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The wall is probably $8 billion, which is a tiny fraction of the money that we lose with Mexico. We lose a tremendous amount of trade deficits. We have a trade deficit with Mexico that is astronomical, much bigger than that. We will get -- and I say it also is also part of my plan -- Mexico is going to play for the wall. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 8 years ago
When you look at the fraction of the Earth's surface that is heavily populated, it's not very much. – Simon Goodwin	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Whether we lose by a fraction of a point or we win or whatever, we're very proud of the campaign that we , i think the significance is, for folks who did not think Bernie Sanders could win, that we could compete against Hillary Clinton, I hope that that thought is now gone. – Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 8 years ago
This was not even a fraction of Sandy. – Patrick Rosenello	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Previous gas clouds found by astronomers show a higher enrichment level of heavy elements, so they were probably polluted by more recent generations of stars, obscuring any signature from the first stars, this is the first cloud to show the tiny heavy element fraction expected for a cloud enriched only by the first stars. – Neil Crighton	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Any jury assessing this starts with, what amount of money punishes him given his net worth? even if you said $20 million, you're talking about a fraction of his net worth. – Brad Edwards	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Collectors can get their hands on a quality Southeast Asian art piece by a bluechip artist for a fraction of the price paid for an artwork from the more mature and established categories. – Kim Chuan Mok	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's much more of a grassroots effort taking advantage of the way social media can spread ideas and connections from small donors, the increased focus has led to an increase in at least online donations. Even so, the money raised on #GivingTuesday represents only a very small fraction of total annual charitable giving in the United States. According to Giving USA, which issues an annual report on philanthropy, charitable donations in 2014 totaled $ 358.38 billion. Sandra Miniutti, vice president of the nonprofit watchdog Charity Navigator, agreed that #GivingTuesday has been a plus for charity awareness. – Katherina Rosqueta	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If Gilead's approach to pricing is the future of how blockbuster drugs are launched, it will cost billions and billions of dollars to treat just a fraction of patients. – Ron Wyden	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Essentially, it is an extremely efficient heat exchanging system, which will effectively mount on the front of our new engine design and very efficiently cool incoming air of a very high temperature of about a thousand degrees C [Centigrade], to minus 150 degrees C in a fraction of a second; approximately one-hundredth of a second. – Simon Hanks	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We're prepared to take a tiny fraction of the people that are coming, and they should be thoroughly screened, for sure, but I think we need to be much more aggressive in moving to a legal immigration system where we pick who comes. – Jeb Bush	Found on CNN 8 years ago
In the nearly 20 years that Southwest Key Programs has operated shelters for unaccompanied minors, there has never been an incident of a child from one of our unaccompanied minor shelters committing a crime in the local community. … Of the thousands of children we have served over the years, less than a fraction of one percent have absconded from our shelters. my concern is for their well-being. – Councilman Steve Kozachik	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
So we are going to collect effectively more signal with this scanner than we do with current devices. And that lets us do a couple of things. We can either image much more quickly and collect our signal in 1/40th of the time so we can do scans in 30 seconds that currently take 30 minutes. Or we can drop the radiation dose significantly and do scans at a fraction of the radiation dose that we currently do them at. – Simon Cherry	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They've done hundreds of airstrikes at this point. I'm not putting out the count anymore, but they conduct airstrikes, but only a fraction of them have been against (ISIS) targets, and when I say fraction, I'm talking ... 10%. – Steve Warren	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We're talking about a fraction of a fraction. – Chief Executive Larry Lawson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We can only get a fraction of what we could sell. – Terry Hanlon	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is top secret stuff. Look, General Petraeus, his life was destroyed with a tiny fraction of what she's done, so it's very unfair to him, if they're going to destroy him over doing, by comparison, nothing, I don't see how she can run. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 8 years ago
With parents away, young girls and boys are soft targets to lure into trafficking. We could only rescue a tiny fraction of the total number of children trafficked over the past five years. – Dinabandhu Das	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I won't vote 'no' because I think Greece definitely needs a bailout and we need to keep Greece in the euro zone, but I, and a large majority of the fraction, do not have confidence in the German government to act in a way that will prevent a Grexit. – Anton Hofreiter	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
When we sort of peel back the layers a bit, the fact that these women are still playing on artificial turf or did for this World Cup ... and the fact that the prize money is just a fraction of what the men get, I think that is indicative of unfortunately the second-class status that girls and women's sports still face. – Neena Chaudhry	Found on CNN 8 years ago
ISIS is only a fraction of what it could potentially become. – Ryan Mauro	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
There are very few events that will require such a massive stadium, one that blights one of Tokyo's greenbelts, for a fraction of the cost they could have retrofitted the old stadium that requires far less maintenance than the new facility. So taxpayers will be handed a gift that keeps on taking. – Jeff Kingston	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We realized that they had overpromised and didn’t have the ability to do a fraction of what we needed. – Mike Adair	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We knew we had the horse, once Victor got him in the clear and got him into that beautiful mode of the way he just goes over the ground, I just loved every fraction. – Trainer Bob Baffert	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

The wall is probably $8 billion, which is a tiny fraction of the money that we lose with Mexico. We lose a tremendous amount of trade deficits. We have a trade deficit with Mexico that is astronomical, much bigger than that. We will get -- and I say it also is also part of my plan -- Mexico is going to play for the wall.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When you look at the fraction of the Earth's surface that is heavily populated, it's not very much.

– Simon Goodwin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Whether we lose by a fraction of a point or we win or whatever, we're very proud of the campaign that we , i think the significance is, for folks who did not think Bernie Sanders could win, that we could compete against Hillary Clinton, I hope that that thought is now gone.

– Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This was not even a fraction of Sandy.

– Patrick Rosenello

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Previous gas clouds found by astronomers show a higher enrichment level of heavy elements, so they were probably polluted by more recent generations of stars, obscuring any signature from the first stars, this is the first cloud to show the tiny heavy element fraction expected for a cloud enriched only by the first stars.

– Neil Crighton

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Any jury assessing this starts with, what amount of money punishes him given his net worth? even if you said $20 million, you're talking about a fraction of his net worth.

– Brad Edwards

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Collectors can get their hands on a quality Southeast Asian art piece by a bluechip artist for a fraction of the price paid for an artwork from the more mature and established categories.

– Kim Chuan Mok

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's much more of a grassroots effort taking advantage of the way social media can spread ideas and connections from small donors, the increased focus has led to an increase in at least online donations. Even so, the money raised on #GivingTuesday represents only a very small fraction of total annual charitable giving in the United States. According to Giving USA, which issues an annual report on philanthropy, charitable donations in 2014 totaled $ 358.38 billion. Sandra Miniutti, vice president of the nonprofit watchdog Charity Navigator, agreed that #GivingTuesday has been a plus for charity awareness.

– Katherina Rosqueta

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If Gilead's approach to pricing is the future of how blockbuster drugs are launched, it will cost billions and billions of dollars to treat just a fraction of patients.

– Ron Wyden

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Essentially, it is an extremely efficient heat exchanging system, which will effectively mount on the front of our new engine design and very efficiently cool incoming air of a very high temperature of about a thousand degrees C [Centigrade], to minus 150 degrees C in a fraction of a second; approximately one-hundredth of a second.

– Simon Hanks

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We're prepared to take a tiny fraction of the people that are coming, and they should be thoroughly screened, for sure, but I think we need to be much more aggressive in moving to a legal immigration system where we pick who comes.

– Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In the nearly 20 years that Southwest Key Programs has operated shelters for unaccompanied minors, there has never been an incident of a child from one of our unaccompanied minor shelters committing a crime in the local community. … Of the thousands of children we have served over the years, less than a fraction of one percent have absconded from our shelters. my concern is for their well-being.

– Councilman Steve Kozachik

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

So we are going to collect effectively more signal with this scanner than we do with current devices. And that lets us do a couple of things. We can either image much more quickly and collect our signal in 1/40th of the time so we can do scans in 30 seconds that currently take 30 minutes. Or we can drop the radiation dose significantly and do scans at a fraction of the radiation dose that we currently do them at.

– Simon Cherry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They've done hundreds of airstrikes at this point. I'm not putting out the count anymore, but they conduct airstrikes, but only a fraction of them have been against (ISIS) targets, and when I say fraction, I'm talking ... 10%.

– Steve Warren

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We're talking about a fraction of a fraction.

– Chief Executive Larry Lawson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We can only get a fraction of what we could sell.

– Terry Hanlon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is top secret stuff. Look, General Petraeus, his life was destroyed with a tiny fraction of what she's done, so it's very unfair to him, if they're going to destroy him over doing, by comparison, nothing, I don't see how she can run.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

With parents away, young girls and boys are soft targets to lure into trafficking. We could only rescue a tiny fraction of the total number of children trafficked over the past five years.

– Dinabandhu Das

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I won't vote 'no' because I think Greece definitely needs a bailout and we need to keep Greece in the euro zone, but I, and a large majority of the fraction, do not have confidence in the German government to act in a way that will prevent a Grexit.

– Anton Hofreiter

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When we sort of peel back the layers a bit, the fact that these women are still playing on artificial turf or did for this World Cup ... and the fact that the prize money is just a fraction of what the men get, I think that is indicative of unfortunately the second-class status that girls and women's sports still face.

– Neena Chaudhry

Found on CNN
8 years ago

ISIS is only a fraction of what it could potentially become.

– Ryan Mauro

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There are very few events that will require such a massive stadium, one that blights one of Tokyo's greenbelts, for a fraction of the cost they could have retrofitted the old stadium that requires far less maintenance than the new facility. So taxpayers will be handed a gift that keeps on taking.

– Jeff Kingston

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We realized that they had overpromised and didn’t have the ability to do a fraction of what we needed.

– Mike Adair

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We knew we had the horse, once Victor got him in the clear and got him into that beautiful mode of the way he just goes over the ground, I just loved every fraction.

– Trainer Bob Baffert

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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