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Don’t forget a cyclone brings severe damaging wind as well as heavy rain and swell, as the ground is already sodden, trees are more likely to topple, which could cause power outages. – Lisa Murray	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It makes my heart swell with pride to do this. – Lee Greenwood	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
General inflation is not necessarily the story here. We started to see this swell of growth during the pandemic where consumers were willing to trade up to more premium fragrances. – Larissa Jensen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Once he started to recover( from Covid) his face started to swell, when the swelling did not reduce,( doctors) told us to get the injection. – Bhavya Reddy	Found on CNN 2 years ago
That lady had no intention of swimming. It was a 15-foot swell about where she was, the wave had washed up and dragged her out. – Mikey Wright	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The OPEC induced oil rally has come to a grinding halt in the wake of the bearish to consensus API inventory swell, further OPEC cuts are unlikely the cure-all medicine. But by the numbers, the magnitude of the expected oversupply in 2020 is thought to be well within OPEC's ability to manage. – Stephen Innes	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The expected lower demand for oil inputs into (U.S.) refineries typically sees U.S. crude inventories swell, all of which could pose a significant downside risk for prompt oil prices. – Stephen Innes	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
When we are considering the advantages that may result from an easy mode of naturalization, we ought also to consider the cautions necessary to guard against abuses. It is no doubt very desirable that we should hold out as many inducements as possible for the worthy part of mankind to come and settle amongst us, and throw their fortunes into a common lot with ours. But why is this desirable? Not merely to swell the catalogue of people. No, sir, it is to increase the wealth and strength of the community; and those who acquire the rights of citizenship without adding to the strength or wealth of the community are not the people we are in want of … I should be exceedingly sorry, sir, that our rule of naturalization excluded a single person of good fame that really meant to incorporate himself into our society; on the other hand, I do not wish that any man should acquire the privilege, but such as would be a real addition to the wealth or strength of the United States. – James Madison	added by Normando 4 years ago
Lauren Bacall was fabulous and glamorous and just a wonderful person, her husband [Humphrey Bogart] was dying when we were making this… But she was so hardworking. Claudette Colbert was a huge star and not so swell. She was tough, tough on me. But it’s good to see all that because as you start your career and you see all these people up close, you think, ‘I don’t want to be that.’ So you begin to smarten up. – Marion Ross	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
They were hiring all kinds of actors who were down on their luck, they paid them not even minimum wage — below minimum… I didn’t have any lines, but they wanted all kinds of actors… and you worked with all these swell people, like Dean Martin, Jacqueline Bisset and Helen Hayes. – Marion Ross	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
He started vomiting, his eyes were starting to swell and he couldn't speak properly. – Chris Daley	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The way( Lebanon's) swell comes is really random. – Surfer Sonia Lynn Gabriel	Found on CNN 6 years ago
I miss going outside in the sun. Now the sun makes my eye swell, and I always feel like something is in front of my eye. – Nabil Majeed	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
There is definitely a New Year's swell. – Brian Power	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He may not have the financial resources, but there is a ground swell of support, i think having the vice president on that debate stage is an important part of the campaign. – Josh Alcorn	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The (measures) won't roll, tax evasion will swell. – Manousos Doukakis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
So 'jail, no bail' gave us an opportunity to be arrested, spend the 30 days in jail without paying the money. In so doing, it would help keep the money in our treasury and not swell the treasury of the city and the county, after that, it caught on. By summer, you had kids from all over the country filling the jailhouses up. – Clarence Graham	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Pilate listened to the crowd. What sailor listens to the swell ? (Pilate écouta la foule. - Quel marin écoute la houle ?) – Charles de LEUSSE	added by anonymous 9 years ago
If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies. – Barbara Ehrenreich	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought. – Washington Irving	added by anonymous 10 years ago
For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world. I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: I will understand this, too, I will understand everything. – Primo Levi	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain -- at least in a poor country like Russia -- and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. – Leon Trotsky	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it. – Jean Anouilh	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents. – Karl Marx	added by anonymous 10 years ago

Don’t forget a cyclone brings severe damaging wind as well as heavy rain and swell, as the ground is already sodden, trees are more likely to topple, which could cause power outages.

– Lisa Murray

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It makes my heart swell with pride to do this.

– Lee Greenwood

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

General inflation is not necessarily the story here. We started to see this swell of growth during the pandemic where consumers were willing to trade up to more premium fragrances.

– Larissa Jensen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Once he started to recover( from Covid) his face started to swell, when the swelling did not reduce,( doctors) told us to get the injection.

– Bhavya Reddy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That lady had no intention of swimming. It was a 15-foot swell about where she was, the wave had washed up and dragged her out.

– Mikey Wright

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The OPEC induced oil rally has come to a grinding halt in the wake of the bearish to consensus API inventory swell, further OPEC cuts are unlikely the cure-all medicine. But by the numbers, the magnitude of the expected oversupply in 2020 is thought to be well within OPEC's ability to manage.

– Stephen Innes

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The expected lower demand for oil inputs into (U.S.) refineries typically sees U.S. crude inventories swell, all of which could pose a significant downside risk for prompt oil prices.

– Stephen Innes

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

When we are considering the advantages that may result from an easy mode of naturalization, we ought also to consider the cautions necessary to guard against abuses. It is no doubt very desirable that we should hold out as many inducements as possible for the worthy part of mankind to come and settle amongst us, and throw their fortunes into a common lot with ours. But why is this desirable? Not merely to swell the catalogue of people. No, sir, it is to increase the wealth and strength of the community; and those who acquire the rights of citizenship without adding to the strength or wealth of the community are not the people we are in want of … I should be exceedingly sorry, sir, that our rule of naturalization excluded a single person of good fame that really meant to incorporate himself into our society; on the other hand, I do not wish that any man should acquire the privilege, but such as would be a real addition to the wealth or strength of the United States.

– James Madison

added by Normando
4 years ago

Lauren Bacall was fabulous and glamorous and just a wonderful person, her husband [Humphrey Bogart] was dying when we were making this… But she was so hardworking. Claudette Colbert was a huge star and not so swell. She was tough, tough on me. But it’s good to see all that because as you start your career and you see all these people up close, you think, ‘I don’t want to be that.’ So you begin to smarten up.

– Marion Ross

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

They were hiring all kinds of actors who were down on their luck, they paid them not even minimum wage — below minimum… I didn’t have any lines, but they wanted all kinds of actors… and you worked with all these swell people, like Dean Martin, Jacqueline Bisset and Helen Hayes.

– Marion Ross

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

He started vomiting, his eyes were starting to swell and he couldn't speak properly.

– Chris Daley

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The way( Lebanon's) swell comes is really random.

– Surfer Sonia Lynn Gabriel

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I miss going outside in the sun. Now the sun makes my eye swell, and I always feel like something is in front of my eye.

– Nabil Majeed

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

There is definitely a New Year's swell.

– Brian Power

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He may not have the financial resources, but there is a ground swell of support, i think having the vice president on that debate stage is an important part of the campaign.

– Josh Alcorn

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The (measures) won't roll, tax evasion will swell.

– Manousos Doukakis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

So 'jail, no bail' gave us an opportunity to be arrested, spend the 30 days in jail without paying the money. In so doing, it would help keep the money in our treasury and not swell the treasury of the city and the county, after that, it caught on. By summer, you had kids from all over the country filling the jailhouses up.

– Clarence Graham

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Pilate listened to the crowd. What sailor listens to the swell ? (Pilate écouta la foule. - Quel marin écoute la houle ?)

– Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
9 years ago

If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.

– Barbara Ehrenreich