- Nov 07, 2020
Breach Quotes
Quotes on breaches of trust, security, and rules across public life.
These quotes look at the word 'breach' from different fields, including one on a major security breach and its effect on confidence in commercial enterprises. Another notes how strict monetary policy targets come with defined tolerance bands before a breach is declared.
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- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a counter-intelligence viewpoint, the OPM breach is really scary - but if we continue to see the erosion of purely commercial enterprises, where people lose confidence, the economy falters.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, 4% is the government-mandated target to the MPC. The plus/minus 2 percentage-point upper and lower bands are the tolerance levels specified by the government. If we breach those for three consecutive quarters, we need to inform the government of why that happened and what we propose to do to bring inflation within the two bands.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men and women who sell their birthright for a mess of pottage will tell you that their demise began with something small, with some seemingly insignificant breach of integrity that escalated. The little things do matter. It is not possible to profess righteousness while flirting with sin.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.
- Neighbor
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- Nov 07, 2020
What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?
- Hygiene
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inviting a foreign head of state to address the Congress is a clear breach of protocol and practice, and undermines the U.S. presidency.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was arrested on suspicion of breach of Official Secrets Act in March 2003, but they didn't charge me until November. Now, the in-between months, I was bailed and re-bailed, and my life was on standstill. I was in limbo. It was a difficult time for me and my family, because we just did not know what the future held for us.
- Confidentiality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do I think it is good policy for the government to own companies? Normally, I'd say 'no.' But in my world, if a firm puts itself in a position that it needs a last minute rescue, and the future is uncertain at best, then the investor who steps into that breach ends up owning the company. Full stop.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two decisions have damaged the stability both of the euro and of Europe: the premature admission of Greece to the euro area and the breach and subsequent weakening of the stability and growth pact.
- Colonists
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- Nov 07, 2020