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How to use the word good-by in a Sentence?

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We've surged resources to make sure that we could make good by the people who are seeking Special Immigrant Visas, we've added about 50 people here at the State Department. A lot of the work actually gets done here at State. We have additional people in the field. We've reduced and in fact eliminated some backlogs that existed.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I like Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, I get along with Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan pretty well, but having said that, I think a lot of the praise, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan benefits from stepping over the 1-inch bar that is Donald Trump. When you have the same party as Donald Trump and you don't lie in every statement and engage in racism, you look good by comparison.

Tom Hucker

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Can man, created good by God, be made wicked by man?

Victor Hugo

added by acronimous
4 years ago

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.

H. L. Mencken

added by Normando
4 years ago

We want to make sure during this heightened awareness were going to do take what was meant for harm and make it good by providing the tools that help and empowering the rest of the churches across the nation to be ready.

Kevin Smith

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We’ve had a few, very very limited number, that it said was good and they were not, we found out they were not good by some other means.

Russell Hanna

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We found out they were not good by some other means.

Russell Hanna

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It takes a bit to see the upside from these results. But the upstream news is very positive and the group is certainly changing for good by offloading Saipem.

Jason Kenney

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Good by. Don't forget me.

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

William James

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.

Anita Loos

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Very distasteful is excessive fame To the sour palate of the envious mind, Who hears with grief his neighbours good by name, And hates the fortune that he ne?er shall find.

Pindar

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.

Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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