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We are in the peak of our thunderstorm season but as we progress into late July and August, we transition to more southwesterly flow which tends to shut off our thunderstorm season.

Erin Billings

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Typically after a trial, it's tougher for a defendant to get his recommended sentencing range, now the judge has seen all the evidence against the defendant, has heard from victims and that tends to drive the penalty up.

Elie Honig

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The latitude at which easterly waves come off of the coast of Africa tends to shift northward over the next couple of months, so getting systems coming off of the coast at 8-10 ° N is fairly common for this time of year.

Phil Klotzbach

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When the weather gets warm and school is out people tend to be outside more, it tends to elevate the likelihood of a confrontation that can lead to violence.

Jason Johnson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I was kind of proud of myself because I don’t fare too well in the rain that often, everything tends to get wet.

Bob Barnes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As the defender tends to know the terrain and friendly disposition better than the attacker – the defender has the advantage, this same rule applies for attack helicopters, but the weather can be worse.To some degree, it depends on crew proficiency and terrain awareness systems on the aircraft.

San Clemente

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's a really profound fundamental thing that happens in the brain of people like dancers or skaters over lots and lots of practice. And that's basically a change in the way the brain is processing information, when you spin around, you're activating the semicircular canals, rotation sensors. They're filled with fluid and they're sensing your rotation. But when you stop, the fluid has inertia and it tends to continue to move. They actually get a false sensation of movement.

Kathleen Cullen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The point is to prevent any contact between the activists and, essentially, the outside world, which, during these events, tends to pay more attention to what's happening in China.

Maya Wang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think overall we’d probably be better off if we just had news networks in America, but we don’t. Media tends to be a reflection of where the country is. Where the country was when we launched MSNBC was much more fact-based and less divided.

David Zaslav

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When it freezes, infrastructure tends to break down, i doubt the freeze will be as bad as last year, but it could easily have an impact.

Robert Yawger

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A key element of California water in that we have our large water projects in( the) north, where typically more rainfall falls, then, we move water where there tends to be less rainfall, but there tends to be more people because the weather is really nice.

Michael Anderson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Religious liberty is the chief cornerstone of the American system of government, and provisions for its security are embedded in the written charter and interwoven in the moral fabric of its laws. Anything that tends to invade a right so essential and sacred must be carefully guarded against, and I am satisfied that my countrymen, ever mindful of the suffering and sacrifices necessary to obtain it, will never consent to its impairment for any reason or under any pretext whatsoever.

Thomas F. Bayard

added by Normando
2 years ago

Wherever you have a police officer, safety tends to follow.

Damon Minnix

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Climatologically, what ends your hurricane season is too much wind shear, so La Niña tends to prolong the hurricane season since it tends to reduce shear, of course, last year is an example of La Niña prolonging the season... on steroids.

Phil Klotzbach

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Climatologically, what ends your hurricane season is too much wind shear, so La Niña tends to prolong the hurricane season since it tends to reduce shear, of course, last year is an example of La Niña prolonging the season... on steroids !

Phil Klotzbach

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We’ve made adjustments in our approach, it’s like any financial situation, once you see something big looming, finance tends to present-value it forward.

Sandy Boss

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

After a fire, depending on the intensity of the burn, it causes the soil to be hydrophobic. The majority of this burn was a moderate severity burn, so that does cause hydrophobic soil and then also after the fire, there's a lot of debris and that tends to be a lot of the problem when that's moving downstream.

Carl Melford

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We chose Costco as a comparison because it is an example of a system where the incentives are set up to deliver value on total cost, much like paper towels, patient cost-sharing for generics in Medicare Advantage Part D tends to be low, but this masks a system that is not currently set up to deliver value to the program overall.

Erin Trish

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Sometimes in life, confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense

Shah Asad Rizvi

added by shahasadrizvi
2 years ago

Over the course of doing this for many years, my client tends to get younger and they are very savvy and proactive, the ability to monetize yourself, the ability to build a brand, student-athletes of this generation are ready.

Michael Rueda

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We know there's not always an opportunity to intervene, but a lot of times those situations with tragic results( are) preceded by smaller interactions where someone could have stepped in but didn't. What we know is when smaller wrongdoing is left unchecked, it tends to not only continue but escalate.

Lisa Kurtz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A lot of socialists … believe that capitalism and racism are intrinsically linked... This is complete nonsense, racism has existed long, long before the advent of modern capitalism, and it existed in socialist societies as well. If anything, capitalism tends to reduce racial prejudice over time, because … we trade peacefully with a variety of people from a variety of backgrounds.

Kristian Niemietz

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

All you have to do, is to see whether the law takes from some what belongs to them in order to give it to others to whom it does not belong. We must see whether the law performs, for the profit of one citizen and to the detriment of others, an act which that citizen could not perform himself without being guilty of a crime. Repeal such a law without delay. ... [I]f you don’t take care, what begins by being an exception tends to become general, to multiply itself, and to develop into a veritable system.

Frederick Bastiat

added by Normando
3 years ago

Messaging matters, but reality matters more, you can message all you want but people respond to the real signals from policy changes. ... Confusion tends to lead people trying their luck.

Andrew Selee

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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