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How to use the word asked in a Sentence?

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In the face of COVID-19, we're all called to make shared sacrifices. But because not everyone pays their fair share, now the wealthiest are asked to pay a little more.

Joe Biden

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5 months ago

If you asked me in my heart of hearts do I think we should have been banging the drum about nutrition for the last 100 years? Yes. So every time we can bang the drum a little more, I’m always in favor.

Christopher Gardner

Found on CNN
11 months ago

For example, Black women are less likely to be offered enrollment in a clinical trial. That is not because of a stated difference in interest. In fact, the enrollment rate in clinical trials is equal among Black women and White women, if they’re asked, what we have to understand is where the implicit and systemic biases held by patients and their caregivers and their families may exist – those that are held within health systems and even policies and practices that impede everyone having fair and just access to high quality health care.

Arif Kamal

Found on CNN
11 months ago

Sunday’s a day where we get together and almost taste heaven, we come together as believers. We celebrate who we are, together. We worship God. And so to be asked to deliver Amazon parcels and give all that up, it’s just really kind of sad.

Gerald Groff

Found on CNN
11 months ago

We have asked business to solve problems that we don’t want government to solve anymore, we’re happy to have them do it and then shocked when they act like a business again.

Bryant Simon

Found on CNN
11 months ago

I always had a favorable impression of her – and asked her on the trip as a friend.

Bo Knapp Both Bo

Found on CNN
11 months ago

The Northern Ireland Protocol is interesting because I think loyalism has a point – and I think there’s a legitimate argument to be made that a customs border between Northern Ireland and Britain – similar to the way a border across the island, is wrong. But is The Northern Ireland Protocol the case that these are the issues that people in my community are discussing ? No. If you went out and did a survey and asked people in loyalist areas what is The Northern Ireland Protocol – I ’d be willing to bet that over half of them would n’t be able to tell you – there’s more important issues.

Joel Keys

Found on CNN
11 months ago

Justice Thomas and Ginni never asked for any of this hospitality.

Harlan Crow

Found on CNN
11 months ago

I have asked the lawyers if they can delay the Census.

John Roberts

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Take a chance, i think you’ve got to be open to saying yes. If you had asked me in my 30s if I ever thought I ’d be living in another country, I do n’t know that I would have said yes. But I did it. I said yes. And I have a great life and a great wife.

Jemma Warner-Gregory

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It will not immediately restore public confidence that State Police are committed to providing every resident of Paterson with fair, just, and effective public safety, nor will it address the concerns of officers asked to do a hard and dangerous job in a community that – after years of fiscal challenges and a revolving door of police leadership – has lost faith in Paterson Police Department, making the jobs of those officers even more difficult.

Chief Abbassi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We just all came together as a community and asked each other, ‘Is everyone OK?’ You know, ‘Is everyone alright?,’.

Chris Suglia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I realized before I was even off the plane, i was the third from last off the plane, so I asked the flight attendant if I could go and get it. He said no – I was required by federal law to get off the plane and stand beside it, where the strollers are brought to. I was tired, he said he’d bring it to me, I said OK.

The AirPods

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have seen no evidence that the Chinese government has access to that data; they have never asked us, we have not provided it.

Shou Chew

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We were able to show him what he asked us to show him. That’s when he trusted us.

Thomas Galati

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They have asked for a high price from us, because we don’t compete with China in dollar diplomacy, so it has entered a very difficult stage. But all the colleagues at our embassy in Honduras are working hard and will work hard until the last moment.

Joseph Wu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

After the cord was broken, our staff got him [mike] out of the water immediately, and asked him if he was okay, he [Mike] said he felt bruised. So we took him to the hospital.

Nithit Intim

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Yes, I was asked to make myself available and to be at the DA’s office tomorrow as a rebuttal witness.

Michael Cohen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When my son asked me why it’s OK to kill someone as a punishment for killing someone, I couldn’t look him in the eye and explain why. i wanted him to spend some time incarcerated to see how it feels being imprisoned where no one could release him from his misery.

Tracey Lomax

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I asked my partner, ‘Did I freeze? Did I even help you?’ She goes, ‘Yes, girl. You were like jumping from unit to unit, helping everybody that was coming out,’ and I was like, I need to know this. I need to know that I continued doing my job.

Virginia Vela

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He’d love to address the court, but since we are planning on appealing, I’ve asked him to not address the court.

Charles Burnham

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is about fairness; some states have done all they can do to control ozone pollution and their counterparts that are upwind are being asked to do the same.

The EPA

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He asked me to do his eulogy – excuse me, I shouldn’t say that, i spent time with Jimmy Carter, and it’s finally caught up with him. But they found a way to keep him going for a lot longer than they anticipated, because they found a breakthrough.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s a finality to the decision. I do n’t make it lightly. I do n’t want to drag anybody around. Look, I ’m answering questions about it because I get asked about it. I ’m talking about it because it’s important to me.

Aaron Rodgers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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