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One of the things that has been my struggle for the last 15 or more years in this area is that there just aren't enough college presidents out there who are willing to stand up and take a stand on this issue, to be role models, to set a level of expectation for their students, to stand up to their alumni, to just do the right thing to save lives, and I struggle to know why. I've struggled with that for a long time, believe me, I'm not against alcohol. I'm not a prohibitionist. I just have seen too many instances where alcohol consumption amongst young people has caused terrible tragedy.

Jonathan Gibralter

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We are starting to see some instances where banks are being put in a fairly difficult position of either following their money, finding an alternative capital source or calling time on companies. That is going to drive some transactions in the market.

Jo Clark

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our memory consists of bits and pieces which have made their imprint on our dreams and our life. All those fragments have enlightened or darkened the sky and the horizon of our existence. They are all instances that we don't want to forget or splinters that we can't obliterate. The mind collects them and by recalling, interpreting or idealizing them, the actuality very often becomes corroded. We experience then a "mutilated memory".--

Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
8 years ago

Statutes of limitations exist to ensure a just verdict can be reached, over time witnesses' memories fade, evidence is lost or never found, and in many instances perpetrators or witnesses may be deceased.

Amy Hill

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

With what happened with him and other instances of violence across the country, we enacted security protocols, i'm very concerned that someone would come in the building with weapons. He was carrying knives and explosives. This really illustrates to me that the security protocols that we have in place work.

Julie Burkhart

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In many instances they resort to eating cattle and human beings.

Jean Kapata

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In the instances we were able to observe them, they had very specific organizations and projects in mind that they were pursuing, and the broad spectrum of industry verticals they targeted indicated they were more of a surgical tool used to take specific things from specific organizations, rather than the smash and grab, take everything type.

Aaron Hackworth

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Some Thai officials are complicit in trafficking crimes and corruption continues to undermine anti-trafficking efforts, in some instances, corrupt officials on both sides of land borders accept payment from smugglers involved in the movement of migrants between Thailand and some neighboring countries ... some of these migrants subsequently become trafficking victims.

The State Department

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I want to join in those who are calling for greater security at our recruiting centers and military installations, we’ve had numerous instances of attacks. Clearly, they are a target, and for us to have unarmed military personnel makes no sense.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

In some instances, actual costs, such as the cost to transport tissue to leading research centers, are reimbursed, which is standard across the medical field.

Planned Parenthood

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Having retired from the accounting profession and the computer enhancement industry, [I know] there is a shortage of qualified people to perform bookkeeping-computer work and that the wages and flexible time schedules can be very attractive for part-timers.In many instances the work can be performed at home for those who have computers and prefer being in a quiet environment.

Michael Bivona

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

In a few instances, new evidence is discovered and, on rare occasions, mistakes are found, whenever we receive new credible information that may exonerate a person, the responsibility is on us, as prosecutors, to re-examine the facts and, if appropriate, to seek to vacate a wrongful conviction.

District Attorney Jackie Lacey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He's been a friend of mine for a long time and he sent me unsolicited emails, which I passed on in some instances.

Hillary Clinton

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think a lot of people today feel a lot of gratitude toward veterans and at the same time we really want to do everything we can to protect them and this is one of those instances where we’re identifying education and protection gaps that hopefully we will act on, melanoma is on the rise, more people are dying from it, yet is the number one preventable cancer. This [population] could be subtext of that trend.

Jennifer Powers

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This is a trial. We've been trialing this technology since late last year. It really has been successful. We've had over 70 instances of this kit being triggered. We've had 50 people being charged with offences. And as we roll it out now to other trains it's proving even more successful.

Howard Collins

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There were rare instances of women whose lung function improved significantly, but most improved with stabilization.

Robert Kotloff

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

He's been a friend of mine for a long time. He sent me unsolicited emails, which I passed on in some instances, and that's just part of the give-and-take, when you're in the public eye, when you're in an official position, I think you do have to work to make sure you're not caught in a bubble and you only hear from a certain small group of people.

Bill Clinton

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We have detected several instances where investors in a fund were not aware that another investor negotiated priority co-investment rights.

Marc Wyatt

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There's no excuse for the kind of violence ... It is counterproductive, since Ferguson ... we have seen too many instances of what appears to be police officers interacting with individuals -- primarily African-American, often poor -- in ways that have raised troubling questions.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Since Ferguson ... we have seen too many instances of what appears to be police officers interacting with individuals -- primarily African-American, often poor -- in ways that have raised troubling questions.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Since Ferguson and the task force that we put together, we have seen too many instances of what appears to be police officers interacting with individuals, primarily African American, often poor, in ways that raise troubling questions, and it comes up, it seems, like once a week now or once every couple of weeks.

Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Hillary Clinton's family's charities are refiling at least The Five annual tax returns after a Reuters review found errors … [ which ] generally take the form of under-reporting or over-reporting, by millions of dollars, donations from foreign governments, or in other instances omitting to break out government donations entirely when reporting revenue.

Bret Baier

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The good news is that, in addition to having doctors and nurses, public health officials, schools of medicine joining together to raise awareness -- and to in some cases impact their practice -- they anticipate, for example, increased asthma instances, and plan ahead of time to deal with those, what we have is companies like Google and Microsoft that are going to take data we're releasing and start developing apps so that, potentially, individual families are going to be able to monitor the air quality in their communities in a real-time basis.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I think there are instances where religious activities are over-regulated, but in my estimation that does not outweigh the chance that somebody uses religion to do what Jesus would not want to be done in his name, which is to discriminate against somebody and offend a brother or sister.

Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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