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How to use the word SERVICE in a Sentence? Page #86

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The Kenya High Court decision in Meru ... was a serious indictment on the National Police Service, let's give the police service a human face.

Ndegwa Muhoro

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

That is, in my judgment, a very bad idea for Homeland Security because during that period ..., we cannot engage in new starts, for example, we are back in a presidential election cycle. I cannot hire new Secret Service agents until I get an appropriations bill passed by this Congress -- not another (continuing resolution) for a couple of months.

Jeh Johnson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I cannot hire new Secret Service agents until I get an appropriations bill passed by this Congress, not another CR (short-term extension) for a couple of months, i cannot continue to fund our enhanced detention facility in Texas.

Peter King

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This is a service that has been provided for years, and many students, maids, working people and the poor depend on it.

Jose Velez

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

He was standing there and I came and stood right next to him, and for some reason turned. In my mind's eye I stripped off the beard, and saw the Foreign Service officer I had seen in Washington, D.C. I just impulsively said, 'You're Brad Bishop, aren't you?' And he began trembling and shaking and said 'Oh God, no' and turned around. I have no doubt it was him.

Jeremy Collins

Found on CNN
9 years ago

You wonder why I am worried about ASC and what they are delivering to the Australian taxpayer. Do you wonder why I wouldn't trust them to build a canoe? let's get real here ... This is a professional program that is about national security, and we will take the advice of the service chiefs, not somebody who is looking for a job.

David Johnston

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Japan's youth seldom recognize there is a military in this country, unless they have a family member or friends who are in the service.

Nobuko Aoyama

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

But hotels will always be safer, offer more facilities and offer service, which apartments cannot.

Robin Chadha

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

By ignoring huge swaths of lynx habitat, the Service is undermining the benefits of protecting individual lynx wherever they are found in the Lower 48, To recover in the American West, lynx need habitat protections throughout their range.

Drew Kerr

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

David Ogilvy

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9 years ago

It has always been my ambition since childhood to live such a life that one day my fellow citizens would call me to membership in this popular branch of the greatest lawmaking body in the world. Out of their confidence and partiality they have done this. It is now my sole purpose here to help enact such wise and just laws that our common country will by virtue of these laws be a happier and a more prosperous country. I have always dreamed of a country which I believe this should be and will be, and that is one in which the citizenship is an educated and patriotic people, not swayed by passion and prejudice, and a country that shall know no East, no West, no North, no South, but inhabited by a people liberty loving, patriotic, happy, and prosperous, with its lawmakers having no other purpose than to write such just laws as shall in the years to come be of service to human kind yet unborn. [Applause]

Sam Rayburn

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9 years ago

There is only one thing I wast to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence.

William Howard Taft

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9 years ago

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Ross Perot

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9 years ago

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

Northrop Frye

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10 years ago

A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.

Constantin Stanislavski

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10 years ago

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

Bernard Mandeville

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10 years ago

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

Francis of Assisi

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10 years ago

Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.

Francis of Assisi

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10 years ago

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

Junius

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10 years ago

It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities? For we have too much likeness as it is, and if an explorer should come back and bring word of other sexes looking through the branches of other trees at other skies, nothing would be of greater service to humanity; and we should have the immense pleasure into the bargain of watching Professor X rush for his measuring-rods to prove himself superior.

Virginia Woolf

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10 years ago

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. -- The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service

Herodotus

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10 years ago

Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

Jim Rohn

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10 years ago

Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Leo Tolstoy

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10 years ago

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Oliver Goldsmith

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10 years ago

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