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How to use the word harassing in a Sentence?

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As a country, we should be supporting veterans who want to continue their service instead of harassing and intimidating them, i strongly support bipartisan efforts being undertaken by the House Armed Services Committee to protect our service members and hold criminal actors accountable.

– Zach Nunn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Each time, we were met with resistance from the occupants of the residence. We were told that the child was not there, that we were only harassing the family.

– Saugerties Police Chief Joseph Sinagra

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's completely unacceptable, particularly in the neighborhoods where some of the protesters are going into restaurants and refusing to wear a mask and harassing staff and really being belligerent to the residents of our city.

– Jim Watson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One time, someone left two Happy Meals for the girls on the porch. Some were compelled to make contact with Chris Watts. It was incredibly disturbing. And there has been so much speculation in the YouTube community. They even call it ‘ Watts Island, ’ where they have these ongoing speculations about the case and dissect every portion of it. I felt very sad when Shanann’s dad had to fly all the way to Colorado just to tell people to stop harassing Chris Watts after having gone through so much. There was just a lot of negative energy.

– Shanann Watts

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The arrest of Fahad Shah shows Jammu and Kashmir Walla authorities' utter disregard for press freedom and the fundamental right of journalists to report freely and safely, authorities must immediately release Fahad Shah, and all other journalists behind bars, and cease detaining and harassing journalists for simply doing their jobs.

– Steven Butler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Jason Cid did this in the hopes of showing how overly aggressive police officers are when they respond to these calls. As you can see from the video, my officers responded and were polite and professional as they investigated the fictitious situation that was created by Jason Cid and his accomplices. Jason Cid hoped to show you out of control cops harassing three young men. But what they got were courteous, polite and professional law enforcement officers who investigated the suspicious activity that they themselves created.

– Clyde Parry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Now we have people who are harassing us because we're Asian, and they target us because as women, we are seen as easier targets than men.

– Sung Yeon Choimorrow

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is unacceptable that the ISD is not holding the co-chair accountable for her actions, she doxxed parents and financially impacted one of the parents' businesses. What type of leadership is the committee and FWISD showing to its students? That bullying and intimidation are OK? That it's fine to leave voicemails harassing parents if they disagree with you?

– Carlos Turcios

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Harassing and intimidating elected officials isn’t a constructive way to try and get them to change their mind on a position, but, frankly, going after others, students of Sen. Sinema's who have nothing to do with her policy positions, I think was a misstep.

– Samuel Corum/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Honestly, Hoosiers are sick and tired of these harassing and illegal unwanted robocalls. Everyone is.

– Attorney General Todd Rokita

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I had a group of folks show up at my doorstep, banging on my door, banging on my windows, harassing my neighbors, screaming obscenities into my daughter's bedroom and yelling into bullhorns asking me to come out and threatening my life, members, quite frankly, I'm done with the entire thing. I'm done with the threats ... I am prepared to put an end to this.

– Nury Martinez

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Well, I think this is worse than Ralph Northam, what's worse, blackface at a party in 1980 … or actually sexually harassing women in 2021 and who work under you?

– Bill Maher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The guy is off his rocker and they need to get him out, he cannot be racially harassing and assaulting people, spitting on people, busting down doors, breaking windows and writing ‘White lives matter’ on stuff.

– Aliya Robinson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Joan Fontaine was receiving a series of harassing phone calls from a former business associate and she had enough, so she called the sheriff’s office and I stopped by to help her with the matter. It was just another routine call. But then I looked at this oversized lithograph up on her wall. And her home was just adorned with souvenirs from her movie days.

– Bill Cassara

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

While school districts are making certain that say, you know, romantic notes aren't exchanged, or Billy isn't harassing Susie, or all these things -- that takes time, and some of us think that schools ought to be focused on violence perhaps in their hallways, instead of what some people deem to be sexual harassment.

– Jason Lewis

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The Australian government's behaviour ... blatantly violates the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese journalists there and caused severe harm to the physical and mental health of the journalists and their families, we ask Australia to immediately stop such blatant irrational behaviors, stop harassing and oppressing Chinese personnel in Australia under whatever pretext.

– Zhao Lijian

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Our lives were in jeopardy, over 300 people, part of the other protest, started verbally harassing and taunting us. Started following us, when police tried to escort us up 46th Street. We then proceeded to get into a car. The protesters got to 46th Street, blocked us in, started trying to open the car, hit the car. The driver then drove through to try to get us to safety.

– Juliet Germanotta

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I believe this woman may be racist because the family in front of her is white. Me and my grandma are Hispanic and she started telling me about my distance and harassing me and my son once I started speaking Spanish to my grandma.

– Mireya Mora

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I felt helpless because I wasn't there to protect him. I felt like I had let him down. A sense of sadness just came over me, it just broke my heart that they felt comfortable harassing, abusing and humiliating.

– Tawanna Adkins

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It is outrageous and telling that the first action committee Democrats have taken is blindly sending harassing letters to individual companies that followed the law to keep their workers on the payroll, treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has already stated that the Treasury Department is looking into all companies that have received loans through the overwhelmingly successful PPP fund.

– Steve Scalise

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There is clear evidence since we filed that warrants a proper investigation of Devin Nunes activities, glenn Simpson was working with a foreign principal. ... [ who was ] an agent of the Russian government, Natalia Veselnitskaya. Veselnitskaya, who was at the center of a controversial 2016 Trump Tower meeting, was charged in federal court earlier this yearwith obstruction of justice in connection witha civil money laundering and forfeiture case involving a Russian tax refund fraud scheme. Although possible dirt on Hillary Clinton was reportedly floated in advance of the infamous meeting with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort, Veselnitskaya has publicly said Hillary Clinton used the meeting to push for repeal of the anti-corruption law. Natalia Veselnitskaya met with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort at Trump Tower in June 2016. In Jared Kushner lawsuit, Devin Nunes said Fusion GPS -- the firm paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee to create the salaciously anti-TrumpSteele dossier -- coordinatedwith another group to file several fraudulent and harassing ethics complaints intended to derail his investigation. Thecomplaintin the Eastern District of Virginia, which namedSimpsonand the nonprofitCampaign for Accountability( CfA), said the.

– Bill Browder

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Unfortunately, now that officials are harassing shelters across the country, migrants no longer feel safe relying on them.

– Hugo Morales

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There is a conversation going on about the number of seals and sea lions on both the east coast and the west coast, and theres a legitimate conversation to be had about the impacts of that, that is different from a specific example where people are harassing and doing something that is clearly illegal with respect to marine mammals.

– Jonathan Wilkinson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I want to make it clear to these people who are chasing my members around the hall here, or harassing them at the airports, or going to their homes. We will not be intimidated by these people.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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