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Just look at the current condition of New York City and New York State: There’s mayhem in our streets, in our courts, in our jails, we’re headed in the wrong direction. The handwriting is on the wall. Lee Zeldin is the best option for voters. – Robert Holden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
You're walking, it's 1:30 at night, you get something hit in the back, there's mayhem all over because apparently the person was firing shots everywhere, and it was just kind of mayhem from my client's perspective, he turns around, he sees the guy( Middleton) they engage and, boom, he fires a round, which happened to hit him. – Joey Jackson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was offside, and she hit her right after the whistle or during the whistle, depending on who you talk to, i was on the ice and mayhem ensued. – Monique Lamoureux-Morando	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
violence is so american violence is pretty girls guns ‘n danger rape, murder, ‘n mayhem tv above all eats us up ‘n spits us out tells us lies we willingly believe – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
The way our system is set up now, an infection triggers a chain of events and that leads to confusion, disruption, mayhem. But from a medical respect, these people are mainly vaccinated and not going to go to the hospital, we’re in a very different world from a year ago. … It’s not too bad for young, healthy athletes. – Peter Chin-Hong	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There's always the possibility of mischief and mayhem, especially with someone who is hellbent on retribution. – Andrew Gounardes	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We’re all trying to figure out what to do about grades, there is no way to know what mayhem is going on to promote or inhibit performance. – Deborah Alexander	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
China and Russia love nothing more than to see mayhem created in the United States, but they're not stupid enough to create it themselves, if they cozy up to the Taliban government, like it sounds like they're going to, that is the perfect proxy to help fund and foment mayhem in the U.S. without having to have their fingers on it. – John Katko	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
After nearly 75 consecutive nights of violence, destruction, and mayhem, a small group of RRT (Rapid Response Team) officers—including Officer Budworth—were again tasked with dealing with the riot, per PPB Command Staff orders, RRT officers cleared the rioters from the area to allow the Fire Bureau to extinguish the blaze. But the rioters were not satisfied. – The Portland Police Association	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When the announcement was made to defund the police … that just opened the doors to a level of mayhem where taboos were erased, standards were no longer acknowledged because only the cops could be wrong – a citizen couldn’t be wrong, and so, the naivete of the leadership to not understand how the lawless community would exploit their announcement was maddening. – Don Samuels	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If there are people going out and peacefully protesting, we will help facilitate that peaceful protest, but if they are coming to create this mayhem, we are going to address this mayhem. – Adrian Diaz	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The left-wing rioting and mayhem are the direct result of decades of left-wing indoctrination in our schools. It's gone on far too long. – Julian Zelizer	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Theres no real U.S. analog. Its like a mix of CIA and special forces, its trained to make mayhem. The overall goal is to destabilize targeted political systems, including in Europe, to attack the political will to maintain NATO, with other missions as opportunity allows, including the killing of traitors. – Matthew Schmidt	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We come every year, we've never seen it like this before. It's normally mayhem, it was safer for us to stay here. – Jemima Albrecht	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I...hang my head in shame after witnessing video clips of goons merrily entering JNU campus, creating mayhem and grievously injuring innocent students, damaging public property and then exiting the campus. – Rahul Mehra	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Now it is time for every other nation to pick a side. ... Either you stand with the forces of freedom, or you're in league with Maduro and his mayhem, we call on all members of the Security Council to support Venezuela's democratic transition and interim President Guaido's role. – Mike Pompeo	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Now it's time for every other nation to pick a side. No more delays, no more games, either you stand with the forces of freedom, or you're in league with Nicolas Maduro and Nicolas Maduro mayhem. – Mike Pompeo	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Then it was abandoned by its supporters, except for Algeria, in comes Iran, which would export the Islamic revolution everywhere there is mayhem. In the Polisario, Tehran saw an opportunity, so it stepped in. – Nasser Bourita	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Having subtracted myself from this political fracas and all of the mayhem of the digital media, I kind of found the center of the cyclone, it is very peaceful in my bubble of ignorance. – Joe Chandler	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We want the parliament to work. We want it to be constructive. We want to be part of the solution, not part of the problem. So, for those that want to cause maximum mayhem in the parliament we won't be part of that. – Nick Xenophon	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Quite often, in the mayhem which is happening in the Middle East currently, we lose sight of the other positive trends, if we look in the last year, if we took out the Middle East ... the world would have become more peaceful. – Steve Killelea	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We’ve had this problem in other places where people try to instill fear in target audiences by showing all this mayhem, but it actually does the reverse with some. – Quintan Wiktorowicz	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It was mayhem, and it was very intentional, people were flying. This child I saw, literally, hit. And the sound, I'll never forget. – Justin Cochrane	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We heard a couple of noises outside and people started running into the club. We didn't know what was going on. Then maybe five, six guys came in with machine guns and shotguns and just started shooting people. It was mayhem. When anyone started running, they would shoot them down. So we got down on the floor, nick was in front of me when we were lying on the ground and somebody moved and they just turned round and started shooting us. His back was to me and I couldn't see what happened and I tried to keep him talking and then I tried to give him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and [the gunmen] were just sort of in the shadows and they would shoot if anyone said anything. Then he couldn't breathe anymore and I held him in my arms and told him I loved him. – Helen Wilson	Found on CNN 8 years ago

Just look at the current condition of New York City and New York State: There’s mayhem in our streets, in our courts, in our jails, we’re headed in the wrong direction. The handwriting is on the wall. Lee Zeldin is the best option for voters.

– Robert Holden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

You're walking, it's 1:30 at night, you get something hit in the back, there's mayhem all over because apparently the person was firing shots everywhere, and it was just kind of mayhem from my client's perspective, he turns around, he sees the guy( Middleton) they engage and, boom, he fires a round, which happened to hit him.

– Joey Jackson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was offside, and she hit her right after the whistle or during the whistle, depending on who you talk to, i was on the ice and mayhem ensued.

– Monique Lamoureux-Morando

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

violence is so american violence is pretty girls guns ‘n danger rape, murder, ‘n mayhem tv above all eats us up ‘n spits us out tells us lies we willingly believe

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

The way our system is set up now, an infection triggers a chain of events and that leads to confusion, disruption, mayhem. But from a medical respect, these people are mainly vaccinated and not going to go to the hospital, we’re in a very different world from a year ago. … It’s not too bad for young, healthy athletes.

– Peter Chin-Hong

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's always the possibility of mischief and mayhem, especially with someone who is hellbent on retribution.

– Andrew Gounardes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We’re all trying to figure out what to do about grades, there is no way to know what mayhem is going on to promote or inhibit performance.

– Deborah Alexander

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

China and Russia love nothing more than to see mayhem created in the United States, but they're not stupid enough to create it themselves, if they cozy up to the Taliban government, like it sounds like they're going to, that is the perfect proxy to help fund and foment mayhem in the U.S. without having to have their fingers on it.

– John Katko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

After nearly 75 consecutive nights of violence, destruction, and mayhem, a small group of RRT (Rapid Response Team) officers—including Officer Budworth—were again tasked with dealing with the riot, per PPB Command Staff orders, RRT officers cleared the rioters from the area to allow the Fire Bureau to extinguish the blaze. But the rioters were not satisfied.

– The Portland Police Association

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When the announcement was made to defund the police … that just opened the doors to a level of mayhem where taboos were erased, standards were no longer acknowledged because only the cops could be wrong – a citizen couldn’t be wrong, and so, the naivete of the leadership to not understand how the lawless community would exploit their announcement was maddening.

– Don Samuels

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If there are people going out and peacefully protesting, we will help facilitate that peaceful protest, but if they are coming to create this mayhem, we are going to address this mayhem.

– Adrian Diaz

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The left-wing rioting and mayhem are the direct result of decades of left-wing indoctrination in our schools. It's gone on far too long.

– Julian Zelizer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Theres no real U.S. analog. Its like a mix of CIA and special forces, its trained to make mayhem. The overall goal is to destabilize targeted political systems, including in Europe, to attack the political will to maintain NATO, with other missions as opportunity allows, including the killing of traitors.

– Matthew Schmidt

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We come every year, we've never seen it like this before. It's normally mayhem, it was safer for us to stay here.

– Jemima Albrecht

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I...hang my head in shame after witnessing video clips of goons merrily entering JNU campus, creating mayhem and grievously injuring innocent students, damaging public property and then exiting the campus.

– Rahul Mehra

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Now it is time for every other nation to pick a side. ... Either you stand with the forces of freedom, or you're in league with Maduro and his mayhem, we call on all members of the Security Council to support Venezuela's democratic transition and interim President Guaido's role.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Now it's time for every other nation to pick a side. No more delays, no more games, either you stand with the forces of freedom, or you're in league with Nicolas Maduro and Nicolas Maduro mayhem.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Then it was abandoned by its supporters, except for Algeria, in comes Iran, which would export the Islamic revolution everywhere there is mayhem. In the Polisario, Tehran saw an opportunity, so it stepped in.

– Nasser Bourita

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Having subtracted myself from this political fracas and all of the mayhem of the digital media, I kind of found the center of the cyclone, it is very peaceful in my bubble of ignorance.

– Joe Chandler

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We want the parliament to work. We want it to be constructive. We want to be part of the solution, not part of the problem. So, for those that want to cause maximum mayhem in the parliament we won't be part of that.

– Nick Xenophon

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Quite often, in the mayhem which is happening in the Middle East currently, we lose sight of the other positive trends, if we look in the last year, if we took out the Middle East ... the world would have become more peaceful.

– Steve Killelea

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We’ve had this problem in other places where people try to instill fear in target audiences by showing all this mayhem, but it actually does the reverse with some.

– Quintan Wiktorowicz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It was mayhem, and it was very intentional, people were flying. This child I saw, literally, hit. And the sound, I'll never forget.

– Justin Cochrane

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We heard a couple of noises outside and people started running into the club. We didn't know what was going on. Then maybe five, six guys came in with machine guns and shotguns and just started shooting people. It was mayhem. When anyone started running, they would shoot them down. So we got down on the floor, nick was in front of me when we were lying on the ground and somebody moved and they just turned round and started shooting us. His back was to me and I couldn't see what happened and I tried to keep him talking and then I tried to give him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and [the gunmen] were just sort of in the shadows and they would shoot if anyone said anything. Then he couldn't breathe anymore and I held him in my arms and told him I loved him.

– Helen Wilson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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