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How to use the word HASTEN in a Sentence?

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I think that will very hasten our engagement and clinical trials and, I hope, allow us to have more successful therapeutic clinical trials in in the next five years.

Kathleen Poston

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Expanding Medicare beyond its current mission of seniors 65 and older threatens to speed up Medicare’s insolvency and would hasten the day Medicare no longer has enough money to provide health care for seniors.

Jake Cox

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Yet let me hasten to add I am very distressed to learn that she herself has been a victim of one of these pipe bombs. I just think everybody needs to step back and reassess their rhetoric and urge people to remember that we are all Americans, that we should be working together, and that there is no excuse for such rhetoric, i believe all of us in public life need to model better behavior.

Susan Collins

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Initially investors saw Trump's moves as negotiation tactics to get better deals. But now they are starting to worry about the damage to the economy, people have long thought the U.S. economy will eventually hit a recession at some point. But there are growing worries Trump's trade policies may hasten that. The fear now is that 'America First' may become 'America Worst'.

Mutsumi Kagawa

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I expect that Venezuelan production will continue to decline and the upcoming elections hold the spectre of the U.S. imposing additional sanctions on Venezuela that may hasten the loss of supply.

Andrew Lipow

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The whole world rightly condemns the use of chemical weapons in Syria, but the US attack on the Assad regime does nothing to lower tensions, nor will it hasten peace in that country, too often, rash responses to horrific situations are about the conscience of the attacker rather than a clear-headed response to an awful situation.

Paul Nuttall

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It always struck me as more conservative aspiration than meaningful prediction that the confirmation of a Justice Gorsuch might hasten Justice Kennedy's retirement, if anything, having Judge Gorsuch on the court would only crystallize Justice Kennedy's vital role at the center of the court -- and make it that much more difficult for him to leave on terms that might lead to a fundamental shift in the court's ideological balance.

Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Israel should not hasten to attack Iran, doing so only when the sword is upon its neck.

Meir Dagan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Let's not delay or hasten the timetable for a vote.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We see before our very eyes a stark retreat from the red lines that the world powers set themselves only recently, and publicly, there is no reason to hasten into signing this bad deal, which is getting worse by the day.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That is why I think we need to redouble our efforts to get -- hasten this delivery of equipment to them, their training to support Prime Minister Abadi, we can't make this happen by ourselves, but we can assist it to happen, and we are counting on the Iraqi people to come behind a multi-sectarian government in Baghdad.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We have seen these reports as well, however, I do not want to hasten to confirm anything before we study them in greater detail.

Nickolay Mladenov

Found on CNN
9 years ago

However, I do not want to hasten to confirm anything before we study them in greater detail.

Nickolay Mladenov

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Certainly this (draft) will not hasten an agreement because without Israel's consent, nothing will change.

Avigdor Lieberman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Certainly this will not hasten an agreement because without Israel's consent, nothing will change.

Avigdor Lieberman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Others of us are at the table not in spite of our actions in the patriotic protests but because of them. They are united by the shared passion to promote understanding, to hasten healing, to ensure equal opportunities in education and employment and to safeguard the civil rights of all our citizens.

Jay Nixon

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.

J. Paul Getty

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Blaise Pascal

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Swami Sivanada

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore; So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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