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How to use the word Periods in a Sentence?

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If you don't want to miss someone or something don't spend excessive periods of time without them.

Ryan Pack

added by littleking
3 months ago

Poetry often explores universal themes and experiences such as love, loss, nature, identity, and the human condition. These themes resonate across cultures and time periods, making poetry a timeless art form that can connect people from different backgrounds.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
6 months ago

There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. There are periods when the principles of experience need to be modified, when hope and trust and instinct claim a share with prudence in the guidance of affairs when, in truth, to dare is the highest wisdom.

William Ellery Channing

added by JokerGem
9 months ago

It will be the memorial not only for those people who will be buried there from the battles of Russian-Ukrainian war, for the heroes, but also it will be the memorial for all of the defenders of our country when Ukraine was fighting for the independence in different historical periods.

Yulia Laputina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The descendants of the people who walk through that door were strong people, proud people, people have of deep faith. People who love their families, their traditions, their culture, and carried that innate being with them through all of these periods, went on to fight for civil rights, fight for justice in the United States of America and around the world. And all of us, regardless of your background, have benefited from their struggle and their fight for freedom and for justice.

Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The government of Ethiopia is taking the first steps by publicly releasing a detailed green paper with transitional justice options based upon best practice and building upon the experiences of other states emerging from periods of mass violence.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m not able to do manual work (which in this case means typing or using a mouse) for extended periods of time without my hands starting to cramp, i can however write for an hour or two at a time. This wasn’t a problem in Twitter 1.0 since I was a senior director and my job was mostly to help teams move forward, give them strategic and tactical advice.

Haraldur Thorleifsson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I need to have a charger on my phone because I travel so much, this one is a lifesaver because a lot of times I ’m out and about for long periods of time.

Everette Taylor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s critical for members to have district work periods to hear from their constituents on a variety of matters.

Eric Cantor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s difficult to overstate how sour a taste this left in the hundreds of thousands of people at one of the most emotionally charged periods of the year.

Scott Keyes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Winter temperatures may have gotten as low as freezing for short periods of time, but we know that there were hardly ever any sustained freezing temperatures because crocodilians have been found on Ellesmere Island, and they cannot survive long freezes, in the summertime, temperatures reached about 70 degrees Fahrenheit.

Chris Beard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you try to envision how life evolved from the first organic molecules, it had to have been a herky-jerky process, full of twisted pathways and failures, most of them must have gone nowhere. But evolution has a way of creating winners from countless experiments over long periods of time.

Author Levitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The temperature threshold for when iguanas begin to go into a dormant state depends greatly on the size of the iguana, generally speaking, the larger the iguana, the more cold it can tolerate for longer periods.

Ron Magill

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is a misunderstanding that because children do not get as severe disease as a cohort, in general, as the elderly individuals and those with underlying conditions — we still lost 1,400 children, so, although you have to be aware and not deny that there are deleterious consequences for prolonged periods of time for keeping children out of school, remember, the safety of children is also important.

Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

China's electricity demand has been incredibly flat in the past, because so much of it has come from the industry, not from households or services. Now with air conditioning becoming more common, the demand is becoming higher, at the same time, rains are becoming more errant. Heavy rains and periods of drought make hydropower much less reliable as a source of available capacity during those peaks.

Lauri Myllyvirta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think being a man will help me to break down barriers, reduce stigma and encourage more open discussions. Although affecting women directly, periods are an issue for everyone, it's time to normalise these topics and get real around the subject.

Jason Grant

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With our partners, we will be looking at fine-tuning the existing distribution and availability of products, including sustainable options and even plan performing art workshops in schools and colleges to improve education around periods.

Jason Grant

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Bond investors are expecting the economy to cool down, but equity investors are still looking at decent earnings. There are companies with pricing power and stocks that generate income, a 60-40 portfolio is not properly positioned in periods such as this where inflation is running hotter than bond yields.

Wayne Wicker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's the value of production within the physical borders of the United States, so therefore if you have, hypothetically, exports that are flat and higher imports, then your trade deficit is rising. In that sense, a rising trade deficit subtracts from GDP, when you have highly fluctuating commodity prices, and especially in periods of high inflation in general, then it can be misleading and, in my opinion, paint an overly negative view of where The US economy is.

Jacob Kirkegaard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you have highly fluctuating commodity prices, and especially in periods of high inflation in general, then it can be misleading and, in my opinion, paint an overly negative view of where The US economy is.

Jacob Kirkegaard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are limits in terms of number of hours per year certain facilities can operate for environmental purposes, the Secretary of Energy or the EPA could waive some of those restrictions to allow for greater use of existing assets to meet these periods of shortfall. So, there is something right here you could do in summer of 2022 to help mitigate the situation a little, but there's a lot more investments [ that are ] going to have to [ be ] made in the long run.

Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Part of the misconception about its age came from mixing of fossils from different layers during early excavations, using this method, we can more accurately place ancient humans and their relatives in the correct time periods, in Africa, and elsewhere across the world.

Darryl Granger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Parents are encouraged to place the infant in tummy time while awake and supervised for short periods of time beginning soon after hospital discharge, increasing incrementally to at least 15 to 30 minutes total daily by 7 weeks of age.

press release

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It would overturn modest and overwhelmingly popular safeguards like waiting periods, informed consent laws and possibly even parental notification.

Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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