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We're going to continue to employ the strategy that we've been employing, which is aggressive prosecutions and prevention, we are very focused on making sure that we deter crimes at the border, including the scourge of fentanyl trafficking that's killing our residents, as well as preventing deaths in our community by getting into the community through an abundance of outreach programs in partnership with our law enforcement agency partners. – Randy Grossman	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I support safe injection sites, we need as many comprehensive solutions to this scourge as we possibly can. We can't arrest our way out of it. – John Fetterman	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We developed nuclear capabilities to protect the hard work of the Chinese people and protect our people from the scourge of the nuclear warfare. – Wei Fenghe	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The scourge of inflation has returned and is here to stay. – Deutsche Bank	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The scourge of gun violence continues to be a crisis in our country, and we must resolve to bring an end to this carnage. – Darrell Steinberg	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are on the path to relegating the COVID-19 scourge to endemic status. In the meantime, we must respect the risks and appropriately adapt to the current climate given the arrival of the omicron variant, reflecting on this past fall, we experienced a safe and lively semester, which offered confirmation that our approach to the virus and our commitment to the Siena experience is working. Looking ahead to the spring, I expect the same vibrant atmosphere guided largely by the same protocol that facilitated our successful fall term. – College President Chris Gibson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The federal government remains uniquely qualified to help address the scourge of gun violence, we need these additional resources well in advance of next summer. – Lori Lightfoot	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
While retailers have always suffered from general shoplifting there is a growing scourge of organized gangs which are stealing to order, the gangs are much more dangerous for retailers and for customers shopping in stores. – Neil Saunders	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Durban process is critical in fighting this scourge. However, whoever uses this process – or any other platform – for anti-Semitic diatribes, anti-Muslim discourse, hateful speech and baseless assertions, only denigrates our essential fight against racism. – Stephane Dujarric	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As I have said, the scourge of sexual assault in our military must come to an end, and after years of trying and failing to address the problem the time has come to remove the prosecution of sexual assault crimes from the chain of command. – Adam Smith	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The casual racism and regular xenophobia that we have seen from Trump and this administration is a national scourge. – Asian Americans	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We must do everything we can also to eliminate the scourge of firearms from our city, we have too many damn guns on our streets. – Lori Lightfoot	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Never in the history of the Department have our officers had to contend with a global health pandemic, civil unrest, and the scourge of rising fun violence simultaneously, despite these challenges, Department members worked tirelessly to meet the requirements of the consent decree. – David Brown	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
For those that continue to feign great surprise about what happened on January 6. As a Black woman, to be barricaded in my office, using office furniture and water bottles on the ground in the dark that terror, those moments of terror, is familiar in a deep and ancestral way for me, i want us to do everything to ensure that a breach like this never occurs at the Capitol, but I want us to address the evil and scourge that is White supremacy in this nation. This is not only about securing the Capitol to ensure that members and our staffs and custodial staff and food service workers are safe in the Capitol. It is that we are safe in America. – Ayanna Pressley	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It hurts more to know that we cant have another conversation, or Facetime, or text message exchange, he would send vegetarian recipes and eating regimens for my family and me to follow during the pandemic. He would check in on me and my loved ones, even as he dealt with the scourge of cancer. – Chadwick Boseman	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I just want to use my last couple of seconds to urge anyone who's listening who wants to participate to please go to that website and register so that you can be part of the solution of this terrible scourge. – Anthony Fauci	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We are making it clear that scamming consumers and — as we saw in this case — tricking them into buying products under false pretenses can not and will not go unchecked, that is why the Federal Communications Commission and state officials are standing together and taking strong action to protect the American public from the scourge of spoofed robocalls. – Federal Communications Commission	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Today The United States is launching enhanced counternarcotics operations in the Western Hemisphere to protect the American people from the deadly scourge of illegal narcotics. – President Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
In speaking truth to power we pave the way for a more just culture, free of the scourge of violence against women. – Annabella Sciorra	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
My testimony was painful but necessary, i spoke for Annabella Sciorra and with the strength of the eighty plus victims of Harvey Weinstein in my heart. While we hope for continued righteous outcomes that bring absolute justice, we can never regret breaking the silence. For in speaking truth to power we pave the way for a more just culture, free of the scourge of violence against women. – Annabella Sciorra	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I have yet to meet someone who says they enjoy receiving those unwanted and illegal robocalls that plague our phones, whether we're at home, at work, or in the car, which is why the TRACED Act takes several important steps in the fight to curb this scourge. – John Thune	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Imagine, a doctor leaves home in the U.S. or elsewhere to come sleep in a tent to help save us from this scourge of Ebola and yet poorly educated young people want to attack him. ... It is very deplorable. – Fiston Kamango	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Some people believe video games are the scourge of society — and there's a huge generational gap between young people who play games and other folks who think it's a waste of time, so in addition to building this business and all the stresses that come with that, we have to address the fair critiques and defend against the unfair ones. – Mark Deppe	Found on CNN 4 years ago
( F) ew Americans know much about what exactly the federal government is doing to prevent domestic terrorism, there's an urgent need for robust, centralized, and transparent federal data to inform counterterrorism policymaking -- and Americans deserve to know exactly how their government is allocating resources to understanding the confronting the scourge of domestic terrorism. – Bennie Thompson	Found on CNN 4 years ago

We're going to continue to employ the strategy that we've been employing, which is aggressive prosecutions and prevention, we are very focused on making sure that we deter crimes at the border, including the scourge of fentanyl trafficking that's killing our residents, as well as preventing deaths in our community by getting into the community through an abundance of outreach programs in partnership with our law enforcement agency partners.

– Randy Grossman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I support safe injection sites, we need as many comprehensive solutions to this scourge as we possibly can. We can't arrest our way out of it.

– John Fetterman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We developed nuclear capabilities to protect the hard work of the Chinese people and protect our people from the scourge of the nuclear warfare.

– Wei Fenghe

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The scourge of inflation has returned and is here to stay.

– Deutsche Bank

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The scourge of gun violence continues to be a crisis in our country, and we must resolve to bring an end to this carnage.

– Darrell Steinberg

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are on the path to relegating the COVID-19 scourge to endemic status. In the meantime, we must respect the risks and appropriately adapt to the current climate given the arrival of the omicron variant, reflecting on this past fall, we experienced a safe and lively semester, which offered confirmation that our approach to the virus and our commitment to the Siena experience is working. Looking ahead to the spring, I expect the same vibrant atmosphere guided largely by the same protocol that facilitated our successful fall term.

– College President Chris Gibson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The federal government remains uniquely qualified to help address the scourge of gun violence, we need these additional resources well in advance of next summer.

– Lori Lightfoot

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While retailers have always suffered from general shoplifting there is a growing scourge of organized gangs which are stealing to order, the gangs are much more dangerous for retailers and for customers shopping in stores.

– Neil Saunders

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Durban process is critical in fighting this scourge. However, whoever uses this process – or any other platform – for anti-Semitic diatribes, anti-Muslim discourse, hateful speech and baseless assertions, only denigrates our essential fight against racism.

– Stephane Dujarric

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As I have said, the scourge of sexual assault in our military must come to an end, and after years of trying and failing to address the problem the time has come to remove the prosecution of sexual assault crimes from the chain of command.

– Adam Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The casual racism and regular xenophobia that we have seen from Trump and this administration is a national scourge.

– Asian Americans

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We must do everything we can also to eliminate the scourge of firearms from our city, we have too many damn guns on our streets.

– Lori Lightfoot

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Never in the history of the Department have our officers had to contend with a global health pandemic, civil unrest, and the scourge of rising fun violence simultaneously, despite these challenges, Department members worked tirelessly to meet the requirements of the consent decree.

– David Brown

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

For those that continue to feign great surprise about what happened on January 6. As a Black woman, to be barricaded in my office, using office furniture and water bottles on the ground in the dark that terror, those moments of terror, is familiar in a deep and ancestral way for me, i want us to do everything to ensure that a breach like this never occurs at the Capitol, but I want us to address the evil and scourge that is White supremacy in this nation. This is not only about securing the Capitol to ensure that members and our staffs and custodial staff and food service workers are safe in the Capitol. It is that we are safe in America.

– Ayanna Pressley

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It hurts more to know that we cant have another conversation, or Facetime, or text message exchange, he would send vegetarian recipes and eating regimens for my family and me to follow during the pandemic. He would check in on me and my loved ones, even as he dealt with the scourge of cancer.

– Chadwick Boseman

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I just want to use my last couple of seconds to urge anyone who's listening who wants to participate to please go to that website and register so that you can be part of the solution of this terrible scourge.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We are making it clear that scamming consumers and — as we saw in this case — tricking them into buying products under false pretenses can not and will not go unchecked, that is why the Federal Communications Commission and state officials are standing together and taking strong action to protect the American public from the scourge of spoofed robocalls.

– Federal Communications Commission

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Today The United States is launching enhanced counternarcotics operations in the Western Hemisphere to protect the American people from the deadly scourge of illegal narcotics.

– President Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In speaking truth to power we pave the way for a more just culture, free of the scourge of violence against women.

– Annabella Sciorra

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

My testimony was painful but necessary, i spoke for Annabella Sciorra and with the strength of the eighty plus victims of Harvey Weinstein in my heart. While we hope for continued righteous outcomes that bring absolute justice, we can never regret breaking the silence. For in speaking truth to power we pave the way for a more just culture, free of the scourge of violence against women.

– Annabella Sciorra

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I have yet to meet someone who says they enjoy receiving those unwanted and illegal robocalls that plague our phones, whether we're at home, at work, or in the car, which is why the TRACED Act takes several important steps in the fight to curb this scourge.

– John Thune

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Imagine, a doctor leaves home in the U.S. or elsewhere to come sleep in a tent to help save us from this scourge of Ebola and yet poorly educated young people want to attack him. ... It is very deplorable.

– Fiston Kamango

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Some people believe video games are the scourge of society — and there's a huge generational gap between young people who play games and other folks who think it's a waste of time, so in addition to building this business and all the stresses that come with that, we have to address the fair critiques and defend against the unfair ones.

– Mark Deppe

Found on CNN
4 years ago

( F) ew Americans know much about what exactly the federal government is doing to prevent domestic terrorism, there's an urgent need for robust, centralized, and transparent federal data to inform counterterrorism policymaking -- and Americans deserve to know exactly how their government is allocating resources to understanding the confronting the scourge of domestic terrorism.

– Bennie Thompson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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