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How to use the word Citadel in a Sentence?

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Last week, [Vice] President Harris and I stood in the United States Capitol to observe one of those ‘before and after’ moments in American history: January 6th insurrection on the citadel of our democracy.

Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

At this hour, our democracy's under unprecedented assault, unlike anything we've seen in modern times. An assault on the citadel of liberty, the Capitol itself.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

At this hour, our democracy's under unprecedented assault, unlike anything we've seen in modern times. An assault on the citadel of liberty, the Capitol itself, this is not dissent, it's disorder. It's chaos. It borders on sedition, and it must end now. I call on this mob to pull back and allow the work of democracy to go forward.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Presumably that's why Citadel Securities vehemently opposed IEX's D-Limit order type.

Dennis Kelleher

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The fact that someone died, the number of people taken and the apparent use of explosives to breach the ship's citadel means it is a potential game-changer, it's clearly quite sophisticated and if pirates have decided to use munitions it's a big move.

David Johnson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The government paid no attention to the sites and didn't build canals to divert flood water, we have warned the government about the dire condition of the citadel but no one visited.

Ghulam Sakhi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We have warned the government about the dire condition of the citadel but no one visited.

Ghulam Sakhi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

To admit foreigners indiscriminately to the rights of citizens the moment they put foot in our country would be nothing less than to admit the Grecian horse into the citadel of our liberty and sovereignty.

Alexander Hamilton

added by Normando
4 years ago

Unless you're Goldman Sachs, Citadel, a big fund that trades big volume, CME doesn't care.

Peter Kelly

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is it, there won't be anymore. They (Pimco and Citadel) prefer not having me consult too many firms and I personally think working with two firms will be plenty.

Ben Bernanke

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.

Edwin Markham

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

John Keats

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.

Terry Pratchett, Eric

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness.

Archibald MacLeish

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

Demades

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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