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How to use the word 1972. in a Sentence?

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The ruling is another heavy blow to the claim that the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment remains alive, over the past 41 years, ERA-lives claims have been put before 29 federal judges, and have yet to win a single vote from a single judge.

Douglas Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that it needs to be a collaborative conversation in terms of what’s done with Title IX. The education amendments of 1972 that gave us Title IX, it prohibits exclusion on the basis of sex from any organization or any educational organization that receives federal finances and, of course, it became inclusive of sport when the addition of activity was added into Title IX, but that doesn’t really have protections over FINA or the IOC or other governing bodies that we continue to see discrimination from the trans community but also non-conforming community as well.

Shaun Fletcher

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We are living in a much more surveilled culture than we were in 1972 and prior, so in a future where abortion rights are limited or there's not a federal right, people will be at risk for exercising their bodily autonomy, the consequences of those decisions are likely to fall hardest on Black, brown, Indigenous people of color.

Elisabeth Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would like to thank all of the people who worked for decades on my family's case. I know that they sacrificed many days and weekends in order to work on solving this case since 1972, i would especially like to thank Len Hagaman, Sheriff of Watauga County, who has been involved from the beginning and was dedicated to a closure for Bryce Durham and my family.

Bryce Durham

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I would like to thank all of the people who worked for decades on my family’s case, i know that they sacrificed many days and weekends in order to work on solving this case since 1972.

Ginny Durham

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For a southwestern city which receives 30-50 % of its annual rainfall during its summer monsoons, it is almost unheard of to avoid any precipitation during the summer months, for context, the longest period Phoenix has observed without rainfall was only 160 consecutive days in 1972.

Pedram Javaheri

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Re-election campaigns celebrate accomplishments. Think Nixon in 1972 or Reagan in 1984.

Kathryn Brownell

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Apparently that was a tactic used back in 1972 and our river experts have looked at that very closely and are saying that would just not work in this situation, it would not displace the ice, it would just create tighter jams in some places.

Don Scott

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I've been doing this for almost 50 years and I've never seen anything like this. But you know these are things that happen to Joe Biden -- like the way Joe Biden got elected in 1972, he's had really difficult things happen to him, but he's also had some incredibly positive things happen to him.

Ted Kaufman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If you look at the issues I've been attacked on, nearly every one of them is for something well before 2008, it's as if my opponents want you to believe I served from 1972 until 2008 – and then took the next eight years off. They don't want to talk much about my time as vice president.

Joe Biden

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Since 1972, human space travel has been dead boring. Weve gone around and around and around the Earth a whole bunch of times, and that is not interesting to people.

David Meerman Scott

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We’ve never really stop touring, we’ve been on tour essentially since 1972. We took a few years off in the early 90's, but even then we played shows. So, it’s just something we do – it’s a lifestyle.

Daryl Hall

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

My own view is that it will be very interesting to see what happens, and it might actually take the proper move to sub-two-hours on a bit, but I think we may have to take the result with a pinch of salt.Bedford (left) competes in the 10,000m at the 1972 Munich Olympics{.

David Bedford

Found on CNN
7 years ago

My husband has lived in Eureka since 1972, never seen it this bad, kids are out of school. People can't make it to work. National Guard brought in. A community pulling together to save our favorite pizza place. Elks lodge feeding all the volunteers with the American flag flying high in Eureka.

Kristen Wingerter Martinez

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We spent two years and about $400 million trying to build up a capacity to predict people’s behaviors and match that with social media, the final 96 hours of the 2012 race, a majority of Americans, for the first time since 1972, went to the incumbent. And when you ask them why: 76 percent of those said because their friend or family member talked to them on social media and told them why they had to support Barack Obama.

Jim Messina

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

When the Demostenes started to make wine in 1972, they had the next use permit in sequential order from Silver Oak, like Dad would say, ‘It’s the Celestine Prophecy.’ It was meant to be.

Ray Duncan

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The Bridgestone non-sanctioning was an easy decision based on ... the Alstom Open de France having been part of our schedule for so many years, they've been in that date since 2009, part of our schedule since 1972, it's their 100th anniversary and they are hosting the Ryder Cup in 2018.

Keith Pelley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Sirius XM treats every single owner of a pre-1972 song the same, namely it doesn't pay them, so it was appropriate for this court to grant class certification.

Henry Gradstein

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There are these and other great causes that we were elected overwhelmingly to carry forward in November of 1972. And what we were elected to do, we are going to do, and let others wallow in Watergate, we are going to do our job.

Richard Nixon

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Nixon had three goals to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history to be remembered as a peacemaker and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession.

Henry Kissinger

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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