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This is something we’ve grappled with throughout the pandemic – how do we get a balanced approach ? – Russell Furr	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Stage legislatures were having difficulties sometimes with their executive office of the governors, they were fighting the federal government, whether it be with mandated lockdowns or implied mandated lockdowns...and having served in the state legislature in Arizona for a while, it seemed to me we spend so much time responding to federal issues, it would be good if we could get some synergy back and forth and open up communication that might be more direct between the Freedom Caucus and conservative members of Congress and the conservative members of the state legislatures, we grappled with how best to do that, and once we came to this idea that we should have state affiliated freedom caucuses, and then the question was how do you implement, how do you create the infrastructure to do that, and that's what we've been working on for quite some time. – Andy Biggs	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We grappled with how best to do that, and once we came to this idea that we should have state affiliated freedom caucuses, and then the question was how do you implement, how do you create the infrastructure to do that, and that's what we've been working on for quite some time. – Andy Biggs	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As well, we began to recognize the importance of partnerships, how we worked with different people—not only with our international partners but really within our own government—these campaigns really forced people to begin to work together. There were dichotomies between the Department of Defense’s CT approach and the intelligence community’s CT approach. And so those had to be reconciled over time, and these were issues that we grappled with for years. And, of course, all of this ultimately resulted in much better-defined CT strike policies, processes, and approaches that I think were largely very, very successful for us. – Joe Votel	added by MoWali 2 years ago
In some ways the Great War shifted America's thinking about ourselves and redefined our place in the world, we grappled with what we stood for, what we were willing to fight and die for and to defend, principles of freedom and democracy. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Trump is very familiar to Filipinos. Many people have observed that he and Duterte have many things in common -- they are both sexist at best, misogynous at worst. They incite to hate and sometimes to violence, and they tend to divide and conquer, making it us against them, instead of providing a leadership that tries to unite and to heal, but in general, Filipinos are stunned by what's happening in the US. It is familiar to us -- we have a president who tells police to shoot people dead -- but this is the United States. It's always been the guiding light, the values of democracy, the founding fathers' declaration of independence. And for the last three years, we and the world have grappled with who takes global leadership. We are wondering, has democracy failed? – Maria Ressa	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We as a nation have not yet truly acknowledged and grappled with racism and white supremacy that has tainted this countrys founding, it continues to persist in those deep racial disparities and inequalities today. – Cory Booker	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Uber's brand image took an even bigger hit than expected as it grappled with a series of scandals and PR disasters in 2017, lyft, which had been rapidly expanding its coverage, seized on the opportunity to brand itself as a more socially conscious alternative. – Shelleen Shum	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This is something that we grappled with. – Devin Nunes	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
In the past few weeks, our city has grappled with a crisis all too common in so many other American cities -- the dissolution of trust between communities of color and law enforcement -- following the death of a young black man shot and killed by police officers. – San Francisco	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation. – Bernard Baruch	added by anonymous 14 years ago

This is something we’ve grappled with throughout the pandemic – how do we get a balanced approach ?

– Russell Furr

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Stage legislatures were having difficulties sometimes with their executive office of the governors, they were fighting the federal government, whether it be with mandated lockdowns or implied mandated lockdowns...and having served in the state legislature in Arizona for a while, it seemed to me we spend so much time responding to federal issues, it would be good if we could get some synergy back and forth and open up communication that might be more direct between the Freedom Caucus and conservative members of Congress and the conservative members of the state legislatures, we grappled with how best to do that, and once we came to this idea that we should have state affiliated freedom caucuses, and then the question was how do you implement, how do you create the infrastructure to do that, and that's what we've been working on for quite some time.

– Andy Biggs

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We grappled with how best to do that, and once we came to this idea that we should have state affiliated freedom caucuses, and then the question was how do you implement, how do you create the infrastructure to do that, and that's what we've been working on for quite some time.

– Andy Biggs

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As well, we began to recognize the importance of partnerships, how we worked with different people—not only with our international partners but really within our own government—these campaigns really forced people to begin to work together. There were dichotomies between the Department of Defense’s CT approach and the intelligence community’s CT approach. And so those had to be reconciled over time, and these were issues that we grappled with for years. And, of course, all of this ultimately resulted in much better-defined CT strike policies, processes, and approaches that I think were largely very, very successful for us.

– Joe Votel

added by MoWali
2 years ago

In some ways the Great War shifted America's thinking about ourselves and redefined our place in the world, we grappled with what we stood for, what we were willing to fight and die for and to defend, principles of freedom and democracy.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Trump is very familiar to Filipinos. Many people have observed that he and Duterte have many things in common -- they are both sexist at best, misogynous at worst. They incite to hate and sometimes to violence, and they tend to divide and conquer, making it us against them, instead of providing a leadership that tries to unite and to heal, but in general, Filipinos are stunned by what's happening in the US. It is familiar to us -- we have a president who tells police to shoot people dead -- but this is the United States. It's always been the guiding light, the values of democracy, the founding fathers' declaration of independence. And for the last three years, we and the world have grappled with who takes global leadership. We are wondering, has democracy failed?

– Maria Ressa

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We as a nation have not yet truly acknowledged and grappled with racism and white supremacy that has tainted this countrys founding, it continues to persist in those deep racial disparities and inequalities today.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Uber's brand image took an even bigger hit than expected as it grappled with a series of scandals and PR disasters in 2017, lyft, which had been rapidly expanding its coverage, seized on the opportunity to brand itself as a more socially conscious alternative.

– Shelleen Shum

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This is something that we grappled with.

– Devin Nunes

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

In the past few weeks, our city has grappled with a crisis all too common in so many other American cities -- the dissolution of trust between communities of color and law enforcement -- following the death of a young black man shot and killed by police officers.

– San Francisco

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

– Bernard Baruch

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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