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It's like trying to measure the tiny motion of a firefly next to a bright light bulb, we had to meticulously subtract the light of the nearby bright star to precisely measure the deflection of the faint source. – Kailash Sahu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Then I just started to hear really faint gunshots, they really sound just like firecrackers, almost. – Brittany Allen	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We must pity the poor wretched, timid soul who is too faint-hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the song of the dammed: “I can’t fight back; I have too much to lose; I own too much property; I have worked too hard to get what I have; They will put me out of business if I resist; I might go to jail; I have my family to think about.” Such poor miserable creatures have misplaced values and are hiding their cowardice behind pretended family responsibility -- blindly refusing to see that the most glorious legacy that one can bequeath to posterity is liberty; and that the only true security is liberty. – Marvin Cooley	added by Normando 3 years ago
Entry, descent and landing is not for the faint of heart, make no mistake, we still have something to prove here on entry tomorrow. – Jim Chilton	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
By tracing the faint remains of these smaller galaxies with embedded star clusters, weve been able to recreate the way Andromeda drew them in and ultimately enveloped them at the different times. – Dougal Mackey	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
This is a tough thing to do, it is not for the faint of heart, but I'm doing it because I absolutely believe that we have to stand up. We have to stand up against hate. We have to stand up for the working families who aren't being listened to and aren't being represented -- families like the one I grew up in. – Shannon Hutcheson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The light from these galaxies is very faint with long wavelengths invisible to our eyes and undetectable by Hubble, so we turned to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array( ALMA), which is ideal for viewing these kinds of things. I have a long history with that facility and so knew it would deliver good results. – Kotaro Kohno	Found on CNN 4 years ago
She really believes she hears the faint cries of an infant. She summons her husband, who is a self-employed grading contractor. He arrives in the area and descends about a 75-foot ravine to find the child alone with a car seat over the bank. – Scott Fowler	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's not for the faint of heart, you need to have a flexible risk needle. The old school attitude of compliance being Doctor No really doesn't translate well to this industry. – Jeff Horowitz	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Its very faint, its on the edge of our ability to detect it. – Scott Sheppard	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
This is hot off the presses, it's very faint, on the edge of our ability to detect it. It was just discovered in our data from last month. – Scott Sheppard	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We came really close to missing it entirely, its too faint to see in a single Hubble [exposure]. – Mark Showalter	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Finding things close to home is very useful, it means they are not too faint nor too blurred for further detailed exploration, [an] astronomers dream. – Joo Alves	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We think there could be thousands of small bodies like 2015 TG387 out on the Solar System's fringes, but their distance makes finding them very difficult, currently we would only detect 2015 TG387 when it is near its closest approach to the Sun. For some 99 percent of its 40,000-year orbit, it would be too faint to see. – David Tholen	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's not so much a smoking gun as a faint whiff of smoke a long way away. Maybe there's something else going on. It's hard to tell. – Richard Clayton of Cambridge University	Found on CNN 7 years ago
This discovery implies hundreds of faint dwarf satellites waiting to be discovered in the halo of the Milky Way, how many satellites are indeed there and what properties they have, will give us an important clue of understanding how the Milky Way formed and how dark matter contributed to it. – Masashi Chiba	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Damning w[sic] faint praise but good arguments. – Hillary Clinton	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating as the bubonic plague, and it has destroyed millions of effective lives and relationships. We are so self-centered that we have ceased to lay down our lives for others. We have seen others faint or walk away and we have followed in their weakness. We have fainted when we could have persevered by exchanging our strength for His! With His strength, not only could we have kept on walking, we could have run! – KAY ARTHUR	added by meteorstorm 7 years ago
Love has no power to look forward — the delicious consciousness of the present, a faint but delightful shadow of the past, form its eternity. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon	added by Madeleine Quinn 7 years ago
It is not for the faint-hearted, if you are a president and you are afraid of criminals, or you are afraid to kill criminals, then you have no business being a president. – Rodrigo Duterte	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It’s fairly faint. We don’t know its precise orbit yet and we don’t know anything about its chemical composition, we can guess at its size. We don’t know how much light it reflects. If it reflects a lot of light, if it’s very bright, it will be a smaller object. If it’s a darker object and doesn’t reflect much light, it would be much bigger. – Scott Sheppard	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It's not for the faint of heart to take what she took. – Diana Scolaro	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I was out for a couple of hours just kind of taking photos, recording. And just two hours standing in the sun makes you so dizzy and so incredibly faint, but regardless, people were still continuing to ... their ritual, where the stampede happened. – Ethar El-Katatney	Found on CNN 8 years ago
When Marco Rubio speaks, young women swoon, old women faint and toilets flush themselves, this guy is really good. Marco is instinctive. He is also very, very disciplined. – Dan Gelber	Found on CNN 8 years ago

It's like trying to measure the tiny motion of a firefly next to a bright light bulb, we had to meticulously subtract the light of the nearby bright star to precisely measure the deflection of the faint source.

– Kailash Sahu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Then I just started to hear really faint gunshots, they really sound just like firecrackers, almost.

– Brittany Allen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We must pity the poor wretched, timid soul who is too faint-hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the song of the dammed: “I can’t fight back; I have too much to lose; I own too much property; I have worked too hard to get what I have; They will put me out of business if I resist; I might go to jail; I have my family to think about.” Such poor miserable creatures have misplaced values and are hiding their cowardice behind pretended family responsibility -- blindly refusing to see that the most glorious legacy that one can bequeath to posterity is liberty; and that the only true security is liberty.

– Marvin Cooley

added by Normando
3 years ago

Entry, descent and landing is not for the faint of heart, make no mistake, we still have something to prove here on entry tomorrow.

– Jim Chilton

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

By tracing the faint remains of these smaller galaxies with embedded star clusters, weve been able to recreate the way Andromeda drew them in and ultimately enveloped them at the different times.

– Dougal Mackey

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This is a tough thing to do, it is not for the faint of heart, but I'm doing it because I absolutely believe that we have to stand up. We have to stand up against hate. We have to stand up for the working families who aren't being listened to and aren't being represented -- families like the one I grew up in.

– Shannon Hutcheson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The light from these galaxies is very faint with long wavelengths invisible to our eyes and undetectable by Hubble, so we turned to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array( ALMA), which is ideal for viewing these kinds of things. I have a long history with that facility and so knew it would deliver good results.

– Kotaro Kohno

Found on CNN
4 years ago

She really believes she hears the faint cries of an infant. She summons her husband, who is a self-employed grading contractor. He arrives in the area and descends about a 75-foot ravine to find the child alone with a car seat over the bank.

– Scott Fowler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's not for the faint of heart, you need to have a flexible risk needle. The old school attitude of compliance being Doctor No really doesn't translate well to this industry.

– Jeff Horowitz

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Its very faint, its on the edge of our ability to detect it.

– Scott Sheppard

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

This is hot off the presses, it's very faint, on the edge of our ability to detect it. It was just discovered in our data from last month.

– Scott Sheppard

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We came really close to missing it entirely, its too faint to see in a single Hubble [exposure].

– Mark Showalter

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Finding things close to home is very useful, it means they are not too faint nor too blurred for further detailed exploration, [an] astronomers dream.

– Joo Alves

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We think there could be thousands of small bodies like 2015 TG387 out on the Solar System's fringes, but their distance makes finding them very difficult, currently we would only detect 2015 TG387 when it is near its closest approach to the Sun. For some 99 percent of its 40,000-year orbit, it would be too faint to see.

– David Tholen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's not so much a smoking gun as a faint whiff of smoke a long way away. Maybe there's something else going on. It's hard to tell.

– Richard Clayton of Cambridge University

Found on CNN
7 years ago

This discovery implies hundreds of faint dwarf satellites waiting to be discovered in the halo of the Milky Way, how many satellites are indeed there and what properties they have, will give us an important clue of understanding how the Milky Way formed and how dark matter contributed to it.

– Masashi Chiba

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Damning w[sic] faint praise but good arguments.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating as the bubonic plague, and it has destroyed millions of effective lives and relationships. We are so self-centered that we have ceased to lay down our lives for others. We have seen others faint or walk away and we have followed in their weakness. We have fainted when we could have persevered by exchanging our strength for His! With His strength, not only could we have kept on walking, we could have run!

– KAY ARTHUR

added by meteorstorm
7 years ago

Love has no power to look forward — the delicious consciousness of the present, a faint but delightful shadow of the past, form its eternity.

– Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

It is not for the faint-hearted, if you are a president and you are afraid of criminals, or you are afraid to kill criminals, then you have no business being a president.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It’s fairly faint. We don’t know its precise orbit yet and we don’t know anything about its chemical composition, we can guess at its size. We don’t know how much light it reflects. If it reflects a lot of light, if it’s very bright, it will be a smaller object. If it’s a darker object and doesn’t reflect much light, it would be much bigger.

– Scott Sheppard

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It's not for the faint of heart to take what she took.

– Diana Scolaro

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I was out for a couple of hours just kind of taking photos, recording. And just two hours standing in the sun makes you so dizzy and so incredibly faint, but regardless, people were still continuing to ... their ritual, where the stampede happened.

– Ethar El-Katatney

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When Marco Rubio speaks, young women swoon, old women faint and toilets flush themselves, this guy is really good. Marco is instinctive. He is also very, very disciplined.

– Dan Gelber

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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