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Anna has Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome, a rather rare genetic condition, affecting one in 50,000. The main problems she faces are hypotonia, meaning she has very little strength, she has growth problems, intellectual disability, her communication is very, very basic, and once in a while she has epileptic seizures. So one of the problems she faces is how to interact with her surroundings, so the chair could primarily help her do that. The fact that she has to push a button in order to do something, allows her to interact.

Andreu Raig

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We’re primarily a family environment in terms of our restaurant. And so we decided it’s probably best not to allow open carry, we just felt that knowing our customers, allowing someone to walk in openly carrying a weapon, it would make them feel a little uncomfortable.

Al Flores

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Certainly the recent ... cold snap here is good for the ski areas, and the added snowfall is pretty good, but it's been primarily in the mountains where the snow has fallen, and it hasn't been that much in general.

Andrew Loconto

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He does have a personal email account that he uses to correspond primarily with friends and family. Any email related to work received on this personal account, such as an invitation to speak at an event or an administrative issue, is copied or forwarded to his official account so it can be preserved as a federal record as appropriate, secretary Carter does not use his personal email or official email for classified material.

Peter Cook

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Owners are primarily motivated to rent homes for money, but some also like showing off and sharing their properties ; others like to drop names of people who have stayed in their homes, we have a huge focus on permanently available holiday houses now so for people who have invested in properties it can be a very lucrative way to earn an income from their asset.

Jessica Kirkpatrick

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The process is handled collaboratively between [the Department of Homeland Security] and the State Department, obviously, the State Department's role is primarily overseas with the fiance that is applying for the K-1 visa program.

State Department spokesman John Kirby

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We continue to oppose legislative action like that ... We believe that it's unnecessary for Congress to take that step primarily because there's authority that already rests with the Executive Branch to make that decision.

White House

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What people want is they want to think the police are looking at them primarily as people to protect and not as enemies to corral.

Andra Gillespie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Despite a low price on the volumes from Perenco to Gazprom, we see the project as still delivering solid returns to Perenco - primarily due to the low cost of gas.

Erik Stavseth

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This was a tragic but avoidable accident caused primarily by human error, u.S. forces would never intentionally (strike) a hospital.

John Campbell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This was a tragic but unavoidable accident caused primarily by human error, u.S. forces would never intentionally (strike) a hospital.

John Campbell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Primarily they will do so for reputational purposes, to illustrate that they take employee misconduct seriously, a lesser factor is that they are unlikely to suffer in any material way financially.

Paul McAleavey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Traditionally the G20 has been a forum primarily to discuss economic issues facing the globe ... (but) the sky has been darkened by the horrific attacks that took place in Paris.

Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He's a hyper-fast moving type of guy, when he sits across from you and says,' I'm making a commitment and I'm asking you to make a commitment,' -- he's not benefiting from it financially or politically in any way -- I think that's a pretty powerful selling tool to have.' Keep the Promises This summer, Toby Neugebauer stepped back from day-to-day operations and was replaced primarily by David Barton, a Texas operative with deep ties to the nation's pastors. Tom Patrick, Tom Patrick, said Tom Patrick hadn't heard from Toby Neugebauer in months. Like David Barton, the three groups tied to the three anchor families all have religious tones. Keep the Promise III, backed solely by $ 15 million from Texas fracking giants Farris and Dan Wilks, is breaking through in digital organizing via Promise III Reigniting the Promise project, with a months-old Facebook page that has quickly earned more than 350,000 likes. Conservative Solutions Project is advised by Jon Francis, a Dan Wilks family member and the manager of their philanthropic giving, along with a coterie of anti-abortion activists from a group called Online for Life, who have no prior experience in partisan politics. Keep the Promise I, funded by Long Island billionaire Robert Mercer and helmed by Kellyanne Conway, a well-regarded GOP political operative, is focusing a $ 1 million radio campaign on Christian channels in Iowa, where Ted Cruz is increasingly polling well. The $ 11 million group is also diversifying its portfolio and hiring organizers in the states. Steve King, an Iowa political operative and son of powerful Rep. Steve King, is leading a growing field team in the Hawkeye State, and there are plans to staff up in South Carolina as well to supplement the official campaign field team -- which South Carolina's bumping into on the trail.

Saul Anuzis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Bt cotton seeds are as effective against bollworms as they were in 2002 and the widespread whitefly attack was primarily due to a prolonged dry spell.

Bhagirath Choudhary

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It worries us that there are so many from Afghanistan ... They should think twice, in the summer it was primarily Syrians seeking asylum in the north, with about three quarters of all those crossing the border. Now 60 percent of the daily arrivals are from Afghanistan.

Frode Forfang

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In the summer it was primarily Syrians seeking asylum in the north, with about three quarters of all those crossing the border. Now 60 percent of the daily arrivals are from Afghanistan.

Frode Forfang

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have experience fighting ISIS and I think the whole world has seen as evidence of that the areas that we currently hold in Syria. We hope that this assistance will evolve from all our different friends and allies. We need all types of assistance but first and foremost weapons are primarily our most important need.

Mohamed Rasho

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Looking only at death rates, and primarily at mortality prominent in 1969, gives a necessary but not sufficient profile of the health of the nation and the citizens within it – missing issues like the rapid ascendance of Alzheimer’s disease, the rise and reduction of HIV/AIDS, the more recent ascendance of diabetes deaths( tracking the obesity epidemic) and persistent disparities in health care, for example the sustained gap between blacks and whites, we now have the science and the capacity to develop a system of vital signs that can give a much better picture of our health progress.

Michael McGinnis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Space is primarily about intellectual property. It's aspirational, very high-tech, very extreme technology that takes a long time to develop, a cyber attack to steal from an industry rival can be a huge time-saver.

Andrew Rogoyski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

CIT had many things that were broken and needed to be fixed, what's left will be primarily a U.S.-based commercial bank, and that's what Ellen's expertise is.

John Thain

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What's left will be primarily a U.S.-based commercial bank, and that's what Ellen's expertise is.

John Thain

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You're looking at a commodity-based rally which is primarily on U.S. dollar weakness, it's reasonable to assume pressure on the U.S. dollar can persist until we get a better message out of the U.S. Fed on their intentions for policy.

Sid Mokhtari

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have got to stop imprisoning people who use marijuana, therefore, we need more states, cities, and the federal government to begin to address this so that we don't have this terrible result that Senator Sanders was talking about where we have a huge population in our prisons for nonviolent, low-level offenses that are primarily due to marijuana.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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