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How to use the word Run-up in a Sentence?

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Ordinary investors know that Reliance share price has crazily run up from Rs.1060 to 2800 in just one year and this is very abnormal so obviously it will come down drastically. Retailers also know that when Reliance shares goes down, other companies shares plunge more deeply. Ordinary Retailers are selling their shares to avoid losses

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_2
1 year ago

I think he transitioned really well, one thing that he did a lot of at the beginning is… while we were driving, he would run up to the front of the bus and then run to the back and then run to the front and run to back.

Kristin Watson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We're triangulating basically from a lot of different angles and we are getting a fulsome picture of what happened in the run-up to and on the day of January 6.

Stephanie Murphy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You were the chairman of the Republican Attorney General's Association and the Rule of Law Defense Fund in the run-up to the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, rule of Law Defense Fund sent robocalls urging recipients to march to the Capitol on Jan. 6. Were you personally present in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6?

Sheldon Whitehouse

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I've stopped trying to make sense of meme-stock trading. Any positive news can create a huge run-up, a company like this has a large base of investors who are not selling. They don't really have an exit plan.

Renaissance Capital Kennedy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Squaring this nominal increase in shipments with the run-up in producer prices for private capital goods takes away some of the optimism.

Tim Quinlan

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

I hear Miss Julie say,' Hey ! Somebody help !' So, I run up. Miss Julie's over here shaking really bad, i picked up the [ dispatch radio ], I said,' Somebody help. Our bus driver feels really dizzy.' Somebody called Miss Julie phone.

Conner Doss and Kane Daugherty

Found on CNN
2 years ago

HGV drivers are the glue which hold our supply chains together. Without them, we are unable to move goods from farms to warehouses to shops, unless new drivers are found in the next ten days, it is inevitable that we will see significant disruption in the run up to Christmas.

Andrew Opie

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

He spoke truth to power. … We will miss him, there’s very few people who hold his level of integrity. he earned the trust and respect of those he was covering but never lost his ear for false notes, as shown by his contributions to Knight Ridder’s skeptical reporting on the run up to the Iraq war.

Clark Hoyt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He earned the trust and respect of those he was covering but never lost his ear for false notes, as shown by his contributions to Knight Ridder’s skeptical reporting on the run up to the Iraq war.

Clark Hoyt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I am concerned in the level of our national debt. We’ve reached a critical point here. And I hope we’re not beginning to engage in a habit of any time we want to do something, call it a national emergency and run up the national debt, twenty-seventrillion dollars. The same size as our economy. For the first time since World War II.

Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The stock (Reliance Industries) had run up quite a bit and this correction was warranted for sometime.

Samrat Dasgupta

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

This is the first incident that I'm aware of which has directly impacted election-related infrastructure, at least 18 county or municipal bodies have been impacted by ransomware since the beginning of September — about three per week — so it's very likely that other bodies will be hit in the run-up to the election.

Brett Callow

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Any movement of White swing voters regressing to the mean, or any downtick of support from White swing voters for Joe Biden, and( his) not doing the work to continue to increase support and run up the score with Hispanic voters in these key states could amount to a closer election than we would be comfortable with.

Stephanie Valencia

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Another car came down and just flew into the back of the ambulance. That blocked up two lanes and then another 18-wheeler came and just slammed into that car, thats when we were like this is bad, and we need to get out of the car. Our doors were pressed against the snow so we had to get out of the windows and run up onto the snowbank and we were just watching.

Spencer Jacob

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It's just a technical pullback based on the big run-up we had this week, ever since the coronavirus became a big deal, people have pulled back a little bit on Friday because they didn't know what was going to happen over the weekend.

Matt Maley

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

FB stock had made a big run-up in anticipation of the report ...so the room for error was low.

Daniel Morgan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I would just put (today's movement) down to a bit of profit taking before the figures, we've had a good run, up at all-time highs, sentiment is probably positive - the Iranian issue appears to be put to bed - people are just sitting on their hands ahead of the report.

David Madden

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The market has run up so quickly that we may get a sharp pullback purely on technical reasons, but we still think that there's going to be a catch-up trade in areas that haven't had the same run.

Steve Chiavarone

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In the run-up to a meeting you heard diverging views, but once a decision was taken, the dissidents shut up — until the September meeting.

Carsten Brzeski

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This ought to serve notice to a lot of our youngblack men and black men, period, that you can run up and down the football field, you can run on down the courts, you can hit baseballs, you can do it, but at the end of the day, when [ they ] see you, they see a black man.

Wayne Anderson

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I think Jasprit Bumrah is very, very interesting. He runs off a very short run-up. He jogs and then bowls with a very short run. He has got straight arms. His bowling is not textbook by any means, but it works. He is very different from other pace bowlers, which reminds me of another fast bowler of my era, who was very different from everyone else

Jeff Thomson

added by anonymous
4 years ago

The idea that it is OK, separate and apart from it being a criminal offense, that we should be telling future candidates in the run-up to an election in 2020 that if an adversary, a foreign adversary, is offering information against a political opponent, that it's okay and right and proper and American and patriotic, it seems he's saying, to take that information and that's okay -- that's an extraordinary statement and I would hope he would retract it.

Preet Bharara

Found on CNN
5 years ago

That said, if the exit polls are confirmed in the official vote count, we would expect Zelenskiy to be put under greater pressure in the run-up to the second round to flesh out his policy agenda.

Stuart Culverhouse

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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