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These footprints demonstrate that the evolution of upright walking was more complicated and more interesting than we previously thought. – Jeremy DeSilva	Found on CNN 2 years ago
He has some surprising pop. He's really good when he's upright like he was today. i just want to make sure I'm getting something in the zone. – La Stella	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons . . . And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, . . . the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down . . . do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I would give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.” – Robert Bolt / Sir Thomas More	added by BLAZERMAN 2 years ago
Your disappearance will not be the silence or absence of your love and compassion for others. Just stay upright, humble and balanced. – Clifford Villalon	added by anonymous 3 years ago
Journalism can be expressed in many ways. Broadcasting is not a medium to denigrate anyone. I was part of journalism sometime ago. My purpose of living still remain unchanged -- to stay upright and balanced. – Clifford V. Villalon	added by anonymous 3 years ago
Tis the upright mind that holds true sovereignty. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca	added by Normando 3 years ago
I took a shot on one of the first plays. After that, it was tough. Using running back Josh Jacobs and a short passing game, Carr controlled the clock in the second half and kept the ball away from the Browns( 5-3). On the Raiders first two drives after halftime, the first leading to their go-ahead TD and the other to Carlsons 24-yard field goal with 4:24 left, they ate up 17:41. Oakland had the ball for 37:43 to 22:17 for Cleveland. Josh Jacobs finished with a career-high 128 yards 80 in the second half on 31 carries. Last week, Josh Jacobs had just 17 yards on 10 attempts. It was about time we had a run game like that, Josh Jacobs said. It feels good to be that dominant. The Raiders defense did The Raiders defense part as Las Vegas stopped Las Vegas NFL record of allowing at least 10 points at 116 straight games. Baker Mayfield couldnt get anything going with Clevelands offense, which was without star receiver Odell Beckham Jr., who suffered a season-ending knee injury last week. Baker Mayfield, who completed 21 passes in a row in the win over Cincinnati a week ago, went 12 of 25 for 122 yards. Mayfields last throw toward Jarvis Landry in the end zone was incomplete with 1:58 left, and Cody Parkey missed a 37-yard field goal to end Clevelands chances. Cody Parkey did make kicks of 41 and 38 yards. Theweather was brutal. The wind, measured from the west at 35 mph at kickoff, made it difficult for both quarterbacks to throw ; affected every punt and kick ; and forced the 12,000 fans to bundle up as it felt more like a game in late December or in Cleveland, early May. Im from the beach, Renfrow said. That was more wind than a hurricane it seemed like. It was coming sideways, backwards and forward. Carr did an excellent job managing the clock in the final minute of the first half to set up Carlsons 33-yard field goal as time expired to put The Raiders up 6-3. The Raiders appeared to take the lead in the second quarter when Carr connected with Henry Ruggs III in the back right corner of the end zone. However, Ruggs was ruled out of bounds and the call was upheld following a video review and Raiders challenge. Las Vegas settled for Carlsons 29-yard field goal to tie Las Vegas 3-3. Earlier, Carlsonhad a 41-yard attemptat the opposite end of the field blown sideways and the ball clanged off the left upright. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Myles Garrett SLOWED Myles Garrett was limited by an ankle injury that kept Myles Garrett out of practice this week, and now hes dealing with a knee issue. At one point, Myles Garrett was evaluated in the medical tent but came back. Myles Garrett was kept out on several plays, and lacked Myles Garrett usual explosiveness off the line. We havent made excuses and were not going to start now. Its a next-man-up league. – Myles Garrett	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
He's trying to swim. He's trying to get in a position to get upright. There's a lot of people playing. I think he gets lost in the confusion. – Livonia Police Capt. Ron Taig	Found on CNN 4 years ago
David Olney was very still, sitting upright with David Olney guitar on, wearing the coolest hat and a beautiful rust suede jacket... I just want the picture to be as graceful and dignified as it was, because it at first looked like David Olney was just taking a moment. – Amy Rigby	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright. – Murray N. Rothbard	added by Normando 4 years ago
I first met her during a protest in 2012 and she was sitting up straight even in the rain as she spoke about her struggle, upright, dignified - that's how she always was, first as a victim and later as a human rights activist. She's a role model I respect the most. – Kim Sam	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The evolution of sauropods isn't quite as straightforward as we once thought, it appears that sauropodomorphs evolved four-legged postures at least twice before they gained the ability to walk with upright limbs, which undoubtedly helped make them so successful in an evolutionary sense. – Jonah Choiniere	Found on CNN 5 years ago
So they hear a noise and they look back and there’s Canley. He’s walking down, upright, not running, walks over the little berm, picks up the first guy, throws him over his shoulder and walks back, so there’s two independent eyewitnesses on this. ... Canley says to them, individually, ‘Keep down, there’s a lot of incoming.’. – John Ligato	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Understanding if climbing was part of a species' adaptation and to what extent are crucial, that tells us a lot about its ecology and the type of selection forces that were acting on it. The new study supports many previous studies that the foot in A. afarensis was adapted for upright walking and was largely human-like. It also reveals that a few features, especially mobility, are a bit different. – Zeresenay Alemseged	Found on CNN 5 years ago
In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is character and expression. Well, there is nothing in nature which has more character than the human body. In its strength and its grace it evokes the most varied images. One moment it resembles a flower: the bending torso is the stalk; the breasts, the head, and the splendor of the hair answer to the blossoming of the corolla. The next moment it recalls the pliant creeper, or the proud and upright sapling. – Auguste Rodin	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
Interesting enough, at that point, they started reporting that they had a very different experience— [they were] feeling the tactile feedback, even in virtual reality, telling them, ‘I know I’m upright and standing, but it feels like my legs are moving,’. – Miguel Nicolelis	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The lines on the ground are putting strain on other pylons so Ukrenergo is interested in fixing the lines so that the pylons are upright and the lines taut. – Yuri Kasich	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Our upright wasn't much of a piano — it was a half-step flat the entire time we owned it — but that piano was everything to me. It was dark mahogany, almost black, with rouge crimps all over it. I took about eight piano lessons before my teacher gave up on me. I loved boogie-woogie and hillbilly music and gospel too much. – Allen Toussaint	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The target identified by Orion (side-scan radar) is consistent with a 790-foot cargo ship, which from sonar images appears to be in an upright position and in one piece. – The NTSB	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Our science has known for decades that upright walking, bipedalism, preceded brain enlargement over the course of human evolution. But never before has it been so obvious. Homo naledi possessed a strikingly modern human-like foot, even though its brain was only about one-third the size of our brains today. – Dartmouth College anthropologist Jeremy DeSilva	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The reason that we can't understand these motions; the brain if you like can't understand these motions, is that there's continual conflict between what is upright and whether you should lean to balance yourself in the environment or whether you're actually experiencing a sideways acceleration force. You imagine being on a bicycle or a motorbike; you go round a corner, you lean into the corner which remains perfectly upright in physics. You don't so that in a car, you don't do that on a ship - you're actually struggling to find out what is upright and what's the best way of dealing with it. – Michael Gresty	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The message of Leonidas - Molon Labe( Come and get it) - is as timely today as ever for everything tormenting Greece, we're not like everyone else with heads bowed down. We're upright, we're standing and the message will be delivered on Sept. 20... We must not surrender arms. We must not back down. – Eleftherios Synadinos	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Many people in Germany and Europe are mourning this courageous, upright and great Social Democrat, the architect of German unity, a politician who worked for peace, and a European, the Ostpolitik of Willy Brandt and Egon Bahr was a crucial condition for overcoming the division of Germany and Europe. – Sigmar Gabriel	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It’s not just that standing and sitting upright looks better. When you slouch forward at your desk, you are putting almost twice as much strain on the disks than if you were sitting straight up. – Kee Kim	Found on FOX News 8 years ago

These footprints demonstrate that the evolution of upright walking was more complicated and more interesting than we previously thought.

– Jeremy DeSilva

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He has some surprising pop. He's really good when he's upright like he was today. i just want to make sure I'm getting something in the zone.

– La Stella

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons . . . And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, . . . the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down . . . do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I would give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.”

– Robert Bolt / Sir Thomas More

added by BLAZERMAN
2 years ago

Your disappearance will not be the silence or absence of your love and compassion for others. Just stay upright, humble and balanced.

– Clifford Villalon

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Journalism can be expressed in many ways. Broadcasting is not a medium to denigrate anyone. I was part of journalism sometime ago. My purpose of living still remain unchanged -- to stay upright and balanced.

– Clifford V. Villalon

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Tis the upright mind that holds true sovereignty.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

added by Normando
3 years ago

I took a shot on one of the first plays. After that, it was tough. Using running back Josh Jacobs and a short passing game, Carr controlled the clock in the second half and kept the ball away from the Browns( 5-3). On the Raiders first two drives after halftime, the first leading to their go-ahead TD and the other to Carlsons 24-yard field goal with 4:24 left, they ate up 17:41. Oakland had the ball for 37:43 to 22:17 for Cleveland. Josh Jacobs finished with a career-high 128 yards 80 in the second half on 31 carries. Last week, Josh Jacobs had just 17 yards on 10 attempts. It was about time we had a run game like that, Josh Jacobs said. It feels good to be that dominant. The Raiders defense did The Raiders defense part as Las Vegas stopped Las Vegas NFL record of allowing at least 10 points at 116 straight games. Baker Mayfield couldnt get anything going with Clevelands offense, which was without star receiver Odell Beckham Jr., who suffered a season-ending knee injury last week. Baker Mayfield, who completed 21 passes in a row in the win over Cincinnati a week ago, went 12 of 25 for 122 yards. Mayfields last throw toward Jarvis Landry in the end zone was incomplete with 1:58 left, and Cody Parkey missed a 37-yard field goal to end Clevelands chances. Cody Parkey did make kicks of 41 and 38 yards. Theweather was brutal. The wind, measured from the west at 35 mph at kickoff, made it difficult for both quarterbacks to throw ; affected every punt and kick ; and forced the 12,000 fans to bundle up as it felt more like a game in late December or in Cleveland, early May. Im from the beach, Renfrow said. That was more wind than a hurricane it seemed like. It was coming sideways, backwards and forward. Carr did an excellent job managing the clock in the final minute of the first half to set up Carlsons 33-yard field goal as time expired to put The Raiders up 6-3. The Raiders appeared to take the lead in the second quarter when Carr connected with Henry Ruggs III in the back right corner of the end zone. However, Ruggs was ruled out of bounds and the call was upheld following a video review and Raiders challenge. Las Vegas settled for Carlsons 29-yard field goal to tie Las Vegas 3-3. Earlier, Carlsonhad a 41-yard attemptat the opposite end of the field blown sideways and the ball clanged off the left upright. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Myles Garrett SLOWED Myles Garrett was limited by an ankle injury that kept Myles Garrett out of practice this week, and now hes dealing with a knee issue. At one point, Myles Garrett was evaluated in the medical tent but came back. Myles Garrett was kept out on several plays, and lacked Myles Garrett usual explosiveness off the line. We havent made excuses and were not going to start now. Its a next-man-up league.

– Myles Garrett

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

He's trying to swim. He's trying to get in a position to get upright. There's a lot of people playing. I think he gets lost in the confusion.

– Livonia Police Capt. Ron Taig

Found on CNN
4 years ago

David Olney was very still, sitting upright with David Olney guitar on, wearing the coolest hat and a beautiful rust suede jacket... I just want the picture to be as graceful and dignified as it was, because it at first looked like David Olney was just taking a moment.

– Amy Rigby

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

– Murray N. Rothbard

added by Normando
4 years ago

I first met her during a protest in 2012 and she was sitting up straight even in the rain as she spoke about her struggle, upright, dignified - that's how she always was, first as a victim and later as a human rights activist. She's a role model I respect the most.

– Kim Sam

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The evolution of sauropods isn't quite as straightforward as we once thought, it appears that sauropodomorphs evolved four-legged postures at least twice before they gained the ability to walk with upright limbs, which undoubtedly helped make them so successful in an evolutionary sense.

– Jonah Choiniere

Found on CNN
5 years ago

So they hear a noise and they look back and there’s Canley. He’s walking down, upright, not running, walks over the little berm, picks up the first guy, throws him over his shoulder and walks back, so there’s two independent eyewitnesses on this. ... Canley says to them, individually, ‘Keep down, there’s a lot of incoming.’.

– John Ligato

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Understanding if climbing was part of a species' adaptation and to what extent are crucial, that tells us a lot about its ecology and the type of selection forces that were acting on it. The new study supports many previous studies that the foot in A. afarensis was adapted for upright walking and was largely human-like. It also reveals that a few features, especially mobility, are a bit different.

– Zeresenay Alemseged

Found on CNN
5 years ago

In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is character and expression. Well, there is nothing in nature which has more character than the human body. In its strength and its grace it evokes the most varied images. One moment it resembles a flower: the bending torso is the stalk; the breasts, the head, and the splendor of the hair answer to the blossoming of the corolla. The next moment it recalls the pliant creeper, or the proud and upright sapling.

– Auguste Rodin

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

Interesting enough, at that point, they started reporting that they had a very different experience— [they were] feeling the tactile feedback, even in virtual reality, telling them, ‘I know I’m upright and standing, but it feels like my legs are moving,’.

– Miguel Nicolelis

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The lines on the ground are putting strain on other pylons so Ukrenergo is interested in fixing the lines so that the pylons are upright and the lines taut.

– Yuri Kasich

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our upright wasn't much of a piano — it was a half-step flat the entire time we owned it — but that piano was everything to me. It was dark mahogany, almost black, with rouge crimps all over it. I took about eight piano lessons before my teacher gave up on me. I loved boogie-woogie and hillbilly music and gospel too much.

– Allen Toussaint

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The target identified by Orion (side-scan radar) is consistent with a 790-foot cargo ship, which from sonar images appears to be in an upright position and in one piece.

– The NTSB

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Our science has known for decades that upright walking, bipedalism, preceded brain enlargement over the course of human evolution. But never before has it been so obvious. Homo naledi possessed a strikingly modern human-like foot, even though its brain was only about one-third the size of our brains today.

– Dartmouth College anthropologist Jeremy DeSilva

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The reason that we can't understand these motions; the brain if you like can't understand these motions, is that there's continual conflict between what is upright and whether you should lean to balance yourself in the environment or whether you're actually experiencing a sideways acceleration force. You imagine being on a bicycle or a motorbike; you go round a corner, you lean into the corner which remains perfectly upright in physics. You don't so that in a car, you don't do that on a ship - you're actually struggling to find out what is upright and what's the best way of dealing with it.

– Michael Gresty

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The message of Leonidas - Molon Labe( Come and get it) - is as timely today as ever for everything tormenting Greece, we're not like everyone else with heads bowed down. We're upright, we're standing and the message will be delivered on Sept. 20... We must not surrender arms. We must not back down.

– Eleftherios Synadinos

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Many people in Germany and Europe are mourning this courageous, upright and great Social Democrat, the architect of German unity, a politician who worked for peace, and a European, the Ostpolitik of Willy Brandt and Egon Bahr was a crucial condition for overcoming the division of Germany and Europe.

– Sigmar Gabriel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It’s not just that standing and sitting upright looks better. When you slouch forward at your desk, you are putting almost twice as much strain on the disks than if you were sitting straight up.

– Kee Kim

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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