#expand

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power. ↗

— Chuck Hagel

#expand #influence #international #leadership #means

China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#american #american cities #china #cities #deliver

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#around #aspect #background #being #celebrity

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#centuries #danger #deaths #drama #expanding

Coal research and development provides huge benefits for the nation, and pay for itself many times over through taxes flowing back to the Treasury from expanded economic activity. ↗

— Tim Holden

#back #benefits #coal #development #economic

Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality. ↗

— John Hutton

#allow #disease #expanded #greater #higher

In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures. ↗

— Ken Calvert

#addition #bill #clause #conscience #existing

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#australia #bond #develop #eager #expanding

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness. ↗

— Les Brown

#comfort zone #consciousness #expand #forced #outside

Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#also #democracy #economy #expanding #freedoms