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How to use the word clear-eyed in a Sentence?

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We have to be honest and clear-eyed as we look at the year ahead. The defense of freedom is not the work of a day or of a year. It’s always difficult, it’s always important.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need to be clear-eyed about what we are facing, just as we need to be clear in our response, despite what some may try to argue, the primary focus of this bill has always been on deterrence and on enhancing Taiwan’s capabilities.

Bob Menendez

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

He explicitly threatened war unless his extreme demands were met, and there is no question that Russia is the aggressor, so, we’re clear-eyed about the challenges we’re facing.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The world must be clear-eyed about the actions Russia is threatening and ready to respond to the risks those actions present to all of us.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We’re clear-eyed about the challenge China presents, but China’s not 10 feet tall – this is America.

Lloyd Austin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Turkey is an ally, that in many ways... is not acting as an ally should and this is a very, very significant challenge for us and we’re very clear-eyed about it.

Antony Blinken

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I think you just have to be clear eyed about what it is you're cooperating on and understand there are other things you can't cooperate on.

United States

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I believe it's essential that the United States maintain and strengthen the post-World War II alliances that have been carefully built by leaders in both parties, we must also maintain a clear-eyed understanding of our friends and foes, and recognize that nations like Russia are among the latter.

Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Nevertheless, the clear-eyed President Trump’s Iran strategy, along with withdrawing from the Iran deal and demanding that Iran cease its destabilizing behavior in the region, has made clear to Iran and its proxies in Yemen that meddling in the region will not be overlooked again.

Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

My experience with him was he was clear-eyed, no nonsense, no sugarcoating, no bullshitting. Just giving you the straight reality of what you needed to do.

Scott Jennings

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We should be hopeful and encouraged by the events in Panmunjom( inside the DMZ), but we also need to keep a clear-eyed view of the nature of the Kim Jong family regime, and the history of its aggression, threats and provocations, stated claim to unify the peninsula under the North's control, and the documented human rights atrocities that are being committed against some 25 million Koreans living in the North, can a one-day event change the nature of the brutal Kim Jong family regime that has existed for some seven decades ? We should never forget the people living in severe oppression in the north while we admire the charm offensive conducted by Kim Jong Un.

Kim Jong

Found on CNN
6 years ago

We must remain clear-eyed about the threats we face.

Michael McCaul

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We need to be clear-eyed about what we can expect from Iran, this isn't the start of some larger diplomatic opening. And we shouldn't expect that this deal will lead to a broader change in their behavior.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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