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What the Shin Bet did in the Bus 300 affair is no less than declaring a revolt. They took the methods of manipulation, disinformation, threats, blackmail, etc. and instead of using them against the enemy, they used these tactics against their own side.
Ronen Bergman
Enemy
Own
Side
Took
Threats
Bet
Tactics
Instead
Affair
Methods
Revolt
Than
Did
Disinformation
Against
Etc
Bus
Them
Manipulation
Declaring
Used
Less
Using
We were promised we could keep our healthcare plans. We were promised that Obamacare would not raise middle class taxes. Instead, the law brought the American people rising premiums, unaffordable deductibles, fewer insurance choices, and higher taxes. We were let down.
Ronna McDaniel
Class
People
Law
Down
Our
Promised
Would
Obamacare
Brought
Rising
Could
Higher
Higher Taxes
Instead
Insurance
Healthcare
Were
American
Fewer
Middle
Middle Class
Taxes
American People
Choices
Plans
Let Down
Keep
Raise
What I've learned by going out and playing smaller venues and being more in touch with people is getting feedback, just by virtue of being able to watch the crowd react and watch their faces instead of being blinded by 3,000 spotlights. I've realized that you can quickly get out of touch with your audience if you're not careful.
Ronnie Dunn
You
People
Feedback
Virtue
Out
Able
Touch
Faces
More
Crowd
Smaller
Instead
React
Learned
Blinded
Venues
Audience
Quickly
Get
Getting
Going
Just
Being
Realized
Your
Watch
Playing
Careful
What's the point of being the best in the world if you scratch and claw your way to the top, and you push everybody down instead of lifting everybody else up with you?
Rose Namajunas
Best
You
World
Down
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Top
Way
Point
Push
Lifting
Instead
Up
Scratch
Being
Your
Being The Best
When I fell into modeling, because I wanted to work in fashion. I wanted to do styling or make-up. I ended getting picked up to be a model instead during my work experience.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Work
Fashion
Experience
Picked
Instead
Fell
Because
Styling
Up
Model
Modeling
Ended
Getting
Wanted
We have to push aside what generally concerns us most in our thought life, namely, the content of our thoughts, and learn instead to make conscious use of the element of will in our thinking.
Rudolf Steiner
Life
Thoughts
Will
Thought
Thinking
Our
Push
Generally
Instead
Namely
Most
Make
Concerns
Learn
Content
Aside
Us
Use
Element
Conscious
The first time I ever beat my brother was the end of my junior year. At the end of the match, he tried to throw me, and I took him to his back and pinned him. Instead of simply losing, he bit me in the chest.
Rulon Gardner
Time
Me
Losing
First
Year
Took
Back
Bit
Tried
Brother
Beat
Throw
He
Simply
Instead
Him
First Time
Match
Chest
His
Pinned
End
Junior
Junior Year
Ever
Instead of a passion for the Yankees or fly-fishing or birding, I want to pass on to my sons a love of books, music, and art. I accept that this is partly about the gratification of my own ego, but it's also one of the only ways I know of making a rich life. That's what we all want for our progeny.
Rumaan Alam
Life
Love
Music
Art
Ego
Passion
Own
Rich
Our
Books
Ways
About
My Own
Only
Instead
Sons
Know
Also
Partly
Accept
Yankees
Pass
Making
Want
Gratification
Progeny
Instead of becoming a great shikari, as my mother and stepfather might have wished, I had become an incurable bookworm and was to remain one for the rest of my life.
Ruskin Bond
Life
Great
Mother
Rest
My Life
Become
Incurable
Remain
Had
Stepfather
Instead
Wished
Becoming
Might
Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been a legislator. That's what I do. I think it's an honorable profession - if you're honest and have integrity and work hard.
Russ Feingold
Work
You
Integrity
Work Hard
Law
Job
Think
Type
Honorable
Able
Something
High-Paying
Instead
Taking
Been
Very
Legislator
Might
Hard
Profession
Honest
Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.
Russell M. Nelson
Sometimes
Parents
Gave
Instead
Name
Named
Real
Offend
Real Name
May
Either
Used
Who
Nickname
It is fantastic to think that one day we may be able to access fuel, materials and even water in space instead of digging deeper and deeper into our planet for what we need and then dragging it all up into orbit, against Earth's gravity.
Rusty Schweickart
Day
Water
Space
Think
Digging
Our
Earth
Our Planet
One Day
Able
Instead
Access
Materials
Up
May
Orbit
Against
Fuel
Fantastic
Then
Planet
Even
Deeper
Gravity
Dragging
Need
It's been invigorating being back on the West Coast, being at Alphabet, because there is so much innovation. And the big challenge is, how do you think about resource allocation and priorities when you have so many great options? But wearing jeans instead of suits and popping into driverless cars has also been a lot of fun.
Ruth Porat
Great
You
Innovation
Suits
Car
Challenge
Big
Think
Resource
Back
Wearing
About
Allocation
Instead
Invigorating
Alphabet
Also
Because
Priorities
Big Challenge
How
Been
West
West Coast
Lot
Options
Being
Much
Coast
Popping
Jeans
Fun
Many
I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production.
Ryan Cabrera
Crazy
Worrying
About
Songs
Instead
Wanted
Themselves
Production
The U.S. should incentivize energy production instead of penalizing it.
Ryan Frazier
Energy
Instead
Energy Production
Should
Production
I think one thing I've always focused on is getting better instead of getting somewhere.
Ryan Hurd
Better
Somewhere
Think
Focused
One Thing
Instead
Always
Getting
Getting Better
Thing
As all C.S. students know, first year is super easy, but second year is when things get harder. At least that's how it was in my experience. And I didn't have to save the planet between classes either. Instead, I went home and studied quietly. I was a party animal.
Ryan North
Home
Animal
Experience
First
Party
Year
Easy
Super
Classes
Students
Studied
Instead
Between
Know
How
Least
Get
Quietly
Either
Planet
Harder
Things
Second
Save
In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.
Sabine Baring-Gould
Son
Oppression
Before
Extravagance
Summoned
Frederick
Brought
Given
Crown
Instead
Emperor
Him
Answer
Duke
Ferdinand
His
Imprisoned
Accusation
Estates
Against
Henry
I have more interesting things to post on social media, now that I'm going to Venice and stuff like that, instead of, you know, going to school and sitting on my couch.
Sadie Sink
You
Post
School
Social Media
More
Couch
Instead
Stuff
Like
Know
Venice
Sitting
Going
Interesting
Social
Interesting Things
Media
Now
Things
Since taking office in 2008, the Barrow Administration failed to stimulate the necessary economic growth. Instead they have, over the more than four years, continued on a path of borrow and spend,accumulating huge additional debts.
Said Musa
Path
Additional
Administration
Borrow
More
Economic
Economic Growth
Instead
Taking
Failed
Over
Since
Stimulate
Continue
Years
Huge
Debts
Than
Office
Growth
Four
Necessary
I wish I had known that that process of figuring out what you're good at, what you want to do, and where you want to have an impact is not a one-time exercise, but an ongoing one. Instead, I bought into success being an endpoint rather than a constant process.
Sallie Krawcheck
Success
Good
You
Wish
Out
Constant
Impact
Ongoing
Rather
Had
Bought
Instead
Known
Exercise
Than
Being
Where
Want
Process
Figuring
Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
Sam Brownback
War
Hope
People
Opportunity
Will
Job
Focus
Poverty
Fighting
Our
Focusing
Find
Develop
Instead
Offering
Against
Them
Poor
Us
Skills
Helping
Helping People
Keep
Among
Instead of getting angry at somebody for opposing you on something, you're just praying for them. You just pray blessings on them, blessings on their family.
Sam Brownback
Angry
Family
You
Somebody
Opposing
Something
Instead
Blessings
Pray
Praying
Getting
Just
Them
The P2P marketplace extends into other markets where individuals are monetizing underutilized assets. Lodging is one example. Instead of finding a hotel room, in the sharing economy you can rent a spare room from a local resident.
Sam Graves
You
Example
Other
Local
Marketplace
Markets
Finding
Sharing
Instead
Individuals
Hotel
Hotel Room
Economy
Rent
Where
Room
Spare
Resident
Assets
Government should stand aside and let the business community prosper instead of imposing new regulations that will only stifle growth and limit access to capital.
Sam Graves
Government
Business
Will
Community
Only
Instead
New
Prosper
Limit
Access
Stifle
Imposing
Aside
Capital
Business Community
Should
Stand
Regulations
Growth
For the timid or uninitiated, leaf-wrapped foods offer an ideal and gentle introduction to fire cooking. Liberated from the need to worry about whether the fish is sticking to the grill or burning, pay attention instead to the rate of browning on the surface of the leaf, which you'll get to discard whether it chars or remains pale.
Samin Nosrat
You
Cooking
Fire
Pay
Pay Attention
Worry
Liberated
Introduction
About
Rate
Foods
Remains
Instead
Attention
Ideal
Leaf
Discard
Gentle
Sticking
Surface
Fish
Offer
Timid
Get
Burning
Whether
Which
Grill
Pale
Need
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