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In my case, I feel like things are just kind of piling on, adding on somehow for one reason or another, it’s not an ideal situation or circumstances to be in when you have to kind of deal with all these other outside factors that are not really necessary during such an important event. Djokovic celebrates during his quarterfinal against Andrey Rublev at the Australian Open. Dita Alangkara/AP.

Novak Djokovic

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that the issue that we're dealing with right now is that we have a contrast between somebody who believes in a woman's right to choose, who believes that a patient's room is too small and cramped a space for the woman, her doctor and the United States government, and somebody who wants a nationwide ban with no exceptions, so that's the extreme we're dealing with, and that's what I'm focused on. There are plenty of politicians piling into patients' rooms. I have no intention of joining them.

Raphael Warnock

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

These are big points, they all are from here on out. We need to start piling them up.

Connor McDavid

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The money is very much needed for a backlog of projects across the country, these projects stay on the books until we have enough money and the needs keep piling on as consumers buy more goods and add stress on the system.

Elaine Nessle

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Piling up trash affects the quality of water and reduces the quantity of oxygen in it ... animals are coming to the banks to rummage through trash.

Dragan Ljeljen

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

A payroll tax holiday on top of a pandemic will have a significant negative effect, this is just piling on.

Richard Prisinzano

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If there is a raging epidemic going on and bodies are piling up all over the place they're probably going to be more likely to get the vaccine.

Arthur Reingold

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The country is going through a political upheaval and we are trying to avoid turning it into a financial crisis, our main task is to provide vital needs to the country. Because of the two weeks of closure due to security concerns, we had requests piling up. We don't have a policy of restrictions but we are prioritizing.

Salim Sfeir

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

My intent was to meet with Aaron Dean today to terminate Aaron Dean employment with the Fort Worth Police Department. However, the officer tendered his resignation this morning before we met, even though he no longer works for the city, we will continue the administrative investigation as if he did. The case will be completed and reviewed by the chain of command. NEIGHBOR WHO CALLED 911 ABOUT JEFFERSONS HOME SAYS ALL THEY NEEDED TO DO IS RING THE DOORBELL Bouquets of flowers and stuffed animals piling up outside the Fort Worth home on Monday, where a 28-year-old black woman was shot and killed by a white police officer. ( AP).

Interim Police Chief Ed Kraus

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We had a lot of friends that came through and helped us, we started getting phone calls and( more) phone calls, and people just started piling up and getting the horses( out).

Alejo Morales

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I probably would not charge any of the kids unless they had a major role in the scam, they( prosecutors) may lose public sentiment. At a certain point if you are seen to be piling on, things could turn against you. And not just in terms of public opinion but a jury's opinion as well.

Elie Honig.MacFarlane

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Inventories piling up on its memory chip side and the weak performance of its display panels business due to bad sales of Apple's iPhones are hurting profitability for Samsung.

Lee Won-sik

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The vehicles coming up behind them cant stop fast enough because theyre following too close or going too fast for the conditions, and then they start just piling into one another, its almost like theyre just driving into a wall of cars, just like theyre driving through whiteout conditions.

Wisconsin State Trooper Chris Splinter

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Notes To Self: 1.The falling of autumn leaves is not your fault. 2.Stop piling candles for decoration. They are meant to be burnt. 3.Silence has a voice of its own. Listen to your own silence. 4.A piece of advice from a divorced and a formerly political prisoner: “to be successful, avoid two things: women and politics!” 5.A semi-colon is the middle finger in a sentence when writing fiction. 6.Be sadist when you write. Good things come out of your character only when bad things happen to them. 7.A comedian once said: if you are looking for sympathy in life, you will only find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis. 8.No expectations. Just instincts. 9.Undergraduate degrees of creative writing are rubbish. They are vehicles of producing mass ignorance. Because if undergraduates want to become writers, they have to spend their twenties reading excessively first. 10.Every time you get rejected by a publisher, be thankful. It is a boost for your ego to keep going forward. It is a second chance to reflect, write, and edit. It is a rebirth. It is similar to being given the question-sheet in an exam to revisit your answers before you submit your paper. 11.You are fake and hypocritical when you write for fame or political purpose. These are exterior. Honest and free writing is interior: that is when you write for yourself. 12.Mark things in green. It is the colour of grace, hope and nature. Red is bloody and fascist. 13.Reason, not need. - King Lear 14.Your body is roughly 72 per cent water. Keep hydrated. 15.Read alone. Write alone. Eat accompanied. 16.Do not drive all the time. Cycle when possible. 17.More radio. Less TV. 18.Read more. Write less. Writing comes later. 19.Sing to a mirror. 20.Re-paint your walls. 21.Read an article or summarise a short story a day. 22.Learn a new word a day too. 23.Become drunk with poetry. 24.Watch foreign films. 25.Buy mother a piece of jewellery with first salary. 26.Publish a book before you are 30. 27.Practice poetry. For fun. 28.Have a tattoo you will regret. 29.Put that bloody mobile phone down! Do not become a machine driven by machines! 30.Speak less. Listen more.

Akram Al Deek

added by anonymous
5 years ago

When he or she is around [ sweets ], that child might lose control and be very uninhibited, parents will come to me and say,' I'm finding wrappers in my child's bedroom, my child seems obsessed with food, and when I see them at a party, my kid is piling their plate with sweets and treats, and they are always eating.'.

Jill Castle

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The piling on is incredible.

Rick Pitino

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The shame of it [is I] can’t even enjoy a win, the piling on is incredible.

Rick Pitino

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The goal is to discourage 'piling on', and instead coordinate with local, state, federal and foreign authorities to achieve a joint result that imposes appropriate punishment without prolonging investigations.

Rod Rosenstein

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I'll spell out where we're at, that we're piling too much dough into a welfare system that's focused on corrective treatment.

Emmanuel Macron

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Look where we are on welfare. We plow a chunk of cash into subsistence benefits, and people are still poor. There's no way out. People who are born poor stay poor, i'll spell out where we're at, that we're piling too much dough into a welfare system that's focused on corrective treatment.

Emmanuel Macron

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There is no rubbish piling up in the streets, so Singaporeans don't perceive a waste problem or feel personally responsible to reduce waste.

Sonny Ben Rosenthal

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I didn’t hear any calls for restraint from Director Mulvaney when the Administration used taxpayer dollars to buy a $43,000 phone booth or a $31,000 dining room table. Where is Director Mulvaney while the Administration is piling-up private jet costs and taking $120,000 Italian vacations — all on the government dime?

Tim Ryan

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Director Mulvaney should turn his calls for spending restraint toward the Trump Administration’s mounting spending scandals involving the obscene waste of taxpayer money, i didn’t hear any calls for restraint from Director Mulvaney when the Administration used taxpayer dollars to buy a $43,000 phone booth or a $31,000 dining room table. Where is Director Mulvaney while the Administration is piling-up private jet costs and taking $120,000 Italian vacations — all on the government dime?

Tim Ryan

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The media is piling on with unsubstantiated claims … while they ignore an avalanche of hard evidence about corruption, pay to play, political favoritism emanating out of Hillary Clinton's years as secretary of state.

Mike Pence

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

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