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Whoever comes for discussion on channels seems merely interested in telling that more testing to be done and on the need of mask, medicine, vaccines and ventilators. It reeks out as they are getting a commission for the promotion of these products. – Ground Zero	added by anonymous 4 years ago
I was personally frustrated at WHOs apparent great fear in moving from classifying from epidemic to pandemic, all the more so given all the evidence we had gathered from Chinas experience, historically, a great strength of the WHO was its expertise in consensus building. Here, we neededleadership, not merely consensus building. It is hard for some organizations to act. – Stanley Weiss	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
A heavy-handed government that wishes to use technology to surveil its own citizens or control the narrative by curtailing their free speech and expression is not interested in using technology for the good but merely to control, in such scenarios comparisons with the Chinese authoritarian internet are natural. – Mishi Choudhary	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Profiteer creates drama in life for merely own enjoyment and happiness, but puts its onus on someone else. – Prattik Shaunnik	added by anonymous 4 years ago
Evidence and our investigation does link these two together, i can confirm that he was a neighbor, that he was not a relative. He was not a friend. He was merely a neighbor. – Public Safety Sgt. Evan Antley	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Travelers aren't merely scared of the 737 Max, they're terrified of it. – Henry Harteveldt	Found on CNN 4 years ago
My Republican colleagues, finding My Republican colleagues lack the courage to stand up to this unethical President, have consoled My Republican colleagues by attacking those who do and that's a sad reality but it is where White House is, kevin McCarthy will do whatever President Donald Trump asked President Donald Trump to do. Kevin McCarthy'll merely ask how high Kevin McCarthy wants Kevin McCarthy to jump and then Kevin McCarthy will jump. – Shifty Schiff	Found on CNN 4 years ago
There is no allegation my client touched the complainant in this case, he was merely present when this took place. – Barnard College	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Ultimately though one thing is clear, because we have adduced so much evidence of guilt of this President, so much evidence of serious misconduct, any privilege the President would have would be vitiated by this crime fraud exception. So that will give way, and if it doesn't to quote my colleague Chairman (Jerry) Nadler, it will mean that either Justice Roberts or the Supreme Court itself is not really a conservative justice or court, merely a partisan one. And I have to hope that is not the case for the country's sake. – Adam Schiff	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Respondents' actions were not merely embarrassing on a personal level ; they discredited the entire Indiana judiciary. – Indiana Supreme Court	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Political leaders need to stop treating air pollution as merely an environmental issue and understand that it's a public health emergency. – Gaurav Gogoi	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I was merely voicing one thought, based on one interpretation on a complicated event. I have had a lot of opportunity since that tweet to hear and consider other perspectives, i have always appreciated the significant support our Chinese fans and sponsors have provided and I would hope that those who are upset will know that offending or misunderstanding them was not my intention. – Daryl Morey	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I was merely voicing one thought, based on one interpretation, of one complicated event. – The Rockets ' general manager	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I wish him a lot of success at OGC Nice and in his career. Maybe one day we will come across each other on a pitch and this affair will be merely a bad memory. – Lamine Diaby-Fadiga	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Does( an apparent) rise in incivility complicate problem-solving and lawmaking, more so than ideological divides between the two parties ? or does a rise in incivility merely reflect the increased partisan combustion we see every day on Capitol Hill ? – Sarah Binder	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
With no explanation for what theMooses condition is and boy, is whatTravoltadoing a choice Durstand his main star have, rather than giving us a character, merely offered up a hapless, carnival figure of laughable madness, alternately impossible and improbable. – John Travolta	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. ~ Mahatma Gandhi – Mahatma Gandhi	added by anonymous 4 years ago
We are doing targeted enforcement actions against specific individuals who have had their day in immigration court and have been ordered to be removed by an immigration judge, we are merely executing those lawfully issued judges orders. – Acting ICE Director Matt Albence	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We are merely re-establishing fiscal justice. We want to create taxation for the 21st century that is fair and efficient, we want to impose on these new business models the same rules that apply to all other economic activities. – Le Maire	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It is obvious to anyone with common sense I am not anti-Semitic, i have received many emails of support from my Jewish friends. I'm not anti-Semitic merely because the [ Anti-Defamation League ] says I am. – Ben Garrison	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose. – C. Wright Mills	added by Normando 4 years ago
In fact, it appears that taking the guns was merely an afterthought. – Courtney Irby	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Ghazouani is someone who is very discreet. It could well happen that the change is not merely cosmetic. – Gilles Yabi	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
They have failed to realize that the opposition camp is using them merely as pawns in its maneuvers to reap political gains by damaging the SAR government's credibility and reputation, or that some foreign forces are seizing the opportunity to advance their own strategy to hurt China by trying to create havoc in Hong Kong. – China Daily	Found on Reuters 4 years ago

Whoever comes for discussion on channels seems merely interested in telling that more testing to be done and on the need of mask, medicine, vaccines and ventilators. It reeks out as they are getting a commission for the promotion of these products.

– Ground Zero

added by anonymous
4 years ago

I was personally frustrated at WHOs apparent great fear in moving from classifying from epidemic to pandemic, all the more so given all the evidence we had gathered from Chinas experience, historically, a great strength of the WHO was its expertise in consensus building. Here, we neededleadership, not merely consensus building. It is hard for some organizations to act.

– Stanley Weiss

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

A heavy-handed government that wishes to use technology to surveil its own citizens or control the narrative by curtailing their free speech and expression is not interested in using technology for the good but merely to control, in such scenarios comparisons with the Chinese authoritarian internet are natural.

– Mishi Choudhary

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Profiteer creates drama in life for merely own enjoyment and happiness, but puts its onus on someone else.

– Prattik Shaunnik

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Evidence and our investigation does link these two together, i can confirm that he was a neighbor, that he was not a relative. He was not a friend. He was merely a neighbor.

– Public Safety Sgt. Evan Antley

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Travelers aren't merely scared of the 737 Max, they're terrified of it.

– Henry Harteveldt

Found on CNN
4 years ago

My Republican colleagues, finding My Republican colleagues lack the courage to stand up to this unethical President, have consoled My Republican colleagues by attacking those who do and that's a sad reality but it is where White House is, kevin McCarthy will do whatever President Donald Trump asked President Donald Trump to do. Kevin McCarthy'll merely ask how high Kevin McCarthy wants Kevin McCarthy to jump and then Kevin McCarthy will jump.

– Shifty Schiff

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There is no allegation my client touched the complainant in this case, he was merely present when this took place.

– Barnard College

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Ultimately though one thing is clear, because we have adduced so much evidence of guilt of this President, so much evidence of serious misconduct, any privilege the President would have would be vitiated by this crime fraud exception. So that will give way, and if it doesn't to quote my colleague Chairman (Jerry) Nadler, it will mean that either Justice Roberts or the Supreme Court itself is not really a conservative justice or court, merely a partisan one. And I have to hope that is not the case for the country's sake.

– Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Respondents' actions were not merely embarrassing on a personal level ; they discredited the entire Indiana judiciary.

– Indiana Supreme Court

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Political leaders need to stop treating air pollution as merely an environmental issue and understand that it's a public health emergency.

– Gaurav Gogoi

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I was merely voicing one thought, based on one interpretation on a complicated event. I have had a lot of opportunity since that tweet to hear and consider other perspectives, i have always appreciated the significant support our Chinese fans and sponsors have provided and I would hope that those who are upset will know that offending or misunderstanding them was not my intention.

– Daryl Morey

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I was merely voicing one thought, based on one interpretation, of one complicated event.

– The Rockets ' general manager

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I wish him a lot of success at OGC Nice and in his career. Maybe one day we will come across each other on a pitch and this affair will be merely a bad memory.

– Lamine Diaby-Fadiga

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Does( an apparent) rise in incivility complicate problem-solving and lawmaking, more so than ideological divides between the two parties ? or does a rise in incivility merely reflect the increased partisan combustion we see every day on Capitol Hill ?

– Sarah Binder

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

With no explanation for what theMooses condition is and boy, is whatTravoltadoing a choice Durstand his main star have, rather than giving us a character, merely offered up a hapless, carnival figure of laughable madness, alternately impossible and improbable.

– John Travolta

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

– Mahatma Gandhi

added by anonymous
4 years ago

We are doing targeted enforcement actions against specific individuals who have had their day in immigration court and have been ordered to be removed by an immigration judge, we are merely executing those lawfully issued judges orders.

– Acting ICE Director Matt Albence

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We are merely re-establishing fiscal justice. We want to create taxation for the 21st century that is fair and efficient, we want to impose on these new business models the same rules that apply to all other economic activities.

– Le Maire

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is obvious to anyone with common sense I am not anti-Semitic, i have received many emails of support from my Jewish friends. I'm not anti-Semitic merely because the [ Anti-Defamation League ] says I am.

– Ben Garrison

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

– C. Wright Mills

added by Normando
4 years ago

In fact, it appears that taking the guns was merely an afterthought.

– Courtney Irby

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Ghazouani is someone who is very discreet. It could well happen that the change is not merely cosmetic.

– Gilles Yabi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

They have failed to realize that the opposition camp is using them merely as pawns in its maneuvers to reap political gains by damaging the SAR government's credibility and reputation, or that some foreign forces are seizing the opportunity to advance their own strategy to hurt China by trying to create havoc in Hong Kong.

– China Daily

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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