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How to use the word MENACE in a Sentence? Page #2

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I have personally tried to reach government officials to agree on how to act on this menace but I don’t get appointments. I make calls that are unanswered.

Kipchoge Keino

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I have personally tried to reach government officials to agree on how to act on this menace but I don’t get appointments. I make calls that are unanswered, we even tried to convince senior government officials to attend these meetings, but they instead delegate to junior officers.

Kipchoge Keino

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We will fight together to eliminate the menace of terrorism. Our joint efforts against terrorism have succeeded so far, but we have to intensify the efforts to achieve our goals.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It did stir a lot of ambivalence and even outright criticism from people who say, 'Well you know, ISIS is bad but at least ISIS is standing up to the Shiites and the Iranian menace,' now this war on the Houthis is a godsend to them because they are able to stir up this new Saudi nationalism, this pan-Sunni fervor, and it's to show they are defending the Sunnis... for domestic benefit.

Fredric Wehrey

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

In January, a horrible, horrible terrorist attack took place in Paris, you'd think it would have heightened the urgency to pass a homeland security bill, but the Republicans still say no to passing a clean bill unless they can be a menace to immigration.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.

Seán O'Casey

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

Anthony Burgess

added by anonymous
10 years ago

To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.

Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

Herbert Butterfield

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

Jean Kerr

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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14 years ago

Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets.

Unknown

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14 years ago

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