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Right now, there is no plume, there is no product being off-gassed from the fire itself, what we have coming off of it is mainly a white smoke or some steam. We have no plume. We have a slight wind, which is kind of pushing things out.

Richmond Fire Chief Tim Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I got into it mainly through falling in love with a young lady of Mexican descent from Texas Monthly. And she introduced me to breakfast tacos, and she downright forced me to eat cow tongue. … I was head over heels for both the food and the girl.

Courtesy José Ralat Ralat

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m going to Africa mainly to talk with African leaders about what we as the United States are prepared to do to have our role in investing in the future of that continent.

Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We identified (the pollution) mainly comes from fishing nets, which is very common debris on Trinidade Island’s beaches, the (nets) are dragged by the marine currents and accumulate on the beach. When the temperature rises, this plastic melts and becomes embedded with the beach’s natural material.

Fernanda Avelar Santos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I reiterate my public apology on behalf of all those who ruled the country for years, but mainly personally, i therefore assume responsibility. And we cannot, we do not want to, we must not hide behind a series of human errors.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Indigenous Peoples are asked to give up their lands for the wind industry, mining, and other purposes to save the world from a crisis mainly created by others.

Eirik Larsen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The economy is showing signs of resilience, mainly due to consumer spending, and rates are increasing, overall housing costs are also increasing and therefore impacting inflation, which continues to persist.

Sam Khater

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mainly, there are attempts to reconnoiter the territory of Belarus with the help of drones, we registered more than 400 instances of such attempts last year. Ukrainian forces sent drones alongside the border with Belarus, at times violating the air space. Technical means available for defense of Belarus allow us to counter such means of reconnaissance. Often such drones are forced to land in Belarus.

Anton Bychkovski

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Primary ticketing companies, including Ticketmaster, do not set ticket prices. We do not decide how many tickets go on sale and when. And, we do not set service fees. Pricing and distribution strategies are determined by the artists. Service fees, even if they're called ticketing fees, are retained mainly by the venues and their portion of the service fee.

Joe Berchtold of Live Nation

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

But not all parts of Scandinavia received the same amounts of gene flow from these areas. For example, while British-Irish ancestry became widespread in Scandinavia, the eastern Baltic ancestry mainly reached Gotland and central Sweden.

Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Republicans, we say we do n’t play ‘ identity politics ’ and then you ran this man mainly because he was the same skin color as his opponent with no background other than football, a boring old Republican could have won.

Christian Walker

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The most important factor is to call for elections, give people the right to choose their leaders, give the younger generation the opportunity to be represented in the system and to have their opinion heard, at this time, [ the youth ] come to only one conclusion, they will hear you only if you use guns. And that is, of course, a dangerous situation for which not only The Palestinian Authority is responsible, but mainly it is Israel that is responsible for creating this situation.

Mustafa Barghouti

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mortality generally, mainly since the 1950s, has changed rather slowly.

Bob Anderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is important to emphasize that the study mainly shows modest but significant improvement in short-term memory, but does not show clear effects on long-term memory since the test was based on word recall only a minute or so after learning the words, cognitive experts would say what you recall from an hour ago is long-term memory.

Rudy Tanzi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The withdrawal was a complete failure, they wanted the disastrous pullout forgotten about and they wanted the 13 that were killed to be forgotten about, mainly because they were so young.

Shana Chappell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Russian citizens travel to European Union mainly via Finland and Estonia. The official services of the countries are under enormous pressure. Russia is controlled by KGB legacy structures, which exploit the openness of the Schengen countries for various operations.

Rasa Juknevičienė

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Washburn fire is a relatively small, very slow moving surface fire, burning mainly at low intensity in mild to moderate fire weather, including in dense forests with no forest management history and an abundance of live and dead trees, this underscores what John Muir Project and hundreds of scientists have been saying for years: it’s not primarily about the density of live or dead trees, it’s about the weather and climate, and climate change.

Scott Applewhite

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The explanation is simple: while you might take some guns away from criminals, if you primarily have law-abiding people obeying the ban, you mainly disarm law-abiding people and make it easier for criminals to commit crime.

John Lott

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Dilapidated condition of Indian economy is such these days that first there are no Jobs and whatever little vacancy you see in newspaper is that for driver, fitter, welder, electricians, accounts assistants, teachers but nothing for white collar mainly for MBAs, B Tech or highly qualified people. No job advertisement is seen from Mutual Fund, Insurance, Banking or Big Industries. Governments jobs are almost never seen

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheispatel
1 year ago

The notion of editorial independence from ownership only dates back to the 1930s. Prior to that time the media was openly biased and that includes the Press that the founding fathers dealt with. Some of the founders like Hamilton and Franklin had actually ran media outlets that were very biased. You used to have things like Newspapers that openly proclaimed they were a Democratic or Republican or Whig or a Federalist newspaper right on the banner. The concept of an independent and allegedly neutral press was and still is mainly pushed by people from the left who do NOT want anything remotely neutral, but who instead want to make sure those evil business interests don't have a means of getting their side aired without it being filtered by their idea of what a neutral press consists of.

John Dobbins

added by Normando
1 year ago

Even though the North’s nuclear and missile capabilities are mainly to deter a strike from the U.S. or South Korea, they also allow North Korea to deter any attempt from China to influence its decisions, i think that Beijing's uneasiness with Pyongyang's nuclear tests shows that North Korea has pursued this, and its missile programs regardless of China's views.

Ramon Pacheco Pardo

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

General public dread to tread in the stock market to invest money in shares because of mainly major brokerage firms who are known for misappropriating, manipulating and misguiding their clients only and SEBI protecting them

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_1
1 year ago

The president of Mexico is a critical actor obviously in terms of United States -RSB- relations but also in terms of issues The US wants to discuss at the summit in Los Angeles, mainly migration.

Eric Farnsworth

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Vanity, oh hey. Hello! Camera on a phone that's a snatch in the day long been stolen in a cliche' 100 in a 120 moment of Bipolarity; have enough confidence to not only be Intelligent, Vintea's tea cups never looked so _________. Who laughed at everything and mainly has 2 looks. -this was not photographed and documented today- #2022 #runningformisspetiteUSA #crownup #dewup #glitter-jey #winxandeverythangfabulous #areyourhandscleanvictoria #wheresyoupearlsatheidi #heyshelbywheresyourgoldenhairat

Talesa Marie Chartrand

added by lilbabyteaze
1 year ago

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