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How to use the word damning in a Sentence?

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We are losing our democracy to White supremacy, we are losing our democracy to patriarchy, we are losing our democracy to people who want to keep a status quo that is damning to the rest of us and damning to our children and unborn people.

Justin Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We haven’t seen a mainstream app like this trying to escalate their privileges to gain access to things that they’re not supposed to gain access to, this is highly unusual, and it is pretty damning for Pinduoduo.

Mikko Hyppönen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think the evidence on this point is the strongest and most damning.

Trevor McFadden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The language in that letter is damning and that letter has a reference to bringing a shovel and burying a body.

Patrick Reilly

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You have people putting up big signs in their fields on major parkways saying if you vote for a Democrat you're going to hell, you have pastors telling their congregations who to vote for and putting the list tacked on church front doors with damning repercussions if they don't vote that way.

Former Kentucky representative Joe Graviss

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I mean, because the reality I think is so damning that sometimes you need to create an alternate. i think that John Gibbs has certainly fired up a certain portion of the electorate over those claims.

Hillary Scholten

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Here there are many damning facts.

Ty Cobb

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Democratic Republic of Congo's a damning indictment of the world's lack of ability for conflict prevention and conflict resolution.

Jan Egeland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is difficult to prove because it is not easy to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant knew he was infected when the sexual intercourse took place, however, testimony from a doctor who was treating Robert Sylvester Kelly is damning evidence. It shows that, as far back as 2007, Robert Sylvester Kelly knew Robert Sylvester Kelly had a venereal disease. If it can be proven that Robert Sylvester Kelly knew, and that Robert Sylvester Kelly continued to have sexual intercourse, then the offense can be proven against Robert Sylvester Kelly.

Roger Canaff

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The silver lining here is that this data is not that valuable to attackers to conduct any sort of damning attack against an entity or a person, the information is not that granular that it can somehow impact one's identity or one's personal life.

Vikram Thakur

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In a better world, we would have abundant quantities of this messenger RNA vaccine, Pfizer and Moderna, and that would be damning for a vaccine that's clearly less effective. But that said, we have limited quantities of mRNA vaccine.

Paul Offit

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The most damning information came out in litigation.

Kevin Vincent

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

But does it appear suspicious given the damning nature of what was withheld, and the current government's obvious motivation for withholding it.

Josh Geltzer

Found on CNN
4 years ago

These redactions at least raise eyebrows. The categories that the Freedom of Information Act allows the government to withhold are sufficiently vague that it's hard to say whether these redactions were actually in violation of that law, but does it appear suspicious given the damning nature of what was withheld, and the current government's obvious motivation for withholding it.

Josh Geltzer

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Were going to begin with that damning impeachment testimony today from a key witness.

Norah ODonnell

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It was very damning for the president.

Ted Lieu

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

George Washington University's indicative of what we are and will be hearing from Republican elected officials and conservative media, the facts of the case are damning, but they've been disseminated in a slow drip. Rather than arguing the facts, they take refuge in the style.

Dave Karpf

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When House Democrats come out and say,' Oh this was broad, sweeping, very damning deposition,' and running with headlines that I think are counter to what actually happened in a secure location, i will oftentimes say,' listen, based on what I've heard and based on where I've been on all of this I would suggest that was a mischaracterization.'.

Mark Meadows

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It was the most damning testimony.

Wasserman Schultz

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

But if President Donald Trump want to ask me what I believe right now, what he has done is pretty damning.

Cory Booker

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The initial summary of the phone call was damning.

Susan Wild

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

When you look at his appointments for the bench : White, white, white, white, white, white, white, that to me is really damning to everybody else because no one else gets a chance because he's thinking that the whites are superior, period.

Gregory Cheadle , of California

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Most Americans in their busy lives haven't had the opportunity to read that report, and it is a pretty dry, prosecutorial work product. We want Bob Mueller to bring it to life... It's a pretty damning set of facts.

Adam Schiff

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If accurate, this is damning evidence of a senior Trump campaign official providing information to individuals tied to Russian intelligence at the height of the Kremlin's effort to undermine our election.

Mark Warner

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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