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How to use the word herring in a Sentence?

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When I was a teenager in Delaware, for real, I got involved in the civil rights movement, i’d go to 8 o’clock Mass, then I’d go to Rev. Herring’s church where we’d meet in order to organize and figure where we were going to go, whether we were going to desegregate the Rialto movie theater or what we were going to do.

Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Well, I think the whole idea of a special master is a bit of a red herring.

William Barr

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that there has never been a true originalist on the Court, that all of the Justices -- liberal, moderate, and conservatives -- in big cases vote their values and life experiences more than law, and that Biden should appoint someone who honestly and transparently explains her decisions, i think the issue is a red herring.

Eric Segall

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is a red herring, what goes on in schools is no secret. Children bring things home. They share what is happening.

Suzanne Nossel

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our members wished to hear from all of the candidates on qualified immunity, state law enforcement benefits, [the] Brady Giglio law, Second Amendment stances, procedural guarantee for officers and other issues that impact our members working lives, but sadly Terry McAuliffe, Hala Ayala and Mark Herring decided that this process was not a priority for them.

Sean McGowan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Since that time, restoration projects on the Penobscot River and many smaller rivers now allow river herring to access traditional spawning habitat, a result of the restoration activities is the expanding river herring resources we are seeing in Maine today.

Michael Brown

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Mark Herring is Mark Herring that Ralph Northam have ever had, and everyone who is running for office in Virginia is looking to him for support.

Jay Jones

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Herring Networks , Inc. is getting really hard to find just the reliable, credible, fact-based news with substance, the second component is to provide a platform where more voices can be heard, voices that are ignored, libertarian and conservative voices.

Charles Herring

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Herring said in a statement. The fact that Republican attorneys general are suing to block the ERA, and that they now have the support of the Trump Administration, is absolutely repugnant. FLASHBACK: WHY THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT IS A FEMINIST DISASTER On Tuesday, supporters of the ERAfiled a federal lawsuitin Massachusetts aimed at clearing a legal path for adoption of the amendment. The lawsuit argues that because the deadline was set forth in legislation authorizing states to ratify the amendment and not in the three-sentence amendment itself its not constitutionally binding and Virginias vote would put the amendment over the top. We are not surprised that the Trump administration acted swiftly to declare its opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment.

Wendy Murphy

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

-- which happens all the time in a court of law. So the idea that Trump can't talk to Mueller because it's possible he had a differing understanding of what he told Comey is a red herring.Like what youre reading?Check out the latest analysis from The Point with Chris Cillizza:Rudy Giuliani's Sunday show appearance was a total disasterTrump rewrites history as Russia probe pressure mountsMichael Avenatti is no Donald Trump. Not even close.The definitive ranking of 2020 DemocratsThis week in politics, GIF'dSecond, not all.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Supply doesn’t matter. That’s a red herring in the bigger picture. It’s all about inflation and inflation expectations.

Lou Brien

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Believe me, if there was anything to this Ukraine red herring, we would’ve heard about it a long time ago, chalupa was nothing more than an individual involved in ethnic relations, not unlike countless other ethnic and heritage communities throughout the United States.

Conrad Nowak

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Anisakis can infect salmon, herring, cod, mackerel, squids, halibut and red snapper.

Joana Carmo

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It’s a red herring and Senator Warner knows better, is it possible the Russians were able to target specific counties in key swing states days ahead of the election? That’s not very probable. We’re giving the Russians way too much credit that they’ve got all this capability.

Morgan Wright

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Terry Norman is in a sense the second gunman on the grassy knoll ... He's been kind of a handy bogeyman or a red herring.

Howard Means

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Headcount can be a bit of a red herring in terms of analysis.

Gerald Hassell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It’s a red herring that has been placed there on purpose by individuals and organizations who do not believe in free trade.

Jakob Ragnwaldh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The divest campaign, or Keep it in the Ground or the carbon bubble, ignore reality that 80 percent of the investment in the industry has to be done just to stand still to arrest decline. It is a red herring, it is a very seductive argument and that is why it catches on, but it is a red herring.

Van Beurden

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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