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I think he will meet the legal definition of that as well. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There isn't one single 'biological' answer to the definition of a woman. There's not even a singular biological answer to the question of 'what is a female,'. – Rebecca Jordan-Young	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The violence and lawlessness at the border caused by transnational cartels and gangs satisfies the definition of an ‘invasion’ under the U.S. Constitution, and Arizona therefore has the power to defend itself from this invasion under the governor’s authority as commander in chief, an actual invasion permits the state to engage in defensive actions within its own territory at or near its border. – Mark Brnovich	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The people you're drafting into the fight against inflation when you raise interest rates and slow the economy are the most vulnerable, the purpose of raising interest rates is to take the air out of the sails of the economy. If it works, you are by definition are going to have fewer jobs. Even small increases in interest rates, if they have the desired effect, will cause job losses and wage losses. – Robert Reich	Found on CNN 2 years ago
College athletes meet the definition of employee under labor law, they are highly skilled in their sport, paid scholarships and stipends to perform athletic services, and they perform their work under extensive control of their employer. These athletes deserve every right afforded to them under labor laws — just like other hard-working Americans. – Ramogi Huma	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Obviously it has to be reviewed. But if they can make an argument this is going to improve the consumer experience, it ought to be considered, not every merger by definition is anticompetitive. – Ro Khanna	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It’s kind of a folk song now, if there's any definition of what a real folk song is, in the world of music back a hundred years ago or so — even hundreds of years ago in rural areas — there were no tape recorders or TV or radio, or even people who were literate enough to write things down. – Don McLean	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Because the surface of Mimas is heavily cratered, we thought it was just a frozen block of ice, iWOWs, such as Enceladus and Europa, tend to be fractured and show other signs of geologic activity. Turns out, Mimas' surface was tricking us, and our new understanding has greatly expanded the definition of a potentially habitable world in our solar system and beyond. – Alyssa Rhoden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is a federal hate crime. As negotiators began to engage with Akram, he repeatedly demanded the United States release a convicted al-Qaida terrorist in exchange for the safe return of the hostages. In doing so, his actions clearly met the definition of terrorism. – Charge Matt DeSarno	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Anyone who has fought for our country on the battlefield has proven that they will sacrifice and put America's interests over their own personal interests, it's the very definition of America First. – Sean Parnell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Imagine you’re a clerk in a bodega and are the victim of a knife point robbery, not only could the guy not go to jail, he could get charged with a misdemeanor, that is the definition of insanity. – Daniel Bibb	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There are a lot of dumb people in Congress. You're not one of them, i think you're smarter than I am, and you never use words carelessly. And yet you called this a terror attack when by no definition was it a terror attack. That's a lie. You told that lie on purpose, and I'm wondering why you did. – Scott Applewhite -RRB- Carlson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If you can’t find a cause of death, I submit you don’t have a homicide by definition. – Gerald Krovatin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let’s think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow — that’s vulnerability. – Brene Brown	added by Soulwriter 2 years ago
The definition of cases is changing, with a highly transmissible variant. There are many, many, many cases, for example, here in New York City, it feels to me like, in some media circles, this was the week where getting COVID became an inevitability. That there is this acceptance that everybody is going to get it eventually, tens of millions of Americans already have, and everybody else is going to at some point. – Brian Stelter	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He is the very definition of partisanship and a failed leader, so, while it’s disappointing that he says he will not follow the law, it’s not surprising. – Adam Jarchow	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The' messenger RNA vaccine' was new to me, I had never heard of it, and unless you were a research scientist, you probably haven't, therefore, Oxford English Dictionary didn't even cover a definition. – Peter Sokolowski	Found on CNN 2 years ago
By definition, fear is a negative emotion, when we're scared of something, we are experiencing our well-being under threat, and people do not enjoy that. What they are enjoying are things associated with that experience that typically happen after the scare is over. – Glenn Sparks	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I’ve struggled to find a word that could hold in its meaning both the attack and my experience of it. The closest I found is this: ‘severe or excruciating pain or suffering (of body or mind); anguish, agony, torment; the infliction of such.’ This is a definition of torture, for four hours I experienced literal torture of body and of mind, not knowing if I would survive the next minute—yet needing to find some way to save my life. – Lauret Savoy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As far as this being a cold case... it's a department by department definition, but across the board, typically people will accept three to five years with absolutely no new leads, no new evidence, no new nothing( until it goes cold), and that is so far from where we are, that's not the case here at all. – Sheryl McCollum	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Trooper May’s heroism exemplified the definition of a silent guardian. His dedication and service will never be forgotten, our hearts go out to this grieving family and recognize the unique sacrifice to the State of Nevada. – George Togliatti	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We don't even have a great definition for it in adults, and about Lurie Children we don't even know what the definition should be of what we're looking for. – Bill Kapogiannis	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It’s becoming increasingly difficult for the Fed to be able to reconcile its stance that inflation is transitory. At some point the definition of transitory is called into question. – Joel Kruger	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Jeffs Bagel Run bagels taste like the definition of what a bagel meant to me growing up.” – Loren Weisman	added by anonymous 2 years ago

I think he will meet the legal definition of that as well.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There isn't one single 'biological' answer to the definition of a woman. There's not even a singular biological answer to the question of 'what is a female,'.

– Rebecca Jordan-Young

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The violence and lawlessness at the border caused by transnational cartels and gangs satisfies the definition of an ‘invasion’ under the U.S. Constitution, and Arizona therefore has the power to defend itself from this invasion under the governor’s authority as commander in chief, an actual invasion permits the state to engage in defensive actions within its own territory at or near its border.

– Mark Brnovich

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The people you're drafting into the fight against inflation when you raise interest rates and slow the economy are the most vulnerable, the purpose of raising interest rates is to take the air out of the sails of the economy. If it works, you are by definition are going to have fewer jobs. Even small increases in interest rates, if they have the desired effect, will cause job losses and wage losses.

– Robert Reich

Found on CNN
2 years ago

College athletes meet the definition of employee under labor law, they are highly skilled in their sport, paid scholarships and stipends to perform athletic services, and they perform their work under extensive control of their employer. These athletes deserve every right afforded to them under labor laws — just like other hard-working Americans.

– Ramogi Huma

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Obviously it has to be reviewed. But if they can make an argument this is going to improve the consumer experience, it ought to be considered, not every merger by definition is anticompetitive.

– Ro Khanna

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s kind of a folk song now, if there's any definition of what a real folk song is, in the world of music back a hundred years ago or so — even hundreds of years ago in rural areas — there were no tape recorders or TV or radio, or even people who were literate enough to write things down.

– Don McLean

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Because the surface of Mimas is heavily cratered, we thought it was just a frozen block of ice, iWOWs, such as Enceladus and Europa, tend to be fractured and show other signs of geologic activity. Turns out, Mimas' surface was tricking us, and our new understanding has greatly expanded the definition of a potentially habitable world in our solar system and beyond.

– Alyssa Rhoden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is a federal hate crime. As negotiators began to engage with Akram, he repeatedly demanded the United States release a convicted al-Qaida terrorist in exchange for the safe return of the hostages. In doing so, his actions clearly met the definition of terrorism.

– Charge Matt DeSarno

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Anyone who has fought for our country on the battlefield has proven that they will sacrifice and put America's interests over their own personal interests, it's the very definition of America First.

– Sean Parnell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Imagine you’re a clerk in a bodega and are the victim of a knife point robbery, not only could the guy not go to jail, he could get charged with a misdemeanor, that is the definition of insanity.

– Daniel Bibb

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There are a lot of dumb people in Congress. You're not one of them, i think you're smarter than I am, and you never use words carelessly. And yet you called this a terror attack when by no definition was it a terror attack. That's a lie. You told that lie on purpose, and I'm wondering why you did.

– Scott Applewhite -RRB- Carlson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If you can’t find a cause of death, I submit you don’t have a homicide by definition.

– Gerald Krovatin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let’s think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow — that’s vulnerability.

– Brene Brown

added by Soulwriter
2 years ago

The definition of cases is changing, with a highly transmissible variant. There are many, many, many cases, for example, here in New York City, it feels to me like, in some media circles, this was the week where getting COVID became an inevitability. That there is this acceptance that everybody is going to get it eventually, tens of millions of Americans already have, and everybody else is going to at some point.

– Brian Stelter

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He is the very definition of partisanship and a failed leader, so, while it’s disappointing that he says he will not follow the law, it’s not surprising.

– Adam Jarchow

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The' messenger RNA vaccine' was new to me, I had never heard of it, and unless you were a research scientist, you probably haven't, therefore, Oxford English Dictionary didn't even cover a definition.

– Peter Sokolowski

Found on CNN
2 years ago

By definition, fear is a negative emotion, when we're scared of something, we are experiencing our well-being under threat, and people do not enjoy that. What they are enjoying are things associated with that experience that typically happen after the scare is over.

– Glenn Sparks

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’ve struggled to find a word that could hold in its meaning both the attack and my experience of it. The closest I found is this: ‘severe or excruciating pain or suffering (of body or mind); anguish, agony, torment; the infliction of such.’ This is a definition of torture, for four hours I experienced literal torture of body and of mind, not knowing if I would survive the next minute—yet needing to find some way to save my life.

– Lauret Savoy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As far as this being a cold case... it's a department by department definition, but across the board, typically people will accept three to five years with absolutely no new leads, no new evidence, no new nothing( until it goes cold), and that is so far from where we are, that's not the case here at all.

– Sheryl McCollum

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Trooper May’s heroism exemplified the definition of a silent guardian. His dedication and service will never be forgotten, our hearts go out to this grieving family and recognize the unique sacrifice to the State of Nevada.

– George Togliatti

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We don't even have a great definition for it in adults, and about Lurie Children we don't even know what the definition should be of what we're looking for.

– Bill Kapogiannis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s becoming increasingly difficult for the Fed to be able to reconcile its stance that inflation is transitory. At some point the definition of transitory is called into question.

– Joel Kruger

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Jeffs Bagel Run bagels taste like the definition of what a bagel meant to me growing up.”

– Loren Weisman

added by anonymous
2 years ago

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