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How to use the word DISPLACE in a Sentence?

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This field is not intended to initially displace traditional animal agriculture. There( are) too many needs right now, but it's going to start slowly and build.

David Kaplan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that they don't want us in Nooksack at all — they just want to displace us from our traditional homelands as a whole, i grew up with these people and even though I may not be blood related to a lot of the people on the opposing side, we all considered each other family.

Michelle Roberts

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What happened in Afghanistan has solidified those views and moreover, on top of that they are trying to create a narrative that will promote America’s decline, there is a very wide ranging, comprehensive approach to displace the United States as pre-eminent world power, that includes stealing our technology, sowing divisions between the U.S. and its allies, campaigns to heighten political divisiveness in the US, the list goes on and on.

James Anderson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

All the world’s armies are involved in investments ... in military manufacturing, but for the military to invest in the productive sector, and to displace the private sector, is unacceptable.

Abdalla Hamdok

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The tactics we are facing, of sneaky and illegal foreclosure tactics, predatory banking and loans, elected judges who take campaign contributions from the real estate industry, coupled with violence from law enforcement and no real due process, have been used across this historically Black neighborhood to displace Black and poor people, if Black and Indigenous lives matter in Portland, this must stop.

Julie Metcalf Kinney

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The illicit drug market here is at a tipping point as synthetic opioid production appears to be migrating into places with deep governance problems like the Golden Triangle, southeast Asia could well become a source of opioids for other parts of the world while these substances get mixed into or displace part of the regional heroin supply.

Jeremy Douglas

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Apparently that was a tactic used back in 1972 and our river experts have looked at that very closely and are saying that would just not work in this situation, it would not displace the ice, it would just create tighter jams in some places.

Don Scott

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This will gradually displace people as it goes, we know this is already happening in small island communities and this will just continue to happen gradually as more and more houses are being inundated at high tide, then at normal tide and then even at low tide.

Zoe Thomas

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Today I would say it is going to be really hard to displace Elizabeth Warren, elizabeth Warren has not had a meteoric rise, Elizabeth Warren has had a slow and steady rise. Elizabeth Warren's got a big organization and they are smart and they are doing stuff all over.

Jeff Link

Found on CNN
4 years ago

While electric truck sales will be fairly significant in coming years, I don't think it will displace diesel anytime soon especially in highway, long-haul trucking where obviously battery capacity and range anxiety present itself.

Tim Denoyer

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Unfortunately, loopholes in the program have allowed a small handful of employers to game the system to displace American workers, and crowd out others who legitimately need the limited slots ... to recruit individuals with unique skill sets not available here at home.

Darrell Issa

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The long-term impact willlikelybe greater, as this breach impacts millions of consumers who trust Equifax with their most personal information, and trust is at the core of their business, based on its severity and the sheer numbers involved, a breach like this will displace consumer trust, and potentially wipe out additional value quickly.

Bill Mann

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

KRG (Kurdistan Regional Government) forces appear to be spearheading a concerted campaign to forcibly displace Arab communities by destroying entire villages in areas they have recaptured from IS in northern Iraq, the forced displacement of civilians and the deliberate destruction of homes and property without military justification, may amount to war crimes.

Donatella Rovera

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Despite their steady losses to pro government forces, the scourge of ISIL continues to kill, maim and displace Iraqi civilians in the thousands and to cause untold suffering.

Jan Kubis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The purpose of legal immigration should be to grow the economy, not displace American workers, under no circumstances should legal immigration levels be adjusted upwards so long as work-force participation rates remain below historical levels.

President Obama

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

My gut feeling says there are a lot of forces out there -- especially European vested interests -- that were never keen on November and December matches, so will quite happily use this to try and displace Qatar 2022.

Guy Thomas

Found on CNN
8 years ago

People trying to build projects that bring North American crude oil to displace imports at California refineries now have another thing they have to deal with.

David Hackett

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As I fighter, I say that as their will to displace us increases, so does ours to defend ourselves and to attack them.

Naji Dawoud

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Natural disasters displace three to 10 times more people than all conflicts and war in the world combined.

Jan Egeland

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.

Jan Egeland

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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