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How to use the word portland in a Sentence?

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Given the proximity to Portland, we were very surprised when this report came in and elated when we were able to verify the sighting, we really appreciate the people who reported this rare occurrence and Cascadia Wild who helped us confirm the report and begin monitoring efforts.

– Dave Keiter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The rules and regulations that they’re making, that makes sense in the city, don’t make sense out here. The people here haven’t changed. Portland’s changed. Salem’s changed. Eugene has changed.

– Sandie Gilson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are very different people, the rules and regulations that they’re making, that makes sense in the city, don’t make sense out here. The people here haven’t changed. Portland’s changed. Salem’s changed. Eugene has changed.

– Sandie Gilson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We don’t relate to people in downtown Portland trying to push their agenda on us.

– Jonathan Tallman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Tina Kotek sought to tie Brown and Christine Drazan together on failing to deal with the homeless crisis plaguing the state, claiming Tina Kotek was the only one of the three who called for action to be taken. PORTLAND POLICE UNION BOSS SLAMS OREGON GOV CANDIDATE'S CLAIM ABOUT DEFUND POLICE STANCE : ‘ SIMPLY NOT TRUE ’.

– Tina Kotek

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We watched what they did to our communities, defunding of the police. We've got crime problems from Portland to Philadelphia now, with DAs and prosecutors that looked the other way.

– Kevin McCarthy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We’re actively working to recruit and retain our best officers to better protect Portlanders, and I’ve set a goal to hire 300 police staff over the next three years to get closer to minimum staffing levels for the Portland Police Bureau, my administration will continue to lead in prioritizing public safety, and we’re not going to stop until peace returns to Portland.

– Ted Wheeler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are facing an existential threat as a downtown business. We are forced to begin a move to a safer location outside of Portland. The city’s riches will be diminished with the loss of these good citizens. I do n’t blame the campers. There are few other options for housing, there is a plague of meth and opiates and a world that offers them no hope and little assistance. In my view, where the blame clearly lies is with the City of Portland. Please continue to follow through on funded initiatives. Fulfill the many promises made to the citizens. And give these human beings back their dignity.

– Dar Crammond

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We meet warriors in Portland, Seattle, Dallas, we may be a remnant — but the remnant is mighty.

– Ryan Bomberger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We've got guys that want to win, guys that make winning plays, and we find a way to win, portland had a couple of runs and we withstood them and made our own runs, and we made enough plays to win the game. That win right there comes down to the top guy down to the bottom guy, one through 12.

– Dillon Brooks

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Portland is now on their own, they don’t have enough police staffing to be able to support all the demands that are coming at them.

– Jim Rice

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Regina Phillips leadership will certainly make a big difference not only in South Portland, but around the country, regina Phillips's going to serve an example for Somali Americans across the country to step up and step into New American Leaders own leadership journey. ... It's about owning New American Leaders own power and potential in our democracy.

– Ghida Dagher

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There’s no other way to put it: the President of the United States refused to disavow white supremacists on the debate stage last night, are you willing, tonight, to condemn white supremacists and militia groups, and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities, as we saw in Kenosha, and as we've seen in Portland.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The City of Portland agreeing that over 100 days of violence and riots on its streets was the fault of the police is an insulting attempt to shift blame onto the only people in a position to keep Portlanders safe, law Enforcement Officers are already having to quit their jobs in a city that has no regard for the rule of law anymore.

– Stan Pulliam

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

With strategic planning and oversight, the Portland Police Bureau and I mitigated confrontation between the two events and minimized the impact of the weekend’s events to Portlanders.

– Ted Wheeler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Portland is unique in that we seem to be ground zero for alt-right groups to come into our town because they know they’ll get a response – and they do.

– Ted Wheeler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

With strategic planning and oversight, the Portland Police Bureau and I mitigated confrontation between the two events and minimized the impact of the weekend’s events to Portlanders, in the past, these same groups have clashed with extremely violent and destructive results. This time, violence was contained to the groups of people who chose to engage in violence toward each other. The community at large was not harmed and the broader public was protected. Property damage was minimal.

– Ted Wheeler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Having said that, it would be fun to do a hearing on the crime wave and interview the police from Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, New York City just to provide real context about actual threats to democracy.

– Greg Gutfeld

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I have confidence that the( police department) will continue their mission to maintain public safety, in the meantime, my office will continue to focus on the fair and just prosecution of criminal matters. The Portland Police Association can not expect the community to trust law enforcement if The Portland Police Association hold The Portland Police Association to a lower standard.

– Mike Schmidt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They ought to be smart enough to know that there ought to be a lot of things going around this country other than just what happened on January 6 -- and what happened in Portland and Seattle and Minneapolis and a lot of other places, including a lot of the antagonism against Jewish people right now being attacked in Los Angeles and New York.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s offensive to all the men and women who risked their lives in Portland for 90 to 120 days or even longer in some cases, being attacked night after night after night.

– Chad Wolf

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Just a few months ago, I remember the media and Democrats blaming all this Antifa violence on Donald Trump yet here we have Joe Biden in the White House and Antifa is still rampaging in the streets of Seattle, Portland and Denver, this proves a point I made months ago, this proves a point I made two weeks ago, that when you have a mob using violence for a political end, it does n’t matter what slogan they’re chanting or what flag they’re waving, they have to be met with force.

– Tom Cotton

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The tactics we are facing, of sneaky and illegal foreclosure tactics, predatory banking and loans, elected judges who take campaign contributions from the real estate industry, coupled with violence from law enforcement and no real due process, have been used across this historically Black neighborhood to displace Black and poor people, if Black and Indigenous lives matter in Portland, this must stop.

– Julie Metcalf Kinney

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We had to create a whole strategy of what-ifs, if there is a tariff, do we shut factories down ? Do we move them ? These are hard things to make quick decisions on. You can't just build a new glass factory in Portland.

– Tom Werner

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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