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How to use the word 2001. in a Sentence? Page #3

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We began our fight against al Qaeda in 2001 and it took us quite a few years before we were able to eliminate Osama bin Laden and the top leadership and neutralize them as an effective force. We hope to do Daesh much faster than that and we think we have an ability to do that.

State John Kerry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Bundling the BRICs together may have made sense in 2001 but in recent years they have all gone in different directions.

Lena Tsymbaluk

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What they were saying is that he was in a training camp in Afghanistan in 2001. He was there for just two months. And regardless of what has happened since then it makes no difference to them.

Hadayt Nazami

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is the biggest town they've been able to take since 2001, this is a significant target and prize for the Taliban.

Nic Robertson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is certainly the first major breach of a provincial capital since 2001, they are choking the Afghan forces from all sides. It looks pretty grim.

Graeme Smith

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As a young man, I made a mistake that I deeply regret and for which apologies may still not be enough, after I moved with my wife to Los Angeles from New York City in 2001 shortly after 9/11, I told people that I was in one of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11. It wasn't true. I was in Manhattan but working in a building in midtown and I was not at the Trade Center on that day.

Steve Rannazzisi

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Sandbar sharks were all along the coast, while most of the dusky sharks were off North Carolina, we captured a bull shark for the first time since 2001, and recaptured 10 sharks previously tagged by our program and two sharks tagged by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.

Lisa Natanson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

But I laughed when I read between 2001 and 2012 IAAF did not do the work.

Lamine Diack

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

El Chapo has wanted to control Nuevo Laredo since 2001, there were three very strong moments in the war for the control of this city and he never could do it.

Ivan Archivaldo Guzman

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

For example, should people have piped drinking water? Everyone will say yes. But in India in 2001, 45,000 villages had populations less than 100, some of those villages are in hilly areas where they get perfectly clean drinking water from streams, so what is the objective? Is it to get drinking water from taps or just to get clean drinking water?

Bibek Debroy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is the most intense period since the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States, all nine plots seen this year have been in support of The ISIS '.

David Inserra

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Remember back then we thought about al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and a few other places? well, we've seen al Qaeda metastasize. It is now a global scourge. And you have the ascendancy of ISIL. The combination of those two groups -- their appeal to the lone wolfs and we see them acting in Belgium and in France and in Canada and the United States so the threat factors and the nature of the threats are far more complicated and far more serious today than on September 12, 2001.

Tom Ridge

Found on CNN
9 years ago

My criteria for collection are a significant history, original condition, American origin whenever possible, and beauty. At the time of purchase, in 2001, the only car that I didn't have that fit all those criteria was the Cobra Daytona Coupe, so I really wanted it very badly.

Martin Eyears

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Afghan women have made a huge amount of progress since 2001. Millions of women have sent their daughters to school, studied themselves, gone out to work, participated in elections, or even just started leaving the house freely none of which they could do under the Taliban.

Heather Barr

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

My husband was diagnosed in 2001 with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma— cured by the Abramson Cancer Center, so I'm very committed to the cause.

Sarah Keating

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It has been difficult for me to forget spending hours crying in the Indian Wells locker room after winning in 2001, driving back to Los Angeles feeling as if I had lost the biggest game ever -- not a mere tennis game but a bigger fight for equality.

Serena Williams

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I'm very skeptical about our ability to rewrite the 2001 authorization after we go through a debate on the ISIL operation, i'm not sure we have the appetite to go through another round.

Adam Schiff

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The last Australian submarine came off the production line in about 2001. As I understand it the last Swedish submarine came off the production line in about 1996, so it's almost two decades since Sweden built a submarine, we are working with the three countries that have continuous, relevant submarine experience.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I became alarmed as soon as I started seeing technical intelligence reports on China’s modernization programs. I could say the same of Russia’s modernization programs as well. We came out of the Cold War with a very dominant military. We demonstrated that military conclusively in the first Gulf War and we used it effectively against any conventional force since. Since 2001 we’ve been involved in counter insurgency, the precision-munitions revolution that we demonstrated has been emulated by others.

Frank Kendall

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

One of the limitations of this study is we’re using data that was collected from 2001 to 2004, we need better studies on how to promote safe firearms storage especially in households with children and children with mental illness.

Joseph Simonetti

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We have invested in this since 2001 because we believe in the long term potential, we believe that it will be competitive with oil-based products, but it would obviously take a longer time for us if the oil price stays at this level. But commodity prices fluctuate.

Sebastian Soderberg

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When (former president Gen. Pervez) Musharraf sided with the U.S. in 2001 after the 'you are either with us or against us' line from (then-President George W.) Bush, this is when the Taliban began to resent the military.

Raza Rumi

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I want to see the end of diesel in Paris by 2020, today 60 percent of Parisians already do not have cars, compared with 40 percent in 2001. Things are changing quickly.

Anne Hidalgo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.

Stanley Kubrick

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10 years ago

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