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The former president started early and we want the governor to be competitive and we’re building with that purpose so he’s not starting from a traditional day one, we have organizations of this movement put together in the early states and they can pick up and lead from there. – Ken Cuccinelli	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Biden administration has set themselves a good, strong to do list of things that will help with environmental justice and climate protection, they’re moving kind of slow, though. So we’d like them to pick up the pace. – Katherine Pruitt	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Maybe someone’s not going to pick up a book about Egypt or Namibia or Tunisia. But maybe they would be intrigued by my dating story, and if they happen to learn these other things about this country during that dating story, then I consider that a huge bonus, i realize Egypt maybe is n’t on everybody’s bucket list, maybe Morocco is n’t, even Namibia. When I write about these places, I hope it builds a curiosity … I hope the stories make people laugh, dream and cross oceans to meet interesting people all over. – Courtesy Loni James	Found on CNN 1 year ago
These companies are actually pretty savvy in that they come out West, purchase and pick up cheap rural agricultural land, they sit on it for a little while and then they’re trying to sell Colorado River water, i do n’t think that they should be allowed to profiteer off of Arizona’s finite resources … If they’re coming after a portion of our only water supply on the river for many of our communities, we have to fight it. – Supervisor Travis Lingenfelter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
A number of animals are being abandoned that have serious medical issues, the only thing we can guess is that people just ca n’t afford those expenses, and they’re hoping by dropping off [ their pets ] at our facility that we’re going to be able to pick up the slack. And we do as best we can, but it’s really putting a strain on our resources. – Joe Labriola	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We developed a brain-computer interface device that is a kind of an EEG (electroencephalogram) cap for organoids, which we presented in an article published last August, it is a flexible shell that is densely covered with tiny electrodes that can both pick up signals from the organoid, and transmit signals to it. – Thomas Hartung	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The chemical smell was so strong that it made me nauseous, i just wanted to quickly pick up what I needed and leave. I only took a few pieces of clothes because even the clothes smelled like chemicals, and I ’m afraid to put them on my kids. – Amanda Greathouse	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I just wanted to quickly pick up what I needed and leave. I only took a few pieces of clothes because even the clothes smelled like chemicals, and I ’m afraid to put them on my kids. – Amanda Greathouse	Found on CNN 1 year ago
But it’s when it starts to spread from one mammal to the next mammal to the next mammal, it’s in those environments where we think it’s most likely that it will pick up these changes that allow us to switch hosts, and that’s why we get concerned. – Richard Webby	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They’re very low signature and low-to-zero emission, so hard to pick up with traditional situational awareness or surveillance technology. – Blake Herzinger	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The company my husband works for has a fund and they help the Ukrainian fighters who are on the front line with equipment like drones and pick-up trucks. We helped collect money for such equipment. – Kateryna Like	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If we get Latinos to perform as we want them to but we lose ground in the suburbs, we lose, but there’s no amount of votes we can pick up in the suburbs that makes up for a drop off in Latino voters. We need it to be terrific in order to win. – Brendan Walsh	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
So if these cities pick up the liberal progressive mantra of allowing noncitizens to vote, they will be able to vote not only in their local elections but on increasing the taxes payable by the nonresident workers who commute into the city to work, that's why all of us — township residents, folks in the unincorporated area, folks in the rural area — better wake up. – Bill Seitz	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
People want to pick up the phone and be able to have a police officer respond. Of course, you got to get rid of bad cops, but we need more good cops, and we need better paid cops. – Tim Ryan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
If you come here on any given day, you might see a flash mob doing a dance routine, you'll see a ballet class, you'll see people playing a random pick-up game of basketball right in the middle of the atrium. – Ralph Zucker	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I get phone calls every day from my constituents and colleagues around the country, asking for help with federal agencies that are not being responsive, that they are waiting on answers from, the number one agency that the American people would like to have — have more agents, be more helpful, pick up the phone, build better technology, be more responsive —is the IRS. – Katie Porter	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I’m not focusing on that, if we get a couple more seats in the Senate — right now, if the election were held today, we would pick up a few seats. – Chuck Schumer	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Maybe it is a good thing they were absent when Lawrence Yun real estate was super hot, no one really missed the foreign market, but given the current shift in the market, with more inventory and homes staying on the market, it might begin to pick up as more international travel is possible. – Lawrence Yun	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For those motivated to sell, price reductions are becoming a go-to strategy, we can expect the re-balancing in housing markets to continue and to pick up speed, especially as we look toward the fall and winter seasons. – George Ratiu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The love I feel when I hold your heart grows bigger and stronger even when we part and ripples through each galactic part until we meet again and you pick up my crushed heart. I will never let your love go. – Heather Lydia Thornhill	added by heatherthornhill 1 year ago
I love you in shapes and images yet unknown that I pick up each day like breadcrumbs leading me home. – Heather Lydia Thornhill	added by heatherthornhill 1 year ago
I voted yes to strike because I often have to pick up shifts at the Rose Bowl just to try to make ends meet, i love working at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles and know that our company can do better. – Laura Ortiz	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You might not be able to afford a $ 200 dinner now, or to be able to take that road trip, but you still can go pick up a bunch of flowers and feel like,' OK, I'm still treating Becky Roberts.'. – Becky Roberts	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If stock market does not pick up steadily now then around it will plunge very steeply around 1:30 pm to shock all. If this stock price downfall continues for another 1 month, 75% brokers offices will be closed and unemployment will be all time high of the history – Lakshheish M Patel	added by laksheishmpatel_2 1 year ago

The former president started early and we want the governor to be competitive and we’re building with that purpose so he’s not starting from a traditional day one, we have organizations of this movement put together in the early states and they can pick up and lead from there.

– Ken Cuccinelli

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Biden administration has set themselves a good, strong to do list of things that will help with environmental justice and climate protection, they’re moving kind of slow, though. So we’d like them to pick up the pace.

– Katherine Pruitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Maybe someone’s not going to pick up a book about Egypt or Namibia or Tunisia. But maybe they would be intrigued by my dating story, and if they happen to learn these other things about this country during that dating story, then I consider that a huge bonus, i realize Egypt maybe is n’t on everybody’s bucket list, maybe Morocco is n’t, even Namibia. When I write about these places, I hope it builds a curiosity … I hope the stories make people laugh, dream and cross oceans to meet interesting people all over.

– Courtesy Loni James

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These companies are actually pretty savvy in that they come out West, purchase and pick up cheap rural agricultural land, they sit on it for a little while and then they’re trying to sell Colorado River water, i do n’t think that they should be allowed to profiteer off of Arizona’s finite resources … If they’re coming after a portion of our only water supply on the river for many of our communities, we have to fight it.

– Supervisor Travis Lingenfelter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A number of animals are being abandoned that have serious medical issues, the only thing we can guess is that people just ca n’t afford those expenses, and they’re hoping by dropping off [ their pets ] at our facility that we’re going to be able to pick up the slack. And we do as best we can, but it’s really putting a strain on our resources.

– Joe Labriola

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We developed a brain-computer interface device that is a kind of an EEG (electroencephalogram) cap for organoids, which we presented in an article published last August, it is a flexible shell that is densely covered with tiny electrodes that can both pick up signals from the organoid, and transmit signals to it.

– Thomas Hartung

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The chemical smell was so strong that it made me nauseous, i just wanted to quickly pick up what I needed and leave. I only took a few pieces of clothes because even the clothes smelled like chemicals, and I ’m afraid to put them on my kids.

– Amanda Greathouse

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I just wanted to quickly pick up what I needed and leave. I only took a few pieces of clothes because even the clothes smelled like chemicals, and I ’m afraid to put them on my kids.

– Amanda Greathouse

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But it’s when it starts to spread from one mammal to the next mammal to the next mammal, it’s in those environments where we think it’s most likely that it will pick up these changes that allow us to switch hosts, and that’s why we get concerned.

– Richard Webby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They’re very low signature and low-to-zero emission, so hard to pick up with traditional situational awareness or surveillance technology.

– Blake Herzinger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The company my husband works for has a fund and they help the Ukrainian fighters who are on the front line with equipment like drones and pick-up trucks. We helped collect money for such equipment.

– Kateryna Like

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we get Latinos to perform as we want them to but we lose ground in the suburbs, we lose, but there’s no amount of votes we can pick up in the suburbs that makes up for a drop off in Latino voters. We need it to be terrific in order to win.

– Brendan Walsh

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

So if these cities pick up the liberal progressive mantra of allowing noncitizens to vote, they will be able to vote not only in their local elections but on increasing the taxes payable by the nonresident workers who commute into the city to work, that's why all of us — township residents, folks in the unincorporated area, folks in the rural area — better wake up.

– Bill Seitz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

People want to pick up the phone and be able to have a police officer respond. Of course, you got to get rid of bad cops, but we need more good cops, and we need better paid cops.

– Tim Ryan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If you come here on any given day, you might see a flash mob doing a dance routine, you'll see a ballet class, you'll see people playing a random pick-up game of basketball right in the middle of the atrium.

– Ralph Zucker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I get phone calls every day from my constituents and colleagues around the country, asking for help with federal agencies that are not being responsive, that they are waiting on answers from, the number one agency that the American people would like to have — have more agents, be more helpful, pick up the phone, build better technology, be more responsive —is the IRS.

– Katie Porter

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I’m not focusing on that, if we get a couple more seats in the Senate — right now, if the election were held today, we would pick up a few seats.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Maybe it is a good thing they were absent when Lawrence Yun real estate was super hot, no one really missed the foreign market, but given the current shift in the market, with more inventory and homes staying on the market, it might begin to pick up as more international travel is possible.

– Lawrence Yun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For those motivated to sell, price reductions are becoming a go-to strategy, we can expect the re-balancing in housing markets to continue and to pick up speed, especially as we look toward the fall and winter seasons.

– George Ratiu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The love I feel when I hold your heart grows bigger and stronger even when we part and ripples through each galactic part until we meet again and you pick up my crushed heart. I will never let your love go.

– Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by heatherthornhill
1 year ago

I love you in shapes and images yet unknown that I pick up each day like breadcrumbs leading me home.

– Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by heatherthornhill
1 year ago

I voted yes to strike because I often have to pick up shifts at the Rose Bowl just to try to make ends meet, i love working at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles and know that our company can do better.

– Laura Ortiz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You might not be able to afford a $ 200 dinner now, or to be able to take that road trip, but you still can go pick up a bunch of flowers and feel like,' OK, I'm still treating Becky Roberts.'.

– Becky Roberts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If stock market does not pick up steadily now then around it will plunge very steeply around 1:30 pm to shock all. If this stock price downfall continues for another 1 month, 75% brokers offices will be closed and unemployment will be all time high of the history

– Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_2
1 year ago

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