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How to use the word NEIGHBORS in a Sentence?

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The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents -- men who never think of lending a shilling to their next-door neighbors, for purposes of honest industry, unless upon the most ample security, and at the highest rate of interest -- stand ready, at all times, to lend money in unlimited amounts to those robbers and murderers, who call themselves governments, to be expended in shooting down those who do not submit quietly to being robbed and enslaved.

Lysander Spooner

added by Normando
5 months ago

The great lesson from the true mystics, from the Zen monks, and now also from the Humanistic and Transpersonal psychologists -that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's back yard, and that travel may be a flight from confronting the sacred- this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.

Abraham Maslow

added by JokerGem
11 months ago

The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable. Higher taxes left individuals with less money to give; government’s assumption of responsibility for providing welfare shriveled the perceived duty of individuals to respond to their neighbors’ needs; and the availability of public programs gave recipients an alternative to private assistance, one which did not challenge recipients to reform their destructive behavior.

Doug Bandow

added by Normando
12 months ago

Everyone thinks there is beef between me and Chip, there isn’t. We have different ideas, different philosophies on it. But him and I are neighbors, we’re cordial.

Tony Gonzales

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There isn’t. We have different ideas, different philosophies on it. But him and I are neighbors, we’re cordial.

Two Texas lawmakers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Gauge thy life wisely but gauge thy neighbors' wiser!

James Anthony Kenny

added by PolarPaddy
1 year ago

Think about that: that murder weapon will be back on the streets one day, it’s time to change this law and let us destroy illegal guns and destroy the guns that have been used to kill our friends and kill our neighbors.

Craig Greenberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I never thought our house would ever get hit, our neighbors would ever get hit, but we have such wonderful neighbors. Everybody was checking on everybody, and I have a wonderful church group and when they’re allowed to come in, they’re gonna help clean up for me.

Kim Sear

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We see our neighbors as neighbors. And when there’s harm, we feel it, and we do attempt to do what we can to reduce harm.

Elizer Darris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The principles that we profess – they are enshrined within our mission statement and bylaws, but we’re more than that. … These are our neighbors, our cousins – we see each other in a grocery store. So, it was bigger than that. And we decided that we needed to communicate differently.

Elizer Darris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have neighbors that have lost their entire home, one person in particular lost everything, and every time they’d get it under control, something else would happen, and the water would reroute and come back right through the family’s home.

Angie Thompson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s a tough sell to be against pickleball, but at the end of the day it was creating mental and physical health problems with neighbors butting heads.

Rob Mastroianni

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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.

Laura Richardson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Where we see iridescence, it means a cloud’s particle sizes are identical to their neighbors in each part of the cloud, by looking at color transitions, we’re seeing particle size changing across the cloud. That tells us about the way the cloud is evolving and how its particles are changing size over time.

Mark Lemmon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Most people live in apartment blocks on top of each other. We don’t have individuals with houses and gardens where you can go out and dig a hole and try to bury a body, you’re never really alone; your neighbors are above you, below you, next to you. Anything out of the ordinary will catch someone’s attention.

Philip Beh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our neighbors over there tried to pull him out (of the street), the kid died.

Vasco Cotovio/CNN Miri’ee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I urge all Boston residents to take precautions, stay warm and safe, and check on your neighbors during this cold emergency.

Michelle Wu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

China is watching closely and learning lessons that may influence its future decisions, china is substantially building up its military forces including nuclear weapons, bullying its neighbors and threatening Taiwan, trying to control critical infrastructure and spreading misinformation about NATO and the war in Ukraine.

Jens Stoltenberg

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

China is substantially building up its military forces including nuclear weapons, bullying its neighbors and threatening Taiwan, trying to control critical infrastructure and spreading misinformation about NATO and the war in Ukraine.

Jens Stoltenberg

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

You’ve given me a new beginning. Even if this is the end, because you did kill me off, but it doesn’t matter. Even if this is the end, you changed my life in a million different ways, my neighbors are speaking to me and things like that. I mean it. I was never invited to one party on my hill, and now everyone’s inviting me. I just – you know, it’s to you, Mike White.

Jennifer Coolidge

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Over 700,000 people in New York City have conviction records, which is about 11% of the adult population. So, there are people right now that are living in people's various spaces and their neighbors that have convictions and histories for which people have no idea about.

Andre Ward

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

That’s what we call in the business a field margin. That’s what happens when people are going out and talking to their friends and neighbors, making the case. Reminding them that Tuesday’s Election Day.… this is all really, really, important stuff.

Maggie Hassan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Napoleon Hill

added by acronimous
1 year ago

This is about Oregonians, regular Oregonians coming together, not the political elite, this is a grassroots effort people rising up and saying we’re tired of all our neighbors getting shot and killed.

John Hummell

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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