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It's hard to see how impoverished people, unfamiliar with the workings of this government, of this country, are going to find lawyers, it seems like a pyrrhic offering to say that an individual hearing is of any benefit to them. – Sonia Sotomayor	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Since its first orbit in 2016, Juno has delivered one revelation after another about the inner workings of this massive gas giant. – Scott Bolton	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Everyone is going to have an opinion on this as they do for a variety of different things, the recommendations put forward we know is a value-driven thing about making cricket as inclusive as we can. This isn’t a tokenistic ‘let’s grab a headline.’ This is just our day-to-day workings. – Mel Jones	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The recommendations put forward we know is a value-driven thing about making cricket as inclusive as we can. This isn’t a tokenistic ‘let’s grab a headline.’ This is just our day-to-day workings. – Mel Jones	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Much of the story of this last administration and the next couple of months is a disdain for the workings of government, it's almost as if it's a determination that they want to wreck government and make it as hard as possible for government to do its job. The problem is that leaves a lot of people dead, as we've seen with the virus. – Michael Chertoff	Found on CNN 3 years ago
These clearly false allegations are in complete contradiction to both the inner workings of our Senate office and to the man I know and worked so closely with for almost two decades. i clearly would remember if we -- that is, if Tara and myself -- had any kind of conversation regarding sexual harassment allegations, let alone something involving Sen. Biden. It would stick in my mind. It would be burned in my mind. – Dennis Toner	Found on CNN 3 years ago
In all my years working for Senator Joe Biden, I never once witnessed, or heard of, or received, any reports of inappropriate conduct, period -- not from Ms. Tara Reade, not from anyone. I have absolutely no knowledge or memory of Ms. Reade's accounting of events, which would have left a searing impression on me as a woman professional, and as a manager, these clearly false allegations are in complete contradiction to both the inner workings of our Senate office and to the man I know and worked so closely with for almost two decades. – Marianne Baker	Found on CNN 3 years ago
In all my years working for Senator Biden, I never once witnessed, or heard of, or received, any reports of inappropriate conduct, period -- not from Ms. Reade, not from anyone. I have absolutely no knowledge or memory of Ms. Reade's accounting of events, which would have left a searing impression on me as a woman professional, and as a manager, these clearly false allegations are in complete contradiction to both the inner workings of our Senate office and to the man I know and worked so closely with for almost two decades. – Marianne Baker	Found on CNN 3 years ago
In all my years working for Senator Vice President Biden, I never once witnessed, or heard of, or received, any reports of inappropriate conduct, period -- not from Ms. Tara Reade, not from anyone. I have absolutely no knowledge or memory of Ms. Reade's accounting of events, which would have left a searing impression on me as a woman professional, and as a manager, these clearly false allegations are in complete contradiction to both the inner workings of our Senate office and to the man I know and worked so closely with for almost two decades. – Marianne Baker	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Several former U.S. officials said the half brother, who had lived outside of North Korea for many years and had no known power base in Pyongyang, was unlikely to be able to provide details of the secretive country's inner workings. – The Journal	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
But the census question -- which has appeared in one form or another on the census for over a hundred years -- is either legal or illegal. The words on the page don't have a motive ; they are either permitted or they are not, but the judge has decided to hold a trial over the inner workings of a cabinet secretary's mind. – Jeff Sessions	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The addition of Marc Short, a senior Trump Administration official with intimate knowledge of interactions between White House and Congress, deepens our scholarly inquiries into the workings of the American presidency. And Marc Short presence reinforces our commitment to nonpartisan and bipartisan dialogue among scholars and practitioners of good will who may nevertheless hold strongly opposing personal political viewpoints, moreover, Marc Short can offer insights into the Trump Administration that are not currently available to our scholars or the public at large. – Howard Witt	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
My honest answer to that would be no because of a couple of things, first of all, it’s a language barrier. Because of that, I think he ca n’t be a guy that would sort of sit in a circle with four, five American players and talk about the game. Or try and learn about the game or discuss the inner workings of the game. Or come over to a guy and say, ‘ Man, you got ta run that ball out. ’ Just ca n’t be — because of the language barrier — that kind of a player. – Mike Schmidt	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We finally have a target to point our telescopes at, and [can] dig much deeper into the workings of a rocky exoplanet, and what makes it tick, this planet is going to be a favorite target of astronomers for years to come. – Zachory Berta-Thompson	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
In a lot of cases the idea that an agent knows the club very well, and knows the inner workings of the chief executive, chief scout, sporting director, managing director etc. can work to the advantage of the player, there is no doubt that there's always going to be few high profile guys doing the biggest deals, it's as simple as that. – Daniel Geey	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Sunnyside mine workings have no physical connection to the Gold King and such a connection never existed, sunnyside is not the cause of the water buildup at Gold King. – Kevin Roach	Found on CNN 8 years ago
In a mechanical sense, Grexit would disturb the workings and the structure of the European Union more (than Brexit), but for the spirit and future perspective and meaningfulness of the European Union, Brexit is the bigger risk. – Hans Jaeckel	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We could be here for days, and you still would not understand all the inner workings of Brynn and all of her medical issues, but I think the underlying one is the mast cell disease, which is a beast, and continues to become a bigger beast, day by day. – Melissa Duncan	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Karin Laub will give AP's customers valuable insight into the inner workings, and also fears, of a country that has traditionally been a rock of stability but that is now faced with the considerable threat of the Islamic State group on its doorstep. – Ian Phillips	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul. – Leo Tolstoy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The mind is, by far, the most complex tool ever created. The day we’ll discover every minutia of its inner workings is the day we’ll know everything there is to know about this universe. – Ahmed Korayem	added by anonymous 11 years ago
They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts. – Henry Bromel	added by anonymous 14 years ago

It's hard to see how impoverished people, unfamiliar with the workings of this government, of this country, are going to find lawyers, it seems like a pyrrhic offering to say that an individual hearing is of any benefit to them.

– Sonia Sotomayor

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Since its first orbit in 2016, Juno has delivered one revelation after another about the inner workings of this massive gas giant.

– Scott Bolton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Everyone is going to have an opinion on this as they do for a variety of different things, the recommendations put forward we know is a value-driven thing about making cricket as inclusive as we can. This isn’t a tokenistic ‘let’s grab a headline.’ This is just our day-to-day workings.

– Mel Jones

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The recommendations put forward we know is a value-driven thing about making cricket as inclusive as we can. This isn’t a tokenistic ‘let’s grab a headline.’ This is just our day-to-day workings.

– Mel Jones

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Much of the story of this last administration and the next couple of months is a disdain for the workings of government, it's almost as if it's a determination that they want to wreck government and make it as hard as possible for government to do its job. The problem is that leaves a lot of people dead, as we've seen with the virus.

– Michael Chertoff

Found on CNN
3 years ago

These clearly false allegations are in complete contradiction to both the inner workings of our Senate office and to the man I know and worked so closely with for almost two decades. i clearly would remember if we -- that is, if Tara and myself -- had any kind of conversation regarding sexual harassment allegations, let alone something involving Sen. Biden. It would stick in my mind. It would be burned in my mind.

– Dennis Toner

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In all my years working for Senator Joe Biden, I never once witnessed, or heard of, or received, any reports of inappropriate conduct, period -- not from Ms. Tara Reade, not from anyone. I have absolutely no knowledge or memory of Ms. Reade's accounting of events, which would have left a searing impression on me as a woman professional, and as a manager, these clearly false allegations are in complete contradiction to both the inner workings of our Senate office and to the man I know and worked so closely with for almost two decades.

– Marianne Baker

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In all my years working for Senator Biden, I never once witnessed, or heard of, or received, any reports of inappropriate conduct, period -- not from Ms. Reade, not from anyone. I have absolutely no knowledge or memory of Ms. Reade's accounting of events, which would have left a searing impression on me as a woman professional, and as a manager, these clearly false allegations are in complete contradiction to both the inner workings of our Senate office and to the man I know and worked so closely with for almost two decades.

– Marianne Baker

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In all my years working for Senator Vice President Biden, I never once witnessed, or heard of, or received, any reports of inappropriate conduct, period -- not from Ms. Tara Reade, not from anyone. I have absolutely no knowledge or memory of Ms. Reade's accounting of events, which would have left a searing impression on me as a woman professional, and as a manager, these clearly false allegations are in complete contradiction to both the inner workings of our Senate office and to the man I know and worked so closely with for almost two decades.

– Marianne Baker

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Several former U.S. officials said the half brother, who had lived outside of North Korea for many years and had no known power base in Pyongyang, was unlikely to be able to provide details of the secretive country's inner workings.

– The Journal

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

But the census question -- which has appeared in one form or another on the census for over a hundred years -- is either legal or illegal. The words on the page don't have a motive ; they are either permitted or they are not, but the judge has decided to hold a trial over the inner workings of a cabinet secretary's mind.

– Jeff Sessions

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The addition of Marc Short, a senior Trump Administration official with intimate knowledge of interactions between White House and Congress, deepens our scholarly inquiries into the workings of the American presidency. And Marc Short presence reinforces our commitment to nonpartisan and bipartisan dialogue among scholars and practitioners of good will who may nevertheless hold strongly opposing personal political viewpoints, moreover, Marc Short can offer insights into the Trump Administration that are not currently available to our scholars or the public at large.

– Howard Witt

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

My honest answer to that would be no because of a couple of things, first of all, it’s a language barrier. Because of that, I think he ca n’t be a guy that would sort of sit in a circle with four, five American players and talk about the game. Or try and learn about the game or discuss the inner workings of the game. Or come over to a guy and say, ‘ Man, you got ta run that ball out. ’ Just ca n’t be — because of the language barrier — that kind of a player.

– Mike Schmidt

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We finally have a target to point our telescopes at, and [can] dig much deeper into the workings of a rocky exoplanet, and what makes it tick, this planet is going to be a favorite target of astronomers for years to come.

– Zachory Berta-Thompson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

In a lot of cases the idea that an agent knows the club very well, and knows the inner workings of the chief executive, chief scout, sporting director, managing director etc. can work to the advantage of the player, there is no doubt that there's always going to be few high profile guys doing the biggest deals, it's as simple as that.

– Daniel Geey

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Sunnyside mine workings have no physical connection to the Gold King and such a connection never existed, sunnyside is not the cause of the water buildup at Gold King.

– Kevin Roach

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In a mechanical sense, Grexit would disturb the workings and the structure of the European Union more (than Brexit), but for the spirit and future perspective and meaningfulness of the European Union, Brexit is the bigger risk.

– Hans Jaeckel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We could be here for days, and you still would not understand all the inner workings of Brynn and all of her medical issues, but I think the underlying one is the mast cell disease, which is a beast, and continues to become a bigger beast, day by day.

– Melissa Duncan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Karin Laub will give AP's customers valuable insight into the inner workings, and also fears, of a country that has traditionally been a rock of stability but that is now faced with the considerable threat of the Islamic State group on its doorstep.

– Ian Phillips

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

– Leo Tolstoy

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The mind is, by far, the most complex tool ever created. The day we’ll discover every minutia of its inner workings is the day we’ll know everything there is to know about this universe.

– Ahmed Korayem

added by anonymous
11 years ago

They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

– Henry Bromel

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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