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How to use the word Needless in a Sentence?

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No one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana, it’s legal in many states, and criminal records for marijuana possession have led to needless barriers to employment, housing, and educational opportunities. And that’s before you address the racial disparities around who suffers the consequences. While white and Black and brown people use marijuana at similar rates, Black and brown people are arrested, prosecuted, and convicted at disproportionate rates.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Businesses must make a concerted effort to hire and promote women who may or may not be up to par with their male counterparts, in addition, the chemistry of having women in a masculine environment may reduce business cohesiveness and productivity from what it might have been otherwise( this is especially true of the military, although by no means limited to it). Needless to say all these things subtract from a team's effort to produce efficiently.

John Gibbs

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I believe that any attempt by Austin to restrict, regulate, or hamper the sales of firearms does violate state preemption laws. And that violation of the preemption law risks a lawsuit from the attorney general, which I think is a needless waste of taxpayer resources.

Mackenzie Kelly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I am the parent of a student who's in high school and anything that we can do to restrict access to AR-15 makes my son safer and every other parents, kids in our community safer. i believe that any attempt by Austin to restrict, regulate, or hamper the sales of firearms does violate state preemption laws. And that violation of the preemption law risks a lawsuit from the attorney general, which I think is a needless waste of taxpayer resources.

Mackenzie Kelly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Needless to say it brought great pleasure and comfort to me, we're showing the world what a dysfunctional family does.

Larry Strickland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This family is shocked and heartbroken at the loss of their son, this young man was the kind of son every parent hopes for -- an honor roll student, an aspiring athlete, and a kind-hearted person who cared about others. Needless to say, his family is absolutely devastated.

Ben Crump

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If Russia attacks Ukraine, it'll be met with overwhelming international condemnation, the world will not forget that Russia chose needless death and destruction. Invading Ukraine will prove to be a self-inflicted wound. Russian President Vladimir Putin (Yuri Kochetkov/Pool).

Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

President Former President Donald Trump and I worked together for years, president Trump and I've had President Trump and I differences … but needless to say, I helped Former President Donald Trump on Former President Donald Trump agenda, Former President Donald Trump America First agenda. In fact, there's not another Republican in the state in Nevada that did more on the America First agenda than myself. In this Sept. 7, 2018, file photo, former Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev, speaks during a visit by Vice President Mike Pence at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas. Dean Heller is one of the front-runners in the Nevada GOP primary to take on Governor Sisolak. ( Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP) NEW PUNCHES IN CHINA FISTFIGHT BETWEEN DR. OZ AND DAVID MCCORMICK IN PENNSYLVANIA GOP SENATE RACE Joe Lombardo, meanwhile, is leveraging his law enforcement background as he laps the field in fundraising. The sheriff raised over $ 3.1 million for his campaign so far.

Dean Heller

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There might be a couple marginal adjustments to policy to make sure police can do their jobs, but that we don’t have needless injuries and deaths and use of force, i think we can thread that needle.

Roger Goodman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Needless to say, I am honored, but let me be clear : If I am nominated, I, like every other district judge who's been considered for elevation to the circuit, will continue to do my day job, which means presiding over this trial through completion and handling the literally hundreds of other civil and criminal matters on my docket.

Judge Alison J. Nathan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Needless to say, Ray Charles loved country music, as a matter of fact, he risked a lot in 1962 when he decided to record ‘Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music.’ I cannot express enough how happy and honored Ray Charles would be at this moment in time, as I am for him. Congratulations to all the fellow inductees and as Ray Charles would say, ‘That is so nice.’.

Valerie Ervin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was curious what was inside and opened the bag. Inside was a shoebox, and inside the shoebox was the dress ! I couldn't believe it, my co-worker and I quickly grabbed some gloves and looked at the dress and took some pictures before putting it back in the box and heading over to the( University) Archives. Needless to say, I have found many interesting things in Gilbert Hartke during my time at Catholic University, but I think this one takes the cake !

Lecturer Matt Ripa

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The JEDI contract has been burdened by potential conflicts of interest, size, needless delays and its single awardee structure.

Chuck Grassley

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The SEC has failed the American people by repeatedly selecting Wall Street defense lawyers as Directors of Enforcement, they come to the SEC with needless and unhelpful baggage, including crippling conflicts of interest regarding current and past clients as well as a mindset...ill-suited to being an aggressive enforcer.

Dennis Kelleher

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I'm sorry for the needless pain that I put you through, thank you for speaking out and thank you for giving me a second chance.

Michael Cohen

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I remember walking into our living room one morning and seeing my dad kneeling in front of an entire car motor, he had a small hydraulic floor crane that he had used to hang the motor. Needless to say, my mom was livid at him for bringing all of his tools into the house.

Bethzabet Martinez Amador

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We anticipate many more sanctions and we will not stop until Assad and his regime stop their needless, brutal war against the Syrian people and the Syrian government agrees to a political solution to the conflict.

Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Anyone can't get a test around the country. Granted, more tests are coming forward, but look, this needless complacency that The President has engaged in from the very beginning, the President knew about this crisis all the way back in January and February. The President's been incompetent the way in which The President responded to it.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to :' Open America Again,' then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks throughout the country, this will not only result in needless suffering and death, but would actually set us back on our quest to return to normal.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Needless to say, I strongly disagree with that assertion, but that is what millions of Democrats and independents today believe.

Bernie Sanders '

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

While our campaign has won the ideological debate, we are losing the debate over electability. I can not tell you how many people our campaign has spoke to and said, and I quote,' I like what your campaign stands for, I agree with what your campaign stands for, but I'm going to vote for Joe Biden because I think Joe Biden is the best candidate to defeat Donald Trump,' we have heard that statement all over this country. Needless to say, I strongly disagree with that assertion, but that is what millions of Democrats and independents today believe.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Mustafa Kassem death in custody was needless, tragic and avoidable, we send our sincere condolences to Mr. Kassem's wife and family at this painful time.

David Schenker

Found on CNN
4 years ago

A MLF colleague of mine lost his wife and family this week to a needless, irresponsible series of events in Iran. U.S. government leaders unconstrained by checks/balances, concocted an ill-conceived plan to divert focus from political woes, the world knows Iran is a dangerous state, but the world found a path to contain it; not perfect but by most accounts it was the right direction.

Chief Executive Officer Michael McCain

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Closely monitoring the situation following bombings targeting U.S. troops in Iraq. We must ensure the safety of our service members, including ending needless provocations from the Administration and demanding that Iran cease its violence. America & world cannot afford war.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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