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How to use the word buffer in a Sentence?

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Those stocks should act as a buffer against the immediate loss of Russian diesel imports.

Mark Williams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They don’t want to lay people off. So they need to have that buffer in order to be able to keep them on the payroll when a crisis hits.

Stefan Angrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Because of the 60 vote threshold in the Senate, we also know who likely cast a token vote in our favor yesterday because they knew they were insolated from its passage. There was buffer room there for certain politicians who have never supportedour cause before to get a ‘freebie’ there, but railroaders are not dumb. We see that kind of deception everyday from our bosses on the railroad; we don't fall for that.

Clark Ballew

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We felt like paid sick time off was an important omissionand not an especially rapacious ask, because of the 60 vote threshold in the Senate, we also know who likely cast a token vote in our favor yesterday because they knew they were insolated from its passage. There was buffer room there for certain politicians who have never supportedour cause before to get a ‘freebie’ there, but railroaders are not dumb. We see that kind of deception everyday from our bosses on the railroad; we don't fall for that.

Clark Ballew

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

How does this end? It cannot end with the sellout of Ukraine. It cannot end where we give half of the Ukraine to Putin because what he will do is consolidate his power and in a year or two from now, take the rest because he doesn’t want a buffer from NATO, he wants to reconstruct the Soviet Union.

Lindsey Graham

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Because if he doesn't mention Ukraine at this point, he's absolutely going to have to start with that, given what's going on there. What I'd like to hear is that he's going to reinstitute domestic production of oil, which he's not going to, but that would be a great step to buffer, not only the inflation that we're seeing but the rising prices of oil and gas. We can produce our own domestic supply of that product right here in the United States, and he shut that down on day one of his presidency. That would help on so many different levels. Why are we right now bringing in Russian oil to this country? That's what I'd like to hear.

Greg Steube

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm sure, because if he doesn't mention Ukraine at this point, he's absolutely going to have to start with that, given what's going on there. What I'd like to hear is that he's going to reinstitute domestic production of oil, which he's not going to, but that would be a great step to buffer, not only the inflation that we're seeing but the rising prices of oil and gas. We can produce our own domestic supply of that product right here in the United States, and he shut that down on day one of his presidency. That would help on so many different levels. Why are we right now bringing in Russian oil to this country? That's what I'd like to hear.

Greg Steube

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Corporate balance sheets are in excellent condition. We've had the best part of a decade of very easy money, which has provided an incredible level of support, this has provided an enormous buffer for them.

Matthew Cairns

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People have been paying off their credit cards very quickly during the pandemic, and that's starting to slow as people have started to wear down their buffer of excess savings.

Leo Feler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There is no room left anymore for error or unexpected events — it is all squeezed out, this means you can't afford a single mistake because there is no longer any buffer.

Parash Jain

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The traditional buffer zones between humans and elephants are gradually disappearing, and the chances of elephants' encountering humans naturally increase greatly.

Zhang Li

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We built an iceberg of global inventories because of the historic demand destruction, now, inventories are essentially back to normal. We've erased that buffer from the oil market.

Michael Tran

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If you dont have enough people, enough children immunized in a community, you can start up with an outbreak like we see in other states in the past, if we start to lose that buffer zone that we have with lots of children immunized, were going to start to see diseases that in my career have been eradicated.

Jose Romero

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We know our social connections in general, whether it's a partner or somebody else, are a huge buffer to stress.

Vaile Wright

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Banks can draw down on all available capital buffers starting with any additional capital buffer held above their regulatory buffers, where capital buffers need to be restored this will be a gradual process and the PRA will not, in general, expect banks to restore their capital buffers in full until a significant time after the end of the current stress.

The PRA

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's kind of a backstop, for a lot of Americans, that's more of a financial buffer than they have. People will notice it.

Claudia Sahm

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Importantly, we found that when couples are engaging in a negative conflict pattern like demand/withdrawal, expressions of gratitude and appreciation can counteract or buffer the negative effects of this type of interaction on marital stability.

Ted Futris

added by Normando
4 years ago

Trade tension with the US is the key factor weighing on business sentiment and investment activities, although domestic stimulus policies are providing some buffer from the down side.

Chaoping Zhu

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The support could be from family and friends, it could be a sense of belonging in a religious community. It's the sense of social cohesion and social connectedness which research suggests is a buffer against the experiences of stress. It means you take a break from it.

Catherine Monk

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We will be a physical buffer zone between the protesters on the front door of the clinic, so that if women need support, or even if they just need to see that somebody else is there, countering the message.

Monika Neall

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Even as archaeologists are making exciting new discoveries about this region – and even as Tribes and the American public speak out in overwhelming support of protecting this precious landscape – Chaco is being threatened by expanding energy development, including recently proposed leasing inside this long-standing buffer zone.

Tom Udall

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

In this buffer solution are the skin cells from those who have touched the evidence.

Francine Bardole

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I couldn’t leave her there alone, so I positioned myself between the co-worker and the attorney general to act as a buffer, after a few moments, Attorney General Hill put his hand on my back. I was taken aback by this gesture as we had never held a conversation before that night. I felt his hand start to slide slowly down my back.

Niki DaSilva

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Any Syrian soldier who will be in the buffer zone risks his life.

Avigdor Lieberman

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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