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By bending to the callous whims of Republican governors in Texas, Arizona and Florida as this country gears up for midterm elections, the Biden Administration has taken multiple steps backwards in time to the cruel immigration policies of Donald Trump. – Murad Awawdeh	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Gas prices can not continue to be dependent on the whims of autocrats like Putin who can weaponize oil against us. – Raul Ruiz	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The market's not really trading on fundamentals anymore. It's trading on the whims of the war and a guessing game, you have the fog of war and then you also have the fog of energy market. – Joe McMonigle	Found on CNN 2 years ago
And so this will give us more people to be able to do things like respond if there's disorder, like respond to disasters and all those other things. It also gives us the ability to have people who are not subject to federal requirements. So, for example, [the federal government] wouldn't be able to mobilize and deploy people who are in the State Guard, they also wouldn't be able to impose mandates on people in the State Guard. They are trying to do that with the federal guard. And so I think it will help us complete our mission and will also allow us to do in a way which is not subject to the whims of the federal government. – Ron DeSantis	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Without a shred of clinical data to support this action, Biden has forced trained medical professionals to choose between treating their patients or breaking the law, this indefensible edict takes treatment out of the hands of medical professionals and will cost some Americans their lives. There are real-world implications to Biden’s medical authoritarianism – Americans’ access to treatments is now subject to the whims of a failing president. – Ron DeSantis	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If they're asserting the Fifth merely to cater to the President's whims or cover up for the President, that is not a proper use of the privilege, but we will have to do our best to divine whether they're properly invoking the Fifth or using it as a stratagem to keep information. – Marc Short	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's important for investors to know that, because companies that are ultimately controlled by a foreign government are subject to the political whims of that government. – Van Hollen	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We would need to work on getting overall costs down to make such drugs or Americans would need to be willing to pay more, i believe they would if they knew that China could stop their medications from being produced at a moments notice that is worth paying an extra cost as we know that if drugs are made at home, they would not be subject to the whims of a dictatorship that has millions of people in concentration camps due to their religious beliefs. – Harry Kazianis	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Facebooks governance structure is a threat to the civil rights of its Black users and to the financial interests of its shareholders, lasting change to address the misinformation, discrimination, violent movements and data breaches that put users, especially Black users, at risk cannot be subject to the whims of a single person....Shareholder value is threatened by the companys failure to make fixing civil rights violations an operational priority. – Rashad Robinson	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Xerox has recently been subject to the whims of activist investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason, who, notwithstanding their minority ownership of Xerox shares, have yanked the Xerox Board in more directions than can be counted. – Fujifilm Holdings Corp	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Our constitutional liberties should not be subject to the whims of the current administration, and – whether Hobby Lobby or the Little Sisters of the Poor – people of faith should not be made to bow down at the altar of political correctness. – Ted Cruz	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Instead of adjusting monetary policy according to whims and getting it wrong over and over again and causing booms and busts, what the Fed should be doing is, number one, keeping our money tied to a stable level of gold. – Ted Cruz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We need to make sure they tie the monetary standard to something that makes sense instead of their own whims. – Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Oil and rapeseed meal of transgenic rapeseed have been consumed very extensively from 1996 onwards (outside India), if in spite of all this the material (GM mustard) is not released - that means we have fallen prey to whims and fancies of extreme ideologues. – Deepak Pental	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We can not leave this area and the people who live there to whims of fate, to let the people of Black Sea be thrown under the wheels of this nationalist bulldozer, i set certain tasks, I did say, what and how we should do, but immediately stressed that we would do so only if we are absolutely convinced that the people who live in Black Sea want Black Sea. – President Vladimir Putin	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The Texas Constitution clearly defines marriage as between one man and one woman, as Texas voters approved by an overwhelming majority, the law of Texas has not changed, and will not change due to the whims of any individual judge or county clerk operating on their own capacity anywhere in Texas. Activist judges don't change Texas law, and we will continue to aggressively defend the laws of our state and will ensure that any licenses issued contrary to law are invalid. – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The law of Texas has not changed, and will not change due to the whims of any individual judge or county clerk operating on their own capacity anywhere in Texas. – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me. – Thomas Merton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult. – Nadia Boulanger	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination. – Marquis de Sade	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles - Calvin – Bill Watterson	added by anonymous 14 years ago

By bending to the callous whims of Republican governors in Texas, Arizona and Florida as this country gears up for midterm elections, the Biden Administration has taken multiple steps backwards in time to the cruel immigration policies of Donald Trump.

– Murad Awawdeh

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Gas prices can not continue to be dependent on the whims of autocrats like Putin who can weaponize oil against us.

– Raul Ruiz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The market's not really trading on fundamentals anymore. It's trading on the whims of the war and a guessing game, you have the fog of war and then you also have the fog of energy market.

– Joe McMonigle

Found on CNN
2 years ago

And so this will give us more people to be able to do things like respond if there's disorder, like respond to disasters and all those other things. It also gives us the ability to have people who are not subject to federal requirements. So, for example, [the federal government] wouldn't be able to mobilize and deploy people who are in the State Guard, they also wouldn't be able to impose mandates on people in the State Guard. They are trying to do that with the federal guard. And so I think it will help us complete our mission and will also allow us to do in a way which is not subject to the whims of the federal government.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Without a shred of clinical data to support this action, Biden has forced trained medical professionals to choose between treating their patients or breaking the law, this indefensible edict takes treatment out of the hands of medical professionals and will cost some Americans their lives. There are real-world implications to Biden’s medical authoritarianism – Americans’ access to treatments is now subject to the whims of a failing president.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If they're asserting the Fifth merely to cater to the President's whims or cover up for the President, that is not a proper use of the privilege, but we will have to do our best to divine whether they're properly invoking the Fifth or using it as a stratagem to keep information.

– Marc Short

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's important for investors to know that, because companies that are ultimately controlled by a foreign government are subject to the political whims of that government.

– Van Hollen

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We would need to work on getting overall costs down to make such drugs or Americans would need to be willing to pay more, i believe they would if they knew that China could stop their medications from being produced at a moments notice that is worth paying an extra cost as we know that if drugs are made at home, they would not be subject to the whims of a dictatorship that has millions of people in concentration camps due to their religious beliefs.

– Harry Kazianis

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Facebooks governance structure is a threat to the civil rights of its Black users and to the financial interests of its shareholders, lasting change to address the misinformation, discrimination, violent movements and data breaches that put users, especially Black users, at risk cannot be subject to the whims of a single person....Shareholder value is threatened by the companys failure to make fixing civil rights violations an operational priority.

– Rashad Robinson

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Xerox has recently been subject to the whims of activist investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason, who, notwithstanding their minority ownership of Xerox shares, have yanked the Xerox Board in more directions than can be counted.

– Fujifilm Holdings Corp

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Our constitutional liberties should not be subject to the whims of the current administration, and – whether Hobby Lobby or the Little Sisters of the Poor – people of faith should not be made to bow down at the altar of political correctness.

– Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Instead of adjusting monetary policy according to whims and getting it wrong over and over again and causing booms and busts, what the Fed should be doing is, number one, keeping our money tied to a stable level of gold.

– Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We need to make sure they tie the monetary standard to something that makes sense instead of their own whims.

– Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Oil and rapeseed meal of transgenic rapeseed have been consumed very extensively from 1996 onwards (outside India), if in spite of all this the material (GM mustard) is not released - that means we have fallen prey to whims and fancies of extreme ideologues.

– Deepak Pental

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We can not leave this area and the people who live there to whims of fate, to let the people of Black Sea be thrown under the wheels of this nationalist bulldozer, i set certain tasks, I did say, what and how we should do, but immediately stressed that we would do so only if we are absolutely convinced that the people who live in Black Sea want Black Sea.

– President Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The Texas Constitution clearly defines marriage as between one man and one woman, as Texas voters approved by an overwhelming majority, the law of Texas has not changed, and will not change due to the whims of any individual judge or county clerk operating on their own capacity anywhere in Texas. Activist judges don't change Texas law, and we will continue to aggressively defend the laws of our state and will ensure that any licenses issued contrary to law are invalid.

– Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The law of Texas has not changed, and will not change due to the whims of any individual judge or county clerk operating on their own capacity anywhere in Texas.

– Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

– Thomas Merton

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

– Nadia Boulanger

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.

– Marquis de Sade

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles - Calvin

– Bill Watterson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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