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Worry is oft an act of fiction created by the mind. Best let facts dictate – Andreas Simic	added by 2ksrenos 1 month ago
However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.' Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of 'conservatism.' – Barry Goldwater	added by Normando 3 months ago
I was not going to let him dictate how I was going to spend the rest of my life, once he left this earth, that was it. Everything that he did, hey – you take that with you. Because I’m not going to keep going back and forth with it. I’m gonna stay right here, and I’m gonna always celebrate my sister. – Tracey Lomax	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Rules, structure and process dictate outcomes in this place, in a substantial way. – Patrick McHenry	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The main things we’re talking about are a conservative agenda around spending and the nature of our Republican majority. That’s really the crux of the conversation. And that’s really the contours of it. rules, structure and process dictate outcomes in this place, in a substantial way. – Patrick McHenry	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I will exercise independent judgment and will move the investigations forward expeditiously and thoroughly to whatever outcome the facts and the law dictate. – Jack Smith	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It's always been a problem because the west side has many more voters, they have the numbers to dictate what happens statewide. – Greater Idaho -RRB- McCaw	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
A lot of pilots retired. It's not easy to replace them, it's a long process, it's still going to be a year or so to have the airlines have a full schedule that this level of demand will dictate. – Jim Corridore	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I applaud everyone who's able to pay off their student loans, but one person's circumstances should not dictate the response for providing relief. – Angel Enriquez	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I get aggravated when people say,' You shouldn't have signed up for these loans.' We have no choice. We either stay in the same class, in the same low-paying job or gather all this debt so we can at least be able to have more flexibility in our lives, i applaud everyone who's able to pay off their student loans, but one person's circumstances should not dictate the response for providing relief. – Angel Enriquez	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The understanding table of enlightenment and the ideas of which solidifies the two sides of left and right to dictate what’s true and what’s false! To understand the meaning of understanding takes a lot more listening than speaking!! – Napz	added by UnkNapz 1 year ago
I find Judge Jackson to be a person of exceptionally good character, respected by her peers, and someone who has worked hard to achieve her current position, however, her record is overwhelming in its lack of a steady judicial philosophy and a tendency to achieve outcomes in spite of what the law requires or common sense would dictate. – Lindsey Graham	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What's at stake is not simply, as important as it is, Ukraine's territorial integrity, sovereignty, independence but very basic principles that have, in a hard-fought way after two World Wars and a Cold War, undergirded security, peace and prosperity for countries around the world -- principles like one country can't simply change the borders of another by force ; principles like one country can't simply dictate to another its choices, its policies, with who it will associate ; principles like one country can't exert a sphere of influence to subjugate its neighbors to its will, if we allow those principles to be challenged with impunity, even if it's half a world away in Europe, that will have an impact here as well. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If you look at states like Arizona, Texas, Florida, Tennessee, the policies that are making us attractive are the same policies available to other states. But we don't need Washington, D.C., to dictate those policies. Let the governors have that competition. – Doug Ducey	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
At his best, Christian has the ability to dictate games of football, he can find the right passes and is a goal threat. He also has very, very good set piece delivery, both from corners and direct free kicks. – Thomas Frank	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think it's hard to have a CEO dictate our policy and companies who stand and make money for it. – Monica Gandhi	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
A lot of my clients engage in a Dry-January as a mental and emotional detox and ritual in self-control, depending on whom the person is, what their history contains and their intentions around drinking for the rest of the year dictate its impact one's overall health. – Daryl Appleton	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It appears to depend not on the gravity of your medical condition or the type of extraordinary and compelling circumstances that will dictate whether you're released. – Alison Guernsey	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think what people need to understand is that Ukraine is important, and we are resolute in our commitment to its sovereignty, its territorial integrity, but there is something even bigger at stake here, and it's the basic rules of the road of the international system, rules that say that one country can't change the borders of another by force, one country can't dictate to another country its choices, its decisions, and its foreign policy, with whom it will associate. – Antony Blinken	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We need to end the circular firing squad and get to work. Our biggest obstacle to success is members of our own Democratic Party, we have one or two senators holding up big ticket items that we need to pass. We have a handful of the far left in the House who have never done anything acting like they dictate the agenda and the timeline for bills passing. – Colin Strother	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Joe Manchin's opposition to the Build Back Better Act is anti-Black, anti-child, anti-woman, and anti-immigrant, west Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin does not get to dictate the future of our country. – Cori Bush	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have always sought to provide a wide variety of content and programming that would be of interest to customers, and do not dictate or control programming on channels we carry, any suggestion otherwise is wrong. – Jim Greer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Overall, La Nina typically means less precipitation for the Sierra, Great Basin region, and the Mojave Desert, which is bad for the current drought status and the potential for another active fire season next year, however, the magnitude of the La Nina event will dictate the magnitude of impacts on the winter weather pattern. Considering the current state of ENSO is neutral, La Nina may be weak through at least the early part of the winter season. – Chelsea Peters	Found on CNN 2 years ago
August 31 was a stupid, arbitrary political deadline. The Taliban need to know that they don't dictate the timetable on American lives, we need the President to make absolutely clear that we will finish the mission. – Ben Sasse	Found on CNN 2 years ago

Worry is oft an act of fiction created by the mind. Best let facts dictate

– Andreas Simic

added by 2ksrenos
1 month ago

However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.' Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of 'conservatism.'

– Barry Goldwater

added by Normando
3 months ago

I was not going to let him dictate how I was going to spend the rest of my life, once he left this earth, that was it. Everything that he did, hey – you take that with you. Because I’m not going to keep going back and forth with it. I’m gonna stay right here, and I’m gonna always celebrate my sister.

– Tracey Lomax

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Rules, structure and process dictate outcomes in this place, in a substantial way.

– Patrick McHenry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The main things we’re talking about are a conservative agenda around spending and the nature of our Republican majority. That’s really the crux of the conversation. And that’s really the contours of it. rules, structure and process dictate outcomes in this place, in a substantial way.

– Patrick McHenry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I will exercise independent judgment and will move the investigations forward expeditiously and thoroughly to whatever outcome the facts and the law dictate.

– Jack Smith

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's always been a problem because the west side has many more voters, they have the numbers to dictate what happens statewide.

– Greater Idaho -RRB- McCaw

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

A lot of pilots retired. It's not easy to replace them, it's a long process, it's still going to be a year or so to have the airlines have a full schedule that this level of demand will dictate.

– Jim Corridore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I applaud everyone who's able to pay off their student loans, but one person's circumstances should not dictate the response for providing relief.

– Angel Enriquez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I get aggravated when people say,' You shouldn't have signed up for these loans.' We have no choice. We either stay in the same class, in the same low-paying job or gather all this debt so we can at least be able to have more flexibility in our lives, i applaud everyone who's able to pay off their student loans, but one person's circumstances should not dictate the response for providing relief.

– Angel Enriquez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The understanding table of enlightenment and the ideas of which solidifies the two sides of left and right to dictate what’s true and what’s false! To understand the meaning of understanding takes a lot more listening than speaking!!

– Napz

added by UnkNapz
1 year ago

I find Judge Jackson to be a person of exceptionally good character, respected by her peers, and someone who has worked hard to achieve her current position, however, her record is overwhelming in its lack of a steady judicial philosophy and a tendency to achieve outcomes in spite of what the law requires or common sense would dictate.

– Lindsey Graham

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What's at stake is not simply, as important as it is, Ukraine's territorial integrity, sovereignty, independence but very basic principles that have, in a hard-fought way after two World Wars and a Cold War, undergirded security, peace and prosperity for countries around the world -- principles like one country can't simply change the borders of another by force ; principles like one country can't simply dictate to another its choices, its policies, with who it will associate ; principles like one country can't exert a sphere of influence to subjugate its neighbors to its will, if we allow those principles to be challenged with impunity, even if it's half a world away in Europe, that will have an impact here as well.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you look at states like Arizona, Texas, Florida, Tennessee, the policies that are making us attractive are the same policies available to other states. But we don't need Washington, D.C., to dictate those policies. Let the governors have that competition.

– Doug Ducey

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At his best, Christian has the ability to dictate games of football, he can find the right passes and is a goal threat. He also has very, very good set piece delivery, both from corners and direct free kicks.

– Thomas Frank

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think it's hard to have a CEO dictate our policy and companies who stand and make money for it.

– Monica Gandhi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A lot of my clients engage in a Dry-January as a mental and emotional detox and ritual in self-control, depending on whom the person is, what their history contains and their intentions around drinking for the rest of the year dictate its impact one's overall health.

– Daryl Appleton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It appears to depend not on the gravity of your medical condition or the type of extraordinary and compelling circumstances that will dictate whether you're released.

– Alison Guernsey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think what people need to understand is that Ukraine is important, and we are resolute in our commitment to its sovereignty, its territorial integrity, but there is something even bigger at stake here, and it's the basic rules of the road of the international system, rules that say that one country can't change the borders of another by force, one country can't dictate to another country its choices, its decisions, and its foreign policy, with whom it will associate.

– Antony Blinken

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We need to end the circular firing squad and get to work. Our biggest obstacle to success is members of our own Democratic Party, we have one or two senators holding up big ticket items that we need to pass. We have a handful of the far left in the House who have never done anything acting like they dictate the agenda and the timeline for bills passing.

– Colin Strother

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Joe Manchin's opposition to the Build Back Better Act is anti-Black, anti-child, anti-woman, and anti-immigrant, west Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin does not get to dictate the future of our country.

– Cori Bush

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have always sought to provide a wide variety of content and programming that would be of interest to customers, and do not dictate or control programming on channels we carry, any suggestion otherwise is wrong.

– Jim Greer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Overall, La Nina typically means less precipitation for the Sierra, Great Basin region, and the Mojave Desert, which is bad for the current drought status and the potential for another active fire season next year, however, the magnitude of the La Nina event will dictate the magnitude of impacts on the winter weather pattern. Considering the current state of ENSO is neutral, La Nina may be weak through at least the early part of the winter season.

– Chelsea Peters

Found on CNN
2 years ago

August 31 was a stupid, arbitrary political deadline. The Taliban need to know that they don't dictate the timetable on American lives, we need the President to make absolutely clear that we will finish the mission.

– Ben Sasse

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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steering mechanism for a vessel; a mechanical device by which a vessel is steered

A encumbrance

B hypernym

C helm

D peccadillo