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Mötley Crüe always performs its songs live but during the last tour Mick struggled to remember chords, played the wrong songs and made constant mistakes which led to his departure from the band.

Sasha Frid

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The government, on average, makes millions of payments each day, and our systems are built to pay all of our bills on time and not to pick and choose which bills to pay, it would be an exceptionally risky, untested and radical departure from normal payment practices of agencies across the federal government.

Janet Yellen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Earth is round – discovery made by Galileo. Astronomy was not studied in Kremlin, giving preference to court astrologers. If it was, they would know: If something is launched into other countries’ airspace, sooner or later unknown flying objects will return to departure point.

Matthias Somm/CNN The enemy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have experienced such love, compassion, empathy and kindness in the job. That has been my predominant experience. So I leave feeling gratitude for having this wonderful role for so many years, i would hate for anyone to view my departure as a negative commentary on New Zealand.

Jacinda Ardern

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The support for Ukraine is shared across the British political spectrum -- left and right, political classes and the military-administrative classes... Boris Johnsons departure will have no impact, other than that Boris Johnsons successor will not be as charismatic.

Glyn Morgan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They cannot escape the goldfish bowl they grew up in, and only they can truly understand what’s it really like to be raised that way, that’s why all the cousins – not just Eugenie and Harry – have been very close. There may have been troubles within the family over the years, but they’ve managed to overcome them. And Eugenie has, in many ways, tried to keep those lines of communication open for the family. No one has visited Harry since his departure. And I think that was a very public message of her support.

Royalty TV co-founder Nick Bullen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

[He] sought departure from nation-building, [but] he was a hawk on American interests and use of military to achieve political goals, when Trump iced Iran's top general while he was driving around in Iraq, he sent a message to every other world leader that America, under Trump, was not to be messed with.

Mark Hemingway

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Although with Lidia Gonzalez departure a wealth of especially valuable empirical knowledge is lost in linguistic terms, the possibility of rescuing and systematizing the language remain open.

Lidia Gonzalez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

On January 23, 2022, the Department of State authorized the voluntary departure of U.S. direct hire employees and ordered the departure of eligible family members from Embassy Kyiv due to the continued threat of Russian military action. U.S. citizens in Ukraine should consider departing now using commercial or other privately available transportation options.

The State Department

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection against old, as well as new, devices and practices which might thwart those purposes. I fear to see the consequences of the Court's practice of substituting its own concepts of decency and fundamental justice for the language of the Bill of Rights as its point of departure in interpreting and enforcing that Bill of Rights.

Justice Hugo L. Black

added by Normando
2 years ago

Amy had always intended to join the Biden Administration for a short time with an expected departure in the mid-summer.

White House

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I love the idea of screening people who get on a plane to come to the U.S., but we should be able to incorporate that into our travel system here in the United States to prevent folks who are infected from going from, let’s say, parts of this country that have high viral threat to places maybe where there’s lower viral threat, one way to contain the virus is to test people the day of departure. And we have rapid tests that can do this. We just need the systems and the will to do it.

Jonathan Reiner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

After several in depth conversations with Damon, I have decided that the best thing for Maryland Basketball, myself and my family is to step down, effective immediately, as the head coach of Maryland Basketball, i have always preached that Maryland Basketball is bigger than any one individual. My departure will enable a new voice to guide the team moving forward.

Mark Turgeon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's a departure from my real life, because in real life I'm a good guy, i'm all good in real life, so it's kind of nice to have fun and play a bit of a tyrant at times.

Larenz Tate

Found on CNN
2 years ago

With the U.S. embrace of great power competition, it’s ironic that the U.S. will be ceding the field in Afghanistan to the Chinese who will inevitably flow into the Afghan vacuum left by the U.S. departure. No one should have missed the explicit message sent by the Chinese in the recent warm and celebratory welcome of Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Beijing. That welcome appeared in stark contrast to the cold and confrontational reception of the American envoy, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman.

Marine Gen. John Allen

added by MoWali
2 years ago

Mr. Spears was forced to concede in his August 12,2021 ‘First Response’ to Britney Spears’s Petition to remove him that he must depart -- and his departure is now inexorable.

Mathew Rosengart

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Mr. Spears was forced to concede in his August 12,2021 ‘ First Response ’ to Britney Spears’s Petition to remove him that he must depart – and his departure is now inexorable, as we wrote in our new filing with the Court, however, the quid pro quopreconditions that Mr. Spears’s sought in his August 12, 2021 court filing are inappropriate and unacceptable.

Mathew Rosengart

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Last week, we completed the departure from Kabul of nearly 250 students, faculty, staff, and family members, everyone is en route, by way of Qatar, to the nation of Rwanda where we intend to begin a semester abroad for our entire student body.

Shabana Basij-Rasikh

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What path from what past, what journeys towards what future when departure and destination of every moment is in the direction of dance

Shah Asad Rizvi

added by shahasadrizvi
2 years ago

The departure of the last U.S. troops from there will likely serve as the final turn of the page for many of these folks with respect to their time in that country.

Jonathan Schroden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Bagram formed a foundation for the wartime experience of a large fraction of U.S. military members and contractors who served in Afghanistan, the departure of the last U.S. troops from there will likely serve as the final turn of the page for many of these folks with respect to their time in that country.

Jonathan Schroden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As far as the relationship part [in the film], that is a complete departure [for me], i mean,I don't like to fight. I don't really like to yell. It was a great challenge to have to go to places I havereally never been in. And that's what I love about what we do [as actors].

Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Leaving Bennu's vicinity in May puts us in the' sweet spot,' when the departure maneuver will consume the least amount of the spacecraft's onboard fuel.

Michael Moreau

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The U.S. departure from the nuclear deal under President Trump was a painful but needed course correction. In the short term, Iran has increased its uranium production but faces substantial economic pain that the next administration could draw on to reach a stronger deal, washington should not rejoin the nuclear deal but seek a stronger and more lasting agreement that forecloses Irans fissile material pathways to a bomb and requires it to fully disclose and end its ongoing nuclear weapons activities.

Andrea Stricker

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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