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How to use the word BEACON in a Sentence? Page #2

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This is really strange circumstances because normally under pressure entertainment and music always survives. People want to feel good. They wan na come out and see music and we wan na be able to be there as a beacon to help remind them that everything is going to be OK during hard times, but this has been crippling because people can't gather together.

Zac Brown

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The United States and Tennessee have always been, since the very founding of our nation, a shining beacon of freedom and opportunity for the persecuted and oppressed, particularly those suffering religious persecution, my administration has worked extensively to determine the best outcome for Tennessee, and I will consent to working with President Trump and his administration to responsibly resettle refugees.

Bill Lee on Wednesday

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The flare must have been a bit like a lighthouse beam, imagine darkness, and then someone switches on a lighthouse beacon for a brief period of time.

Joss Bland-Hawthorn

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We really need to respond to the reality of treatment of vulnerable people at the border, we believe our country should uphold values of dignity, values of being a king of a beacon of hope in our world. We see this as something thatsnot happening.

Christopher Kerr

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This is the right that we deserved from a long time ago, as a beacon in Asia, I hope Taiwan's democracy and human rights could have a ripple effect on other countries in Asia.

Chi Chia-wei

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Not only in communities like this, but people who go through some tough times in their lives, columbine has become a beacon of hope.

Frank DeAngelis

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The extension was seen as a beacon hope, i think there will be a mobilization of voters who want to take part in what will be the most important and high-profile election in the history of the European Union.

Tom Brufatto

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Where the UK used to be beacon for stability, we are now becoming a laughing stock, it has been clear for weeks, that the only way that this will be resolved is through compromise between the government and parliament.

Juergen Maier

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This case must stand as a beacon to others that this conduct cannot be accepted.

Greg Andres

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I am not at all concerned that anyone in the world can look at the United States and understand it to be anything but a beacon of hope, democracy and freedom, we have a long history of that and it has continued under the Trump administration.

United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Those women need to keep their jobs, and all women need to be able to work, to be able to thrive, without fear. This kind of behavior exists across industries, and it is so long overdue for it to stop, this is a moment when we all need to be a beacon of light for those women, for all women, and for ourselves.

Ann Curry

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We’re saying, look, if you have problems with drugs or alcohol or depression, we’re here as a beacon of hope to come and to give people a better future.

Jayson Williams

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

In my experience working with patients, I’ve found that the universe can be an extraordinary beacon, no matter who we are and what our backgrounds are. When we attune ourselves to its frequency, it often answers our expectations and intentions. It also protects us from grave dangers. And, over time, it guides us to powerful places we might never have even imagined.

Paul Hokemeyer

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7 years ago

We can make Britain a beacon for open trade, we have already had a number of countries saying 'we'd love to do a trade deal with the world's fifth-biggest economy without having to deal with the other 27 members of the EU.'.

International Trade Secretary Liam Fox

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

When we go around the world saying, 'We're the beacon of democracy' and you know, with the Constitution and human rights and all that stuff, and that he's the president? look, there's no negating the fact that he's a great showman. But we're talking about the highest office in the United States of America. This is not a TV show.

Spike Lee

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We could hear it coming but saw no sign of the landing lights. It was dark, it got louder and louder ; then you could see the glow of the red beacon under the plane. He overshot the turn and went right over the car park and control tower as he powered up and went around for another try.

Daryl Chapman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A united Cyprus will stand as a beacon of hope in a tumultuous part of the world.

State John Kerry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is who we want to help, this is the face of people all around the world who still look to the United States as a beacon of hope.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

America was created as a land for religious freedom, and if these individuals are persecuted for their faith, we as a beacon of hope for the world should understand their pain more than anybody else.

Juliana Taimoorazy

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Gabon is almost like a beacon in the middle of all those countries that have lost hundreds of thousands of elephants over the last 25 years.

Michael Fay

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

While she was only here for a few months, Kipenzi was a beacon of light for her species and for the millions who watched her birth live on Animal Planet.

Dallas Zoo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is important for the United States to continue being a beacon of freedom for the Cuban people, i intend to work with my colleagues to block the administration’s efforts to pursue diplomatic relations with Cuba and name an ambassador to Havana until substantive progress is made on these important issues.

Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The UH-1 had launched to deliver tarps and rice, because of the terrain (it) had not been in contact for approximately two hours. No emergency beacon has been detected at this time.

Steve Warren

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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