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I have experienced such love, compassion, empathy and kindness in the job. That has been my predominant experience. So I leave feeling gratitude for having this wonderful role for so many years, i would hate for anyone to view my departure as a negative commentary on New Zealand.

Jacinda Ardern

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Since the beginning of the 1980s, when I first had responsibility for managing some land in my own right at Highgrove, I have wanted to focus on an approach to food production that avoids the impact of the predominant, conventional system of industrialized agriculture, which, it is increasingly clear to see, is having a disastrous effect on soil fertility, biodiversity and animal and human health.

Prince Charles

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The whole reason behind the concentration of troops by Russia at the Ukrainian border is to create tension, to accompany the Russian political demands with the demonstration of military force, which has already brought some significant positive results to Russia, from the Russian perspective, and this is the predominant opinion really widespread in Moscow, withoutthe concentration of the Russian troops, without belligerent rhetoric, without speculation about the ‘military-technical’ response by Russia, Russian security guarantee demands would have gone directly to the dustbins everywhere in the West.

Dmitry Suslov

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

By saying race was not in the minds of the people who drew the lines, you potentially get out of those constitutional causes action that you are intentionally diluting the vote of racial minorities or that race was the predominant factor in the construction of a district.

Nate Persily

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When you think about that this virus has the potential to double every two days, then in a couple of weeks we're going to be facing a lot of cases of Omicron, that modeling implies that sometime in January, we will be at a different stage of recognizing Omicron, maybe as even a predominant virus. However, we still are learning about the severity, transmissibility.

Lori Tremmel Freeman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That modeling implies that sometime in January, we will be at a different stage of recognizing Omicron, maybe as even a predominant virus. However, we still are learning about the severity, transmissibility, the data is emerging from around the world.

Lori Tremmel Freeman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When you think about how The Omicron variant has the potential to double every two days, then in a couple of weeks, we're going to be facing a lot of cases of Omicron, that modeling implies that sometime in January, we will be at a different stage of recognizing Omicron, maybe as even a predominant virus. However, we still are learning about the severity, transmissibility.

Lori Tremmel Freeman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I heard a male Democratic politician once say that we need to stop talking about wedge issues that divide people, and instead focus on things that affect people's everyday lives, and then he went on to say, we need to stop talking about things like abortion, we need to stop talking about things like racism and we need to focus on things like infrastructure and health care, as if reproductive health care isn't the predominant health care that that me and most women, and most people, trans men, are dealing with right now. I think it's important that we include it fully in whatever health care reforms, health care overhauls, we end up doing.

Sara Jacobs

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The descriptions from regions of the world where the delta variant has taken hold and become the predominant virus are pictures of ICUs full of 30-year-olds. That’s what the critical care doctors describe and that’s what’s coming to the U.S..

James Lawler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate—the genetic and neural fate—of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

Oliver Sacks

added by Soulwriter
2 years ago

I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”

Oliver Sacks

added by Soulwriter
2 years ago

The swastika and the SS bolts and the Confederate flag tend to be the predominant images that I see that I have to cover up.

Ryun King

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

With the big ice sheet on Antarctica like we have today, the predominant winds are known as katabatic winds, and these go from the land to the sea, they originate from the ice sheet where it is very high, very cold and very dry -- in fact Antarctica receives only a few inches of snowfall a year and is so dry it is classified as a desert.

Catherine Bradshaw

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you look at the stock market and industries like housing, you might feel like the economy is back on its feet. But there is still enough slack in the job market to prevent any short-term inflation, i don't think inflation will be a predominant risk.

Craig Fehr

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The tsunami of social media that has conquered global communications within a few years has swept away privacy, once predominant, and has laid the groundwork for a new world where everything is public - or is rapidly becoming so - and where everything is transparent - or is about to be.

Maxim Behar

added by MaximBehar
3 years ago

In 2020, I think texting is the predominant form of communication and we want to get back to the grassroots and treat it just like the show' The Love is Blind,' because essentially, people are in the pods. The pods are in your apartment, and we want people to communicate and test that vibe over the phone.

Rance Nix

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Compared to eight years ago, attitudes about the economy have improved dramatically, but that’s a pretty low bar, the predominant view now is things aren’t getting worse anymore.

Republican Daron Shaw

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The predominant driver of growth will be an increase in ... the construction sector, with this growth driven by Uganda's significant investments in public infrastructure.

The World Bank

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The predominant theme is risk on, we came into the year concerned about Chinese growth and an aggressive (Federal Reserve), and we've gotten nothing even remotely similar to where our fears were.

Richard Scalone

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There's a little bit of steadying in oil prices in the Asian time zone. The predominant attitude is one of wait-and-see until the Energy Information Administration (inventory) figures come out.

Ric Spooner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You can see a lot of pollution over parts of Asia that is almost continuous. You can’t really see the ground very well. And those fires in California over the summer, that smoke was pretty extensive. But the predominant thing is you just notice how thin the atmosphere is, how fragile it looks. That combined with these large swabs of pollution is somewhat alarming.

Mark Kelly

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The predominant concept [to date] has been a drug-free world, rather than a pragmatic acceptance that substance use is common.

Chris Beyrer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Health topics, notably cancer, have always been of interest to the general public, and the predominant sources of information range from traditional media( magazines, newspapers) to Internet-based health platforms, the general public. . . have obtained most of their information about health and disease even before consulting a specialist, in most cases without specific background knowledge.

David Benjamin Lumenta

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

, he played a predominant and active role in the functioning of the local structure put in place during the group's occupation of Timbuktu in 2012, intentional attacks against historic monuments and buildings dedicated to religion are serious crimes.

International Criminal Court

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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