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Communities of color have been disproportionately impacted by laws governing marijuana for far too long, and it has to end. – New York	Found on CNN 4 years ago
One of the highly problematic aspects is the excessive influence of the government by European standards, there is no precedent for a government to delegate half the members of the governing body of a research network. – Academy President Laszlo Lovasz	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The Southern Baptist Convention presents no governing policies to churches because The Southern Baptist Convention is not a governing organization ; The Southern Baptist Convention is The Southern Baptist Convention. Each church is self-governing, however, The Southern Baptist Convention has consistently called on churches to report immediately to law enforcement any known or suspected instance of sexual abuse in a church context and has provided resources to inform churches of ways to help protect their congregants. – Sing Oldham	Found on CNN 4 years ago
My first cap was in 1998 against Estonia when we still wore men's hand-me-down strips, attendances were poor, there was little to no marketing, governing body support was poor and therefore there was little interest in women's football. – Rhonda Jones	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
My client believes in the transparency of accountability within our government. ... We remain confident in the US governing processes and we are hopeful all parties will set aside their personal interests and place the best interest of national security first. – Elijah Cummings	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The requests for his private tax information are not consistent with governing law, do not advance any proper legislative purpose, and threaten to interfere with the ordinary conduct of audits, we are confident that this misguided attempt to politicize the administration of the tax laws will not succeed. – William Consovoy	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
[A]s all history informs us, there has been in every State & Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing & governed: the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less. And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the Princes, or enslaving of the people. Generally indeed the ruling power carries its point, the revenues of princes constantly increasing, and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of more. The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure. There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants for ever ... – Benjamin Franklin	added by Normando 5 years ago
It is a sad decision that will disproportionately affect Ethiopia and Kenya, as well as East Africa as a whole, some Asian countries have also been making strides in middle- and long-distance. At a time when the (governing) body needed to exert its maximum effort to boost athletics worldwide, it has taken a decision that is tragic and unfair. – Ethiopian Haile	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
After two years of failed negotiations, the House of Commons has delivered its verdict on her Brexit deal, and that verdict is absolutely decisive, her governing principle of delay and denial has reached the end of the line. – Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The House of Commons has missed an opportunity to avert a hard Brexit and lay the foundations for close ties to the EU, it is simply irresponsible that the British governing coalition is still trying to reach a unified position 10 weeks before the exit deadline. – Carl Martin	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Senator, I did not -- I was not involved and am not involved in the questions about the rules governing detention of combatants or -- and so I do not have the involvement with that, and with respect to Mr. Haynes' nomination, I've -- I know Jim Haynes, but it was not one of the nominations that I handled. – Brett Kavanaugh	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I like his style of governing, it’s completely different from what we have here where people do n’t know what they’re doing, he’s a very good leader, does n’t take any nonsense and I agree with most of his policies. – James Jackson	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
These statements were made from a place of foreign naivety and ignorance about the complexities and difficulties of governing Cambodia, i sincerely regret having made any disrespectful comments and I unreservedly apologize in this regards to yourself and your government. – James Ricketson	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The union's claim is that this new policy, imposed by the NFL's governing body without consultation with the NFLPA, is inconsistent with the collective bargaining agreement and infringes on player rights. – The NFL	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
In the main, it's an anti-PRI vote and, by extension, the PAN -- which has certainly been fairly close to the PRI in terms of governing these past six years. – Michael Lettieri	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Sergio Sanchez also supports Trump's style of governing :. – Sergio Sanchez	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The Governing Council expects the key ECB interest rates to remain at their present levels at least through the summer of 2019 and in any case for as long as necessary (to get inflation. back to near 2 percent). – The ECB	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
But something has gone terribly wrong, the Appellate Body not only has rewritten our agreements to impose new substantive rules we members never negotiated or agreed, but has also been ignoring or rewriting the rules governing the dispute settlement system, expanding its own capacity to write and impose new rules. – Dennis Shea	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
There is no trust between the people and the governing class, all sides are terrible. I will not vote. – Hussein Fadel	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I'm sorry to say that they know how to read the Koran ... but they don't have any expertise in governing. – Wan Abdul Rahim	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Knowing that USA Gymnastics has failed their athletes so terribly disappoints me and makes me so incredibly angry. The fact that any of this has ever happened shows that USA Gymnastics has failed as a governing body to protect the athletes that it supports and claims to care about. – Shawn Johnson	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
In the last 100 days we've seen Trump's frustrations with governing in a democratic system, in trying to get things done, if you're an autocrat, and you hold all the power, you can be much more efficient and effective. That's the sort of demonstration of power that Trump seems to appreciate. – Blaise Misztal	Found on CNN 6 years ago
John Hickenlooper has a record [ of governing ] and can raise lots of money, but John Hickenlooper ’ll also have to run past being too tied to Clinton Inc. – Douglas Smith	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The people who were 'yes' on the health care bill were reminding Paul this is something we promised and we got to push in that direction, it's more a reflection of the need to show that we can do something with our governing majority, but again it comes back to numbers. If you don't have the votes, you don't have the votes. – Steve Womack	Found on CNN 7 years ago

Communities of color have been disproportionately impacted by laws governing marijuana for far too long, and it has to end.

– New York

Found on CNN
4 years ago

One of the highly problematic aspects is the excessive influence of the government by European standards, there is no precedent for a government to delegate half the members of the governing body of a research network.

– Academy President Laszlo Lovasz

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Southern Baptist Convention presents no governing policies to churches because The Southern Baptist Convention is not a governing organization ; The Southern Baptist Convention is The Southern Baptist Convention. Each church is self-governing, however, The Southern Baptist Convention has consistently called on churches to report immediately to law enforcement any known or suspected instance of sexual abuse in a church context and has provided resources to inform churches of ways to help protect their congregants.

– Sing Oldham

Found on CNN
4 years ago

My first cap was in 1998 against Estonia when we still wore men's hand-me-down strips, attendances were poor, there was little to no marketing, governing body support was poor and therefore there was little interest in women's football.

– Rhonda Jones

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

My client believes in the transparency of accountability within our government. ... We remain confident in the US governing processes and we are hopeful all parties will set aside their personal interests and place the best interest of national security first.

– Elijah Cummings

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The requests for his private tax information are not consistent with governing law, do not advance any proper legislative purpose, and threaten to interfere with the ordinary conduct of audits, we are confident that this misguided attempt to politicize the administration of the tax laws will not succeed.

– William Consovoy

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

[A]s all history informs us, there has been in every State & Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing & governed: the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less. And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the Princes, or enslaving of the people. Generally indeed the ruling power carries its point, the revenues of princes constantly increasing, and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of more. The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure. There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants for ever ...

– Benjamin Franklin

added by Normando
5 years ago

It is a sad decision that will disproportionately affect Ethiopia and Kenya, as well as East Africa as a whole, some Asian countries have also been making strides in middle- and long-distance. At a time when the (governing) body needed to exert its maximum effort to boost athletics worldwide, it has taken a decision that is tragic and unfair.

– Ethiopian Haile

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

After two years of failed negotiations, the House of Commons has delivered its verdict on her Brexit deal, and that verdict is absolutely decisive, her governing principle of delay and denial has reached the end of the line.

– Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The House of Commons has missed an opportunity to avert a hard Brexit and lay the foundations for close ties to the EU, it is simply irresponsible that the British governing coalition is still trying to reach a unified position 10 weeks before the exit deadline.

– Carl Martin

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Senator, I did not -- I was not involved and am not involved in the questions about the rules governing detention of combatants or -- and so I do not have the involvement with that, and with respect to Mr. Haynes' nomination, I've -- I know Jim Haynes, but it was not one of the nominations that I handled.

– Brett Kavanaugh

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I like his style of governing, it’s completely different from what we have here where people do n’t know what they’re doing, he’s a very good leader, does n’t take any nonsense and I agree with most of his policies.

– James Jackson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

These statements were made from a place of foreign naivety and ignorance about the complexities and difficulties of governing Cambodia, i sincerely regret having made any disrespectful comments and I unreservedly apologize in this regards to yourself and your government.

– James Ricketson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The union's claim is that this new policy, imposed by the NFL's governing body without consultation with the NFLPA, is inconsistent with the collective bargaining agreement and infringes on player rights.

– The NFL

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

In the main, it's an anti-PRI vote and, by extension, the PAN -- which has certainly been fairly close to the PRI in terms of governing these past six years.

– Michael Lettieri

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Sergio Sanchez also supports Trump's style of governing :.

– Sergio Sanchez

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The Governing Council expects the key ECB interest rates to remain at their present levels at least through the summer of 2019 and in any case for as long as necessary (to get inflation. back to near 2 percent).

– The ECB

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

But something has gone terribly wrong, the Appellate Body not only has rewritten our agreements to impose new substantive rules we members never negotiated or agreed, but has also been ignoring or rewriting the rules governing the dispute settlement system, expanding its own capacity to write and impose new rules.

– Dennis Shea

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There is no trust between the people and the governing class, all sides are terrible. I will not vote.

– Hussein Fadel

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I'm sorry to say that they know how to read the Koran ... but they don't have any expertise in governing.

– Wan Abdul Rahim

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Knowing that USA Gymnastics has failed their athletes so terribly disappoints me and makes me so incredibly angry. The fact that any of this has ever happened shows that USA Gymnastics has failed as a governing body to protect the athletes that it supports and claims to care about.

– Shawn Johnson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

In the last 100 days we've seen Trump's frustrations with governing in a democratic system, in trying to get things done, if you're an autocrat, and you hold all the power, you can be much more efficient and effective. That's the sort of demonstration of power that Trump seems to appreciate.

– Blaise Misztal

Found on CNN
6 years ago

John Hickenlooper has a record [ of governing ] and can raise lots of money, but John Hickenlooper ’ll also have to run past being too tied to Clinton Inc.

– Douglas Smith

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The people who were 'yes' on the health care bill were reminding Paul this is something we promised and we got to push in that direction, it's more a reflection of the need to show that we can do something with our governing majority, but again it comes back to numbers. If you don't have the votes, you don't have the votes.

– Steve Womack

Found on CNN
7 years ago

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