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How to use the word handout in a Sentence?

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Make sure the assistance [you give] works within your budget and be clear about the parameters, helping out shouldn’t be seen as a blank check or an indefinite handout. It might help to attach a specific dollar amount or time frame.

Ted Rossman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The sad part is the rich aren't going to pay for this [handout], we are, everything is a gift, but that goes on the back of our debt and the taxpayers are the ones who have to cover it.

Francisco Hernández

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We're not asking for a handout. All we are asking for is for a chance to be treated like a first-class citizen who truly is a beneficiary of the promise that this is a land where there is' liberty and justice for all, we are asking for justice for a lifetime of ongoing harm. Harm that was caused by Tulsa Race Massacre.

Van Ellis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We want jobs. We don't want a handout, we want for the economy to stabilize.

America Caballero

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We don't want a handout, we don't need that help. We just need a level playing field to compete.

James Litinsky

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Farmers, they want to work. They don't want a handout.

Charmayne McMurray

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It’s not to say I’m not looking for a handout, but it’s also looking for evening the playing field.

Nenna Joiner

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Welfare was never intended to be a one-way handout, but a program based on the idea of reciprocity, those who receive benefits from the government should be required to work or participate in work-training as a condition.

Robert Rector

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

When you subsidize something as much as solar gets, it does n’t seem like it’s sustainable in the long run, it creates a temporary handout to a few companies, pulling resources from other places in the economy.

Analyst Nick Loris

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

What I love is that their approach is not a common western individualistic approach which is 'we are the solution for your problem.' It’s not a superior helping an inferior, it’s really dropping all of our differences and working alongside another human being asking how they are doing and doing life with them. Developing relationships that are consistent—and not a onetime handout –that is when you see the transformation.

Alyson Stoner

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

He is one of happiest people I have ever met, full of joy, full of optimism, the time I spent with Dukale made me realize if you give people a hand up rather than a handout, the difference it makes to them is massive.

Hugh Jackman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What was so important to my development was his absolute conviction that people wanted a hand up, not a handout.

Nita Lowey

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. (Proposal to reform welfare programs)

Richard Milhous Nixon

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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