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How to use the word backlogs in a Sentence?

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President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs, the federal government exists to serve the American people and these substantial delays for basic services are unacceptable.

James Comer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Navy Personnel Command and our subordinate commands take every measure to ensure the volume of transactions does not exceed our capacity, but occasionally backlogs do occur due to a variety of reasons. These backlogs are resolved as quickly as possible to limit the impacts to sailors.

Matt Knight

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's going to modernize our ports with $17 billion dollars in investment. ... We're going to reduce congestion. We're going to address repair and maintenance backlogs, deploy state of the art technologies and make our ports cleaner and more efficient. And we're going to do the same with our airports and freight rail.

The President

Found on CNN
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

That in itself will just overwhelm the port facilities, you're not able to get the cargo off the ports when you consider the backlogs within the rail and the road network.

Jonathan Daniels

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The need to work through these backlogs should support new home construction in the months ahead even if the pace of sales moves sideways.

Nancy Vanden Houten

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

We've surged resources to make sure that we could make good by the people who are seeking Special Immigrant Visas, we've added about 50 people here at the State Department. A lot of the work actually gets done here at State. We have additional people in the field. We've reduced and in fact eliminated some backlogs that existed.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is currently somewhat uncertain when exactly supply issues could be resolved, eventually, however, we expect that backlogs of demand could keep housing activity supported into the end of the year.

Isfar Munir

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

DOL officials told GAO that they have traditionally used this number as a proxy for the number of individuals claiming benefits because they were closely related, however, the number of claims has not been an accurate estimate of the number of individuals claiming benefits during the pandemic because of backlogs in processing a historic volume of claims, among other data issues.

The GAO

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

My focus right now is trying to manage the crisis at the border for us and keep those asylum backlogs from growing.

Ken Cuccinelli

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Growing up near Glacier National Park, I understand the value these places bring to local economies and in preserving our heritage, as we enter into a second century of service and visitation numbers continue to increase, we will focus on maintenance backlogs and ensuring these special places are preserved for future generations.

Ryan Zinke

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The government of Nepal has rightly shifted the focus of its efforts from immediate relief to longer term recovery and reconstruction, but this must not come at the expense of families who still require life-saving assistance, backlogs of essential shelter materials continue at Kathmandu airport and the Indian border due to bureaucratic impediments. This is delaying aid reaching 100,000 families who require urgent shelter assistance as the monsoon season begins.

John Ging

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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