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It was very nerve-wracking and a real barrier of entry because I thought it would be too hard. – Joey Gonzalez	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Beijing’s Golden Share initiative is about embedding the Chinese Communist Party within the nerve-centers of China’s most important internet-content companies, it’s about achieving pervasive surveillance, censorship and policing capabilities from the inside out. – Alex Capri	Found on CNN 1 year ago
People born in the Rabbit year have to expect big changes health-wise, career-wise and relationship-wise. It could be a bit nerve-wracking, especially for those whose birth charts do n’t favor Water, but do remember it never is all bad. It may mean an opportunity to grow. – Thierry Chow	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Just seeing the shelves just bare, it's pretty nerve-racking, especially when you start getting down to your last couple of cans and you're just not sure what you're going to if you can't find that formula, we're in a situation where our children are on this formula because of the calorie content of it -- not because they have food allergies -- so if we really needed to, we could put them on a different formula -- but only if we needed to... There are a lot of families that don't have that option. – Nicolas Huktin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s going to be a super, super interesting final, i think it might be nerve-wracking to play, but I think it’s going to be a super well-played game. – Niklas Edin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Watching him attack it day in and day out, it was unbelievable, it was nerve-racking for me at times. I'd be in there getting ready for practice or something and he's starting to jump rope for the first time and I know how far out of surgery he is. – Matthew Stafford	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If you've got the nerve and the gumption to put a piece out like that, you feel like you don't owe anybody anything at that point. – Brian Sigley	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It was very nerve-wracking, hearing that your son got shot because you don't know what. Is his leg shot? Is he dead? Lot of things is racing through your mind. – Durham Sr.	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They did a thorough neurological exam, but they also need to do a nerve conduction EMG, and they need to do an MRI of the brain and the spinal cord to try and explain where this gait problem comes from. – Marc Siegel	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If we're looking into neurological causes for the gait change, I don't think the way they characterize that in the physical is sufficient, i want more information. I want to know what the MRIs show, and I want to know what the nerve conduction EMG shows to rule out things that are more extensive, that by the way, can be associated with cognitive changes like mental status, like dementia. – Marc Siegel	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Mr. Smocks, from the safety of his hotel room, had the nerve to call people trying to defend the Capitol that day' cowards,' he had the audacity to call the rioters' patriots.'. – District Judge Tanya Chutkan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Olympics was definitely nerve-racking, even moreso that there were no fans there, so you didn’t really have the buzz of the crowd to keep you into it, it was really strange but I think it helped me a lot. I think I was more nervous for that than I am now. – Shane Baz	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It was nerve-wracking, because you want to protect as much of it as you can, taking the first steps and pulling off part of the abdomen was very stressful, but it was also kind of exhilarating to know that we might be able to address a question that has been unanswered for almost 100 years that can't be answered any other way. – Corrie Moreau	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It was very special, very nerve-wracking, i was OK when I got onto the tee. A little bit nervous because you’re just about to start a major championship. But then once the announcer said, ‘ Right, it’s 30 seconds guys, ’ you’re like, this is it. This is what it’s all about. – Richard Bland	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The answer is no, and yet now they have the nerve to send (the children) to the hospital and not repay our physicians and our hospital. It's unbelievable. – Marisa Schultz/Fox News -RRB- Pfluger	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It got a little nerve wracking with both horses still to go and the rail still being out there, i think it'll be a good spot. He's got good tactical speed that he'll be able to get into a good position from there. – Essential Quality	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Sirius: It's cruel that I got to spend so much time with James and Lily, and you so little. But know this; the ones that love us never really leave us. Dumbledore:Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. Ginny:“The thing about growing up with Fred and George [...] is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.” – Jk Rowling	added by harrypottah33 3 years ago
It's very, very scary and nerve-wracking to be facing this without a hospital, the numbers are going up, so if we do become a hotspot, managing Covid-19 would be a major concern for this area. – Velma Wilson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The reaction was overwhelming, it struck a nerve with a lot of people. – Nathan Kleinman	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The retina is an extension of the brain, a third of your brain functions for vision and the retina lines the eyeball and travels back via an optic nerve all the way to the brain. – Emily Chew	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's nerve-racking. You fear for the worst. You see they have a little tent set up because the emergency room to the hospital where you are walking are right there in sight of each other, i have to do what's best for my unborn child... make sure we're on track for that, and also trying to make sure my other two are safe and healthy. – Rebecca Gray	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It was pretty nerve-wracking last night as that wind changed, i've got a four-bedroom house so I thought if I can save that, then I can take in those people whose homes are gone. They can come stay here because there's nowhere for many of them to go. – Paul Kranhold	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Such elated spirit and bluffing may greatly get on the nerve of the dialogue partner even at the slightest slip, the use of armed forces against the DPRK will be a horrible thing for the US. – Kim Jong	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I believe this photo strikes a nerve for a lot of people, many people shiver and recoil when they see it, imagining themselves in the fishermen's shoes. – Robert Hawthorne	Found on FOX News 4 years ago

It was very nerve-wracking and a real barrier of entry because I thought it would be too hard.

– Joey Gonzalez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Beijing’s Golden Share initiative is about embedding the Chinese Communist Party within the nerve-centers of China’s most important internet-content companies, it’s about achieving pervasive surveillance, censorship and policing capabilities from the inside out.

– Alex Capri

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People born in the Rabbit year have to expect big changes health-wise, career-wise and relationship-wise. It could be a bit nerve-wracking, especially for those whose birth charts do n’t favor Water, but do remember it never is all bad. It may mean an opportunity to grow.

– Thierry Chow

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Just seeing the shelves just bare, it's pretty nerve-racking, especially when you start getting down to your last couple of cans and you're just not sure what you're going to if you can't find that formula, we're in a situation where our children are on this formula because of the calorie content of it -- not because they have food allergies -- so if we really needed to, we could put them on a different formula -- but only if we needed to... There are a lot of families that don't have that option.

– Nicolas Huktin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s going to be a super, super interesting final, i think it might be nerve-wracking to play, but I think it’s going to be a super well-played game.

– Niklas Edin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Watching him attack it day in and day out, it was unbelievable, it was nerve-racking for me at times. I'd be in there getting ready for practice or something and he's starting to jump rope for the first time and I know how far out of surgery he is.

– Matthew Stafford

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If you've got the nerve and the gumption to put a piece out like that, you feel like you don't owe anybody anything at that point.

– Brian Sigley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was very nerve-wracking, hearing that your son got shot because you don't know what. Is his leg shot? Is he dead? Lot of things is racing through your mind.

– Durham Sr.

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They did a thorough neurological exam, but they also need to do a nerve conduction EMG, and they need to do an MRI of the brain and the spinal cord to try and explain where this gait problem comes from.

– Marc Siegel

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If we're looking into neurological causes for the gait change, I don't think the way they characterize that in the physical is sufficient, i want more information. I want to know what the MRIs show, and I want to know what the nerve conduction EMG shows to rule out things that are more extensive, that by the way, can be associated with cognitive changes like mental status, like dementia.

– Marc Siegel

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Mr. Smocks, from the safety of his hotel room, had the nerve to call people trying to defend the Capitol that day' cowards,' he had the audacity to call the rioters' patriots.'.

– District Judge Tanya Chutkan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Olympics was definitely nerve-racking, even moreso that there were no fans there, so you didn’t really have the buzz of the crowd to keep you into it, it was really strange but I think it helped me a lot. I think I was more nervous for that than I am now.

– Shane Baz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was nerve-wracking, because you want to protect as much of it as you can, taking the first steps and pulling off part of the abdomen was very stressful, but it was also kind of exhilarating to know that we might be able to address a question that has been unanswered for almost 100 years that can't be answered any other way.

– Corrie Moreau

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It was very special, very nerve-wracking, i was OK when I got onto the tee. A little bit nervous because you’re just about to start a major championship. But then once the announcer said, ‘ Right, it’s 30 seconds guys, ’ you’re like, this is it. This is what it’s all about.

– Richard Bland

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The answer is no, and yet now they have the nerve to send (the children) to the hospital and not repay our physicians and our hospital. It's unbelievable.

– Marisa Schultz/Fox News -RRB- Pfluger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It got a little nerve wracking with both horses still to go and the rail still being out there, i think it'll be a good spot. He's got good tactical speed that he'll be able to get into a good position from there.

– Essential Quality

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Sirius: It's cruel that I got to spend so much time with James and Lily, and you so little. But know this; the ones that love us never really leave us. Dumbledore:Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. Ginny:“The thing about growing up with Fred and George [...] is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.”

– Jk Rowling

added by harrypottah33
3 years ago

It's very, very scary and nerve-wracking to be facing this without a hospital, the numbers are going up, so if we do become a hotspot, managing Covid-19 would be a major concern for this area.

– Velma Wilson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The reaction was overwhelming, it struck a nerve with a lot of people.

– Nathan Kleinman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The retina is an extension of the brain, a third of your brain functions for vision and the retina lines the eyeball and travels back via an optic nerve all the way to the brain.

– Emily Chew

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's nerve-racking. You fear for the worst. You see they have a little tent set up because the emergency room to the hospital where you are walking are right there in sight of each other, i have to do what's best for my unborn child... make sure we're on track for that, and also trying to make sure my other two are safe and healthy.

– Rebecca Gray

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It was pretty nerve-wracking last night as that wind changed, i've got a four-bedroom house so I thought if I can save that, then I can take in those people whose homes are gone. They can come stay here because there's nowhere for many of them to go.

– Paul Kranhold

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Such elated spirit and bluffing may greatly get on the nerve of the dialogue partner even at the slightest slip, the use of armed forces against the DPRK will be a horrible thing for the US.

– Kim Jong

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I believe this photo strikes a nerve for a lot of people, many people shiver and recoil when they see it, imagining themselves in the fishermen's shoes.

– Robert Hawthorne

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

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