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The American notion of freedom transcended the political realm and in fact extended to every major category of human relationships, including those between employer and employee, clergyman and layman, husband and wife, parent and child, public official and citizen. Americans believed that, as of July 4, 1776, all men were created equal, and that any impairment of a man’s equality was destructive of his liberty also. – David M. Potter	added by Normando 3 months ago
The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable. Higher taxes left individuals with less money to give; government’s assumption of responsibility for providing welfare shriveled the perceived duty of individuals to respond to their neighbors’ needs; and the availability of public programs gave recipients an alternative to private assistance, one which did not challenge recipients to reform their destructive behavior. – Doug Bandow	added by Normando 11 months ago
Our planet is already reeling from severe climate impacts, from scorching heat waves and destructive storms to severe droughts and water shortages. – Ani Dasgupta	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s as though they looked at the finished warhead and said, ‘How can we make this even more destructive?’. – Damien Spleeters	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We can’t say we’re going to get a lot of fires this year, because we simply don’t know, what we can point to is we can see that the conditions for large destructive fires are going to be there and we have to be prepared when that happens, because we don’t know when or where the fire is going to be. – Issac Sanchez	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What does a bully, a bullet, and a tornado have in common? Their all destructive, they can all kill you. – Ryan Pack	added by littleking 1 year ago
We've seen the consequences when international infrastructure deals are corrupt and coercive, when they're poorly built or environmentally destructive, when they import or abuse workers, or burden countries with crushing debts. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Russian media widely commented on the Supreme Court’s decision regarding Roe v. Wade, zeroing in on President Biden’s criticism of the decision and on the protests sweeping across America after the Supreme Court’s ruling, russian Gazette [Rossiyskaya Gazeta], the Kremlin’s official newspaper, emphasized that President Joe Biden disagreed with the decision, translating his quote characterizing the decision as painful and destructive for many Americans. – Rebekah Koffler	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Storm surge could produce coastal flooding near and to the east of where the center passes the coast in areas of onshore winds, the surge may be accompanied by large and destructive waves. – Hurricane Center	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I'm reluctant to sacrifice the material in order to do that much archaeological work, in particular, radiocarbon dating is destructive by nature... Once you have burned the sample to run radiocarbon dating, it's gone. – Frederic Gleach	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Being a coward consisting in abandoning his wife and children, for a woman of destructive adventure. – Merlin Figama Worshipper	added by legerfig 1 year ago
They are incredibly destructive animals to the native species in Hawaii. – Ryan Jenkinson	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I think that Ukrainians surprised Putin and surprised the world with our unity, we think that the Putin attacked not only Ukraine, Putin attacked the whole West; our principles, our values and the necessity that the answer of the collective West should be destructive for Putin. – Petro Poroshenko	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You notice things like being more irritable, more destructive, less motivated, less hopeful. – Amy Arnsten	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I was assured by Jimmy( Haslam) that things would change, and they would get things straight, i told Jimmy that what he was doing was very destructive, to not do this because it's going to hurt my career and every other coach that worked with me and every player on the team. And I told him that it would hurt every Black coach that would follow me. And I have the documents to prove this. – Hue Jackson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
From the beginning, we have followed the process set forth in the law to reach a just resolution of this case. We are disappointed in the Governor's decision to act prematurely. I joined the surviving victims and families of those who lost their loved ones in their wish to have the trial judge determine an appropriate sentence in this case, as he heard the facts and evidence of the defendant's destructive conduct that led to death, injury, and devastating destruction. – Alexis King	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
B-type stars are generally considered quite destructive and dangerous environments, so it was believed that it should be exceedingly difficult to form large planets around them. – Markus Janson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Biden’s slam of Chinese President Xi and Russian President Putin for not showing up at COP26 is a sad indication of Biden’s failure to grasp or accept real-world realities, china wants to be the lone global superpower by 2049. Russia wants to get Europe hooked on its natural gas. So neither country has any interest in hamstringing its own economy with destructive climate regulations. – Steve Milloy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Even if your home is safe and secure from a specific intensity of flooding, if flooding is becoming more common and destructive in your community, your property value may be threatened too. – Hamed Moftakhari	Found on CNN 2 years ago
First of all, we were there to preserve our and protect our own interests, our security interests. We know for a fact, right, we know from historical experience that terrorist organizations, when they control territory and populations and resources, that they become orders of magnitude more dangerous, right? We saw that with the mass murder attacks of 9/11. We saw it again when Vice President Biden thanked President Obama for ending the war in Iraq. Well, hey, wars don't end when one party disengages. And, of course, in Iraq, we saw al-Qaida in Iraq morph into ISIS, the most destructive terrorist organization in history. And then, of course, we had to go back. What I found also that I — was fundamentally, I think, wrong about the president's approach here is that he thinks that a lost war in Afghanistan isn't going to have consequences. We're already seeing the horrible humanitarian consequences, but there will be severe political consequences, in connection with our credibility with our allies and partners and other countries who will wonder how reliable we are. But, of course, it will have big security implications in connection with jihadist terrorists who will declare victory over the world's only superpower. – Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster	added by MoWali 2 years ago
As fall season begins, it is important to remember that some of the largest and most destructive wildfires occur during this time of year. Be prepared and do not let your guard down. – Cal Fire	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Their response was fantastic and I appreciate them. I'm glad to know they are safe, as many of you are aware, we are seeing larger and more destructive fires burn throughout California on a much more frequent basis. Historically, we've used the terms such as anomaly, unprecedented, or extreme to describe the wildfires that we have seen burn throughout the state over the last 20 years. These terms are no longer appropriate given the clear trends associated with drought, changing climate. – Brian Newman	Found on CNN 2 years ago
With strategic planning and oversight, the Portland Police Bureau and I mitigated confrontation between the two events and minimized the impact of the weekend’s events to Portlanders, in the past, these same groups have clashed with extremely violent and destructive results. This time, violence was contained to the groups of people who chose to engage in violence toward each other. The community at large was not harmed and the broader public was protected. Property damage was minimal. – Ted Wheeler	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The war in Afghanistan has entered a new, deadlier, and more destructive phase, the provincial capitals of Kandahar, Herat, and Lashkar Gahin particular havecome under significant pressure. This is a clear attempt by the Taliban to seize urban centers with the force of arms. – Deborah Lyons	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

The American notion of freedom transcended the political realm and in fact extended to every major category of human relationships, including those between employer and employee, clergyman and layman, husband and wife, parent and child, public official and citizen. Americans believed that, as of July 4, 1776, all men were created equal, and that any impairment of a man’s equality was destructive of his liberty also.

– David M. Potter

added by Normando
3 months ago

The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable. Higher taxes left individuals with less money to give; government’s assumption of responsibility for providing welfare shriveled the perceived duty of individuals to respond to their neighbors’ needs; and the availability of public programs gave recipients an alternative to private assistance, one which did not challenge recipients to reform their destructive behavior.

– Doug Bandow

added by Normando
11 months ago

Our planet is already reeling from severe climate impacts, from scorching heat waves and destructive storms to severe droughts and water shortages.

– Ani Dasgupta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s as though they looked at the finished warhead and said, ‘How can we make this even more destructive?’.

– Damien Spleeters

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We can’t say we’re going to get a lot of fires this year, because we simply don’t know, what we can point to is we can see that the conditions for large destructive fires are going to be there and we have to be prepared when that happens, because we don’t know when or where the fire is going to be.

– Issac Sanchez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What does a bully, a bullet, and a tornado have in common? Their all destructive, they can all kill you.

– Ryan Pack

added by littleking
1 year ago

We've seen the consequences when international infrastructure deals are corrupt and coercive, when they're poorly built or environmentally destructive, when they import or abuse workers, or burden countries with crushing debts.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Russian media widely commented on the Supreme Court’s decision regarding Roe v. Wade, zeroing in on President Biden’s criticism of the decision and on the protests sweeping across America after the Supreme Court’s ruling, russian Gazette [Rossiyskaya Gazeta], the Kremlin’s official newspaper, emphasized that President Joe Biden disagreed with the decision, translating his quote characterizing the decision as painful and destructive for many Americans.

– Rebekah Koffler

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Storm surge could produce coastal flooding near and to the east of where the center passes the coast in areas of onshore winds, the surge may be accompanied by large and destructive waves.

– Hurricane Center

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm reluctant to sacrifice the material in order to do that much archaeological work, in particular, radiocarbon dating is destructive by nature... Once you have burned the sample to run radiocarbon dating, it's gone.

– Frederic Gleach

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Being a coward consisting in abandoning his wife and children, for a woman of destructive adventure.

– Merlin Figama Worshipper

added by legerfig
1 year ago

They are incredibly destructive animals to the native species in Hawaii.

– Ryan Jenkinson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think that Ukrainians surprised Putin and surprised the world with our unity, we think that the Putin attacked not only Ukraine, Putin attacked the whole West; our principles, our values and the necessity that the answer of the collective West should be destructive for Putin.

– Petro Poroshenko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You notice things like being more irritable, more destructive, less motivated, less hopeful.

– Amy Arnsten

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I was assured by Jimmy( Haslam) that things would change, and they would get things straight, i told Jimmy that what he was doing was very destructive, to not do this because it's going to hurt my career and every other coach that worked with me and every player on the team. And I told him that it would hurt every Black coach that would follow me. And I have the documents to prove this.

– Hue Jackson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

From the beginning, we have followed the process set forth in the law to reach a just resolution of this case. We are disappointed in the Governor's decision to act prematurely. I joined the surviving victims and families of those who lost their loved ones in their wish to have the trial judge determine an appropriate sentence in this case, as he heard the facts and evidence of the defendant's destructive conduct that led to death, injury, and devastating destruction.

– Alexis King

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

B-type stars are generally considered quite destructive and dangerous environments, so it was believed that it should be exceedingly difficult to form large planets around them.

– Markus Janson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Biden’s slam of Chinese President Xi and Russian President Putin for not showing up at COP26 is a sad indication of Biden’s failure to grasp or accept real-world realities, china wants to be the lone global superpower by 2049. Russia wants to get Europe hooked on its natural gas. So neither country has any interest in hamstringing its own economy with destructive climate regulations.

– Steve Milloy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Even if your home is safe and secure from a specific intensity of flooding, if flooding is becoming more common and destructive in your community, your property value may be threatened too.

– Hamed Moftakhari

Found on CNN
2 years ago

First of all, we were there to preserve our and protect our own interests, our security interests. We know for a fact, right, we know from historical experience that terrorist organizations, when they control territory and populations and resources, that they become orders of magnitude more dangerous, right? We saw that with the mass murder attacks of 9/11. We saw it again when Vice President Biden thanked President Obama for ending the war in Iraq. Well, hey, wars don't end when one party disengages. And, of course, in Iraq, we saw al-Qaida in Iraq morph into ISIS, the most destructive terrorist organization in history. And then, of course, we had to go back. What I found also that I — was fundamentally, I think, wrong about the president's approach here is that he thinks that a lost war in Afghanistan isn't going to have consequences. We're already seeing the horrible humanitarian consequences, but there will be severe political consequences, in connection with our credibility with our allies and partners and other countries who will wonder how reliable we are. But, of course, it will have big security implications in connection with jihadist terrorists who will declare victory over the world's only superpower.

– Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster

added by MoWali
2 years ago

As fall season begins, it is important to remember that some of the largest and most destructive wildfires occur during this time of year. Be prepared and do not let your guard down.

– Cal Fire

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Their response was fantastic and I appreciate them. I'm glad to know they are safe, as many of you are aware, we are seeing larger and more destructive fires burn throughout California on a much more frequent basis. Historically, we've used the terms such as anomaly, unprecedented, or extreme to describe the wildfires that we have seen burn throughout the state over the last 20 years. These terms are no longer appropriate given the clear trends associated with drought, changing climate.

– Brian Newman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

With strategic planning and oversight, the Portland Police Bureau and I mitigated confrontation between the two events and minimized the impact of the weekend’s events to Portlanders, in the past, these same groups have clashed with extremely violent and destructive results. This time, violence was contained to the groups of people who chose to engage in violence toward each other. The community at large was not harmed and the broader public was protected. Property damage was minimal.

– Ted Wheeler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The war in Afghanistan has entered a new, deadlier, and more destructive phase, the provincial capitals of Kandahar, Herat, and Lashkar Gahin particular havecome under significant pressure. This is a clear attempt by the Taliban to seize urban centers with the force of arms.

– Deborah Lyons

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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