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How to use the word haves in a Sentence?

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But I'm sorry, if you're watching cable news all day, right ? Getty Images's what you're gon na think, there is misinformation and not just on podcasts and the internet. It's also on cable news. I think the biggest thing to me about the Democrats is … the Democrats is supposed to be the party of the little guy … You know what the Democrats are now comfortable with, or seemingly comfortable with ? A two-tiered system in which the haves get to go into a restaurant, laugh with their friends for hours and the people serving them are masked and wearing gloves. Where they get to walk, as AOC did, at the Met Gala while in the background the staff looked like they were in' The Handmaid's Tale.' I mean, this is, this is a look that is unbelievably detrimental to them.

Bari Weiss

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A deep feeling among the Japanese people that this gap between the haves and have-nots, the gap between wealth, wages and opportunity is increasing.

Keith Henry

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If your society is structured in such a way where there are haves and have nots and there are winners and losers, then why would you expect it to play out any differently — whether it's climate change or Covid-19 vulnerability and disparity ? if it's baked into your system and your society, then the impacts for a systemic attack on your society's gon na play out the same way.

Eddie Bautista

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Under all that uniform, he’s just a softie, he’s such a gentleman. He still opens the door for me, still puts my coat on for me. After my divorce, I had a list of must-haves if I were ever to be in a relationship, and he fit all of them.

Derek Chauvin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

COVID-19 has taught us an important lesson, that we are all mortals. It does not discriminate between the powerful and the weak, the privileged and the deprived, the haves and the have-nots.

Constantino Chiwenga

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

This is a culmination of all those years of haves and have nots.

Cicely Tyson

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The real haves are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real have nots are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.

Eric Hoffer

added by Normando
3 years ago

We will be exploring all opportunities to optimise and streamline the scope and service levels at the Games, and reduce the costs that have been caused by the postponement, all of the athletes services will remain the same but there must be other areas of hosting a Games that we can look at and decide what are the must-haves and what are the nice-to-haves.

John Coates

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

His major concerns were, will it be available to everyone, or is it going to further bifurcate the haves and the have-not's?

John Kelly III

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I truly thought I was a part of mainstream society, nothing in my life indicated I was a secondary citizen until the LA riots. The LAPD powers that be decided to protect the 'haves' and the Korean community did not have any political voice or power. They left us to burn.

Chang Lee

Found on CNN
7 years ago

In order to get our country back on track, we must focus first and foremost on reducing the gulf between the haves and the have-nots. This can only occur by reinvesting in the emotional and physical well-being of the American family in the full range of its expression.

Paul Hokemeyer

added by anonymous
7 years ago

In retail, you have a pure stockpicker's market because these companies are either going to be haves or have-nots.

Susan Bao

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Unless you really need to fortify a balance sheet and get bigger, a lot of M&A activity will wait until there’s more of a discrepancy between haves and have-nots.

Christopher Paulsen

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Climate change and economic inequality are inextricably linked and together pose one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century, paris must be the start of building a more human economy for all – not just for the 'haves', the richest and highest emitters, but also the 'have-nots', the poorest people who are the least responsible for and most vulnerable to climate change.

Tim Gore

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

African-Americans are the absolute must-haves of the South Carolina Democratic Primary.

Scott Huffmon

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The pervading view seems to be that we live in a world of 'haves' and 'have nots', and that Europe is growing rich at the expense of significant parts of the rest of the world.

Simon Chadwick

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The industry has been complaining bitterly for a decade about the haves-and-have-nots.

Dave Nadig

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Clearly what you're seeing in the energy market with the cataclysmic fall in oil prices - halved in such a short period - I think you will have haves and have nots, we along with others in our industry are dusting off (opportunities).

Leon Black

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The haves and have nots can be traced back to the dids and did nots.

Anthony Klco

added by anonymous
13 years ago

There are only two families in the world, the Haves and Have-Nots.

Miguel de Cervantes

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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