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How to use the word continual in a Sentence? Page #2

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That’s a continual fight. But the government spending also speaks to us. That was the disappointment and frustration you heard in brother Graham’s tone. many evangelicals are still vetting.

De Jesus

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The reason that we can't understand these motions; the brain if you like can't understand these motions, is that there's continual conflict between what is upright and whether you should lean to balance yourself in the environment or whether you're actually experiencing a sideways acceleration force. You imagine being on a bicycle or a motorbike; you go round a corner, you lean into the corner which remains perfectly upright in physics. You don't so that in a car, you don't do that on a ship - you're actually struggling to find out what is upright and what's the best way of dealing with it.

Michael Gresty

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is what might be called a cultural assumption in France that whoever is in power will abuse that power unless kept in check, this forms part of the continual tension between government and the citizenry... the muscular action that often accompanies it is part of the negotiating framework, a show of brute strength prior to seeking peaceful resolution. Not for nothing is.

James Shields

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

CF held talks with Yara last year... and we still see the potential for continual activity in this space.

Atif Latif

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The company has mitigated its exchange rate losses through a continual reduction of its exposure to the Brazilian real on TAM's balance sheet.

Latin America largest airline

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Widespread atrocities, in particular the vicious and unrelenting aerial bombardment of civilian neighbourhoods by government forces, have made life for civilians in Aleppo increasingly unbearable, these reprehensible and continual strikes on residential areas point to a policy of deliberately and systematically targeting civilians in attacks that constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Philip Luther

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We thought it was necessary to correct the misunderstanding of member nations brought about by the U.S. and promote mutual understanding by responding to the organization's continual requests for negotiation.

Jang Sam Ryong

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

This is a continual effort to try to intimidate the press in Hong Kong, this is raw and pure intimidation.

Next Media

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Gore Vidal

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10 years ago

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

Susan Sontag

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10 years ago

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Leo Buscaglia

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10 years ago

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Aleister Crowley

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10 years ago

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.

Isadora Duncan

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10 years ago

By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.

Blaise Pascal

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13 years ago

Everything in the world may be endured, except continual prosperity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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13 years ago

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.

Charles Peguy

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13 years ago

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations – Book Three

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Benjamin Franklin

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13 years ago

A contented mind is a continual feast.

American Proverb

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13 years ago

What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

Jane Austen

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13 years ago

Continual improvement is an unending journey.

Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason, Thinking About Quality

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13 years ago

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

Jane Austen

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13 years ago

Life is a continual upgrade.

J. Mark Wallace

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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