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How to use the word do-nothing in a Sentence? Page #11

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This bill does nothing to fight inflation, raises taxes, and hires an Army of IRS agents to harass the middle class, voters are going to fire any vulnerable Democrat who backs Democrats’ latest reckless spending spree.

Mike Berg

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It was so hard to comprehend what happened because we go to work the next day like nothing happened, when you're in the infantry, they have to strip away all your vulnerabilities. They have to, because( otherwise) you're not going to survive in war.

Richard Casper

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s this space in our lives that we attempt to fill with more space and the nothingness grows larger while our lives get smaller, a fact we can’t seem to accept very well. So, we take walks and we work and we go to movies and basketball games and church and we Exist in our nothing lives and when we die a speech is made and we are forgotten once again, only more permanently this time.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

Nothing like this has ever happened to a president of the United States before, after working and cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate.

Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We must be very clear : Nothing we documented Ukrainian forces doing in any way justifies Russian violations, russia alone is responsible for the violations it has committed against Ukrainian civilians. Amnesty's work over the last six months and our multiple briefings and reports on Russia's violations and war crimes reflect their scale and the gravity of their impact on civilians.

Amnesty International

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A dirty player Is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There’s a huge difference. There’s no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don’t have that mean streak in me. I don’t play angry. It’s not anger.

Ndamukong Suh

added by Normando
1 year ago

We go through droughts every 20 years or so, but nothing of this magnitude, we are in for a wave of water rights battles through the West. This is the driest it has been in 1,200 years.

Tom Cech

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The issues that are still key in the discussions are not really addressed by this bill -- there's nothing in the bill on international climate finance, which is a bit worrying, leadership is now required from the rich countries in climate finance.

Bob Ward

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

unknown

added by unochickie
1 year ago

I believe he understands the challenges of our effort in Ukraine, but the politicians and foreign policy establishment are making strategic decisions, not military leaders, this should trouble all Americans as these are the know-nothing know-it-alls who oversaw the debacle in Afghanistan, and other foreign policy blunders, and have faced zero accountability.

Victoria Spartz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I believe that there is absolutely nothing, nothing, that Andino Reynal has done to fulfill Andino Reynal obligations to protect Andino Reynal client and prevent me from doing that.

Mark Bankston

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's our position that he did nothing wrong in any of the activities relating to this search.

Thomas Clay

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She has nothing to do with Russia.

Megan Kau

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Can we please not force veterans, disabled from their heroism and sacrifice, to stand outside the Capitol building, days on end, waiting on this Congress to do the thing they already did on June 16 ? It passed 84 to 14. Nothing changed in it.

Jon Stewart

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There was nothing in today's reports that's going to cause Federal Reserve to question whether they should keep tightening, i'd lean towards 75 basis points the next time too, until we see some kind of break on inflation, both wages and prices.

Robert Fry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Reverend Warnock has nothing else to talk about, i'm ready to debate him, any time, any day. I just want to make it for the fans, not about a political party or about some media, and all Reverend Warnock's doing is talking. I want to make it a fair and equitable debate for the people.

Herschel Walker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Spare me that bullshit, it just shows that nothing is above petty partisan politics, that at the end of the day, all that matters is the letter next to your name.

Peter Meijer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Shame on all the liberal mayors that did nothing and said nothing while we saw a record amount of people illegally entering into our country, while we saw a record amount of fentanyl and other drugs pouring into our country, they didn't care, or they ignored it until it literally came to their front door.

Mark Brnovich

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We will hold Joe Biden to this. Nothing short of a US investigation that leads to real accountability is acceptable, and we won't stop until no other American or Palestinian family endures the same pain we have.

Abu Akleh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For three hours after the Capitol was attacked, when Hendrik Meijer, the House GOP chamber and several hundred of my colleagues were having to flee from a mob, when the vice president, his wife, his daughter were running from crowds screaming' hang Mike Pence,' when the next two individuals in the presidential line of succession were unsecured and had to be taken to secure locations, for three hours the President did nothing, i think that was a shameful dereliction of duty.

Hendrik Meijer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's sad to be famous at 12 years old or something, and then you grow up and become a real person, and nothing's happened for you.

Wally Cleaver

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You took away my education, you took away my life, you took away my marriage, you took away my identity, you took away everything I wanted to be. Now it's nothing, and you say I'm sorry.

Canadian Indigenous

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's financially eviscerating, nothing drives people crazier.

Mark Zandi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A margarita in even Mexico is nothing like on this side of the border.

Kristopher DeSoto

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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