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How to use the word Earned in a Sentence? Page #7

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It's my duty to make sure Montana veterans get what they need and have earned, and I'll never stop fighting for them as their Senator.

Jon Tester

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

We've all been listening - but now, it's time to act, my No. 1 focus right now is passing a 20 percent pay raise for Arizona teachers. This raise is earned, and it is deserved.

Doug Ducey

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

As Director of the CIA, Mike has earned the praise of members in both parties by strengthening our intelligence gathering, modernizing our defensive and offensive capabilities, and building close ties with our friends and allies in the international intelligence community.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I passionately believe that we must remain a land of opportunity for those who are willing to work for it, we ALL deserve an accountable immigration system providing a clear, affordable path to citizenship for those who qualify and have earned it. We also need secure borders. While those two ideas should not be mutually exclusive, our current climate politicizes an issue that, at its core, has real lives at stake, the site reads. Tipirneni calls for a solution for DACA and comprehensive immigration reform. She said she is opposed to Trump’s proposed border wall as she believes the funds for it.

Democrat Hiral Tipirneni

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Thad’s well-earned reputation as a ‘quiet persuader’ has endeared him to all his colleagues. Whatever the issue at hand, his allies and adversaries have always admired his unfailingly even keel, sober expertise, and respectful demeanor.

Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Though this was a difficult decision, we take plagiarism seriously, and will not allow the hard-earned trust we’ve built with our millions of loyal readers to be compromised, when we became aware of this incident on Saturday, we took swift and decisive action to verify the extent of the plagiarism, and deleted the article with an editors’ note.

Daily Beast Editor-in-Chief John Avlon

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I earned good money. ISIS treated me good and I worked for them for two years.

Abu Mohammed

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Veterans are truly this nation’s most valued treasure, james has earned the right to sit back and just enjoy life. Yet through Wounded Veterans of Oklahoma, he continues to sacrifice for the benefit of others who have served this country with honor and pride.

Sheriff Vic Regalado

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

FOUNDERS QUOTES ON FOUNDING PRINCIPLES Individual Liberty Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood. – John Adams, 1765 Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness. – In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world, may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the most triumphant epoch of its history, and the most consoling presage of its happiness. – James Madison, Essays for the National Gazette, 1792

James Wilson, Of the Study of the Law in the United States, 1790

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6 years ago

The study made the determination based on what it called sufficient evidence from epidemiological studies that eating processed meat causes colorectal cancer. A generation ago, America tackled tobacco. It took time and a lot of arm-twisting, but eventually cigarettes were banned from airports, restaurants, hospitals, and even the teachers' lounge in every school in the country, Dr. Neal Barnard, founder and president of PCRM said in aninterview with Vice.Today, the issue is food. Neal Barnard, who earned Neal Barnard M.D. from George Washington University, argues for a variety of policy changes including implementing plant-based diets and ending animal-based research. Scientifically, there is no argument. Everybody knows we should n’t be serving this stuff to children.

Neal Barnard

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It's plain and simple: Gorsuch has not earned the votes in the Senate to join the Supreme Court, republicans can't fix Gorsuch by changing the rules. They need to change the nominee.

Tom Perez

Found on CNN
7 years ago

In that time, she has earned the deep respect of her colleagues for her unique ability to not only take the long view but also to coordinate the many moving parts of an administration.

Tom Cotton

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It’s important to remember that money is the number one stress factor for most people and most relationships, in a two-income family, there can be a mentality where one partner thinks, ‘I want to use the money I earned as I see fit.’ Very often, they’re afraid that their partner won’t approve of how they spend money or they’re embarrassed or fearful that their partner will find out about a bad habit.

Ted Beck

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

My father found his discharge papers a couple of months ago, and when we were reading through them, we realized that there were some medals listed that he didn't really know that he earned, we saw in there, there were two bronze stars that I didn't know about because I never read my discharge at all. I had been overseas for 38 months, and I gave the Army a lot, but I was out, and I left it alone.

Carna Curry

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Jeff Bock, a box office analyst with Exhibitor Relations, declared to Variety. But Ben-Hur isn't the only epic fail. Proving that Americans aren't impressed with much of Hollywood's summer slate, there have been multiple flops, including the Ghostbusters remake, Alice Through The Looking Glass, Star Trek Beyond, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Independence Day: Resurgence, The Legend of Tarzan, Warcraft, X Men: Apocalypse, and the Steven Spielberg directed fantasy, The BFG. Still, as The Wrap just reported, North American ticket sales are up 2.84 percent over 2015 receipts at this time. The films have cumulatively earned an astounding $4.14 billion domestic in figures calculated from 108 days after the first Friday in May until Aug. 22. This summer suffered from the problem of perception versus reality.

Paul Dergarabedian of comScore

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I understand that parents feel they have to spend their hard-earned money on what they feel are unnecessary supplies for their children.

Amy Rhine

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Von's earned this contract not only for what he's done in the past but for what we believe he'll do in the future. This was a long process that ended the way we all wanted - with Von being part of the Denver Broncos for many more years, our team had a tremendous year last season, and the way Von performed the final few weeks was such a big part of our Super Bowl run.

Denver Broncos outside linebacker

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

There were a lot of skeptics in New York, and she earned their trust, and then she got re-elected. … I’ve seen Hillary Clinton up close and personal. The voters of New York saw her up close and personal. And I often judge a person by what they did when they weren't in the spotlight. And Hillary Clinton has spent her entire life breaking down barriers.

Coverage Perez

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Beyond the health effects of the federal government’s corrupt food stamp policy is the tragedy of billions in wasted taxpayer dollars that buy candy and soda through a program that was originally designed to reduce hunger. Maine taxpayers see it every day at the grocery store and they are sick and tired of watching their hard-earned money go down the drain.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The cumulative points system is designed to deter flagrant fouls in our game, while Draymond Green's actions in Game Four do not merit a suspension as a standalone act, the number of flagrant points he has earned triggers a suspension for Game Five.

Kiki VanDeWeghe

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The golden youth are not popular, such behavior, from people who haven't earned a rouble and who still have milk drying on their upper lips, provokes hatred. The police need to see this through to the end.

Pyotr Shkumatov

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Secretary McDonald’s preposterous statement is right out of Never Never Land, i call on Secretary McDonald to resign because Secretary McDonald preposterous statement’s clear Secretary McDonald can not prioritize getting our veterans the health care they deserve and have earned in a timely manner.

Roy Blunt

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The Assyrian community worldwide has been watching this case. What do you think our opinion of the U.S. government will be if they insist on ruining a man who has earned the utmost respect and gratitude of his people worldwide?

Robert DeKelaita

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We are infuriated that one of our leaders was targeted for helping people escape the horrors of Iraq and Syria, the Assyrian community worldwide has been watching this case. What do you think our opinion of the U.S. government will be if they insist on ruining a man who has earned the utmost respect and gratitude of his people worldwide?

Ramon Michael

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

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