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My concern is that the pace of activity directed at U.S. forces and the repeated retaliatory strikes against Iranian proxy forces are starting to look like what would qualify as a pattern of hostilities under the War Powers Act, both the Constitution and the War Powers Act require the president to come to Congress for a war declaration under these circumstances.

Chris Murphy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Heat waves have always occurred and will always occur, but we've got a very different pattern of heat waves now than we did a couple of decades ago, and it's not just the intensity, it's also the geographic extent.

Kristie Ebi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

President Biden has a pattern of putting unions first and Americans last, first, he allowed a radical teachers union to dictate scientific guidance effectively keeping children locked out of their classrooms. Now, he’s granted ethics waivers to allow former union officials to wield government power on behalf of the union bosses. This is a conflict of interest, pure and simple. The Biden Administration must provide answers about these controversial appointments.

James Comer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That annoys me. I've just not been very good at relationships. And I know what my pattern of things is with relationships at this point.

Liam Payne

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I just talked to Julio an hour ago, and he’s fired up to get here and start working with his new guys, he gives us real multiplicity on offense. We’re high on [free-agent wideout]Josh Reynoldstoo, and imagine Julio,A.J. Brownand Josh Reynolds in the pattern, withDerrick Henryin the backfield. You pack the box for Derrick and, I mean, someone’s gonna be open for Ryan [Tannehill] to hit.

Jon Robinson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The dynamic is the jihadists come in, they overpower the civil defence post and engage in collective punishment against the rest of the village -- it's a pattern we've seen everywhere this year.

Corinne Dufka

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Surratt's M.O. was rape; [it] was his motivating force. His M.O. was if there [weren't] children in the house, he would kill any threats – as in any men – and then he would rape the wife and then kill her there … If there were children in the home, he would kill the man and abduct the wife and kill her elsewhere – never bothered the kids … That was his pattern in all of them.

Police Carl Frost

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We know justice will come in Pasquotank County and that's why a pattern and practice investigation is important... once this investigation is completed it will bring structural integrity to the DA's office.

Keith Rivers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our hypothesis is that in a diseased state, your brain is going to have higher energy hills and lower energy valleys. More so than a placebo, different parts of their brain can’t talk to each other, that’s why someone stuck in a negative pattern of thought could be having a hard time — in spite of new evidence they’re not able to see that there are reasons to be happy. Psychedelic therapy could flatten out that energy landscape again and allow more information to come in. It could allow depressed or anxious people to update their models of the world.

Parker Singleton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We've seen a pattern in this country, an unfortunate pattern. When law enforcement alone are the only persons with access to critical evidence, like this kind of video, the process is to minimize the conduct, to keep it out of the eyes of the public and to protect the police officers, however, when this video is made public, typically by camera footage or cell phone footage like in the case of George Floyd... that public pressure turns out to be very effective in moving elected officials to hold police officers accountable, so that's what we're looking forward to in this case.

Ronald Greene York

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The lower tornado activity has largely been the result of an unfavorable pattern for tornadoes with occasional strong cold fronts shunting the deep, rich, high-quality moisture from the Gulf of Mexico south of Tornado Alley.

Matt Elliott

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This year, the persistent weather pattern that has been generally unfavorable for severe storms in the Plains has been more favorable for the Southeast.

Matt Elliott

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One incident is a coincidence, two incidents are bad luck, but when you talk about three you can say that this is already a pattern that has to be investigated.

Alejandro Hope

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is something that is happening to Asian people in our community specifically, this is a pattern, it's hard to imagine anything more disgusting and awful. These folks were waiting for the bus, they were targeted.

Matt Haney

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Unfortunately, a pattern we have seen over and over again, is that when incumbents view a community as a threat to their maintenance of political power, they will use their own power to push back against that threat.

Justin Levitt

Found on CNN
3 years ago

As the ongoing and never-ending pattern of tragic police shootings around our nation demonstrate, our country must use every tool at its disposal to seek justice, transform the criminal legal system, and earn community trust, these issues have never been more dire. And let's hope that this is the first of many acts by our new Administration and new AG to turn the corner and bring a new vision forward to policing, police reform and enhanced police accountability.

Miriam Krinsky

Found on CNN
3 years ago

And people of color continue to experience brutality and being pepper-sprayed, even killed at the hands of law enforcement, and it's got to stop, one of the things I am looking into is whether there might have been a pattern of misconduct -- of police misconduct, either by these officers specifically or more broadly within the department.

Daunte Wrights

Found on CNN
3 years ago

And people of color continue to experience brutality and being pepper-sprayed, even killed at the hands of law enforcement, and it's got to stop, one of the things I am looking into is whether there might have been a pattern of misconduct -- of police misconduct, either by these officers specifically or more broadly within Windsor Police Department.

Daunte Wrights

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The jet stream pattern is not unfavorable for severe weather as we get a little bit later into March and certainly beyond, if that pattern holds, very strong wind fields down across the Gulf Coast in proximity to warm, moist air suggest that the Gulf Coast in the near-term may be an area to watch closely.

Bill Bunting

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The judge was clearly influenced by Hollywood, which is a pattern I expose in my upcoming film Roe v. Wade on April 2nd, it’s sad that Sofia, a devout Catholic, would intentionally create babies just to kill them.

Tony Barson/FilmMagic -RRB- Loeb

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

This case is not an aberration but rather is part of a pattern of the Islamic Republic’s terrorism in Europe and around the world.

Toby Dershowitz at the Foundation

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The pattern [ in 2021 ] will be similar to what we saw in the past year, people will be moving away from coastal areas where there is a higher cost of living and going to places like Idaho, Arizona, Texas, Tennessee.

Barry Schellenberg

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I worry that we will remain in this pattern of peak and trough and peak and trough, and we can do better.

Van Kerkhove

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Netflix has a pattern and practice of unlawfully inducing employees of other competitors to breach their fixed-term contracts.

Activision Blizzard

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

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