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Refer and review like your reputation depends on it and is attached to it. – Loren Weisman	added by weismanloren 11 months ago
We can refer to the Hungarian law and based on that we cannot arrest the Russian President … as the ICC’s statute has not been promulgated in Hungary. – Gergely Gulyas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We typically refer to these successive types of atmospheric rivers as ‘AR families,’ while AR families are not all that uncommon, we don’t see them every year and the stretch of nine we had around the turn of the New Year was a more active family than we typically see. – Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images Hecht	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s definitely sort of reinvocation of kind of what people in Asian American studies would refer to as ‘Yellow Peril’ fearmongering, there are ways in which it resonates with what happened to Japanese Americans during World War II, where regardless of citizenship, regardless of nativity, they were racially categorized as enemy aliens. – Madeline Hsu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If you have what we refer to as a treatment-resistant depression, we may use things like TMS — transcranial magnetic stimulation — and we still use ECT, or electroconvulsive therapy. So there really is a large compendium of therapies available, the key is getting care. The vast majority of people will have their symptoms remit with proper treatment through psychotherapy and/or medication. – Ohio State Carpenter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
At the end of these six months, which cannot be extended, the four governments can officially refer the case to the International Court of Justice in the Hague. – Hamed Esmaeilion	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is not a prop and I don’t carry it as a prop, this is a reference manual. I carry it with me next to my heart because I refer to it daily, constantly. – Mike Lee	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
If at any point the law-enforcement personnel assigned to the investigation subsequently identify any data or documents that they consider may be potentially attorney-client privileged, they will cease the review of such identified data or documents and refer the materials to the Privilege Review Team for further review by the Privilege Review Team. – The FBI	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In the last couple of elections cycles, we’ve become redder. But I still refer to us as a deep purple or purplish red state. We are not a deep red state. – Jeff Kaufmann	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There's no real word for it, i would probably refer to him as my boyfriend, but we're very fluid. We live in separate houses. We're best friends. We see each other all the time... We just have our own thing going on, and I don't expect other people to understand it. – Read MoreThe couple	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If the U.S. was president, they might have called for more consultations, they could issue a statement on behalf of the council, a presidential statement, kind of a summary of activity, and you could editorialize a little bit in that, i think people overestimate the importance of the Security Council president, it's largely a procedural, diplomatic function and the fact that Russia has been chairing all these meetings on Ukraine hasn’t enabled it to stop the Council meeting pretty much every other day since Monday and meeting again [Saturday] to refer the situation to the General Assembly. – Hugh Dugan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think people overestimate the importance of the Security Council president, it's largely a procedural, diplomatic function and the fact that Russia has been chairing all these meetings on Ukraine hasn’t enabled it to stop the Council meeting pretty much every other day since Monday and meeting again [Saturday] to refer the situation to the General Assembly. – Richard Gowan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The only thing that criminals respond to are arrests and prosecution … we refer to that as deterrence. And there doesn't seem to be any deterrence, to see the numbers go up this dramatically in a short period of time, during blizzards and cold weather, it is not a good harbinger of things to come. – Joseph Giacalone	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think we are completely of one mind that if people refuse to respond to questions, refuse to produce documents without justification, that we will hold them in criminal contempt and refer them to the Trump Justice Department, and unlike the last four years we expect Trump Justice Department to adhere to the principle that no one's above the law. – Adam Schiff	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The declaration issued does not refer at all to the' end deforestation by 2030', it is important to move beyond mere narrative, rhetoric, arbitrary targets and sound bites. – President Jokowi	Found on CNN 2 years ago
They know they’re not getting that here, we’ve already told them on the phone that we don’t perform or refer for abortions, but come here, find out if you’re really pregnant -- we’ll do everything for free. – Thrive Women	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The commission has not edited the material and the material should not be understood to represent the commission's views or those of any particular commissioner, to this point and particularly in light of some confusion and uncertainty since the posting of these materials, we refer you to the front page of each of the drafts that have been publicly posted that clearly set forth these points. – Bob Bauer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is one of those cases that I used to refer to as super-sized, it is going to become increasingly difficult to manage this. – Mark Geragos	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The only larger increase since we've been recording these data occurred between 1904 and 1905, and that increase was most likely -- at least partly -- the result of better reporting, we had states being added to what we refer to as the death registration areas, so we were counting deaths in more areas over time. We didn't have all states reporting until 1933. – Robert Anderson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We've been very clear publicly and we've been very clear in the messages that we have conveyed to the DPRK that we stand ready to engage in that dialogue. I will refer you to Pyongyang for any reaction that they may have, but for our part we stand ready to engage in that dialogue. – Ned Price	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Can those terms be used outside the courtroom? Yes. Everyone has a First Amendment right to refer to Mr. Cruz in any manner they see fit, however, the rules inside a courtroom are different. – Melisa McNeill	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Although Mr. Faulconer doesn’t want to use his current professions on his official ballot designation when he runs as a replacement candidate in the gubernatorial recall election and instead wants to refer to his former position as Mayor of San Diego, the State’s elections law and related regulations could not be more clear. – Rusty Hicks	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
In fact, prosecutors use those generic labels for a variety of reasons, most commonly to refer to people who participated in the conspiracy but have not yet been publicly charged. – Elie Honig	Found on CNN 2 years ago
From the FBI's perspective, from a law enforcement perspective, we try to be very careful to focus on violence, threats of violence and associated federal criminal activity, there may be certain instances where language becomes part of a conspiracy, for example, and there are instances where there are other federal statutes which may be violated, but again, those are complicated questions which I would refer to the lawyers over at the Justice Department. – Christopher Wray	Found on CNN 3 years ago

Refer and review like your reputation depends on it and is attached to it.

– Loren Weisman

added by weismanloren
11 months ago

We can refer to the Hungarian law and based on that we cannot arrest the Russian President … as the ICC’s statute has not been promulgated in Hungary.

– Gergely Gulyas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We typically refer to these successive types of atmospheric rivers as ‘AR families,’ while AR families are not all that uncommon, we don’t see them every year and the stretch of nine we had around the turn of the New Year was a more active family than we typically see.

– Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images Hecht

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s definitely sort of reinvocation of kind of what people in Asian American studies would refer to as ‘Yellow Peril’ fearmongering, there are ways in which it resonates with what happened to Japanese Americans during World War II, where regardless of citizenship, regardless of nativity, they were racially categorized as enemy aliens.

– Madeline Hsu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you have what we refer to as a treatment-resistant depression, we may use things like TMS — transcranial magnetic stimulation — and we still use ECT, or electroconvulsive therapy. So there really is a large compendium of therapies available, the key is getting care. The vast majority of people will have their symptoms remit with proper treatment through psychotherapy and/or medication.

– Ohio State Carpenter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At the end of these six months, which cannot be extended, the four governments can officially refer the case to the International Court of Justice in the Hague.

– Hamed Esmaeilion

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is not a prop and I don’t carry it as a prop, this is a reference manual. I carry it with me next to my heart because I refer to it daily, constantly.

– Mike Lee

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If at any point the law-enforcement personnel assigned to the investigation subsequently identify any data or documents that they consider may be potentially attorney-client privileged, they will cease the review of such identified data or documents and refer the materials to the Privilege Review Team for further review by the Privilege Review Team.

– The FBI

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the last couple of elections cycles, we’ve become redder. But I still refer to us as a deep purple or purplish red state. We are not a deep red state.

– Jeff Kaufmann

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's no real word for it, i would probably refer to him as my boyfriend, but we're very fluid. We live in separate houses. We're best friends. We see each other all the time... We just have our own thing going on, and I don't expect other people to understand it.

– Read MoreThe couple

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If the U.S. was president, they might have called for more consultations, they could issue a statement on behalf of the council, a presidential statement, kind of a summary of activity, and you could editorialize a little bit in that, i think people overestimate the importance of the Security Council president, it's largely a procedural, diplomatic function and the fact that Russia has been chairing all these meetings on Ukraine hasn’t enabled it to stop the Council meeting pretty much every other day since Monday and meeting again [Saturday] to refer the situation to the General Assembly.

– Hugh Dugan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think people overestimate the importance of the Security Council president, it's largely a procedural, diplomatic function and the fact that Russia has been chairing all these meetings on Ukraine hasn’t enabled it to stop the Council meeting pretty much every other day since Monday and meeting again [Saturday] to refer the situation to the General Assembly.

– Richard Gowan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The only thing that criminals respond to are arrests and prosecution … we refer to that as deterrence. And there doesn't seem to be any deterrence, to see the numbers go up this dramatically in a short period of time, during blizzards and cold weather, it is not a good harbinger of things to come.

– Joseph Giacalone

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think we are completely of one mind that if people refuse to respond to questions, refuse to produce documents without justification, that we will hold them in criminal contempt and refer them to the Trump Justice Department, and unlike the last four years we expect Trump Justice Department to adhere to the principle that no one's above the law.

– Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The declaration issued does not refer at all to the' end deforestation by 2030', it is important to move beyond mere narrative, rhetoric, arbitrary targets and sound bites.

– President Jokowi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They know they’re not getting that here, we’ve already told them on the phone that we don’t perform or refer for abortions, but come here, find out if you’re really pregnant -- we’ll do everything for free.

– Thrive Women

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The commission has not edited the material and the material should not be understood to represent the commission's views or those of any particular commissioner, to this point and particularly in light of some confusion and uncertainty since the posting of these materials, we refer you to the front page of each of the drafts that have been publicly posted that clearly set forth these points.

– Bob Bauer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is one of those cases that I used to refer to as super-sized, it is going to become increasingly difficult to manage this.

– Mark Geragos

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The only larger increase since we've been recording these data occurred between 1904 and 1905, and that increase was most likely -- at least partly -- the result of better reporting, we had states being added to what we refer to as the death registration areas, so we were counting deaths in more areas over time. We didn't have all states reporting until 1933.

– Robert Anderson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We've been very clear publicly and we've been very clear in the messages that we have conveyed to the DPRK that we stand ready to engage in that dialogue. I will refer you to Pyongyang for any reaction that they may have, but for our part we stand ready to engage in that dialogue.

– Ned Price

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Can those terms be used outside the courtroom? Yes. Everyone has a First Amendment right to refer to Mr. Cruz in any manner they see fit, however, the rules inside a courtroom are different.

– Melisa McNeill

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Although Mr. Faulconer doesn’t want to use his current professions on his official ballot designation when he runs as a replacement candidate in the gubernatorial recall election and instead wants to refer to his former position as Mayor of San Diego, the State’s elections law and related regulations could not be more clear.

– Rusty Hicks

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In fact, prosecutors use those generic labels for a variety of reasons, most commonly to refer to people who participated in the conspiracy but have not yet been publicly charged.

– Elie Honig

Found on CNN
2 years ago

From the FBI's perspective, from a law enforcement perspective, we try to be very careful to focus on violence, threats of violence and associated federal criminal activity, there may be certain instances where language becomes part of a conspiracy, for example, and there are instances where there are other federal statutes which may be violated, but again, those are complicated questions which I would refer to the lawyers over at the Justice Department.

– Christopher Wray

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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