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How to use the word Absolute in a Sentence?

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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

– James A. Garfield

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4 months ago

So low and hopeless are the finances of the United States, that, the year before last Congress was obliged to borrow money even, to pay the interest of the principal which we had borrowed before. This wretched resource of turning interest into principal, is the most humiliating and disgraceful measure that a nation could take, and approximates with rapidity to absolute ruin: Yet it is the inevitable and certain consequence of such a system as the existing Confederation.

– William Richardson Davie

added by Normando
4 months ago

Now the truth of the matter is, there is nothing wrong with this country. Please. The message I want to leave with you is that there's nothing wrong with this country that the proper leadership won't cure. We've been here before. In 1787, the economy of our nation was in absolute chaos and as a consequence, they met in Philadelphia to form a new country, and when they did, they did the right things, and in the second State of the Union address, which was written at that time by George Washington, he said the foundations, the economic foundations of our nation are on such sound footing that it would have been a madman would have suspected 3 years ago. The fact is that the chaos that they're creating doesn't mean that America can or has to be in decline. It means that we need to remove them as rapidly as possible and get people that know what to do and America will continue to climb.

– Bob McEwen

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4 months ago

The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of the majority, with force, threats, and intimidation being the order of the day. Today's federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. ... [The War] also laid to rest the great principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that 'Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.’

– Walter E. Williams

added by Normando
9 months ago

Ms. Notley likes to show grainy videos of things I said while I was on radio and the reason she does that is she doesn’t want to run on her record, and the reason she doesn’t want to run on her record is it was an absolute disaster.

– Danielle Smith

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

I’m happy to meet with McCarthy, but not on whether or not the debt limit gets extended. That’s not negotiable, they quote Reagan all the time and they quote Trump, both of which said. … I’m paraphrasing – it would be an absolute crime to not extend the debt limit.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
11 months ago

What they created is an absolute legal mess, OK? It will not work.

– Martin Garcia

Found on CNN
11 months ago

There is, understandably, within Ukraine an absolute outrage against those who are perceived as collaborators. But the fact of the matter is that we are dealing here with a civilian population … that was seeking refuge in a time of war.

– Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters Raymond

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While each of those stories is unique, together, they reveal themes and behaviors typical of adults who abuse children, and those who enable that abuse by concealing it, what was consistent throughout the stories was the absolute authority and power these abusive priests and the church leadership held over survivors, their families and their communities.

– Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think there’s one absolute: We’re not going to do a clean debt ceiling.

– Garret Graves

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Someone having health insurance isn’t necessarily an absolute capture of someone’s access to health care, someone who doesn’t have insurance may not be employed or may not have a full-time job, and that comes with its own health risks. … It is hard to say that these two things would be the sole drivers.

– Joshua Jacobs

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think you’re able to rely on it, but there is a tail risk in that lack of absolute certainty.

– Lloyd Blankfein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is about building up our capacity. And when you talk about the issue of manufacturing submarines in Australia, that’s an absolute priority for us. That will be seen as part of the announcement, briefings are taking place, as appropriate, with other countries.

– Anthony Albanese

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is the absolute worst outcome for a stalking case.

– Redmond Police Chief Darrell Lowe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The government had a duty to disclose all evidence, especially exculpatory evidence, the government’s duty in this regard is not subject to discretion. It is an absolute duty.

– Albert Watkins

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Joe Keery is an absolute legend and he’s so damn good as Steve Harrington, i’m super proud of him.

– Joe Keery

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the early months of the shortage, it was absolute desperation.

– Hannah Kroll

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Thank you guys for allowing me to live my absolute dream, i would n’t change a thing.

– Tom Brady

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool – an absolute fool.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I felt like the absolute worst kind of officer, someone who didn’t help – couldn’t help – their friend, sometimes when I close my eyes I can still see his face, white as a sheet.

– Caroline Edwards

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The absolute last option.

– Brian Fitzpatrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think happy is a place that you go to visit, and I think that for me, striving to be a hundred percent happy all the time is just unattainable. It’s like sometimes you have to look in the mirror and be like, ‘I’m having a great day today.’ You know what I mean? And you have to give yourself that pep talk. Then some days you’re like, ‘No, I feel like absolute trash right now.’ But I think that the point is like you never know what’s really happening and life is complex and so nobody’s one shade of anything. There’s a spectrum of light and dark and happy and sad and it’s constantly moving.

– Julianna Hough

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are going to turn all those stones over, we’re going to come to the right conclusions and we’ll be ruthless about rooting out those who corrupt our integrity. You have my absolute assurance on that.

– Metropolitan Police

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Legislative has no Right to absolute arbitrary Power over the Lives and Fortunes of the People: Nor can Mortals assume a Prerogative not only too high for Men but for Angels, and therefore reserv’d for the Exercise of the Deity alone.

– Samuel Adams

added by Normando
1 year ago

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