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How to use the word long-term in a Sentence?

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The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. ... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not reform, the iron fist of the welfare state and the controlled economy. This includes the end (not the reform) of the IRS, the DEA, the BATF, the SEC, the FDA, HUD, the departments of HHS, Labor, Agriculture, and energy, and every other agency that takes money from some and gives it to others or interferes with peaceful behavior.

Jacob G. Hornberger

added by Normando
2 months ago

This is definitely not a long-term solution to the climate problem, this is something you can do short term to mitigate worse problems while trying to get everything under control.

Jeremy Munday

Found on New York Times
9 months ago

There is a story that psychiatry doesn’t dare tell, which shows that our societal delusion about the benefits of psychiatric drugs isn’t entirely an innocent one. In order to sell our society on the soundness of this form of care, psychiatry has had to grossly exaggerate the value of its new drugs, silence critics, and keep the story of poor long-term outcomes hidden.

Robert Whitaker

added by JokerGem
11 months ago

While our AWS business navigates companies spending more cautiously in this macro environment, we continue to prioritize building long-term customer relationships.

Andy Jassy

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Work requirements provide the deadline and incentives that we all need, the alternative is that people are trapped in poverty for the long term.

Tarren Bragdon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[Long-term care insurance] plans are getting harder and harder to sign, but they do still exist. Some insurers will still sell them.

Gal Wettstein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Most people don’t begin to need long-term care services until between 75 and 85. And so as the baby boomers hit those ages, that is where we’re going to see that demand really explode.

Caroline Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The wise person is one who can see beyond the immediate and recognize the long-term consequences of their actions.

Martin Tobias Lithner

added by anonymous
1 year ago

Child care and long-term care systems in this country just don’t work well – high quality care is costly to deliver, it’s labor intensive, it requires skilled workers, yet care workers – who are disproportionately women and women of color and immigrants – are among the lowest paid in the country, despite working in some of the most important and complex and demanding jobs. At the same time, the price of care represents an outside share of family’s budget, with child care prices up 26% in just the last decade and long-term care costs up nearly 40%.

Susan Rice

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Cash is actually earning you something at this point, you have to look long term.

Megan Horneman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Say we get two more feet, that’s fantastic, but we’re still struggling to be where we want to be, the way I think about it is this year buys us some time to work on some of these long term issues.

Bonnie Baxter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While it’s encouraging, it’s great, the long-term trend here has been continued drought and water shortages, but there’s a chance even with a good water year that it just kind of pushes the curve out a few months and we have to continue our planning process accordingly.

Tommy Beaudreau

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We don’t want to be fighting over the short term and miss the real prize, which is the long term.

Bill Hasencamp

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There was a real sense of, if we don’t do it now, the moment could slip away, everyone was focused on immediate peace and stability, not long-term politics. That meant the deal wasn’t perfect, but it did bring stability.

Paul Bew

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s nice for the field to getting to the point where we can think about the long-term evolution of memories and really try to understand how that works, and the study is definitely a step in that direction.

Loren Frank

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But if stress is continuous, especially in older or unhealthy individuals, the long-term effects of the response to stress may lead to significant health issues.

Richard Scrivener

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These factors create a less hospitable borrowing environment, which would serve to bring inflation closer to a healthy level, more expensive, stricter lending helps to usher in the long-term health of the economy, but the downside is that borrowing for large purchases, including a home purchase, may be relatively more challenging in the short term.

Hannah Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As the dust settled after last week’s FOMC meeting, markets adjusted to the short- and long-term implications of higher interest rates and the possibility of stricter lending requirements, along with a possible end to rate hikes on the horizon.

Hannah Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I never thought that I would be there long term with a partner because it just was n’t inclusive enough for how I wanted to be able to live my life.

Jemma Warner-Gregory

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People do n’t really have a memory of what it was like 10, 15, 20 years ago with the different laws and what could and could n’t be done, so I get quite a lot of shock at how difficult it was for us to be in a long term relationship at that point.

Jemma Warner-Gregory

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This provides no information on the long-term benefits or adverse effects of long-term coffee drinking, this does not provide information on the impact of coffee in people with other health conditions, and generally (the study participants) consumed modest amounts of coffee.

Peter Kistler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The secondary mortgage market may react to speculation that more financial entities may need to sell their long-term investments, like mortgage backed securities, to get more liquidity today.

Orphe Divounguy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the long term, even after the infection is cleared, there’s a risk of needing a surgery such as a corneal transplant or other different types of surgeries to address scarring that may also significantly limit the vision.

Marissa Shoji

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For too many private sector actors it’s always going to be easier to point the finger at the Fed rather than taking a good long, hard look in the mirror, too many opt for short-term gains at the expense of long-term stability despite the clear risks associated with a borrow short, lend long strategy.

Joe Brusuelas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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