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How to use the word Vigorous in a Sentence? Page #3

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People are lulled into this sense of belief that we're not going to have a vigorous ground game, and it's just wrong, i think we're light years ahead of our competitors.

Michael Glassner

Found on CNN
8 years ago

First rule of combat: Be fast and vigorous.

James Vernon

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Today we... decide on a series of vigorous steps in our fight against the sources of terrorism and incitement, they will be implemented as quickly as possible.

The Prime Minister

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Where turtles came from, evolutionarily speaking, and how they are related to the other major groups of living reptiles - lizards, snakes, crocodiles and birds - has been a topic of vigorous debate for as long as we've had a theory of evolution.

Gaberiel Bever

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We intend to engage in vigorous oversight, both in the House and the Senate ... The investigation has just begun.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The decision to replace Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin was very difficult, but leadership is about doing what you think is right, i welcome vigorous debate, and accept and tolerate criticism or even dissent. However, this process should take place in cabinet as part of the decision-making process.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I expect it to be vigorous, and whoever wins the primaries they'll have a hard debate, we ought to show respect for the debate by trying to be as specific as we can about the choices before us. We can win over the American public by saying it's not simple.

Bill Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The health benefits of less time spent sitting depend on what you replace the sitting time with, for example, standing, light movement, moderate activity, vigorous activity, in my opinion, standing is probably only marginally better than sitting, and. . . moderate-to-vigorous purposeful exercise is a much better strategy for improving general fitness and health.

Garry Tew

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Common sense tells us that lifting heavy loads, awkward posture, vigorous activity and slips/trips/falls could cause back pain, these scenarios are commonly encountered in everyday experience, making it easier to tie the two together as cause and effect.

Scott Forseen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have to be vigorous in fighting terrorism and protecting the American people, but we have to do it in a way that protects the constitutional rights of the American people, and I'm very, very worried about the invasion of privacy rights that we are seeing, not only from the National Security Agency) and the government, but from corporate America, as well. We are losing our privacy rights. It's a huge issue.

Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I still expect to see a vigorous debate this week. I still expect to see a robust amendment process.

Mitch McConnell

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

During preschool, children's increasing independence but less-than-optimal self-control can make it especially challenging for mothers (or any caregivers) to set limits, grant autonomy and resolve conflicts, if mothers are depressed, they might find themselves too exhausted or emotionally taxed to engage in the kind of vigorous parenting that preschoolers tend to need.

Erika Forbes

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

During preschool, children's increasing independence but less-than-optimal self-control can make it especially challenging for mothers( or any caregivers) to set limits, grant autonomy and resolve conflicts, if mothers are depressed, they might find themselves too exhausted or emotionally taxed to engage in the kind of vigorous parenting that preschoolers tend to need.

Erika Forbes

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

African American men may be involved with more blue collar type jobs, but those types may not translate to moderate to vigorous physical activity or be captured by the physical activity measures used in the study.

African American

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Leaving aside whether Japan is fully satisfied, as a result of vigorous discussions, we recognize that we have made a certain amount of progress, we've decided we must shift to cabinet-level discussions and make efforts to further narrow our differences.

Japanese Economy Minister Akira Amari

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Be vibrant, vital, vivacious, vigorous, and victorious with adventure and love.

Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Having a lot of vigorous sex in a short period of time can leave you feeling raw and tender.

Alyssa Dweck

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I don't care about the office of inspector general. ... You're in charge, we want to get to the bottom of it right away and I'm disappointed that you have not waged your own vigorous, tough investigation of this.

Republican Representative

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Short-term, high intensity exercises need vigorous warm-up, but long-term endurance exercises do not.

Kazuki Takizawa

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Cutting and overly vigorous pushing will make them thick and crack and, worse, lift up.

Jessica Wu

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We encourage legislators to have a bipartisan, open and vigorous discussion about what changes need to be made to current Florida election law.

Rick Scott

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society; strapped to one arm of our chair will be a forty-five calibre revolver, and we shall shoot out the lights when we want to go to sleep, instead of turning them off; when we want air we shall throw a silver candlestick through the front window and be damned to it; we shall address public meetings in a vein of jocund malice. We shall but we dont wish to make any one envious of the good time that is coming to us We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.

Don Marquis

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands. As long therefore as they can find emploiment in this line, I would not convert them into mariners, artisans, or any thing else. But our citizens will find emploiment in this line till their numbers, and of course their productions, become too great for the demand both internal and foreign.

Thomas Jefferson

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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