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It is always amazing to me how anyone who holds the faith can ask what we get out of the Mass. What we get out, is the risen Christ. What he does is explode our tiny ways and small minds to bring them into a dimension of existence that is sometimes resisted because it can be terrifying. The risen Christ is not a 'nice man'. He is certainly not the sentimentalized Jesus who never makes demands that bring us beyond our very selves and turn the world inside out. – Francis Cardinal George, OMI	added by anonymous 8 years ago
A person of integrity oversees himself or herself. For Christians, the principle of integrity, what holds us together, is faith. The belief that a provident God accompanies us on every step of life’s journey and in everything we do keeps us from doing anything that cannot be done in God’s company and with the help of His grace. – Francis Cardinal George, OMI	added by anonymous 8 years ago
So, overall, they do have a shot at maintaining their margins around 9 to 10 percent if the luxury end of the market in China holds up. – James Chao	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Rosemont has never made an apology for the people they hire, the mayor holds any employees who happen to be related to him to a much higher standard than others. – Gary Mack	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We say so often ... do black lives matter? And at the end of the day, we have to ask ourselves, do all lives matter -- regardless of race, creed, color, economic status, what profession that person holds? All lives matter, this is just a reminder of how dangerous this job is. – Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think it was big for him and big for us, we know what kind of pitcher he is. He's got the track record and got everything we want in a pitcher. he throws strikes, works fast, he holds runners well. He's a big boost to our rotation. – Trevor Plouffe	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It looks like the key strut that holds down one of the helium bottles failed. As a result, the helium bottle would have shot to the top of the tank at high speed, it failed five times below its nominal strength, which is pretty crazy. – Chief Executive Musk	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The great thing about doing KISS meets Scooby Doo is because of the length of it, as opposed to just a short, animated piece, we really got a chance to flesh it out, and we had people working who wanted a cohesive script. Whereas, I have to say with 'KISS Meets the Phantom,' to this day, I am not sure what that's about. But this holds together really well, and it is very true to Scooby-Doo and very true to us. – Paul Stanley	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The same options available to me today will be available to any U.S. president in the future, i have no doubt that 10 or 15 years from now, the person who holds this office will be in a far stronger position with Iran further away from a weapon. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The argument that holds the least water with me is 'other countries do it, so should we,' gOOD THING. – Paul Ryan	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The most beautiful painting holds by a hard nail. (La plus belle peinture - Tient par un clou dur.) – Charles de LEUSSE	added by anonymous 8 years ago
I believe this will provide us with an opportunity for a positive re-rating of the company, it will simplify the business and make it easier to understand, which is what holds back many investors in the UK market from considering the PLC right now. – Tom Albanese	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The ANC holds the view that the International Criminal Court is no longer useful for the purposes for which it was intended, countries, mainly in Africa and Eastern Europe ... continue to unjustifiably bear the brunt of the decisions of the ICC, with Sudan being the latest example. – The ANC	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
OPM says it has undertaken an aggressive effort to update its cybersecurity posture, plainly, it must do a better job, especially given the sensitive nature of the information it holds. – Ron Johnson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Our father holds on hoping to hold Amir in his arms again, but fearful that he will not. – Sarah Hekmati	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The UNHCR is making final preparations for a huge airlift of humanitarian aid into Yemen's Sanaa, to take place over the next days if today's proposed ceasefire comes into effect and holds. – Adrian Edwards	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The company holds together operationally due to an intense management focus and disciplined financial control. But it hardly looks in good shape to withstand a downturn. – Max Warburton	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Now, it’s amazing— he stands up and holds his head up straight, in Sambany’s case, I didn’t know what kind of person he is. It turns out he should probably run for office: He’s gregarious, and laughs and shakes people’s hands, and [is] a really nice guy. But you’d never know this because seeing him with this giant mass was kind of frightening, and he couldn’t do much more than just try to get through the day. – Gary Parker	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The past three to four weeks have been very strong, the market seems to have passed fundamental and technical tests, if it holds in the 4,100-4,200 area, you could see 4,500 (soon). – Sanyalak Manibhandu	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
And certainly the concentrated wealth and accumulated power and the systematic deregulation of Wall Street has led to this situation where the economy isn't working for most of us. All of that is true, but it is not true that regulation holds poor people down or regulation keeps middle class from advancing. That's kind of patently bulls---. – Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley	Found on CNN 9 years ago
While we learned last year that the absence of the Ike's Tree... did not impact scoring average on the hole, who knows what the future holds or what future chairmen might decide to do with these priceless specimens. – Chairman Billy Payne	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
This man’s life story holds the key to why he saw his entire existence unraveling, if that’s what occurred, and why he began to question the value of his existing for anyone. – Keith Ablow	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Tradition holds people back at times, they should be allowed to march, definitely. – Robert Paton	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's hard to ridicule somebody for something that you continue to use in your music, every (hip-hop) artist is using the n-word in their music -- hit records with the n-word in it. You can't be upset when somebody says it. You can't. It's hard to differentiate when you can use it. If we don't want the word used and the word holds such a negative connotation, then we shouldn't use it at all, period. – The Trinidad-born rapper	Found on CNN 9 years ago

It is always amazing to me how anyone who holds the faith can ask what we get out of the Mass. What we get out, is the risen Christ. What he does is explode our tiny ways and small minds to bring them into a dimension of existence that is sometimes resisted because it can be terrifying. The risen Christ is not a 'nice man'. He is certainly not the sentimentalized Jesus who never makes demands that bring us beyond our very selves and turn the world inside out.

– Francis Cardinal George, OMI

added by anonymous
8 years ago

A person of integrity oversees himself or herself. For Christians, the principle of integrity, what holds us together, is faith. The belief that a provident God accompanies us on every step of life’s journey and in everything we do keeps us from doing anything that cannot be done in God’s company and with the help of His grace.

– Francis Cardinal George, OMI

added by anonymous
8 years ago

So, overall, they do have a shot at maintaining their margins around 9 to 10 percent if the luxury end of the market in China holds up.

– James Chao

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Rosemont has never made an apology for the people they hire, the mayor holds any employees who happen to be related to him to a much higher standard than others.

– Gary Mack

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We say so often ... do black lives matter? And at the end of the day, we have to ask ourselves, do all lives matter -- regardless of race, creed, color, economic status, what profession that person holds? All lives matter, this is just a reminder of how dangerous this job is.

– Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think it was big for him and big for us, we know what kind of pitcher he is. He's got the track record and got everything we want in a pitcher. he throws strikes, works fast, he holds runners well. He's a big boost to our rotation.

– Trevor Plouffe

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It looks like the key strut that holds down one of the helium bottles failed. As a result, the helium bottle would have shot to the top of the tank at high speed, it failed five times below its nominal strength, which is pretty crazy.

– Chief Executive Musk

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The great thing about doing KISS meets Scooby Doo is because of the length of it, as opposed to just a short, animated piece, we really got a chance to flesh it out, and we had people working who wanted a cohesive script. Whereas, I have to say with 'KISS Meets the Phantom,' to this day, I am not sure what that's about. But this holds together really well, and it is very true to Scooby-Doo and very true to us.

– Paul Stanley

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The same options available to me today will be available to any U.S. president in the future, i have no doubt that 10 or 15 years from now, the person who holds this office will be in a far stronger position with Iran further away from a weapon.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The argument that holds the least water with me is 'other countries do it, so should we,' gOOD THING.

– Paul Ryan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The most beautiful painting holds by a hard nail. (La plus belle peinture - Tient par un clou dur.)

– Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
8 years ago

I believe this will provide us with an opportunity for a positive re-rating of the company, it will simplify the business and make it easier to understand, which is what holds back many investors in the UK market from considering the PLC right now.

– Tom Albanese

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The ANC holds the view that the International Criminal Court is no longer useful for the purposes for which it was intended, countries, mainly in Africa and Eastern Europe ... continue to unjustifiably bear the brunt of the decisions of the ICC, with Sudan being the latest example.

– The ANC

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

OPM says it has undertaken an aggressive effort to update its cybersecurity posture, plainly, it must do a better job, especially given the sensitive nature of the information it holds.

– Ron Johnson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our father holds on hoping to hold Amir in his arms again, but fearful that he will not.

– Sarah Hekmati

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The UNHCR is making final preparations for a huge airlift of humanitarian aid into Yemen's Sanaa, to take place over the next days if today's proposed ceasefire comes into effect and holds.

– Adrian Edwards

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The company holds together operationally due to an intense management focus and disciplined financial control. But it hardly looks in good shape to withstand a downturn.

– Max Warburton

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Now, it’s amazing— he stands up and holds his head up straight, in Sambany’s case, I didn’t know what kind of person he is. It turns out he should probably run for office: He’s gregarious, and laughs and shakes people’s hands, and [is] a really nice guy. But you’d never know this because seeing him with this giant mass was kind of frightening, and he couldn’t do much more than just try to get through the day.

– Gary Parker

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The past three to four weeks have been very strong, the market seems to have passed fundamental and technical tests, if it holds in the 4,100-4,200 area, you could see 4,500 (soon).

– Sanyalak Manibhandu

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

And certainly the concentrated wealth and accumulated power and the systematic deregulation of Wall Street has led to this situation where the economy isn't working for most of us. All of that is true, but it is not true that regulation holds poor people down or regulation keeps middle class from advancing. That's kind of patently bulls---.

– Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley

Found on CNN
9 years ago

While we learned last year that the absence of the Ike's Tree... did not impact scoring average on the hole, who knows what the future holds or what future chairmen might decide to do with these priceless specimens.

– Chairman Billy Payne

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

This man’s life story holds the key to why he saw his entire existence unraveling, if that’s what occurred, and why he began to question the value of his existing for anyone.

– Keith Ablow

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Tradition holds people back at times, they should be allowed to march, definitely.

– Robert Paton

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's hard to ridicule somebody for something that you continue to use in your music, every (hip-hop) artist is using the n-word in their music -- hit records with the n-word in it. You can't be upset when somebody says it. You can't. It's hard to differentiate when you can use it. If we don't want the word used and the word holds such a negative connotation, then we shouldn't use it at all, period.

– The Trinidad-born rapper

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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