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The reason (the camera) is going to sweep across the cabin is not because of distraction ... but because of all the side benefits, i promise you that companies that are trying to monetize data from the connected car are investigating ways to use eye-tracking technology. – Mike Ramsey	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
While many in the media and the American public have been trying to bring down the President without evidence that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the election, there is a ton of actual evidence of real misconduct that those same people have been attempting to completely sweep under the rug. – Lee Zeldin	Found on CNN 5 years ago
You could not ever be bored around Laurence Grant, laurence Grant would just sweep everyone up in whatever Laurence Grant cared about. Laurence Grant could talk about anything with anyone. Laurence Grant was always the most happy when other people were happy. – Olivia Parker	Found on CNN 6 years ago
My hope is that by me doing this, it may protect other women, how many other victims are out there? I may not be the first case, but I hope to be the last. It’s time to take responsibility. The culture needs to change. We can’t sweep this under the rug any longer. – Betty Pina	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Consider that perhaps, over the long sweep of your career, it will be beneficial to suffer through this job. – Ben Dattner	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It's better to be a janitor in heaven Than to sit on a throne in hell It's better to sweep the streets of gold Than to have illegitimate unearned wealth. We live today in a world of much irrational entitlement and participation trophies. Earn your place, fight for your rights, stand with honor and for God's sake, keep quiet unless you actually know what you're talking about! – Rick DePiro	added by Daveguitar2011 7 years ago
It's a strong field. But The Americans're the only country with a chance for a podium sweep. – Rickie Fowler	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
My office diligently works to keep the bad actors out of the Commonwealth, ... This sweep is intended to establish how the industry is meeting this critical investor protection responsibility of keeping the rogue broker out of the industry. – Commonwealth Secretary William Galvin	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
While bills are being brought into the House of Commons to regulate every thing, from the sweeps crying "sweep," to "emancipation, vote by ballot, and free trade," is there no county member whose "time and talents'' are devoted to "domestic policy," who will bring in a bill "for the better regulation of the marriage ceremony," and put the canonical hours later in the day ? at all events, could there not be a special clause in favour of London ? A spring morning there is the very reverse of Thomson's description ; for "delicious mildness" read "a cutting east wind;" and for "veiled in roses" substitute "smoke and fog." The streets are given up to the necessities of life — to the milkman with his cans, the butcher with his tray, the baker with his basket ; all belong to the material portion of existence. Now, marriage is (or ought to be) an affair of affections, sentiments, &c. The legislature ought to give it the full benefit of moonlight and wax-candles. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon	added by Madeleine Quinn 7 years ago
If you get the five state sweep on Tuesday, you have a candidate on a roll coming into Cleveland. If he’s on a roll… he could be 50 [delegates] away, maybe even 100 away. There will be a sense the people want him, you have to go with the people. That’s what the momentum will mean. – Charles Krauthammer	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
You can usually tell how dismayed he is by his volume, by the level of insults, and typically, when he attacks someone's faith, it is a sign that Donald is really worried, i understand the last election day, Super Saturday, was a very bad day for Donald. He came in proudly expecting to sweep all four contests. Instead, he got clobbered. He got clobbered on election day. – Ted Cruz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Let’s not forget that last night was supposed to be Ted Cruz’s big night. It was the night where he was going to sweep. The states were tailor made for the kind of campaign he was running. We beat him in Georgia. We beat him in half the states on the map. – Marco Rubio	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
You can get nowhere near first place in Texas and still vacuum up a whole lot of delegates just because of the size of the state, we're under no illusions that there won't be a resounding Ted Cruz victory, but there are things that we think we can do on the margins to sweep up some delegates -- and we're going to do it. – Todd Harris	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The operation against assailants in the camp premises ended. Search and sweep operations are ongoing. – Olivier Salgado	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It was not humane, it was a military style of operation, [Eisenhower] sent hundreds of border patrol officers to sweep up people. – Mae Ngai	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Donald Trump is basically conning conservatives. I underestimated how powerfully they want to be conned by this guy, they want to be told they're still going to be loved and respected in the morning. They want the big alpha male to sweep them off their feet and treat them roughly. They want that out of this guy. – Rick Wilson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I am not disappointed at all. I think we have a very strong team that can sweep all the medals in Beijing. – Ezekiel Kemboi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We need to participate so that if they rig, we use that as a trigger to get people on the streets and sweep the dictator away. – Betty Nambooze	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Regional governments should work with the United Nations and others to agree on binding solutions to this human tragedy -- not sweep it under the rug as they have done for years. – Brad Adams	Found on CNN 8 years ago
You go back a year ago, four-game sweep. To win this series we had to win three of four, and they found a way. So, they learned, we're going to enjoy this for a short period of time and get refocused. – Jon Cooper	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I just sweep, clean the bathroom, that type of stuff. – Charles Gladden	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Maybe there’s a broken window in the car, or a drug sweep or somebody being careless where someone is talking too much, saying they have a gun in their car -- there are a thousand other different ways. – Tennessee Law Professor Dwight Aarons	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
If Afghanistan is left to its own without military assistance or financial support … there is the potential we could sweep back to where we were before. – James Carafano	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I think the way to move forward with something like this is to keep it in our conversations, not sweep it under the rug after a few weeks. – Rubin Samuel	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

The reason (the camera) is going to sweep across the cabin is not because of distraction ... but because of all the side benefits, i promise you that companies that are trying to monetize data from the connected car are investigating ways to use eye-tracking technology.

– Mike Ramsey

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

While many in the media and the American public have been trying to bring down the President without evidence that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the election, there is a ton of actual evidence of real misconduct that those same people have been attempting to completely sweep under the rug.

– Lee Zeldin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

You could not ever be bored around Laurence Grant, laurence Grant would just sweep everyone up in whatever Laurence Grant cared about. Laurence Grant could talk about anything with anyone. Laurence Grant was always the most happy when other people were happy.

– Olivia Parker

Found on CNN
6 years ago

My hope is that by me doing this, it may protect other women, how many other victims are out there? I may not be the first case, but I hope to be the last. It’s time to take responsibility. The culture needs to change. We can’t sweep this under the rug any longer.

– Betty Pina

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Consider that perhaps, over the long sweep of your career, it will be beneficial to suffer through this job.

– Ben Dattner

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It's better to be a janitor in heaven Than to sit on a throne in hell It's better to sweep the streets of gold Than to have illegitimate unearned wealth. We live today in a world of much irrational entitlement and participation trophies. Earn your place, fight for your rights, stand with honor and for God's sake, keep quiet unless you actually know what you're talking about!

– Rick DePiro

added by Daveguitar2011
7 years ago

It's a strong field. But The Americans're the only country with a chance for a podium sweep.

– Rickie Fowler

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

My office diligently works to keep the bad actors out of the Commonwealth, ... This sweep is intended to establish how the industry is meeting this critical investor protection responsibility of keeping the rogue broker out of the industry.

– Commonwealth Secretary William Galvin

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

While bills are being brought into the House of Commons to regulate every thing, from the sweeps crying "sweep," to "emancipation, vote by ballot, and free trade," is there no county member whose "time and talents'' are devoted to "domestic policy," who will bring in a bill "for the better regulation of the marriage ceremony," and put the canonical hours later in the day ? at all events, could there not be a special clause in favour of London ? A spring morning there is the very reverse of Thomson's description ; for "delicious mildness" read "a cutting east wind;" and for "veiled in roses" substitute "smoke and fog." The streets are given up to the necessities of life — to the milkman with his cans, the butcher with his tray, the baker with his basket ; all belong to the material portion of existence. Now, marriage is (or ought to be) an affair of affections, sentiments, &c. The legislature ought to give it the full benefit of moonlight and wax-candles.

– Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

If you get the five state sweep on Tuesday, you have a candidate on a roll coming into Cleveland. If he’s on a roll… he could be 50 [delegates] away, maybe even 100 away. There will be a sense the people want him, you have to go with the people. That’s what the momentum will mean.

– Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

You can usually tell how dismayed he is by his volume, by the level of insults, and typically, when he attacks someone's faith, it is a sign that Donald is really worried, i understand the last election day, Super Saturday, was a very bad day for Donald. He came in proudly expecting to sweep all four contests. Instead, he got clobbered. He got clobbered on election day.

– Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Let’s not forget that last night was supposed to be Ted Cruz’s big night. It was the night where he was going to sweep. The states were tailor made for the kind of campaign he was running. We beat him in Georgia. We beat him in half the states on the map.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

You can get nowhere near first place in Texas and still vacuum up a whole lot of delegates just because of the size of the state, we're under no illusions that there won't be a resounding Ted Cruz victory, but there are things that we think we can do on the margins to sweep up some delegates -- and we're going to do it.

– Todd Harris

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The operation against assailants in the camp premises ended. Search and sweep operations are ongoing.

– Olivier Salgado

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It was not humane, it was a military style of operation, [Eisenhower] sent hundreds of border patrol officers to sweep up people.

– Mae Ngai

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Donald Trump is basically conning conservatives. I underestimated how powerfully they want to be conned by this guy, they want to be told they're still going to be loved and respected in the morning. They want the big alpha male to sweep them off their feet and treat them roughly. They want that out of this guy.

– Rick Wilson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I am not disappointed at all. I think we have a very strong team that can sweep all the medals in Beijing.

– Ezekiel Kemboi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We need to participate so that if they rig, we use that as a trigger to get people on the streets and sweep the dictator away.

– Betty Nambooze

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Regional governments should work with the United Nations and others to agree on binding solutions to this human tragedy -- not sweep it under the rug as they have done for years.

– Brad Adams

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You go back a year ago, four-game sweep. To win this series we had to win three of four, and they found a way. So, they learned, we're going to enjoy this for a short period of time and get refocused.

– Jon Cooper

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I just sweep, clean the bathroom, that type of stuff.

– Charles Gladden

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Maybe there’s a broken window in the car, or a drug sweep or somebody being careless where someone is talking too much, saying they have a gun in their car -- there are a thousand other different ways.

– Tennessee Law Professor Dwight Aarons

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If Afghanistan is left to its own without military assistance or financial support … there is the potential we could sweep back to where we were before.

– James Carafano

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I think the way to move forward with something like this is to keep it in our conversations, not sweep it under the rug after a few weeks.

– Rubin Samuel

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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