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They're resource intensive. And so when you have a draw like that, it really puts a drain on the entire city, not just that precinct. – Matt Jacobson	Found on FOX News 10 days ago
Drain the water, clean up the fireworks stuff, repair the vandalism that was done. Fill it back up again. – Doug Burgum	Found on ABC News 15 days ago
Absolutely you can, and as we drain it, we've got all the photographs we can see. – Doug Burgum	Found on FOX News 20 days ago
The project management [was] a significant drain... at a time in my life where I wanted to be spending as much time as possible with my young family, however, it was the only option I had to get out of the horrendous situation that he left us in. – Dave Eddon	Found on BBC News 27 days ago
We met with contractors today, will probably be forced to release and drain much of the water in order to do the necessary repairs, but will have them done as quickly as possible. – Donald Trump	Found on ABC News 1 month ago
Could have won the race last week, could have maybe had P3 or P4 today, that's 40 points down the drain for things outside of my control. – George Russell	Found on BBC News 1 month ago
Sewers can contain numerous hazards, including noxious and potentially deadly gases, unstable surfaces, flooding risks, and confined spaces, for these reasons, members of the public should never enter a pipe, drain, catch basin, manhole, or outfall. – Rob Wolejsza	Found on ABC News 1 month ago
The samples were later turned over to the FBI for testing, which confirmed the substance was consistent with liquid drain cleaner. he’s falsely claiming that she’s trying to poison him. – Scott Simmons	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's time to drain the Washington swamp for good, and that starts with calling out left-wing hypocrites like Porter, once again, woke progressives like Rep. Porter are happy to receive government-funded salaries, benefits, and now subsidized housing for themselves, while driving our economy into the gutter and doing everything possible to squelch opposition. – Ted Harvey	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It is a real drain on disposable income [ and ] it ends up acting as a depressant on consumer confidence, there is a definite erosion factor. – Sam Stovall	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Putin doesn't care about brain drain, he cares about his regime only, it is useful for him to get rid of dissidents and make everyone silent and scared. – Egor Kuroptev	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Eventually, the loss of troops, the loss of foreign investment, the loss of public support, the economic drain — all those are facts that he can't ignore indefinitely, but I think he's resisting that because he's living … in a world of slanted intelligence and illusions and utopian ideas about a return of the Russian Empire that will take some time to crumble away. And he's resisting it mightily, still trying to come up with that military victory, even as everyone else can see it grinding to a halt. – Robert English	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
There’s no doubt that the illegal aliens released into the U.S. will disappear into communities nationwide and create stress on our economy, local law enforcement agencies, and drain taxpayer-funded services — often at the disadvantage of minority-Americans, our focus must be on restoring border security and ensuring all public services only go to legal Americans. – Chuck Fleischmann	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I really want to drain the swamp. – Madison Cawthorn	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
They have been cited … for direct and critical violations, for failure to provide basic necessities of life to these nursing mother dogs and their puppies, keeping animals in temperatures as high as 92 degrees without air conditioning, plunging needles into the heads of puppies to drain hematomas … and so much more. – Daphna Nachminovitch	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Our colleagues who are itching for a procedural nuclear winter have not even begun to contemplate how it would look, our colleagues who are itching to drain every drop of collegiality from this body have not even begun to consider how that would work. – Mitch McConnell	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The method that is being used to produce this estimate, hopefully, others can use that going forward. To improve, you first have to know where you stand, golf courses are sequestering a considerable amount of carbon, which I think few people actually associate with golf. On the flipside, golf is a large land user and bound to be using wetlands in places. Emissions when you drain wetlands are so great. – Edwin Roald	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Mumbai Police was completely fine when Mumbai Police was admitted but we were a little worried because Mumbai Police was abandoned and found in a drain, but she was fine, our doctors immediately treated her... she was discharged yesterday, she is doing fine. – Vidya Thakur	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Healthy eating can sometimes turn into something that is not so healthy and can drain you of energy if you are too restricted. – Yasi Ansari	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is a huge mental drain on me to hear I'm swimming in a race that's probably not clean, that is what it is. – Ryan Murphy	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The tell-tale signature of this kind of flooding is that the storms formed and moved repeatedly over the same areas, basically, raining faster than it can drain. – Gene Norman	Found on CNN 5 years ago
First, it means the Norges Bank will buy 18 billion more NOK in February than in January, which adds a flow supportive argument to NOK after a week where the stagnating reflation theme weighed, secondly, the larger NOK buying pace will drain liquidity from the interbank market, which puts upward pressure on NOK FRA/OIS spreads. By extension, this will improve the carry case of a long NOK position. – The Australian	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
A much as 80 % of plastic waste in oceans comes from land, every mask or glove that you see on the street that's not picked up will most likely go into a storm drain, into a river then into the ocean. – Chad Nelsen	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Trumps payroll tax holiday could drain the Social Security trust fund and said some states can not afford the 25 percent unemployment match, especially since the GOP has opposed additional money to state and local governments. Donald Trump is trying to distract from Donald Trump failure to extend the $ 600 federal boost for 30 million unemployed workers by issuing illegal executive orders, this scheme is a classic Donald Trump con : play-acting at leadership while robbing people of the support they desperately need. – Ron Wyden	Found on FOX News 5 years ago

They're resource intensive. And so when you have a draw like that, it really puts a drain on the entire city, not just that precinct.

– Matt Jacobson

Found on FOX News
10 days ago

Drain the water, clean up the fireworks stuff, repair the vandalism that was done. Fill it back up again.

– Doug Burgum

Found on ABC News
15 days ago

Absolutely you can, and as we drain it, we've got all the photographs we can see.

– Doug Burgum

Found on FOX News
20 days ago

The project management [was] a significant drain... at a time in my life where I wanted to be spending as much time as possible with my young family, however, it was the only option I had to get out of the horrendous situation that he left us in.

– Dave Eddon

Found on BBC News
27 days ago

We met with contractors today, will probably be forced to release and drain much of the water in order to do the necessary repairs, but will have them done as quickly as possible.

– Donald Trump

Found on ABC News
1 month ago

Could have won the race last week, could have maybe had P3 or P4 today, that's 40 points down the drain for things outside of my control.

– George Russell

Found on BBC News
1 month ago

Sewers can contain numerous hazards, including noxious and potentially deadly gases, unstable surfaces, flooding risks, and confined spaces, for these reasons, members of the public should never enter a pipe, drain, catch basin, manhole, or outfall.

– Rob Wolejsza

Found on ABC News
1 month ago

The samples were later turned over to the FBI for testing, which confirmed the substance was consistent with liquid drain cleaner. he’s falsely claiming that she’s trying to poison him.

– Scott Simmons

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's time to drain the Washington swamp for good, and that starts with calling out left-wing hypocrites like Porter, once again, woke progressives like Rep. Porter are happy to receive government-funded salaries, benefits, and now subsidized housing for themselves, while driving our economy into the gutter and doing everything possible to squelch opposition.

– Ted Harvey

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It is a real drain on disposable income [ and ] it ends up acting as a depressant on consumer confidence, there is a definite erosion factor.

– Sam Stovall

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Putin doesn't care about brain drain, he cares about his regime only, it is useful for him to get rid of dissidents and make everyone silent and scared.

– Egor Kuroptev

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Eventually, the loss of troops, the loss of foreign investment, the loss of public support, the economic drain — all those are facts that he can't ignore indefinitely, but I think he's resisting that because he's living … in a world of slanted intelligence and illusions and utopian ideas about a return of the Russian Empire that will take some time to crumble away. And he's resisting it mightily, still trying to come up with that military victory, even as everyone else can see it grinding to a halt.

– Robert English

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

There’s no doubt that the illegal aliens released into the U.S. will disappear into communities nationwide and create stress on our economy, local law enforcement agencies, and drain taxpayer-funded services — often at the disadvantage of minority-Americans, our focus must be on restoring border security and ensuring all public services only go to legal Americans.

– Chuck Fleischmann

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I really want to drain the swamp.

– Madison Cawthorn

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

They have been cited … for direct and critical violations, for failure to provide basic necessities of life to these nursing mother dogs and their puppies, keeping animals in temperatures as high as 92 degrees without air conditioning, plunging needles into the heads of puppies to drain hematomas … and so much more.

– Daphna Nachminovitch

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Our colleagues who are itching for a procedural nuclear winter have not even begun to contemplate how it would look, our colleagues who are itching to drain every drop of collegiality from this body have not even begun to consider how that would work.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The method that is being used to produce this estimate, hopefully, others can use that going forward. To improve, you first have to know where you stand, golf courses are sequestering a considerable amount of carbon, which I think few people actually associate with golf. On the flipside, golf is a large land user and bound to be using wetlands in places. Emissions when you drain wetlands are so great.

– Edwin Roald

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Mumbai Police was completely fine when Mumbai Police was admitted but we were a little worried because Mumbai Police was abandoned and found in a drain, but she was fine, our doctors immediately treated her... she was discharged yesterday, she is doing fine.

– Vidya Thakur

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Healthy eating can sometimes turn into something that is not so healthy and can drain you of energy if you are too restricted.

– Yasi Ansari

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It is a huge mental drain on me to hear I'm swimming in a race that's probably not clean, that is what it is.

– Ryan Murphy

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The tell-tale signature of this kind of flooding is that the storms formed and moved repeatedly over the same areas, basically, raining faster than it can drain.

– Gene Norman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

First, it means the Norges Bank will buy 18 billion more NOK in February than in January, which adds a flow supportive argument to NOK after a week where the stagnating reflation theme weighed, secondly, the larger NOK buying pace will drain liquidity from the interbank market, which puts upward pressure on NOK FRA/OIS spreads. By extension, this will improve the carry case of a long NOK position.

– The Australian

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

A much as 80 % of plastic waste in oceans comes from land, every mask or glove that you see on the street that's not picked up will most likely go into a storm drain, into a river then into the ocean.

– Chad Nelsen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Trumps payroll tax holiday could drain the Social Security trust fund and said some states can not afford the 25 percent unemployment match, especially since the GOP has opposed additional money to state and local governments. Donald Trump is trying to distract from Donald Trump failure to extend the $ 600 federal boost for 30 million unemployed workers by issuing illegal executive orders, this scheme is a classic Donald Trump con : play-acting at leadership while robbing people of the support they desperately need.

– Ron Wyden

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

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