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There's a point of leverage in these leadership votes, we want to have a conversation, devoid of the politics about who is leading, on how the House should operate, how legislation should pass. – Freedom Caucus	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
While uncomfortable, it is a historical fact that Private School Vouchers have been used, most notably in my home state, to purposefully segregate, it is also a fact that school choice devoid of civil rights protections, accountability, and a priority for diversity often leads to more, not less, racial and socioeconomic segregation. – Bobby Scott	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
FOX and others like it pretend that it’s providing information nobody else is covering. The audience is made to feel they’re in on a secret, only they are over-informed and the rest of us live on a bubble devoid of inconvenient truths. Former Hillary Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines( Fox News). – Philippe Reines	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Food product labeling cases are hot now, various lawsuits recently have claimed that there is no real tuna in Subway tuna fish, that Honey Bunches of Oats is almost devoid of honey, and that Morning Star Farms Veggie Hot Dogs have almost no vegetables. How they ultimately turn out is a toss of a coin. – Edgar Dworsky	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think the secretary has been devoid of reality this whole time since the decision was made in May. I think it's an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions. – Michael McCaul	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think the secretary has been devoid of reality this whole time, since the decision was made in May. I think it's an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions. – Michael McCaul	Found on CNN 4 years ago
There are a couple fundamentals, here, though, that I think most Americans do agree with. That is, asking for an I.D., you know when someone votes. I don't believe that's voter suppression, the idea of verifying signatures I think is very important as well. I think what the Republicans here will tell you is that they're trying to make sure that the person voting is the person on paper so it's a legitimate vote devoid of fraud. – Michael McCaul	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I don't think the solution of totally being devoid of social contact is the answer, yes, there is some prudence we need to have in social distancing, but we also have to be careful to not isolate more -- it can be very detrimental. – Carla Perissinotto	Found on CNN 6 years ago
The resolution is grotesquely one-sided, outrageously narrow, and maliciously partisan, it reeks of nauseating politics completely devoid of respect for the sovereignty of our country, even as it is bereft of the gruesome realities of the drug menace. – Salvador Panelo	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We have tried to avoid putting it in one of those boxes and prefer to call it more generically an 'object,' in simple terms, asteroids are rocky and devoid of ices, while comets are a mixture of rock and ice, so-called 'dirty snowballs,'. – Matthew Knight	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
It is an unusual exhibition because it has been completely devoid of the Hollywood aspect of her career so it's the woman who is coming home, naked of the legend, of the icon, intimate Audrey. – Hepburn Ferrer	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
He went in with eight gunshot wounds, a broken thumb/wrist, fractured jaw, split tongue, missing teeth, two collapsed lungs, and almost completely devoid of blood. – Elizabeth Smith	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I want to play you a little clip of the dictator-in-chief, the gun-controller-in-chief, I don't know what to call him today, who--this is his reaction and it's completely devoid of the same passion that he would have had if this individual had been Dylann Roof who killed nine black people in a church and could easily be demonized as a white supremacist, whereas these are Obama's people, the Islamic people. – Tim Donnelly	Found on CNN 7 years ago
...only the dreamers of a dream are capable of translating their dreams into worthy practical endeavors that are devoid of haunting errors. After all, they are the ones who carefully observed the link between their dreams and reality; they are the ones who worked consciously to blend them into one.” – Janvier Chouteu-Chando	added by anonymous 7 years ago
I cannot lead an organization whose three members are so unwilling to work collectively, so devoid of ambition for the game, so full of disdain for Great Britain players and so apparently lacking in professional integrity. – Ed Warner	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and immediately all my biggest fears start running through my mind. I wonder if my fears will one day be my new reality. The fears seem so real. I struggle to shift my focus. Then slowly I realize that my fears are devoid of any love and only love is real. – Renae A. Sauter	added by createfate 9 years ago
I ask myself how many young people that we Europeans have left devoid of ideals, who do not have work. Then they turn to drugs and alcohol or enlist in ISIS. – Pope Francis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It definitely tells us exoplanets are very diverse and their composition is diverse, since we now know water is common on hot Jupiters – they are not devoid of water – that does lead to the prospect that other smaller planets may have lots of water as well. – David Sing	Found on FOX News 10 years ago
His message is remarkably consistent in that it is devoid of any conversation around race. He is colorblind to an extent that it seems that race is something that is uncomfortable for him to talk about. He is like a lot of Vermonters, it's easy to rattle off statistics, but that's not engaging people of color. – Curtiss Reed	Found on CNN 11 years ago
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate can not drive out hate: only love can do that. – Martin Luther King, Jr.	added by JP03 11 years ago
Because depression is so thematically powerful and so dark, when it’s very severe, it can make people feel not only as if they’ve lost a loving connection, but as if the whole world is devoid of love, so if we wonder how somebody could take 149 people with him when he commits suicide, one answer can be that depression, when it’s most severe, can make people feel that life is completely without value, not just for them but for anyone. – Keith Ablow	Found on FOX News 11 years ago
We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice!” ― Zulfikar Ali Bhutto The people have realized that Martial Law is not law. A regime not established by law is devoid of the attribute to dispense law. A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.” ― Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, bOOK.If I Am Assassinated – Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto	added by anonymous 11 years ago
I adore men with values and women who are devoid of them" -James "The Buck" Bukowitz from Mental Hell – Ahmed Korayem	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I've seen a disciplined man who possessed nought, and I've seen a wealthy man who is devoid of understanding. – lot chakonza	added by anonymous 15 years ago

There's a point of leverage in these leadership votes, we want to have a conversation, devoid of the politics about who is leading, on how the House should operate, how legislation should pass.

– Freedom Caucus

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

While uncomfortable, it is a historical fact that Private School Vouchers have been used, most notably in my home state, to purposefully segregate, it is also a fact that school choice devoid of civil rights protections, accountability, and a priority for diversity often leads to more, not less, racial and socioeconomic segregation.

– Bobby Scott

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

FOX and others like it pretend that it’s providing information nobody else is covering. The audience is made to feel they’re in on a secret, only they are over-informed and the rest of us live on a bubble devoid of inconvenient truths. Former Hillary Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines( Fox News).

– Philippe Reines

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Food product labeling cases are hot now, various lawsuits recently have claimed that there is no real tuna in Subway tuna fish, that Honey Bunches of Oats is almost devoid of honey, and that Morning Star Farms Veggie Hot Dogs have almost no vegetables. How they ultimately turn out is a toss of a coin.

– Edgar Dworsky

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I think the secretary has been devoid of reality this whole time since the decision was made in May. I think it's an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions.

– Michael McCaul

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I think the secretary has been devoid of reality this whole time, since the decision was made in May. I think it's an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions.

– Michael McCaul

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There are a couple fundamentals, here, though, that I think most Americans do agree with. That is, asking for an I.D., you know when someone votes. I don't believe that's voter suppression, the idea of verifying signatures I think is very important as well. I think what the Republicans here will tell you is that they're trying to make sure that the person voting is the person on paper so it's a legitimate vote devoid of fraud.

– Michael McCaul

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I don't think the solution of totally being devoid of social contact is the answer, yes, there is some prudence we need to have in social distancing, but we also have to be careful to not isolate more -- it can be very detrimental.

– Carla Perissinotto

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The resolution is grotesquely one-sided, outrageously narrow, and maliciously partisan, it reeks of nauseating politics completely devoid of respect for the sovereignty of our country, even as it is bereft of the gruesome realities of the drug menace.

– Salvador Panelo

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We have tried to avoid putting it in one of those boxes and prefer to call it more generically an 'object,' in simple terms, asteroids are rocky and devoid of ices, while comets are a mixture of rock and ice, so-called 'dirty snowballs,'.

– Matthew Knight

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It is an unusual exhibition because it has been completely devoid of the Hollywood aspect of her career so it's the woman who is coming home, naked of the legend, of the icon, intimate Audrey.

– Hepburn Ferrer

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

He went in with eight gunshot wounds, a broken thumb/wrist, fractured jaw, split tongue, missing teeth, two collapsed lungs, and almost completely devoid of blood.

– Elizabeth Smith

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I want to play you a little clip of the dictator-in-chief, the gun-controller-in-chief, I don't know what to call him today, who--this is his reaction and it's completely devoid of the same passion that he would have had if this individual had been Dylann Roof who killed nine black people in a church and could easily be demonized as a white supremacist, whereas these are Obama's people, the Islamic people.

– Tim Donnelly

Found on CNN
7 years ago

...only the dreamers of a dream are capable of translating their dreams into worthy practical endeavors that are devoid of haunting errors. After all, they are the ones who carefully observed the link between their dreams and reality; they are the ones who worked consciously to blend them into one.”

– Janvier Chouteu-Chando

added by anonymous
7 years ago

I cannot lead an organization whose three members are so unwilling to work collectively, so devoid of ambition for the game, so full of disdain for Great Britain players and so apparently lacking in professional integrity.

– Ed Warner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and immediately all my biggest fears start running through my mind. I wonder if my fears will one day be my new reality. The fears seem so real. I struggle to shift my focus. Then slowly I realize that my fears are devoid of any love and only love is real.

– Renae A. Sauter

added by createfate
9 years ago

I ask myself how many young people that we Europeans have left devoid of ideals, who do not have work. Then they turn to drugs and alcohol or enlist in ISIS.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It definitely tells us exoplanets are very diverse and their composition is diverse, since we now know water is common on hot Jupiters – they are not devoid of water – that does lead to the prospect that other smaller planets may have lots of water as well.

– David Sing

Found on FOX News
10 years ago

His message is remarkably consistent in that it is devoid of any conversation around race. He is colorblind to an extent that it seems that race is something that is uncomfortable for him to talk about. He is like a lot of Vermonters, it's easy to rattle off statistics, but that's not engaging people of color.

– Curtiss Reed

Found on CNN
11 years ago

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate can not drive out hate: only love can do that.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

added by JP03
11 years ago

Because depression is so thematically powerful and so dark, when it’s very severe, it can make people feel not only as if they’ve lost a loving connection, but as if the whole world is devoid of love, so if we wonder how somebody could take 149 people with him when he commits suicide, one answer can be that depression, when it’s most severe, can make people feel that life is completely without value, not just for them but for anyone.

– Keith Ablow

Found on FOX News
11 years ago

We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice!” ― Zulfikar Ali Bhutto The people have realized that Martial Law is not law. A regime not established by law is devoid of the attribute to dispense law. A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.” ― Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, bOOK.If I Am Assassinated

– Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto

added by anonymous
11 years ago

I adore men with values and women who are devoid of them" -James "The Buck" Bukowitz from Mental Hell

– Ahmed Korayem

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I've seen a disciplined man who possessed nought, and I've seen a wealthy man who is devoid of understanding.

– lot chakonza

added by anonymous
15 years ago

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