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How to use the word ABATE in a Sentence?

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We've also received allegations that Alabama Department of Public Health has failed to carry out their responsibilities to abate raw sewage conditions, thereby placing Black residents of Lowndes County at higher risk for disease, based on our careful and thorough review of those allegations and an extensive review of publicly available information, we find significant justification to open this investigation, now.

Kristen Clarke

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Every dollar paid here is one dollar less for states like Connecticut trying to maximize money from Purdue and the Sacklers to abate the opioid epidemic, preserving Purdue's ability to continue selling opioids as a public benefit corporation is simply unacceptable. The timing of this agreement mere weeks before the election raises serious questions about whether DOJ political leadership was negotiating in the best interest of the American public.

William Tong

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Those who emit the most are probably in the best position financially to abate those emissions, but we also need all hands on deck to deal with this problem, so we need to address low-income households.

Benjamin Goldstein

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There are some indications that headwinds to global growth may be beginning to abate.

Richard Clarida

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

To protect the climate, we must abate the most carbon at the least cost and in the least time.

Mycle Schneider

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If we do not abate it, more Oklahomans will die.

Terri White

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This is not a blip, the forces that are driving more and more people from their homes - weak states, big tumults within the Islamic world, a divided international system .. None of these things are likely to abate soon.

David Miliband

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We face a very serious level of threat that is complex to combat and unlikely to abate significantly for some time.

Director General Parker

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

added by anonymous
10 years ago

All wit and fancy, like a diamond, The more exact and curious ?tis ground, Is forced for every carat to abate As much of value as it wants in weight.

Butler

added by anonymous
12 years ago

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