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The fact that this train did not qualify under current law requiring the railroad company to make that notification is just absurd. this is more than a train derailment or a toxic waste spill – it’s years of opposition to safety measures coming home to roost. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When they fly they have a peak body temperature that mimics a fever, it happens at least twice a day with bats -- when they fly out to feed and then they return to roost. And so the pathogens that have evolved in bats have evolved to withstand these peaks of body temperature. – Andrew Cunningham	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I knew I had about a ten or 15 minute slot before sunset when the starlings would come in to roost under the pier and could murmurate, i wasnt expecting it to be so spectacular. – Bill Brooks	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Employees who are fools often rule the roost in the private companies. – Probaerb	added by anonymous 4 years ago
There's nothing but bearishness in the EIA report, exports are a big area for where the number came from. That's largely related to the sanctions on COSCO, which came home to roost. – Bob Yawger	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Exports are a big area for where the number came from. That's largely related to the sanctions on COSCO, which came home to roost. – Bob Yawger	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The bad behavior is coming home to roost, customers are saying,' We've had enough. Wells Fargo's time to move on.'. – Steve Beck	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The President trusted Michael Cohen as The President fixer for years, The President trusted The President with The President innermost secrets, and I think that the chickens are about to come home to roost. – Michael Avenatti	Found on CNN 6 years ago
That’s what I was hoping to see, they don’t roost over here every night, but when they do, they pitch into that cornfield, hang out a while, and then cross the road later in the morning. I bet they’ll be flying up in the next 10 minutes. We can kill a tom in here tomorrow, but we have to sneak in super early. – Jeremy Atkins	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Take some time to enjoy the sights, Wix. We’ve got the turkey part pretty well wrapped up, let’s go roost a bird right now. – Jeremy Atkins	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Yard turkeys, they’re wild but not really. They roost in the city limits and never get hunted. I’m afraid the birds we’re after won’t be quite that easy. – Jeremy Atkins	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The myopic policy makers have no endgame. They stumble from one short-term fiscal or monetary stimulus to the next, despite overwhelming evidence that they only produce an ephemeral 'sugar high' and grow unproductive debt that impedes long-term growth, the chickens are now coming home to roost. – Stanley Druckenmiller	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The chickens are finally coming home to roost and this sounds like a hugely significant development for FIFA. – Damian Collins	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The chickens are finally coming home to roost and this sounds like a hugely significant development for FIFA, it proves that Sepp Blatter's promises over the last few years to look into corruption at FIFA have not materialised and because he has totally failed to do this, it has been left to an outside law enforcement agency to do the job and take action. – Damian Collins	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Where I Lived, And What I Lived For	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot. – Mitchell Burgess	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The fact that this train did not qualify under current law requiring the railroad company to make that notification is just absurd. this is more than a train derailment or a toxic waste spill – it’s years of opposition to safety measures coming home to roost.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When they fly they have a peak body temperature that mimics a fever, it happens at least twice a day with bats -- when they fly out to feed and then they return to roost. And so the pathogens that have evolved in bats have evolved to withstand these peaks of body temperature.

– Andrew Cunningham

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I knew I had about a ten or 15 minute slot before sunset when the starlings would come in to roost under the pier and could murmurate, i wasnt expecting it to be so spectacular.

– Bill Brooks

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Employees who are fools often rule the roost in the private companies.

– Probaerb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

There's nothing but bearishness in the EIA report, exports are a big area for where the number came from. That's largely related to the sanctions on COSCO, which came home to roost.

– Bob Yawger

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Exports are a big area for where the number came from. That's largely related to the sanctions on COSCO, which came home to roost.

– Bob Yawger

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The bad behavior is coming home to roost, customers are saying,' We've had enough. Wells Fargo's time to move on.'.

– Steve Beck

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The President trusted Michael Cohen as The President fixer for years, The President trusted The President with The President innermost secrets, and I think that the chickens are about to come home to roost.

– Michael Avenatti

Found on CNN
6 years ago

That’s what I was hoping to see, they don’t roost over here every night, but when they do, they pitch into that cornfield, hang out a while, and then cross the road later in the morning. I bet they’ll be flying up in the next 10 minutes. We can kill a tom in here tomorrow, but we have to sneak in super early.

– Jeremy Atkins

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Take some time to enjoy the sights, Wix. We’ve got the turkey part pretty well wrapped up, let’s go roost a bird right now.

– Jeremy Atkins

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Yard turkeys, they’re wild but not really. They roost in the city limits and never get hunted. I’m afraid the birds we’re after won’t be quite that easy.

– Jeremy Atkins

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The myopic policy makers have no endgame. They stumble from one short-term fiscal or monetary stimulus to the next, despite overwhelming evidence that they only produce an ephemeral 'sugar high' and grow unproductive debt that impedes long-term growth, the chickens are now coming home to roost.

– Stanley Druckenmiller

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The chickens are finally coming home to roost and this sounds like a hugely significant development for FIFA.

– Damian Collins

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The chickens are finally coming home to roost and this sounds like a hugely significant development for FIFA, it proves that Sepp Blatter's promises over the last few years to look into corruption at FIFA have not materialised and because he has totally failed to do this, it has been left to an outside law enforcement agency to do the job and take action.

– Damian Collins

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up.

– Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Where I Lived, And What I Lived For

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.

– Mitchell Burgess

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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