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How to use the word Philippines in a Sentence?

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You look at India, you look at the Philippines, you look at Australia, you look at the United States, Canada or Japan. They (China) have had in just the last three months a military or some type of confrontation with every country. And then they’re shocked that countries are taking their own steps for deterrence to protect themselves. What did they think they were going to do?

Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is difficult for the new Marcos administration to justify accommodating Beijing’s policy preferences when previous attempts at doing so by the previous government were not reciprocated, beijing’s continued bullying, like we saw in the case of the China Coast Guard blinding Philippines Coast Guard sailors with a laser (recently), has only helped to make the case for a stronger alliance.

Jeffrey Ordaniel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

An armed attack on Philippine armed forces, public vessels and aircraft will invoke State Antony Blinken mutual defense commitments under that treaty, the Philippines is an irreplaceable friend, partner, and ally to the United States.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was a Soviet officer, most likely a lieutenant, who simply saw the opportunities presented by three factors that came with the collapse of the USSR and the state sponsorship that entailed : abandoned aircraft on the runways from Moscow to Kiev, no longer able to fly because of the lack of money for fuel or maintenance ; huge stores of surplus weapons that were guarded by guards suddenly receiving little or no salary ; and the booming demand for those weapons from traditional Soviet clients and newly emerging armed groups from Africa to the Philippines.

Douglas Farah

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is quite exciting for us, because it's a new experience really, hopefully we'll see( the) parade and some new things that we don't know about the UK,( as) we're fresh from the Philippines.

Schanelle Pampolino

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Whatever happens next, this country has never been here before. The kind of volunteer spirit that Leni Robredo has sparked, that in order to get out of social media, there are volunteers going house to house -- that has never happened in the The Philippines '.

Leni Robredo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They've been using a lot of influencers or content creators on YouTube, to peddle this fabricated narrative about the Marcos Jr era being the golden age of the The Philippines ', that there was peace and order during the time.

Fatima Gaw

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In The Philippines the second source of information -- after television, more than any broadsheet newspaper, more than radio -- is Facebook and YouTube.

Dindo Manhit

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's the rise of social media, in The Philippines the second source of information -- after television, more than any broadsheet newspaper, more than radio -- is Facebook and YouTube.

Dindo Manhit

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The pilot safely ejected from the aircraft and was recovered via U.S. military helicopter. The pilot is in stable condition, there were seven total Sailors injured; three Sailors required MEDEVAC to a medical treatment facility in Manila, Philippines, and four were treated by on-board medical personnel.

The Navy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There were seven total Sailors injured; three Sailors required MEDEVAC to a medical treatment facility in Manila, Philippines, and four were treated by on-board medical personnel.

The Navy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is an eruption best witnessed from space, the large and explosive lateral spread of the eruption suggests that it was probably the biggest one since about the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines.

New Zealand-based volcanologist Shane Cronin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The large and explosive lateral spread of the eruption suggests that it was probably the biggest one since about the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines.

New Zealand-based volcanologist Shane Cronin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I am angry at the way this COP is not managing climate change as a crisis. We can't even talk about fossil fuels in the final text. Polluters are more welcome than people and this is what we, as youth, will keep doing : fighting to phase-out fossil fuels, i live in the Philippines, one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world, and I am so sick of having to say that sentence over and over and over because I have to keep talking about my climate trauma and my climate anxiety, just so that we understand how urgent the climate crisis is. We have to get past that point. We have to go past the point of having to explain that the climate crisis is here.

Mitzi Jonelle Tan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If the results are accurate, then human colonizations of the Philippines and surrounding regions were even more complex than we thought up to now.

Chris Stringer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Donald Trump gave a cue to leaders around the world that attacking the media was now fair game, when Donald Trump launched attacks on the media( over their coverage) of Donald Trump shambolic handling of the pandemic, the very moment the public needs as accurate information as possible, leaders in India, Brazil, the Philippines and Western Europe followed suit, denying the severity of the virus to cover their own failures.

Rob Mahoney

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Three times as many Filipino health care workers have died here in the US than in the Philippines, so right away we know that there's something wrong.

Jollene Levid

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It lets The US very clearly call out China's activities as illegal, not just destabilizing or unhelpful, but to say this is illegal, that helps partners like Vietnam and the Philippines, and it's going to put pressure on other countries -- the Europeans, for instance -- to get off the fence and say something themselves.

Gregory Poling

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Holcim Philippines operates in a high-growth market and is profitable, but the divestment would have helped LafargeHolcim to reduce its net debt by 1.8 billion Swiss francs, however, even without this transaction we expect the company's deleveraging to proceed.

Bank Vontobel analyst Bernd Pomrehn

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

In a very short period of time, we ended up identifying individuals in the Philippines and seeking the assistance of Philippine law enforcement, and a very short time after that, the Philippine authorities ultimately made an arrest.

Michael Vatis

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We will continue to communicate with the Philippines and explain that this is a one-sided and wrong decision by the Philippines' health ministry, which has already affected the relationship between the two countries of Taiwan and the Philippines.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Joanne Ou

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

However, the decision to impose the 14 days quarantine period for all travelers coming from China, Hong Kong and Macau has to be respected in view of the health and safety of the Philippines government for its people, it is in this respect that the above event will not see the teams from China and Hong Kong competing. The India's Women Team withdrawal was owing to concerns shown by the parents and players.

Badminton Asia

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Philippines is immediately ordering the Bureau of Immigration to deny US Senators Dick Durbin and Patrick Leahy the imperious, uninformed, and gullible American legislators who introduced the subject provisions into the 2020 budget entry to the Philippines.

Salvador Panelo

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

After 2017, once Hong Kong.As ISIS started losing territory in the Middle East, its message shifted, it started encouraging militants to travel to Mindanao, in the The Philippines, and establish a caliphate there.

Zachary Abuza

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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