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The show really serves three complementary purposes : It is an education forum, but is also a product showcase and then, most importantly, it is a place where deals get done and relationships get built, in particular, the deal-making and relationship building are challenging to replace in the virtual world.

Daniel Hays

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Based on what I have learned so far, I believe these were an appropriate and reasonable use of force intended for defensive purposes, the Intelligence Committee will closely review the basis for this strike, including an assessment of whether this action will truly deter or prevent further attacks by these militias using UAVs and other means.

The Intelligence

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Unfortunately we're not well-prepared, generally speaking in the Pacific Northwest, for heat, our [ power ] grids are largely taxed during the wintertime for heating purposes, but in the summer, there's a lot less capacity in the grid to be able to actually manage some of the major drains on cooling infrastructure that's needed.

Vivek Shandas

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What we’re talking about here are magazines that are commonly possessed all throughout the country, are legal in 41 out of the 50 states, they are possessed for law-abiding purposes like self-defense and there’s no historical tradition in this country of having the sort of restrictions the state has in mind here of telling people there’s a certain amount of firepower or capacity that's appropriate for them to possess.

Erin Murphy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think it's demonstrably clear that( President Joe Biden) hasn't done a lot. This is someone who has all the resources available to him as the most powerful person in the world to rally members of President Joe Biden own party to at least make an exception to the filibuster for purposes of saving our democracy, and instead, the media and the work of a number of senators has been focused on a bipartisan infrastructure package.

Mondaire Jones

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you’re starting from a position where you’re already short dollars, since FOMC meetings often have a lot of volatility, you might reduce your short for risk management purposes.

Greg Anderson

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Today's decision is going to make it incumbent upon businesses and governments to be far more specific in their policies governing access to databases -- not just about who is allowed to access particular databases, but about the specific purposes for which those individuals are and are not allowed to access that database, in the process, The Supreme Court on Thursday has made it a lot harder to punish those who misuse databases to which they generally have lawful access -- and a lot more important for database owners to expressly prohibit uses of the data that aren't specifically permitted.

Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s also no secret that we have our differences and when it comes to those differences, as President Biden has also shared with President Putin, if Russia acts aggressively against us, our partners, and our allies, we’ll respond — and President Biden has demonstrated that in both word and deed, not for purposes of escalation, not to seek out conflict, but to defend our interests.

Antony Blinken

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are confident that the vaccines that are least currently available in the UK work against that, for practical purposes.

Chris Whitty

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That's likely what dogs are reacting to, we know for other purposes, we use dogs that way for bomb-sniffing, for drugs, and they have tried to use them in cancer diagnosis. They've been trying to use them for C. diff diagnosis as well.

Amesh Adalja

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They should not use permissions that give access to user or device data for undisclosed, unimplemented, or disallowed features or purposes.

Alphabet Inc Google

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Everything is up for grabs. But of course, there is no market for department stores, they are, for all intent and purposes, done.

Mark Cohen

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Whenever theres a discrepancy between official rates and black market rates, corruption thrives. By manipulating foreign exchange, the Iranian central bank can divert the difference in rates to fund other projects, put another way, if foreign companies and correspondent banks pay the official exchange rate in their business with Iran, they will be paying six times as much in dollars. Literally, that means more than 83 percent could go to the Revolutionary Guards, while only 17 percent goes to legitimate purposes.

Michael Rubin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The tire manufacturing industry and our member companies design tires for safety and durability purposes. And every element, every material that goes into a tire is focused on the motorist's ability to drive safely on that tire, our industry is deeply committed to sustainability and understanding our products' impacts not only on the environment and wildlife, but also on human health as well.

Sarah Amick

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This is bullying and it is for electoral purposes, do not let the United States Senate bully you into carrying water for those who want to spread misinformation.

Brian Schatz

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Activation of the Yashasvini Nadi gives emotional stability, sensitivity and control. It gives deep convictions and commitment to work for a cause and higher purposes in life.

Amit Ray

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Within minutes of one of those briefings ending, a number of members of Congress went to a number of different outlets and leaked classified information for political purposes, to create a narrative that simply isnt true, that somehow Russia is a greater national security threat than China.

Director Ratcliffe

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

These allegations are an example of precisely what's wrong with Washington -- a junior-level disgruntled former detailee, with whom Ambassador O'Brien had almost no interaction, can launch baseless attacks for partisan purposes, yevgeny Vindman is no longer at National Security Council after Yevgeny Vindman detail was ended following poor performance, as revealed in the House Democrats' letter. Yevgeny Vindman now attempts to retaliate against Yevgeny Vindman former supervisors for providing an accurate assessment of Yevgeny Vindman performance.

Alyssa Farah

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We knew how to input data, how to extract data, and we know how to access it for prediction purposes, in contrast, the new data system has many inconsistencies.

Vineet Chopra

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We're all aware of the calendar and we're not going to do anything for the purposes of affecting an election, but we are trying to get some things accomplished before the election.

Bill Barr

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The thing is, technology is amoral; anyone can use it, cancel culture is merely another form of an advertising campaign that is using these platforms for destructive versus constructive purposes.

Dennis Santiago

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Municipalities don't always have the officers' best interest at heart. They will do what's expedient for them for their political purposes, we see our role as protecting the rights of the accused. And in some cases, the accused is the police officer.

Brian Luciano

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I see room for multiple vendors at the top of the conferencing space, they will each serve very real purposes in the market, but the winners will be whoever can be the easiest to use, the easiest to get value with, and the easiest to integrate to other applications needed in and outside the workplace.

Wayne Kurtzman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The law, for all practical purposes, leaves this to the president with very little judicial review with any teeth.

Robert Chesney

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

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