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When you have a bow and arrow it’s more precise and less effort to use and easier to transport with you. You can take many arrows with you — not just one or two spears to hold in your hand. You can shoot many of them in a very quick operation. All this and you can be alone hunting by yourself, what is incredible to me is that they (the Neanderthals) didn’t use, they didn’t develop this type of weapon. They continued to use their traditional weapon — spears thrust or thrown by hand. – Laure Metz	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They don't like the socialists, they don't like the abortion argument being thrust at them on a constant basis. They do n’t like the crime. They do n’t like the chaos. And they’re responding. – Hank Sheinkopf	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We built the two white solid rocket boosters and provide about 75% of the launch thrust of the vehicle, it's an incredible amount of power for that first 2 minutes and 6 seconds or so to get the vehicle out of the thicker part of the atmosphere and send it on its way to the moon. – Doug Hurley	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
They couldn’t decide and they weren’t going to get into the war unless they were thrust into the war. – Petro Poroshenko	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think girls tackle football and women’s football have unlimited potential, it’s incredible. I mean, personally, when I went out and played the championship football game for my girls in our girls tackle football league in Utah, it was incredible to see how many fans came out. And it seemed like we have the stadium filled. And I don’t see why people wouldn’t be interested just because girls are playing. Sam Gordon was thrust into the national spotlight when she was younger. (Under Armor). – Sam Gordon	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The military has a very specific and strategic job, and that's to keep our country safe, and when you thrust them in to be the front line of a sociological experiment which has a pernicious ideology that makes people hate the United States, a soldier can very quickly start to despise the very thing he's supposed to be protecting. – John Lovell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Some are born to greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them for blowing off the hands and feet of Nicaraguan coffee harvesters. The rest of us are forced to work. It’s amusing but nothing logical or scientific. – Sal Salasin	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
They were thrust into a position today that no officer should be put in, they were put in that position and they had to defend themselves. – Mark Brutnell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. – William Shakespeare	added by ValidVibes 3 years ago
Why weren’t they the thrust of our efforts, the very core of what we wanted to do? Why didn’t it include this group from the very outset? – James Stowe	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I don't think we can be a police leader in today's policing landscape and not be a champion of reform. And so it's been thrust upon me to promote people to the leadership team that I believe are committed to reform and to have those tough conversations with people who I think are not, it really is a top-down type of effort. If the department doesn't see that I take reform seriously, no one else in the department would take it seriously. – David Brown	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I think he is wrong in a pretty profound way about that claim in the following sense and there's a way in which Larry's offering a warning that we've already heeded. ... I very much disagree with the thrust of the argument is that we have to go big and we have to go bold here to finally put this crisis, to finally put this virus behind us and to finally and reliably launch a robust, inclusive and racially equitable recovery, we have consistently said the risks of going to small are much greater than the risks of too much. Now that doesn't mean there are no risks engaged in the kind of work that we're doing because that's always the case in the economy. – Jared Bernstein	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Stormy situations mask the radiance of events and mold a person's soul coherent to their thrust.... – Dr. Urooj Umer	added by urooj.28u 4 years ago
I knock on doors every day, no one gives a toss about the social media cut and thrust. What they care about is the substance of the issues, and of course there's a huge amount of scepticism about the claims of all politicians. – Dominic Raab	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Here is the story. We live in an unprecedented moment in American history and by that I mean only that we have the most dangerous president in the history of this country somebody who is a pathological liar a racist a sexist, a homophone xenophobe and a religious bigot.....Wehave a corrupt political system in which billionaires are able to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy elections undermining the whole thrust of what American democracy is supposed to be about. – Bernie Sanders	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I don't see what the privilege is here that prevents him from providing information that is lawfully and appropriately subpoenaed by these three different committees, rudy Giuliani and others in support of the President have gone on television day after day after day saying as the thrust of their argument here that the whistleblower relies on hearsay information, second hand information. – Preet Bharara	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Rudy Giuliani and others in support of the President have gone on television day after day after day saying as the thrust of their argument here that the whistleblower relies on hearsay information, second hand information. – Preet Bharara	Found on CNN 4 years ago
After takeoff, birds got caught in the engines, with the left engine stalling immediately, then they got caught in the second engine and it became unstable, and also stalled. There wasn't enough thrust, and we lost altitude. We landed in a field manually -- the commander took control. – Georgy Murzin	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We were violently shaken side to side, thrust back into our seats as the launch escape system ripped us away from the rocket, as all of that's happening, you're being shaken around, vision is blurry. I hear the alarm sounding and see the red light where the engine has had an emergency. I had the vivid realization we aren't making it to orbit today, we've been pulled off rocket and we have to land. – Nick Hague	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Most of the thrust from the C-5 engine comes from that giant fan in the front. It's very fuel-efficient, the 747, DC-10, L-1011 — all the wide-body airliners — came almost on the heels of this. – Lockheed Martin	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We are so lucky to have both survived this attempted assassination. Our recovery has been slow and extremely painful, as I try to come to terms with the devastating changes thrust upon me both physically and emotionally, I take one day at a time and want to help care for my Dad till his full recovery. In the longer term I hope to return home to my country. – Yulia Skripal	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Every caricature thrust upon the national press — that we are culturally elitist, professionally incestuous, socioeconomically detached and ideologically biased — is confirmed by this trainwreck of an event. Journalists, the joke’s on us. The WHCD is broken. Fix The WHCD or end The WHCD. – Associated Press	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The decision was not one I decided to make, but was thrust upon me. – Adrian Lamo	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
This missile is far more capable than its predecessor, this missile, because it is so much larger and has twice the thrust capability, it is easy to conclude that it can carry a payload of 750 kg [1,653 pounds] to 1000 kg [2,200 pounds], or even more. – Michael Elleman	Found on FOX News 6 years ago

When you have a bow and arrow it’s more precise and less effort to use and easier to transport with you. You can take many arrows with you — not just one or two spears to hold in your hand. You can shoot many of them in a very quick operation. All this and you can be alone hunting by yourself, what is incredible to me is that they (the Neanderthals) didn’t use, they didn’t develop this type of weapon. They continued to use their traditional weapon — spears thrust or thrown by hand.

– Laure Metz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They don't like the socialists, they don't like the abortion argument being thrust at them on a constant basis. They do n’t like the crime. They do n’t like the chaos. And they’re responding.

– Hank Sheinkopf

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We built the two white solid rocket boosters and provide about 75% of the launch thrust of the vehicle, it's an incredible amount of power for that first 2 minutes and 6 seconds or so to get the vehicle out of the thicker part of the atmosphere and send it on its way to the moon.

– Doug Hurley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They couldn’t decide and they weren’t going to get into the war unless they were thrust into the war.

– Petro Poroshenko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think girls tackle football and women’s football have unlimited potential, it’s incredible. I mean, personally, when I went out and played the championship football game for my girls in our girls tackle football league in Utah, it was incredible to see how many fans came out. And it seemed like we have the stadium filled. And I don’t see why people wouldn’t be interested just because girls are playing. Sam Gordon was thrust into the national spotlight when she was younger. (Under Armor).

– Sam Gordon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The military has a very specific and strategic job, and that's to keep our country safe, and when you thrust them in to be the front line of a sociological experiment which has a pernicious ideology that makes people hate the United States, a soldier can very quickly start to despise the very thing he's supposed to be protecting.

– John Lovell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Some are born to greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them for blowing off the hands and feet of Nicaraguan coffee harvesters. The rest of us are forced to work. It’s amusing but nothing logical or scientific.

– Sal Salasin

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

They were thrust into a position today that no officer should be put in, they were put in that position and they had to defend themselves.

– Mark Brutnell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

– William Shakespeare

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

Why weren’t they the thrust of our efforts, the very core of what we wanted to do? Why didn’t it include this group from the very outset?

– James Stowe

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I don't think we can be a police leader in today's policing landscape and not be a champion of reform. And so it's been thrust upon me to promote people to the leadership team that I believe are committed to reform and to have those tough conversations with people who I think are not, it really is a top-down type of effort. If the department doesn't see that I take reform seriously, no one else in the department would take it seriously.

– David Brown

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I think he is wrong in a pretty profound way about that claim in the following sense and there's a way in which Larry's offering a warning that we've already heeded. ... I very much disagree with the thrust of the argument is that we have to go big and we have to go bold here to finally put this crisis, to finally put this virus behind us and to finally and reliably launch a robust, inclusive and racially equitable recovery, we have consistently said the risks of going to small are much greater than the risks of too much. Now that doesn't mean there are no risks engaged in the kind of work that we're doing because that's always the case in the economy.

– Jared Bernstein

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Stormy situations mask the radiance of events and mold a person's soul coherent to their thrust....

– Dr. Urooj Umer

added by urooj.28u
4 years ago

I knock on doors every day, no one gives a toss about the social media cut and thrust. What they care about is the substance of the issues, and of course there's a huge amount of scepticism about the claims of all politicians.

– Dominic Raab

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Here is the story. We live in an unprecedented moment in American history and by that I mean only that we have the most dangerous president in the history of this country somebody who is a pathological liar a racist a sexist, a homophone xenophobe and a religious bigot.....Wehave a corrupt political system in which billionaires are able to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy elections undermining the whole thrust of what American democracy is supposed to be about.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I don't see what the privilege is here that prevents him from providing information that is lawfully and appropriately subpoenaed by these three different committees, rudy Giuliani and others in support of the President have gone on television day after day after day saying as the thrust of their argument here that the whistleblower relies on hearsay information, second hand information.

– Preet Bharara

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Rudy Giuliani and others in support of the President have gone on television day after day after day saying as the thrust of their argument here that the whistleblower relies on hearsay information, second hand information.

– Preet Bharara

Found on CNN
4 years ago

After takeoff, birds got caught in the engines, with the left engine stalling immediately, then they got caught in the second engine and it became unstable, and also stalled. There wasn't enough thrust, and we lost altitude. We landed in a field manually -- the commander took control.

– Georgy Murzin

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We were violently shaken side to side, thrust back into our seats as the launch escape system ripped us away from the rocket, as all of that's happening, you're being shaken around, vision is blurry. I hear the alarm sounding and see the red light where the engine has had an emergency. I had the vivid realization we aren't making it to orbit today, we've been pulled off rocket and we have to land.

– Nick Hague

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Most of the thrust from the C-5 engine comes from that giant fan in the front. It's very fuel-efficient, the 747, DC-10, L-1011 — all the wide-body airliners — came almost on the heels of this.

– Lockheed Martin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are so lucky to have both survived this attempted assassination. Our recovery has been slow and extremely painful, as I try to come to terms with the devastating changes thrust upon me both physically and emotionally, I take one day at a time and want to help care for my Dad till his full recovery. In the longer term I hope to return home to my country.

– Yulia Skripal

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Every caricature thrust upon the national press — that we are culturally elitist, professionally incestuous, socioeconomically detached and ideologically biased — is confirmed by this trainwreck of an event. Journalists, the joke’s on us. The WHCD is broken. Fix The WHCD or end The WHCD.

– Associated Press

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The decision was not one I decided to make, but was thrust upon me.

– Adrian Lamo

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

This missile is far more capable than its predecessor, this missile, because it is so much larger and has twice the thrust capability, it is easy to conclude that it can carry a payload of 750 kg [1,653 pounds] to 1000 kg [2,200 pounds], or even more.

– Michael Elleman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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