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We are encouraging people to go see their veterinarian to see if they should start the canine influenza vaccine, it's not effective immediately, so owners must try to keep dogs away from doggy social functions. Even dog-friendly areas: You enter at your own risk (because) there is a lot of nose-to-nose contact going on there. – Donna Alexander	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It won't be as commonly used as the iPhone, but I think a lot of people would like it because its innovative functions are quite attractive. – Winnie Koo	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Zoran Zaev's just an instrument, a kamikaze. The game is big, too big for Zoran Zaev, i am not a man who functions under threat and blackmail. – Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
While the auction process typically functions well, we would not be surprised to see significant volatility in the RadioShack 6.75s around the auction and an elevated CDS recovery final auction price. – Eric Gross	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Google is pushing the theme of self-driving cars very strongly. That's having a very positive effect for the entire automotive industry, because it enormously accelerates the pace of introducing drive-assist systems and semi-automatic functions. – Bosch CEO Volkmar Denner	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Today's Democrat Party seems willing to go to any extreme to protect the kind of executive overreach President Obama once described as 'not how our democracy functions' -- even to block Homeland Security funding to get its way. – Mitch McConnell	Found on CNN 9 years ago
You know that there are companies like Amazon that are talking about using small drones to deliver packages... There are incredibly useful functions that these drones can play in terms of farmers who are managing crops and conservationists who want to take stock of wildlife. but we don't really have any kind of regulatory structure at all for it. – Barack Obama	Found on CNN 9 years ago
For a power market that functions as it should, possible shortages need to be factored in, they will trigger the needed signals for investment. – Sigmar Gabriel	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices— smartphones— by the patient with computer assistance. So it’s a real big change in the model of how we render healthcare. – Eric Topol	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
They have been a good tag team, both of them in their particular functions have been very well-received internationally. – Dick Pound	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Stop wasting so much time and complicating things in making more laws ... and interfering so intensely in the way the business sector functions. Just expose the total industry to importation. – Uriel Lynn	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is common to have government agencies trying to impose duties and enforce regulatory functions similar to that of the NCC, there are levies and other charges that are demanded by government institutions which have all the characteristics of a tax. – Etisalat Nigeria 19.9 million	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Environmental contamination is a serious issue for these whales, and it is exacerbated during times of nutritional stress when their toxic blubber is metabolized to maintain body functions. – Ken Balcomb	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The policies that allowed or turned a blind eye to these acts are no longer in place. The question is whether the intelligence committees are properly conducting oversight functions today. – Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It would have been nice if Temple had booted him instead of him resigning, but I don't think it's too late for Temple to make a statement, if the university stopped inviting him to university functions, that would make a loud statement. – Grace Holleran	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notionor you shall learn nothing. – Gerald Ford	added by anonymous 9 years ago
If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature. – Charles Baudelaire	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its functions do not include the support of the people. – Grover Cleveland	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is the duty of those serving the people in public place closely to limit public expenditures to the actual needs of the government economically administered, because this bounds the right of the government to extract tribute from the earnings of labor or the property of the citizen, and because public extravagance begets extravagance among the people. We should never be ashamed of the simplicity and prudential economies which are best suited to the operation of a republican form of government and most compatible with the mission of the American people. Those who are selected for a limited time to manage public affairs are still of the people, and may do much by their example to encourage, consistently with the dignity of their official functions, that plain way of life which among their fellow-citizens aids integrity and promotes thrift and prosperity. – Grover Cleveland	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way. – Cyril Connolly	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood. – Germaine Greer	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation. – Peter Drucker	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. – G. I. Gurdjieff	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal. – Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president	added by anonymous 13 years ago

We are encouraging people to go see their veterinarian to see if they should start the canine influenza vaccine, it's not effective immediately, so owners must try to keep dogs away from doggy social functions. Even dog-friendly areas: You enter at your own risk (because) there is a lot of nose-to-nose contact going on there.

– Donna Alexander

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It won't be as commonly used as the iPhone, but I think a lot of people would like it because its innovative functions are quite attractive.

– Winnie Koo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Zoran Zaev's just an instrument, a kamikaze. The game is big, too big for Zoran Zaev, i am not a man who functions under threat and blackmail.

– Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

While the auction process typically functions well, we would not be surprised to see significant volatility in the RadioShack 6.75s around the auction and an elevated CDS recovery final auction price.

– Eric Gross

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Google is pushing the theme of self-driving cars very strongly. That's having a very positive effect for the entire automotive industry, because it enormously accelerates the pace of introducing drive-assist systems and semi-automatic functions.

– Bosch CEO Volkmar Denner

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Today's Democrat Party seems willing to go to any extreme to protect the kind of executive overreach President Obama once described as 'not how our democracy functions' -- even to block Homeland Security funding to get its way.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
9 years ago

You know that there are companies like Amazon that are talking about using small drones to deliver packages... There are incredibly useful functions that these drones can play in terms of farmers who are managing crops and conservationists who want to take stock of wildlife. but we don't really have any kind of regulatory structure at all for it.

– Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

For a power market that functions as it should, possible shortages need to be factored in, they will trigger the needed signals for investment.

– Sigmar Gabriel

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices— smartphones— by the patient with computer assistance. So it’s a real big change in the model of how we render healthcare.

– Eric Topol

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

They have been a good tag team, both of them in their particular functions have been very well-received internationally.

– Dick Pound

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Stop wasting so much time and complicating things in making more laws ... and interfering so intensely in the way the business sector functions. Just expose the total industry to importation.

– Uriel Lynn

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is common to have government agencies trying to impose duties and enforce regulatory functions similar to that of the NCC, there are levies and other charges that are demanded by government institutions which have all the characteristics of a tax.

– Etisalat Nigeria 19.9 million

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Environmental contamination is a serious issue for these whales, and it is exacerbated during times of nutritional stress when their toxic blubber is metabolized to maintain body functions.

– Ken Balcomb

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The policies that allowed or turned a blind eye to these acts are no longer in place. The question is whether the intelligence committees are properly conducting oversight functions today.

– Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It would have been nice if Temple had booted him instead of him resigning, but I don't think it's too late for Temple to make a statement, if the university stopped inviting him to university functions, that would make a loud statement.

– Grace Holleran

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notionor you shall learn nothing.

– Gerald Ford

added by anonymous
9 years ago

If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.

– Charles Baudelaire

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its functions do not include the support of the people.

– Grover Cleveland