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How to use the word bellwether in a Sentence?

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This is a bellwether for what’s going on in the larger river basins, we need to lay out some very clear language about where we’re headed.

Benjamin Abbott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you sit back and you look and you want to pinpoint when was the bellwether, when was the moment in time that you truly felt that you knew that the majority was in play and you had the capability of winning – when Ron Kind said that he was retiring.

Kevin McCarthy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The allegations brought by the California state department [ are ] seminal, and probably bellwether type litigation for this industry, it's being brought by a state agency, so they have the resources of the state. They don't invest in those litigations until they know they have a good case. ... You take a case to make an example.

Walter Foster

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is truly the bellwether for climate change on the West Coast, and this is a wake-up call for all of us that we have got to do everything in our power to tackle climate change.

Kate Brown

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The story everyone wants to write is that this is all about Donald Trump. But I don't buy that. Obviously, all the Republicans won in Kentucky except for Matt Bevin. He had personal problems. So, I don't agree that this is a bellwether on what's going to happen in( 2020), i mean suburbs, we've got to worry about the suburbs. We got slaughtered in the suburbs in Texas in 2018.

John Cornyn

Found on CNN
4 years ago

No, I don't see it as a bellwether. They always ask that question, we're very happy with the way we've done. The'18 election, the big thing was I wasn't running. People were running. But I will go and help Dan Bishop.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

No, I dont see it as a bellwether.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Due to the diversity of its businesses, Berkshire is a wonderful bellwether for what is going on in the economy, hopefully, cash will serve him and his partners well when the market suffers a pullback.

Trip Miller

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It provides a roadmap for all those other cases, it's a bellwether, there may be other cases like this.

Carl Tobias

Found on CNN
5 years ago

In October, Canada became the first major economic country to legalize recreational marijuana, which will undoubtedly be a bellwether for the U.S. as it continues to debate policy issues surrounding pot. And although cigarette smoking might be on the decline, Dr. King notes the tobacco industry has heavily diversified its portfolio of products and still remains one of the most profitable industries globally. So while it might be awhile beforeconvenient stores are sellingpacks of joints, similar to a pack of cigarettes its cleartobacco is positioningitself for an impendingshift towards cannabis. Kids started with tobacco and then graduated to marijuana, now its the other way around. Kids start with marijuana and they graduate to tobacco.

Stanton Glantz

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I actually think California is a bellwether for the whole country, you have a mix of suburban, ex-urban, rural areas where you have competitive races. I don't think it's that dissimilar from what you're seeing in place like Pennsylvania, or Minnesota, or Colorado.

Bill Burton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Investors' response to Deutsche Telekom, which is somewhat a European bellwether, gives us a good sense of what is to come. There is a lot of pipeline that will now unlock.

Jonathan Brown

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

China has huge potential to roil markets as the nation navigates a difficult structural transition, asian trade, traditionally a bellwether for global growth, is in recession.

Justin Fabo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I, quite frankly, don't know enough about the cases that were in the pool of candidates, it may very well be that given the many variables involved, this case was a perfectly rational choice to be the first bellwether selection.

Robert Scheuer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

These are kind of bellwether cases that people are watching, if Texas and North Carolina are successful here, then I suspect other states will follow suit.

Rick Hasen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Oil is serving as a bellwether for the global economy and could be a sign of things to come, today's trading action will be tied to oil and could be erratic and choppy.

Andre Bakhos

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The economy is the bellwether of how much age discrimination we see.

Laurie McCann

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Within oilfield services it's best to hold the bellwether stocks as they will be taking market share, they're able to buy attractive assets at a discounted price and come out of the cycle in a much stronger position.

Pascal Menges

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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