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Many try to be “on” as leaders & happy to be “off stage” but truly those that live their lives as leaders do not have to try to be the one & being worth a hollow follow on social media... it is not the same as being worth a soul commitment in a no shadows real life… – Chase Leblanc	added by leadagers 1 year ago
This is a devastating and dangerous violation of the rights and privacy of transgender Utahns, their families, and their medical providers, claims of protecting our most vulnerable with these laws ring hollow when lawmakers have trans children’s greatest protectors – their parents, providers, and the youth themselves – pleading in front of them not to cut them off from their care. – Chase Strangio	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go. – Jamie Anderson	added by Normando 1 year ago
I'd never seen him like this, the eyes were hollow. Just that first glance was brutal. – Paul Cryil Westhead	Found on CNN 1 year ago
During this whole stretch of time, Alex Jones content itself has been essentially hollow, watching Alex Jones from my perspective has gotten a lot less interesting. – Dan Friesen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We've modeled our ByBlocks around the dimensions of a hollow cement block. Each is a 16 inch by 8 inch by 8 inch unit. – Heidi Kujawa	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I am the biggest threat to your hollow, hateful scheme, because you can't claim that you are targeting marginalized kids in the name of' parental rights' if another parent is standing up to say no. So, then what ? Then you dehumanize and marginalize me. – Mallory McMorrow	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The question is PNTR, which is absent. And then they had some other stuff on the WTO in there, which is kind of hollow if we don't do PNTR, so, I probably would not support it because it doesn't have the key things that you need for a proper trade response. – Mike Crapo	Found on CNN 2 years ago
That mention of border and immigration security was lip service. Nothing more. No vision, no strategy, just a wish list and another hollow push for immigration reform legislation. I think the President may have forgotten he has authority to fix the crisis NOW. – Getty Images	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Fresh attempts to expose Russian ‘red line’ deterrence as hollow – whether on the ground, in the air, or at sea – would push Moscow to defend what it cannot give up without losing its self-respect, this would almost inevitably lead to clashes and casualties, which would carry the risk of further escalation. Should this happen, Russia-NATO confrontation would deteriorate literally to the point of brinkmanship, a truly bleak scenario. – Dmitri Trenin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If you had done the obvious and saw the problem as it's manifesting itself -- it's no accident that you're facing an avalanche of criticism following that first trip you made to Guatemala and then to Mexico, she's declaring victory but it seems kind of hollow when the reality is so jarring compared to what she's actually accomplished. – Geraldo Rivera	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The tweet by the Washington Redskins rings hollow to me. If the team was really interested in standing in solidarity for racial justice, they would change their name from the dictionary-defined racial slur they continue to use. As an indigenous person, I feel their tweet comes off as tone-deaf, not woke. Violence comes in many forms, some more subtle than others. Indigenous Peoples are not your mascots. – Roberto Mukaro Borrero	added by oirrc 3 years ago
There are little hollow hairs in that fluffy, hairy material, it's not going to reach out and bite you, but if someone brushes up against that hair, it'll release toxins that you'll have a reaction to. – Theresa Dellinger	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Threatening to boycott Chinese goods or ban Chinese apps could potentially harm China, but it's a bit of a hollow threat unless India has got alternatives in place, china makes the things that India wants to buy. – Gareth Price	Found on CNN 3 years ago
While death and injury tolls continue to rise, steps taken so far will remain hollow if not completed. The people must be served and protected, not violently oppressed. – Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert	Found on CNN 4 years ago
What we plan is to turn them into hollow blocks and bricks and sell them to interested companies. – Walfredo Dimaguila	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The idea that the Administration is now going to sanction Turkey to protect the Kurdish people rings totally hollow, this is nothing but an effort to stop the Congress from taking action to try to prevent further loss of life and get a Turkish withdrawal. – Van Hollen	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Racism -- in any of its forms -- is never acceptable, not in the 1960s and not now, governor Ivey's actions were reprehensible and are deeply offensive. Governor Ivey words of apology ring hollow if not met with real action to bridge the racial divide. – Terri Sewell	Found on CNN 4 years ago
If we vote for it today, how are we going to be better off tomorrow or the next day ? without a substantive change in policy, the proposal is hollow. – Keith Waring	Found on CNN 5 years ago
He raised issues that mattered, unlike PM Modi, who indulged in hollow rhetoric. – Sanjay Jha	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It is patently false to say the Department had not engaged the board, when as recently as January 8 we were working with the board to renew their charter, schedule a meeting and fill vacancies, their hollow and dishonest political stunt should be a clear indicator of the intention of this group. – Interior Department spokeswoman Heather Swift	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Zazen is the dragons roar. This dragons roar is the wind passing and whistling through a hollow tree. This can be a metaphor for your Zazen practice and or even your life. If you can let go, greatly let go, this dragons roar can manifest through you. It is much bigger than the individual. – Shoryu Bradley	added by anonymous 6 years ago
I have always had doubts about the Saudi family. I always suspected that they are hypocrites and this is now confirmed with what they are doing with this Un-Islamic blockade. These Saudis are from the stock of desert Arabs and are no different from the time of the Messenger of Allâh. Please note I am referring to the leadership known as the Saudi family, not the people of Arabia, which is the proper name of that area mentioned in the Divine Book. Sissi is the same, an enemy of Islam and a hypocrite in the extreme. He is in bed with the yahud and proud of that. He toppled a good man Muhammad Morsi who is a Muslim who I respect. These evil persons do not truly believe in Al-Qur’ân because if they did they would fear the warnings in Allâh’s Book, but because they don’t they do what they want. I quote the following verses from the Divine Book, Al-Qur’ân that I feel are appropriate to these Munafikoon: Surah number 9 ayah 101. “Certain of the desert Arabs round about you are Hypocrites, as well as (desert Arabs) among the Medina folk: they are obstinate in hypocrisy: thou knowest them not: WE (i.e. Allâh) know them: twice shall WE (i.e. Allâh) punish them: and in addition shall they be sent to a grievous penalty.” Surah Munafikoon number 63 ayah 4. “When thou lookest at them, their exteriors please thee; and when they speak thou listenest to their words. They are as (worthless as hollow) pieces of timber propped up, (unable to stand on their own). They think that every cry is against them. They are the enemies; so beware of them. The curse of Allâh be on them! How are they deluded (away from the Truth)!” Surah number 5 verse 32. “On that account: WE (i.e. Allâh) ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief In the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our (i.e. Allâh’s) messengers with Clear Signs (ayat) , yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses In the land.” Surah 6 ayah 151. “Say: Come, I (i.e. Muhammad) will rehearse what Allâh hath (really) prohibited you from: join not anything as equal with him; be good to your parents; kill not your children on a plea of want;- WE (i.e. Allâh) provide sustenance for you and for them;- come not nigh to shameful deeds, whether open or secret; take not life, which Allâh hath made sacred, except by way of justice and law: thus doth HE (i.e. Allâh) command you, that ye may learn wisdom.” These Munafikoon are destined for hell because the Saudis are killing believers in Yemen, Sissi is killing them in Egypt etc. Surah 4 ayah 93. “If a person kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell, to abide therein (for ever): and the wrath and the curse of Allâh are upon him, and a dreadful penalty is prepared for him.” – Ahmed Moosa	added by anonymous 6 years ago
Who, in after life, can help smiling at the fancies in which early anticipation revelled ; how absurd, how impossible, do they not now appear! Yet, in such mockery lurks much of bitterness : the laugh rings hollow from many a disappointment, and many a mortification. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon	added by Madeleine Quinn 7 years ago

Many try to be “on” as leaders & happy to be “off stage” but truly those that live their lives as leaders do not have to try to be the one & being worth a hollow follow on social media... it is not the same as being worth a soul commitment in a no shadows real life…

– Chase Leblanc

added by leadagers
1 year ago

This is a devastating and dangerous violation of the rights and privacy of transgender Utahns, their families, and their medical providers, claims of protecting our most vulnerable with these laws ring hollow when lawmakers have trans children’s greatest protectors – their parents, providers, and the youth themselves – pleading in front of them not to cut them off from their care.

– Chase Strangio

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.

– Jamie Anderson

added by Normando
1 year ago

I'd never seen him like this, the eyes were hollow. Just that first glance was brutal.

– Paul Cryil Westhead

Found on CNN
1 year ago

During this whole stretch of time, Alex Jones content itself has been essentially hollow, watching Alex Jones from my perspective has gotten a lot less interesting.

– Dan Friesen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We've modeled our ByBlocks around the dimensions of a hollow cement block. Each is a 16 inch by 8 inch by 8 inch unit.

– Heidi Kujawa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am the biggest threat to your hollow, hateful scheme, because you can't claim that you are targeting marginalized kids in the name of' parental rights' if another parent is standing up to say no. So, then what ? Then you dehumanize and marginalize me.

– Mallory McMorrow

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The question is PNTR, which is absent. And then they had some other stuff on the WTO in there, which is kind of hollow if we don't do PNTR, so, I probably would not support it because it doesn't have the key things that you need for a proper trade response.

– Mike Crapo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That mention of border and immigration security was lip service. Nothing more. No vision, no strategy, just a wish list and another hollow push for immigration reform legislation. I think the President may have forgotten he has authority to fix the crisis NOW.

– Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Fresh attempts to expose Russian ‘red line’ deterrence as hollow – whether on the ground, in the air, or at sea – would push Moscow to defend what it cannot give up without losing its self-respect, this would almost inevitably lead to clashes and casualties, which would carry the risk of further escalation. Should this happen, Russia-NATO confrontation would deteriorate literally to the point of brinkmanship, a truly bleak scenario.

– Dmitri Trenin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If you had done the obvious and saw the problem as it's manifesting itself -- it's no accident that you're facing an avalanche of criticism following that first trip you made to Guatemala and then to Mexico, she's declaring victory but it seems kind of hollow when the reality is so jarring compared to what she's actually accomplished.

– Geraldo Rivera

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The tweet by the Washington Redskins rings hollow to me. If the team was really interested in standing in solidarity for racial justice, they would change their name from the dictionary-defined racial slur they continue to use. As an indigenous person, I feel their tweet comes off as tone-deaf, not woke. Violence comes in many forms, some more subtle than others. Indigenous Peoples are not your mascots.

– Roberto Mukaro Borrero

added by oirrc
3 years ago

There are little hollow hairs in that fluffy, hairy material, it's not going to reach out and bite you, but if someone brushes up against that hair, it'll release toxins that you'll have a reaction to.

– Theresa Dellinger

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Threatening to boycott Chinese goods or ban Chinese apps could potentially harm China, but it's a bit of a hollow threat unless India has got alternatives in place, china makes the things that India wants to buy.

– Gareth Price

Found on CNN
3 years ago

While death and injury tolls continue to rise, steps taken so far will remain hollow if not completed. The people must be served and protected, not violently oppressed.

– Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert

Found on CNN
4 years ago

What we plan is to turn them into hollow blocks and bricks and sell them to interested companies.

– Walfredo Dimaguila

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The idea that the Administration is now going to sanction Turkey to protect the Kurdish people rings totally hollow, this is nothing but an effort to stop the Congress from taking action to try to prevent further loss of life and get a Turkish withdrawal.

– Van Hollen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Racism -- in any of its forms -- is never acceptable, not in the 1960s and not now, governor Ivey's actions were reprehensible and are deeply offensive. Governor Ivey words of apology ring hollow if not met with real action to bridge the racial divide.

– Terri Sewell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If we vote for it today, how are we going to be better off tomorrow or the next day ? without a substantive change in policy, the proposal is hollow.

– Keith Waring

Found on CNN
5 years ago

He raised issues that mattered, unlike PM Modi, who indulged in hollow rhetoric.

– Sanjay Jha

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It is patently false to say the Department had not engaged the board, when as recently as January 8 we were working with the board to renew their charter, schedule a meeting and fill vacancies, their hollow and dishonest political stunt should be a clear indicator of the intention of this group.

– Interior Department spokeswoman Heather Swift

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Zazen is the dragons roar. This dragons roar is the wind passing and whistling through a hollow tree. This can be a metaphor for your Zazen practice and or even your life. If you can let go, greatly let go, this dragons roar can manifest through you. It is much bigger than the individual.

– Shoryu Bradley

added by anonymous
6 years ago

I have always had doubts about the Saudi family. I always suspected that they are hypocrites and this is now confirmed with what they are doing with this Un-Islamic blockade. These Saudis are from the stock of desert Arabs and are no different from the time of the Messenger of Allâh. Please note I am referring to the leadership known as the Saudi family, not the people of Arabia, which is the proper name of that area mentioned in the Divine Book. Sissi is the same, an enemy of Islam and a hypocrite in the extreme. He is in bed with the yahud and proud of that. He toppled a good man Muhammad Morsi who is a Muslim who I respect. These evil persons do not truly believe in Al-Qur’ân because if they did they would fear the warnings in Allâh’s Book, but because they don’t they do what they want. I quote the following verses from the Divine Book, Al-Qur’ân that I feel are appropriate to these Munafikoon: Surah number 9 ayah 101. “Certain of the desert Arabs round about you are Hypocrites, as well as (desert Arabs) among the Medina folk: they are obstinate in hypocrisy: thou knowest them not: WE (i.e. Allâh) know them: twice shall WE (i.e. Allâh) punish them: and in addition shall they be sent to a grievous penalty.” Surah Munafikoon number 63 ayah 4. “When thou lookest at them, their exteriors please thee; and when they speak thou listenest to their words. They are as (worthless as hollow) pieces of timber propped up, (unable to stand on their own). They think that every cry is against them. They are the enemies; so beware of them. The curse of Allâh be on them! How are they deluded (away from the Truth)!” Surah number 5 verse 32. “On that account: WE (i.e. Allâh) ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief In the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our (i.e. Allâh’s) messengers with Clear Signs (ayat) , yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses In the land.” Surah 6 ayah 151. “Say: Come, I (i.e. Muhammad) will rehearse what Allâh hath (really) prohibited you from: join not anything as equal with him; be good to your parents; kill not your children on a plea of want;- WE (i.e. Allâh) provide sustenance for you and for them;- come not nigh to shameful deeds, whether open or secret; take not life, which Allâh hath made sacred, except by way of justice and law: thus doth HE (i.e. Allâh) command you, that ye may learn wisdom.” These Munafikoon are destined for hell because the Saudis are killing believers in Yemen, Sissi is killing them in Egypt etc. Surah 4 ayah 93. “If a person kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell, to abide therein (for ever): and the wrath and the curse of Allâh are upon him, and a dreadful penalty is prepared for him.”

– Ahmed Moosa

added by anonymous
6 years ago

Who, in after life, can help smiling at the fancies in which early anticipation revelled ; how absurd, how impossible, do they not now appear! Yet, in such mockery lurks much of bitterness : the laugh rings hollow from many a disappointment, and many a mortification.

– Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

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