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They have nothing left if Google is in that position, or Amazon, i think the airlines are being very watchful over this. – Travelport Chief Executive Gordon Wilson	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The City of Laramie will remain watchful for and vigilant against any other use of hateful Nazi symbols or propaganda, our community has been touched by hate before and we will not stand for it again. – Andrea Summerville	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There are times for some prostate cancer patients when watchful waiting is by far the best option. – Ben Pfeiffer	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I'm a little bit suspicious of these – of this activity, just because there is such a vast difference between the two countries – or the two regions, two cultures, so, we keep an – we keep a watchful eye on them. – John Kelly	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
You will see minimal investment going to the UK in the short term, (then) a watchful period to see how Britain and Europe negotiate the exit. – Myron Brilliant	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We are keeping a watchful eye. We don't necessarily expect to have the bottom fall out as it did in other areas during the recession. – Comptroller Thomas Curry	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Having more sets of eyes on older kids is always better, here’s the difference between helicopter parenting and involved parenting. Are the eyes on the kid aggressive eyes, or watchful eyes? – Jon Mattleman	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I think on the consumer side, they need to be really watchful of what is actually contained in their plans and what they’re getting. – Stephen Dorner	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Our primary goals in assessing this situation are limiting any safety risks and avoiding disruption to learning and teaching, while we are confident the responding team of law enforcement agencies has kept a watchful eye over our community and is diligently investigating the threat, it has become clear this incident continues to be unsettling to a number of our students, faculty and staff. – President Michael Benson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Residents need to keep a watchful eye and report any suspicious activity, anything out of the ordinary. The public can help. If they see something unusual, report it. – Detective Christopher Covelli	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
A slow day, nothing much is happening as investors are on a watchful note. They are waiting to see the direction of the market interest rates and the exchange rate. – Dimantha Mathew	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is important to discuss potential side effects associated with different treatment options, if a man is sexually active, he might prioritize treatments with less risk of side effects or go for 'watchful waiting' (i.e. no treatment) whereas others may prioritize local treatment and potentially improved survival. – Katrina Balter	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If a man is sexually active, he might prioritize treatments with less risk of side effects or go for 'watchful waiting' (i.e. no treatment) whereas others may prioritize local treatment and potentially improved survival. – Katrina Balter	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We need to be very watchful, we need to be careful. – Nasir Khan Durrani	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The Executive is charged officially in the Departments under it with the disbursement of the public money, and is responsible for the faithful application of it to the purposes for which it is raised. The Legislature is the watchful guardian over the public purse. It is its duty to see that the disbursement has been honestly made. – James Monroe	added by anonymous 9 years ago
‘On September 7 1944 we were moved to the prison on the Weteringschans, and I was put in the same cell as those sentenced to death. This was followed, four days later on September 11, by a transport to the concentration camp in Amersfoort, where I was selected for transport to Germany. Luckily, this transport did not take place. Shortly before New Year the prisoners, myself included, were moved to Wageningen where we were similarly put to work digging under the watchful eye of the Germans. As we approached Zevenaar the vehicles accompanying us were attacked from the air, fired on by British Spitfires. Unfortunately, a few people were killed. I made use of the confusion and escaped into a field. I hid for a few days by a farmer. Once, in Barneveld, I almost fell into German hands again during a raid by the Nazi secret police. Still, I finally arrived home in Hilversum on Good Friday and I decided it was necessary, until the eventual liberation, to build a hiding place. So I had been awa – Victor Kugler	added by anonymous 10 years ago
To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind. – Meister Eckhart	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There are times when fear is good It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain. – John Updike	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain. – Aeschylus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack. – Steven Runciman	added by anonymous 14 years ago

They have nothing left if Google is in that position, or Amazon, i think the airlines are being very watchful over this.

– Travelport Chief Executive Gordon Wilson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The City of Laramie will remain watchful for and vigilant against any other use of hateful Nazi symbols or propaganda, our community has been touched by hate before and we will not stand for it again.

– Andrea Summerville

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There are times for some prostate cancer patients when watchful waiting is by far the best option.

– Ben Pfeiffer

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I'm a little bit suspicious of these – of this activity, just because there is such a vast difference between the two countries – or the two regions, two cultures, so, we keep an – we keep a watchful eye on them.

– John Kelly

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

You will see minimal investment going to the UK in the short term, (then) a watchful period to see how Britain and Europe negotiate the exit.

– Myron Brilliant

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We are keeping a watchful eye. We don't necessarily expect to have the bottom fall out as it did in other areas during the recession.

– Comptroller Thomas Curry

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Having more sets of eyes on older kids is always better, here’s the difference between helicopter parenting and involved parenting. Are the eyes on the kid aggressive eyes, or watchful eyes?

– Jon Mattleman

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I think on the consumer side, they need to be really watchful of what is actually contained in their plans and what they’re getting.

– Stephen Dorner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our primary goals in assessing this situation are limiting any safety risks and avoiding disruption to learning and teaching, while we are confident the responding team of law enforcement agencies has kept a watchful eye over our community and is diligently investigating the threat, it has become clear this incident continues to be unsettling to a number of our students, faculty and staff.

– President Michael Benson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Residents need to keep a watchful eye and report any suspicious activity, anything out of the ordinary. The public can help. If they see something unusual, report it.

– Detective Christopher Covelli

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

A slow day, nothing much is happening as investors are on a watchful note. They are waiting to see the direction of the market interest rates and the exchange rate.

– Dimantha Mathew

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is important to discuss potential side effects associated with different treatment options, if a man is sexually active, he might prioritize treatments with less risk of side effects or go for 'watchful waiting' (i.e. no treatment) whereas others may prioritize local treatment and potentially improved survival.

– Katrina Balter

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If a man is sexually active, he might prioritize treatments with less risk of side effects or go for 'watchful waiting' (i.e. no treatment) whereas others may prioritize local treatment and potentially improved survival.

– Katrina Balter

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We need to be very watchful, we need to be careful.

– Nasir Khan Durrani

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The Executive is charged officially in the Departments under it with the disbursement of the public money, and is responsible for the faithful application of it to the purposes for which it is raised. The Legislature is the watchful guardian over the public purse. It is its duty to see that the disbursement has been honestly made.

– James Monroe

added by anonymous
9 years ago

‘On September 7 1944 we were moved to the prison on the Weteringschans, and I was put in the same cell as those sentenced to death. This was followed, four days later on September 11, by a transport to the concentration camp in Amersfoort, where I was selected for transport to Germany. Luckily, this transport did not take place. Shortly before New Year the prisoners, myself included, were moved to Wageningen where we were similarly put to work digging under the watchful eye of the Germans. As we approached Zevenaar the vehicles accompanying us were attacked from the air, fired on by British Spitfires. Unfortunately, a few people were killed. I made use of the confusion and escaped into a field. I hid for a few days by a farmer. Once, in Barneveld, I almost fell into German hands again during a raid by the Nazi secret police. Still, I finally arrived home in Hilversum on Good Friday and I decided it was necessary, until the eventual liberation, to build a hiding place. So I had been awa

– Victor Kugler

added by anonymous
10 years ago

To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

– Meister Eckhart

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There are times when fear is good It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

– John Updike

added by anonymous
14 years ago

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

– Aeschylus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.

– Steven Runciman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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