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This wasn't the first time that... the MAGA people came up here to the Capitol, there were some skirmishes but it was never an attempt to overthrow democracy. – Harry Dunn	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's just the beginning, in a big field, there will be some early skirmishes as people position themselves. – Jennifer Palmieri	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's affecting psyche more than it is economics, there are unpredictable outcomes when you start skirmishes like this with multiple countries. – Jamie Dimon	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It (trade issues) is going to be uncomfortable, the rhetoric is going to rise closer to mid-term elections. No matter if there are trade skirmishes or a trade war, the one thing that is going to affect (markets) is higher inflation. – Matt Lloyd	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The more' politics' continues to become a series of cultural skirmishes and less about policy, the more the two parties find it advantageous to represent different worldviews. – Brent McGoldrick	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Such small-minded skirmishes are the business of people who took a whole city hostage for their dim-wittedness in an almost terrorist manner. – Martin Schulz	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
A number of signs, including a higher concentration of air strikes, the movement of Russian artillery support for regime forces, and a variety of skirmishes near a 3-to-4 kilometer gap that still keeps Aleppo City from being besieged, all show that they are getting ready to move. – Chris Kozak	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
There are increasing skirmishes taking place along the line of contact... an area where we have 800,000 people living, that gives you a very clear sense of the implications of resumed fighting especially if it's not any longer remnants of war and IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices), but it is actually the use of Howitzers and other very heavy weapons. – Gianni Magazzeni	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Libyan and Iraqi oilfield skirmishes are worrying, there are serious supply issues there. – Tamas Varga	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

This wasn't the first time that... the MAGA people came up here to the Capitol, there were some skirmishes but it was never an attempt to overthrow democracy.

– Harry Dunn

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's just the beginning, in a big field, there will be some early skirmishes as people position themselves.

– Jennifer Palmieri

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's affecting psyche more than it is economics, there are unpredictable outcomes when you start skirmishes like this with multiple countries.

– Jamie Dimon

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It (trade issues) is going to be uncomfortable, the rhetoric is going to rise closer to mid-term elections. No matter if there are trade skirmishes or a trade war, the one thing that is going to affect (markets) is higher inflation.

– Matt Lloyd

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The more' politics' continues to become a series of cultural skirmishes and less about policy, the more the two parties find it advantageous to represent different worldviews.

– Brent McGoldrick

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Such small-minded skirmishes are the business of people who took a whole city hostage for their dim-wittedness in an almost terrorist manner.

– Martin Schulz

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

A number of signs, including a higher concentration of air strikes, the movement of Russian artillery support for regime forces, and a variety of skirmishes near a 3-to-4 kilometer gap that still keeps Aleppo City from being besieged, all show that they are getting ready to move.

– Chris Kozak

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

There are increasing skirmishes taking place along the line of contact... an area where we have 800,000 people living, that gives you a very clear sense of the implications of resumed fighting especially if it's not any longer remnants of war and IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices), but it is actually the use of Howitzers and other very heavy weapons.

– Gianni Magazzeni

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Libyan and Iraqi oilfield skirmishes are worrying, there are serious supply issues there.

– Tamas Varga

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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