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How to use the word highly in a Sentence? Page #38

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Since the attack in Sousse the intelligence and threat picture has developed considerably, leading us to the view that a further terrorist attack is highly likely.

Foreign Minister Philip Hammond

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is something that is growing very fast, because many borrowers are not having access to banks because the banks are highly regulated.

Benjamin Tal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This work is highly technical and high stakes for all of the countries involved. We're frankly more concerned about the quality of the deal than we are about the clock, though we also know that difficult decisions won't get any easier with time -- that is why we are continuing to negotiate.

State Department spokeswoman Mari Harf

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The biggest features [of a Western diet] are overconsumption of over-refined sugars, highly refined and saturated fats, animal protein and a reduced intake of plant-based fibers.

Ian Myles

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The fact remains that Orica is operating in a highly competitive market in which supply of ammonium nitrate is higher than demand levels.

Dave Buick

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

China's demand stumble comes at an awkward time, just when more and more supply of raw materials is coming on stream in many sectors. No quick fix in sight, china's stock market stumble now risks knocking demand down further. What all this points to is the need for a lot more easing, including extra fiscal spending. China's economy is highly dependent on construction. With that engine sputtering, mainland commodity demand will struggle to make headway for a while.

Frederic Neumann

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

China's stock market stumble now risks knocking demand down further. What all this points to is the need for a lot more easing, including extra fiscal spending. China's economy is highly dependent on construction. With that engine sputtering, mainland commodity demand will struggle to make headway for a while.

Frederic Neumann

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Acquiring Coral Hill allows us to assume full operatorship of our Swan Hills assets and to increase our position in the highly economic core of the Swan Hills play.

Scott Saxberg

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I started out in this business just hoping to make a living, but then I grew to learn the beauty of cheongsam, it's different from ethnic costumes like the kimono and hanbok, as cheongsam has a highly flexible design.

Tony Leung

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's different from ethnic costumes like the kimono and hanbok, as cheongsam has a highly flexible design, elements like dress length, different materials and different levels of complexity make dresses suitable for a variety of occasions.

Osmond Chan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This growth is highly dependent on the safety and stability in Tunisia.

Euromonitor International

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The economy is changing with an emphasis on technology skills across all sectors. The emphasis now is that not all STEM jobs require four-year degrees. When I was growing up, you had what were called ‘blue collar jobs,’ now you have technicians who need to be highly skilled in tech. You need people who can repair MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) machines, or work on electric cars, you now need technicians who need to have really hard STEM skills. That’s a skill set that will be growing over the next five years, it will be more in demand, and giving students the foundation for those kinds of careers starts in school.

James Brown

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We believe it highly likely that the death penalty now violates the Eighth Amendment.

Stephen Breyer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We believe it highly likely that the death penalty now violates the Constitution.

Stephen Breyer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There's no blueprint, i've seen highly educated professionals who seem to have it all together do some crazy things inside the jail. Anyone has the potential to break the rules. Anyone.

Gary Heyward

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This shows that the highly desired foods can be a part of a diet if we sneak them in there.

Louis Aronne

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Kurds have been advancing significantly in recent weeks – they are a well-trained, highly motivated fighting force.

Nile Gardiner

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Many highly-leveraged investors are forced to sell shares at all costs due to margin calls.

Zhou Lin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Agriculture is much less state-run and much more private than it used to be, and the farmers who work for themselves work better and with greater efficiency, north Korea is highly unlikely to experience another famine even remotely similar to what happened in the late nineties.

Andrei Lankov

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Holding an event mocking the Muslim observance of Ramadan, a holy time in the Muslim faith, is highly offensive and abhorrent. As a community, we must reject anti-Muslim bigotry whenever and wherever it surfaces.

Scott Levin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Pooling our requirements should be done intelligently and not in a highly politicized, nationally fragmented way, this is something I will look for to be employed on this (surveillance drone) project. I would not be shy to opt out of projects if I get the impression that this would be?.?.?.?a recipe for disaster.

Chief Executive Tom Enders

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Children don't have a highly developed thirst mechanism, so they're especially vulnerable to becoming dehydrated, so parents need to remind their children to drink water.

Dianne Ward

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In the earlier Orkim Victory case, the pirates siphoned the diesel via ship-to-ship transfer ... The RON 95 will be more difficult to transfer as it is highly flammable, it needs special safety requirements and equipment. We believe they (pirates) are looking for facilities to transfer the petrol to their 'customers' ... The closest registered facilities are in Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam.

Ahmad Puzi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Donors and fundraisers are successful individuals who are highly motivated, they make their own decisions, they are not subject to group think, you recruit them one at a time.

Wayne Berman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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