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This isn’t about politics - it’s an independent, detailed medical report written by John’s primary care doctor based on his latest office visit from last week, anybody baselessly attacking John's doctor or questioning the standards and integrity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center system is grasping at straws because the issue that Dr. Oz staked his whole campaign on just fell apart today. – Gisele Barreto Fetterman	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
He’s got a really good early command of the offense, and he’s doing a really good job in regards to that, there’s little things that he’s doing where you’re seeing a little more security. He’s not a rookie, so he’s being a little more vocal. He looks good. He’s getting more comfortable, obviously grasping the offense. He’s never had trouble grasping the offense, but he was a rookie, so he goes through it. He’s much further ahead at this point than he was a year ago, for sure. – Robert Saleh	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
There’s little things that he’s doing where you’re seeing a little more security. He’s not a rookie, so he’s being a little more vocal. He looks good. He’s getting more comfortable, obviously grasping the offense. He’s never had trouble grasping the offense, but he was a rookie, so he goes through it. He’s much further ahead at this point than he was a year ago, for sure. – The Jets	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
He was grasping at straws and throwing out populist talking points, but there still was no facts or real information behind it, in the chamber, his delivery was frankly awful, and the imagery was not good. – Byron Donalds	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If anything, this conflict has exposed our lack of a viable counter-strategy to Putin's well-thought-out plan, we’re grasping at straws right now. – Rebekah Koffler	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They see what happened in San Francisco this week and know that the way they have been conducting business is no longer viable, they are grasping at straws, and this is the straw they have decided to grasp. They are painting all opposition as fascist and terrorizing. Americans over the course of the last two years have caught on like never before to this tactic. It is going to backfire in a big way. – Bethany Mandel	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They are literally grasping at straws here to come up with something. – Danielle Weston	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If past is prologue, they will not, they'll be muzzled, they'll be suppressed, they will be sidelined, because Donald Trump's looking at an election coming up, in less than 60 days, and Donald Trump's grasping for whatever Donald Trump can get to pretend Donald Trump has been a leader on this issue, when Donald Trump is not. – Kamala Harris	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Mac Love believes Mac Love was unfairly terminated from Mac Love public servant career without the Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan administration grasping what even occurred. – Gary Collins	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Allosaurus might not have been as big as T. rex, but it was no slouch as an apex predator, it was able to hyper-extend its jaw for a super-wide gape. It was a hatchet feeder like a hawk, meaning it would chop into prey with its head. It had long arms with grasping claws and a strong bite force. Track sites suggest it might have been a long-distance hunter that would follow herds for miles to pick off prey. – Stephanie Drumheller	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Math concepts are really hard, it's not a surprise that the general public has a hard time grasping these. – Pam Wasserman	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We're all grasping at straws as to what to do with the earthquake families, obviously, it isn't as large of a movement as after Hurricane Maria. ... But these are hundreds of households who are homeless, who are suffering from PTSD, who have been hit by two traumas -- Hurricane Hurricane Maria and now the earthquakes. – Miguel Rodriguez	Found on CNN 4 years ago
There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge. – Roger Bacon	added by Normando 4 years ago
Lots of smaller ones are grasping at straws, trying to survive as long as they can because the valleys depend on this tourism. – Dominik Siegrist	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The idea that we're making the same kind of progress (as in Colombia) is grasping at straws for justification. – Jason Dempsey	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
For sheer compatibility, collegiality and competence in terms of grasping the nuances of what has to be done in health policy, I can’t think of a better candidate, he’s best understood by his legislative record, he is author of a lot of amendments and bills, but especially the Empowering Patients First Act, because it’s a highly detailed legislative proposal. – Robert Moffit	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Companies that get subsidies through connections are cruising without feeling any competition or fully grasping the technology, i'm afraid robots will walk down the path of China's solar industry, with its market development distorted. – Wang Baomin	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It seems probable that they were slithering, so to speak, though the limbs might still have been used for grasping, snakes have generated fear and fascination since ancient times. – Michael Caldwell	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Instead of grasping the breast and the nipple, the baby could be using a chewing-like motion. – Irene Zoppi	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
To come and be able to sit here — it's incredible, i'm sitting where Paul Revere used to come with his fellow Patriots to devise their plan of attack. You can't recreate this feeling — it's like grasping at smoke. – Michael Raymond-James	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned. – Gautama Buddha	added by anonymous 9 years ago
It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful it is marvelously ineffable. – Vanna Bonta	added by quotable 9 years ago
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. – Henry James	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man. – Erich Fromm	added by anonymous 10 years ago

This isn’t about politics - it’s an independent, detailed medical report written by John’s primary care doctor based on his latest office visit from last week, anybody baselessly attacking John's doctor or questioning the standards and integrity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center system is grasping at straws because the issue that Dr. Oz staked his whole campaign on just fell apart today.

– Gisele Barreto Fetterman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

He’s got a really good early command of the offense, and he’s doing a really good job in regards to that, there’s little things that he’s doing where you’re seeing a little more security. He’s not a rookie, so he’s being a little more vocal. He looks good. He’s getting more comfortable, obviously grasping the offense. He’s never had trouble grasping the offense, but he was a rookie, so he goes through it. He’s much further ahead at this point than he was a year ago, for sure.

– Robert Saleh

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There’s little things that he’s doing where you’re seeing a little more security. He’s not a rookie, so he’s being a little more vocal. He looks good. He’s getting more comfortable, obviously grasping the offense. He’s never had trouble grasping the offense, but he was a rookie, so he goes through it. He’s much further ahead at this point than he was a year ago, for sure.

– The Jets

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

He was grasping at straws and throwing out populist talking points, but there still was no facts or real information behind it, in the chamber, his delivery was frankly awful, and the imagery was not good.

– Byron Donalds

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If anything, this conflict has exposed our lack of a viable counter-strategy to Putin's well-thought-out plan, we’re grasping at straws right now.

– Rebekah Koffler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They see what happened in San Francisco this week and know that the way they have been conducting business is no longer viable, they are grasping at straws, and this is the straw they have decided to grasp. They are painting all opposition as fascist and terrorizing. Americans over the course of the last two years have caught on like never before to this tactic. It is going to backfire in a big way.

– Bethany Mandel

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They are literally grasping at straws here to come up with something.

– Danielle Weston

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If past is prologue, they will not, they'll be muzzled, they'll be suppressed, they will be sidelined, because Donald Trump's looking at an election coming up, in less than 60 days, and Donald Trump's grasping for whatever Donald Trump can get to pretend Donald Trump has been a leader on this issue, when Donald Trump is not.

– Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Mac Love believes Mac Love was unfairly terminated from Mac Love public servant career without the Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan administration grasping what even occurred.

– Gary Collins

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Allosaurus might not have been as big as T. rex, but it was no slouch as an apex predator, it was able to hyper-extend its jaw for a super-wide gape. It was a hatchet feeder like a hawk, meaning it would chop into prey with its head. It had long arms with grasping claws and a strong bite force. Track sites suggest it might have been a long-distance hunter that would follow herds for miles to pick off prey.

– Stephanie Drumheller

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Math concepts are really hard, it's not a surprise that the general public has a hard time grasping these.

– Pam Wasserman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We're all grasping at straws as to what to do with the earthquake families, obviously, it isn't as large of a movement as after Hurricane Maria. ... But these are hundreds of households who are homeless, who are suffering from PTSD, who have been hit by two traumas -- Hurricane Hurricane Maria and now the earthquakes.

– Miguel Rodriguez

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.

– Roger Bacon

added by Normando
4 years ago

Lots of smaller ones are grasping at straws, trying to survive as long as they can because the valleys depend on this tourism.

– Dominik Siegrist

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The idea that we're making the same kind of progress (as in Colombia) is grasping at straws for justification.

– Jason Dempsey

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

For sheer compatibility, collegiality and competence in terms of grasping the nuances of what has to be done in health policy, I can’t think of a better candidate, he’s best understood by his legislative record, he is author of a lot of amendments and bills, but especially the Empowering Patients First Act, because it’s a highly detailed legislative proposal.

– Robert Moffit

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Companies that get subsidies through connections are cruising without feeling any competition or fully grasping the technology, i'm afraid robots will walk down the path of China's solar industry, with its market development distorted.

– Wang Baomin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It seems probable that they were slithering, so to speak, though the limbs might still have been used for grasping, snakes have generated fear and fascination since ancient times.

– Michael Caldwell

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Instead of grasping the breast and the nipple, the baby could be using a chewing-like motion.

– Irene Zoppi

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

To come and be able to sit here — it's incredible, i'm sitting where Paul Revere used to come with his fellow Patriots to devise their plan of attack. You can't recreate this feeling — it's like grasping at smoke.

– Michael Raymond-James

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

– Gautama Buddha

added by anonymous
9 years ago

It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful it is marvelously ineffable.

– Vanna Bonta

added by quotable
9 years ago

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

– Henry James

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

– Erich Fromm

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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