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1. yard linenoun

   in football; line parallel to the goal lines indicating position on the field

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1. Lindsey Graham:

   We need to keep our troops there, they're inside the 10-yard line in defeating ISIS, but we're not there yet. If we leave now, the Kurds are going to get slaughtered.

2. Laura Richardson:

   We’ve got to pay more attention to this region, the proximity matters. They are on the 20-yard line of our homeland. We are in a neighborhood, these are our neighbors, and we have got to pay attention to them.

3. Ross Perot:

   Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

4. Cory Mills:

   This is an attempt to save face by the administration for the Americans they left behind. This is a woman with three children from age 15 all the way down to two-years-old. And they did nothing to try to expedite this… But at the very last minute you have these ‘senior officials’ at the State Department trying to claim credit for this like ‘oh yeah look what we've done,' it's like we carried the ball to the 99-and-a-half yard line and them taking it that last half yard and being like ‘look what we did.’.

5. Mitch McConnell:

   At last I believe we're on the five-yard line. It has taken a lot of noise and a lot of rhetoric to get us here, depsite all of that we are very close.

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