#nearly

In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer. ↗

— Gary Miller

#barrels #day #demand #gasoline #grow

The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#around #better #billions #contempt #contemptuous

I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#being #falling #i #nearly #out

Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#economist #effect #factors #growth #however

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#among #duty #expressed #good #happy

Nearly all the Brazilian supporters are wearing yellow shirts - it's a fabulous kaleidoscope of colour. ↗

— John Motson

#colour #fabulous #kaleidoscope #nearly #shirts

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible. ↗

— Edwin Land

#impossible #manifestly #nearly #project #undertake

I would rather die than betray his trust." "That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed. "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe," said Nearly Headless Nick in affronted tones. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#observation

However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#changed #coverage #halls #however #i

Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#births #every #illegal #illegal immigrants #immigrants