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The gastric sleeve is a procedure where essentially about two-thirds of the stomach is removed laparoscopically. – Ted Adams	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There are considerable downside risks to sentiment, with two-thirds of consumers expecting an economic downturn during the next year, notably, the debt ceiling debate looms ahead and could reverse the gains seen over the last several months; past debt ceiling crises in 2011 and 2013 prompted steep declines in consumer confidence. – Joanne Hsu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Political science research indicates that when a president is perceived as being a ‘strong leader’ they are likely to have positive ratings overall, in Biden’s case, it’s hard to overcome the fact that almost two-thirds think he’s weak. – Republican Daron Shaw	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I think we should say, ‘what did we vote on?,' we saved 100,000 pensions here in Ohio. Many teamsters here in Ohio, in the Mahoning Valley, were going to have their pensions cut in half to two-thirds. We saved those pensions. We just lowered prescription drug costs, capped the Medicare out-of-pocket expenses to $2,000 for seniors, we capped insulin at $35 for people who are in the Medicare program…. – Susan Walsh -RRB- Ryan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
That is two thirds of what we import from them, two thirds by the end of this year. It's hard, bloody hard but it's possible if we're willing to go further and faster than we've done before. – Frans Timmermans	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Rule change is by two-thirds, 67. – Senator Toomey	Found on CNN 2 years ago
2021 set a lot of sales records and yet office towers are still two-thirds empty, the market is expected to tighten up and that's before we see more office workers returning. 2022 is going to be a year of heavy sales volume, a higher share of bidding wars, a sharp decline in listing inventory and higher prices. – Jonathan Miller	Found on CNN 2 years ago
For Itambé, December is their wettest month, which they get about 120 mm of rainfall for the month of December. So they are forecast to get about two-thirds of a month of rainfall throughout this event. – Agencia Brasil.CNN meteorologist Robert Shackelford	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The study is rigorous but it is early( thus might change a bit with more data and more studies will report in the weeks ahead). It should be noted that some South African scientists have been saying Omicron was milder for some time, although two thirds reduction is significant, Omicron can cause severe illness in the doubly vaccinated. Thus, if Omicron continues to double every few days, it could generate many more hospitalisations than Delta from the double vaccinated population. – James Naismith	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We don't mind where you came from, what's your religion, what's your ethnicity, gender does not matter. You find two thirds of the population in Future Prowess Islamic Foundation are girls. – Zannah Mustapha	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Amazon intends to be 100 % renewable energy by the year 2025... and we're already about two-thirds of the way there, so we're making significant progress, just given our size and our scale and the things like the data centers we operate, we really have to drive them with renewable energy in order to hit that [ 2040 ] goal. We're doing a lot of innovating ourselves, we're doing a lot of partnering with a lot of companies, a lot of governments, a lot of nonprofits to reach those goals. – Adam Selipsky	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The President has long recognized that blue-collar workers, non-college-educated workers, workers in traditionally lower-paid sectors, such as laborers in manufacturing or providers of care to kids and older persons, in many ways those workers have for too long been forgotten by even Democrat policy makers, who basically told them,' Get a college education and you'll be fine,' which is not a viable option for a lot of people and seems pretty dismissive of their experience. I think The President's always bridled at an economics that leaves behind two-thirds of the workforce [ without college degrees ] and especially given that it's the two-thirds of the workforce that's been least pulled along by economic growth. – Jared Bernstein	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The administration's pandemic police is forcing about two-thirds of the country's workforce to choose between supporting their families and taking a vaccine. – Laura Ingraham	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Regardless of how [the recall election] turns out, it will take a lot of discussion and bipartisan support for changes, my understanding is that any substantive changes requires voter approval. We have a two-thirds Democratic supermajority in the legislature. But changes should be bipartisan to have legitimacy with all of the voters. – Mark Baldassare	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Right now, our government and our response capabilities are on life support because we rely totally on generated power. And of course to have generators, State Sen. Kirk Talbot have to have fuel, so fuel has been short because two-thirds of our refinery capabilities were knocked out. – Joe Valiente	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The cone is just a shape defined by track forecast errors over the previous five years, such that there's historically a two-thirds chance the track of the center of the storm will remain inside the cone, and a one-third chance it will be outside the cone, the same cone is used all year long, for every forecast of every storm... they're identical. – Brian McNoldy	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think the perfect storm of COVID fears, locking down two-thirds of the population for 15 months, the self-induced recession, the Trump derangement syndrome, the George Floyd death, the 120 days of riots, the inactivity and inability to get people to meet one another, the crazy election, all of that was the spark or the fuse that lit the preexisting problems. – Said Hanson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Two-thirds of the infections in the capital region are from Tokyo, and our concern is the spread of the infections to neighboring areas. – Ryuji Wakita	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If all G7 countries met their fair share target, this initiative would be two-thirds funded – and it would be 90% funded if all G20 countries made their fair share contributions. – South African	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
For nearly fifteen months, the City of Philadelphia has had restrictions in place to protect each other, and I have no doubt that these restrictions saved countless lives, but Friday will be a day that we've all been looking forward to : getting back to doing the things that we love. Thanks to the more than two-thirds of adults who've been vaccinated already, we can finally do the things that we've missed doing for the last year. – Jim Kenney	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This week, over 29 million doses will go out across all of our channels, two-thirds of those doses are going to jurisdictions and one-third to federal channels. – Jen Psaki	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is not a racist bill—having a driver’s license number is supported by two-thirds of all Georgians—African Americans support it, caucasians support it, Democrats support it, and Republicans, we have used photo ID for over 12 years now, everyone accepts it, everyone has an ID to, you know, jump on a plane, people have it all the time. – Brad Raffensperger	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Good news( is) that two-thirds of people 65 + are fully vaccinated and more than half of people 50 + have had one #COVID 19 #Vaccine dose, bad news is that as close as we are to turning the corner, we are beginning to see a 4th wave and need people to hang on a bit longer. – Umair Shah	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think it was clear, by the time we went in the room that the votes weren't there that a significant majority of the conference I would probably hazard a guess, two-thirds of the Republicans in the Senate conference, wanted to maintain the rule of a ban on earmarks and so we did. – Ted Cruz	Found on FOX News 3 years ago

The gastric sleeve is a procedure where essentially about two-thirds of the stomach is removed laparoscopically.

– Ted Adams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are considerable downside risks to sentiment, with two-thirds of consumers expecting an economic downturn during the next year, notably, the debt ceiling debate looms ahead and could reverse the gains seen over the last several months; past debt ceiling crises in 2011 and 2013 prompted steep declines in consumer confidence.

– Joanne Hsu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Political science research indicates that when a president is perceived as being a ‘strong leader’ they are likely to have positive ratings overall, in Biden’s case, it’s hard to overcome the fact that almost two-thirds think he’s weak.

– Republican Daron Shaw

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think we should say, ‘what did we vote on?,' we saved 100,000 pensions here in Ohio. Many teamsters here in Ohio, in the Mahoning Valley, were going to have their pensions cut in half to two-thirds. We saved those pensions. We just lowered prescription drug costs, capped the Medicare out-of-pocket expenses to $2,000 for seniors, we capped insulin at $35 for people who are in the Medicare program….

– Susan Walsh -RRB- Ryan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

That is two thirds of what we import from them, two thirds by the end of this year. It's hard, bloody hard but it's possible if we're willing to go further and faster than we've done before.

– Frans Timmermans

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Rule change is by two-thirds, 67.

– Senator Toomey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

2021 set a lot of sales records and yet office towers are still two-thirds empty, the market is expected to tighten up and that's before we see more office workers returning. 2022 is going to be a year of heavy sales volume, a higher share of bidding wars, a sharp decline in listing inventory and higher prices.

– Jonathan Miller

Found on CNN
2 years ago

For Itambé, December is their wettest month, which they get about 120 mm of rainfall for the month of December. So they are forecast to get about two-thirds of a month of rainfall throughout this event.

– Agencia Brasil.CNN meteorologist Robert Shackelford

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The study is rigorous but it is early( thus might change a bit with more data and more studies will report in the weeks ahead). It should be noted that some South African scientists have been saying Omicron was milder for some time, although two thirds reduction is significant, Omicron can cause severe illness in the doubly vaccinated. Thus, if Omicron continues to double every few days, it could generate many more hospitalisations than Delta from the double vaccinated population.

– James Naismith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We don't mind where you came from, what's your religion, what's your ethnicity, gender does not matter. You find two thirds of the population in Future Prowess Islamic Foundation are girls.

– Zannah Mustapha

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Amazon intends to be 100 % renewable energy by the year 2025... and we're already about two-thirds of the way there, so we're making significant progress, just given our size and our scale and the things like the data centers we operate, we really have to drive them with renewable energy in order to hit that [ 2040 ] goal. We're doing a lot of innovating ourselves, we're doing a lot of partnering with a lot of companies, a lot of governments, a lot of nonprofits to reach those goals.

– Adam Selipsky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The President has long recognized that blue-collar workers, non-college-educated workers, workers in traditionally lower-paid sectors, such as laborers in manufacturing or providers of care to kids and older persons, in many ways those workers have for too long been forgotten by even Democrat policy makers, who basically told them,' Get a college education and you'll be fine,' which is not a viable option for a lot of people and seems pretty dismissive of their experience. I think The President's always bridled at an economics that leaves behind two-thirds of the workforce [ without college degrees ] and especially given that it's the two-thirds of the workforce that's been least pulled along by economic growth.

– Jared Bernstein

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The administration's pandemic police is forcing about two-thirds of the country's workforce to choose between supporting their families and taking a vaccine.

– Laura Ingraham

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Regardless of how [the recall election] turns out, it will take a lot of discussion and bipartisan support for changes, my understanding is that any substantive changes requires voter approval. We have a two-thirds Democratic supermajority in the legislature. But changes should be bipartisan to have legitimacy with all of the voters.

– Mark Baldassare

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Right now, our government and our response capabilities are on life support because we rely totally on generated power. And of course to have generators, State Sen. Kirk Talbot have to have fuel, so fuel has been short because two-thirds of our refinery capabilities were knocked out.

– Joe Valiente

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The cone is just a shape defined by track forecast errors over the previous five years, such that there's historically a two-thirds chance the track of the center of the storm will remain inside the cone, and a one-third chance it will be outside the cone, the same cone is used all year long, for every forecast of every storm... they're identical.

– Brian McNoldy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think the perfect storm of COVID fears, locking down two-thirds of the population for 15 months, the self-induced recession, the Trump derangement syndrome, the George Floyd death, the 120 days of riots, the inactivity and inability to get people to meet one another, the crazy election, all of that was the spark or the fuse that lit the preexisting problems.

– Said Hanson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Two-thirds of the infections in the capital region are from Tokyo, and our concern is the spread of the infections to neighboring areas.

– Ryuji Wakita

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If all G7 countries met their fair share target, this initiative would be two-thirds funded – and it would be 90% funded if all G20 countries made their fair share contributions.

– South African

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

For nearly fifteen months, the City of Philadelphia has had restrictions in place to protect each other, and I have no doubt that these restrictions saved countless lives, but Friday will be a day that we've all been looking forward to : getting back to doing the things that we love. Thanks to the more than two-thirds of adults who've been vaccinated already, we can finally do the things that we've missed doing for the last year.

– Jim Kenney

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This week, over 29 million doses will go out across all of our channels, two-thirds of those doses are going to jurisdictions and one-third to federal channels.

– Jen Psaki

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is not a racist bill—having a driver’s license number is supported by two-thirds of all Georgians—African Americans support it, caucasians support it, Democrats support it, and Republicans, we have used photo ID for over 12 years now, everyone accepts it, everyone has an ID to, you know, jump on a plane, people have it all the time.

– Brad Raffensperger

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Good news( is) that two-thirds of people 65 + are fully vaccinated and more than half of people 50 + have had one #COVID 19 #Vaccine dose, bad news is that as close as we are to turning the corner, we are beginning to see a 4th wave and need people to hang on a bit longer.

– Umair Shah

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I think it was clear, by the time we went in the room that the votes weren't there that a significant majority of the conference I would probably hazard a guess, two-thirds of the Republicans in the Senate conference, wanted to maintain the rule of a ban on earmarks and so we did.

– Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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