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How to use the word MAJOR in a Sentence?

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The American notion of freedom transcended the political realm and in fact extended to every major category of human relationships, including those between employer and employee, clergyman and layman, husband and wife, parent and child, public official and citizen. Americans believed that, as of July 4, 1776, all men were created equal, and that any impairment of a man’s equality was destructive of his liberty also.

David M. Potter

added by Normando
3 months ago

Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others - with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means.

Henry Grady Weaver

added by Normando
5 months ago

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.

Ayn Rand

added by Normando
5 months ago

There are 7 major chakras, 21 minor chakras and 86 micro chakras in human body. Among the 114 chakras, 112 chakras reside within the body and the other 2 are outside the body.

Amit Ray

added by Anisha
5 months ago

Safer & Better world can not be achieved without a serious commitment to an energy mix and a clear path for decarbonization by the major energy consumers.

Sofiane Ben Tounes

added by Sofiane
9 months ago

A major argument against voting is that it makes no difference, and if that’s the case, let me explain that the person’s vote does make a difference.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
10 months ago

It’s hard to adhere to a diet in a society which allows ultraprocessed comfort foods like bacon-on-a-stick to be the norm, and asking society to change a major tenant of everyday living is going to be very challenging, but I would also tell you the plant-based food movement is the fastest-growing food movement in the country.

Christopher Gardner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re much better when we detect things before there’s an emergency, we can prevent major emergencies from happening.

Anne Schuchat

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Major labels would undoubtedly, and have already begun to, argue that their copyrights (and their artists’ intellectual property rights) are being infringed.

Audrey Benoualid

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We know this is happening in colleges. A major takeaway of the new study is that misuse and sharing of stimulant prescription medications is happening in middle and high schools, not just college.

Deepa Camenga

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In some schools there was little to no misuse of stimulants, while in other schools more than 25% of students had used stimulants in nonmedical ways, this study is a major wake-up call.

Sean Esteban McCabe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

(The US is) a major leader in economic growth around the world. It cannot let that happen.

Christine Lagarde

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I just cannot believe that they would let such a major, major disaster happen.

Christine Lagarde

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The major parties in Khartoum, some weeks ago reached a very important framework agreement on how to proceed with a transition to civilian government. And there’s been real progress in trying to move that forward.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The labor market for the first time looks like it is starting to move into better balance, as well it should with major US corporations announcing cutbacks in the thousands almost nearly every day.

Chris Rupkey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Fertility decreases as the age of the female partner increases, fertility is really an emotionally taxing issue for those who are affected by it. It is a major source of stress to want to have a child and not be able to.

Emre Seli

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Fertility is really an emotionally taxing issue for those who are affected by it. It is a major source of stress to want to have a child and not be able to.

Emre Seli

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have major issues with barriers to passage in their historic habitat, with dams preventing them from utilizing hundreds of miles of it.

Jordan Traverso

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This new technique provides vascular surgeons and also other interventionalists further options to decrease major amputations and improve amputation-free survival.

Christopher Abularrage

Found on CNN
1 year ago

CER fully supports the completion of a high-speed rail network connecting all major cities, urban nodes and airports, it will reduce rail travel time between EU capitals and major cities to under four and six hours and, with affordable and comfortable trains, rail will become the preferred mode of transport. This is why it is essential for all [ EU ] member states to invest in high speed rail.

Alberto Mazzola

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As California goes, eventually so goes the nation because manufacturers don’t want to make things that they can’t sell to the fifth-largest economy in the world, so California’s actions have major impact not only in the US but worldwide.

Linda Birnbaum

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s very explicit and clear in terms of identifying the United States as a major security threat.

Alexander Korolev

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This IPCC report is both a blistering condemnation of major emitters’ inaction and a sound blueprint for a much safer and more equitable world.

Ani Dasgupta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If he had some major medical concern, there are a lot of things I would give up so he would get care, there’s just no question in my mind. If my diet was going to be more beans than something else, I would n’t hesitate. If I had to sell my sterling silver, which I’ve had for 60 years, that would go before my little ‘ Whiskers ’ would be deprived.

Courtesy Patricia Kelvin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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