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The thinly veiled intent behind AOC’s tweet to vilify a Jewish organization is crystal clear and further contributes to the vilification of American Jews, aOC’s intentional isolation of AIPAC and her failure to call out the numerous bipartisan and left-leaning groups working to keep Justice Democrat candidate Summer Lee out of office shows her true colors. – Liora Rez	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Indeed who would be prosecuted or fined should over 500 be killed in the next two years ? No doubt if over 500 were killed in a year then those responsible would claim they did not realize that the pod was so big until it was driven into the shallows and the dolphins killed, this new' quota' is meaningless for dolphins in the long run and has only hastily been announced as a thinly-veiled attempt to deceive both politicians and the press in the face of continued outrage over the killing of dolphins in the Faroe Islands. – Lukas Erichsen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The state bars will see through this thinly veiled tactic to foment a chilling effect upon lawyers from doing our job and zealously representing clients that are political and even controversial, democrats don't have to agree with President Trump's opinions and claims, but that is not a basis upon which to sanction his lawyers. – Jenna Ellis	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Government bodies should always strive for transparency, and the ACLU supports any good-faith effort to make public education as transparent as possible to parents and communities, but some of these so-called ‘curriculum transparency bills’ are thinly veiled attempts at chilling teachers and students from learning and talking about race and gender in schools. Their sponsors have said as much. – Emerson Sykes	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Justice Sotomayor was attacked for her temperament. Conservatives asked,' Is she too combative ? Is she smart enough ?' All of these thinly veiled attacks on her because of what they saw as identity politics, today, she stands out on the court as the justice most likely to speak up about the impact of the court's decisions on people's lives. – Douglas Keith	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Government bodies should always strive for transparency, and the ACLU supports any good-faith effort to make public education as transparent as possible to parents and communities, but some of these so-called ‘ curriculum transparency bills ’ are thinly veiled attempts at chilling teachers and students from learning and talking about race and gender in schools. Their sponsors have said as much. – Emerson Sykes	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Facebook is extremely thinly staffed... and this is because there are a lot of technologists that look at what Facebook has done and their unwillingness to accept responsibility, and people just aren't willing to work there. – Frances Haugen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
In an interview with NBC News, President (Donald) Trump admitted to firing FBI Director James Comey because of his investigation of the Trump campaign's Russian connections, that is dangerously close to obstruction of justice. This morning, the President tweeted a thinly veiled threat to Mr. Comey, which could be construed as threatening a witness in this investigation, which is another violation of federal law. – Dick Durbin	Found on CNN 6 years ago
It's so thinly stretched, there's arguably no organization on earth that could cover all those (topics) at sufficient depth to be authoritative. – Jeremy Farrar	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We need to simplify what we do by prioritising the first line of our strategy -- improving our core business - and pausing activity in other areas so that we are not spread too thinly. – Chief Executive Andy Clarke	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Given that CLO managers are typically thinly capitalized, it is hard to envision that many small managers will have access to the long-term capital that risk-retention rules would require, unlike the last CLO manager consolidation cycle that followed the financial crisis, we believe this time around the consolidation economics are not as compelling given a combination of smaller post-crisis CLO management fees and shorter reinvestment periods. – Richard Hill	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We move quickly to protect investors when we see thinly traded stocks being promoted with questionable information that make them ripe for pump-and-dump schemes, Fraudsters are constantly exploiting issues of public concern to tout a penny stock company supposedly in the business of addressing the latest crisis. – Elisha Frank	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious. – David Mamet	added by anonymous 9 years ago

The thinly veiled intent behind AOC’s tweet to vilify a Jewish organization is crystal clear and further contributes to the vilification of American Jews, aOC’s intentional isolation of AIPAC and her failure to call out the numerous bipartisan and left-leaning groups working to keep Justice Democrat candidate Summer Lee out of office shows her true colors.

– Liora Rez

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Indeed who would be prosecuted or fined should over 500 be killed in the next two years ? No doubt if over 500 were killed in a year then those responsible would claim they did not realize that the pod was so big until it was driven into the shallows and the dolphins killed, this new' quota' is meaningless for dolphins in the long run and has only hastily been announced as a thinly-veiled attempt to deceive both politicians and the press in the face of continued outrage over the killing of dolphins in the Faroe Islands.

– Lukas Erichsen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The state bars will see through this thinly veiled tactic to foment a chilling effect upon lawyers from doing our job and zealously representing clients that are political and even controversial, democrats don't have to agree with President Trump's opinions and claims, but that is not a basis upon which to sanction his lawyers.

– Jenna Ellis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Government bodies should always strive for transparency, and the ACLU supports any good-faith effort to make public education as transparent as possible to parents and communities, but some of these so-called ‘curriculum transparency bills’ are thinly veiled attempts at chilling teachers and students from learning and talking about race and gender in schools. Their sponsors have said as much.

– Emerson Sykes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Justice Sotomayor was attacked for her temperament. Conservatives asked,' Is she too combative ? Is she smart enough ?' All of these thinly veiled attacks on her because of what they saw as identity politics, today, she stands out on the court as the justice most likely to speak up about the impact of the court's decisions on people's lives.

– Douglas Keith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Government bodies should always strive for transparency, and the ACLU supports any good-faith effort to make public education as transparent as possible to parents and communities, but some of these so-called ‘ curriculum transparency bills ’ are thinly veiled attempts at chilling teachers and students from learning and talking about race and gender in schools. Their sponsors have said as much.

– Emerson Sykes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Facebook is extremely thinly staffed... and this is because there are a lot of technologists that look at what Facebook has done and their unwillingness to accept responsibility, and people just aren't willing to work there.

– Frances Haugen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In an interview with NBC News, President (Donald) Trump admitted to firing FBI Director James Comey because of his investigation of the Trump campaign's Russian connections, that is dangerously close to obstruction of justice. This morning, the President tweeted a thinly veiled threat to Mr. Comey, which could be construed as threatening a witness in this investigation, which is another violation of federal law.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It's so thinly stretched, there's arguably no organization on earth that could cover all those (topics) at sufficient depth to be authoritative.

– Jeremy Farrar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We need to simplify what we do by prioritising the first line of our strategy -- improving our core business - and pausing activity in other areas so that we are not spread too thinly.

– Chief Executive Andy Clarke

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Given that CLO managers are typically thinly capitalized, it is hard to envision that many small managers will have access to the long-term capital that risk-retention rules would require, unlike the last CLO manager consolidation cycle that followed the financial crisis, we believe this time around the consolidation economics are not as compelling given a combination of smaller post-crisis CLO management fees and shorter reinvestment periods.

– Richard Hill

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We move quickly to protect investors when we see thinly traded stocks being promoted with questionable information that make them ripe for pump-and-dump schemes, Fraudsters are constantly exploiting issues of public concern to tout a penny stock company supposedly in the business of addressing the latest crisis.

– Elisha Frank

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

– David Mamet

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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