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How to use the word Incident in a Sentence?

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As Secretary of Defense, I will also not hesitate to take any additional measures necessary to safeguard our nation’s secrets, accordingly, I am directing the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security to conduct a review of our intelligence access, accountability and control procedures within the Department to inform our efforts to prevent this kind of incident from happening again.

Lloyd Austin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The investigation into this incident is being handled by the Metropolitan Police Department and reviewed by the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. An administrative review of this incident is being conducted by the Department of the Interior.

Park Police

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The message is really simple and it has been since before Nashville, one of the worst times to make knee jerk policy and administrative actions is after a high profile incident like this when you’re in a highly emotional state.

Ken Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The officer narratives released today by the Department of Public Safety were drafted weeks or, in some cases, months after the incident, when officers drafted these statements, each had the opportunity to review the publicly available video and the press releases issued by the GBI.

Enchanta Jackson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This incident has emphasized the need to better train and equip firefighters to respond to hazardous material incidents, specifically to derailments in rural areas, which are mostly served by volunteer fire departments that often lack sufficient resources, tax base and manpower.

David Comstock

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This was a gang violence related incident.

Michigan State Police

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The incident with the American MQ-9 Reaper UAV, provoked by [R]ussia in the Black Sea, is [P]utin’s signal of readiness to expand the conflict zone with the involvement of other parties, the all-in tactic is the constant raising of rates in conditions of a strategic loss and hoping that circumstances would change.

Oleksiy Danilov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Adams was encouraging the student-athlete to be more receptive to coaching and referenced Bible verses about workers, teachers, parents, and slaves serving their masters. Adams immediately addressed this with the team and apologized, upon learning of the incident, Hocutt addressed this matter with Adams and issued him a written reprimand. Hocutt subsequently made the decision to suspend Adams effective immediately in order to conduct a more thorough inquiry of Adams’ interactions with his players and staff.

Texas Tech statement

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Absolutely, when an incident like this happens, it brings all the issues to light, how unsafe the rail industry truly is. I didn’t think we had any chance before this. The railroads and AAR do a very good job of lobbying in DC. So generally it’s difficult to get people to vote for something like this rule. But sometimes it takes a disaster to drive home the point. Any time you turn the TV on, there’s still an issue. It’s not going away.

Jeremy Ferguson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We were a victim of a teleconference or Zoom hijacking and we are trying to understand what we need to do going forward to prevent this from ever happening again. It is an incident we deeply regret, we have had various programs and this is something that we have never had happen to us.

Brent Tjarks

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We remain hopeful that as cancer screening rates have returned to baseline, that the two years of missed screenings will not have a long-lasting effect on cancer incident or mortality.

Arif Kamal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Conclusions regarding whether advanced cancer rates have increased due to missed screenings are a bit premature to reach. This is because cancer takes years to develop, and the resulting effect of missed cancers cannot be known after only a few years, we remain hopeful that as cancer screening rates have returned to baseline, that the two years of missed screenings will not have a long-lasting effect on cancer incident or mortality.

Arif Kamal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was focused on just making sure that our folks on the ground were all set but could have spoken sooner about how strongly I felt about this incident and that’s a lesson learned for me.

Pete Buttigieg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Anybody who has seen fit to get on television and talk about this incident, talk about this issue, can do right by the people of East Palestine and everybody else who lives near a railroad, not just when it comes to this case, but when it comes to the future, by getting on the right side of this issue, and helping to raise – not lower – the bar of accountability for the railroad industry.

Pete Buttigieg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I deeply regret it took this incident to elevate the urgency for this change and we are committed to ensuring that no one experiences lack of access to the stage again.

Cleo Parker Robinson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People do not have to experience an incident of racial discrimination or harm directly to have adverse emotional consequences.

Nevin Heard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our members respond to hundreds of calls over and over, without fail. One incident should not define the good work being done by these dedicated public servants and some have taken that position, unfortunately.

Tyre Nichols

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Scottsdale prides itself as a welcoming community for all people. We are sad that this incident occurred and offer our full support to those who were targeted. The city condemns this individual’s racist comments – they do not represent our community.

Kelly Corsette

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This balloon incident now sets us back significantly, because the calendar of US-China relations just over the next several months does not allow a whole lot of space for the two sides to reset.

Jude Blanchette

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The vast majority of hazardous materials shipped by rail tank car every year arrive safely and without incident, and railroads generally have an outstanding record in moving shipments of hazardous materials safely.

Federal Railroad Administration

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Clearly this incident hasn’t helped that process.

John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is our hope that this incident on February 1st will be an opportunity to expand collective knowledge – beyond ‘sensitivity training’ – regarding the racialized systems in which we all live; and ultimately work towards undoing the negative impacts of these systems on our students, staff and school community.

James Montesano

Found on CNN
1 year ago

By measuring alcohol consumption at two time points, we were able to study the relationship between reducing, ceasing, maintaining and increasing alcohol consumption and incident dementia.

Keun Hye Jeon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility is reviewing the incident.

Border Protection spokesperson Rod Kise

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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