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How to use the word DECADES in a Sentence?

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Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs -- even when we benefit from them. I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.

– Charles Koch

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2 months ago

This led us, for instance, to understand that they can not survive without a specific sugar called trehalose, without this sugar, they just dieWhile there are no clear practical applications for a deep understanding of cryptobiosis, that should not be a reason to stop the research, Dr. Teymuras Kurzchalia said.The discovery of semiconductors, or of the double helix structure of DNA, Teymuras Kurzchalia said, took decades to yield a practical use, but ultimately turned out to be revolutionary.

– Teymuras Kurzchalia

Found on New York Times
9 months ago

It’s logical that United States has n’t yet developed a nationwide high-speed network, for decades, traveling by car was n’t a hardship, but as highway congestion gets worse, we’ve reached a stage where we should start looking more seriously at the alternatives.

– Scott Sherin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Effectively requiring Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro to cease distribution of mifepristone after more than two decades would upend the status quo, severely harming women, healthcare systems, and the public.

– Justice Department

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Almost two decades ago, AI enthusiasts like myself and my research peers had only dreamt of mass market adoption we are seeing today, and we know this is just the true beginning, just like smartphones, if applied well, the positive impact of AI on our lives can far outshine the negatives. We’re working on responsibly innovating using AI to advance the wedding and event industry as a whole.

– Vishal Joshi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The preliminary ruling by a federal judge in Texas is an assault on science and the FDA’s long-standing role as the authority to make decisions on the safety and efficacy of medicines. For a court to invalidate the approval of a drug that was reviewed and approved more than two decades ago is without precedent. As legal scholars have noted, the courts do not have the medical expertise to make these types of scientific determinations.

– Rachel King

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The company continues to believe that these claims are specious and lack scientific merit, however, as the bankruptcy court recognized, resolving these cases in the tort system would take decades and impose significant costs on LTL and the system.

– Erik Haas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

However, as the bankruptcy court recognized, resolving these cases in the tort system would take decades and impose significant costs on LTL and the system.

– Erik Haas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re fighting for justice and liberty, just like the American story, that’s the values that that are being represented symbolized back when we look at our flag, that’s something that was lacking lacking for the last few decades. So basically, we reclaim the flag.

– Yiftach Golov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The thing is I would happily shred my IMDB page, my [resume], because I specialized in being bad for decades really, i got better.

– Hugh Grant

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That’s a very significant component of change that’s already underway around Antarctica with more to come in the next few decades.

– Matthew England

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Complications in some areas include decades of over-pumping of groundwater, leading to land subsidence and decreased groundwater storage capability – you can see a couple of low well readings in the San Joaquin Valley, more realistically, there is a bit of lingering ‘groundwater drought’ in northeastern and southeastern California.

– Brad Rippey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Fed needs to secure both price stability and financial stability, something that it has failed to so recently, having already dug itself, and the US economy, into a big hole with its prolonged mischaracterization of inflation and flip-flopping policies, it can ill afford another slippage in what is proving to be the biggest policy mistake in the last four decades.

– Jerome Powell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Hitting distances at the elite level of the game have consistently increased over the past 20, 40, and 60 years. It’s been two decades since we last revisited our testing standards for ball distances, predictable, continued increases will become a significant issue for the next generation if not addressed soon. We are taking the next steps in this process, guided first and foremost by doing what’s right by the entire game.

– Mike Whan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It flies in the face of decades of scientific and clinical evidence, the fact that this lawsuit can undercut something that we know that is extremely safe, extremely effective, and is one of the most accessible ways right now to get an abortion, I think, is absolutely terrifying.

– Dana Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If prosecutors file a retrial after all these decades to the Supreme Court, it will display the extent to which Japanese justice is not functioning.

– Kiyomi Tsunagoe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Paul Sorvino was one of the greatest actors in cinematic history in Hollywood. It is unconscionable that he would be left out of the In Memoriam segment of the The Oscars, it’s a three-hour show, they ca n’t give a couple more minutes to get it right ? Paul Sorvino gave decades to this industry and was loved by all. Paul Sorvino was not the only deserving soul left out, and a QR Code is not acceptable.

– Dee Dee Sorvino

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In some ways, it was reassuring that the SUID rate didn’t increase, but it just further emphasizes what we’ve been seeing over the past couple of decades: We’re not successfully moving the needle on reducing these deaths.

– Parks Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The one and done aspect of the tournament makes it so very, very difficult to win it. So it ’ll be exciting, look, there’s no sport that takes over the whole country for one month like this tournament does, and for me to be a part of that tournament for over four decades was an incredible honor.

– Mike Krzyzewski

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We don’t have an easy way to be diagnosed until it is almost too late, this really saved my life and potentially has given me decades back that I might not have had.

– Monica Monfre Scantlebury

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every president really in the modern era, especially in the last three or four decades, has stretched the use of unilateral action.

– Steven Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I remember vividly waking up at 3 a.m., talking to my counterpart in the EU, Bjoern Seibert, and saying, ‘It’s go time,’ by 5 p.m., the package was made public and it was a moment when the major democracies of the world moved faster and stronger than we had in decades.

– Daleep Singh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In coming decades, winter — as most people understand it — will get shorter and warmer, with less snow and more rain, this poses a serious threat to winter recreation: snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, and downhill skiing.

– Robert Wilson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The claim that Darwin’s theories were at the core of eugenics, the racial science at the core of Nazism, are not new. They are not revisionist history made upon the revelations of the Death Camps. These claims precede The Holocaust by several decades. American and British icons of science, namely Darwin’s relatives and colleagues, were making this claim before Adolf Hitler was even born, and continued to do so on up through the end of WWII.

– A.E. Samaan

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1 year ago

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