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How to use the word Absolute in a Sentence? Page #11

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Border Patrol agents are already overwhelmed in trying to perform Border Patrol agents own duties, this program will turn the credible fear screening process into an absolute farce.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

Found on CNN
4 years ago

[N]othing can be more opposed [to American principles] than the maxims of absolute monarchies. Yet, from such, we are to expect the greater number of emigrants. They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogenous, incoherent, distracted mass.

Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
4 years ago

I have no doubt any of these conversations happened behind the scenes, that makes absolute sense, but there had never been any indications until now that such efforts had come close to bearing fruit. This would be extraordinary news. It was clearly a message directed at the Venezuelans regime and at specific figures in the Venezuelan regime.

Kevin Ivers

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Chasten Buttigieg candidacy is an example of the absolute speed with which we are getting there. I think it is very clear, Chasten Buttigieg being gay is clearly an asset, in a way, Chasten Buttigieg gives people a chance to almost atone for past wrongs.

Barney Frank

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Washington is an absolute pressure cooker right now.

Don Lemon

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's competing to the best of your ability, it's trying to be the absolute best that you can so for us the expectation is always the same, success for us looks like winning.

Megan Rapinoe

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Success for us is very simple and it is very clear from the first second that you get on the team, whether it is like a passing pattern or a small-sided game or a friendly or a World Cup final — it's winning, it's competing to the best of your ability, it's trying to be the absolute best that you can so for us the expectation is always the same, success for us looks like winning.

Megan Rapinoe

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I think the case in Chicago is an absolute embarrassment to our country and I have asked that it be -- that they look at it, somebody has to at least take a very good hard look.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I am cancer free as far as we know, it was a totally crazy adventure, I mean the absolute opposite of what I expected coming off the gold medal, but it's amazing how quickly my athlete frame of mind took over and I just knew this was going to be my latest challenge.

Kikkan Randall

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There comes a point where it's very possible, although we'll do our absolute best and risk our all to try to get to Chief Olsen, there may be instances where it's just not possible for us to do that.

Chief Olsen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Make no mistake, when juniors play on grass they have an absolute ball, it's unique and I can tell you if there were more grasscourt opportunities juniors would love to play on it.

Leon Smith

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

What a load of absolute and disgraceful rubbish. Completely false. Madness.

Mark Gibson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If he tries to withhold even one word of the Mueller report from Congress, they are going to litigate this question to the absolute end of the earth.

Susan Hennessey

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Barr isn't going to have the final say here, if he tries to withhold even one word of the Mueller report from Congress, they are going to litigate this question to the absolute end of the earth.

Susan Hennessey

Found on CNN
5 years ago

When you fail to agree, failing to reach middle ground will be an absolute failure.

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added by anonymous
5 years ago

It would be an absolute travesty if NHS patients aren't part of a system specifically designed to protect them. But that's exactly what could happen in a 'no deal' Brexit, it is just another reason why we urgently need a Brexit deal.

Rick Greville

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's a nightmare, it's an absolute nightmare.

Don McEachin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The PS4 is an absolute smash-hit and destroyed Sony's direct competition, Microsoft, in this console generation, everyone is waiting for the PS5 now.

Serkan Toto

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Rural areas suffer less in absolute terms but have much lower incomes, so the percentage hit is greater, this is consistent with the intuition in most research on climate impacts -- that poor places are more vulnerable and, while they lose less in absolute terms, they have even less they can afford to lose.

Mark Muro

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is the absolute bratwurst heaven and I love that, i wanted to get a bit of holiday feeling in my house and ... make the bratwurst attractive for the whole world.

Claus Boebel

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It gets people interested, a lot of people seem to think that a no-deal Brexit means everything remains the same. Of course it doesn't, it's an absolute disaster.

David Quinn

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Continue to stand tall, your dedication, resilience, to this adversity defines the absolute best of our nation.

Karl L. Schultz

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Zimbabwe is going through both political and economic reforms and these do not come easily. It will take time for things to settle and results to be shown, in normal circumstances the president should have canceled the trip or booked a flight back home to deal with a very urgent situation, but it could be that he has absolute confidence that his deputy is in charge.

Emmerson Mnangagwa

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

In normal circumstances the president should have canceled the trip or booked a flight back home to deal with a very urgent situation, but it could be that he has absolute confidence that his deputy is in charge.

Eldred Masunungure

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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