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We must win the fight against opioid abuse in order to save our country. But in order to be effective, we must be willing to prosecute all facets of the expansive network that feeds these destructive drugs into our communities. Players both big and small must meet equal justice under the law. – Joseph Brown	Found on CNN 3 years ago
President Trump's xenophobic wall is already leveling protected lands, desecrating cultural sites, and destroying wildlife, there's no undoing the damage that's been done, but we will be back before The Supreme Court to finally put a stop to this destructive wall. – Dror Ladin	Found on CNN 3 years ago
But if you look at the data, now that papers have come out literally two days ago, the fact that we shut down when we did and the rest of the world did, has saved hundreds of millions of infections and millions of lives, and yet, there are those who say,' You shut down, you did destructive things by disrupting the economy.' And others say,' Well, if you save so many infections by shutting down, why didn't you shut down two weeks earlier ? You could have saved many more lives.'. – Anthony Fauci	Found on CNN 3 years ago
My parents' generation for forty years fought to eliminate communist ideology from schools, so it couldn't be forced on children. So youth, children, soldiers and youth organizations couldn't be indoctrinated, they didn't fight for this so that a new ideology would appear that is even more destructive. – Andrzej Duda	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The transcripts also reveal why Michael Flynn was properly the subject of a counterintelligence investigation and how the DOJ's effort to dismiss the case against Michael Flynn is so transparently political and destructive to the interests of justice, as a result of lying to both the FBI and the Vice President, Michael Flynn posed a severe counterintelligence risk because the Russians knew the real contents of Flynn's communications and that Michael Flynn lied about them to the some of the most senior officials in the U.S. government. – Adam Schiff	Found on CNN 3 years ago
That's incredibly destructive. Those extreme temperatures can kill the coral very quickly, we really are on uncharted territory here in terms of rising temperatures. – Terry Hughes	Found on CNN 4 years ago
These destructive acts have posed a grave threat to the safety of people at scene, police warn all rioters to stop the unlawful acts. – Hong Kong police	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's about helping our brothers from China who are suffering from this scary misfortune, this destructive plague, we perform this prayer and ask God for mercy toward China and its people. – Father Igor	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
What he did was not 'perfect,' no, it was a flagrant assault on our electoral rights, our national security and our fundamental values. Corrupting an election to keep one's self in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one's oath of office that I can imagine. – Republican Senator Mitt Romney	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The grave question the Constitution tasks senators to answer is whether the President committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to the level of a high crime and misdemeanor. Yes, he did, corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one's oath of office that I can imagine. – Senate Republican	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Today's destructive actions by Trump, if not blocked by the courts or immediately reversed by the next president, will have reverberations for decades to come. – Rebecca Concepcion Apostol	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's easy to assume infectious diseases in the past would have catastrophic results. Yet, we used every type of data set we could get our hands on, without assuming a disease outbreak must result in catastrophic results, i.e. that tens of millions died. We found no evidence in any of these data sets to suggest such a destructive outcome, this paper was only possible by working with a diverse disciplinary team, and we hope our work will start a new collaborative discussion of the impact of past disease outbreaks. – Lee Mordechai	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're in a growth industry, when you have one player that isn't playing its part, it's extremely destructive. – Christian Scherer	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We're going to legalize marijuana and end the horrifically destructive war on drugs, it has disproportionately targeted people of color and ruined the lives of millions of Americans. – Bernie Sanders	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The insidious destructive force of the path of least resistance is everywhere you look, heck, I feel the tug of it President Trump , Hayespivoted as my own news organization is embroiled in a very public controversy over its conduct. EX-NBC NEWS ANCHOR MATT LAUER REPORTEDLY EXPOSED HIMSELF TO TODAY PRODUCER The. – President Trump , Hayespivoted	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We... shine very intense light through (the scroll) and then detect on the other side a number of two-dimensional images. From that we reconstruct a three-dimensional volume of the object... to actually read the text in a non-destructive manner. – Laurent Chapon	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The idea is essentially like a CT scanner where you would take an image of a person, a three-dimensional image of a person and you can slice through it to see the different organs, we... shine very intense light through (the scroll) and then detect on the other side a number of two-dimensional images. From that we reconstruct a three-dimensional volume of the object... to actually read the text in a non-destructive manner. – Laurent Chapon	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Near the coast, the surge will be accompanied by large and destructive waves. – The NHC	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
President Trump is as destructive a person in this century, as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao were in the last century. – Sean Hannity	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
No one has paid a higher price for the far-left's destructive agenda than Americans living in our nation's inner cities. – Donald Trump	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
No one has paid a higher price for the far-left destructive agenda than Americans living in our nations inner cities, we send billions and billions and billions for years and years and its stolen money, and its wasted money. – Donald Trump	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this. – Albert Einstein	added by Normando 4 years ago
Asia is the unifying one, while the West is the destructive other. – Thorsten J. Pattberg	added by Woman of Tao 4 years ago
We have accepted the narrative about the possibility of AI overlords without challenge and as such, has risen the need for super-human capabilities that can rule over the future AI bad-actors that Musk and other posit, yet, I think this sells humanity short. Humans are capable of curbing the destructive potential of AI and humans are capable of employing AI for the benefit of the broader community. – Benn Lamm	Found on FOX News 4 years ago

We must win the fight against opioid abuse in order to save our country. But in order to be effective, we must be willing to prosecute all facets of the expansive network that feeds these destructive drugs into our communities. Players both big and small must meet equal justice under the law.

– Joseph Brown

Found on CNN
3 years ago

President Trump's xenophobic wall is already leveling protected lands, desecrating cultural sites, and destroying wildlife, there's no undoing the damage that's been done, but we will be back before The Supreme Court to finally put a stop to this destructive wall.

– Dror Ladin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

But if you look at the data, now that papers have come out literally two days ago, the fact that we shut down when we did and the rest of the world did, has saved hundreds of millions of infections and millions of lives, and yet, there are those who say,' You shut down, you did destructive things by disrupting the economy.' And others say,' Well, if you save so many infections by shutting down, why didn't you shut down two weeks earlier ? You could have saved many more lives.'.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
3 years ago

My parents' generation for forty years fought to eliminate communist ideology from schools, so it couldn't be forced on children. So youth, children, soldiers and youth organizations couldn't be indoctrinated, they didn't fight for this so that a new ideology would appear that is even more destructive.

– Andrzej Duda

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The transcripts also reveal why Michael Flynn was properly the subject of a counterintelligence investigation and how the DOJ's effort to dismiss the case against Michael Flynn is so transparently political and destructive to the interests of justice, as a result of lying to both the FBI and the Vice President, Michael Flynn posed a severe counterintelligence risk because the Russians knew the real contents of Flynn's communications and that Michael Flynn lied about them to the some of the most senior officials in the U.S. government.

– Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
3 years ago

That's incredibly destructive. Those extreme temperatures can kill the coral very quickly, we really are on uncharted territory here in terms of rising temperatures.

– Terry Hughes

Found on CNN
4 years ago

These destructive acts have posed a grave threat to the safety of people at scene, police warn all rioters to stop the unlawful acts.

– Hong Kong police

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's about helping our brothers from China who are suffering from this scary misfortune, this destructive plague, we perform this prayer and ask God for mercy toward China and its people.

– Father Igor

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

What he did was not 'perfect,' no, it was a flagrant assault on our electoral rights, our national security and our fundamental values. Corrupting an election to keep one's self in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one's oath of office that I can imagine.

– Republican Senator Mitt Romney

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The grave question the Constitution tasks senators to answer is whether the President committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to the level of a high crime and misdemeanor. Yes, he did, corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one's oath of office that I can imagine.

– Senate Republican

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Today's destructive actions by Trump, if not blocked by the courts or immediately reversed by the next president, will have reverberations for decades to come.

– Rebecca Concepcion Apostol

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's easy to assume infectious diseases in the past would have catastrophic results. Yet, we used every type of data set we could get our hands on, without assuming a disease outbreak must result in catastrophic results, i.e. that tens of millions died. We found no evidence in any of these data sets to suggest such a destructive outcome, this paper was only possible by working with a diverse disciplinary team, and we hope our work will start a new collaborative discussion of the impact of past disease outbreaks.

– Lee Mordechai

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We're in a growth industry, when you have one player that isn't playing its part, it's extremely destructive.

– Christian Scherer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We're going to legalize marijuana and end the horrifically destructive war on drugs, it has disproportionately targeted people of color and ruined the lives of millions of Americans.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The insidious destructive force of the path of least resistance is everywhere you look, heck, I feel the tug of it President Trump , Hayespivoted as my own news organization is embroiled in a very public controversy over its conduct. EX-NBC NEWS ANCHOR MATT LAUER REPORTEDLY EXPOSED HIMSELF TO TODAY PRODUCER The.

– President Trump , Hayespivoted

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We... shine very intense light through (the scroll) and then detect on the other side a number of two-dimensional images. From that we reconstruct a three-dimensional volume of the object... to actually read the text in a non-destructive manner.

– Laurent Chapon

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The idea is essentially like a CT scanner where you would take an image of a person, a three-dimensional image of a person and you can slice through it to see the different organs, we... shine very intense light through (the scroll) and then detect on the other side a number of two-dimensional images. From that we reconstruct a three-dimensional volume of the object... to actually read the text in a non-destructive manner.

– Laurent Chapon

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Near the coast, the surge will be accompanied by large and destructive waves.

– The NHC

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

President Trump is as destructive a person in this century, as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao were in the last century.

– Sean Hannity

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

No one has paid a higher price for the far-left's destructive agenda than Americans living in our nation's inner cities.

– Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

No one has paid a higher price for the far-left destructive agenda than Americans living in our nations inner cities, we send billions and billions and billions for years and years and its stolen money, and its wasted money.

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.

– Albert Einstein

added by Normando
4 years ago

Asia is the unifying one, while the West is the destructive other.

– Thorsten J. Pattberg

added by Woman of Tao
4 years ago

We have accepted the narrative about the possibility of AI overlords without challenge and as such, has risen the need for super-human capabilities that can rule over the future AI bad-actors that Musk and other posit, yet, I think this sells humanity short. Humans are capable of curbing the destructive potential of AI and humans are capable of employing AI for the benefit of the broader community.

– Benn Lamm

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

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