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How to use the word horrific in a Sentence? Page #8

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If the allegations being made are true, these are human rights abuses. ... Our government's abuse of immigrant children is abhorrent and should be a wake-up call to our nation, these conditions are also horrific for the agents who have been placed in this situation by the administration.

Veronica Escobar

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Fortunately, they have managed to slow down this horrific process.

Steve Lawrence

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We choose to confront the culture of death -- the abortion industry has taken its war against our children to our very doorstep, and we have determined to take the fight to the abortion cartel through the law and prayer to stop the horrific infanticide which is being inflicted upon our children, we will continue to fight for the next generations of Louisianans.

John Milkovich

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is one of the most horrific cases that I've ever had to encounter and deal with.

District Attorney Ray Whitley

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The conflict in Yemen is a horrific humanitarian crisis that challenges the conscience of the entire world. Yet the President has cynically chosen to contravene a bipartisan, bicameral vote of the Congress and perpetuate America's shameful involvement in this heartbreaking crisis, this conflict must end, now. The House of Representatives calls on the President to put peace before politics, and work with us to advance an enduring solution to end this crisis and save lives.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The United States continues to call for those responsible for the horrific crimes that were committed in Darfur to be held accountable for those actions.

Robert Palladino

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Now, thanks to the NYPD and my offices prosecutors, she will serve significant prison time for this horrific act of violence.

The Manhattan district attorney

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

These are extreme, horrific violations. And it's exactly why the hospital is a privacy zone, there are a very long list of reasons why taping, recording, videoing for anything other than medical or treatment purposes has to be strictly off-limits, because you're trying to protect people who can't protect themselves.

Art Caplan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I intend to give further details of these decisions to the media and the public before cabinet meets again next Monday, this ultimately means that within 10 days of this horrific act of terrorism we will have announced reforms which will, I believe, make our community safer.

Jacinda Ardern

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Within 10 days of this horrific act of terrorism we will have announced reforms which will, I believe, make our community safer.

Jacinda Ardern

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

New Zealand authorities acknowledge that the last 48 hours have been the most horrific in these families' lives. New Zealand authorities understand it is an added trauma for them that they have not been able to bury their loved ones quickly, according to their religious duty, this is an unprecedented event and the support of the Muslim leaders and their community has been invaluable.

Deputy Police Commisioner Wally Haumaha

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The live-streaming of New Zealand's shooting will certainly bring on more questions of regulation and scrutiny over Facebook. It helped provide a platform for today's horrific attack and will undoubtedly be called into question for facilitating the spread of this.

Clement Thibault

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This is a day NAMI has long awaited, for decades, people with mental health conditions have experienced really horrific discrimination at the hands of health insurance plans. They routinely deny mental health care and often with tragic outcomes.

Angela Kimball

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's been a horrific week for Virginia. A lot of individuals across Virginia have been hurt.

Ralph Northam

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I have been in law enforcement all of my adult life, and this horrific incident shocks and angers me more than anything I have encountered in my career, while we still don't know what drove the suspect to commit this heinous act, there is no excuse that can justify the cold-blooded murder of multiple victims.

Paul Blackman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Our thoughts are with Robert at this time. It is rather unimaginable what he must be feeling and thinking, it is a horrific, unfortunate, heartbreaking situation.

Lauri Nelson-Jones

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Ohio's pro-life Legislature has taken a courageous stance, no longer will the barbaric abortion procedure of ripping a child limb from limb be tolerated in Ohio. This practice is horrific and with [ this ] vote Ohioans through their elected representatives have saved countless unborn babies from this torture.

Mike Gonidakis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's been a really rough week in our home in Calabasas, Hidden Hills, and our neighbors in Thousand Oaks and Malibu, our hearts are broken from the horrific shootings and those who have lost their lives and homes, as well as the hundreds of thousands of us that have been evacuated from the devastating fires that are currently burning.

Kim Kardashian

Found on CNN
5 years ago

World War I was a horrific, terrible war that affected really everybody -- certainly affected us, and not to make a little bit of an effort to get to a very important ceremony was wrong. And I'm disappointed and I'm sorry that he didn't do it.

Chuck Hagel

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's been a really rough week in our home in Calabasas, Hidden Hills, and [ our neighbors in Thousand Oaks and Malibu, our hearts are broken from the horrific shootings and those who have lost their lives and homes, as well as the hundreds of thousands of us that have been evacuated from the devastating fires that are currently burning.

Kardashian West

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We were working with the other synagogues on what to do if something horrific like this happened.

Michael Eisenberg

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is certainly not the last step, we will continue to do our own efforts, our own fact finding, we want to make sure everyone understands that the United States believes that the killing of Jamal Khashoggi wasn't anything other than a horrific act.

Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We want to make sure everyone understands that the United States believes that the killing of Jamal Khashoggi wasn't anything other than a horrific act.

Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Plaintiff (Harris) has been rendered nervous by the incident, (He) has suffered anxiety of body and mind and has suffered emotional upset and loss of enjoyment of life, has suffered on going inability to sleep, horrific nightmares, distress, trauma, and post traumatic stress.

Ducks International

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

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