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How to use the word crescent in a Sentence?

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It told the Iranians that President Trump and our administration had free rein to develop a Shia crescent that extended from Yemen to Iraq to Syria and into Lebanon, surrounding our ally Israel, and threatening American lives as well.

– State Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN
4 years ago

No foreign cash help has been given to the Iranian Red Crescent society. With attention to the inhuman American sanctions, there is no way to send this cash assistance.

– Red Crescent

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Iran is under water. This is an unprecedented crisis ...The Red Crescent response is massive, and it is growing every day.

– International Federation of Red Cross

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The oil crescent is, thanks to God, under full control.

– Ras Lanuf

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We announce the preparation of our ground forces and supporting forces in the oil region, and our objective is to overturn the injustice for our people over the past two years, the past two years have been catastrophic for people in the oil crescent because of the presence of the system of injustice which is the other face of terrorism and extremism.

– Ibrahim Jathran

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We need to go in with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent for a door-to-door basement, if there are these cases we need to verify and make sure they get urgent treatment, i sent an immediate request to authorities for more supplies to be brought in. We are asking for mobile clinics and medical teams to be dispatched.

– Elizabeth Hoff

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The cargo will be delivered to the WFP (World Food Programme), which will give it to the Yemeni Red Crescent to distribute it among innocent Yemeni people.

– Sarem Rezaie

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Any neutral institution's inspection is highly welcome, since it will prove the Iranian Red Crescent is abiding with regulations to humanitarian aid. War parties' inspections will be clearly rejected.

– Christoph Horstel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Red Crescent Society is operating under the Islamic State's control. Why don't we seek Turkey's mediation and give the money for the people affected by the conflicts in Iraq and Syria? I believe this could be a rational, acceptable option.

– Ko Nakata

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol -- cross or crescent or whatever -- that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

– William Faulkner

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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