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How to use the word Minor in a Sentence? Page #9

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The injuries, losses and harm to the plaintiff were caused by the negligence and carelessness of the minor defendant in that a reasonable eight year old under those circumstances would know or should have known that a forceful greeting such as the one delivered by the defendant could cause the harms and losses suffered by the plaintiff.

Jennifer Connell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We had findings of minor damage on one engine, which we're evaluating, our target remains unchanged to start aircraft deliveries this year.

Clay McConnell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Saudi Arabia's rulers, instead of shifting blame (to others), must accept their responsibility in this heavy mishap by apologizing to the Islamic Ummah and their bereft families, and meeting their obligations to that effect, the Muslim world has many questions, and the deaths of more than 1,000 people in this incident is not a minor issue; therefore, the Muslim world must think of a remedy to this issue.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It was a minor part of the program, but a very important part, we had some of the finest mechanics and some of the finest machines available.

Don Pellmann

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The lack of accountability in these cases stands in stark contrast to disciplinary actions taken against VA whistleblowers, the VA has attempted to fire or suspend whistleblowers for minor indiscretions and, often, for activity directly related to the employee's whistleblowing. While OSC has worked with VA headquarters to rescind the disciplinary actions in these cases, the severity of the initial punishments chills other employees from stepping forward to report concerns.

Special Counsel Carolyn Lerner

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The influx of migrants into Budapest, specifically, has caused interruptions in local and regional train service, we have had Monograms guests in the region and while they have not faced any safety concerns, we have made alternate arrangements for them to travel by coach instead of train when going from Budapest to Vienna. Other than that minor transportation shift – and monitoring the situation very closely, of course – it has been business as usual for Globus, Cosmos and Monograms throughout Europe.

Steve Born

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

You can't force the trees to do anything they don't want to do. We learnt this early on, if you shape a branch in the wrong way and it doesn't like it, it's just going to die, a new shoot will grow lower down, we've got to have a kind of relationship with all of these trees where what we're doing to them is nothing more than a very minor inconvenience.

Gavin Munro

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The majority of minor bicycle injuries don't get reported, so we don't get to learn from them.

Benjamin Breyer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We asked residents to report any suspicious activity they happen to see, whether they think it's something minor or major and to keep an eye out for these three individuals.

Christopher Covelli

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When I sit down with a baseball player, major or minor, they usually know about my background. It offers instant credibility.

Marc Wilkins

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We did not request these redactions from TC, especially since the document in question is showing minor findings, largely administrative in nature.

First Air CEO Brock Friesen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Integration is a relatively minor process, we can get a fleet of robots up and running in a matter of days.

Simon Drexler

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

According to a mandate, in 90 days they have to determine the status of these people as refugees, but in reality it can take four to five years, if a minor, a child, cannot go to school for four to five years, what is his future? A whole generation of Pakistani Christians in Bangkok is being destroyed.

Farrukh Saif

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

They're desperate to buy product, there's scarce little of it, and so they're willing to absorb whatever minor remaining risk is perceived to exist.

Woody Heller

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We made a minor change to the story shortly after it went online that said the investigation was in connection with her email use, it didn't really deviate our story much from where we were before.

Michael Schmidt

Found on CNN
8 years ago

No, there are no Mexican immigrants building anything, there has been some minor grading to make sure the site drains properly, but there has been no work at the site specifically for the cemetery dedicated to Mr. Trump and family.

Trump Ed Russo

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There has been some minor grading to make sure the site drains properly, but there has been no work at the site specifically for the cemetery dedicated to Mr. Trump and family.

Trump Ed Russo

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This video of the arrest of Sandra Bland shows totally outrageous police behavior, no one should be yanked from her car, thrown to the ground, assaulted and arrested for a minor traffic stop. The result is that three days later she is dead in her jail cell.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We would like to see European involvement in this because we have a small, relatively minor court making huge decisions that impact not only Romanian assets, but now European assets, we don't think that's right.

Thomas Mueller

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Autumn's doing very well. She was severely dehydrated, had some minor burns, abrasions, several lacerations that were all taken care of and are healing well, she's extremely exhausted and will remain pretty spent for the next couple of days.

James Wallace

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I have absolutely no support for a city that ignores the strong evidence that should be acted on. ... If it were a first-time traffic citation, if it were something minor, a misdemeanor, that's entirely different, this man had already been deported five times. And he should have been deported at the request of the federal government.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I have absolutely no support for a city that ignores the strong evidence that should be acted on. ... If it were a first-time traffic citation, if it were something minor, a misdemeanor, that's entirely different, this man had already been deported five times. And he should have been deported at the request of the federal government.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What made Dylann Roof do what he did? You know, I mean, that's the question, isn't it? I don't know, there are pieces of the puzzle, and you put them all on the jigsaw board, and you're still going to have a big hole there. What I do know is that violent behavior -- whether it's serious violence or minor violence in populations -- is never just one thing. It's not a one thing problem. It's going to be an accumulation of things, kind of a whole cocktail of factors.

Jeffrey Swanson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There are pieces of the puzzle, and you put them all on the jigsaw board, and you're still going to have a big hole there. What I do know is that violent behavior -- whether it's serious violence or minor violence in populations -- is never just one thing. It's not a one thing problem. It's going to be an accumulation of things, kind of a whole cocktail of factors.

Jeffrey Swanson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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