Michael Specter

Humanity has nearly suffocated the globe with carbon dioxide, yet nuclear power plants that produce no such emissions are so mired in objections and obstruction that, despite renewed interest on every continent, it is unlikely another will be built in the United States.

American Journalist

Jason Molina

These people who have everything at their disposal as far as cash and connections, I think they just get so mired in the business side of things that they don't just sit at home and record records. Anybody can do that.

American Musician

Marine Le Pen

France has been mired in people's minds for years. In reality, our children are taught that they have every reason to criticize her, to see only the darkest historical aspects.

French Politician

Teresa Medeiros

I'm especially interested in projects from authors who were always wonderful writers but who got stuck in the midlist mire due to the challenges of traditional publishing.

American Novelist

Marcia Fudge

The fact that our country, the greatest country in the world, remains mired in race relations issues in the year 2014 is an embarrassment.

American Politician

Sharice Davids

Congress must do what we said we would and find ways to pay for bills we propose so we don't leave future generations mired in debt.

Ruth Rendell

I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent and twisted, but I can stop that.

British Writer

Milind Soman

I was mired in modelling and acting. But as I am an outdoors person, I was still trekking and doing some other activities.

Indian Model

Tom Steyer

The dialogue around climate change can often become mired in gloom and doom, which is understandable given the topic.

American Businessman

Michael K. Williams

Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.

American Actor

Use 'mire' to describe actual wet or muddy areas, often in nature or the outdoors.

Literal Ground

'Mire' often creates imagery of being trapped or slowed down, physically.

Stuck Imagery

When 'mire' is a verb, it often means stuck in a situation, not physical ground.

Figurative Stuck

'Mire' as a verb can convey the act of complicating an action or situation further.

Troublesome Actions

Use 'mire' for when someone is drawn into a complex, usually unpleasant, situation.

Complicated Involvement

'Mire' often implies a negative situation one would prefer to avoid.

Negative Connotation

As a noun, 'mire' can metaphorically represent a difficult or problematic situation.

Trouble Metaphor

It refers to a situation that's not just a problem, but complex and hard to escape.

Challenging Circumstances

 and this is a live and interactive Safari and it's great to of course have you all here so remember to send through those wonderful questions but so manga said we've got lots and lots of giraffe they seem to like it around here every single day without doubt on the main river road here in the mire triangle you can find not one giraffe but sometimes

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 what it's going to do it's going to hit this wall of burnt grass and it's going to stop and it's not going to run south but the fire itself as a management tool that's one of the management tools is protection of life and of property but if you burn large areas like what's happening up in the mire Arnon happens

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 Instead of getting mired in what can get in our way, confidence invites us to perform with certainty. We all operate a little differently when we're sure we can win versus if we just hope we will. Now, this can be a helpful check. If you don't have enough confidence,

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 journalist and filmmaker i've reported for more than 60 countries around the world primarily on conflicts and human rights issues but my focus has been afghanistan throughout now is probably a good time to review some history afghanistan has been mired in non-stop

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 in its inscriptions they cover you know many millenniums of time with the master calendar descriptions of the mire so you know noted for so that in a sense with this system that literally tamed eternity they wove mythical and real

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 take your life enjoy enhance the winds actually doing us a favor this time passing away oh no there's another car coming it's traffic traffic in the mire okay well hopefully I'll see you just thoughts I've got past all the dust in

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 but if that which is most valuable in our life and our business actually can't be counted or valued, aren't we going to spend our lives just mired in measuring the mundane? It was that sort of heady question about what counts

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 which is most valuable in our life in our business actually can't be counted or valued are we going to spend our lives just mired in measuring the mundane it was that sort of heady question about what counts that led me

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 His homeland of Algeria was mired in conflict between native Algerians and colonizing French Europeans. He lost his father in the First World War, and was deemed unfit to fight in the second.

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 awesome resource of leaders who are leading in middle management, which raises a different Why are there so many women mired in the middle and what has to happen to take them to the top?

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