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There are sharks that must continue swimming to be able to breathe, as they rely on the forward motion to keep water passing through their gill slits and get oxygen.

Stan Shea

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Viewers will see a normal full moon at first starting at around 10:35 p.m. Eastern time, at that time, the Earth's shadow will begin to pass in front of the moon, blocking almost all of the sun's light from reaching it. Observers will see the moon appear to be progressively' swallowed up' starting from the lower left. This process will end at 11:40 p.m., when the Earth's shadow covers the whole of the moon's surface ; this is the beginning of' totality.' This will last until around 12:40 a.m., when the motion of the Earth's shadow will carry it past the moon, and the moon will gradually again be lit by the sun. At 1:45 a.m., the moon will be fully visible again.

Walter Freeman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Anyone who's working in virtual reality and not considering( motion sickness) is fooling themselves.

Aaron Stanton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

My concern, by the statements made by President Trump, is that you set in motion enthusiasm by the enemy we're fighting, you make people we're trying to held wonder about us. And as they get bolder, people we're trying to help are going to get more uncertain. I saw this in Iraq. And I'm now seeing it in Syria.

Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
5 years ago

My concern, by the statements made by President President Donald Trump, is that you set in motion enthusiasm by the enemy we're fighting. You make people we're trying to help wonder about The US. And as they get bolder, the people we're trying to help are going to get more uncertain. I saw this in Iraq. And I'm now seeing it in Syria, every American wants our troops to come home, but I think all of us want to make sure that when they do come home, we're safe.

Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I say to the president: No more talk, no more tweet. No more commotion, emotion and motion and no results.

Elijah Cummings

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I was not the target of their motion, and yet have somehow become collateral damage.

Michael Lambert

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The star is named in honor of the great American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard, who was a pioneer of stellar photography and astrometry, edward Emerson Barnard recognized that this star had the largest known proper motion a century ago.

Paul Butler

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The best way to block this is through a privileged motion.

Senator Paul

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Michael Avenatti thought Michael Avenatti could gum up the works and file something last minute and the state court would throw up Michael Avenatti hands. The trial judge saw through it and ruled on the merits of our motion.

Eric George

Found on CNN
5 years ago

He said he made a motion, i don’t understand what he was talking about. We’ve never had signals.

Serena Williams

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It was just like one fluid motion, he drank the medication, he went to sleep and he died in six minutes. I think we were all a little surprised he was gone that fast.

Gretchen DeRoche

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Not a single person in the Senate Democratic Caucus has shown the common sense or the sense of right and wrong to support impeachment, there hasn’t been a serious effort to introduce a motion for impeachment in the House since December, that’s eight months ago.

Tom Steyer

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

All of that came to an agreement where we felt like not doing a privileged motion today would be most prudent... and yet brings us all together the first week in September if they do not comply, the speaker is willing to support Chairman Goodlatte in a contempt process if the agreed upon documents are not delivered.

Mark Meadows

Found on CNN
5 years ago

No one should ever doubt United States in meeting its commitments to the mutual defense of the NATO alliance, unfortunately, this motion has become necessary because some of our closest allies have come to question the United States commitment to collective self-defense. President Donald Trump on Tuesday has at times called the alliance' obsolete.' Our allies are starting to wonder whether they can rely on United States to come to their defense in a crisis.

United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I'm actually on my way to the courthouse to file the motion to quash the subpoena on the grounds that special counsel Mueller's appointment by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is unconstitutional.

Paul Kamenar

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This work may be the richest characterization ever conducted of a single patient’s visual system, she has shown this very profound recovery of vision, based on her perception of motion.

Jody Culham

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

She is missing a piece of brain tissue about the size of an apple at the back of her brain – almost her entire occipital lobes, which process vision, we think the ‘super-highway’ for the visual system reached a dead end. But rather than shutting down her whole visual system, she developed some ‘back roads’ that could bypass the superhighway to bring some vision – especially motion – to other parts of the brain.

Jody Culham

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Adding to strife at the convention was the last minute addition of Vice President Pence, the self-titled Evangelical Catholic who invited himself to speak. One member offered a motion to disinvite the vice president. What is said in Washington echoes around the world and having him - Mr. Pence - come further hinders our work, the member said. During his speech, Pence stressed a message of prayer but also a fair dose of politics,listing the administration's accomplishments including the recent summit in North Korea.He then asked for members continued support. As I stand before you today I say with confidence,jobs are back, confidence is back...and under President Donald Trump.

Southern Baptists believing the Bible

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

If they believe this( that the government does not have the legitimacy), they have the means... to question it with a no-confidence motion. Why aren't they doing it ?

Deputy Foreign Minister George Katrougkalos

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I knew as a leader in the building, I had to turn that [panic] to purpose, i had to turn my pain and worry into motion, basically. I had to protect.

Shelly Alexander

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

When you move, you bounce up and down, and the gait motion is an inverted pendulum. If you lift every step thousands of times, it is a whole lot of energy you are expending.

Juliane Douglas

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Even if the motion succeeds, it is unlikely that a (Socialist) minority government would fundamentally challenge European Union fiscal rules or negotiate controversial measures such as a self-determination referendum for Catalonia.

Teneo Intelligence analyst Antonio Barroso

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Even if no successful motion is passed to oust Rajoy, the risk of early elections before the end of the year has increased significantly, if an early election is held before year-end, a centrist, market-friendly and pro-European government would be the most likely result.

Antonio Barroso

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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