#dragged

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. ↗

— Vince Cable

#aspect #balance #balance sheets #banking #banks

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting. ↗

— Dean Cain

#around #director #dragged #getting #grew

Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#above #always #back #bipartisanship #burning

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar? ↗

— Herman Melville

#doom #dragged #go #himself #judge

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#dragged #i #instead #life #through

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on. ↗

— Jerry Only

#crooked #dragged #goes #got #lawyers

Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption. ↗

— Paul Reiser

#dragged #having #having a baby #kicking #me

A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter. ↗

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#certain #contrary #dragged #handful #inured

I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#carried #certain #dragged #everyone #groups

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#different #different path #down #dragged #i