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How to use the word happened in a Sentence? Page #4

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We’re searching for justice. Somebody has to be responsible for what happened. Not only to me, but to many other families that have lost their loved ones. if you use the content for your benefit, you have to pay for your wrongdoing.

Nitsana Leitner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I just don’t want my daughter’s life to be washed out like that. I want something to be done, we’re searching for justice. Somebody has to be responsible for what happened. Not only to me, but to many other families that have lost their loved ones.

Beatriz Gonzalez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Bringing guns into the AAPI community will only increase gun violence in our community. That’s exactly what happened in Monterey Park. An ostensibly harmless elderly Asian man’s mind was captured by the idea of guns. He decided they were a good idea and brought them into the community. Look what happened.

Josh Sugarmann

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They crossed the border from Mexico to the United States, it happened to one family, then to another family and we started to pray.

Courstesy Mikhail Manzurin Fearing Mikhail

Found on CNN
1 year ago

President Biden has claimed the upper hand … and tomorrow Putin will have to reply to what happened today.

Kira Rudik

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Of course I can’t say with certainty the connection, but things like this do not happen in a vacuum. What happened to me is definitely influenced by a toxic political culture, and it’s my opinion that the university is playing a role, we do not like to talk about racism.

Sam Joeckel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m not bitter, this happened, but my concern is that it never happens to another group.

Yetsuko Saguchi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s definitely sort of reinvocation of kind of what people in Asian American studies would refer to as ‘Yellow Peril’ fearmongering, there are ways in which it resonates with what happened to Japanese Americans during World War II, where regardless of citizenship, regardless of nativity, they were racially categorized as enemy aliens.

Madeline Hsu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The evidence of abuse would have been buried with Tony Mitchell but for the bravery of a lone corrections officer who made a video of what really happened to Tony and shared one of them. And, they fired her for exposing the truth of this abuse, there needs to be a federal statute requiring bystanders to report inmate abuse and providing statutory whistleblower protection to those who do. I sent a letter to the jail before we filed this case telling them to preserve all of their electronic recordings – if they have destroyed them then I can only imagine the horrors they have hidden.

Jon Goldfarb

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Obviously if he was being detained or arrested… which they claimed they were in the middle of an arrest, there’s no question that he should have been read his rights, none of that happened. That is a practice that we see quite frequently with the Raleigh police.

Dawn Blagrove

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People only now start realizing what happened to them after this shock period.

Turkey Representative Batyr Berdyklychev

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We said we had to take the positives, it’s a two-legged tie, we can’t change what happened in the first leg. We will go there to qualify. We know that there is a possibility. There is always a good possibility to qualify.

Kylian Mbappé

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is not a small town, there are 1000 houses, and 7000 thousand people live here, of course, we are scared… if it was a little closer, it would have happened in the middle of our town.

Mehmet Kaman/Anadolu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s destroying me, when it happened, I was receiving constant voice messages, jumping from number to number on WhatsApp, each one is someone crying, telling me they are seeing people dying around them. I ca n’t stop hearing them.

Abdulrahman Al-Dahhan Mourning

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I built walls up years ago, because the war that happened really messed me up. I did n’t want to get hurt like that again, but with this earthquake, I feel those walls crumbling. I am remembering things I do n’t want to remember, and I ca n’t think of anything else. Others, like Zahra and Ameer Alsamman, say they are struggling with survivor’s guilt, possessed with a relentless, sinking feeling that no matter how much they help it wo n’t be enough.

Abdulrahman Al-Dahhan Mourning

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’d never had an issue from HR, right , HR never came and said ‘there’s a complaint against you,’ one thing that I wanted to be was always better and I mean, the irony of the situation is I actually think I was not only doing my best science, but I also think I was being the best mentor I had been when all this happened.

David Sabatini

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They made us sign some documents saying in one single line that we were leaving the country of our free will with no further explanation, on one side what happened is shocking, but on the other, I’m overwhelmed by this moment, the opportunity to hug our family. Personally, I haven’t seen my daughter in more than three years.

Felix Maradiaga

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s just sad because Andrea is really not even the kind of person that wants this kind of attention. She is not a sort of awards-pandering person and it all happened very organically.

Randy Shropshire/Getty Images Maron

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Everybody assumed that China would be all in with Russia in Ukraine. They’re not all in, as a matter of fact I called him this summer to say, this is not a threat, just an observation: Look what’s happened to Russia. Six hundred American corporations have pulled out of Russia, from McDonald’s to Exxon. And I said, ‘You’ve told me all along that the reason why you need a relationship with the United States and Europe is so they invest in China.’ I said, ‘Who is gonna invest in China if you engage in the same kind of deal? You’ll notice there’s not been much going on there.’.

Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you stand up for what you think is the right thing, you can achieve the desired results, if my story can bring that out in terms of: this is what I did and these are the results that I achieved and these are systemic changes that happened.

Krishna Kumar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It never happened with us under the Trump administration, and if it did, we would have shot it down immediately, it’s disinformation.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They did not have the video to watch to know what happened before they got there, so they were reacting to what they saw and what they were told at the scene, obviously, they did not perform at the level that we expect or that the citizens of Memphis deserve.

Memphis City Council

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am aware this happened for us, not to us, the reason that Bobbi Wilson is here, and we are not grieving, is because someone above wanted us to be a part of changing racism in our town … It is because we have Bobbi Wilson that we are able to stand here and do something about it, to speak up for ourselves.

Andrew Hurley/Yale Bobbi mother

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s been a rise of polarization and decline in national harmony, our baseline was a simpler time when people were more content with the country, before a lot of events happened that we know have eroded trust over time.

Lydia Saad

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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