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The Earth is round – discovery made by Galileo. Astronomy was not studied in Kremlin, giving preference to court astrologers. If it was, they would know: If something is launched into other countries’ airspace, sooner or later unknown flying objects will return to departure point. – Matthias Somm/CNN The enemy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
My strong preference really would be that we don’t need names because we’ve not seen the constant evolution of many more variants that we need to watch. That will be the best because we’ve mitigated them. – Ryan Gregory	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Some people do this because they cannot access a clinic — particularly in states with legal restrictions on abortion — or because they have a preference for self-care, a growing body of research indicates that self-managed abortion is safe and effective. – Daniel Grossman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
My personal preference was that I didn’t want to bring in a physician to speculate, i totally see the other side, where a well-trained eye of a physician might recognize something that might totally make sense. But I just didn’t want to be speculating. – Van Pelt	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I look forward to working with incoming Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman and my colleagues on fixing our permitting problems to secure our energy future, our efforts as Republicans to onshore our mineral supply chains contrasts with Biden and the Democrats’ preference of catering to the radical green lobby and importing the minerals we need from countries that use slave labor. – Pete Stauber	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I think there are going to be some differences of opinion, my preference is to have each state handle those issues. – John Cornyn	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was a personal decision, and I'm going to leave it at that, i'm not against vaccines, so it's just a personal preference. – Andrew Benintendi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I'm not against vaccines, so it's just a personal preference, i'm not judging anyone who wanted to get it or who didn't want to get it. – Hunter Dozier	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s not even about being an ally, i ’m not saying I ’m not, but just be a decent f ----- person. Just be a decent human being. And judging someone and trying to justify it with religion and saying all sorts of spiteful, hateful s --- … It’s crazy to me. It’s mind-boggling. Who cares who someone wants to be with ? Or their sexual preference ? – Jeff Molina	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
People don't use the generics, and not many places carry them, you want to make sure it's effective. There is a preference for the brand. – Dima Qato	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This self-preferencing provision applies to all gatekeepers, so what if Apple is identified as a gatekeeper [in this context]? Apple would not be able to self-preference its own Apple Music service in detriment of Spotify or other competitors. – Agustin Reyna	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I want the guilt hatred hostility shame violence perfectionism biases humanity to flee, jump off the Terminal Island bridge. How many times have I laid next to you in bed with my arms around you wanting to blow my brains out? My grave marks my preference, my erasure, my wholeness. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
We believe it's a combination … of the George Floyd protests — riots, if you will; a general feeling of a preference for less law enforcement; and less prosecution and less policing, law enforcement officers have essentially been marginalized and demoralized and cast aside and encouraged now to enforce the law. And so we've seen massive jumps in the homicide rate in cities across America. – Jason Johnson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Within this context, it is also worth noting that the Fed’s apparent preference for earlier balance sheet action makes the BoE’s own runoff plans less idiosyncratic, which we though could have held back GBP’s response to policy action. – Goldman Sachs	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
The Fed’s shift towards more aggressive policy action will likely push the market to expect similar moves from central banks like the BoE that were already taking steps in that direction, within this context, it is also worth noting that the Fed’s apparent preference for earlier balance sheet action makes the BoE’s own runoff plans less idiosyncratic, which we though could have held back GBP’s response to policy action. – Goldman Sachs	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
There are things parents can do that they couldn't do a year ago. One of them is to make sure that everybody in the entourage of a child who's eligible for vaccination or for boosting get that vaccination or boosting, also, maintain the same sort of preference for outdoor activities over indoor activities, and be careful that masks be worn whenever they're indoors. Those things, I think, need to be re-emphasized. – Richard Malley	Found on CNN 2 years ago
While the majority of us have to get a mortgage, explore ways to write a cash offer or offer more cash down. There are many avenues, retirement accounts, parents, investments that could provide the liquidity to make a cash offer even if it is not your first preference, offering the ability to purchase in cash even if obtaining a mortgage is what the offer says might be an attractive quality in your package. – Ron Leffler	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think the media makes it sound as though you are just always going right to your personal preference, so if they think you are anti-abortion or something personally, they think that’s the way you always will come out. They think you’re for this or for that. They think you become like a politician. That’s a problem. You’re going to jeopardize any faith in the legal institutions. – Clarence Thomas	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He's the go-to guy, there's a preference to get lawyers who are neutral -- I don't think anyone knows David's views. – President Trump	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The strong demand for single family homes is led by maturing millennials seeking accommodation for their increasing space needs, with a preference for newly constructed homes and a propensity to rent, this trend started some years ago and has only been amplified by the more flexible approach many employers are taking to work from home. – Karen Horstmann	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If our Republican colleagues, we welcome them on amendments throughout the bill, but if they don't see the big, bold need for change in infrastructure and climate that the nation sees and wants and that we see and want, we will have to move forward without them. But our first preference, let's see if they can work in a bipartisan way. – Chuck Schumer	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If a majority are capable of preferring their own private interest, or that of their families, counties, and party, to that of the nation collectively, some provision must be made in the constitution, in favor of justice, to compel all to respect the common right, the public good, the universal law, in preference to all private and partial considerations... And that the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of history... To remedy the dangers attendant upon the arbitrary use of power, checks, however multiplied, will scarcely avail without an explicit admission some limitation of the right of the majority to exercise sovereign authority over the individual citizen... In popular governments [democracies], minorities [individuals] constantly run much greater risk of suffering from arbitrary power than in absolute monarchies... – John Adams	added by Normando 3 years ago
It was clear; there was this preference. We didn't expect that. – Sean Stowell	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I would probably go with the two-dose Moderna and Pfizer vaccine, at least for my patients with HIV. But if the insurance only covers a certain one, I'd say give it to them because I'd just want the vaccine in their arm, but I would choose the two-dose shot if I had the preference. – Peter Gulick	Found on FOX News 3 years ago

The Earth is round – discovery made by Galileo. Astronomy was not studied in Kremlin, giving preference to court astrologers. If it was, they would know: If something is launched into other countries’ airspace, sooner or later unknown flying objects will return to departure point.

– Matthias Somm/CNN The enemy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My strong preference really would be that we don’t need names because we’ve not seen the constant evolution of many more variants that we need to watch. That will be the best because we’ve mitigated them.

– Ryan Gregory

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Some people do this because they cannot access a clinic — particularly in states with legal restrictions on abortion — or because they have a preference for self-care, a growing body of research indicates that self-managed abortion is safe and effective.

– Daniel Grossman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My personal preference was that I didn’t want to bring in a physician to speculate, i totally see the other side, where a well-trained eye of a physician might recognize something that might totally make sense. But I just didn’t want to be speculating.

– Van Pelt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I look forward to working with incoming Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman and my colleagues on fixing our permitting problems to secure our energy future, our efforts as Republicans to onshore our mineral supply chains contrasts with Biden and the Democrats’ preference of catering to the radical green lobby and importing the minerals we need from countries that use slave labor.

– Pete Stauber

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think there are going to be some differences of opinion, my preference is to have each state handle those issues.

– John Cornyn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was a personal decision, and I'm going to leave it at that, i'm not against vaccines, so it's just a personal preference.

– Andrew Benintendi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm not against vaccines, so it's just a personal preference, i'm not judging anyone who wanted to get it or who didn't want to get it.

– Hunter Dozier

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s not even about being an ally, i ’m not saying I ’m not, but just be a decent f ----- person. Just be a decent human being. And judging someone and trying to justify it with religion and saying all sorts of spiteful, hateful s --- … It’s crazy to me. It’s mind-boggling. Who cares who someone wants to be with ? Or their sexual preference ?

– Jeff Molina

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

People don't use the generics, and not many places carry them, you want to make sure it's effective. There is a preference for the brand.

– Dima Qato

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This self-preferencing provision applies to all gatekeepers, so what if Apple is identified as a gatekeeper [in this context]? Apple would not be able to self-preference its own Apple Music service in detriment of Spotify or other competitors.

– Agustin Reyna

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I want the guilt hatred hostility shame violence perfectionism biases humanity to flee, jump off the Terminal Island bridge. How many times have I laid next to you in bed with my arms around you wanting to blow my brains out? My grave marks my preference, my erasure, my wholeness.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

We believe it's a combination … of the George Floyd protests — riots, if you will; a general feeling of a preference for less law enforcement; and less prosecution and less policing, law enforcement officers have essentially been marginalized and demoralized and cast aside and encouraged now to enforce the law. And so we've seen massive jumps in the homicide rate in cities across America.

– Jason Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Within this context, it is also worth noting that the Fed’s apparent preference for earlier balance sheet action makes the BoE’s own runoff plans less idiosyncratic, which we though could have held back GBP’s response to policy action.

– Goldman Sachs

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The Fed’s shift towards more aggressive policy action will likely push the market to expect similar moves from central banks like the BoE that were already taking steps in that direction, within this context, it is also worth noting that the Fed’s apparent preference for earlier balance sheet action makes the BoE’s own runoff plans less idiosyncratic, which we though could have held back GBP’s response to policy action.

– Goldman Sachs

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

There are things parents can do that they couldn't do a year ago. One of them is to make sure that everybody in the entourage of a child who's eligible for vaccination or for boosting get that vaccination or boosting, also, maintain the same sort of preference for outdoor activities over indoor activities, and be careful that masks be worn whenever they're indoors. Those things, I think, need to be re-emphasized.

– Richard Malley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

While the majority of us have to get a mortgage, explore ways to write a cash offer or offer more cash down. There are many avenues, retirement accounts, parents, investments that could provide the liquidity to make a cash offer even if it is not your first preference, offering the ability to purchase in cash even if obtaining a mortgage is what the offer says might be an attractive quality in your package.

– Ron Leffler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think the media makes it sound as though you are just always going right to your personal preference, so if they think you are anti-abortion or something personally, they think that’s the way you always will come out. They think you’re for this or for that. They think you become like a politician. That’s a problem. You’re going to jeopardize any faith in the legal institutions.

– Clarence Thomas

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He's the go-to guy, there's a preference to get lawyers who are neutral -- I don't think anyone knows David's views.

– President Trump

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The strong demand for single family homes is led by maturing millennials seeking accommodation for their increasing space needs, with a preference for newly constructed homes and a propensity to rent, this trend started some years ago and has only been amplified by the more flexible approach many employers are taking to work from home.

– Karen Horstmann

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If our Republican colleagues, we welcome them on amendments throughout the bill, but if they don't see the big, bold need for change in infrastructure and climate that the nation sees and wants and that we see and want, we will have to move forward without them. But our first preference, let's see if they can work in a bipartisan way.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If a majority are capable of preferring their own private interest, or that of their families, counties, and party, to that of the nation collectively, some provision must be made in the constitution, in favor of justice, to compel all to respect the common right, the public good, the universal law, in preference to all private and partial considerations... And that the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of history... To remedy the dangers attendant upon the arbitrary use of power, checks, however multiplied, will scarcely avail without an explicit admission some limitation of the right of the majority to exercise sovereign authority over the individual citizen... In popular governments [democracies], minorities [individuals] constantly run much greater risk of suffering from arbitrary power than in absolute monarchies...

– John Adams

added by Normando
3 years ago

It was clear; there was this preference. We didn't expect that.

– Sean Stowell

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I would probably go with the two-dose Moderna and Pfizer vaccine, at least for my patients with HIV. But if the insurance only covers a certain one, I'd say give it to them because I'd just want the vaccine in their arm, but I would choose the two-dose shot if I had the preference.

– Peter Gulick

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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