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How to use the word afield in a Sentence?

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It is so far afield from the tradition of America and the work that we did for four years.

Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While October Manufacturing PMIs point to a strong rise in manufacturing output, industry is likely to be working through huge backlogs of orders for many months to come and resulting supply shortages further afield are set to persist.

Alex Holmes

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Principals comparing their responsibility as educators in the United States in 2021 to tearing down the Berlin Wall is a red flag, it shows that they subscribe to an ideology that is ahistorical and far afield from their obligations as educators of other peoples’ children. While they cheer the collapse of an authoritarian regime in 1989, their version of ‘good trouble’ seems pretty authoritarian.

Erika Sanzi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Hunting is perceived has daunting to get into with many perceived barriers to entry. Truthfully, with a little education, the help of an experienced current hunter or mentor, and some trials afield, anyone can become a hunter and realistically fill their freezers with local, sustainable protein.

Hank Forrester

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Video footage captured from police body cameras shows Atlanta police officers talking with Rayshard Brooks moments before Rayshard Brooks was shot in a Wendys parking lot. Officer Devin Bronsan arrived inthe area after a 911 complaintof someone sleeping in a car. Rayshard Brooks said Rayshard Brooks drank a small amount of alcohol and was administered afield sobriety test. Hisblood-alcohol levelregistered at.108, above the.08 legal limit. I think youve had too much to drink to be driving, said Officer Garrett Rolfe, who responded to the scene after Officer Devin Bronsan, beforehe tried to arrest Rayshard Brooks. A struggle ensuedand the officers bodycams wereknocked to the ground. They could be heard yelling, Youre going to get Tased ! Stop fighting ! ATLANTA ERUPTS AFTER Rayshard Brooks DEATH PROMPTS POLICE CHIEF TO STEP DOWN This screen grab taken from body camera video provided by the Atlanta Police Department shows Rayshard Brooks speaking with Officer Garrett Rolfe in the parking lot of a Wendy's restaurant, late Friday, June 12, 2020, in Atlanta. Garrett Rolfe has been fired following the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks and a second officer has been placed on administrative duty. ( Atlanta Police Department via AP) At one point Rayshard Brooks appears to grab Bronsans Taser. Hands off Bronsans Taser ! an officer said. Rayshard Brooks fled from the officers and turnedaround with the stun gun before Rayshard Brooks was shot. It does appear in the video that Rayshard Brooks is fleeing from the Atlanta police officers, that as hes fleeing Rayshard Brooks turns back over Rayshard Brooks shoulder with what appears to the naked eye to be Rayshard Brooks Taser that the eyewitnesses told us they saw the individual have that belonged to one of the officers, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vic Reynolds said Saturday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. An autopsy found that Rayshard Brooks suffered to two gunshot wounds to Rayshard Brooks back. The Fulton County Medical Examiner ruled Rayshard Brooks deatha homicide. Garrett Rolfe has not been charged in Rayshard Brooks death but was fired from the force Sunday. Cedric Alexander, the former public safety director of Dekalb County, Ga., who now works as a police consultant, told the Associated Press that the shooting will lead to questions over how officers could have defused the situation. Heres a man who took Dekalb County upon Cedric Alexander to pull off the road to take a nap.

Cedric Alexander

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

When you are entering into racehorse ownership for the first time, the most important thing to establish in your own mind, before you go any further, is how much you are prepared to spend, but there are an awful lot of opportunities out there for race horse owners, in Britain and throughout Europe and further afield. It's a global sport.

Jimmy George

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Many artists have painted what I think you can call citational art, that uses famous past images as a starting point, we see this in the first rooms of the exhibition, where artists from far afield as Japan and Brazil use Botticelli's imagery to tell stories very much of their own.

Mark Evans

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are having to look further and further afield for the fuel we need.

Steve Gooding

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Worsening conditions are driving growing numbers towards Europe and further afield, but the overwhelming majority remain in the region.

Antonio Guterres

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Worsening conditions are driving growing numbers towards Europe and further afield, but the overwhelming majority remain in the region, we cannot afford to let them and the communities hosting them slide further into desperation.

Refugees António Guterres

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We only see that mission patrolling right around the borders of Italy. But all these boats that we have seen go down have been going down further afield, so closer to Libya, and these boats are simply not reaching that area.

Amnesty International

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Once we start looking further afield from Port Vila, we are going to see more destruction because the houses there would be in a much different condition from what we have in Port Vila, it's a disaster, there's no other way to describe it, really.

Sune Gudnitz

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Roughly half the rooibos crop is exported, the rest is consumed on the African continent of which the vast majority would be in South Africa. South Africa being the biggest rooibos consuming country in the world. If you look further afield Botswana has become a very strong market for rooibos. Zimbabwe also knows the product very well there are several brands in Zimbabwe, then if you look at what some of the supermarket chains are doing in Africa Nigeria for instance, rooibos typical South African brands are finding their way into those markets as well.

Dawie De Villiers

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Libya is chaos today and it is a breeding ground for terrorists that threaten the stability of Niger and, further afield, France, we think that the moment has come to ensure that the international community tackles the Libyan problem. I think this is also what President Issoufou believes.

Le Drian in Niamey

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I shall be breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all.

Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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