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How to use the word abysmal in a Sentence?

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I would hate for him to be remembered as someone who did the right thing because from our perspective, Pope Benedict’s record has been abysmal.

Barbara Blaine

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Cachu case is one of way too many that shows the nation that George Gascon’s policies, directives and so-called reforms are a failure, his ‘data and science’ was flawed and completely untrue and his 18-month social experiment has been an abysmal failure.

Jonathan Hatami

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We remain confident that the Recall will qualify for the ballot. Gascon’s policies violate the law. He is an abysmal leader with 98% of prosecutors voting to support the recall. His unlawful hiring and promotion actions will result in millions of dollars to settle lawsuits.

Gascon Campaign co-chair Kathy Cady

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

NMDC share price is most likely to close @Rs.114 or above at the end of this month no matter where it is right now showing abysmal low.

Lakshheish M Patel

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1 year ago

Through Hardwired, the non-profit I founded, I’ve worked in some of the worst religious freedom situations in the world, including Sudan, Nigeria, and Iraq, the religious freedom situation in Russia, Luhansk, and Donetsk ranks right up there with these others. It’s truly abysmal.

Tina Ramirez

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Big Abortion has ensured that abortion remains unregulated, making in-clinic abortions indistinguishable from so-called ‘back alley’ abortions, abortion-vulnerable communities need economic and racial justice to address the root cause of abortion and the abysmal maternal mortality rate, especially for Black women, not the option to terminate the lives of our offspring!

Terrisa Bukovinac

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's abundantly clear that parents are concerned about the quality of education — Virginia recently posted staggering learning loss numbers over the course of the pandemic, which compounds the already abysmal proficiency rates in the state, when schools obsessively focus on DEI initiatives, that's time and resources that are not being spent on core curriculum.

Nicole Neily

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The challenge is abysmal, it’s titanic, as long as there is no justice, a clear message is being sent that this can continue to happen.

Karla Quintana Osuna

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's abysmal, it's unreal, i don't want any grant, I don't want any kind of charity, I just want the bare minimum justice for our workers.

Rubana Huq

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Outside of the city seats, if you are in small-town Midlands and North, it's abysmal out there. They don't like Conservative Party PM Boris Johnson, but they can't stand Jeremy Corbyn and they think Labour's blocked Brexit.

Jonathan Ashworth

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The regime has launched these baseless allegations against her in an attempt to distract the international community from its abysmal treatment of the Cuban people, especially the ongoing arbitrary detention of dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer.

Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Most of our films, which I feel is a mistake, get defined by the opening weekend. They'll say it's a hit or it's a miss. But all of my favorite films, I found them well after the fact, history is rife with films that we love today that were abysmal' bombs' on their opening weekend. And we find them later, or we catch up with them.

Brad Pitt

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Hampered by misstep after misstep, Kirstjen Nielsen's tenure at the Department of Homeland Security was a disaster from the start. It is clearer now than ever that the Trump Administration's border security and immigration policies - that she enacted and helped craft - have been an abysmal failure and have helped create the humanitarian crisis at the border.

Homeland Security Committee

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Hurricanes Irma and Maria have seen time and time again that colonial status is simply not working, look no further than the abysmal Hurricane Maria recovery efforts and the draconian PROMESA law to prove this point all too well.

Darren Soto

Found on CNN
5 years ago

[ Ghana ] has made some strides with regard to women's rights in some areas but has not done very well in other areas... women's role in public life is abysmal with attempts to get an affirmative action law in place not gone far.

Grace Fosu

Found on CNN
5 years ago

First of all... social media, quite frankly, is the toilet of the internet and what it's done to pop culture is abysmal, people saw love and, guess what, that's what we wanted to you to see. This is a love song.

Academy Awards.Lady Gaga

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Our teachers are part of it, but we’re having kids learning in abysmal situations – no paper towels in the classrooms, no textbooks in the classroom, no chairs or not enough chairs for kids, we’re essentially throwing away a whole generation of Arizonans and their futures, and that’s unacceptable.

Noah Karvelis

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The way we treat women in our country has been abysmal in almost every way. We are finally addressing the issue of sexual harassment, and we need to get it right, but the conversation we are having now is only the tip of the iceberg. It needs to be an ongoing movement of women and men that includes a national discussion about sexism, sexual harassment, objectification, inequality and abuse of power.

Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The U.N. Security Council has refused to include this Venezuelan tragedy in its agenda, where it faces basically Russia that sees Venezuela as an important ally in the region, andwould veto its consideration, most probably together with China, we support OHCHR’s efforts to shed light on the abysmal human rights situation in Venezuela.

President Nicolas Maduro

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It's abysmal what we know right now, there are just too few people on the ground looking.

Sam Droege

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I can't afford the flight, I can't afford an abortion. Anyways, I don't think we should be considered criminals for wanting one, repealing the 8th [amendment] hasn't happened because Ireland is controlled by the church. Religion has no place in the constitution. It's so abysmal that this country is allowing this to go on. Women are dying.

Jess Morris

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It's abysmal and it is going to change, because people will gradually be encouraged to think how they want to honor women in their own community.

Pam Elam

Found on CNN
7 years ago

With oil prices having rallied considerably since the abysmal start to the year ... (OPEC) delegates are unlikely to be forced into extreme action.

Mihir Kapadia

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The record of the federal government where consultation is concerned is abysmal at best.

Ernie Crey

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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