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How to use the word Appropriate in a Sentence?

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I’ve always signed pro-life bills and if a pro-life bill comes to me that sets reasonable restrictions but also has the appropriate exemptions, yes I would sign it.

Asa Hutchinson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our converted planes can also carry a nuclear warhead. You heard from the president of Russia about joint plans to create the appropriate infrastructure on the territory of Belarus. I just want to clarify: The entire infrastructure has been created and is ready.

Alexander Lukashenko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today, some analysts ask whether incorporating into bank supervision the perceived risks associated with climate change is appropriate, wise, and consistent with our existing mandates, in my view, the Fed does have narrow, but important, responsibilities regarding climate-related financial risks. These responsibilities are tightly linked to our responsibilities for bank supervision. The public reasonably expects supervisors to require that banks understand, and appropriately manage, their material risks, including the financial risks of climate change.

Jerome Powell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We no longer state that we anticipate that ongoing rate increases will be appropriate to quell inflation, instead, we now anticipate some additional policy firming may be appropriate.

Jerome Powell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It would be very unfortunate if, out of solicitude for the banking system, the Fed were to slow down its rate of interest-rate increase beyond what was appropriate given the credit contraction.

Mohamed El-Erian

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The current level of real interest rates is relatively appropriate.

Yi Gang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In order to safely prescribe Paxlovid, the potential for DDIs needs to be considered by all prescribers, both to take actions to manage DDIs and also to determine whether Paxlovid is an appropriate treatment choice for each individual patient when factoring in the risks of serious adverse reactions due to DDIs.

The FDA

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

Air Force One is going to be incredible, it’s going to be the top of the line, the top in the world. And it’s going to be red, white and blue, which I think is appropriate.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Although a curative treatment is not yet available, early diagnosis and treatment of chronic HBV infections reduces the risk for cirrhosis, liver cancer, and death, along with vaccination strategies, universal screening of adults and appropriate testing of persons at increased risk for HBV infection will improve health outcomes, reduce the prevalence of HBV infection in the United States, and advance viral hepatitis elimination goals.

The CDC

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Birks are back in style( as if they ever left !) and this is one of the brand’s most popular waterproof options, they’re equal parts stylish and functional, and as appropriate for a Saturday beach day as they are for Sunday morning brunch.

Amanda Oliver

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What people are experiencing is real, and we want to take their very real symptoms very seriously, but we want to make sure we’re arriving at the correct answers and working with their doctors to arrive at the best, most appropriate treatment plan.

Health Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But we want to make sure we’re arriving at the correct answers and working with their doctors to arrive at the best, most appropriate treatment plan.

Health Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’ve made clear over many, many months that we were prepared to engage with North Korea without any preconditions. The response from North Korea has been missile launch after missile launch, we have been very clear that our commitment to the security of our close allies and partners – South Korea and Japan – is ironclad. And beyond making that clear, we have been working very closely together in full coordination to take appropriate steps to strengthen even more our deterrence and defense capacity.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even in the best of times, the number of folks who are screened is far too low, go ahead and follow the guidelines, get screened when appropriate, and the outcomes will be better.

William Dahut

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I do not believe in litmus tests of any type, it’s no more appropriate to ask somebody about their position on DEI than it is to ask them if they’re a Christian or a Muslim. When we find out something like that has occurred, we stop it.

Tedd Mitchell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s been no conversation with the affected community, $100 a month is affordable to scholars at Ivy League institutions; it’s not affordable to under-resourced academic and civil-society researchers. If Twitter had that community in mind, it would be absolutely appropriate for them to reach out and have some conversations and perhaps introduce a sliding scale approach to this.

Rebekah Tromble

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There were lots of questions about whether an additional dose of polio vaccine was appropriate, and this just opens the door for the use of another dose of inactivated virus, that is injectable polio vaccine, in those circumstances where, for example, a local health department in concert with the CDC might recommend that.

William Schaffner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She was thrilled when we got together, she said it just seemed appropriate.

Graham Kidner Vickie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Because of the difficulties encountered in attempting to reach a timely contractual arrangement with Mr. Barnes, we felt it appropriate to seek out other African American authors to speak at the schools. the contract statement is an excuse the Hoover School District wants to hide behind for their horrible and unpopular decision.

Dee Fowler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

After considerable discussion, in conjunction with significant compelling mitigation related to Ms. Fieramusca and the possible appellate issues related to the search of her residence, both parties feel that this is the appropriate resolution, i imagine many have questions that will never be adequately answered, nevertheless, I hope that this plea brings some closure to this family’s great loss.

Brian Erskine

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To the extent possible, the news media should give people the opportunity to see at least portions of it and give them the opportunity not to see it — or for parents and guardians to withhold it from children if they deem appropriate.

Margaret Sullivan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is up to a parent, like they would for any other topic, to make it developmentally appropriate.

Riana Elyse Anderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

After reviewing various sources of information involving this incident, I have found that it is necessary to take immediate and appropriate action, today, the department is serving notice to the officers involved of the impending administrative actions.

Chief Davis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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