracy is better than tyranny, and therefore here I am.’.

– Michel Yakovleff

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Competency is different than insanity, or a mental health defect. So, we're not talking about what he did on March 22nd. We're talking about whether he is competent to stand trial right now.

– Michael Dougherty

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We aresitting there going over thisone spot on the sonogram, he drops the wand andsays 'I have to get the doctor, the doctor comes in and helooks at me, and this is as cold asI can ever remember, he says, 'yourson has a fatal defect and he’sgoing to die.’.

– Rick Santorum

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That means if your child's in a car wreck, if your child has a congenital heart defect or something and needs an ICU bed, or more likely if they have Covid and need an ICU bed, we don't have one. Your child will wait for another child to die, your child will just not get on the ventilator, your child will be CareFlighted to Temple or Oklahoma City or wherever we can find them a bed, but they won't be getting one here unless one clears.

– Dallas County judge

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I saw a tiger in one facility in about 2014 that had severely deformed rear leg hind legs. It couldn't even walk normally, i talked to one of the managers, who said it's probably a genetic defect. So that project has not really gone forward.

– Chris Coggins

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Paying reparations for slavery will not fix everything, but America will not have the future that we want if we're not willing to clean up the past, to clean up this original character defect of racism.

– Marianne Williamson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

But as the number of incidents build, you'll find someone who will entertain a class action [lawsuit] dealing with a product defect.

– Jennifer Dukarski

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I am deeply concerned that these vintage aircraft, decades old, some of them having been involved in crashes before, are still flying, until we know exactly what caused this crash, a major tragedy, whether it was a defect in the machine or some problem with maintenance or flying. There should be very serious scrutiny over these planes before theyre allowed back in the air.

– Richard Blumenthal

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The United States has a long history of limiting or outright excluding people based on what the government deemed undesirable, this undesirability was based on race, nationality or any number of reasons the government classified as a' defect.' These were the people who could not enter The United States legally.

– Michael Innis-Jiménez

Found on CNN
4 years ago

As a quality manager at Boeing, you're the last line of defense before a defect makes it out to the flying public, and I haven't seen a plane out of North Charleston yet that I'd put my name on saying it's safe and airworthy.

– John Barnett

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The better-late-than-never recall of Kia Souls hopefully will remedy this fire-causing defect, yet one has to wonder why Kias initial reaction was to deny the validity of our petition, particularly as there were dozens of reports of fires involving these vehicles all the way back to last summer.

– Jason Levine

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The principal defect of our national defense is not the training nor the lack of finances, but the great and dangerous defect of democracy which has been implanted into the minds of the Filipino people. We have a nationally wrong conception of democracy. Our democracy in the Philippines is unilateral. It is only for the benefit, for the freedom, for the rights, comfort and happiness of each individual member of the nation. That is the common belief, and I venture to say that 99.9% of our people believe in that kind of democracy. They do not know their obligations, their duties and the sacrifices that they should give to the state which is the relative counterpart of the amount of personal democracy he should indulge. The two should balance.

– Vicente Lim

added by anonymous
5 years ago

These reactors are over 40 years old. This is a generic defect which cannot be fixed so it would not surprise me if the older plants would all need to close within the next few years.

– John Large

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The requirement to launch recalls and inform consumers in a timely fashion when a safety defect or noncompliance is discovered is fundamental to our system for protecting the traveling public. This is a must-do.

– The NHTSA

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The severe defect in his brain made him incapable of distinguishing right from wrong by societal standards.

– Raquel Gur

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Despite having a mental disability or defect ... Mr. Holmes had the capacity to tell the difference between right and wrong.

– Psychiatrist Jeffrey Metzner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

American soldiers have forever made the best use of the equipment we’ve been given and the 113 is a great example of that, i skillfully rolled one at Hohenfels 34 years ago and lived to tell about it — which proves were not a zero-defect Army.

– Anthony Ierardi

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The two key objectives of the reshuffle were to show that loyalty pays and also to offer opportunity to those who might defect to Mbabazi.

– Charles Rwomushana

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Not only was he suffering from a severe mental disease or defect, not only did he not know his conduct was wrong, he thought he had to take their lives because he was in danger. so we're shooting pistols here, huh?

– Eddie Ray Routh

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It is my opinion that he was suffering from a severe mental disease or defect that caused him not to know his conduct was wrong.

– Eddie Ray Routh

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I thought it was a result of a genetic defect and assumed I had been born like that, so I didn’t think any more of it.

– Xu Xiuying

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Am I afraid ? You know that I have a defect, a nice of dose of being careless. If anything should happen to me, I have told the Lord, I ask you only to give me the grace that it doesn't hurt because I am not courageous when confronted with pain. I am very timid.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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