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To the nearly 2.2 million women in Michigan whose access to abortion hangs in the balance, I promise you this : I will fight like hell to make sure abortion remains safe, legal, and accessible in our state. – Gretchen Whitmer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If Newsom wins big, he may feel emboldened. If he barely hangs on, Democrats may feel they have to make changes to keep it from happening again, it’s a tougher argument to make changes if recall does succeed. Then it looks like if they lose, they change the rules. – Jon Coupal	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This time in which we feel like we are living in exile, a land made strange by a pandemic the likes of which no one living has ever seen. A land made strange by an economic turn down. A land made strange by a kind of political speech and rhetoric that continues to reach new lows. A land made strange when we witnessed the unthinkable as the very house of the people was attacked by those who are driven by the worst impulses, stirred up by demagogues, this strange time of exile, this strange time of spiritual exhaustion, this strange time in which the soul of our nation hangs in the balance. – Raphael WarnockThe	Found on CNN 3 years ago
David Pottier said of United States. Thepandemic has wreaked havoc across the world, infecting 6.6 million people, killing over 391,000 and devastating economies.It poses a particular threat to the elderly like the surviving D-Day veterans who are in their late nineties or older. It has also affected the younger generations who turn out every year to mark the occasion. Most have been barred from traveling to the windswept coasts of American Normandy. In this photo taken on Thursday, June 4, 2020, two people stop to look at an information board at Omaha Beach in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, American Normandy, France. In sharp contrast to the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this year's 76th will be one of the loneliest remembrances ever, as the coronavirus pandemic is keeping nearly everyone from traveling. ( AP Photo/Virginia Mayo) Some 160,000 soldiers made the perilous crossing from England that day in atrocious conditions, storming dunes which they knew were heavily defended by German troops determined to hold their positions. Somehow, they succeeded. Yet they left a trail of thousands of casualties who have been mourned for generations since. Last year stood out, with U.S. President Donald Trump joining his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron at the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, on a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach. A smattering of veterans were honored with the highest accolades. All across the beaches of American Normandy tens of thousands came from across the globe to pay their respects to the dead and laud the surviving soldiers. The acrid smell of wartime-era jeep exhaust fumes and the rumble of old tanks filled the air as parades of vintages vehicles went from village to village. The tiny roads between the dunes, hedges and apple orchards were clogged for hours, if not days. FILE - In this Thursday, June 6, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, French Donald Trump Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Macron, watch a flyover during a ceremony to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day at the American Normandy cemetery, in Colleville-sur-Mer, American Normandy, France. In sharp contrast to the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this year's 76th will be one of the loneliest remembrances ever, as the coronavirus pandemic is keeping nearly everyone from traveling. ( AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) Heading into the D-Day remembrance weekend this year, only the salty brine coming off the ocean on Omaha Beach hits the nostrils, the shrieks of seagulls pierce the ears and a sense of desolation hangs across the regions country roads. Last year this place was full with jeeps, trucks, people dressed up as soldiers. – Eric Angely	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We've done some work with operators, where you can take a cell site build process that would normally take eight hours to multiple days, and through automation, the operator just goes out, hangs the radio and plugs it in, and it automatically brings itself up, it makes it a 15-minute process. The more you can do that, the quicker we can roll out. – Bob Everson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We appreciate the patience of all the people who are using the system and we just hope that everyone hangs in there, it's just a matter of us making things happen. – The City Clerk	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It could have been worse if I had not stayed on top of it, and let it default altogether, i try to keep it out of my mind, but it constantly hangs over my head. The only advice I have for others is 'stay out of debt, and don't take out student loans.'. – Allen Lomax	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good. – Marcus Aurelius	added by Normando 4 years ago
She enjoys the music. She hangs out with peers. She watches what's going on, she's 99 now -- and she's looking toward 100. – Eleanor Feldman Barbera	Found on CNN 5 years ago
This should concern every senator and every American and frankly hangs over this confirmation hearing for Judge Kavanaugh. – Chris Coons	Found on CNN 5 years ago
He just hangs out. He comes out and sees me when I’m working in the shed, i don’t trouble him and he doesn’t trouble me. – The Gold	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Wilkie also served in the Pentagon under Donald Rumsfeld, worked for Condoleezza Rice and had years of experience on Capitol Hill working for Sens. Thom Tillis and Trent Lott. In his new office, Wilkie now hangs a portrait of Gen. Omar Bradley, the first secretary of Veterans Affairs after World War II, and has chosen Bradley's desk as his own. Omar Bradley was tasked with changing VA to accommodate 11 million soldiers coming off active duty and into Veterans Affairs ranks, he was really a visionary. – Omar Bradley	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Trump EPA chief Scott Pruitt has been a bit sycophantic to The President, trump EPA chief Scott Pruitt's been doing whatever The President wanted and remains one of his favorite Cabinet members. So I'm sure more revelations will be coming, with different Inspector General reports, OMB reports, administration reports. But Trump EPA chief Scott Pruitt hangs on. – Washington Post reporter Josh Dawsey	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The Iran deal is garbage because it is dead in 10 to 12 years, it should be tossed for that reason alone. It provides no concrete solution to the nuclear question that hangs over the Middle East – and remains an existential threat to Israel. – The Israeli official	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
He certainly talks about regret and remorse and the pain he caused, … It’s not like he hangs up the phone and there’s a whole support system there. He’s in prison. It was extremely difficult to get that interview… [but] he hung in there. That was not an easy ask, given his circumstances and given what we were asking him to relive. – Nancy Saslow	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We should be giving this person a hearing and an up or down vote, to not do so is violative of the United States Constitution. Now the tables are turned. Senate Republicans are in control of the Senate and the White House, and while a confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch hangs in the balance, the hypocrisy of The Democrats is on full display. Chuck Schumer, not the Senate Minority Leader, has had a change of heart. The Democrats intend to filibuster Judge Neil Gorsuch, meaning The Democrats ’ll need 60votes or a change of Senate rules to get through. – Corey Booker	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It is unseemly to be moving forward so fast on confirming a Supreme Court justice with a lifetime appointment while this big gray cloud of an FBI investigation hangs over the presidency, you can bet if the shoe were on the other foot and a Democratic president was under investigation by the FBI the Republicans would be howling at the moon about filling a Supreme Court seat in such circumstances. Elizabeth Warren added on Twitter :. – Chuck Schumer	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Charleston does not hold the same magic for me anymore, now going back, it’s just a cloud that hangs over. Even though the sun is shining, to me I see the gray. – Sharon Risher	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
If Republicans cave, I mean, this would be more the end of the Republican Party than Donald Trump, because going back to Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, the Supreme Court has been the issue of the Republican Party. It comes up in every presidential campaign, every Congressional campaign, every even numbered year. If the Republicans were then to say this year - after years of saying, 'The Supreme Court hangs in the balance, you must vote Republican' - 'Hey, we're going to go through with this,' it would be game over. – Erick Erickson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The ones that we have on the market now are very, very safe; they are very different from the ones that came out in the ‘80s, [like] the DalkonShield that did have a high risk of pelvic inflammatory disease, one of the main differences was that it had a braded filament--a piece of string that hangs into the vagina-- and bacteria lived in the crevices in the string, which increased the risk of getting pelvic inflammatory disease, which can lead to scarring and blocked fallopian tubes. This caused a scare and caused companies to pull all IUDs [off the shelves] except for the copper IUD. But today, the string is much smoother so the bacteria can’t cling on as easily. – Lisa Dabney	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Given the cloud that hangs over our association this is clearly not the time for the global athletics family to be gathering in celebration. – Sebastian Coe	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
As long as DCG (the data center group) hangs in there, I think the stock will probably go up from here. – Chris Rolland	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If there is damage and loss of life, you will see the political climate absolutely change overnight, when and if that happens, you will have a cloud that hangs over the energy sector for the rest of our lives. – Jason Murphey	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I hope a plan can come together here in the next few days, because I think the longer this hangs out there, the harder it becomes and the more it complicates passage of TPP. – Republican Senator John Thune	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

To the nearly 2.2 million women in Michigan whose access to abortion hangs in the balance, I promise you this : I will fight like hell to make sure abortion remains safe, legal, and accessible in our state.

– Gretchen Whitmer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If Newsom wins big, he may feel emboldened. If he barely hangs on, Democrats may feel they have to make changes to keep it from happening again, it’s a tougher argument to make changes if recall does succeed. Then it looks like if they lose, they change the rules.

– Jon Coupal

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This time in which we feel like we are living in exile, a land made strange by a pandemic the likes of which no one living has ever seen. A land made strange by an economic turn down. A land made strange by a kind of political speech and rhetoric that continues to reach new lows. A land made strange when we witnessed the unthinkable as the very house of the people was attacked by those who are driven by the worst impulses, stirred up by demagogues, this strange time of exile, this strange time of spiritual exhaustion, this strange time in which the soul of our nation hangs in the balance.

– Raphael WarnockThe

Found on CNN
3 years ago

David Pottier said of United States. Thepandemic has wreaked havoc across the world, infecting 6.6 million people, killing over 391,000 and devastating economies.It poses a particular threat to the elderly like the surviving D-Day veterans who are in their late nineties or older. It has also affected the younger generations who turn out every year to mark the occasion. Most have been barred from traveling to the windswept coasts of American Normandy. In this photo taken on Thursday, June 4, 2020, two people stop to look at an information board at Omaha Beach in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, American Normandy, France. In sharp contrast to the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this year's 76th will be one of the loneliest remembrances ever, as the coronavirus pandemic is keeping nearly everyone from traveling. ( AP Photo/Virginia Mayo) Some 160,000 soldiers made the perilous crossing from England that day in atrocious conditions, storming dunes which they knew were heavily defended by German troops determined to hold their positions. Somehow, they succeeded. Yet they left a trail of thousands of casualties who have been mourned for generations since. Last year stood out, with U.S. President Donald Trump joining his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron at the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, on a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach. A smattering of veterans were honored with the highest accolades. All across the beaches of American Normandy tens of thousands came from across the globe to pay their respects to the dead and laud the surviving soldiers. The acrid smell of wartime-era jeep exhaust fumes and the rumble of old tanks filled the air as parades of vintages vehicles went from village to village. The tiny roads between the dunes, hedges and apple orchards were clogged for hours, if not days. FILE - In this Thursday, June 6, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, French Donald Trump Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Macron, watch a flyover during a ceremony to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day at the American Normandy cemetery, in Colleville-sur-Mer, American Normandy, France. In sharp contrast to the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this year's 76th will be one of the loneliest remembrances ever, as the coronavirus pandemic is keeping nearly everyone from traveling. ( AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) Heading into the D-Day remembrance weekend this year, only the salty brine coming off the ocean on Omaha Beach hits the nostrils, the shrieks of seagulls pierce the ears and a sense of desolation hangs across the regions country roads. Last year this place was full with jeeps, trucks, people dressed up as soldiers.

– Eric Angely

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We've done some work with operators, where you can take a cell site build process that would normally take eight hours to multiple days, and through automation, the operator just goes out, hangs the radio and plugs it in, and it automatically brings itself up, it makes it a 15-minute process. The more you can do that, the quicker we can roll out.

– Bob Everson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We appreciate the patience of all the people who are using the system and we just hope that everyone hangs in there, it's just a matter of us making things happen.

– The City Clerk

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It could have been worse if I had not stayed on top of it, and let it default altogether, i try to keep it out of my mind, but it constantly hangs over my head. The only advice I have for others is 'stay out of debt, and don't take out student loans.'.

– Allen Lomax

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

– Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
4 years ago

She enjoys the music. She hangs out with peers. She watches what's going on, she's 99 now -- and she's looking toward 100.

– Eleanor Feldman Barbera

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This should concern every senator and every American and frankly hangs over this confirmation hearing for Judge Kavanaugh.

– Chris Coons

Found on CNN
5 years ago

He just hangs out. He comes out and sees me when I’m working in the shed, i don’t trouble him and he doesn’t trouble me.

– The Gold

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Wilkie also served in the Pentagon under Donald Rumsfeld, worked for Condoleezza Rice and had years of experience on Capitol Hill working for Sens. Thom Tillis and Trent Lott. In his new office, Wilkie now hangs a portrait of Gen. Omar Bradley, the first secretary of Veterans Affairs after World War II, and has chosen Bradley's desk as his own. Omar Bradley was tasked with changing VA to accommodate 11 million soldiers coming off active duty and into Veterans Affairs ranks, he was really a visionary.

– Omar Bradley

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Trump EPA chief Scott Pruitt has been a bit sycophantic to The President, trump EPA chief Scott Pruitt's been doing whatever The President wanted and remains one of his favorite Cabinet members. So I'm sure more revelations will be coming, with different Inspector General reports, OMB reports, administration reports. But Trump EPA chief Scott Pruitt hangs on.

– Washington Post reporter Josh Dawsey

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The Iran deal is garbage because it is dead in 10 to 12 years, it should be tossed for that reason alone. It provides no concrete solution to the nuclear question that hangs over the Middle East – and remains an existential threat to Israel.

– The Israeli official

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

He certainly talks about regret and remorse and the pain he caused, … It’s not like he hangs up the phone and there’s a whole support system there. He’s in prison. It was extremely difficult to get that interview… [but] he hung in there. That was not an easy ask, given his circumstances and given what we were asking him to relive.

– Nancy Saslow

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We should be giving this person a hearing and an up or down vote, to not do so is violative of the United States Constitution. Now the tables are turned. Senate Republicans are in control of the Senate and the White House, and while a confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch hangs in the balance, the hypocrisy of The Democrats is on full display. Chuck Schumer, not the Senate Minority Leader, has had a change of heart. The Democrats intend to filibuster Judge Neil Gorsuch, meaning The Democrats ’ll need 60votes or a change of Senate rules to get through.

– Corey Booker

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It is unseemly to be moving forward so fast on confirming a Supreme Court justice with a lifetime appointment while this big gray cloud of an FBI investigation hangs over the presidency, you can bet if the shoe were on the other foot and a Democratic president was under investigation by the FBI the Republicans would be howling at the moon about filling a Supreme Court seat in such circumstances. Elizabeth Warren added on Twitter :.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Charleston does not hold the same magic for me anymore, now going back, it’s just a cloud that hangs over. Even though the sun is shining, to me I see the gray.

– Sharon Risher

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

If Republicans cave, I mean, this would be more the end of the Republican Party than Donald Trump, because going back to Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, the Supreme Court has been the issue of the Republican Party. It comes up in every presidential campaign, every Congressional campaign, every even numbered year. If the Republicans were then to say this year - after years of saying, 'The Supreme Court hangs in the balance, you must vote Republican' - 'Hey, we're going to go through with this,' it would be game over.

– Erick Erickson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The ones that we have on the market now are very, very safe; they are very different from the ones that came out in the ‘80s, [like] the DalkonShield that did have a high risk of pelvic inflammatory disease, one of the main differences was that it had a braded filament--a piece of string that hangs into the vagina-- and bacteria lived in the crevices in the string, which increased the risk of getting pelvic inflammatory disease, which can lead to scarring and blocked fallopian tubes. This caused a scare and caused companies to pull all IUDs [off the shelves] except for the copper IUD. But today, the string is much smoother so the bacteria can’t cling on as easily.

– Lisa Dabney

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Given the cloud that hangs over our association this is clearly not the time for the global athletics family to be gathering in celebration.

– Sebastian Coe

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As long as DCG (the data center group) hangs in there, I think the stock will probably go up from here.

– Chris Rolland

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If there is damage and loss of life, you will see the political climate absolutely change overnight, when and if that happens, you will have a cloud that hangs over the energy sector for the rest of our lives.

– Jason Murphey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I hope a plan can come together here in the next few days, because I think the longer this hangs out there, the harder it becomes and the more it complicates passage of TPP.

– Republican Senator John Thune

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind)

A integrity

B bias

C relocation

D scrutiny