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Democrats were caught between a rock and a hard place, they wanted to take a stern line against powerful men, like President Donald Trump and [Supreme Court Justice] Brett Kavanaugh, that were accused of sexual misconduct, but they felt like they couldn't do it with Clinton hanging around. – Brad Bannon	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
My stern warning to the President Joe Biden administration and Democrats is you have to take this seriously, because if we do go back to a 2010 or 2014 model where they really fall off it's going to make it very difficult for us in November. – Ben Tulchin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We had a group of people that were on the ground we had identified that wanted to get out, especially if things went sideways, bryan Stern, who is on our team, could feel the explosions in Kyiv and said, ‘Alright, we need to go, we need to get out of here.’. – James Judge	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Howard Stern radio show's part of why I started drinking, because I was trapped. – Ben Affleck	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are proud of the student who came forward to report the threat, this situation is another example of how we must work together to keep each other safe. We take threats seriously and take swift and stern action against those making threats against our schools. – The Lexington	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It was a relationship, for sure. We were definitely exclusive, but it was for barely a year, we never moved in. I was never going to marry Howard Stern. It was nothing like that. – Charlize Theron	Found on CNN 3 years ago
What's shocking is that on June 15, the Indian side severely violated our consensus and twice crossed the border line and provoked and attacked the Chinese forces, causing a violent physical confrontation between the two border forces, china is raising strong opposition and stern representations to the Indian side on this. – Zhao Lijian	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
China is raising strong opposition and stern representations to the Indian side on this. – Zhao Lijian	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Magic Johnson guided the league through turbulent times and grew the league into an international phenomenon, creating opportunities that few could have imagined before, magic Johnson vision and leadership provided me with the global stage that allowed me to succeed. Former NBA Commissioner David Stern had a deep love for the game of basketball and demanded excellence from those around Former NBA Commissioner David Stern -- and I admired Former NBA Commissioner David Stern for that. I wouldn't be where I am without Former NBA Commissioner David Stern. I offer my deepest sympathies to Dianne and Former NBA Commissioner David Stern family. – Michael Jordan	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We have even based the stern painting on a real contemporary Dutch painting, Vermeersfamous Milkmaid,painted just one year before the ship was wrecked. – John McCarthy	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
This was widely seen as a stern warning to the violent elements in Hong Kong. – Global Times	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
A more self-serving person would have gone all in on Donald Trump, i'd probably be Howard Stern or a Supreme Court justice by now. – Howard Stern	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I will completely restructure the police and security forces in the coming weeks. I expect to change the heads of defense establishments within the next 24 hours, the security officials who got the intelligence report from a foreign nation did not share it with me. I have decided to take stern action against these officials. – Maithripala Sirisena	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It's good for them that they have already started to take measures to address this issue. But we will visit the mine again on March 30 to make sure that all the environment concerns have been fully resolved, otherwise we will take stern measures against them. – Doto Biteko	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This Iranian group has been involved in militant activities and innocent killings of Sunni Muslims. We do have demands to wipe off this Iranian group from GB because they have created unrest, their unending sectarian violence has caused us to fight back for our rights. We want the Pakistan government to plan stern action against them. – Mulana Khalil Saqib	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Bam! This hit the port quarter, picked up the ship and broke the stern off, the guys were sleeping back there, we lost a lot. – Abner Read	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I’ve got to stick up for radio guys, Stern said, because, number one, you’re on the air and it’s not like there’s a script, but for Goddsakes, Stern added, Tom Brady should know better. If you’re going to put your young child on a TV show, on the Internet, you’re putting her out there for comment. – Howard Stern	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Friend, never fear dying. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a person has to be anxious about. Fear living, that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo ! Charles Spurgeon – Lao Tzu	added by anonymous 6 years ago
Everybody has to stop looking at everybody else and look to within, my kids this morning had Frosted Flakes for breakfast. They had sugary cereal. Now the past two days they had eggs but today they didn't have eggs ... Mothers, I'm sure, will come after me and say, 'Lyss Stern is a terrible mother, because she gave her kids Frosted Flakes for breakfast today,' but at the end of the day it's OK. – Louise Sattler	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Stern – a former teacher – said one-third of all California teachers quit before their fifthyear because of the financial hardships placed on them due to low pay and the state’s high cost of living. You're not going to be able to get paid $ 50,000 a year and go live in the Bay Area, go teach at the local school.... we think it's a pretty creative tool, we'll see how the fiscal conservatives in this house want to approach this. – Henry Stern	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The record shows that I’m right, when I did an interview with Howard Stern, very lightly, first time anyone’s asked me that, I said, very lightly, ‘I don’t know, maybe, who knows?’ essentially. I then did an interview with Neil Cavuto. We talked about the economy is more important [than going to war]. – Donald Trump	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Sometimes she would do bad singing that was like 2 out of 10 bad and sometimes she would crank it up to like 12, and those were very difficult to cope with, particularly if I was having to do some very serious, stern, protective scene at the same time. – Hugh Grant	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Ms. Inada is an ultra-conservative politician and this will be taken as preparation for achieving constitutional revision and adopting a stern stance toward China. – Takashi Kawakami	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Cherishing the sweet reminiscence of the early hours of life can be experienced as real enchantment: Those hours when fantasy is given wings and imagination allows us to sail with our paper boats through the stern roads of our constricted life. ( "Paper boats forever" ) – Erik Pevernagie	added by anonymous 7 years ago

Democrats were caught between a rock and a hard place, they wanted to take a stern line against powerful men, like President Donald Trump and [Supreme Court Justice] Brett Kavanaugh, that were accused of sexual misconduct, but they felt like they couldn't do it with Clinton hanging around.

– Brad Bannon

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

My stern warning to the President Joe Biden administration and Democrats is you have to take this seriously, because if we do go back to a 2010 or 2014 model where they really fall off it's going to make it very difficult for us in November.

– Ben Tulchin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We had a group of people that were on the ground we had identified that wanted to get out, especially if things went sideways, bryan Stern, who is on our team, could feel the explosions in Kyiv and said, ‘Alright, we need to go, we need to get out of here.’.

– James Judge

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Howard Stern radio show's part of why I started drinking, because I was trapped.

– Ben Affleck

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are proud of the student who came forward to report the threat, this situation is another example of how we must work together to keep each other safe. We take threats seriously and take swift and stern action against those making threats against our schools.

– The Lexington

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was a relationship, for sure. We were definitely exclusive, but it was for barely a year, we never moved in. I was never going to marry Howard Stern. It was nothing like that.

– Charlize Theron

Found on CNN
3 years ago

What's shocking is that on June 15, the Indian side severely violated our consensus and twice crossed the border line and provoked and attacked the Chinese forces, causing a violent physical confrontation between the two border forces, china is raising strong opposition and stern representations to the Indian side on this.

– Zhao Lijian

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

China is raising strong opposition and stern representations to the Indian side on this.

– Zhao Lijian

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Magic Johnson guided the league through turbulent times and grew the league into an international phenomenon, creating opportunities that few could have imagined before, magic Johnson vision and leadership provided me with the global stage that allowed me to succeed. Former NBA Commissioner David Stern had a deep love for the game of basketball and demanded excellence from those around Former NBA Commissioner David Stern -- and I admired Former NBA Commissioner David Stern for that. I wouldn't be where I am without Former NBA Commissioner David Stern. I offer my deepest sympathies to Dianne and Former NBA Commissioner David Stern family.

– Michael Jordan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We have even based the stern painting on a real contemporary Dutch painting, Vermeersfamous Milkmaid,painted just one year before the ship was wrecked.

– John McCarthy

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This was widely seen as a stern warning to the violent elements in Hong Kong.

– Global Times

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

A more self-serving person would have gone all in on Donald Trump, i'd probably be Howard Stern or a Supreme Court justice by now.

– Howard Stern

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I will completely restructure the police and security forces in the coming weeks. I expect to change the heads of defense establishments within the next 24 hours, the security officials who got the intelligence report from a foreign nation did not share it with me. I have decided to take stern action against these officials.

– Maithripala Sirisena

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's good for them that they have already started to take measures to address this issue. But we will visit the mine again on March 30 to make sure that all the environment concerns have been fully resolved, otherwise we will take stern measures against them.

– Doto Biteko

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This Iranian group has been involved in militant activities and innocent killings of Sunni Muslims. We do have demands to wipe off this Iranian group from GB because they have created unrest, their unending sectarian violence has caused us to fight back for our rights. We want the Pakistan government to plan stern action against them.

– Mulana Khalil Saqib

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Bam! This hit the port quarter, picked up the ship and broke the stern off, the guys were sleeping back there, we lost a lot.

– Abner Read

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I’ve got to stick up for radio guys, Stern said, because, number one, you’re on the air and it’s not like there’s a script, but for Goddsakes, Stern added, Tom Brady should know better. If you’re going to put your young child on a TV show, on the Internet, you’re putting her out there for comment.

– Howard Stern

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Friend, never fear dying. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a person has to be anxious about. Fear living, that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo ! Charles Spurgeon

– Lao Tzu

added by anonymous
6 years ago

Everybody has to stop looking at everybody else and look to within, my kids this morning had Frosted Flakes for breakfast. They had sugary cereal. Now the past two days they had eggs but today they didn't have eggs ... Mothers, I'm sure, will come after me and say, 'Lyss Stern is a terrible mother, because she gave her kids Frosted Flakes for breakfast today,' but at the end of the day it's OK.

– Louise Sattler

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Stern – a former teacher – said one-third of all California teachers quit before their fifthyear because of the financial hardships placed on them due to low pay and the state’s high cost of living. You're not going to be able to get paid $ 50,000 a year and go live in the Bay Area, go teach at the local school.... we think it's a pretty creative tool, we'll see how the fiscal conservatives in this house want to approach this.

– Henry Stern

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The record shows that I’m right, when I did an interview with Howard Stern, very lightly, first time anyone’s asked me that, I said, very lightly, ‘I don’t know, maybe, who knows?’ essentially. I then did an interview with Neil Cavuto. We talked about the economy is more important [than going to war].

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Sometimes she would do bad singing that was like 2 out of 10 bad and sometimes she would crank it up to like 12, and those were very difficult to cope with, particularly if I was having to do some very serious, stern, protective scene at the same time.

– Hugh Grant

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Ms. Inada is an ultra-conservative politician and this will be taken as preparation for achieving constitutional revision and adopting a stern stance toward China.

– Takashi Kawakami

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Cherishing the sweet reminiscence of the early hours of life can be experienced as real enchantment: Those hours when fantasy is given wings and imagination allows us to sail with our paper boats through the stern roads of our constricted life. ( "Paper boats forever" )

– Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
7 years ago

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