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The call was a part of the Biden Administration’s efforts to maintain and deepen lines of communication between the United States and the PRC and responsibly manage our differences and work together where our interests align, the call follows the two leaders ’ conversation on March 18th and a series of conversations between high-level U.S. and PRC officials. MILLEY DIRECTS A REVIEW OF United States, CHINESE MILITARY CONTACTS AMID WARNING BEIJING POSES NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT.

United States

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Global Posture Review directs additional cooperation with allies and partners across the region to advance initiatives that contribute to regional stability and deter potential military aggression from China and threats from North Korea.

Mara Karlin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

[He] directs very well, if he is not working and I’m doing a photo shoot somewhere that he can come we’ll do a few pictures together sometimes.

Mehdi Taamallah/Nurphoto -RRB- Ambrosio

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Those who call themselves 'liberals' today are asking for policies which are precisely the opposite of those policies which the liberals of the nineteenth century advocated in their liberal programs. The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial -- that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom. They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.

Ludwig Von Mises

added by Normando
4 years ago

The Protect Life Rule does not cut family planning funding by a single dime, and instead directs tax dollars to entities that provide healthcare to women but do not perform abortions, the Title X program was not intended to be a slush fund for abortion businesses.

Marjorie Dannenfelser

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Mr. Deripaska has been key to much of the malign activities Russia directs against the United States, and the Congress must protect the American people against foreign interference and corruption.

Steny Hoyer

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This directs blood flow toward these organs and away from less vital organs like hands and feet, Margarita Rohr said, which leaves these body parts chronically cold. Science bears this out : a University of Utah study found that though women had a slightly higher core body temperature than men, their hands came in at an average of 2.8 degrees cooler. You have diabetes Diabetes that's not kept in check can lead to a condition called peripheral nephropathy, a constant attack on the nerves that provide sensation to your hands and feet, Margarita Rohr said. When this develops, you experience numbness and sometimes pain in the hands and feet, and since these nerves are also responsible for sending message to the brain regarding temperature sensation, your hands and feet may feel cold.

Margarita Rohr

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.

Greg Anderson

added by anonymous
9 years ago

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Eugène Ionesco

added by anonymous
10 years ago

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

Auguste Rodin

added by anonymous
13 years ago

As the flectcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.

Johann von Goethe

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Sigmund Freud

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.

Earl Nightingale

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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