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And the transparency, even taken to a literal level, where when someone would have Larry Madowo/CNN Ebola, they actually would not just put them in these closed concrete facilities. They made sure that the mother could see the child that was being treated, that community leaders could come to these safe zone areas and see what was going on. – Daniel Griffin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re putting our athletes through a lot of painful literal and figurative hoops and hurdles with really no resolution at the end of it to tell them that this is the standard that is being set for competition, there needs to be a joint effort to determine the metric because athletics and institutions, they go off of metrics and standards that can be applied to the masses. – Shaun Fletcher	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We had to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in a month's time, plus get the girl's passports and visa's during a pandemic, no less, which is a whole other story, we looked into Right to Try when we first were exploring options, but unfortunately it didn't cover what our situation needed, especially because we had so little time on our hands. It was a literal race against time to get Keira this treatment she needed before symptoms started occurring. – Keira Riley	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The antisemitic messages contained in the graffiti found along the Greenbelt put a literal and figurative stain on Boise Parks and Recreation workers community. This will not be tolerated, hate speech is reprehensible. It is not who( Boise Parks and Recreation workers) are as a city and is not part of Boise Parks and Recreation workers shared values. I invite all good people of Boise to stand with me, as I stand with Boise Parks and Recreation workers Jewish neighbors, to rebuke this hate. – Lauren McLean	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's literal pornography, that's the problem. – Stacy Langton	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I’m not anti-gay, I’m not trying to eliminate the LGBTQ book collection, it's literal pornography, that's the problem. – Stacy Langton	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I’ve struggled to find a word that could hold in its meaning both the attack and my experience of it. The closest I found is this: ‘severe or excruciating pain or suffering (of body or mind); anguish, agony, torment; the infliction of such.’ This is a definition of torture, for four hours I experienced literal torture of body and of mind, not knowing if I would survive the next minute—yet needing to find some way to save my life. – Lauret Savoy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think things come to an end and it has been a good run. I don't think we'll be on [ OnlyFans ] for much longer, a lot of guys on the internet — trolls or whatever — are making fun of [ the news ] but they don't understand that this is people's literal livelihood. [ People are ] making six figures and paying federal income taxes off this money. – Maya Morena	Found on CNN 2 years ago
All humans on earth are one. We descend from the same family of common ancestors. We are, in a quite literal sense, siblings, and like siblings we depend on each other's love and care and responsibility. We are interdependent not just in our families and communities, but in nations, and increasingly on a global scale - just as we are also interdependent with nature and the earth. – Alexis karpouzos	added by anonymous 3 years ago
We have seen time and again what happens when the real-world cost of misinformation is disregarded. There is no way to downplay this, there was a literal attack on democracy in the United States, organised on social media, which is an issue of violent extremism. – Prince Harry	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The way he kisses dictators' butts. I mean, the way he ignores that the Uyghurs are in literal concentration camps in Xinjiang right now. He hasn't lifted a finger on behalf of the Hong Kongers, the United States now regularly sells out our allies under his leadership. The way he treats women and spends like a drunken sailor. The ways I criticized President( Barack) Obama for that kind of spending I've criticized President Trump for as well. He mocks evangelicals behind closed doors. His family has treated the presidency like a business opportunity. He's flirted with White supremacists. – Ben Sasse	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Black people have been saying for literal decades that we want a meaningful place inside of the national political dialogue, and meaningful means specific public policy solutions that meet the height of the need and the height of the problem, we have yet to have it in this country, on any side. – Jessica Byrd	Found on CNN 3 years ago
My goal was to have certain moments line up with the words, while leaving others less literal. – Rachel Morrison	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It is hard to believe some of the questions that come up - what about the ball? What about handling in the literal sense? – Werner Kogler	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Jamie Dimon is the literal JPMorgan of the modern world, there is no more feared or revered person today in the world of finance than Jamie Dimon. – Jeffrey Sonnenfeld	Found on CNN 4 years ago
With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. – James Madison	added by Normando 4 years ago
I have never heard anyone say with any serious background in foreign policy, 'Pull all troops out of the Middle East', if she meant pulling our fleet out of the eastern Mediterranean or the Persian Gulf, I think it will be an absolute disaster for American security and American foreign policy ... I hope she didn't mean in a literal sense. – Joe Biden	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Until he says a literal N-word or something like that. Then yeah, I might be pissed, but that is beyond irrelevant to me. – Grant Gaither	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I hope it adds a gritty kind of groundedness, that's like a good punch in the gut, and a literal punch in the gut too, we all get the crap beaten out of us! – Scarlett Johansson	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
In Hong Kong, the guidelines were quite precise in terms of what applicants had to prove in order to get a virtual banking license, more so than in Europe, it will be interesting to see whether MAS goes down a similar route to Hong Kong ... so that the only people who can apply are established companies, rather than literal start ups. – Dan Jones	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
When using a literal name, ensure it accurately describes your product or service. – Oscar Auliq-Ice	added by Auliq-Ice 4 years ago
When choosing a literal brand name, make sure it draws a clear association to the product or service you provide. – Oscar Auliq-Ice	added by Auliq-Ice 4 years ago
When you look at 2016, we had a lot (of the) players that we have now but those are players that barely had 10 caps on the team up to that point. Now I think (the team) is a little more experienced, i understand that when you look at literal terms yes we're defending champions, but I don't feel like going into this tournament we're looking at defending anything because this is four years we're talking about. There's so many things that can change. – Alex Morgan	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Patients with autism... may be more literal, they may not make as much eye contact, but they do have a lot to say, and if you can be a little more patient, it'll be really helpful. – Wendy Ross	Found on CNN 4 years ago

And the transparency, even taken to a literal level, where when someone would have Larry Madowo/CNN Ebola, they actually would not just put them in these closed concrete facilities. They made sure that the mother could see the child that was being treated, that community leaders could come to these safe zone areas and see what was going on.

– Daniel Griffin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re putting our athletes through a lot of painful literal and figurative hoops and hurdles with really no resolution at the end of it to tell them that this is the standard that is being set for competition, there needs to be a joint effort to determine the metric because athletics and institutions, they go off of metrics and standards that can be applied to the masses.

– Shaun Fletcher

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We had to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in a month's time, plus get the girl's passports and visa's during a pandemic, no less, which is a whole other story, we looked into Right to Try when we first were exploring options, but unfortunately it didn't cover what our situation needed, especially because we had so little time on our hands. It was a literal race against time to get Keira this treatment she needed before symptoms started occurring.

– Keira Riley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The antisemitic messages contained in the graffiti found along the Greenbelt put a literal and figurative stain on Boise Parks and Recreation workers community. This will not be tolerated, hate speech is reprehensible. It is not who( Boise Parks and Recreation workers) are as a city and is not part of Boise Parks and Recreation workers shared values. I invite all good people of Boise to stand with me, as I stand with Boise Parks and Recreation workers Jewish neighbors, to rebuke this hate.

– Lauren McLean

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's literal pornography, that's the problem.

– Stacy Langton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’m not anti-gay, I’m not trying to eliminate the LGBTQ book collection, it's literal pornography, that's the problem.

– Stacy Langton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’ve struggled to find a word that could hold in its meaning both the attack and my experience of it. The closest I found is this: ‘severe or excruciating pain or suffering (of body or mind); anguish, agony, torment; the infliction of such.’ This is a definition of torture, for four hours I experienced literal torture of body and of mind, not knowing if I would survive the next minute—yet needing to find some way to save my life.

– Lauret Savoy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think things come to an end and it has been a good run. I don't think we'll be on [ OnlyFans ] for much longer, a lot of guys on the internet — trolls or whatever — are making fun of [ the news ] but they don't understand that this is people's literal livelihood. [ People are ] making six figures and paying federal income taxes off this money.

– Maya Morena

Found on CNN
2 years ago

All humans on earth are one. We descend from the same family of common ancestors. We are, in a quite literal sense, siblings, and like siblings we depend on each other's love and care and responsibility. We are interdependent not just in our families and communities, but in nations, and increasingly on a global scale - just as we are also interdependent with nature and the earth.

– Alexis karpouzos

added by anonymous
3 years ago

We have seen time and again what happens when the real-world cost of misinformation is disregarded. There is no way to downplay this, there was a literal attack on democracy in the United States, organised on social media, which is an issue of violent extremism.

– Prince Harry

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The way he kisses dictators' butts. I mean, the way he ignores that the Uyghurs are in literal concentration camps in Xinjiang right now. He hasn't lifted a finger on behalf of the Hong Kongers, the United States now regularly sells out our allies under his leadership. The way he treats women and spends like a drunken sailor. The ways I criticized President( Barack) Obama for that kind of spending I've criticized President Trump for as well. He mocks evangelicals behind closed doors. His family has treated the presidency like a business opportunity. He's flirted with White supremacists.

– Ben Sasse

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Black people have been saying for literal decades that we want a meaningful place inside of the national political dialogue, and meaningful means specific public policy solutions that meet the height of the need and the height of the problem, we have yet to have it in this country, on any side.

– Jessica Byrd

Found on CNN
3 years ago

My goal was to have certain moments line up with the words, while leaving others less literal.

– Rachel Morrison

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It is hard to believe some of the questions that come up - what about the ball? What about handling in the literal sense?

– Werner Kogler

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Jamie Dimon is the literal JPMorgan of the modern world, there is no more feared or revered person today in the world of finance than Jamie Dimon.

– Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Found on CNN
4 years ago

With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.

– James Madison

added by Normando
4 years ago

I have never heard anyone say with any serious background in foreign policy, 'Pull all troops out of the Middle East', if she meant pulling our fleet out of the eastern Mediterranean or the Persian Gulf, I think it will be an absolute disaster for American security and American foreign policy ... I hope she didn't mean in a literal sense.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Until he says a literal N-word or something like that. Then yeah, I might be pissed, but that is beyond irrelevant to me.

– Grant Gaither

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I hope it adds a gritty kind of groundedness, that's like a good punch in the gut, and a literal punch in the gut too, we all get the crap beaten out of us!

– Scarlett Johansson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In Hong Kong, the guidelines were quite precise in terms of what applicants had to prove in order to get a virtual banking license, more so than in Europe, it will be interesting to see whether MAS goes down a similar route to Hong Kong ... so that the only people who can apply are established companies, rather than literal start ups.

– Dan Jones

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

When using a literal name, ensure it accurately describes your product or service.

– Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
4 years ago

When choosing a literal brand name, make sure it draws a clear association to the product or service you provide.

– Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
4 years ago

When you look at 2016, we had a lot (of the) players that we have now but those are players that barely had 10 caps on the team up to that point. Now I think (the team) is a little more experienced, i understand that when you look at literal terms yes we're defending champions, but I don't feel like going into this tournament we're looking at defending anything because this is four years we're talking about. There's so many things that can change.

– Alex Morgan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Patients with autism... may be more literal, they may not make as much eye contact, but they do have a lot to say, and if you can be a little more patient, it'll be really helpful.

– Wendy Ross

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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