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Asians were put into a movie or TV mainly as a gimmick, we were never thought of playing the main roles, the leading people. That's the way it was.

James Hong

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In both cases they receive consular visits once every month, exactly 30 minutes, with someone there watching all the discussion, these mainly serve to give them news of their family, and give them books and other reading material. It's very difficult for them, they are waiting and they have no idea when and how they might be released.

Michael Kovrig

Found on CNN
3 years ago

At some level, the majority of physicists believe that Einsteins theory of gravity, called general relativity, is correct. However, that belief is mainly based on observations of phenomena taking place in regions of space with weak gravity, while Einsteins theory of gravity is meant to explain phenomena taking place near really strong gravitational fields, neutron stars and black holes are the objects that have the strongest known gravitational fields, so any test of gravity that involves these objects really test the heart of Einsteins gravity theory.

Sharon Morsink

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We've invited parents that have a medical background to be a part of that committee, and we're looking at all aspects of not only our transport, our buses, but our classrooms, our facilities, the interaction of when a visitor, mainly a parent, comes into the front office of a school.

Grenita Lathan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Before that time, if a patient asked about the link between food and acne, most dermatologists would have advised them that it wasn't an important factor, this was mainly based on studies from the 1960s, which compared sugary chocolate bars to sugary non-chocolate bars and found no difference in acne.

Rajani Katta

Found on CNN
3 years ago

New York City last night was much better, the protesters were mainly peaceful, the police officers had the resources and the capacity to do their job.

Andrew Cuomo

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Anything with cheese, mainly because he gets to eat it.

Ashley Wian

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Everyone's lost their energy due to the coronavirus and these dark times, so we wanted to cheer them up, also, Japanese fireworks started out mainly as a way of throwing off bad fortune, and so these are our two goals.

Hiroshi Oguchi

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

... but it will be very gradual and deliberate. And of course were taking steps to make sure were in compliance with state and local regulations, and NFL and CDC guidelines. That means primarily employees that must be in the office to do their jobs : people who need to access files that are only at the office ; maintenance workers ; trainers ; and technology workers. Those people will have their temperature taken when entering the building and must wear personal protective equipment. The Colts have set up one-way hallways with arrows on the carpet pointing to the proper direction, and there will be limits on how many people can be in rooms at the same time. Coach Frank Reich was realistic about a full return to the training complex. The guys who have been hurt, who have been coming into the building, keep coming in and rehabbing and doing their thing, other than that, as soon as we can get more players in the building we want that to make up for a little bit of lost time. The sooner we can get together and get out there working, the better it will be. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones took part in an owners conference call from the teams practice facility, The Star. About two dozen staffers were present at the complex. The Steelers are doing a soft reopening Tuesday mainly for medical personnel and rehabbing players. They expect to ramp up use of their facility next week under league guidelines. As the Cardinals reopen, only essential staffers will be involved, far fewer than the 75 allowed at the facility. The Super Bowl champion Chiefs also opted for a soft opening, as did the Falcons, with only about 15 people at their complex on Tuesday. Those numbers will increase over the next week.

Frank Reich

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The study makes the assumption that it is reasonable to gather together studies from the other two major coronavirus epidemics of the last 20 years — SARS and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome — and to combine these with the relatively limited data so far available about the effects of Covid-19 upon mental health, it is probably legitimate to do so, but a casual glance at the paper may suggest that the paper is mainly about Covid-19, whereas most of the data come from the earlier virus outbreaks.

Tom Dening

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The APAC region mainly India, MENA, South East Asia including China are key focus areas for Engineer.Ai to expand their presence into, building a stronger base for all Builder offerings”

Sachin Duggal

added by engineer.ai
4 years ago

The fact that it's mainly droplet-based and that it survives quite a long time on surfaces means that these fomites are going to be a really important route of transmission, we need more hand awareness and actions that are incompatible with touching Your Face.

Robert West

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We think investors at the point of retirement are thinking mainly about the balance of risks that they're likely to experience in the future, our goal is to help them maintain their standard of living in retirement.

Andrew Dierdorf

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I mainly took the photo for two reasons. Firstly, to send it to my partner, to tell her that I had finished my shift at work and that I was on my way home, slightly bruised, secondly, to show it to my 1-year-old daughter when she will have grown up. I will be telling her about this moment.

Nicola Sgarbi

Found on CNN
4 years ago

People are starting to get worried, and especially on this cruise, on this cruise, it's mainly really elderly people.

Sharon Lane

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If the decline in February was mainly driven by sapping Chinese demand, exports would fall even worse in March and April as negative perceptions over Made-in-Korea products spread.

Lee Sang-jae

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Per-day exports were seen subdued especially in the second half of February, if the decline in February was mainly driven by sapping Chinese demand, exports would fall even worse in March and April as negative perceptions over Made-in-Korea products spread.

Lee Sang-jae

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Political fiat rather than market mechanisms will dictate flows, baseloads for the new refineries are mainly Middle Eastern grades so U.S. flows will likely push out West African or North Sea oil (of similar quality).

Michal Meidan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It mainly only comes up after we're done talking about everything else, it's just in the background.

Larry Nearhood

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We got this little leopard with a gunshot wound, an operation was carried out and 18 shotgun pellets were removed, mainly from his forehead, eyes and sinuses.

Saltanat Seitova

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Most of the research has so far examined synthetically extracted cannabis compounds, mainly THC and CBD, this, however, can not give us clear indication for how cannabis affects sleep in the daily lives of most cannabis users.

Sharon Sznitman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Living birds shoot up to adult size very quickly, mainly as a way of getting strong enough to fly as soon as they can. But they may delay getting their adult feathers for a long time. Gulls, for example, don't look like adults for three or four years even though they learn to fly in only three months.

Ashley Poust

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We have so many Filipinos working mainly in the Middle East. I am nervous. Iran seems to be hell-bent on a retaliation, which I think will come.

President Rodrigo Duterte

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

What sets us apart from the fundamentalist groups is that we dont claim priesthood authority and prophets and apostles outside of the Mormon Church, we mainly believe the Mormon church is out of order and thats why were excommunicated.

Dawna Ray Langford

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

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