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I was so anxious about someone seeing something and giving a child post traumatic stress disorder, I handed my resignation.

Nada Pantle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Recent decisions handed down by [the Coast Guard’s administrative court] on sexual misconduct cases, such as those highlighted in the recent CNN story, are extremely troubling, and I don’t have a lot of confidence the court would do the right thing in my case either.

Hope Hicks

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We can say confidently that we are sending MiGs to Ukraine, we have a dozen or so MiGs that we got in the 90s handed down from the German Democratic Republic and they are functional and play a part in the defense of our airspace. They are at the end of their operational life but are still functional.

Andrzej Duda

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We released border security statistics every month, because the American people deserve to know the realities of the complex and vast threats we face from outside our borders. So now, we have the Biden administration that’s not only handed operational control of our southern border to the cartels who are pushing drugs, criminals and potential terrorists into the U.S., but they continue to lie and cover it up! If they don’t come clean by Tuesday, we will, so now, we have a Biden Administration that's not only put a neon sign on our southern border welcoming terrorists and harboring human traffickers, but they're now lying about it.

Mark Morgan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's kind of interesting how he's trying to walk this back now because he's running for election, trying to center himself to the middle, he was associated with groups, liked tweets and other stuff to show that he wanted ICE abolished and it's really just anti-ICE. He and others have been on this crusade to just take down ICE, demonize ICE agents in every single respect by calling them racists, delegitimizing what they're doing, and treating them like they're doing something heavy-handed, unlawful, when they're simply just doing their job, trying to keep our communities safe and our country safe. … It really is disgraceful.

Jonathan Fahey

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This provides a strong incentive for them to undertake heavy-handed, extreme preemptive measures, in the coming month and a half, we're going to see more cities under lockdown.

Yanzhong Huang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Wisconsin Democrats took a pretty heavy-handed approach( to Covid-19), everyone knew who their governor was and many of them have not been satisfied with how their states have recovered post-pandemic.

Jesse Hunt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We're very happy to add Tony to our team, and I know he is very excited to join the Flyers, we did our due diligence, and we strongly believe in Tony and his ability to help our team. He is a right-handed shot who moves the puck extremely well and will drive offense from the back end for us.

Chuck Fletcher

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I’m a little over it. I mean it stinks, to get that close and then kind of come up empty-handed, that’s a great outing. I’ll be real proud that I gave the bullpen kind of another night off. I know we need it with the doubleheader. I’m happy – but deep down it kind of stinks.

Miles Mikolas

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

That was the only acceptable sentence, in the state's view, for the horrific crime that Gregory Ulrich committed, the verdict that this fine jury handed down holds Gregory Ulrich accountable for the horrific crime that Gregory Ulrich committed.

Wright County

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A non-sport-trained clinician might say something like,' Well if your sport is stressing you out so much, why not just quit ?' that's like asking them to not be right-handed.

Chris Bader

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I worry that this has become a politically charged issue that doesn't allow for even-handed consideration of the relevant facts.

Dali Yang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Two weeks ago, she hid me behind her back when clashes erupted by Damascus Gate, and said to me :' Mother, come here. I'm so worried about you' and handed me a bottle of water. I loved Shireen. She was the voice of all Palestinians.

Nafisa Khwais

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Shireen is my daughter. Her parents died, but we are all her parents. We are all her family, two weeks ago, she hid me behind her back when clashes erupted by Damascus Gate, and said to me :' Mother, come here. I'm so worried about you' and handed me a bottle of water. I loved Shireen. She was the voice of all Palestinians.

Nafisa Khwais

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ultimately the local government officials have no choice but to do this heavy-handed approach in order to get things done in these circumstances.

Yanzhong Huang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There is a long, unpleasant American tradition of agencies being taken over by virtue of picking the members. It's called agency capture or regulatory capture. my concern is that the picking of the justices has been handed to special interests.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A non-sport-trained clinician might say something like,' Well if Michael Phelps sport is stressing Michael Phelps out so much, why not just quit ?' that's like asking them to not be right-handed.

Chris Bader

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In most democracies and with people around the world, they fight for their democracy, and there’s a lot of bloodshed, ukraine in 1991, didn't have that. We were handed that for free … I think to a certain extent, we did not know what to do with democracy because it was handed to us. And so because of that, we made a lot of mistakes as a country.

Roman Sheremeta

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The gun was supposed to be empty ; I was told I was handed an empty gun, there's only one question to be resolved... only one. And that is, where did the live round come from ?

Alec Baldwin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If the legislature goes down that route I think that would be very beneficial, it would strike a good balance between penalizing the politicians who flouted the law but also not doing that in a way that’s ham handed and may deprive some innocent school kid of the ability to participate in a certain program.

Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Just last month, the CDC released data that demonstrated natural immunity was 3-4 times as effective in preventing COVID-19 compared with vaccination, the Biden Administration needs to release the full data on natural immunity from HHS instead of imposing heavy-handed mandates and confusing guidance that have gotten in the way of our recovery. Americans deserve full transparency and answers.

Mike Braun

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think White House should burn down and I'm not saying that -- I'm not telling anyone to, but I'm just saying -- I literally believe that a bolt of lightning should hit the White House and light White House on fire before White House's handed over. his role in the pro-Trump political space, connecting politicians, influencers, and activists, means that his words matter a great deal.

Jared Holt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's no circumstance that I think is legitimate that Joe Biden should enter White House, i think White House should burn down and I'm not saying that -- I'm not telling anyone to, but I'm just saying -- I literally believe that a bolt of lightning should hit the White House and light White House on fire before White House's handed over.

Baron Coleman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

With both sides in agreement, the baby will be handed over to his grandfather.

Hamid Malang

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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