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We started to disperse and go to the South Side, the further South Side, the south suburbs, we started to lose that capacity, we became consumers as opposed to producers. – Bruce Montgomery	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This morning, a couple of hours ago, he sent me a couple of images of protests going on in the Kabul area. They were holding the Afghanistan flag – not the Taliban flag, he told me that the Taliban ended up shooting at them so they all were forced to disperse. – Mariam Farzayee	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This multiplicity of forces can breed dangerous confusion, such as when helicopters are used in a war-like tactic to frighten and disperse peaceful protesters. – Mayor Bowser	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It was disappointing that a relatively small group in Hyde Park came together to protest the regulations in clear breach of the guidance, putting themselves and others at risk of infection, officers once again, took a measured approach and tried to engage the group to disperse. They clearly had no intention of doing so, and so it did result in 19 people being arrested, and a further ten being issued with a fixed penalty notice. – Laurence Taylor	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
If you generate an aerosol of the virus with no circulation in a room, it's conceivable that if you walk through later, you could inhale the virus, but if you're outside, the breeze will likely disperse it. – Harvey Fineberg	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It would have better effect using a water cannon to disperse people and make them go home. – Leong Hoe Nam	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Now that it is getting colder, air is not rising high enough to disperse pollutants. The whole trapping is happening close to the ground. – Roy Chowdhury	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We were fortunate there were good winds and vertical mixing that allowed the plume to rise and disperse more readily. – Daniel Cohan	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
What you can't do is leave them in a camp in Syria being even more radicalised... until they disperse themselves through the world and make their way back here, i think the Germans, the French and ourselves have got to work out how to deal with this difficult and, I accept, dangerous problem. – Ken Clarke	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Stars form in packed groups called stellar nurseries and then later disperse as they move around the galaxy center, stars in these nurseries are so close to each other that they can exchange material amongst them by mutual gravitational interactions. Capture of 2015 BZ509 must have happened in the early stages of the solar system, about 4.5 billion years ago. – Helena Morais	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We had just said that we would disperse and end the demonstration and then the police started beating us. They broke police ethics and the rule of law. Nine people from our group have been arrested. – Maung Saung Kha	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
You don’t just throw resources at a wildfire, it’s like a battle -- you have to think what will be the most effective. Cal Fire usually depends on a mix of bulldozers, fire engines, inmate crews, and helicopters or airplanes, which disperse things like fire retardant, to stop wildfires. Using containment lines, or large areas where a bulldozer cuts away vegetation to the point where only dirt remains, is very common, he said. But this isn’t always an accessible option. – Scott McLean	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We do not know the total costs for the victims of this horrific hate crime, therefore are working to raise as much as possible and disperse the funds as fast as possible. – Equality Florida	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We're calling on all parties to the conflict to take all measures to protect civilians caught in the middle, that includes allowing civilians to freely move out of conflict zones and being provided with protection as they disperse. – Farhan Haq	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The police came to disperse the people with tear gas and went after all the young people who were wearing T-shirts of (Katumbi's soccer club). – Timothee Mbuya	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Only half the groundhogs from any litter survive, and they disperse. They find other territories and they're on the move and they're a prey animal so it's rough out there for them. A lot of times, we get calls not because there's an actual conflict but because when someone sees a groundhog, they're like 'Oh, I've got a problem.'. – John Griffin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Someone sees one groundhog and they think that within two years, there will be a thousand, only half the groundhogs from any litter survive, and they disperse. They find other territories and they're on the move and they're a prey animal so it's rough out there for them. A lot of times, we get calls not because there's an actual conflict but because when someone sees a groundhog, they're like 'Oh, I've got a problem.'. – John Griffin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
They fired teargas to disperse our rally and without any provocation or any cause at all. – Josephine Mayanja-Nkangi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It would have been impossible to disarm and disperse the strikers without significant bloodshed. – Jacob Zuma	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Police wanted them to disperse peacefully and did not take any action. – Nayab Haider	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Despite requests for peaceful negotiations, student protesters tried to penetrate the police blockade and the police were legally obligated to disperse them. – Ye Htut	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This particular piece of work on the Teacup Galaxy has provided new insight into how the black holes [drive energy] in ordinary galaxies, they appear to be capable of driving jets of charged particles that collide into the gas. You could imagine the ‘jet’ as like a water cannon being driven into a crowd of people - the water cannon collides with the crowd and causes it to break up and disperse rapidly. In this analogy, the crowd represents the gas in the galaxy that is trying to form stars, but is destroyed by the jet. – Chris Harrison	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We had to use teargas and rubber bullets to disperse opposition activists after they smashed nearly a dozen vehicles and set off blasts. – Khayrul Fazal	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

We started to disperse and go to the South Side, the further South Side, the south suburbs, we started to lose that capacity, we became consumers as opposed to producers.

– Bruce Montgomery

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This morning, a couple of hours ago, he sent me a couple of images of protests going on in the Kabul area. They were holding the Afghanistan flag – not the Taliban flag, he told me that the Taliban ended up shooting at them so they all were forced to disperse.

– Mariam Farzayee

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This multiplicity of forces can breed dangerous confusion, such as when helicopters are used in a war-like tactic to frighten and disperse peaceful protesters.

– Mayor Bowser

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It was disappointing that a relatively small group in Hyde Park came together to protest the regulations in clear breach of the guidance, putting themselves and others at risk of infection, officers once again, took a measured approach and tried to engage the group to disperse. They clearly had no intention of doing so, and so it did result in 19 people being arrested, and a further ten being issued with a fixed penalty notice.

– Laurence Taylor

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

If you generate an aerosol of the virus with no circulation in a room, it's conceivable that if you walk through later, you could inhale the virus, but if you're outside, the breeze will likely disperse it.

– Harvey Fineberg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It would have better effect using a water cannon to disperse people and make them go home.

– Leong Hoe Nam

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Now that it is getting colder, air is not rising high enough to disperse pollutants. The whole trapping is happening close to the ground.

– Roy Chowdhury

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We were fortunate there were good winds and vertical mixing that allowed the plume to rise and disperse more readily.

– Daniel Cohan

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

What you can't do is leave them in a camp in Syria being even more radicalised... until they disperse themselves through the world and make their way back here, i think the Germans, the French and ourselves have got to work out how to deal with this difficult and, I accept, dangerous problem.

– Ken Clarke

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Stars form in packed groups called stellar nurseries and then later disperse as they move around the galaxy center, stars in these nurseries are so close to each other that they can exchange material amongst them by mutual gravitational interactions. Capture of 2015 BZ509 must have happened in the early stages of the solar system, about 4.5 billion years ago.

– Helena Morais

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We had just said that we would disperse and end the demonstration and then the police started beating us. They broke police ethics and the rule of law. Nine people from our group have been arrested.

– Maung Saung Kha

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

You don’t just throw resources at a wildfire, it’s like a battle -- you have to think what will be the most effective. Cal Fire usually depends on a mix of bulldozers, fire engines, inmate crews, and helicopters or airplanes, which disperse things like fire retardant, to stop wildfires. Using containment lines, or large areas where a bulldozer cuts away vegetation to the point where only dirt remains, is very common, he said. But this isn’t always an accessible option.

– Scott McLean

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We do not know the total costs for the victims of this horrific hate crime, therefore are working to raise as much as possible and disperse the funds as fast as possible.

– Equality Florida

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We're calling on all parties to the conflict to take all measures to protect civilians caught in the middle, that includes allowing civilians to freely move out of conflict zones and being provided with protection as they disperse.

– Farhan Haq

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The police came to disperse the people with tear gas and went after all the young people who were wearing T-shirts of (Katumbi's soccer club).

– Timothee Mbuya

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Only half the groundhogs from any litter survive, and they disperse. They find other territories and they're on the move and they're a prey animal so it's rough out there for them. A lot of times, we get calls not because there's an actual conflict but because when someone sees a groundhog, they're like 'Oh, I've got a problem.'.

– John Griffin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Someone sees one groundhog and they think that within two years, there will be a thousand, only half the groundhogs from any litter survive, and they disperse. They find other territories and they're on the move and they're a prey animal so it's rough out there for them. A lot of times, we get calls not because there's an actual conflict but because when someone sees a groundhog, they're like 'Oh, I've got a problem.'.

– John Griffin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They fired teargas to disperse our rally and without any provocation or any cause at all.

– Josephine Mayanja-Nkangi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It would have been impossible to disarm and disperse the strikers without significant bloodshed.

– Jacob Zuma

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Police wanted them to disperse peacefully and did not take any action.

– Nayab Haider

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Despite requests for peaceful negotiations, student protesters tried to penetrate the police blockade and the police were legally obligated to disperse them.

– Ye Htut

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This particular piece of work on the Teacup Galaxy has provided new insight into how the black holes [drive energy] in ordinary galaxies, they appear to be capable of driving jets of charged particles that collide into the gas. You could imagine the ‘jet’ as like a water cannon being driven into a crowd of people - the water cannon collides with the crowd and causes it to break up and disperse rapidly. In this analogy, the crowd represents the gas in the galaxy that is trying to form stars, but is destroyed by the jet.

– Chris Harrison

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We had to use teargas and rubber bullets to disperse opposition activists after they smashed nearly a dozen vehicles and set off blasts.

– Khayrul Fazal

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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