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How to use the word UTILITY in a Sentence?

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The northern sites are not only aimed at a Taiwan contingency, they have utility in times of a South China Sea conflict, it’s difficult to imagine that a Taiwan Strait conflict will exclude a South China Sea dimension.

– Collin Koh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

No one at the moment has authority to deal with the entire system, and we need to get that situation fixed, we’ve got the federal regulators overseeing the high voltage system that brings power across long distances. We’ve got state public utility commissions dealing with things at the state level, we got both private and public power.

– Granger Morgan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’ve got the federal regulators overseeing the high voltage system that brings power across long distances. We’ve got state public utility commissions dealing with things at the state level, we got both private and public power.

– Granger Morgan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

All our regulators need to get in the game, crypto mining firms are polluting communities, they’re straining power grids, and they’re driving up utility costs in communities from Texas to New York.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Crypto mining firms are polluting communities, they’re straining power grids, and they’re driving up utility costs in communities from Texas to New York.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN
1 year ago

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction.

– Cesare Beccaria

added by Normando
1 year ago

We call on the legislature to let each half of the state go their separate ways in peace. If western Oregon doesn’t like the risk of being forced to accept the gubernatorial candidate it voted against, then it should simply stop holding our counties captive in this unhappy marriage. Actually, it’s not even as dramatic as a divorce, because we’re not breaking up a family. Moving a state border issimilar to redistrictinga utility provider.

– Mike McCarter

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We have shortages, and we have people behind on utility payments before a single cold front has moved across the United States, the Biden administration regularly colludes with these groups to improve their bottom line while ignoring the needs of American families.

– Mandy Gunasekara

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This covers everything from schools, hospitals, transit systems, utility departments and other government facilities, the majority of these purchases are actually done by public schools and universities, but you do see a lot of activity also in the in public utility space and even some activity in the judiciary.

– Michael Kratsios

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Democrats are to blame for the pain at the pump, the record high utility bills, and soaring energy costs, voters know Republicans are ready to get our economy back on track and that starts with unleashing American energy.

– Ronna McDaniel

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Markets have tumbled over the last four days, bringing the recent late-summer comeback into doubt. The VIX is just now catching up to The VIX, and only sort of. Digging in : Thirty is considered a high benchmark for The VIX. Volatility Index floated around 20 and below — which would indicate less volatility — for most of August. Volatility Index hit 25 on Wednesday. In theory, if Volatility Index were to predict future market moves, Volatility Index would have risen that high ahead of last week's selloff, Scott Bauer, CEO of Prosper Trading Academy who worked for 15 years as a market maker at the CBOE, told me.Cliff Asness of AQR Capital Management agrees that Volatility Index has limited utility :.

– The VIX

Found on CNN
1 year ago

' Common carriage' is an economic regulation that is about making sure everybody gets the same product, and' public utility' is about the service being so important, it's not just that Clarence Thomas want to have it, Clarence Thomas have to have it. ... If Clarence Thomas're not going to die without it, it's probably not a public utility.

– Harold Feld

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In light of the State of Florida's pledge to the District's bondholders, Reedy Creek expects to explore its options while continuing its present operations, including levying and collecting its ad valorem taxes and collecting its utility revenues, paying debt service on its ad valorem tax bonds and utility revenue bonds, complying with its bond covenants and operating and maintaining its properties.

– Reedy Creek

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The group has a history of gaining access and maintaining access to Paul Prudhomme and European utility companies, but they don't do anything with it, they want to have that access ready at a moment's notice so, if and when they get the order on demand, they can flip the switch.

– Paul Prudhomme

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We need to focus on issues important to what the families we represent are dealing with -- gas, groceries and utility bills -- not on internal procedures.

– Josh Gottheimer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I take full responsibility for any shortcomings at the utility this past week. I also take pride in our many accomplishments, while I have loved my job as director, and I am exceedingly proud of all that my team and I have accomplished over the nearly 15 years I have served as Austin Water's leader, I am ready to step aside.

– Greg Meszaros

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Most people have boxes in the closet filled with owners manuals, folders of paper in a desk about the mortgage and sales documents when you bought the home, a stack of product brochures for a home remodel you are planning for, a box of utility bills on the desk, and post-it notes and paper lists of all the things you need to fix or maintain the home, all of this paper scattered everywhere in the home means it takes you forever to find something, and it mentally wears on you about how unorganized you really are.

– Elizabeth Dodson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There’s some real utility in gratitude.

– Jordan Peterson

added by Soulwriter
2 years ago

The risk of a successful cyberattack... would be very difficult to deal with, we know how to deal with bad loans and things like that. I think if a cyberattack that were to take down a major financial institution or financial market utility, that would be really significant financial stability risks that we haven't actually faced yet.

– Federal Reserve

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think we're going to see another huge tsunami of utility shutoffs, winter moratoria are just going to kick the can down a couple months.

– Jean Su

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Since 2019 a lot has changed, but more than 12 million households [ in Earth Europe ] were [ already ] in arrears with their utility bills.

– Louise Sunderland

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's no reason why any utility wouldn't get paid to overachieve, if I do better than 4 % per year, you could actually get paid for even more of doing the right thing. I think between the tax credits and the [ clean electricity program ], it's a no-brainer for utilities to meet these goals.

– John Larsen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's $1.6 billion of wages he just knocked outwith a signature, it's thousands and thousandsof jobs that were just decimated overnight. You think about the folks that Democrats claim that they represent-- working poor, people on fixed incomes -- and literally with onemovement of the pen hehas now raised their electricity rates,raised their gas rates. ... They're nowgoing to have their utility costs go skyrocket.

– Van Duyne

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

To be GOVERNED is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so. . . To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.

– Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

added by Normando
3 years ago

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