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A candidate has to understand that that is what it’s like running against Donald Trump, the age of having carefully controlled media appearances and a moderate approach to content creation – that is not going to work against Trump, who, whether he wants to make news or somebody else wants to make news about him, it happens every single day. It happens constantly. And the only way to occupy attention in a voter’s mind is to fight him for that space. – Another Republican strategist	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The mainland Chinese learned from their radars where these flights were going, what their targets were, and they began to build sites for the missiles but move them around, so they would build a site here, occupy that site for a while but if they thought the next flight would be going over here, they would move the missiles. It was a cat-and-mouse game, literally a black cat and mouse game between the routines from the flights from Taiwan and those air defense troops of the( Chinese) mainland, working out where the next flight would go. – Chris Pocock	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For many Indigenous persons, today is a day of mourning and of loss, it's important that we take time to honor our Indigenous family by learning about the native land we all occupy. – Sunrise Movement	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Sharks have been around for about 400 million years, they in many cases occupy what's called the apex predator position, in marine food webs. Just like on land, that is an important role in terms of keeping the lower parts of the food web healthy and balanced. – Bob Hueter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's impossible for the Russians to control and take hold of Kyiv, even if they capture and occupy an individual … government building, it wouldn't be more than for a couple of hours. – Olga Rudyaga -RRB- Rudyaga	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
First of all, nobody wants to occupy Ukraine. – Yevgeny Popov	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The left, over time, has made a concerted effort to occupy career slots in bureaucracies, you have this mutually reinforcing system whereby the schools that churn out the degrees that people take with them into the bureaucracy are likewise supporters of, and enthusiastic enactors of these policies. – Stephen Miller	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who has lived through them where they were and what they were doing when our democracy came under assault, dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars but a place in our collective memory; December 7, 1941, September 11, 2001, and January 6, 2021. – Vice President Harris	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We went to Wilmington in June to send JPMorganChase a message - 15 of us elders were arrested in front of their credit card headquarters in rocking chairs. At that time we were demanding that Chase quit funding fossil projects. We at Occupy Biden had the same message - we called on President Biden to declare a climate emergency and to end all new fossil projects. – Michael Bagdes-Canning	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It is an absolute honor for anyone, but especially a young Black woman, to occupy space on-air where our perspectives are largely underrepresented, it was gratifying to be able to show up as my authentic self in front of a live national audience every day in a world as divided as ours and to stay true to Elaine Welteroth and what I stand for. – Elaine Welteroth	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I began to see it in our cities with the Occupy Wall Street movement, during economic downturns, you began to see disaffected people targeting corporations as their enemy. And you had weak Democrat leaders in cities putting up with it because this rhetoric was at the fringes of the…Democratic Party and they didn't want to turn off their voters, supposedly. – Harmeet Dhillon	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This site was used as a main center by ISIS religious police, a center of the IS leadership. So this is an important issue, the visit of the Pope to this site that was the central administrative center of the Islamic State. This is where the Islamic State said 'we will go to Rome, occupy Rome, and cut off the head of the Pope.'. – Father Raed Adel	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
You have extracted a Black city out of a county and said the only one that I have fault against is the city of Detroit, where 80 % of the people who reside here are African Americans. Shame on you, shame on you for leading to this level of corruption. You have disavowed your right to even sit in the seat that you occupy. You are a disgrace as it relates to the ability to have a free and impartial election in this nation. – Wendell Anthony	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We don't do the difficult work that the recovery centers do. We don't take people in who need to go through detox, what we do is we accept people into our studios when they've phased into a place where that's useful to them ; when they're ready to come out into the light of day. We try to occupy them and mitigate their recidivism. – Doug Naselroad	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Christianity Today editor-in-chief Mark Galli defended the scathing editorial on Sunday. Christianity Today editor-in-chief Mark Galli said in an interview with CBSFace The Nation that Trumps support of causes important to the evangelical community can no longer excuse Christianity Today editor-in-chief Mark Galli actions in other areas and said Timothy Dalrymple is morally unfit to occupy the Oval Office. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP I am making a moral judgment that Christianity Today editor-in-chief Mark Galli is morally unfitor, even more precisely, its Christianity Today editor-in-chief Mark Galli public morality that makes Christianity Today editor-in-chief Mark Galli unfit. – Christianity Today editor-in-chief Mark Galli	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
One of the basic tenets of this class is to teach critical thinking, for instance, when we talk about Occupy Central, do you think this is right or wrong? We talk about how it impacts society. – Tin Fong Chak	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Some Sanders supporters recently claimed Democratic National Committee leadership is giving preferential treatment to current front-runner former Vice President Joe Biden of Delaware. Some Sanders supporters say Some Sanders supporters mistrust polls showing Biden holding a commanding lead over the Democratic field, and some say they may stage another revolt at the partys 2020 national convention in Milwaukee, just as they did in Philadelphia in 2016, if Biden gets the nomination. CLICK TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Laurie Cestnick, a Sanders supporter who founded Occupy Democratic National Committee, told The Washington Times theyre frustrated that the mainstream media doesnt cover many of Some Sanders supporters candidates events. The mainstream media and theDNCare colluding against the American people, thats what it feels like. Its the same thing all over again. – Laurie Cestnick	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
They say that they have been authorized to occupy indigenous land, we are here to oppose mining, hydroelectric and agribusiness companies that destroy tribal communities and Mother Nature. – Sonia Guajajara	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Cities occupy 2 to 3 percent of our planet's surface, yet they consume 70 percent of all energy, the longer we wait, the higher the cost will be. – Soren Kvorning	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Regarding incentives, Amazon is only eligible for the financial incentive after we make our investments and occupy office space in the community. – Holly Sullivan	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Among the leading matters which would occupy the attention of the meeting, were several important documents lately received from Europe, expressive of the sentiments that a very considerable portion of the people of the British Empire entertained respecting the deplorable situation of the colored people in the United States. – Thomas Jennings	added by acronimous 5 years ago
The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon and cultivate as far as necessary for their subsistence; and so long as they occupy and cultivate it, they have a right to the soil.” – Black Hawk	added by anonymous 5 years ago
The friendship between Taiwan and the U.S. has never been more promising. The great story of Taiwan-U.S. relations remains to be filled with the efforts of those that will one day occupy this building. – President Tsai	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If we follow your logic, then we should have meetings of the Security Council after the events in Ferguson in Missouri or after the dispersal by forces of the Occupy Wall Street movement in Manhattan. – Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia	Found on FOX News 6 years ago

A candidate has to understand that that is what it’s like running against Donald Trump, the age of having carefully controlled media appearances and a moderate approach to content creation – that is not going to work against Trump, who, whether he wants to make news or somebody else wants to make news about him, it happens every single day. It happens constantly. And the only way to occupy attention in a voter’s mind is to fight him for that space.

– Another Republican strategist

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The mainland Chinese learned from their radars where these flights were going, what their targets were, and they began to build sites for the missiles but move them around, so they would build a site here, occupy that site for a while but if they thought the next flight would be going over here, they would move the missiles. It was a cat-and-mouse game, literally a black cat and mouse game between the routines from the flights from Taiwan and those air defense troops of the( Chinese) mainland, working out where the next flight would go.

– Chris Pocock

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For many Indigenous persons, today is a day of mourning and of loss, it's important that we take time to honor our Indigenous family by learning about the native land we all occupy.

– Sunrise Movement

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Sharks have been around for about 400 million years, they in many cases occupy what's called the apex predator position, in marine food webs. Just like on land, that is an important role in terms of keeping the lower parts of the food web healthy and balanced.

– Bob Hueter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's impossible for the Russians to control and take hold of Kyiv, even if they capture and occupy an individual … government building, it wouldn't be more than for a couple of hours.

– Olga Rudyaga -RRB- Rudyaga

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

First of all, nobody wants to occupy Ukraine.

– Yevgeny Popov

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The left, over time, has made a concerted effort to occupy career slots in bureaucracies, you have this mutually reinforcing system whereby the schools that churn out the degrees that people take with them into the bureaucracy are likewise supporters of, and enthusiastic enactors of these policies.

– Stephen Miller

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who has lived through them where they were and what they were doing when our democracy came under assault, dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars but a place in our collective memory; December 7, 1941, September 11, 2001, and January 6, 2021.

– Vice President Harris

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We went to Wilmington in June to send JPMorganChase a message - 15 of us elders were arrested in front of their credit card headquarters in rocking chairs. At that time we were demanding that Chase quit funding fossil projects. We at Occupy Biden had the same message - we called on President Biden to declare a climate emergency and to end all new fossil projects.

– Michael Bagdes-Canning

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is an absolute honor for anyone, but especially a young Black woman, to occupy space on-air where our perspectives are largely underrepresented, it was gratifying to be able to show up as my authentic self in front of a live national audience every day in a world as divided as ours and to stay true to Elaine Welteroth and what I stand for.

– Elaine Welteroth

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I began to see it in our cities with the Occupy Wall Street movement, during economic downturns, you began to see disaffected people targeting corporations as their enemy. And you had weak Democrat leaders in cities putting up with it because this rhetoric was at the fringes of the…Democratic Party and they didn't want to turn off their voters, supposedly.

– Harmeet Dhillon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This site was used as a main center by ISIS religious police, a center of the IS leadership. So this is an important issue, the visit of the Pope to this site that was the central administrative center of the Islamic State. This is where the Islamic State said 'we will go to Rome, occupy Rome, and cut off the head of the Pope.'.

– Father Raed Adel

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

You have extracted a Black city out of a county and said the only one that I have fault against is the city of Detroit, where 80 % of the people who reside here are African Americans. Shame on you, shame on you for leading to this level of corruption. You have disavowed your right to even sit in the seat that you occupy. You are a disgrace as it relates to the ability to have a free and impartial election in this nation.

– Wendell Anthony

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We don't do the difficult work that the recovery centers do. We don't take people in who need to go through detox, what we do is we accept people into our studios when they've phased into a place where that's useful to them ; when they're ready to come out into the light of day. We try to occupy them and mitigate their recidivism.

– Doug Naselroad

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Christianity Today editor-in-chief Mark Galli defended the scathing editorial on Sunday. Christianity Today editor-in-chief Mark Galli said in an interview with CBSFace The Nation that Trumps support of causes important to the evangelical community can no longer excuse Christianity Today editor-in-chief Mark Galli actions in other areas and said Timothy Dalrymple is morally unfit to occupy the Oval Office. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP I am making a moral judgment that Christianity Today editor-in-chief Mark Galli is morally unfitor, even more precisely, its Christianity Today editor-in-chief Mark Galli public morality that makes Christianity Today editor-in-chief Mark Galli unfit.

– Christianity Today editor-in-chief Mark Galli

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

One of the basic tenets of this class is to teach critical thinking, for instance, when we talk about Occupy Central, do you think this is right or wrong? We talk about how it impacts society.

– Tin Fong Chak

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Some Sanders supporters recently claimed Democratic National Committee leadership is giving preferential treatment to current front-runner former Vice President Joe Biden of Delaware. Some Sanders supporters say Some Sanders supporters mistrust polls showing Biden holding a commanding lead over the Democratic field, and some say they may stage another revolt at the partys 2020 national convention in Milwaukee, just as they did in Philadelphia in 2016, if Biden gets the nomination. CLICK TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Laurie Cestnick, a Sanders supporter who founded Occupy Democratic National Committee, told The Washington Times theyre frustrated that the mainstream media doesnt cover many of Some Sanders supporters candidates events. The mainstream media and theDNCare colluding against the American people, thats what it feels like. Its the same thing all over again.

– Laurie Cestnick

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

They say that they have been authorized to occupy indigenous land, we are here to oppose mining, hydroelectric and agribusiness companies that destroy tribal communities and Mother Nature.

– Sonia Guajajara

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Cities occupy 2 to 3 percent of our planet's surface, yet they consume 70 percent of all energy, the longer we wait, the higher the cost will be.

– Soren Kvorning

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Regarding incentives, Amazon is only eligible for the financial incentive after we make our investments and occupy office space in the community.

– Holly Sullivan

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Among the leading matters which would occupy the attention of the meeting, were several important documents lately received from Europe, expressive of the sentiments that a very considerable portion of the people of the British Empire entertained respecting the deplorable situation of the colored people in the United States.

– Thomas Jennings

added by acronimous
5 years ago

The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon and cultivate as far as necessary for their subsistence; and so long as they occupy and cultivate it, they have a right to the soil.”

– Black Hawk

added by anonymous
5 years ago

The friendship between Taiwan and the U.S. has never been more promising. The great story of Taiwan-U.S. relations remains to be filled with the efforts of those that will one day occupy this building.

– President Tsai

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

If we follow your logic, then we should have meetings of the Security Council after the events in Ferguson in Missouri or after the dispersal by forces of the Occupy Wall Street movement in Manhattan.

– Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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