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It’s amazing how they survive. No credit card, no physical signs of income, and they just make do. – Pat Diaz	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This business is all about shaking hands and hugging people. Now we'll have to make do with a little wave and a smile of the eyes over a mask. – Danilo Piraccini	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
In Covid-19 we don't have the luxury of time, this is one of the treatment options where we are teaching old drugs new tricks. We don't have the time to take a drug rationally from beginning to end because we have a crisis right now. We have to make do with what we have. – Peter Chin-Hong	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If my last scene is not a kiss ... we will make do, sometimes you can convey love with just a glance. – Lucero Suarez	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I had a decision to make. Do we do a good job with Obamacare -- a remnant of Obamacare ? Or do we do a bad job ? If I do a bad job, well there you can blame Obama and the Democrats. If we do a good job, they'll get a little bit more credit, but it's still very faulty, it doesn't work and it's too expensive. And I told our great secretary( of Health and Human Services) Alex Azar,' Don't do a good job. Do a great job.'. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We just have to make do. – Mohammed Dowara	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Helping the person to reduce exercise frequency and intensity is essential, addicts will resist that but must learn how to make do with less exercise and discover they can be happy anyway. – Paul Coleman	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Clearly, they have a clear decision to make. Do they want to reach out and support policies that would be beneficial to everybody, which would be that you would have to have the bipartisanship that was so dramatically lacking in the health care debate? this administration never had one substantive conversation with me about health care reform. – Ron Wyden	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Even though I had a shower in Canada, I hadn’t had running water for 340 days, we make do with not having a shower on board [the space station] – I definitely feel like I would like jump in a pool. – Astronaut Scott Kelly	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
You can make do without a wallet but can't [live] without your smartphone when you go out these days. – Zhao Mengsha	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Because of the fire activity around the entire region, our resources are stretched very, very thin, each incident is having to make do with what is available, not what's needed. – Ryan Greendeer	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Demographics drive demand, older people have less need for houses, cars and consumer goods and have to make do on lower incomes as they move on to pension age, slowing the wheels of the economy. – Paul Hodges	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

It’s amazing how they survive. No credit card, no physical signs of income, and they just make do.

– Pat Diaz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This business is all about shaking hands and hugging people. Now we'll have to make do with a little wave and a smile of the eyes over a mask.

– Danilo Piraccini

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

In Covid-19 we don't have the luxury of time, this is one of the treatment options where we are teaching old drugs new tricks. We don't have the time to take a drug rationally from beginning to end because we have a crisis right now. We have to make do with what we have.

– Peter Chin-Hong

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If my last scene is not a kiss ... we will make do, sometimes you can convey love with just a glance.

– Lucero Suarez

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I had a decision to make. Do we do a good job with Obamacare -- a remnant of Obamacare ? Or do we do a bad job ? If I do a bad job, well there you can blame Obama and the Democrats. If we do a good job, they'll get a little bit more credit, but it's still very faulty, it doesn't work and it's too expensive. And I told our great secretary( of Health and Human Services) Alex Azar,' Don't do a good job. Do a great job.'.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We just have to make do.

– Mohammed Dowara

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Helping the person to reduce exercise frequency and intensity is essential, addicts will resist that but must learn how to make do with less exercise and discover they can be happy anyway.

– Paul Coleman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Clearly, they have a clear decision to make. Do they want to reach out and support policies that would be beneficial to everybody, which would be that you would have to have the bipartisanship that was so dramatically lacking in the health care debate? this administration never had one substantive conversation with me about health care reform.

– Ron Wyden

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Even though I had a shower in Canada, I hadn’t had running water for 340 days, we make do with not having a shower on board [the space station] – I definitely feel like I would like jump in a pool.

– Astronaut Scott Kelly

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

You can make do without a wallet but can't [live] without your smartphone when you go out these days.

– Zhao Mengsha

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Because of the fire activity around the entire region, our resources are stretched very, very thin, each incident is having to make do with what is available, not what's needed.

– Ryan Greendeer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Demographics drive demand, older people have less need for houses, cars and consumer goods and have to make do on lower incomes as they move on to pension age, slowing the wheels of the economy.

– Paul Hodges

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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