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They didn’t want this smoke, they do all that talking and jockeying and I ain’t about that jockeying. It started with Dillon Brooks. I said he was too small to guard LeBron. – Shannon Sharpe	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Republicans can't go too light. They have to actually ask some really tough questions. At the same time, she is super likable, i don't know many people who will see her speak say, ‘Oh, this is someone who very clearly is very far to the left.’ There's going to be some jockeying back and forth, obviously from the soundbite, but Republicans are going to have to be really careful with this. It's not like we can assume that Joe Biden was going to get a pick to put someone on the court. And we understand it's going to be someone pretty far to the left, and she's going be prepared to make it sound like she's not too far to the left. – Jason Rantz	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There are so many potential players who could be behind it, there is going to be some jockeying for positions of power. That is one big worry. – Laurent Dubois	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
For Democrats, the primary was jockeying to pick the best nominee from a group of friends; the general is confronting and undoing the national trauma and consequences we experience every day from the 2016 election. – Tim Hogan	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The increasingly dirty battle to succeed Mahathir will exacerbate tensions within the ruling coalition, making it harder for the government to reduce the fiscal deficit and boost economic growth, the jockeying for power encourages politically-motivated spending rather than cost cutting. – Peter Mumford	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Where Donald Trump are right now is in a place of considerable uncertainty, clearly, there's a lot of jockeying going on within the administration with pretty sharp contrasts between the positions that people are taking. That's what makes this so unpredictable. Donald Trump don't know where it will end up. – Craig Allen	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Perhaps investors are trying to make a call on what those earnings (next week) will be, they're jockeying for position, in my opinion, our banks still represent fairly good value with respect to the yields they provide. – Allan Small	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We saw lots of volatility in fixed income and currency, but not until the last few weeks have we seen it manifest in equity markets. We’re in a slow-growth mode environment where we have major players jockeying to maintain growth and capture whatever growth they can. It will lead to more volatility in bonds, currency, and stocks as participants grapple with the net impact to profitability. – Lori Heinel	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The complex array of threats and, let's call it geopolitical jockeying, requires all of us to contend with an unpredictable landscape. – Martin Dempsey	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Until it's all said and done they're just jockeying for position back and forth. The negotiation process still isn't over. – Michael Matousek	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I do think that this time he is going to have a lot more competition for the votes. I think that Ted Cruz and Rick Santorum are both really jockeying for that hardcore evangelical vote. – Sam Clovis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

They didn’t want this smoke, they do all that talking and jockeying and I ain’t about that jockeying. It started with Dillon Brooks. I said he was too small to guard LeBron.

– Shannon Sharpe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Republicans can't go too light. They have to actually ask some really tough questions. At the same time, she is super likable, i don't know many people who will see her speak say, ‘Oh, this is someone who very clearly is very far to the left.’ There's going to be some jockeying back and forth, obviously from the soundbite, but Republicans are going to have to be really careful with this. It's not like we can assume that Joe Biden was going to get a pick to put someone on the court. And we understand it's going to be someone pretty far to the left, and she's going be prepared to make it sound like she's not too far to the left.

– Jason Rantz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There are so many potential players who could be behind it, there is going to be some jockeying for positions of power. That is one big worry.

– Laurent Dubois

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For Democrats, the primary was jockeying to pick the best nominee from a group of friends; the general is confronting and undoing the national trauma and consequences we experience every day from the 2016 election.

– Tim Hogan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The increasingly dirty battle to succeed Mahathir will exacerbate tensions within the ruling coalition, making it harder for the government to reduce the fiscal deficit and boost economic growth, the jockeying for power encourages politically-motivated spending rather than cost cutting.

– Peter Mumford

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Where Donald Trump are right now is in a place of considerable uncertainty, clearly, there's a lot of jockeying going on within the administration with pretty sharp contrasts between the positions that people are taking. That's what makes this so unpredictable. Donald Trump don't know where it will end up.

– Craig Allen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Perhaps investors are trying to make a call on what those earnings (next week) will be, they're jockeying for position, in my opinion, our banks still represent fairly good value with respect to the yields they provide.

– Allan Small

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We saw lots of volatility in fixed income and currency, but not until the last few weeks have we seen it manifest in equity markets. We’re in a slow-growth mode environment where we have major players jockeying to maintain growth and capture whatever growth they can. It will lead to more volatility in bonds, currency, and stocks as participants grapple with the net impact to profitability.

– Lori Heinel

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The complex array of threats and, let's call it geopolitical jockeying, requires all of us to contend with an unpredictable landscape.

– Martin Dempsey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Until it's all said and done they're just jockeying for position back and forth. The negotiation process still isn't over.

– Michael Matousek

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I do think that this time he is going to have a lot more competition for the votes. I think that Ted Cruz and Rick Santorum are both really jockeying for that hardcore evangelical vote.

– Sam Clovis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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