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Operations at Chicago O'Hare International Airport are normal after The FAA slowed traffic for roughly an hour earlier this evening. Winds and COVID-related staffing paused departures to O'Hare from some airports in the Midwest. – Federal Aviation Administration	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Borrowers don't just need their debts paused ; they need them erased, with the flick of a pen, President Biden could provide millions upon millions of student loan borrowers a new lease on life. – Chuck Schumer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Today I ran further than 2.23 miles, but I paused for a brief moment at the 2.23-mile mark, and every step was with Ahmaud in mind, it's a sport and activity that I love and rely on for my mental and physical health. On days like today, I realize that I sometimes take for granted being able to exercise safely, so today I had feelings of gratitude and also sadness thinking of his( Arbery's) life being lost. – Sarah Seither	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Securing a home is still a major challenge for many prospective buyers, a number of potential buyers have merely paused their search, but their desire and need for a home remain. – Lawrence Yun	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I called 311 and she thought I was crazy, she thought I was crazy. She paused for a long minute. I said, 'Ma’am, I am not drinking. I have not had any drugs. I have Zebras in my backyard walking on the train tracks. I just wanted to know what service could come out because I didn’t want them to get hit and she paused for a long time and then said, 'Okay, here's the number. – Reed Curling	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I don't think I paused to process what had happened on 9/11, because I was too busy responding. I couldn't grieve, because I felt under siege, everything changed suddenly. The ground beneath our feet was shifting. At the same time, there was no way as an Bangladeshi American, Berkeley-educated Muslim woman I would cower in this situation. – Nadia AhmadNadia Ahmad	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have paused disbursements in our operations in Afghanistan and we are closely monitoring and assessing the situation in line with our internal policies and procedures. – World Bank	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I asked her point blank,' Why do you want this ? Is this worth it ?' Because this has clearly been very hard on her as a nominee, and she paused and reflected a moment, and just spoke to how she feels called to serve in a very personal way that I thought was impactful. – Lisa Murkowski	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Hank was very instrumental in me becoming an Atlanta Brave, the room of Braves decision-makers was split on who they were going to take with their first pick. As legendary scout Paul Snyder once told me, the vote came around to Hank. He paused, looked at everybody in the room, and he said, ‘Y'all better draft that Jones boy.’ I’ll never forget that. That comment must’ve carried some weight. – Chipper Jones	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It seemed the Fed paused and that seems like a good example of this kind of realistic feedback. – Janet Yellen	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
A study pause, in which recruitment or dosing is paused by the study sponsor, is a standard component of a clinical trial protocol, a regulatory hold of a clinical trial is a requirement by a regulatory health authority, such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. As outlined in our transparency commitments, we proactively disclose any regulatory hold of a pivotal clinical trial. – Johnson Johnson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think you should expect in some of the other trials that you will see situations where things are paused and then restarted, we need to make sure with these vaccines that they work, they work well enough, and they are safe. – Patrick Vallance	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The Morse campaign has done a really good job of turning an incredibly difficult situation into a positive for their campaign, but obviously, a lot of folks on (the independent expenditure) side paused their ads right when the letter came out, to figure out what was really happening here, and so those are missed communications with voters. – Lucy Solomon	Found on CNN 3 years ago
There is an urgent need for blood donations right now to meet the needs of patients in hospitals as surgical procedures and treatments that were temporarily paused earlier this spring in response to COVID-19 resume. – The American Red Cross	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I kind of paused for a second, looked around at everyone, and I'm like -- guys, the flag, the flag I wrote a story about just yesterday. – Kenzie Margiott	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We're in an unprecedented pandemic. We've organized these enormous clinical trials to figure out if something works. And this study stopped or paused a couple of those trials, and changed the narrative around a drug that no one knows if it works or not. – Walid Gellad	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Much like Apple and Google, we paused human review of audio more than a week ago. – Facebook Inc	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There (are) decisions that come up constantly about things being delivered in anticipation of them eventually taking custody of the planes, so there's a lot of things in train that can be paused to send signals to them (that we're serious). – Katie Wheelbarger	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Investment plans have been paused for two and a half years, unless a deal is agreed quickly, the country risks sliding towards a national crisis. – Dave Spicer	Found on CNN 5 years ago
So we been doing this, me and him hanging out at the F1, and he just hit me with,' You know what dad ? I just realized you're not just my dad.' He paused and he said,' I'm pretty sure you're my best friend.'. – Will Smith	Found on CNN 5 years ago
In the nine months that the ceasefire has been observed, forces have simply paused hostilities while remaining in close proximity: there has been no joint security oversight or move toward unification or demobilization, this would be an untenable status quo even if there were political progress, which there is not. – The International Crisis Group	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The weak-yen trend has paused, so investors are reluctant to chase the market higher for now. – Isao Kubo	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Water—the mighty, the pure, the beautiful, the unfathomable—where is thy element so glorious as it is in thine own domain, the deep seas ? What an infinity of power is in the far Atlantic, the boundary of two separate worlds, apart like those of memory and of hope ! or in the bright Pacific, whose tides are turned to gold by a southern sun, and in whose bosom sleep a thousand isles, each covered with the verdure, the flowers, and the fruit of Eden ! But, amid all thy hereditary kingdoms, to which hast thou given beauty, as a birthright, lavishly as thou hast to thy favourite Mediterranean ? The silence of a summer night is now sleeping on its bosom, where the bright stars are mirrored, as if in its depths they had another home and another heaven. A spirit, cleaving air midway between the two, might have paused to ask which was sea, and which was sky. The shadows of earth and earthly things, resting omen-like upon the waters, alone shewed which was the home and which the mirror of the celestial host. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon	added by Madeleine Quinn 7 years ago
Since the yen's rise has paused, the market seems to have turned around. – Masaru Hamasaki	Found on Reuters 7 years ago

Operations at Chicago O'Hare International Airport are normal after The FAA slowed traffic for roughly an hour earlier this evening. Winds and COVID-related staffing paused departures to O'Hare from some airports in the Midwest.

– Federal Aviation Administration

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Borrowers don't just need their debts paused ; they need them erased, with the flick of a pen, President Biden could provide millions upon millions of student loan borrowers a new lease on life.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today I ran further than 2.23 miles, but I paused for a brief moment at the 2.23-mile mark, and every step was with Ahmaud in mind, it's a sport and activity that I love and rely on for my mental and physical health. On days like today, I realize that I sometimes take for granted being able to exercise safely, so today I had feelings of gratitude and also sadness thinking of his( Arbery's) life being lost.

– Sarah Seither

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Securing a home is still a major challenge for many prospective buyers, a number of potential buyers have merely paused their search, but their desire and need for a home remain.

– Lawrence Yun

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I called 311 and she thought I was crazy, she thought I was crazy. She paused for a long minute. I said, 'Ma’am, I am not drinking. I have not had any drugs. I have Zebras in my backyard walking on the train tracks. I just wanted to know what service could come out because I didn’t want them to get hit and she paused for a long time and then said, 'Okay, here's the number.

– Reed Curling

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don't think I paused to process what had happened on 9/11, because I was too busy responding. I couldn't grieve, because I felt under siege, everything changed suddenly. The ground beneath our feet was shifting. At the same time, there was no way as an Bangladeshi American, Berkeley-educated Muslim woman I would cower in this situation.

– Nadia AhmadNadia Ahmad

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have paused disbursements in our operations in Afghanistan and we are closely monitoring and assessing the situation in line with our internal policies and procedures.

– World Bank

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I asked her point blank,' Why do you want this ? Is this worth it ?' Because this has clearly been very hard on her as a nominee, and she paused and reflected a moment, and just spoke to how she feels called to serve in a very personal way that I thought was impactful.

– Lisa Murkowski

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Hank was very instrumental in me becoming an Atlanta Brave, the room of Braves decision-makers was split on who they were going to take with their first pick. As legendary scout Paul Snyder once told me, the vote came around to Hank. He paused, looked at everybody in the room, and he said, ‘Y'all better draft that Jones boy.’ I’ll never forget that. That comment must’ve carried some weight.

– Chipper Jones

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It seemed the Fed paused and that seems like a good example of this kind of realistic feedback.

– Janet Yellen

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

A study pause, in which recruitment or dosing is paused by the study sponsor, is a standard component of a clinical trial protocol, a regulatory hold of a clinical trial is a requirement by a regulatory health authority, such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. As outlined in our transparency commitments, we proactively disclose any regulatory hold of a pivotal clinical trial.

– Johnson Johnson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I think you should expect in some of the other trials that you will see situations where things are paused and then restarted, we need to make sure with these vaccines that they work, they work well enough, and they are safe.

– Patrick Vallance

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The Morse campaign has done a really good job of turning an incredibly difficult situation into a positive for their campaign, but obviously, a lot of folks on (the independent expenditure) side paused their ads right when the letter came out, to figure out what was really happening here, and so those are missed communications with voters.

– Lucy Solomon

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There is an urgent need for blood donations right now to meet the needs of patients in hospitals as surgical procedures and treatments that were temporarily paused earlier this spring in response to COVID-19 resume.

– The American Red Cross

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I kind of paused for a second, looked around at everyone, and I'm like -- guys, the flag, the flag I wrote a story about just yesterday.

– Kenzie Margiott

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We're in an unprecedented pandemic. We've organized these enormous clinical trials to figure out if something works. And this study stopped or paused a couple of those trials, and changed the narrative around a drug that no one knows if it works or not.

– Walid Gellad

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Much like Apple and Google, we paused human review of audio more than a week ago.

– Facebook Inc

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There (are) decisions that come up constantly about things being delivered in anticipation of them eventually taking custody of the planes, so there's a lot of things in train that can be paused to send signals to them (that we're serious).

– Katie Wheelbarger

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Investment plans have been paused for two and a half years, unless a deal is agreed quickly, the country risks sliding towards a national crisis.

– Dave Spicer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

So we been doing this, me and him hanging out at the F1, and he just hit me with,' You know what dad ? I just realized you're not just my dad.' He paused and he said,' I'm pretty sure you're my best friend.'.

– Will Smith

Found on CNN
5 years ago

In the nine months that the ceasefire has been observed, forces have simply paused hostilities while remaining in close proximity: there has been no joint security oversight or move toward unification or demobilization, this would be an untenable status quo even if there were political progress, which there is not.

– The International Crisis Group

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The weak-yen trend has paused, so investors are reluctant to chase the market higher for now.

– Isao Kubo

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Water—the mighty, the pure, the beautiful, the unfathomable—where is thy element so glorious as it is in thine own domain, the deep seas ? What an infinity of power is in the far Atlantic, the boundary of two separate worlds, apart like those of memory and of hope ! or in the bright Pacific, whose tides are turned to gold by a southern sun, and in whose bosom sleep a thousand isles, each covered with the verdure, the flowers, and the fruit of Eden ! But, amid all thy hereditary kingdoms, to which hast thou given beauty, as a birthright, lavishly as thou hast to thy favourite Mediterranean ? The silence of a summer night is now sleeping on its bosom, where the bright stars are mirrored, as if in its depths they had another home and another heaven. A spirit, cleaving air midway between the two, might have paused to ask which was sea, and which was sky. The shadows of earth and earthly things, resting omen-like upon the waters, alone shewed which was the home and which the mirror of the celestial host.

– Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

Since the yen's rise has paused, the market seems to have turned around.

– Masaru Hamasaki

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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