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With labor market conditions poised to cool further amid tighter financial conditions and growing financial market uncertainty likely to dampen households’ willingness to spend, we foresee soft consumer spending growth in coming quarters, recent data on household spending and credit growth indicate that we will likely see a K-shaped consumer spending pattern in 2023, with low- and median-income families exercising more spending restraint, and families at the higher of the income spectrum still spending, albeit with more discretion. – Gregory Daco	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The president believes it shouldn’t evolve into conflict, there’s no reason for the bilateral relationship – the most consequential bilateral relationship in the world – to erupt into some kind of conflict. We do believe, and the president has made clear, that we are in a competition with China, a competition that he believes the United States is well poised to win. – John Kirby	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is poised to be a big moment and shows how far we've come, even in the 2000s, there were bigots who would attack any Muslim for getting a job within the Bush administration. – Grover Norquist	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Nothing goes up forever, but in the near term we are poised for more gains. – Jonathan Miller	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In a strategic sense, Putin’s invasion has made Russia as a whole less secure – not only because of the fact that the invasion did not go well, but now NATO is poised to grow. – James Anderson	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
[The Russian people] see – and he no doubt fears they see – his aggressive actions in Ukraine have driven historically neutral countries to seek membership [in NATO], in a strategic sense, Putin’s invasion has made Russia as a whole less secure – not only because of the fact that the invasion did not go well, but now NATO is poised to grow. – James Anderson	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I would just say to people in British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that this is something that America historically does and has to do, and that is to step up for peace and freedom and democracy, and if we let Putin get away with it, and just annex, conquer sizable parts of a free, independent, sovereign country, which is what he is poised to do... then the consequences for the world are absolutely catastrophic. – Boris Johnson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I would just say to people in the United States that this is something that America historically does and has to do, and that is to step up for peace and freedom and democracy, and if we let Russian President Vladimir Putin get away with it, and just annex, conquer sizable parts of a free, independent, sovereign country, which is what Russian President Vladimir Putin is poised to do... then the consequences for the world are absolutely catastrophic. – Boris Johnson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’ve seen him be so poised at some of the darkest moments where people would lose hope, like our Kentucky game and just how he handled that huddle. You just look back now that you’re a coach and you say, ‘Wow, could I have been that poised? Could I have convinced this group that we were going to win this game?’. – Bobby Hurley	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We still believe that Russia is poised to go much further in launching a massive military attack against Ukraine—I hope I’m wrong about that. I hope we’re wrong about that, russian forces remain positioned in Belarus to attack Ukraine from the north, including warplanes and offensive missile systems. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Open-source software suffers from chronic underinvestment in security, much like most private companies, today's threats like Log4j represent the global frontier of complexity this board is poised to analyze to the benefit of all. – Katie Moussouris	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We wanted to stay poised, we’re the No. 1 team and everybody is going to see how you respond to situations like that. When we got down, we never panicked. I was just trying to keep us all poised. That’s my job at point guard. – James Akinjo	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He was terrific, he was poised. He played within himself. He missed a couple, and his confidence level didn’t waver. He demanded it. – Mike White	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
For us, it was just about being poised and calm … just taking our time offensively and defensively, knowing that we’re going to rely on what we do and try to be great at what we do to close out games. – Mike Conley	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think that is a very clear signal that we are poised to move in a dramatic way if Russia does undertake further military aggression against Ukraine. – Karen Donfried	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think it’s just experience really, we’ve been in those situations a lot of times last season, and then in big playoff games, big play-in games. … So, I think we’re a little more seasoned as a group. We’re more poised down the stretch. – Desmond Bane	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
She had a poised and patient demeanor, she really sets an example that's relevant today that collaboration and census building and reasoning with professional dialogue is a way to move agendas forward. – Nancy Lohman	Found on CNN 2 years ago
He made some changes at the line of scrimmage, saw some 1-on-1 coverage and being able to take advantage of it. The thing with him, he’s just so poised and confident, calm, poised and cool at all times. He has everything under control. He continues to get better. The fact of the matter is he was a graduate assistant less than a month ago, and he has started and won two college football games. – Shane Beamer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We've got additional consular officers at these additional gates with additional troops helping the consular officers, so I think we're poised to see an increase, but I want to be careful before I make predictions, what we're trying to do, what we want to drive, is an increase. That's very much on everybody's mind. – Hank Taylor	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Consumers have plenty of income and wealth ammunition to support consumer spending, while business inventories remain lean and restocking efforts are poised to support business investment and overall GDP growth substantially in the second half of the year. – Sam Bullard	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Sullivan provides crucial protection of the independence of news outlets, whose reporting might otherwise be chilled, even for accurate stories, if Supreme Court were easier to sue them for defamation, the more justices who look poised to potentially revisit that precedent in the coming years, the more alarming Justice Thomas's previously idiosyncratic critiques become. – Steve Vladeck	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Unfortunately, given the politics of the moment, we seem to be poised to undo more than a year’s worth of work toward common sense criminal justice reform. Demagoguery and scare tactics have jeopardized the future of these efforts and may well have derailed the negotiations. – Patrick Yoes	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When we look at where we're heading in the future, our analysis has shown that if we fail to reduce our heat-trapping emissions, we are poised to see a staggering expansion of dangerous heat across the Kristina Dahl. – Kristina Dahl	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It’s another indication of the cash-collateral imbalance in the financial system, and there does not appear to be significant relief in sight as Treasury cash balances are poised to continue to fall ahead of the debt ceiling deadline, and as Treasury bill issuance remains negative, the Fed has and will continue to relax any constraints to the facility which will keep rates from moving sustainably negative. – Dan Belton	Found on Reuters 2 years ago

With labor market conditions poised to cool further amid tighter financial conditions and growing financial market uncertainty likely to dampen households’ willingness to spend, we foresee soft consumer spending growth in coming quarters, recent data on household spending and credit growth indicate that we will likely see a K-shaped consumer spending pattern in 2023, with low- and median-income families exercising more spending restraint, and families at the higher of the income spectrum still spending, albeit with more discretion.

– Gregory Daco

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The president believes it shouldn’t evolve into conflict, there’s no reason for the bilateral relationship – the most consequential bilateral relationship in the world – to erupt into some kind of conflict. We do believe, and the president has made clear, that we are in a competition with China, a competition that he believes the United States is well poised to win.

– John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is poised to be a big moment and shows how far we've come, even in the 2000s, there were bigots who would attack any Muslim for getting a job within the Bush administration.

– Grover Norquist

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Nothing goes up forever, but in the near term we are poised for more gains.

– Jonathan Miller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In a strategic sense, Putin’s invasion has made Russia as a whole less secure – not only because of the fact that the invasion did not go well, but now NATO is poised to grow.

– James Anderson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

[The Russian people] see – and he no doubt fears they see – his aggressive actions in Ukraine have driven historically neutral countries to seek membership [in NATO], in a strategic sense, Putin’s invasion has made Russia as a whole less secure – not only because of the fact that the invasion did not go well, but now NATO is poised to grow.

– James Anderson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I would just say to people in British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that this is something that America historically does and has to do, and that is to step up for peace and freedom and democracy, and if we let Putin get away with it, and just annex, conquer sizable parts of a free, independent, sovereign country, which is what he is poised to do... then the consequences for the world are absolutely catastrophic.

– Boris Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would just say to people in the United States that this is something that America historically does and has to do, and that is to step up for peace and freedom and democracy, and if we let Russian President Vladimir Putin get away with it, and just annex, conquer sizable parts of a free, independent, sovereign country, which is what Russian President Vladimir Putin is poised to do... then the consequences for the world are absolutely catastrophic.

– Boris Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’ve seen him be so poised at some of the darkest moments where people would lose hope, like our Kentucky game and just how he handled that huddle. You just look back now that you’re a coach and you say, ‘Wow, could I have been that poised? Could I have convinced this group that we were going to win this game?’.

– Bobby Hurley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We still believe that Russia is poised to go much further in launching a massive military attack against Ukraine—I hope I’m wrong about that. I hope we’re wrong about that, russian forces remain positioned in Belarus to attack Ukraine from the north, including warplanes and offensive missile systems.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Open-source software suffers from chronic underinvestment in security, much like most private companies, today's threats like Log4j represent the global frontier of complexity this board is poised to analyze to the benefit of all.

– Katie Moussouris

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We wanted to stay poised, we’re the No. 1 team and everybody is going to see how you respond to situations like that. When we got down, we never panicked. I was just trying to keep us all poised. That’s my job at point guard.

– James Akinjo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He was terrific, he was poised. He played within himself. He missed a couple, and his confidence level didn’t waver. He demanded it.

– Mike White

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For us, it was just about being poised and calm … just taking our time offensively and defensively, knowing that we’re going to rely on what we do and try to be great at what we do to close out games.

– Mike Conley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think that is a very clear signal that we are poised to move in a dramatic way if Russia does undertake further military aggression against Ukraine.

– Karen Donfried

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think it’s just experience really, we’ve been in those situations a lot of times last season, and then in big playoff games, big play-in games. … So, I think we’re a little more seasoned as a group. We’re more poised down the stretch.

– Desmond Bane

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

She had a poised and patient demeanor, she really sets an example that's relevant today that collaboration and census building and reasoning with professional dialogue is a way to move agendas forward.

– Nancy Lohman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He made some changes at the line of scrimmage, saw some 1-on-1 coverage and being able to take advantage of it. The thing with him, he’s just so poised and confident, calm, poised and cool at all times. He has everything under control. He continues to get better. The fact of the matter is he was a graduate assistant less than a month ago, and he has started and won two college football games.

– Shane Beamer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We've got additional consular officers at these additional gates with additional troops helping the consular officers, so I think we're poised to see an increase, but I want to be careful before I make predictions, what we're trying to do, what we want to drive, is an increase. That's very much on everybody's mind.

– Hank Taylor

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Consumers have plenty of income and wealth ammunition to support consumer spending, while business inventories remain lean and restocking efforts are poised to support business investment and overall GDP growth substantially in the second half of the year.

– Sam Bullard

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Sullivan provides crucial protection of the independence of news outlets, whose reporting might otherwise be chilled, even for accurate stories, if Supreme Court were easier to sue them for defamation, the more justices who look poised to potentially revisit that precedent in the coming years, the more alarming Justice Thomas's previously idiosyncratic critiques become.

– Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Unfortunately, given the politics of the moment, we seem to be poised to undo more than a year’s worth of work toward common sense criminal justice reform. Demagoguery and scare tactics have jeopardized the future of these efforts and may well have derailed the negotiations.

– Patrick Yoes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When we look at where we're heading in the future, our analysis has shown that if we fail to reduce our heat-trapping emissions, we are poised to see a staggering expansion of dangerous heat across the Kristina Dahl.

– Kristina Dahl

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s another indication of the cash-collateral imbalance in the financial system, and there does not appear to be significant relief in sight as Treasury cash balances are poised to continue to fall ahead of the debt ceiling deadline, and as Treasury bill issuance remains negative, the Fed has and will continue to relax any constraints to the facility which will keep rates from moving sustainably negative.

– Dan Belton

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

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