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How to use the word Clerk in a Sentence?

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During this time, the Congressman will be submitting written statements for the record to the House Clerk for any missed recorded votes, to keep his constituents updated on his positions.

Mitchell Rivard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I feel like I'm being attacked, particularly by Commissioner Couy Griffin, in all the years that I've been clerk, I've never had a commission doubt anything about our elections.

Robyn Holmes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You become a file clerk rather than a trial lawyer.

Joan Illuzzi-Orbon

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think it would be entirely appropriate for any law clerk who lawyers up and tells the chief justice or the Marshal of Supreme Court,' No, I won't let you see my cell phone records. They're too intimate and too private,' will need to take the consequence, and I think those consequences should include losing their job and losing the CV value, the resume value that job would otherwise have going forward.

Laurence Tribe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Or it could include information about a friend or family member of a clerk who is engaged in conduct that is unlawful.

Catherine Fisk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Imagine you’re a clerk in a bodega and are the victim of a knife point robbery, not only could the guy not go to jail, he could get charged with a misdemeanor, that is the definition of insanity.

Daniel Bibb

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is a situation of an insider threat, the Mesa County Clerk knowingly allowed a breach of security, and by all evidence, assisted Mesa County.

Jena Griswold

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think this is troubling for the entire state of Colorado, to have someone in a trusted position, literally trusted to protect democracy, allow this type of situation to occur, to be very clear, Mesa County Clerk and Recorder allowed a security breach and, by all evidence at this point, assisted it.

Jena Griswold

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It creates these sort of challenges where, how does the store clerk check it ? How does our health department actually enforce any rule at all ? So, while I respect many of the jurisdictions that are trying to, I think, really have adherence to The CDC( guidance), it's a challenge for us.

Quinton Lucas

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I objected, I brought senior law enforcement over, we broughtthe clerk of elections over.

Gregory Stenstrom appearedwith two other

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The presence of firearms at the polling place, clerk's office( s), or absent voter counting board may cause disruption, fear, or intimidation for voters, election workers, and others present.

Jocelyn Benson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When I was a law clerk to Justice Scalia.

Amy Coney Barrett

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We do want, if citizens do choose to vote by mail, for them to do so early, we don't want them to wait to the last minute to either request to return their ballot through the mail, and certainly as we get to within two weeks of the election, we're going to be telling every voter, to not return your ballot through the mail, it's too close to Election Day return it at a local dropbox or at your clerk's office.

Jocelyn Benson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Many of the states were totally unprepared for this, so we had to go into the federal stockpile, we're not an ordering clerk. They have to have for themselves.

President Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The states should have been building their stockpile. We have almost 10,000 in our stockpile and we've been building it, we've been supplying it. But the states should be building. We're a backup. We're not an ordering clerk.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Governors are supposed to be doing a lot of this work, and they are doing a lot of this work. The federal government's not supposed to be out there buying vast amounts of items and then shipping. You know, we're not a shipping clerk, we'll help out, and we'll help out wherever we can.

President Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I am now going to have to accept a report card from a foreign country and ... a foreign passport as authenticated documents.I myself as the clerk am going to have to do that, we used to have to rely on a third party, the fed government, to do that so they have diminished a New York drivers license, and we are very concerned for our safety and security because western New York is a border to Canada.

Michael Kearns

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

They have to follow their passions, whatever that might be, if you want to be a teacher, be a teacher. There's no need for them to work in finance. In fact only one of my children is in the business - my eldest daughter Carrie, who runs our foundation. She actually started for us as a file clerk.

Charles Schwab

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The court file was not supposed to be sealed. I think what happened was the clerk sealed the whole thing, we ... do not believe that the court file should be sealed. We believe in transparency, even on difficult situations.

Kim Foxx

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk.

J. C. Penny

added by Normando
5 years ago

When I read it the first time, you know, and then you're like, wait a minute, this can't be, though, it said file a claim, please see the clerk, and I knew right away, something, more than $ 500.

William Smith

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I ’m sure every nominee before you would have personal beliefs about that precedent and many others. But all nominees are united in their belief that what they think about a precedent should not bear on how they will decide cases. She was more pragmatic two years ago – just days before the presidential election – about the chances that Roe v. Wade would be overturned in coming years : I don't think the core case -- Roe's holding that women have a right to abortion -- I don't think that will change, but I think the question of whether people can get late-term abortions -- how many restrictions can be put on clinics -- I don't think that will change. Brett Kavanaugh, steady insider The federal appeals court here in Washington is seen as a professional stepping-stone to Supreme Court. Three current justices( John Roberts, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas) served on that bench before joining the high court, as did Scalia. Now Brett Kavanaugh is poised to make the leap, though if history is any guide, Brett Kavanaugh could face an especially tough Senate confirmation. It is the image that may cement – or sink – the Supreme Court aspirations of Brett Kavanaugh. Brett Kavanaugh elevation to the federal appeals court was celebrated with a Rose Garden swearing-in by a fellow Catholic who's now retiring from the bench, Justice Anthony Kennedy, for whom Brett Kavanaugh served as a law clerk in 1993. Front and center : Brett Kavanaugh former boss, President George W. Bush, the man who nominated Brett Kavanaugh. I chose Brett Kavanaugh because of the force of Brett Kavanaugh mind, the breadth of Brett Kavanaugh experience and the strength of Brett Kavanaugh character.

President George W. Bush

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

( The clerk) said the suspect appeared to be scared and in a hurry when he knocked on the door.

Michelle Ashby

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The clerk didn’t even look up at me from her computer. She only asked: ‘Which one’s the minor?’ She didn’t assess if I was safe or needed something. He was 30 years old at the time, but nobody questioned the fact that he was so much older.

Donna Pollard

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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