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A criminal trial is not a search for truth. It is much too circumscribed for that. Rather, a trial is a formalized contest for the hearts and minds of a panel of twelve. It is a quest for a verdict in which information is selected and screened (we can almost say “processed”) before it is allowed to reach jurors.

Phillip Finch

added by Normando
1 year ago

I have sentenced thousands of people. And it’s interesting that a handful of cases have been cherry-picked and selected and twisted, and insufficient facts have been provided to the electorate.

Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was the minority leader in the Arkansas House. We flipped the majority, there hadn’t been a GOP majority in 138 years, it was close, 51 to 49. Our conference met, we adopted a policy agenda, selected our speaker, and thought everything was good until another Republican challenged. He had the support of 49 Democrats.

Bruce Westerman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This type of work really matters, corals selected for restoration might, for example, be more resistant to warmer ocean temperatures and bleaching, exhibit skeletal properties that are able to withstand more intense wave energy, or traits that might make them more resistant to disease or other environmental stressors.

Thomas Frazer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am very happy with what I have achieved, and I am going to try to enjoy it. I will play less and will spend more time at home. If I can not play any more major, that's the way it is, but it is not something that bothers me a lot. I am feeling sad because of the Ryder Cup but right now in the way I am playing I won't be selected.

Sergio Garcia

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I am quite clear about what I am going to do with the European circuit. Probably leave it. I want to play where I feel loved, and right now in the European Tour I am not feeling loved, i am very happy with what I have achieved, and I am going to try to enjoy it. I will play less and will spend more time at home. If I can not play any more major, that's the way it is, but it is not something that bothers me a lot. I am feeling sad because of the Ryder Cup but right now in the way I am playing I won't be selected.

Sergio Garcia

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

No one has come up with a magic formula that provides both, from an ethics perspective, there’s something to be said for transparency. By that, I mean being open about how information is gathered and by whom, how it’s being presented – news vs. commentary, for example – why they have selected certain sources, etc. Objectivity is an interesting animal as well.

Lois Boynton

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If you buy ISL, they can do that, if you don't buy ISL, then they probably can't do that because in most states, the state constitution will say that the electors are selected by the people.

Vikram Amar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have selected a nominee who is widely recognized not only as one of America's sharpest legal minds, but someone who brings to his work a spirit of decency modesty, integrity, evenhandedness and excellence, these qualities and his long commitment to public service have earned him the respect and admiration from leaders from both sides of the aisle.

Barack Obama

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My youngest daughter actually was asked to do something for career day, and she selected a judge. And I think that's due to the news of Judge Brown Jackson.

Brown Jackson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have not selected any specific business target and we have not, nor has anyone on our behalf, initiated any substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, with any business combination target.

Digital World

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We believe that universities should suspend all DEI programs pending a comprehensive review of how candidates are selected for staff positions, because those harboring what should be obvious disqualifying biases were apparently identified on literally dozens of campuses with influence over thousands of students.

Yaakov Menken

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Raiders are thrilled the National Football League has selected Las Vegas to host Super Bowl( 58) LVIII in February 2024, hosting the 2022 Pro Bowl, the 2022 NFL draft and, now, the 2024 Super Bowl are just some of the ancillary benefits resulting from the public-private partnership we created with the state of Nevada to bring The Raiders to Las Vegas and build Allegiant Stadium. It's only the beginning.

Mark Davis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This commissioners court has made it a priority to give opportunities to local, small and minority-owned businesses who have the qualifications to serve their community, this firm was selected because they have demonstrated that they can reach people strategically and encourage them to get vaccinated.

Rafael Lemaitre

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The juror's mentality shows his bias and callousness and he should be nowhere near the jury box in this case, it shows the depravity and racism and the lowness of a member of a jury that was selected in one day.

Jacob Blake

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What our data show is that between 4,600-4,200 years ago, herders located in the Don-Volga region found a way to increase the local horse reproductive pool, that means that they could reproduce more and more such horses generation after generation. They also selected horses with specific traits.

Ludovic Orlando

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I can’t comment whether it’s commitment, it’s a sticky situation. There’s not much I can say. ... I don’t want to point any fingers. I don’t know who is at fault, All I can say is the player was selected.

Theodore Whitmore

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Joe Biden callously played on America’s sympathies for a small core of Afghans who worked closely in difficult conditions with American troops – left all those people nearly in Afghanistan – and then in their stead brought over 100,000 randomly selected Afghan nationals.

Stephen Miller

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

After multiple women made accusations that Gov. Cuomo sexually harassed them, the governor himself requested that Attorney General James oversee an independent investigation, the independent investigators selected are widely respected professionals, recognized for their legal and investigatory ability. To attack this investigation andattempt to undermine and politicize this process takes away from the bravery displayed by these women. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP.

Fabien Levy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

After multiple women made accusations that Governor Cuomo sexually harassed them, the governor, himself, requested that Attorney General James oversee an independent investigation, the independent investigators selected are widely respected professionals, recognized for their legal and investigatory ability. To attack this investigation andattempt to undermine and politicize this process takes away from the bravery displayed by these women. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP.

Fabien Levy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

United States're going to have areas where the vaccine rate is high, where more than 70 % of the population has received at least one dose. When United States compare that with areas where United States may have 35 % of the people vaccinated, United States clearly have a high risk of seeing these spikes in those selected areas.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The greatest honor of my life was in Montreal in 1976 when I was selected to carry the American flag for the U.S. Olympic team leading into Montreal Stadium, and the American flag is iconic. It doesn't just represent the greatest country in the world. It represents and symbolizes millions of Americans who have worked hard, who have sacrificed, some of them, with their own lives.

Hall Sr.

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

To be selected to the United States Olympic team is an honor and a blessing, representing my country on the world’s biggest stage alongside so many of the league’s best players is a privilege that both humbles and inspires me.

Bradley Beal

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Five personalities were being selected to serve in a public office: a politician, a philanthropist, a doctor, a teacher and a farmer. The first four know their plans in life while the last one is living without many plans. The farmer won by election. It is because the farmer wants to do more than what others have already done.

Clifford V. Villalon

added by anonymous
3 years ago

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