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How to use the word constitute in a Sentence?

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Every day across the country, Myanmar’s military and police are committing brutal acts that constitute crimes against humanity. Massacring civilians in a hail of bullets at a Buddhist monastery shows the desperate savagery of a regime wholly divorced from the Burmese people, governments around the world should recognize that Myanmar’s military junta government does not care about words.

– Human Rights Watch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I understand the need to keep the public safe( although I do n’t understand how my son or teenage daughter constitute risk to the public). But moments like this show the growing dangers to independent journalists around the world.

– Christo Grozev

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If the facts are true, they would constitute violations of the order and of the The FTC Act — and The FTC would make Zatko Twitter a three-time loser, there would be no reason for The FTC not to throw the book at them.

– Jon Leibowitz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

United States Secret Service is aware of an off-duty incident involving two employees which may constitute potential policy violations. The individuals will be immediately returned back to their post of duty and placed on administrative leave, there was no impact to the upcoming trip. We have very strict protocols and policies for all employees and we hold ourselves to the highest professional standards. Given this is an active administrative personnel matter, we are not in a position to comment further.

– Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Often international criminal investigations begin with the' crime base' -- authenticated images, witness testimonies and other evidence concerning killings, torture, rape or other prohibited offenses which may constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity -- and proceed upward along a chain of military or political authority to demonstrate the culpability of those who ordered, or who knew of but failed to prevent/punish, the commission of such crimes.

– James Goldston

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The fact is that we've seen very credible reports of deliberate attacks on civilians, which would, under the Geneva Conventions, constitute a war crime.

– Ned Price

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The federal government does not have the authority to govern the medical profession and set family policies, including what may constitute child abuse in state family law courts, it is time for the Biden Administration to quit forcing their political agenda.

– Ken Paxton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

To be clear: Kremlin approval of this appeal would amount to the Russian government’s wholesale rejection of its commitments under the Minsk agreements, enactment of this resolution would further undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, constitute a gross violation of international law, call into further question Russia’s stated commitment to continue to engage in diplomacy to achieve a peaceful resolution of this crisis.

– The State Department

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A person may leave an infant with a staff of a safe haven site without being subjected to criminal prosecution for abandonment or abuse if the infant was born within 90 days of being left at the safe haven site, as determined within a reasonable degree of medical certainty, and not left in a condition that would constitute abandonment or abuse of a child.

– Chief August Fons

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There’s nothing that I’ve gotten out of this that would constitute Bishop Sycamore as a scam because I ’m not gaining anything financially from what we’re doing. The reality of Bishop Sycamore is that I have a son( Javan) that’s also in the program and has been in the program for four years.

– Bishop Sycamore coach Andre Peterson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This will help in proper restitution and compensation for everyone who must have been wronged. I want to assure you, a white paper will be issued. I am going to constitute a committee to review the document between two weeks and bring out a white paper.

– Babajide Sanwo-Olu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The legacy of slavery is racism. You can’t do what you have to do to make slavery work unless you constitute the enslaved people as less than human.

– Nick Draper

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

This extraordinary decision reflects the exceptional seriousness of the announcements made on September 15 by Australia and the United States, the abandonment of the ocean-class submarine project that Australia and France had been working on since 2016 and the announcement of a new partnership with United States aimed at studying the possibility of future cooperation on nuclear-powered submarines constitute unacceptable behavior among allies and partners ; their consequences affect the very concept we have of our alliances, our partnerships, and the importance of the Indo-Pacific for Europe.

– Le Drian

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There’s nothing that I’ve gotten out of this that would constitute it as a scam because I’m not gaining anything financially from what we’re doing. The reality of it is that I have a son (Javan) that’s also in the program and has been in the program for four years.

– Andre Peterson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There’s nothing that I’ve gotten out of this that would constitute it as a scam because I ’m not gaining anything financially from what we’re doing. The reality of it is that I have a son( Javan) that’s also in the program and has been in the program for four years, if it’s a scam and the kids are not going to school and not doing what they’re supposed to do, then I ’m literally scamming Andre Peterson. And most importantly, I ’m hurting my own son. So when people say stuff like that … I would literally be taking my son’s future and throwing it in the trash.

– Andre Peterson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There’s nothing that I’ve gotten out of this that would constitute it as a scam because I’m not gaining anything financially from what we’re doing. The reality of it is that I have a son (Javan) that’s also in the program and has been in the program for four years, if it’s a scam and the kids are not going to school and not doing what they’re supposed to do, then I’m literally scamming myself. And most importantly, I’m hurting my own son. So when people say stuff like that … I would literally be taking my son’s future and throwing it in the trash.

– Andre Peterson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If it says ischemia time starts after tissue collection, that means that the baby is still alive at the time that they’re harvesting the tissue, it’s horrific and does not constitute good science or compassionate medical care.

– Christina Francis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This bill would constitute a federal government takeover of elections. It would constitute a massive power grab by Democrats.

– Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The extreme left is obsessed with talking trash about mainstream Democrats on Twitter, when the majority of the electorate constitute mainstream Democrats at the polls, in the post-Trump era, the anti-establishment line of attack is lame — when President Biden and Democratic legislators are delivering millions of good-paying jobs, the fastest-growing economy in 40 years and a massive child tax cut.

– Hakeem Jeffries

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I want to keep my products in America, i think that's very important as a veteran who almost died for this nation. It's important to sustain America's prosperity. With the cost of how much everything is rapidly increasing, it's hard to constitute the price points domestically when you can outsource at a fraction of the cost.

– Colin Wayne

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Setbacks in the vaccine rollout, questions about the potency of the vaccine against new variants of the disease, and a resurgence of the virus, together constitute a key downside risk.

– Jonathan Ostry

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I'm already isolated, complying with the current protocol and following the instructions of my personal doctor, i have contacted the people I met in the last 48 hours to assess whether they constitute close contact.

– Alberto Fernández

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The optics are bad, but not everything that looks bad is criminal, cornell Law School's unclear whether trading based on the White House's private release of factual information, that was otherwise publicly obtainable, would constitute insider trading, even if White House was publicly contesting that information.

– Charles Whitehead

Found on CNN
3 years ago

These attacks constitute an escalation and an unacceptable attempt to interfere with the rule of law and the Court's judicial proceedings.

– The ICC

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

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