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How to use the word feeds in a Sentence? Page #5

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It's a terrorism that is low cost to carry out but has major impact, this low-cost terrorism feeds on fraud, money laundering and petty trafficking.

Finance Minister Michel Sapin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It’s all integrated to create a more holistic view of what you’re encountering in your day to day environment, the more data feeds, the more devices you’re wearing, we can aggregate that information.

Eric Schadt

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If the only place you can find out what's happening behind the scenes in the lead-up to the fight is via their social media feeds, you're going to follow them, so I think they will see quite a big increase in followers and the amount of mentions they're getting as the fight gets closer.

Daniel McLaren

Found on CNN
9 years ago

When people are oppressed and human rights are denied, particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines, when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism.

The President

Found on CNN
9 years ago

When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied -- particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines -- when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

There are still outstanding loans in euros and Swiss francs in Hungary and Poland. The bottom line is the corporate sector is still indebted and weakness in the forint feeds on itself, affects the corporate debt problem and inflates government debt ratios.

Manik Narain

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In population terms it's of minor significance, as we are talking about one old bull that would have contributed genetically to the rhino population already. In monetary terms, it's important as it generates funds that go directly into the Wildlife Products Fund that feeds 100% back into rhino conservation.

Michael Knight

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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10 years ago

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

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10 years ago

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!It is the green-eyed monster which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3

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13 years ago

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

Eric Hoffer

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13 years ago

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

Sir Winston Churchill

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13 years ago

Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon.

Cosino DeGregrio

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13 years ago

Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1513)

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13 years ago

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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14 years ago

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare

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14 years ago

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.

Samuel Adams

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14 years ago

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Winston Churchill

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14 years ago

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

Elie Wiesel

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14 years ago

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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14 years ago

Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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14 years ago

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