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How to use the word Telegraph in a Sentence?

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They're a little bit influenced by that and they wanted to telegraph to the policymakers the urgency.

Rebekah Koffler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have communicated to the Russian government that what happens to Mr. Navalny in their custody is their responsibility and they will be held accountable by the international community, in terms of the specific measures that we would undertake, we are looking at a variety of different costs that we would impose and I am not going to telegraph that publicly at this point, but we have communicated that there will be consequences if Mr. Navalny dies.

Jake Sullivan

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We have communicated to the Russian government that what happens to Mr. Navalny in their custody is their responsibility and they will be held accountable by the international community, in terms of the specific measures that we would take, we are looking at a variety of different costs that we would impose and I'm not going to telegraph that publicly at this point.

Jake Sullivan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

One column a week was absorbing enough money to pay for what, five reporters ? the constant history of the Telegraph over the last 15 years has been cuts to editorial because the owners are insistent the company had to hit the profit target, And yet you've also got him sitting in the middle of your budget, this line item of £ 275,000 per year for one column a week.

Boris Johnson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There is so much garbage out there on these sites, also, rarely do these shooters telegraph in advance the carnage they are about to cause.

Josh Campbell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

( We) didnt want to telegraph to the viewer what youre supposed to feel.

Bruce Springsteen

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Being different in some way doesn't necessarily hurt you, but it is not an advantage, and so one has to know something about the factors that make a child more vulnerable for being rejected or neglected by peers. And those would be things that in a gradual, developmentally appropriate way that I would tell some families. But I would sort of telegraph that early on. If I have any value at all to the family, it's engaging them in a discussion that continues over time, as the child gets older. And then, over time, engaging the child in these conversations.

David Sandberg

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I don’t want to telegraph what I’m doing or what I’m thinking ... we’ll see what happens, i hope things work out well. I hope there’s going to be peace. But you know, they’ve been talking with this gentleman for a long time ... everybody’s been outplayed. They’ve all been outplayed by this gentleman and we’ll see what happens.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

When democrats complain about not taking stands you go back to Ruth Bader Ginsberg who made it a principle of her nominating process that she would not in any way telegraph where she would stand on anything, ever since the Bork nomination and the fiasco of the attacks on him it’s understood your job up there is to dance, to express a fealty to the constitution. You will say you will be independent and that's it and he did that beautifully.

Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I'm not going to tell you you're wrong, but I'm also not going to telegraph our punches.

Steve Warren

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If there is a response, it's probably not one we are likely to telegraph in advance.

White House spokesman Earnest

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm not going to telegraph anything.

Steve Warren

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Maybe it was through some medium that I'm not familiar with. Maybe bouncing it off the ozone layer, for all I know, there's a lot of holes in the ozone layer, so maybe it wasn't the ozone layer that he bounced it off of. Maybe it was through hand telegraph, maybe sign language, who knows?

John McCain

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We do not normally telegraph future operations, so I will not comment on that. He also mentioned that we were providing ISR over Tikrit. I am prepared to confirm that.

Steve Warren

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This is to telegraph to the marketplace that we have enacted some of the initiatives we said we could.

Chief Financial Officer Corey Bieber

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A part of our website run by a third-party was compromised earlier today, we've removed the component. No Telegraph user data was affected.

Daily Telegraph

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The wirless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.

Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this And radio operates exactly the same way you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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