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How to use the word Raise in a Sentence?

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Raise sons with love, not heroes. In everyday kindness and standing for what’s right, they become heroes in your eyes. Guide them like a compass, let love be their armor, and may the threads of their character weave an inspiring story in the tapestry of life.”

– Christen Kuikoua

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4 months ago

I'm not Christ - I can't raise the dead.

– Scott C. Holstad

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10 months ago

He has forgotten where he comes from, this nation can raise someone up, but we also know how to bring someone down.

– Fatma Cay

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

Because that’s going to cost us money, we’re going to have to raise taxes to pay for that.

– Martin Garcia

Found on CNN
11 months ago

This is about the most intimate decision of our lives — when, whether and with whom we have a child. Everyone should have the ability to make decisions about our own lives, bodies, and futures without political interference, we need to organize, raise our voices and our votes, and overturn this attack on our freedom and our lives. I have seen that when we take action and organize we can change the world.

– Heather Booth

Found on CNN
12 months ago

I think we got 218 to raise the debt ceiling, we’ve got a lot of consensus within the conference. We’ll get together and work through it.

– Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

From what I heard, removing Ukraine from the list of things that they’re going to discuss was a demand from the Chinese government, there’s still some interest from the Brazilian part to raise the issue and to discuss ideas, and they hope to release a joint statement where they mention the Ukrainian conflict, calls for a peaceful solution and mediated diplomatically, but it’s not officially on the program and to a large extent that was expectable.

– Igor Patrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s still some interest from the Brazilian part to raise the issue and to discuss ideas, and they hope to release a joint statement where they mention the Ukrainian conflict, calls for a peaceful solution and mediated diplomatically, but it’s not officially on the program and to a large extent that was expectable.

– Igor Patrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Russia is looking for any way to seize the information initiative, to try to influence the scenario plans for Ukraine’s counteroffensive, to raise doubts, compromise previous ideas and frighten with their ‘awareness.’ But these are just standard elements of the Russian intelligence’s operational game and nothing more. It has nothing to do with Ukraine’s real plans.

– Mykhailo Podolyak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think it is important to listen to patients when they raise concerns and for expecting mothers to be aware of the signs and symptoms of pregnancy or childbirth complications. There are actually lots of signs that doctors should be talking about and that patients should be aware of, what I feel is, sometimes there’s a gap between a patient complaining and the doctor listening. There is so much data showing that patients, especially African American Black patients, are not always listened to.

– Sarosh Rana

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If it looks like I can raise the money and mobilize enough people to win, I ’ll jump in the race.

– Caroline Kennedy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the year 2010 we are going to change the retirement age for Social Security, you cannot retire at age 65. You have to be 65 years and three months old. And in the year 2012, 65 years and six months in the year – literally raise incrementally the retirement age, beginning around the year 2010.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I still feel that as a sport going to places with human rights issues, such as this one, I feel that the sport is duty bound to raise awareness and try to leave a positive impact, and I feel like it needs to do more.

– Lewis Hamilton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They need to also think about how high they’re gonna raise the bar for Chinese investment in the US, and the consequences of completely excluding four of the top ten apps, what’s gonna replace them? And how is that going to play out? And how is that equitable to the investors in those apps versus US players?

– Duncan Clark

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I just want whatever the people of Iran want, i want to support them and raise awareness to what they want. I’m nobody to say what they should have or shouldn’t have.

– Mona Gorjestani

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They should raise rates, because their primary issue right now is inflation, and they have dealt with this immediate crisis.

– Thomas Hoenig

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside. And I think it was out of this experience, not at the moment consciously, but through the years, I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they require irrespective of their individual capacity to pay.

– Tommy Douglas

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1 year ago

We’re going to continue to litigate the case. And we’ll raise – continue to raise the issue of standing and, of course, the Establishment Clause.

– Jay Sekulow

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I tried to raise seed funding, but I got nearly 100 ‘no’s.

– Denise Woodard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Anybody who has seen fit to get on television and talk about this incident, talk about this issue, can do right by the people of East Palestine and everybody else who lives near a railroad, not just when it comes to this case, but when it comes to the future, by getting on the right side of this issue, and helping to raise – not lower – the bar of accountability for the railroad industry.

– Pete Buttigieg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When we went back on the 10th, that’s when we decided that we could n’t raise our kids here.

– Amanda Greathouse

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What I’m saying to folks is that I want somebody that is strong, effective, who can raise money, who can win, but I’m talking to everybody.

– Debbie Stabenow

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While the Fed signaled that it will continue to raise rates this year, the moves are expected to come in 25 basis point increments, a less aggressive tightening than what we saw in 2022, the central bank is acknowledging that it sees its monetary actions having a tangible effect on inflation. The CPI data out this week seems to confirm the bank’s views.

– George Ratiu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we continue to get, for example, strong labor market reports or higher inflation reports, it may well be the case that we have to do more and raise rates more.

– Federal Reserve

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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