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How to use the word livable in a Sentence?

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We have to make it the norm that candidates pay themselves a livable wage, so that they can run for office because that’s how we start to change the system.

Grechen Shirley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My message to our young climate activists who have fought relentlessly for a livable future is that when we work together, when we refuse to back down, we win. This package may not be everything that we want, but it’s the start that we need.

Ed Markey

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This house was not livable when I bought it, it had water damage. And so I've had to come in and just take care of those things right off the bat and tear everything out. I am worried about it because I don't think people are going to see half the work that's been done in this house, which is the bummer of buying a house that needs this much work.

Leah Wensink

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Let's not just talk about honoring educators, let's make sure they're treated with the respect and the dignity they deserve, this means a livable wage, it means ongoing professional learning and development, supportive working conditions and a work environment where their voices are welcome as critical partners in our work to improve education.Moving forward, it's on us to make sure education jobs are ones educators don't want to leave and that people from all backgrounds want to pursue.

Miguel Cardona

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're still living in a camper right now, i'm trying to get a roof on the house and get it livable by the day they start school. That's my goal.

Russell Plaisance

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Melbourne tragically and sadly has gone from being the most livable city in the world to the most locked-down city in the world.

Josh Frydenberg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Equity does not mean that one side gets ignored or favored. It is quite the opposite : we have a responsibility to create and maintain humane, livable spaces for children who have consistently lived on the brink of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion, a minimal demonstration of that humanity, a flag, a banner, a sign, is all it could take for a student to feel safe. Each student is unique, and every one deserves our love and care.

Guadalupe Martinez-Zapata

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We must pass a robust infrastructure package that delivers results for working families on jobs, immigration, health care, and a livable planet, henry Cuellar is standing in the way. It's time for a change.

Jessica Cisneros

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s a very straightforward plan to make California more affordable and livable for the men and women who served our nation, it’s a plan to make sure that veterans are taxed less and housed more.

Kevin Faulconer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They start at $ 35 an hour, top out at $ 80 an hour. Full corporate benefits, when you provide people with livable wages, they're able to feed their families... and be productive members of society.

Hero Hector Guadalupe ''

Found on CNN
2 years ago

For me, it was like,' I can't make minimum wage, I have to make double, fair Wage needs to become livable.

Alicia Macklin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Depending on the market you're in, is what we make as a salary a livable wage? No, but that's a work in progress.

Madison Packer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The fact that you are staring at a panel of young people testifying before you today pleading for a livable earth should not fill you with pride; it should fill you with shame.

Greta Thunberg

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We are more then positive Lee Brundige home is gone, even if it isn't, the town will not be livable for a while.

Tracy Grant

Found on CNN
5 years ago

NRDC seeks environmental solutions that are grounded in sound science, U.S. law and the public interest, we work on behalf of every American to protect our people against dangerous pollution and leave our children a livable world. Those are American values, American goals, and advancing them is manifestly in our national interest, as we have consistently demonstrated for nearly 50 years.

Bob Deans

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

My first reaction was to immediately feel angry and insulted, we deserve to make livable wages.

Heidi Lamar

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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