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How to use the word exceedingly in a Sentence?

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It’s exceedingly clear here that that the Connecticut policy does not violate Title IX, that these plaintiffs, far from having been denied educational opportunities, have had an abundance of them in high school, winning scores of awards and champion scholarships.

Josh Block

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. Consequently those who live under the dominion of Puritanism become exceedingly desirous of power. Now love of power does far more harm than love of drink or any of the other vices against which Puritans protest. Of course, in virtuous people love of power camouflages itself as love of doing good, but this makes very little difference to its social effects. It merely means that we punish our victims for being wicked, instead of for being our enemies. In either case, tyranny and war result. Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.

Bertrand Russell

added by Normando
1 year ago

I think every public health response that I have ever worked, we want a crystal ball. It's just exceedingly hard to get there really early on, even for things that we have understood much better for years, tell me when influenza season is going to end. I can't.

Janet Hamilton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is exceedingly rare for someone who is tagged as the respondent who has been put in the crosshairs with the false allegation of domestic violence — the silver bullet — to come out and get any kind of semblance of a victory, let alone have a voice, so, the fact that he was able to speak for the first time, and I think we saw from the trial as well, his humanity and the spirit and gentle nature of the man. He was consistent and only took responsibility for his faults and the mistakes that he made. He's never said he's perfect.

Greg Ellis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I take full responsibility for any shortcomings at the utility this past week. I also take pride in our many accomplishments, while I have loved my job as director, and I am exceedingly proud of all that my team and I have accomplished over the nearly 15 years I have served as Austin Water's leader, I am ready to step aside.

Greg Meszaros

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Responsible governing has won on this exceedingly important issue, the American people can breathe easy, and rest assured there will not be a default.

Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

B-type stars are generally considered quite destructive and dangerous environments, so it was believed that it should be exceedingly difficult to form large planets around them.

Markus Janson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If we reach or exceed 10.5 feet, it will rank as at least the fourth-highest tide on record and would be the highest non-tropical on record. We've never seen the tide exceed 10.43 feet unless it is related to a tropical system, this would be exceedingly rare if not unprecedented, we're particularly worried about the only road in and out -- that goes from Savannah to Tybee Island -- the road was raised up a few years ago, but at 10.5 feet we're expecting issues there.

Blair Holloway

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Dixie Fire is The Dixie Fire that we're aware of that has burned from the west side of the mountain rage all the way over and to the valley floor on the east side of the mountain range. We don't have any record of that happening before, it is exceedingly resistant to control. While we've had some successes... when the winds come, we're finding that fires are spotting in some cases miles outside of The Dixie Fire.

Cal Fire Director Thom Porter

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's exceedingly rare to have significant excess inventory but the pandemic greatly impacted our cookie program, despite demand for cookies remaining strong.

Girl Scouts

Found on CNN
2 years ago

While pending charges as serious as Mr. Robertson's can be exceedingly stressful, and it certainly may have contributed to this tragic outcome, I believe he was in a good place mentally with regard to the charges and our upcoming court date.

Ashkan Mehryari

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The American public should understand that there is a risk, but it's an exceedingly rare risk, by basically putting a scarlet letter on this vaccine, by scaring people about this vaccine, by not really trusting them to understand the concept of relative risk, we may have done more harm than good, and there are people now who won't get a vaccine because this is the vaccine they would have gotten.

Paul Offit

Found on CNN
2 years ago

But let me be exceedingly clear: This is day one.

Jacob Frey

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Two factors here: exceedingly easy monetary policy and changes in tastes and preferences away from crowded cities in favor of areas with lower population density. This will likely continue for all of 2021.

Troy Ludtka

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

They're absolutely stunning, exceedingly rare, and they're worth, with the exception of one casting, most of them were worth at least $ 15,000 to $ 20,000 and going up.

Bruce Pascal

Found on CNN
3 years ago

President Trump could not have made a better decision. Judge Amy Coney Barrett is an exceptionally impressive jurist and an exceedingly well-qualified nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States, first, Judge Barrett built a reputation as a brilliant scholar at the forefront of the legal academy. Then she answered the call to public service. For three years on the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, she has demonstrated exactly the independence, impartiality, and fidelity to our laws and Constitution that Americans need and deserve on their highest Court.

Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Fossilized behavior is exceedingly rare, predation( the act of predator attacking prey) especially so, as paleontologists, we speculate about the function of ancient adaptations using available evidence, but to see an extinct predator caught in the act of capturing its prey is invaluable.

Phillip Barden

Found on CNN
3 years ago

To turn it into a political act is exceedingly undermining the health of the nation.

Cheryl Healton

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I think this is going to be a subset, of a subset, of a subset of individuals who develop it, as far as we can tell, this is something exceedingly uncommon.

Brad Segal

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Dual and triple black holes are exceedingly rare, but such systems are actually a natural consequence of galaxy mergers, which we think is how galaxies grow and evolve.

Shobita Satyapal

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Anything from the original trilogy is exceedingly difficult to find.

Brian Chanes

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I feel bamboozled. I feel fooled. I feel that so much about Mark Vicente was collected, i feel exceedingly vulnerable.

Mark Vicente

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When we are considering the advantages that may result from an easy mode of naturalization, we ought also to consider the cautions necessary to guard against abuses. It is no doubt very desirable that we should hold out as many inducements as possible for the worthy part of mankind to come and settle amongst us, and throw their fortunes into a common lot with ours. But why is this desirable? Not merely to swell the catalogue of people. No, sir, it is to increase the wealth and strength of the community; and those who acquire the rights of citizenship without adding to the strength or wealth of the community are not the people we are in want of … I should be exceedingly sorry, sir, that our rule of naturalization excluded a single person of good fame that really meant to incorporate himself into our society; on the other hand, I do not wish that any man should acquire the privilege, but such as would be a real addition to the wealth or strength of the United States.

James Madison

added by Normando
4 years ago

It's exceedingly fast, it allows you to deal with billions of uploads a day.

Hany Farid

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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