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I will guarantee as president the Post 9/11 GI bill will be there for future generations, no questions asked. I will resist, I will veto any effort to reduce it or roll it back, as some have suggested. – Nevada Hillary Clinton	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
All of those things fit under cognitive behavioral therapy, for example, if you take stimulus control therapy, what this does it help remove the factors that might condition your mind to resist sleep. You might coach someone to set a consistent bed time and wake time, to avoid naps, to only use the bed when they are going to sleep or be intimate with a partner. – Nadine Kaslow	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars, we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. It's not about duck hunting, it's about the ability of the individual. It's the same reason we have freedom of speech. – Vince Vaughn	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Our state's future will be better if we support solid wage growth for everyone, and resist the temptation to grind down specific groups. – Chris Koster	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I’m calling for people to not recognize the legitimacy of that ruling because it’s not grounded in the Rule of Law, they need to resist that ruling in every way possible. In a peaceful way – they need to resist it as much as Martin Luther King, Jr. resisted unjust laws in his time. – Mat Staver	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
They need to resist that ruling in every way possible. In a peaceful way – they need to resist it as much as Martin Luther King, Jr. resisted unjust laws in his time. we’re facing a real Constitutional crisis if the Supreme Court rules adversely from our perspective on same-sex marriage. – Rick Scarborough	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
When you go to a diner or a coffee shop, you'd be surprised how often patrons will offer you a doughnut, a piece of pie, something that is deep-fried, has sugar on it, at the Iowa State Fair, everything is deep-fried and on a stick. It's hard to resist. – Kevin Madden	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
At the Iowa State Fair, everything is deep-fried and on a stick. It's hard to resist. – Kevin Madden	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Claims might come from time to time. But most often those claims are based on just interest or the construction of national identity, if evidence is provided that's convincing, no museum will resist. – James Cuno	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Life is nothing but changes. Don't resist changes, but be the vanguard of it. – Debasish Mridha, M.D.	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Resolutely resist the influence of erroneous Western thought. – Zhou Qiang	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
A lot now depends on an honest, objective, unbiased approach by the observers who must record what is happening on the ground, so that we can all resist the attempts to present the Minsk agreements as having already failed. there are many people outside Ukraine and in Kiev who want them derailed. – Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We will continue to resist a tax system in New Jersey which is unfair to our citizens, we need to have tax fairness and competitiveness in this state. – Chris Christie in New Hampshire	Found on CNN 9 years ago
'Oh, fat people do this, or thin people do that' -- whenever you have an opportunity, question those assumptions, so any time there's an example in media or just in real life, you build the muscles if you will in your kid ... so that they can resist the messages that are coming at them. – Seeta Pai	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Management cannot continue to resist allowing workers a stronger voice on issues that could very well make the difference between life and death for too many of them. – The USW	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We must always resist the overreach that comes when we make decisions based upon fear. – President Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
And how could you have two-way traffic on those steps with huge crowds? we were holding hands then, but no way could we resist the force coming down. – Zhao Weiwei	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We were holding hands then, but no way could we resist the force coming down. – Zhao Weiwei	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
This capacity to resist such shocks will disappear quickly if the price of oil stays at a low level for a long time. – Central Bank governor Mohammed Laksaci	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Resist any excuse not to go, or make a bargain with yourself that you only have to exercise for 10 minutes. Your heart rate will start to rise, and most likely you'll stick it out longer because you're already there. – Sarah Eckfeldt	Found on CNN 9 years ago
At a certain point, they've got to touch him, that's just the way it goes. And when you resist arrest -- physically resist -- bad things can happen. – Tom Fuentes	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I lost a lot of friends in this war and I resist to avenge their death, no matter the destruction in Kobani, it can be built again -- the important thing is to destroy this strange enemy that entered our land. – Meedya Raqqa	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It shows people how to resist manipulation by charismatic leaders, how to prevent outbursts of group violence and how to deal with trauma. – Anoek Steketee	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Why resist temptation? There will always be more. – Don Herold	added by anonymous 10 years ago

I will guarantee as president the Post 9/11 GI bill will be there for future generations, no questions asked. I will resist, I will veto any effort to reduce it or roll it back, as some have suggested.

– Nevada Hillary Clinton

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

All of those things fit under cognitive behavioral therapy, for example, if you take stimulus control therapy, what this does it help remove the factors that might condition your mind to resist sleep. You might coach someone to set a consistent bed time and wake time, to avoid naps, to only use the bed when they are going to sleep or be intimate with a partner.

– Nadine Kaslow

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars, we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. It's not about duck hunting, it's about the ability of the individual. It's the same reason we have freedom of speech.

– Vince Vaughn

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Our state's future will be better if we support solid wage growth for everyone, and resist the temptation to grind down specific groups.

– Chris Koster

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I’m calling for people to not recognize the legitimacy of that ruling because it’s not grounded in the Rule of Law, they need to resist that ruling in every way possible. In a peaceful way – they need to resist it as much as Martin Luther King, Jr. resisted unjust laws in his time.

– Mat Staver

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

They need to resist that ruling in every way possible. In a peaceful way – they need to resist it as much as Martin Luther King, Jr. resisted unjust laws in his time. we’re facing a real Constitutional crisis if the Supreme Court rules adversely from our perspective on same-sex marriage.

– Rick Scarborough

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

When you go to a diner or a coffee shop, you'd be surprised how often patrons will offer you a doughnut, a piece of pie, something that is deep-fried, has sugar on it, at the Iowa State Fair, everything is deep-fried and on a stick. It's hard to resist.

– Kevin Madden

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

At the Iowa State Fair, everything is deep-fried and on a stick. It's hard to resist.

– Kevin Madden

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Claims might come from time to time. But most often those claims are based on just interest or the construction of national identity, if evidence is provided that's convincing, no museum will resist.

– James Cuno

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Life is nothing but changes. Don't resist changes, but be the vanguard of it.

– Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Resolutely resist the influence of erroneous Western thought.

– Zhou Qiang

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

A lot now depends on an honest, objective, unbiased approach by the observers who must record what is happening on the ground, so that we can all resist the attempts to present the Minsk agreements as having already failed. there are many people outside Ukraine and in Kiev who want them derailed.

– Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We will continue to resist a tax system in New Jersey which is unfair to our citizens, we need to have tax fairness and competitiveness in this state.

– Chris Christie in New Hampshire

Found on CNN
9 years ago

'Oh, fat people do this, or thin people do that' -- whenever you have an opportunity, question those assumptions, so any time there's an example in media or just in real life, you build the muscles if you will in your kid ... so that they can resist the messages that are coming at them.

– Seeta Pai

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Management cannot continue to resist allowing workers a stronger voice on issues that could very well make the difference between life and death for too many of them.

– The USW

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We must always resist the overreach that comes when we make decisions based upon fear.

– President Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

And how could you have two-way traffic on those steps with huge crowds? we were holding hands then, but no way could we resist the force coming down.

– Zhao Weiwei

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We were holding hands then, but no way could we resist the force coming down.

– Zhao Weiwei

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

This capacity to resist such shocks will disappear quickly if the price of oil stays at a low level for a long time.

– Central Bank governor Mohammed Laksaci

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Resist any excuse not to go, or make a bargain with yourself that you only have to exercise for 10 minutes. Your heart rate will start to rise, and most likely you'll stick it out longer because you're already there.

– Sarah Eckfeldt

Found on CNN
9 years ago

At a certain point, they've got to touch him, that's just the way it goes. And when you resist arrest -- physically resist -- bad things can happen.

– Tom Fuentes

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I lost a lot of friends in this war and I resist to avenge their death, no matter the destruction in Kobani, it can be built again -- the important thing is to destroy this strange enemy that entered our land.

– Meedya Raqqa

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It shows people how to resist manipulation by charismatic leaders, how to prevent outbursts of group violence and how to deal with trauma.

– Anoek Steketee

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

– Don Herold

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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