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Some things are rushing into existence, others out of it. Some of what now exists is already gone. Change and flux constantly remake the world, just as the incessant progression of time remakes eternity. We find ourselves in a river. Which of the things around us should we value when none of them can offer a firm foothold? Like an attachment to a sparrow: we glimpse it and it’s gone. – Marcus Aurelius	added by Normando 1 year ago
Our moon serves as basically a celestial library right next door, lunar rocks and lunar ice basically serve as the books of this library. We can use them to begin to reveal how the solar system has evolved. This can really help us gain insight into what was happening here on Earth when life was establishing a foothold in the solar system. – Jacob Bleacher	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The occupiers tried to gain a foothold there [in Kherson], their collaborators made various brazen statements, which in Russian are called the very apt word ‘shapkozakidatelstvo’ (false forecasts)... But how did it help them? The Armed Forces of Ukraine are advancing step by step in the region. – Volodymyr Zelenskyy	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
My first hope is better lives, they've got very complex personal situations and if football can help them get a foothold into Australian life, that's our ultimate objective, football has this overriding responsibility to support, not only its participants, but show the best humanity and the best in people. – Football John Didulica	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The fungus takes the window of opportunity, invades the body, this body has a small opening because of Covid, because of the sugars( high glucose levels), because of the antibiotics -- because of so many other things,( black fungus) gets a foothold. – Hemant Thacker	Found on CNN 2 years ago
[We] can and should be prepared for this new virus to take a foothold in the U.S.. – Nancy Messonnier	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is for the love of football, enjoy. Jones D.C. Defenders beat the Seattle Dragons 31-19 Saturday afternoon in the opener of the new XFL that provided plenty of entertainment in person and on TV. Its far too early to tell if the XFL can take a foothold where its previous incarnation and the recently unsuccessful Alliance of American Football failed, but executives are willing to wait and see. XFL COMMISH SAYS LEAGUE NEVER REALLY CONSIDERED COLIN KAEPERNICK, MORE EXCITED TO SEE CARDALE JONES For us, if the fans who attend and watch at home feel as though it was a good football game and they had a fun time either watching or being in this awesome venue with us, thats success, XFL chief operating officer Jeffrey Pollack said. Were taking a long term view in this. Success ultimately will not be measured in the first game or the first weekend or the first season. – Cardale Jones	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
If anyone did compromise your phone, you're wiping their foothold and they're going to have to hack back in, for a normal person that's kind of extreme, but for a high profile individual that threat factor is different. – Mark Nunnikhoven	Found on CNN 4 years ago
In the last few years, China has repeatedly tried to gain a strategic foothold in Greenland, by offering to buy a former United States military base there and through a financing scheme for airport construction. Purchasing it would keep it out of the hands of both the Chinese and the Russians. It is rich in national resources with untold economic potential and already extremely important to United States national security. – United States	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We have operated with impressive success in thwarting Iran from establishing a military foothold in Syria, in the framework of which the military has struck hundreds of times against Iranian and Hezbollah targets, in the last 36 hours alone, the air force struck storage facilities with Iranian weapons at the Damascus International Airport. The bulk of recent attacks show how we are more committed than ever to act against Iran in Syria, as we promised. – Benjamin Netanyahu	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
After that foothold is established, the malicious code, the real hackers get to work and grow out from there. Russian President Vladimir Putin's government denies direct involvement, but Russian intelligence is thought to routinely use cyber gangs to do its bidding and to create plausible deniability. Within the former Soviet bloc, Russian-speaking hackers pay homage as cyber-militia members to the regime in Russia, they act as proxies … when called upon to leverage their sophisticatedtool sets and attack against victims in the U.S. – Tom Kellerman	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
With Mitsubishi, Nissan will have a better foothold even in terms of small cars. – Puneet Gupta	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Overall Mitsubishi is into core segments which actually have mass market and a lot of potential is still there, with Mitsubishi, Nissan will have a better foothold even in terms of small cars. – Puneet Gupta	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The strategy of coming in, looking for a local player who has shown traction and buying them in order to get a foothold is a very good one, and we will see more of that, lazada has done a very good job of operating in multiple countries. That's not something Alibaba is familiar with. – Vinnie Lauria	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The co-ops themselves are really the ones who are going to be the ones to determine whether or not they ultimately will be successful, they have a lot of work to do to rapidly mature their entities, their small businesses as you know and they’re still getting their foothold on this business. – Mandy Cohen	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
That will allow us to help them build up their security capacity and to push back against efforts by ISIL to gain a foothold in that country. – Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Compared to other teams in China and the U.S. we have focused a lot on the versatility. So this (HyQ) platform can do many different motions ranging from very fast motions like a run or a jump. But it can also do the more careful navigation on rough terrain where we need to plan really one foothold after the next. And this is important, once we see the 3D map of the environment we can start to understand how to best move through that environment, we don't want to be the fastest or the best climber, but we want to have a machine that can do many of these motions; as in the real world, the machine will need to have many different skills. – Claudio Semini	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Nusra wants recognition, they want to be seen both in and outside Syria as a partner so they can establish a lasting foothold in the country, they hope to be embraced by the Qataris in the same way other groups have. Hostage negotiations are a way to raise money but also to boost prestige. – Marwan Shehada	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Nikkei can challenge the June 24 peak (18-1/2 year high of 20,952.71) if dollar/yen builds a firm foothold above 125. – Tsuyoshi Nomaguchi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Right now the market is simply welcoming a weaker yen. The currency will have to depreciate significantly further before concerns set in that the yen is perhaps too weak, the Nikkei can challenge the June 24 peak (18-1/2 year high of 20,952.71) if dollar/yen builds a firm foothold above 125. – Tsuyoshi Nomaguchi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
India is particularly interested because it lacks direct access to Central Asia, and it sees SCO membership as a way to get a better foothold on the region. SCO membership could better position India to benefit from Central Asia's gas riches. – Michael Fugleman	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The problem of finding and compensating talent is immense; they just don't want to live in (California's) suburban Silicon Valley, many of these companies found a foothold in New York simply as a mechanism of attracting talent and maintaining the talent. – Jesse Keenan	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We're going to make a difference in the world with what we're doing, and if the whole Kardashian show gave me a foothold into that world, to be able to go out there and do something good, I got not problem with that. – Kris Jenner	Found on CNN 9 years ago
If the Kardashian show gave me a foothold to do some good, I'm all for that. – Former Olympic champion Bruce Jenner	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

Some things are rushing into existence, others out of it. Some of what now exists is already gone. Change and flux constantly remake the world, just as the incessant progression of time remakes eternity. We find ourselves in a river. Which of the things around us should we value when none of them can offer a firm foothold? Like an attachment to a sparrow: we glimpse it and it’s gone.

– Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
1 year ago

Our moon serves as basically a celestial library right next door, lunar rocks and lunar ice basically serve as the books of this library. We can use them to begin to reveal how the solar system has evolved. This can really help us gain insight into what was happening here on Earth when life was establishing a foothold in the solar system.

– Jacob Bleacher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The occupiers tried to gain a foothold there [in Kherson], their collaborators made various brazen statements, which in Russian are called the very apt word ‘shapkozakidatelstvo’ (false forecasts)... But how did it help them? The Armed Forces of Ukraine are advancing step by step in the region.

– Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

My first hope is better lives, they've got very complex personal situations and if football can help them get a foothold into Australian life, that's our ultimate objective, football has this overriding responsibility to support, not only its participants, but show the best humanity and the best in people.

– Football John Didulica

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The fungus takes the window of opportunity, invades the body, this body has a small opening because of Covid, because of the sugars( high glucose levels), because of the antibiotics -- because of so many other things,( black fungus) gets a foothold.

– Hemant Thacker

Found on CNN
2 years ago

[We] can and should be prepared for this new virus to take a foothold in the U.S..

– Nancy Messonnier

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is for the love of football, enjoy. Jones D.C. Defenders beat the Seattle Dragons 31-19 Saturday afternoon in the opener of the new XFL that provided plenty of entertainment in person and on TV. Its far too early to tell if the XFL can take a foothold where its previous incarnation and the recently unsuccessful Alliance of American Football failed, but executives are willing to wait and see. XFL COMMISH SAYS LEAGUE NEVER REALLY CONSIDERED COLIN KAEPERNICK, MORE EXCITED TO SEE CARDALE JONES For us, if the fans who attend and watch at home feel as though it was a good football game and they had a fun time either watching or being in this awesome venue with us, thats success, XFL chief operating officer Jeffrey Pollack said. Were taking a long term view in this. Success ultimately will not be measured in the first game or the first weekend or the first season.

– Cardale Jones

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

If anyone did compromise your phone, you're wiping their foothold and they're going to have to hack back in, for a normal person that's kind of extreme, but for a high profile individual that threat factor is different.

– Mark Nunnikhoven

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In the last few years, China has repeatedly tried to gain a strategic foothold in Greenland, by offering to buy a former United States military base there and through a financing scheme for airport construction. Purchasing it would keep it out of the hands of both the Chinese and the Russians. It is rich in national resources with untold economic potential and already extremely important to United States national security.

– United States

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We have operated with impressive success in thwarting Iran from establishing a military foothold in Syria, in the framework of which the military has struck hundreds of times against Iranian and Hezbollah targets, in the last 36 hours alone, the air force struck storage facilities with Iranian weapons at the Damascus International Airport. The bulk of recent attacks show how we are more committed than ever to act against Iran in Syria, as we promised.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

After that foothold is established, the malicious code, the real hackers get to work and grow out from there. Russian President Vladimir Putin's government denies direct involvement, but Russian intelligence is thought to routinely use cyber gangs to do its bidding and to create plausible deniability. Within the former Soviet bloc, Russian-speaking hackers pay homage as cyber-militia members to the regime in Russia, they act as proxies … when called upon to leverage their sophisticatedtool sets and attack against victims in the U.S.

– Tom Kellerman

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

With Mitsubishi, Nissan will have a better foothold even in terms of small cars.

– Puneet Gupta

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Overall Mitsubishi is into core segments which actually have mass market and a lot of potential is still there, with Mitsubishi, Nissan will have a better foothold even in terms of small cars.

– Puneet Gupta

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The strategy of coming in, looking for a local player who has shown traction and buying them in order to get a foothold is a very good one, and we will see more of that, lazada has done a very good job of operating in multiple countries. That's not something Alibaba is familiar with.

– Vinnie Lauria

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The co-ops themselves are really the ones who are going to be the ones to determine whether or not they ultimately will be successful, they have a lot of work to do to rapidly mature their entities, their small businesses as you know and they’re still getting their foothold on this business.

– Mandy Cohen

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

That will allow us to help them build up their security capacity and to push back against efforts by ISIL to gain a foothold in that country.

– Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Compared to other teams in China and the U.S. we have focused a lot on the versatility. So this (HyQ) platform can do many different motions ranging from very fast motions like a run or a jump. But it can also do the more careful navigation on rough terrain where we need to plan really one foothold after the next. And this is important, once we see the 3D map of the environment we can start to understand how to best move through that environment, we don't want to be the fastest or the best climber, but we want to have a machine that can do many of these motions; as in the real world, the machine will need to have many different skills.

– Claudio Semini

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Nusra wants recognition, they want to be seen both in and outside Syria as a partner so they can establish a lasting foothold in the country, they hope to be embraced by the Qataris in the same way other groups have. Hostage negotiations are a way to raise money but also to boost prestige.

– Marwan Shehada

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Nikkei can challenge the June 24 peak (18-1/2 year high of 20,952.71) if dollar/yen builds a firm foothold above 125.

– Tsuyoshi Nomaguchi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Right now the market is simply welcoming a weaker yen. The currency will have to depreciate significantly further before concerns set in that the yen is perhaps too weak, the Nikkei can challenge the June 24 peak (18-1/2 year high of 20,952.71) if dollar/yen builds a firm foothold above 125.

– Tsuyoshi Nomaguchi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

India is particularly interested because it lacks direct access to Central Asia, and it sees SCO membership as a way to get a better foothold on the region. SCO membership could better position India to benefit from Central Asia's gas riches.

– Michael Fugleman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The problem of finding and compensating talent is immense; they just don't want to live in (California's) suburban Silicon Valley, many of these companies found a foothold in New York simply as a mechanism of attracting talent and maintaining the talent.

– Jesse Keenan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We're going to make a difference in the world with what we're doing, and if the whole Kardashian show gave me a foothold into that world, to be able to go out there and do something good, I got not problem with that.

– Kris Jenner

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If the Kardashian show gave me a foothold to do some good, I'm all for that.

– Former Olympic champion Bruce Jenner

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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